what's up guys happy Mondays hope everybody's doing well today market family got a little bit green started to turn around a little bit so things are looking kind of good I'm not sure if we can continue in this direction but it's looking nice everybody likes over market is green right so you got some interesting earnings today CEO UP Kupa and then Mongo database health equity get lab and Sumo logic so kind of curious to see how those play out check out from this to see what the market bubble was looking like so the market map today the heat map today was very very green only a few things was in the red one of them was Pfizer some of the vaccine companies they're not got beat up pretty hard so people are kind of starting to disregard the whole COVID situation a little bit MRK not much movement there city bank had a nice bounce off 62 was starting to give up some of the games some of the financial stuff are starting to see some recovery PayPal over $200 again I mean nothing about visa over $200 PayPal seems like move mass the car Apple continues to grant back up to percent remove a lot of things are pretty bullish today Amazon except for Nike I mean except for Nike and Tesla those two were pretty red I would say overall majority of the market was pretty bullish with the exception of some of the COVID related plays the plays that would have benefit a little bit more from COVID Etsy has actually been beat up a lot hmm I feel like that's an either direction kind of interesting to see it going down so hard I see some opportunity here eventually and then some of the reopening trades are very really bullish starting to move up very strong Norwegian Las Vegas it's media looking that calm like Donald's Chipotle oh Chipotle is looking interesting there a lot of hotels starting to move up I think some of those these moves of fake moves as well I will not be too crazy about some of these these move going up because I don't think we're necessary at the end of this whole COVID situation and and like kind of like last year in March like how they downplayed it this whole whole scene a lot I feel like this could be another version of that way to downplay things a lot but one thing is good though Facebook is up I do like that that's probably one of the few trades like they get into just because of the metaverse situation and it's pretty good so that's seen some recovery there let's see so Koopa so COUP earnings per share is 31 cents up from 18 cents year over year they actually beat guidance too because I remember looking at the last quarter's guidance and they were guiding around three four three to like three to five cents or something and they were doing 41 cents that's actually a pretty good beat and they said they're doing better than last year year over here sales is 185 the 178 estimate and 39% increase compared to last year so they're actually having a nice turn around this quarter next quarter supposed to be pretty good as well three to five cents EPS and negative six cents as opposed to negative six cents estimates that's pretty bullish sales is guiding above the estimate 185 to 186 as opposed to 184 so that's a pretty good beat there coming down a little bit now after after good earnings kind of weird that's a look into this what are they saying this record revenue growth 186 million 40% year over year quarter calculated building of 193 38% year over year money flows about the same business outlook was pretty bullish what's up RB what's going on for year 22 total revenue is going to be around 717 to 718 name best LED workplace in 2021 what is best LED workplace best lead best leadership that's hypo a lot of big things a lot of big things so 40% increase compared to last year let's look at the stock compared to a year ago last year company was trading on $300 on a two-year basis company was trading at 173 I don't know starting to look extremely on the value at this point I mean the data is doing better than last year revenues doing much better than last year it's even you know it's continuing to grow there they're flat in the positive sign EPS and they're at this 2020 levels if it doesn't bounce here I don't know gonna bounce to pretty good numbers but I think I feel like the whole sector has been punished pretty hard so there's something I probably keep an eye on looking for the opportunity to move on to the other one one of my other favorite stocks Mongol database see how they do it yeah we'll take a look at the market outlook a little bit and discuss a little bit further into that as well up $60 after our man Jesus your Mongol database is so crazy every quarter they did this with lines in the moon man God how are they so naughty every time dude how do they not so much where do they get this this not from that's crazy let's me look into this so EPS is negative 11 cents as was a negative 38 cents that's actually a pretty good beat even those on the negative side sales is 226 million as opposed to 205 million this is this is a 64.55 to 2% increase compared to losses of negative 31 cents less quarter the same period last year and this is a 50% increase compared to sales of 100 million compared to the same period last year as well what's the guidance like guidance is 24 cents as was a 34 cents sales is 239 to 242 as opposed to 227 so the guidance is strong better than then analyst estimate sales are stronger than analyst estimate full year guidance is better than analyst estimate you know things are looking good on the up and upside let's see how they were trading compared to last year that shirt company was trading around $289 right now it's almost 500 so the stock price is about to see a hundred percent appreciation so this point turns together all value here two-year basis company was trading around 180s and it almost as high as 600 so almost like 3x man geez pretty wow yeah database yeah I'm surprised honestly I'm surprised they didn't get the same treatment because if I was a gambling man I would have bet on the downside would have better for a move to like 250 to 2006 all area I mean thank God I didn't make that bet because this was one of my favorite companies and and like it's it's been very very strong ever since I started investing in it I don't have positions anymore though but I just I would just would hate to short one of these companies but but like the whole cloud sector has been getting beat up pretty hard you know everything from like things Splunk, Twillow, CRM, Dacu all these like cloud related companies are just like getting trash on right okay TA like all these companies they're just getting wrecked like absolutely wrecked during the last two weeks but Monco database is a whole not a beast I'm pretty sure majority of the holdings is probably is probably like hedge funds or something prior why they're so strong they probably have some big people holding them holding on to these positions let me see let's take a look at that let me see if I'm talking out of my butt see where's the institution yeah institutional ownership is at 90% bro so that's a big difference sometimes so when institutional ownership is very very high it's very hard to fight institutions it's very hard to fight stocks institutions own so when institutional ownership is like 90% that's not much shares available so somebody tries to short it they're gonna get squeezed like squeeze really really hard you know the team's actually been selling stock too it's kind of funny like I'm glad I wasn't talking out of my ass on that one they would have been funny like imagine I looked at it and it's like five percent institutional ownership yeah so these other guys have institutional ownership as well but they're on 80% MTV was one of the highest ones that had about 90% very strong though I think that's kind of all the earnings for today we had wow man it's about to where's the next level where's this going um yeah I got you man give me one second I got a response to this text Koopa was great Koopa was a great earning all around top and bottom good guidance so all right let me see mongol database on the upside can see some resistance around 505 so that's that's a that's a possible area resistance right there 505 506 that's resistance 524 and then 559 but I think I think this is probably where it's gonna struggle this 506 area right here at the point of control so that's a good area to recover to are gonna struggle a little bit over there it might even carry the market man holy smoke it might not only carry the market but it might carry the whole sector let's see the okta move up it will probably carry the whole sector from okta it'll probably start finding the reversal in Splunk any was anybody fortunate enough to catch this $90 drop on Splunk? Guru probably did yo but we might we might start to see reversal in Splunk hell you might even see the reversal in in in docu or crm I think that based on how how bullish mongol database moved I might be bullish across the whole cloud sector at this point man see a lot about a lot of buying opportunity here a lot of stock that got beat up extremely hard and and on like a on a good day and a good bullish month do this this would be like buy the debt this would be like hand over fist take my money you know just like just like apes coming up me like take my money take my money let's check out GitLab let's see if it does get rejected at 506 though I would love to see if that happens like douche that would just show how strong the point of control is yeah I like CRM I think CRM is gonna be a good reversal they had a good earnings you know things are things are in life for CRM and they were holding support very very very very well it's a good company man CRM used to be like one of the most popular companies in 2018 to trade stocks on like what is everybody's training like a video now and Tesla but do back in the day everybody was like CRM CRM the liquidity was so good man she's got to bring that back got to bring that that that the hype back everybody started trading CRM I feel like people still do probably because the contract still move really really well liquidity is good there GitLab earnings for shares 34 cents as opposed to 48 cents sales of 66.8 mil as opposed to 59.24 the company reported 66.8 million which beat estimate by 12.676 percent so it looks like this is a good earning beat top and bottom guidance for next quarter it's pretty in line pretty bullish as well they're looking at guidance of 25 negative 25 to negative 26 percent loss earnings for shares as opposed to negative 27 percent loss I mean 27 cent loss sales is guided above as well full-year sales is also bullish so stock came down a little bit I don't think a lot of people are trading this company though the dev OS platform how do they even make money so revenue is up 58% year-over-year they said they make money from donations this is like GitHub is this GitHub am I getting confused our competitor after these companies don't even make money I thought these companies are just like reddit but hell even reddit does a lot of marketing now so they might even be collecting money oh Microsoft bought get up in 2018 yeah and everyone understand how these companies make money they have about 50% growth year-over-year compared to last year the stock just IPO recently so there's no real data it's compared to about last year as with most IPOs it's been it's gone up and now it's coming back down it's hard to value this company because there aren't that many similar companies in this space but so far as of right now they aren't really making money as a whole because they're they're still like negative EPS so market and balance today was 371 million to the south side overall well at the end of the close it was 700 mil which means is not as high as we we thought it was gonna be or as high it was the previous days which is kind of good because December 2nd it was 3.8 you know Friday it was 562 so things are getting better and better in terms of on the south side there's also been a lot of reports that the Almarcon is is weaker than expected the effects side effects are very mild and why not however I think that at the same time they're also like trying not to like spread fear so I'm not like not I'm not like you know taking it at their the full value that they're talking about just just gonna assume for the worst case scenario because because if we're looking at data you know if we're looking at that data instead of what they're telling us data is telling us that you know that Almarcon is what would you know naturally be a stronger competitor of bees but I mean I mean if you guys watch enough UFC fights you know that like stats doesn't always make the you know make people win so it's it's it's it's a luck which means it could be you know other factors random factors and things that come together you know that could like make a break the situation right but but I do think it is like it could potentially get out of control they're saying is more infectious and it has the ability to dodge around you know dodge around antibodies better then that sounds like it would be a stronger stronger competitor compared to the Delta variant but we'll see time will tell I won't tell we're either at the beginning of we're either on the full path to recovery or we're fully gonna get sidetracked and wrecked but here's the market outlook for this week but it posted this morning so posted this early this morning so market outlook spy ES as we mentioned last week at market had a good exhale exhale after a hot run and we're getting to a very over so level on on S&P 500 as you can see very very over so extreme bottom so I think it's time to look for value opportunities that was this morning if you guys look there were some value opportunities you know what it was like PayPal whether it was like Citibank or or Facebook you know whatever your favorite stock is so look for some value opportunities there or even CRM so some stuff were very nice very cheap on the value even even zoom actually that's kind of a weird one because we took a position in zoom as well this morning and and I'll explain a little bit more why I took the position of zoom but even that had a nice bounce so so I think that was good value opportunity looking for 449.5 or 4485 on ES to hold as a support line looking for us hold that area not break under tech sector has also been coming down I said that you know we can see a small bounce here with overall market which is spy when we're dropping the tech sector which is QQQ kind of kind of like led the way in terms of the drop so I'm kind of expecting it to carry us on the way up as well but I'm also expecting it to follow spy too so spy starts bouncing I think the tech sector is going to bounce a spy however the lowest area I would love to see the ideal area I would love to see the QQQ to go would be 375 that's where I would start buying more opportunities on tech stocks just tech stocks been really hot this year and XOF probably one of the safer sectors to buy the dip in because XOF doesn't move a lot whether it's up or down so if we were wrong about buying the dip you know it's not going to punish us as hard if we're right about buying the dip we won't get rewarded as hard but at least we get some reward you know have some skin in the game than being on the sidelines the dollar index is the only thing that's been troubling me because we used to use it as a leading indicator but for some reason it doesn't want to lead it it doesn't want to be a leading indicator anymore is doing a lot of like what do you call it it's giving a lot of conflicting theories so the dollar index started coming back down which would have signal I mean maybe it's still leading maybe it's giving us like a day or two head notice because when it was coming down you know it would what that would means that if the dollar is down it's good for the market it will signal the bullishness coming into the market so we did get bullishness coming into the market today but but it's starting to go back up again so what does that mean if we start going up again it could be bad for market so that means this could just be another dead cat bounce here where we like kind of like over here like over here in September to October so if you see we drop pretty hard we slow down a little bit and then we drop even harder right as we hit the bottom that range and we have a dead cat bounce to the trend line resistance here and then we came back down again for harder bounce we tested the trend line broke down one more time before completely just like hmm just like burst right over so maybe we'll see something like that again that would be ideal that'd be a good good move for a lot of opportunities getting in and out that would be a good way for longer short and short and long positions to to play out correctly but that's that's that's the dream who knows I mean I think I think as long as we're not all like we're not going to like suffer hundreds we're all happy so that's kind of the market outlook for today what else do we have to cover oh yeah let's go the zoom call that we play so zoom I'm starting to come to the really close to the bottom of the trend line 167 if it does that there are probably average one more position the trend lines been very strong but today I saw that we had a nice move so that we had a nice nice recovery or docu docu is hard man they're they're like an interesting company they ran up a lot you know last year and and they like they haven't really you know justified the gains as well as some of these other companies like like somebody could say the same about zoom like oh somebody could say oh you know what zoom ran a lot last year but how could you justify the gains right and and in a way zoom has actually been able to justify the gains they've been getting a lot of new customers they've been making a butt little money and stuff like that I mean I still hate the company as whole I would never invest a company long term because I don't like the CEO I think he's his interview skills are horrible and just sounds like a bozo man but despite that I like the technicality I like the reason and behind it it's a stay-at-home stock the market is bouncing the tech sector is bouncing ZM is part of the sec tech sector so zoom is part of the tech sector we're getting close to the bottom of the trend line so which means we're either gonna bounce now we're gonna bounce in some part another very soon so which is why I got a spread that was a month out to give us simply enough time you know from right now it's like that's six going all the way to January 7th that's our expiration for it to go to 240 area so it's not that hard think about it a month for for zoom to go back to this range the possibility is within bound you know even if we're at this range here like May 6th so look at this May 6th May 6th right it started going down and then it started to bounce so we're looking for a move back to this purple line right here so May 12th I hit here and then in May 21 it hit here so if this plays out like it did over here at this time if it plays out like they did here takes about you know 15 days we would hit this we would hit this valley here at 255 area by mid December I mean you know that would kind of go in line with like the Santa Rally that everybody's talking about if we do get one be sure zoom would go right and and then what else and then you know if the the variant you know happens to be as serious as as as I predict then then that could easily easily like put us there too you know because big money will come back into the stock again and the stock which is randomly spiked to that range I don't know it so look at it look at the and the profit just makes sense it's so far away nobody is pricing that move right now nobody is really pricing that move because it's just so far away at 240 so even if we made that move tomorrow you know we would be making 500% to a thousand percent it's an easy move because nobody is pricing and nobody think it could happen and I think the chance of profit is probably extremely low in terms of options chain contract but in my opinion thinking about it from like fundamental perspective and like just a technical analysis perspective I think I think our chances are somewhere around like close to 50% so I would and I would say that's a good odds if it's close to 50% man for us to go from zero to 500% like you know hella good odds what's up cup of magic I feel you man I don't like the zoom as a stock as well I think there's so many competitors out there but they're just like mainstream very popular right now they could either be like they could be like the apple you know they could be like the apple of tomorrow you know when Apple first got into the phone market and got very popular or they could be like the Skype the Skype where you know Skype used to be very popular it was like one of the best video apps out there like I remember when everybody was on Skype we used to do interviews and all type of stuff on Skype you know I mean the date all types of stuff anything man but nobody use Skype anymore like it's like like well what the hell there was literally a system designed just for a video meeting and that was Skype it was integrated into a Microsoft right but for some reason it just so happens that it just so happens when COVID happened nobody knew Skype it just fell out of light you know because Microsoft didn't know how to do marketing these these guys didn't seize the opportunity and they didn't advertise it they didn't make it easy they didn't have a business development team you know to go to schools and start selling the package of Skype neither did Google neither did the Google you know and they just got wrecked they just got wrecked so you know and and these are both huge companies like between Google with the Google Hangout Google meet because Google has a Zoom package version too and Google literally already has that that that foundation for schools too so Google could easily man bend the top they could have been the next zoom they could have been like they could have ate all zooms market share you know if they just had a sales team business development team to like make contracts all the schools help them out teach them the way you know the right amount customer support man forget about it but they slack they slept and once you sleep man once you sleep on somebody they're gonna get your food that's it over speaking of which we got Monday we got some Monday motivations for for those of you that's been in our there's been following an account challenge or earnings challenge know this the harder you work the luckier you get that's a Monday inspiration yeah slack was very popular and good did you want to check out Amazon for you couple magic so Amazon on the daily chart was very over so it was looking like do-do ideally would have loved to see it come back to the to the 3300 magnet we didn't really touch it as I expected it on the half day chart on the half day chart we're seeing reversal we're see we saw this morning we saw the doji we saw the confirmation to the upside we saw the money flow come in it was just bullish across the board this morning you know all those those situations and then you know with the market outlook I was expecting for market to bounce or starting to bounce so things are just kind of playing out we do have a possible head and shoulder setup as well you can either argue that his shoulder is here you can argue that shoulder might be setting up here so nonetheless I think we could have some struggle of resistance around this 3500 area 35 22 this whole 35 to 3550 area I think we're gonna see some struggle we have struggled here before there we struggle here before here right and and we found some support there even though we broke down late on so I think we could possibly see some struggle around that 35 area so that what that means that this week could be a butterfly in that 3500 magnet range if we do get there hold there around there I'm not sure how much money there is or value as far maybe even a calendar to that range let me see in calendar is expensive too much for for a challenge account I mean it's about 2500 if it does move to that 3500 area that was talking about easily make $500 tomorrow in 2000 you make the most money if it continues to stay in that range that point of range on Friday so it's a gamble it's a reasonable gamble but that could happen so that's just on the cost spreads so I mean butterfly you can do the butterfly too but you know I like cost spreads a little bit more because cost spreads you you burn premium along the way and it's a little bit more accurate that even you know even if you work in that direction works pretty well butterfly is more like butterflies like a dart bro you know so you saw that you saw the profit range and level between the cost spread and the butterflies obviously butterflies a lot cheaper a little bit more complicated setup for some people but it's like it's like it's like when you're at the bar and you're playing the dart and you're drunk bro like you know like this to this yeah like some of you guys I mean I mean even if you're not even if you don't think you're drunk when when you're playing the butterfly in the market at this moment right now it's like playing like you're drunk because there's so much there's so much factors going on there's so much different things going on that for you to hit this bullseye is a little bit hard is much much much harder than anticipated you know just because like just because they could they could release anything they could change the narrative and and and and things would just go against our direction so for for but that's why I think for butterfly is like a dart because you have to get that target area by that date and like it's tricky and and also the other thing about butterfly that I don't like is the fact that it's very very very hard to close the position because the premiums are all over the place especially something on Amazon is very very hard to close the position at the price point that is ideally at so this has happened to me a few times where there was spy where there was Amazon you know I knew what price it should be at but I always have to low ball that's so hard just to close it just because because there's so many contracts involved there's four contracts involved so the more contracts involve the more complicated it's like it's like this right it's like if you were to have a threesome and and you were in bed with two girls you instead of you like mainly focus on one girl mainly taking care of like pleasure in one girl you have to make sure both of them are pleasure and and you have to like at the same time make sure they're both like not jealous you're pleasuring them you paying the same amount of attention and and and you giving them both orgasm but if you're not doing that if you're not like taking care of it properly it's it's not gonna work out it's gonna blow up in your face so kind of like butterflies man if you're not like if you can't close the position at the target that it should be at and and you don't manage to close it in time it's gonna blow up in your face but just like a threesome it sounds great dude it sounds great man it's like it's like every man's fantasy right every man's fantasy until it happens and then like and then it blows up in your face the next week see do you get what I'm saying here that's butterflies that's why sometimes I rather just do calendars because because I'm only dealing with two contracts I just got to get two contracts fail you know it's just just me and other girl are being it goes like three sums about if I want to feel like I'm disappointing two people at once I'll go to dinner with my parents you guys butterflies are fun exactly that's what they say about threesome too they say threesome's are fun man it's a lot of things looks good on paper that's not as good as the seams that's just how life is how is to get to it looking if not cover it's good question take a look at Twitter before we end the stream cool Twitter I think we looked a little bit on Friday somebody took a long on Twitter did they not raise your hands if you took the long on Twitter I remember somebody asked about it last week I don't know if I was nasty Nate or someone else but someone asked and they were very bullish on Twitter and they asked if we were finding the bottom on Twitter I don't know if it was like over here over here but I thought it was good area to start position especially Facebook we versus as well it's actually looking very very very nice on the daily chart so this is this is this would actually go perfectly with the double seven swing system and so our swing this is our swing indicator here this is the ideal setup here we got this like you know then candle this indecision so you want to look for indecision like this green handle right here and and I mean it's not always gonna go with the direction you want but it's a signal of reversal this is what you call the ideal reversal setup so kind of like over here you've got that then even though that candle is a red candle right at least you got that then candle which shows that it's indecisive it's like it's like it's playing tug of war it's right think of the then candle as playing tug of war to two to two people pulling at both sides you know two teams on both sides buyers versus sellers both pulling the rope and and it's going nowhere right if pulling the rope and it's going nowhere so that's where it is right now and and when that happens you know eventually one of the one side is gonna win so one of the side is gonna win and it doesn't necessarily always means gonna go to the upside but if this whole time the other side was winning if this whole time the bearish side was winning right if we're playing tug of war and this is just the candle being pulled in the middle right here that means the whole time the bears were winning right the bears are pulling the rope they were winning they were they were about to win they were killing it and then the bull finally took control they pulled it back they drove the rope back to the middle you know so so they're getting the they're getting that momentum back and you know what happens when the underdog comes back like that most of the times the underdog wins man when they can come back from the feet like this they usually end up winning so ideal ideal setup is this we're here where we just came back up to that resistance right here so we got first level resistance around 49 next level is around 52 so I like the setup here I think I think it could set up for a nice move to the upside obviously if market doesn't continue crashing right this would be the ideal move this would be the direction and move that you would get and you play for I mean let's look at the the intraday chart you got the money flow coming in boom boom two green candles two arrows up so the money flows are coming in MMS get it in here they like it let's check the flow check the flow where's my flow checker man oh my bad flow checker is right here so flow checker actually said there was a lot of puts but these are puts being so at the $40 mark there was some puts being being bought at the ass at the $30 mark there are some at the 38 and then there was also a bunch of puts that is being so at the $62 level very high levels man so these these like these higher levels I don't think people are necessary selling the puts at that high I think these are people closing their put positions which means they think it's gonna bounce their closing positions they don't want to be caught on the reversal to the upside we did have a $40 sweep this morning from March 18 you know we did have some short-term puts here might be a small hitch position some of the other plays and then we saw a bunch of puts being so at $40 levels which mean they don't think it's gonna break on the 40 so we count all the all the position that play out for today which is this one two three four five six seven seven one two three four five six seven eight nine ten so seven out of ten of today's option flow was bullish on Twitter I will say that's 70% bullish man with with 10% neutral and 2% barrier so it looks like it's going in our direction boys hope that works out I like that so I'm gonna post this in I'm gonna post this in our if you're an X trace looks like a bullish reversal on the daily chart you can see 49 and 53 next that's a good move they're out of the setup for the weeklies that you like well actually let me let me let me stop you there for a second I hope you mean for this week I don't really play weeklies a lot it's not something I play a lot anymore and do a lot of swings so for me if I was bullish on Twitter this is probably something I would do I think my price target is at 53s I probably you know sell 53s and buy 53s or 52.5 depending on what the what the bed and ass is that over there yeah so probably do 52.5 it will cost $188 but if it moves in our direction I could make 100% tomorrow and then if move further in my direction I can finish up at 300% profit that's a little bit further out actually talking about this one this is where the big profit is sell sell the front month by the back month to make up to a thousand percent oh easy money might even set up this place hell of cheap man so that's like at least two weeks swing on there because we've got the one the longest timeframes on it but as far as some of the setups for this week I like I like CRM we talked about a little bit earlier holding that support really well right here so ideally would love to move up a little bit to 270s at least so we had a good bounce today on the half day chart as you can see getting green I'm looking for that move up and another rejection to happen but whether the rejection happens or not I'm gonna be exiting the area another one I was looking at was Roku you know Roku when it moves and moves strong right so it's starting to find some support around that $199 area $200 psychological levels support so a very good move to the upside I like it can even see 236 if market goes big big bullish but who knows PLTR let's see PLTR are starting to find some support as well I like this company for some buying opportunity coming to the second level of support around 16th 18th here those income group is another long-term hole for me starting to reverse it upside as well and MRK is just a fundamental play has not made that reversal move yet but starting to find some support so 71 to the $73 area is an area I like probably looked at position tomorrow ideally we want to wait for the dividend date to play out but I'm gonna start a two month position here but yeah those are the some of the positions that helps it's worth it's almost five and the stream here we'll be back here tomorrow to go over some of the other earnings and talk about some of the other stuff going on for this week so I hope you guys have a good week I hope things continues to stay green for you guys and you guys make money man as always thanks for hanging out and have a good night guys take care


In spite of being deeply involved in climate actions and services for internally displaced persons over the last 20 years, last year for the first time, I participated directly in the CBA conference. I was actually amazed and so impressed by the commitment, hard work and efficiency which was put into making it happen and making it such an amazing success. The CBA is an important platform for adaptation practitioners to discuss the concrete actions and the next steps to make the progress on climate change adaptation. The conference brings together a dedicated and extensive communities of practitioners and their practices that works on the ground towards the most pressing of humanity's challenges today. The climate, our environment and life on this planet. CBA has been able to create a collaborative online space for these discussions to happen in a way which is creative and out of the box. Last year and also this year it is limited by our COVID world and therefore it will be mainly virtual but that does not and it should not limit voices and the sharing. Diverse perspectives can be heard and people can learn hands-on skills directly from each other recognizing and valuing expertise based on daily lived-in experiences. I invite you to join us at CBA to share, delve deeper, learn and connect with others who are just as passionate to make the world a more livable, better world for us and for the coming generations. I hope you will be able to join me at this year's CBA 15.


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Today, for the Willbarrow to make their contribution, as Robert Dean reports, two groups of energetic volunteers took part, one from Hearstbridge and the other from the search. The Willbarrow pushcook members and friends of Hearstbridge CFA 35km along suburban streets and main roads. Their aim? To raise money for the hundreds of children at the Royal Children's Hospital who need special equipment to keep them alive. Over the past five years, Hearstbridge has averaged about a thousand dollars for the one-day effort. My name is Jim Dustin, I'm the Secretary Treasurer here at Hearstbridge Fibregate. I used to be the captain and I was involved in the earlier Willbarrow pushes back in the early 80s and we've recreated it in a much smaller fashion this morning. The last time we did Willbarrow push we went into the city would have been 1984, we believe. Around about that date anyway, a year either side. There's only one or two, there's been quite a bit of turnover in 35 years into Brigade and there's only a couple of us old blokes left behind. It's a good cause for the Children's Hospital, we've been doing it since the late 70s, about 77, 78. It's part of the Lower Yarra Group of Fibregates and then when they changed its name to the O'Neillambe Group of Fibregates. So we've been with them since that date. There was a couple of brigades in the group that started slightly earlier than that but then we joined in and now I co-ordinate nine brigades for the Children's Hospital appeal. I think it's important because it's raising money for a really good cause which is the Royal Children's Hospital. When seeing as we're like a big community it's easier to go out together and it also helps us as a community and also the Royal Children's Hospital. It gives us all an experience of doing that and also it's for a great cause so I think it's a fabulous thing for the CFA to be doing. They seem happy enough this morning anyway. It is important for the children but of course we can't get them on the road, doing roads this road so intersection collections are everything until they're a bit older. That's mainly why we do the Greensboro Shopping Centre to get the kids involved on the day prior so they can have some involvement as well.  That's a connection out of our family and I'm sure there's other families in the brigade. It's great to see people contribute to what we're doing. And it makes you feel more like a community. Yeah, it makes it so, I feel like the First Ridge community is such a good place and when the CFA gets together it's like a really great family that we can be raising money for in the part of it. It's for the children who don't even really get to have that kind of experience.


Welcome to It's About Time on ThinkTech from our downtown studio at the core of Honolulu. My name is Becky Samson and I'm a professional speaker, author, and coach. So are you looking to improve your career skills, wondering if you are in the right job for who you truly are, and looking to go after your dreams? Today we're going to be talking to Jay Smith, a professional career coach, who will help you find the right career fit so that you have successful, passionate, and most importantly, a happy life. So today we're going to be talking about, are you the right fit? And we're talking about career exploration in entrepreneurship. So welcome my dear friend, Jay, to the show. Glad to be here. Thanks for coming. Absolutely. It's fun to have you here. You're like my first local, local friend, right, to come onto the show. So tell everybody kind of your backstory. What brought you to Hawaii, because you're not originally from here at all. So I moved around a lot, but I claim Virginia's home. And years ago, actually, I really learned a lot about BYUai and what it has to offer and what they kind of focused in. And I thought it was just really, really fascinating. And it just caught my attention and it got me out here.  Awesome. And I know that when we were on the way here, you were telling me about the fact that you did some studies in a business college as well, right? Talk about that and what got you interested in going into business. Yeah. So originally I was interested a lot more in politics and international relations. I did a lot of work with the Holocaust museums and the Rwandan genocide and a lot of the more political aspects. But I also found out that I really like business and I really like the finances and the money and I've always been working at least a full-time job, if not more than that. If not more, you're always working so hard. Yes. Actually, so after that I started working, I started going to LDS Business College over in Utah and I was going full-time to school. I actually was taking so many classes that I had to get special permission to take as many as I was. And I was working full-time at a car dealership and I was working part-time redoing the student leadership system at LDS BC and it was quite a few hours. Well, and you're doing a lot of the same things now too. I know whenever I ask you, you are helping a lot of students. You're helping people network because that's one of the things that you've expressed to me that you absolutely love is network. And finding the right career and finding the right fit for you to begin with is the connections that you make with people, right? Oh yeah. One of the things that I very early on love to do is connect the right person with this other person and someone's looking for a job and this guy's looking for somebody to be able to come in and work a lot more hours and just connecting those two people, helping them out, helping them out. Everyone's really happy. I love doing it back in Utah. It's been a few years and I suddenly popped in my mind that that's what recruiters are. They get paid for that. So I started doing that and I really loved it. I've been doing that a lot and even after I stopped working as a recruiter, I've just continued to really love and really be passionate about building those relationships, making those networking. That way when somebody's like, hey, I'm really interested in working for Apple, like actually I knew one of the junior vice presidents really well. He's really well connected with Apple. Let me connect you with him and see if we can find you a right fit or I was really interested in Microsoft and that's something really cool and I can connect you there. I'd love to work in real estate, but I don't know too much about that. Well, I know this other person right here. I know, which I think every single time I talk to you, like, thank you, I've got a couple more people for you to talk to. Which I think is one of the most powerful things that you can be is if you're in any kind of business where you're in the relationship business or trying to move forward in your career or in your life or whatever, it is those connections that you create and making sure that those connections and those relationships are strong. So tell everybody kind of what are some of the things, because I know you work with a lot of people that are looking to get into their career or are in their career and trying to better their career, or I also want to kind of touch into the entrepreneur if they're wanting to go in their own business. What are some of the problems that you see right off the bat with people that are, you know, trying to make any of those changes? Yeah, so I think one thing that I see right off the bat is a lot of people look at a couple different aspects of their future career. So they'd look at whether or not they're good at their career and they would just focus on that, or they would focus on what would I enjoy doing, what am I happy doing? And they focus on that, where they look at what I'm really passionate about and they focus on that. But to really have a successful career, you really need more than just one thing. One of the things that I talk to students a lot about is when they're looking at figuring out what they're interested in doing or what would be a good fit for them, I have them go over and I make, write a list of 100 things that they like doing. And then 20 things that they're really good at, and then five things that they are truly passionate about, something that just like brings them purpose and gives them just like purpose in life. When you can find a career that overlaps in all three of those areas, that's the right career for you. Okay, so you're suggesting 100 things that they like? What was the next one? 100 things that they like, 20 things that they're good at or skills. Good at, okay. And then five things that they're passionate about, five things that they love doing. Actually a little bit harder than you might guess. It doesn't sound too hard, but then you start writing and you're like, well actually, this takes a little bit. The problem is like so many people, they'll take something that they like and something that they're passionate about and they'll find this career and then they're not good at it and they can't make any money. So talk a little bit about that because one of the things that I first got introduced with you, we're actually in a class together. And one of the first interactions I had with you was when I was taking the MBA, MBTI, explain to people what that is and why is it so important because that's, you've been able to teach us a lot during the semester, to why it's important to find that right fit and why something like the MBTI is important to complete so that we know we've got the right fit. Not just, we're kind of guessing. Yeah, absolutely. So what is it and why would we use it? MBTI is a personality assessment tool. What it is, is it looks at the different skills, looks at the different personality characteristics and traits that we have. For example, one that everyone is really familiar with is extroversion and introversion. That's one of the things that it looks at. So they're able to look and see what your preferences are, what you prefer doing or how you prefer to do things.  And then we can look that and take that and apply it into career counseling, into career coaching. And so one of the things I know that you talked, we talked about when you said that with me about mine, was there's a natural way of my natural way of doing it or what I think I would prefer doing. I mean, talk about that and how it's something that comes easy for you that you have to develop. Yeah, absolutely. So it's all talking about preferences. Now to really understand preferences, one way to do that is to write your name. So you sign your name with your dominant hand. And then go ahead and sign your name with your not dominant hand. And the amount of efforts and the energy that it takes for you to do it with your non-dominant hand is actually quite difficult. It takes you a lot more effort, a lot more time, energy. It's not as comfortable, it takes a little bit longer to do. And that's what we're looking at with MBTI. So for example, extroversion and introversion. I prefer extroversion. So talking to people, being really social, communicating, networking, all of those things come very easily and very naturally to me. Whereas writing and that inner looking inside and that reflection process are sometimes a little bit more difficult for me. And one thing I would like to mention too is it's not right or wrong. Oh, absolutely not. That's something I really loved when you said that with me. It's not right or wrong. Let's just figure out what comes natural and easier for you so that we can find the right fit so that you don't feel like you're always having to push, you know, push yourself to do things. But what just comes natural and in easier? Yeah, absolutely. And with MBTI, a lot of people take it as almost kind of like a, you're put into this box.  And that's it. But it's not that at all. This is almost more like where you are starting from. Starting point. So you can experience, you can change and I can focus and work a lot more on those things that aren't necessarily natural to me, like writing with my left hand. And if I put some time and some effort into it, I can write really well with my left hand. And that kind of gives us the ability to grow and to change and develop these different skills. So with career stuff, whether that's looking at the right career or if you already have a career picked out and you're trying to make sure that this is the right fit, it's more of understanding the concepts that you're looking at. So MBTI gives you a four letter code. So ENFP, INTJ, something like that. So even if you are an ENFP. That's a foreign language for most people. Yes, yes. So there's four categories, right? Yes, there are four categories. Four categories. So it's extroversion or introversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling and judging and perceiving. And you can get online and look up. There's a lot of really good information out there for you. And there's actually a free website that you can go through. It's not quite as accurate as really going into detail and the actual MBTI, what I typically work in. But it at least gives you a rough general idea of what's going on. Well, and one of the things that I saw very valuable was for me to sit down with you because I know when we sat down, some of them became really easy for me to go, okay, this is who I am. Yes. But then, and I know myself pretty well and I've had, you know, a little bit of experience behind my belt. But there was other ones that I really struggled and talk about how valuable it is to have a coach or somebody that knows much deeper how to kind of pull those things out and go, okay, what about this? Because you were really, really good at asking me questions going, well, Becky, what about that? And what about this? And what about that? It's not just taking a test. You guys also sat down and went through the whole assessment with us so that we could get a better idea of going, okay, that, yeah, that fits me or that doesn't. Yeah, absolutely. I remember with you, it was a little bit, it's different every single time. Yeah. When I sat down with you and I talked about it, you had already developed your not natural preferences to the point where to you, it was almost really hard to tell which one was your preference because you used them both so much and so naturally, it was hard to see where the starting point was. So that's one thing that's kind of important to look at. Another reason why that is important and why that's really helpful is when somebody is mistyped or they think there's somebody else and they start to put themselves in their own box, just going through the test. And I would say a lot of people would have identified with that as feeling like there's just something off in my life. And it's because they're trying to be somebody that they're not, right? Until we can kind of get you into that one, into that groove, so to speak, yeah. So another example of that, so there's perceiving and judging. Perceiving is a lot more flexible. They like to explore the world and they like to take things how they are. Judging is more decision making and they want to make the decision and organize things. My wife originally, close to 10 years ago, thought that she was perceiving where there was a more flexibility because she was very much go with the flow. When we looked at it again and we saw that she was actually more judging, it really helped her out a lot because she was able to notice and tell that she actually wanted these decisions to be made in this future, like that was just really stressing her out. Yeah. Let's talk more about that and we come back from the break because it's so important that we know what comes natural and what we're pushing maybe, right? So okay, we're going to be taking a short break. I'm Becky Samson and you are watching It's About Time on Think Tech Hawaii. And we're talking to my dear friend Jay Smith with Are You The Right Fit? Career Exploration in Entrepreneurship. So stay tuned, we'll be right back. Aloha, my name is Victoria and I'm a host at The Adventures in Small Business. This is a collaboration between U.S. Small Business Administration, Hawaii District Office and its partners where we showcase the stories of local entrepreneurs and small businesses, talk about how to start a business, talk about great tips for small business owners. Please join us every Thursday 11 a.m. at Think Tech Hawaii. See you soon. Mahalo. Hey, hello, everyone and welcome to the Think Tech Hawaii Studio. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of The Pretty Matters Hawaii We air here every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Hawaii time trying to bring you issues about security that you may not know, issues that can protect your family, protect yourself, protect our community, protect our companies, the folks we work with. Please join us and I hope you can maybe get a little different perspective on how to live a little safer. Aloha. So we're back and I'm Becky Samson and this is It's About Time. And I'm talking to my dear friend Jay Smith about Are You The Right Fit? So career exploration and entrepreneurship. So we before the break, we were talking about the the test, personality test, MBTI, right? And we were talking about finding the right fit because it's one of the comments I said at the break was is a lot of people sometimes will beat themselves up because they don't feel like, well, why can't I be better at this and why can't I be better at that? But talk about how it's not beating ourselves up. It's just learning more about ourselves so that we can get into that right groove so it comes natural for us instead of having to force it. Yeah. So it's really about making sure that you have the right fit. It's about finding, just like you said, finding that groove, finding that that motion, that flow. Once you are in that flow, you can do amazing things. It's just trying to figure out where that is. You take somebody who's incredibly intelligent, really passionate and really capable of doing a lot of things. If they're in the wrong job or in the wrong fit, the wrong career and the wrong profession, they're not going to be able to excel. They're not going to be necessarily passionate or they're not going to be good at or they're not going to be enjoying what they're doing. And when you don't have those things or even you're missing one or two of those factors, that success is just not going to be there. Yeah. You know, the thing that just came to me when I was a manager many years ago, when I first learned about this, that was one of the things is I took all of my staff and put them through similar. And I can't remember if it was MBTI or if it was another one. But talk about how important it is, even as a manager or if someone's watching and they own a business or they're managing a business, how important it is to know, have them take these tests so that they know what team players are on. And maybe some of their employees are just in the wrong position. Yeah, absolutely. So there's a lot of different of those personality assessments or skill assessments that are used in business. In my time when I worked in career development, we used different ones at LDS Business College. We used different ones. I worked with AFLAC for a little one. And they even have one that's all focused around different kinds of birds for your personality matching with the culture. And why they use that and why they really spend that time and those resources is because they get the value out of that. They're able to look at whether it's internally and they're trying to look at the different people and how they work, interact with each other. For example, efficiency. Efficiency, yeah. Or effectiveness as well. You can take a group of people who are very diverse in different personalities and thoughts and how they go together. And they may take a little bit longer to work together. And it may be a little bit on the rougher side of things. But the outcome, they're going to fill in each other's gaps. They're not going to have the same blind spots. And they're going to come out with something that's really, really effective. It's really powerful what they come out with. Versus if you put a lot of really like minds and really similar personalities, they're going to work together phenomenally. They're going to all get along really well. They're going to work really hard. They're going to work really fast. And they're going to be able to get a lot of done. But at the same time, they're also going to miss out and lack a lot of those same blind spots. They all have the same ones. So they're all going to miss the same things. You get a lot of people that are all really good at talking and communicating and socializing and networking. Who's doing the work? Who's doing the work? Who's checking the emails? Who's writing the memos, right? So it really depends on what you're trying to do. And being able to understand and have a deeper knowledge of your human resources really helps you to be able to work together effectively and also being able to help motivate them. A recent presentation that we were working on was all about motivation. And being able to understand what different people and what kind of motivation different people liked. And because it's all different, being able to understand who you're working with is really essential. Especially when you're an owner or a manager, right? Or a supervisor over a group of people. Sometimes it gets very frustrating. But if you have a greater understanding of how they function and how they think, because people are just different. I love that. You brought that up. The motivation is everybody's motivated by different things. Most people are motivated by the stick, right? So to speak, instead of the carrot. I learned that many years ago. Most entrepreneurs are motivated by the carrot. But in general, most people, you know, a punishment will keep them doing something that they need to keep going in the motivation. So that's really important too. And I know that if they understand their employees, let me give you an example. I was a manager for six and a half, seven years. And for the first couple of years, I just kept hiring people that were a lot like me out there and outgoing and connecting with the tenants. But what I realized is that none of the busy work or the detailed work was getting done. And it was so frustrating because I was having to come back and do all that detailed work, which is not my natural, you know, I just want to go out there and connect with people. Oh yeah. Until I found this one gal and she is such a make sure that all the T's are crossed and the eyes are dotted and all of that stuff. She's not a social. She's not out there. She just wants to put her, you know, head down and do the work. And we made an amazing team. But it took me several years to realize that. So I mean, that's something that if someone's watching this and they're struggling within their own team or within their organization, you know, really step back and go, look, we all have our strengths. We all have our weaknesses. Let's find people. We've talked about that on the show, too, is that find people that fill in those gaps. But that is comes from awareness of educating ourselves, you know, how they function. And just because they function differently doesn't mean it's going to be right or wrong. Absolutely. Just keep going back to that. Oh yeah. And you see that all over the place, especially in entrepreneurship. A lot of people when they're considering an entrepreneurship, they aren't sure if it's the right fit or they aren't sure if they're going to be capable of doing that. And a lot of it with entrepreneurship is you have a lot of these people who are idea people who want to get things started, who want to go out there and do things. Change the world. Change the world, right? And they're very action-oriented. A lot of times, the majority of them, at least, they get out there and they start these great ideas. But then they have a hard time finishing and following through with them. Yeah. So making those connections and getting people to work with you is extremely important. Almost every entrepreneur or business owner that I've talked to, one of the first things that they all say that they wish they had done earlier is hire somebody or hire their first assistant or hire their first whoever it is. But they wish that they had hired people earlier on because they needed somebody to do all of those things that they weren't capable of doing. Like when you were doing those detail-oriented things, it really, not only are you not as good at it, but it also drains you. Exactly. And that's the thing that I really want to make this point, is that if people are in that place in their life where they're feeling like, what I'm doing is just raining from me, you might want to consider you might not be in the right fit. Yes. Right? I mean, I know when I'm in the right place, when I wake up in the morning and I am like, ooh, I'm so excited. And really, it brings energy to your life. Like, I talk about it lilies and leeches.  And then there's also activities or things like detailed work stuff that just leech energy from me. And I just realized, I mean, granted, we can't always have everything, roses, and whatever. But if we can spend most of our time in that space where we're really good, and we have other people doing the things that they're really good at, because they're not going to be good at what we're going to be good at. Right? And it's understanding that. And I think the assessment and, I mean, you've seen a lot of things as you've come through and you've seen, especially with the kids that you're working with, or I shouldn't say kids, the students that you're working with, where they're just starting off their life.  And what a blessing it is that you're helping them at the beginning stages instead of several years down the road where they're just like, ah, this is not what I want to be doing. And I've wasted all this career, I mean, all this schooling, everything. You know, you might as well learn now. If you're not happy, then it's okay. You can go learn and adjust and re-go out there and try to find something that works for you. So you're waking up every day and not hating Mondays and looking forward to Fridays.  No, no, it's probably a sign that some things need to change. That is a sign, for sure.  I'm like, what day is it again? Just because every day I'm doing things that I love. For the most part, for the most part. And there's always going to be those little exceptions here and there and those things that you don't enjoy doing. But really like, looking at that and having that right fit. One is really important for you as an employee or as an entrepreneur or a business owner, whoever you are, to make sure that this is the right place for you. And if it's not, how can you work on changing that? Or if you are the manager and you have other people working with you who are feeling the same way, how can you change that? Because they are not going to either want to stay there or they shouldn't stay in there. You're not going to get the best out of them anyway. Yeah. You're just not. And one of the things I really like too about the MBTI is that assessment, it gives you a printout at the very end of different careers and everything that would be and I remember looking through them and it gives you graphs. Doesn't it give you graphs of 90% likelihood that you'd be excel at this or whatever. But I remember looking at that and just going, I'm on the right track. You know, I'm doing the things that naturally come from me with not only taking the assessment, but then meeting with you and then meeting with another coach to really hone in on what was really good for me. Yeah. I mean, they did a bunch of studies on to look at where these different types of people were commonly working. And that's something that we pay attention to when I'm helping these students out is are you in the right fit? And if they're on the bottom of that graph, that's okay. Because there's still people that are happy in those jobs, but they need to understand like why might that be? And what kinds of roadblocks might be coming up? And just using common sense to look at and be like, okay, is this the right fit? Is this going to be the right fit? And one of the big things I do is there's a whole process that you can go through to find out ahead of time your freshman year or when you graduate and not five years down the road when you're going, why in the world did I do this? Yeah. Well, one of the things is we kind of wrap up.  Yeah. On this and you can come in and teach employees and things like that on it. How do people get a hold of you? Yeah. So the best way to reach me, I'm actually reachable through a lot of different things, but my email address or phone number, so. Okay. What's your phone number?<PHONE_NUMBER>. My email is Jay, just the letter J at netbelieve.com. I know I loved when you gave me that email. I was like, that's a great email. It's only one of the only ways I can get my entire first name and nothing else on my email. Jay at netbelieve.com. Yep. Love it, love it. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show today and sharing your wisdom. I mean, man, you know so much about this subject and I know you've been a huge help for me as I've kind of said, oh, this is who I am and this is who I'm not. I shouldn't be doing that. So thank you so much for coming on the show. Absolutely. Thank you for having me. We're happy to have you. So we're out of time, so we're going to wrap it up. I'm Becky Sampson with It's About Time on the Think Tech live streaming series. We've been talking to Jay Smith and he is a professional career coach and we've been talking about are you the right fit? Career exploration in entrepreneurship. I wanted to thank Jay for coming on today and sharing his valuable insights into what it takes to be successful. So thank you, Jay. I know that it will benefit a lot of people today. And thank you to our broadcast engineer and floor manager and to Jay Fidel, our executive producer who makes this show possible. And of course, I'll see you on Wednesdays for more of It's About Time on Think Tech. I'm your host Becky Sampson. Mahalo, everyone.


Natural disasters have been a fear of mankind throughout history, from a volcano near Pompeii to an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean. A natural disaster can devastate a whole region, causing mayhem and destruction in its wake. A deadly earthquake and resulting tsunami off the coast of Japan would result in nearly 20,000 missing and dead, a country economically wounded and a chain of events that would cause a nuclear disaster on a scale which the world had not seen since Chernobyl. If you like what we do here at Plainly Difficult, consider helping the channel grow by liking, commenting and subscribing. Let's get started. We have covered many reactor incidents on this channel, however something that makes today's subject unique is that the damage to equipment and the environment is worse than anything else I've covered on this channel. Needless to say, today we are going to dive into the Fukushima disaster. I'm going to rate this event here on the Plainly Difficult Disaster Scale, which is higher than the INES which rated it at a 7, the same level as Chernobyl, so that obviously means that my rating scale is better. The Fukushima Daiya Ichi NPP site lies approximately 220km north of Tokyo, at almost the midpoint of the Pacific coast. It straddles Okuma and Futabara townships in Fukushima Prefecture, which is around here on the map. The site is approximately 3.5km large. It is operated and managed by Tokyo Electric Power Company or TEPCO. The site houses six boiling water reactors, three built by General Electric, two by Toshiba and one by Hitachi, although all were designed by GE. Planning on the site began in 1967 on Unit 1, with its commercial operation beginning in 1972. For the next seven years, the remaining five units came online, with Unit 6 commissioned in October 1979. During the 12 years between 1967 and 1979, BWR design improvements led to variations between the six units on the site. After Unit 1, which was an earlier BWR-3 design, Units 2 to 5 were BWR-4 designs, and Unit 6 was a BWR-5 design. Because of this, the power outputs of the three designs were different with Unit 1 having 460MW of electricity, Units 2 to 5 having 784MW of electricity, and Unit 6 having 1100MW of electricity. Fukushima Daiichi plant is connected to the power grid by four lines, the 500km line, the 275km or Kuma lines, and the 66km Yonomori line to the Shin-Fukushima substation. The site was built on a bluff 25m above sea level. Originally it was intended to be at 35m, however the designers lowered the height to reduce a strain on seawater pumps, as well as making the foundations closer to stable bedrock, which helped keep the plant more earthquake resistant. This lowered height was thought to be tsunami safe in conjunction with an adequate seawall. The reactors on site were in two groups. The first, when looking at the station from the sea, contains Units 4, 3, 2 and 1 going from left to right. The rightmost group contains Units 5 and 6. Like all commercial nuclear reactors, the end goal is the generation of heat for the purpose of making steam. This is used to drive a turbine, which then generates electricity. Right before we dive into the disaster, let's have a look at how a boiling water reactor works. As this type of reactor is not often covered on this channel, for the purpose of simplicity, this is a general overview of how the GEBWRs work, however there were many variations between the three types used at the site. A BWR design uses demineralised, light water for both cooling and moderation, much like a pressure water reactor. This type of reactor is the second most common type after the PWR. However, unlike a PWR, which uses the heat of the coolant to create steam in a secondary coolant loop, in a BWR the boiling of the primary coolant is used for the steam. The steam is collected in the top of the reactor before passing towards the turbines. The steam generated from the fission passes through the turbine, after which it goes to a condenser to be returned back to water. Inside the condenser, a secondary loop of water is used and is kept separate from the primary to stop cross contamination. At Fukushima, seawater was used for condenser cooling water and auxiliary equipment cooling water. A seawall 10m high from the seabed was built in front of the power station, with open channels behind it that led from the power plant to the ocean. Water was drawn in through sluice gates and pump rooms installed for each unit. From there it is transferred to the condenser by pumps installed in the pump rooms. The fuel used at Fukushima consisted of fuel pins bundled in square arrays. The fuel pins consist of low enrichment uranium oxide or mixed uranium and plutonium oxide. Fuel pellets enclosed and sealed in zirconium alloy cladding tubes. Each of the reactors had control rods for regulating the power and had 97, 137 and 185 across the three different BWR types. The rods were inserted into the reactor from underneath. The control rods had the ability to scram the reactors shutting down fission in an event of an emergency. In the event of a power cut, backup power is generated from diesel power generators. This backup system was important for powering the coolant pumps in the event of an emergency. The reactors have two types of containment. The first being the reactor primary containment vessel, the second being the building in which it is housed. The core is kept within a containment vessel. Around the vessel there is an outer containment which is enclosed by a concrete plug. The plug can be moved by a crane over the spent fuel pool. The spent fuel pools is where used fuel rods can be stored. The PCV has two major compartments. The reactor vessel is located in the dry well. The DW is connected to a second compartment, the suppression chamber, which holds a large amount of water and enough space to suppress pressure increases. The water within the suppression chamber can be used to scrub radioisotopes from any gases released within the containment vessel. The primary containment vessels were filled with nitrogen to provide prompt control of any hydrogen generated during an incident. The secondary confinement is provided by the reactor building itself and is designed to try and hold any contaminants in a last line of defence of environmental protection. The site had three control rooms as each was used to control two reactors. Although each reactor had its own panel, this setup allowed close working between reactor teams. Each reactor's emergency diesel generators and associated equipment were stored underneath the turbine buildings between 7 to 8 metres below grade. The backup power systems also used DC batteries. These were located in the basements of the control buildings for units 1, 2 and 4 and in the mezzanine levels of the turbine buildings for units 3, 5 and 6. Units 1 to 5 had two diesel generators each and unit 6 had three. The batteries gave the power plant up to 8 hours of emergency power in the case of electrical isolation from the grid. Issues were raised by some engineers during construction as placement of safety critical equipment below grade had a higher risk of flooding, especially when combined with the lower bluff of the site. However, these issues were swept away by TEPCO's decision to follow GE's design plans to the letter and, oh boy, that would come back to bite them. This leaves us to March 2011. Three of the six units were shut down for refuelling, leaving one, two and three in operation. There were some 6,400 workers on site, approximately 2,400 consisting of 750 TEPCO personnel and around 1,650 contractors were working in the controlled area with approximately 2,000 carrying out work in the support of the planned refuelling. Unit 4 had its fuel rods removed and units 5 and 6 still had the fuel elements inside the reactors, however the control rods were inserted into the core to stop fission. On the 11th of March, at 1446 local time, an earthquake of a magnitude of nine lasted for two minutes. It was caused by a sudden release of energy at the interface where the Pacific tectonic plate forces its way under the North American plate. The earthquake was the largest ever recorded in Japan and the world's fourth largest since records began in 1900. At the time of the earthquake, sensors at the plant detected ground movement and initiated a scram in the three operating reactors. This was built in to the design of the plant and the action controlled the reactor's reactivity. The offsite power grid connections were lost during the earthquake. Because of this, the emergency systems needed power to be supplied by the 13 on-site generators. Even after shut down, the reactors needed power to monitor and pump coolant through the cores, as after fission, the fuel elements still provide decay heat strong enough to cause fuel element melting. To help with the cooling, in normal shutdown, the turbines are bypassed and the coolant in steam form goes straight to the condensers, after which it is pumped back to the core, complete in the cycle. However, during this event, the reactor was completely isolated from the turbine building due to the loss of power caused by the earthquake. With the usual way of cooling now isolated, a backup system using the suppression pool was used. Unit 1 used a different system to the remaining reactors. It used two closed cooling loops by sending the primary coolant through a heat exchanger using a secondary tank of cooling water. Once the heat was exchanged from the reactor coolant to the secondary water, the primary coolant then returned to the reactor via gravity. However, this system was cooling down the reactor too efficiently, fearing damage to the reactor vessel from extreme heat changes, one of the systems was turned off. This was set out in the operational procedures. The units 2 and 3, an open system was used which necessitated additional water. This was powered by steam from the primary coolant turning a small turbine, which in turn injected water back into the reactor. The steam that ran the turbine went to and accumulated in the suppression pool inside the primary containment vessel which served as a heat sink for absorbing the waste heat. The water needed to continue cooling the reactor was supplied from a condensate tank. Once the tank was empty or the suppression pool was full, water was then supplied from the pool for cooling. However, not only the operating reactors on the 11th of March had decay heat. During refuelling, the spent fuel rods are placed in pools near each reactor. These are also still hot so effective cooling is normally provided by electrical power. If it was just an earthquake, the event would have been effectively managed using the onsite generators and batteries. However, 40 minutes post seismic activity, the first tidal wave just under five meters tall crashed up against the sea wall which effectively protected the plant. However, just 10 minutes later, a second 14 meter high tsunami wave was heading for the power station. The wave effortlessly crashed over the sea wall which only provided protection of around five meters above the normal sea level. The water flooded the turbine rooms, shorting out their electrical systems. The wave damaged the unhoused sea water pumps. This meant that essential plant systems that use sea water including the liquid cooled emergency diesel generators could not be cooled to ensure their effective operation. The flooding water made its way into all buildings including the vital basements that housed the generators and their associated electrical equipment. This resulted in loss of emergency AC power. One air-cooled generator survived and continued to supply emergency power to unit six. This meant, however, that units one to five had total power failure. The power station was designed to be able to work off DC batteries for up to eight hours in the event of a loss of AC power generation. However, some of these systems were also affected by the flooding inundating the functional DC systems. Power started to dwindle in units one, two and four, 15 minutes post-flood due to loss of all AC and DC power. The operators of units one and two could no longer monitor the reactor pressure and the reactor water levels or key systems and components used for core cooling. This situation had no procedure set out for the operators. Because of this, the emergency control room supervisors were flying blind and had to find some way of resetting power to the stricken plant. Units three, five and six maintained power, allowing the operators to observe the power status as the main control room indications and controls were still functioning. Units three and five still had DC battery power and six still had full AC power. To extend the time between full plant blackout on units three and five, all non-essential systems were shut down. In unit three, the operators manually restarted the reactor core cooling system, controlling and monitoring the reactor water injection with the available DC power. Unit one's attempt to restart the shut down cooling system failed due to loss of power and the reactor vessel created more pressure as the core began to increase in heat. The high pressure disallowed the use of an external cooling source, for example, from an external pump. After the approval of the prime minister, a nuclear emergency was declared at three minutes past seven local time. With no indications due to power loss, the operators at unit one and two assumed a worst case scenario of no way of cooling the reactor cores, which would mean potential core uncovering of unit one and unit two. In other words, no coolant in the core, which could lead to a meltdown. This information was passed onto the government bodies at around one minute past nine PM. An order at 2123 was given by the government to evacuate an area of around three kilometers near the plant. High levels of radiation were detected in the unit one reactor building, indicating core damage at 2151. At 10 to 12 at night, the reactor vessel at unit one showed signs of being over pressured beyond design spec. The site superintendent ordered preparations for venting of the unit one containment vessel. At 2 10 AM on the 12th of March, a team was able to enter the room where unit twos reactor core isolation cooling system equipment was located and read the parameters to determine the system status. The system was confirmed working in unit twos core as a steam being created inside the core was successfully powering the small turbine in the backup cooling system. Upon hearing that unit twos cooling was still functional, operators focused on dealing with the unfolding drama at unit one. At 4 AM, an alternate cooling system was put into operation using fire trucks pumping sea water into unit one as the vessel pressure had reduced. Unit one's containment measurement at 4 19 AM on the 12th of March showed that pressure had decreased since the last measurement without any operator action and without an official venting route, indicating that some unintentional containment pressure relief had occurred through an unknown path. This coupled with an increase in radiation levels hinted at reactor vessel damage. Because of this, the government extended the evacuation zone to 10 kilometers. Plans for venting of unit one's containment was set to start at 9 AM on the 12th of March. As soon as the Fukushima prefecture authorities confirmed at 9 02 AM of the completion of the evacuation of Akuma town, the team started the manipulation of valves in order to arrange the path for the venting of unit one's containment to atmosphere. At 2 PM, the final valve was manipulated. Success of the venting operation was confirmed by a decrease in containment pressure at 2 30 PM. Initially, no increase in radioactivity was seen, however, this would change one hour post-venting and was measured at one millisievert an hour near unit one. At unit three, after 20 and a half hours of operation, the reactor core isolation cooling system ceased to operate at 11.36 AM. The system was unsuccessfully restarted resulting in the heat within the reactor core creating steam lowering the coolant level. An automatic high pressure coolant jet system started after the level dropped past the set level. At half past three PM, work to connect the mobile voltage power supplies to units one and two using an undamaged transformer in unit two was completed and a low voltage grid for supply of AC power to unit one was re-energized. However, before the benefits of the return of power could be reaped, unit one exploded. The upper part of the reactor building of unit one was severely damaged in the explosion. Although no damage was caused to the primary containment, the secondary in the former building was now compromised. Three hours later, the evacuation zone was extended to 20 kilometers. The cause of the explosion was thought to be from hydrogen that had escaped from the reactor via an unknown path. Teams returned to the site to repair the damaged electrical and water feedlines. After these were repaired, the reactor had been without cooling for around four hours. Although things were kind of back under control for unit one, unit three started to become the next drama during the disaster. Fearing that the turbine-driven high-pressure cooling system would fail with the lowering steam within the reactor, unit three was planned to be hooked up to an external water pumping source. To facilitate this, the high-pressure system needed to be switched off for valves to be opened to be hooked up to the new cooling system. The valves could not be opened. Whilst the operators struggled for 45 minutes, the pressure within the reactor rose disallowing the external water pumping option. Pating themselves into a corner, the operators attempted and failed to restart the high-pressure system, essentially leaving unit three with no cooling system at all. An emergency at unit three was declared at 5.10 a.m. on the 13th of March. At 5.15 a.m., fire engines were called up to pump water into the reactor core like had been done for unit one. Again, like with unit one, a venting path was needed to lower pressure. To reduce the reactor pressure below the fire engine pump pressure required the activation of pressure relief valve. This was achieved by the use of 12-volt batteries taken from cars at the site, which were collected in the common main control room of units three and four. The reactor pressure vessel fell below what was needed to use the fire engine pumps. An injection of boriated fresh water into the unit three reactor started at 9.25 a.m. Unit three had also gone for more than four hours without cooling. At 2.15 p.m., high radiation dose rate of around one millisieverts an hour was measured near the site boundary. 15 minutes later, the radiation dose rate exceeded 100 to 300 millisieverts an hour at the entry doors of the unit three reactor building. At 6.30 a.m. on the 14th, the water level in unit three dropped as cooling water supplies that were being pumped began to dwindle. At 11.01 a.m., an explosion occurred in the upper part of the unit three reactor building, similar to what happened at unit one, destroying the structure above the service floor. In addition to the destruction of the alternate water injection arrangement, the capability to vent the containment in unit two was lost. At around 1.00 p.m. on the 14th, unit two began to experience cooling issues as well. In what seems to be a repeating theme, reactor pressure increased as the cooling water level decreased. To enable low pressure fire truck water pumping, safety valves were operated to help drop the reactor pressure. The fire trucks began to pump water at 8 p.m. At around 9.55 p.m., confinement radiation levels had increased substantially to 5,360 millisieverts an hour in the dry well and 383 millisieverts an hour in the suppression chamber. At 10.30 p.m., the unit operators tasked with establishing the venting line to relieve the containment pressure when able to open the vent valves. Venting from the containment was unsuccessful meaning that there was little that the operators could do to stop pressure buildup within the reactor containment. And in the early hours of the 15th, the inevitable happened. In the early hours of the 15th of March, explosions were heard at units two and four with the top half of unit four's building being damaged. A drop in pressure readings on the suppression chamber of unit two was seen. This hinted in the containment of the reactor had been compromised, meaning an uncontrolled release of radioactive isotopes. Following the events in unit two, all personnel except essential workers required for monitoring and emergency response were instructed by the site superintendent to go to a radiologically safe location. 650 people evacuated to Fukushima, Diani nuclear power plant site, approximately 12 kilometers away. White smoke or steam was seen to be coming from the top of unit two's reactor building. A radiation measurement was taken of 11.93 millisieverts an hour at the main gate at 9 a.m. An order was issued by the government authorities at 11 a.m. requiring all residents within a 30-kilometer radius of the power plant to take shelter indoors. A team needed to enter the reactor building of unit four to investigate the status of the spent fuel pool. However, upon entry, they recorded radiation levels of 1,000 millisieverts an hour. After an aerial survey on the 16th, water levels were confirmed in unit four's pool. However, it was unknown about the condition of unit three, making its pool a priority to ensure enough water was in place to stop the spent fuel from becoming uncovered. Spraying started on the 17th with helicopters dropping around 30 tons of seawater. Later, fire hoses and water cannons were used to fill the pool. Additionally, on the 20th, unit four received water spray as well. Later on into March, power was gradually restored to units one to four with units five and six receiving power from the only working air-cooled generator. Units three and four were the last to receive power after being completely cut off for more than two weeks. At this time, seawater was swapped for a boreated fresh water in the cooling efforts of the reactors, meaning the situation was gradually coming back under control. Unit five was the first to be put into cold shutdown mode at 14.30 on the 20th of March, 2011. This was followed by unit six at 19.27 on the same day. However, the remaining units had a long journey ahead as a more stable situation was achieved in April, 2012. TEPCO published in May, 2012, an estimate of the amount of radioactivity released at Fukushima, which was about 1,020 peta-becuels over the 12th to the 31st of March. 500 peta-becuels of iodine-131, 10 peta-becuels of cesium-137, and 10 peta-becuels of cesium-134. The remaining was noble gases mainly made up of xenon-133. Releases to the ocean over the 26th of March to the 30th of September were thought to be about 11 peta-becuels of iodine-131, 3.5 peta-becuels of cesium-134, 3.6 peta-becuels of cesium-137, a total of 18.1 peta-becuels. The release into the ocean came from the water pumped into reactors during the forced cooling, which had subsequently been contaminated by the damage reactor cause. However, the publications were only estimates, and there is much uncertainty as to how much was released into the sea. This is mainly due to the area being flooded at the time of the contamination of the water. It was estimated that Fukushima released around one-tenth of the contamination of Chernobyl. Tests on caught fish around the area were shown to have the same levels of contamination in 2012 as they had post-accident in 2011. Hinting had a more prolonged release of contaminants into the ocean. Post-accident and exclusion zone of 20 kilometers was set up around the plant, meaning residents within the zone had to leave. However, other towns and villages outside the 20-kilometre zone were also evacuated for decontamination. In March 2012, three area definitions were set up to describe each evacuation status of the towns and villages around the stricken power plant. Area one is known as the evacuation cancellation prepared zone. These are areas where it is confirmed that the annual dose of radiation will definitely be 20 millisieverts a year or less, and the evacuation order will soon be lifted. Residents are allowed to visit their property, but not stay the night. And people in the area are not required to take protection from radiation. Area two is where residents are not permitted to live, known as the restrictive residence zone. Areas where the annual integral dose of radiation is expected to be 20 millisieverts a year or more, and where residents are ordered to remain evacuated in order to reduce the risk of radiation exposure. Residents can also return to this area, but not stay the night as well. Area three, the difficult to return zone, is where it is expected that residents will not be returning home for a long time. These are the most restrictive areas and entry is prohibited unless specifically allowed to, and whilst in protective clothing. The annual dose of radiation in these areas is expected to be 20 millisieverts a year or more within five years, and the current integral dose of radiation per year is 50 millisieverts a year or more. Gradually, as decontamination efforts were undertaken, many places affected in 2011 became habitable. However, such areas as Futaba and parts of Nami and Okuma are still inaccessible to residents. The roughly 195,000 residents who lived in the vicinity of the plant were screened by the end of May 2011. No elevated health risks were predicted. All of the 1,080 children tested for thyroid gland exposure show results within safe limits, according to the June IEA report. In December, around 1,700 residents were checked with the majority showing exposure levels below one millisievert a year, with the remaining all but 10 receiving below five millisieverts a year, with the final 10 in excess of 10 millisieverts a year. A 2012 Hirosaki University study reported 46 out of 62 people tested had activated thyroids from iodine 131. The average dose was 4.2 millisieverts and 3.5 millisieverts in adults and children respectively. This was much lower compared to the tests on Chernobyl evacuees, who received an average of around 490 millisieverts. It was estimated that there were around 700 deaths from disaster-related incidents, for example people uprooted from homes and hospitals because of the evacuation. Another big contributor to health risks from such an incident is the psychological trauma linked to being near a nuclear disaster. Some of the worst affected people were the key workers at the plant who were faced with the fast-moving, ever-increasing disaster. Many who worked on the recovery efforts had to complete tasks in less than favorable conditions, all whilst not knowing the safety of their friends and family due to the tsunami in the region. As of 2018, the Japanese government has acknowledged four workers had radiation-caused illnesses, with one dying of lung cancer at the age of 50. A frozen wall was installed around the site to try and limit the seepage into groundwater. Since the meltdowns, TEPCO was fighting a losing battle with water that flowed downhill towards the sea, which made its way via Fukushima's fractured reactor buildings. However, the frozen soil barrier had failed to completely stop water seepage. For the best part of the next decade, works at the site have been painfully slow, with not one but three melted-down reactors to deal with. In April 2011, two robots sent into reactor building one, recorded radiation levels as high as 1120 millisieverts an hour. In May, another robot was sent into unit one and discovered levels in excess of 2,000 millisieverts an hour. In 2012, radiation levels were found between 31.1 and 72.9 severts an hour inside the containment of unit two. The status of the fuel in units one to three was unknown as it had melted out of the reactor's cores for several years post-event. In 2015, another robot was sent inside the reactor confinement for unit one. However, intense radioactivity immobilized it. Finally, in 2017, a remote-controlled robot took the first pictures of the melted core of reactor three. In 2019, a robot with two fingers made first contact with the fuel debris in the primary containment vessel of reactor two. A roadmap to start removing fuel from the three units was set out with unit three storage pool beginning in 2018. Plans to begin to remove fuel from the reactors is set to begin in 2021. The Japanese government so far has put $27 billion into cleaning up the mess with around 75,000 workers scrubbing the roads, walls, roofs, gutters, and drains. Around 600 million cubic feet of grass, trees, and topsoil have been removed and stuffed into millions of black bags. But the road to completion of decommissioning and decontamination left by the 2011 disaster will take many more decades until it's finished. Now, the IAEA report, as always, is well worth a read for a full dive into the disaster. If you'd like me to cover the aftermath in better detail, let me know in the comments and I may make it into a future video. I hope you enjoyed the video. If you'd like to support the channel financially, you can on Patreon from $1 per creation. That gets you access to votes and early access to future videos. I have YouTube membership as well from 99 pence per month and that gets you early access to videos too. And all I have to say is thank you for watching.


Hi, my name is Peter Pasteur. I'm a volunteer on the KDRT side of Davis Media. Davis Media has given me a tremendous opportunity to become part of a family that contributes to the community here of Davis. As a matter of fact, the larger community around Davis. I interview musicians on a daily on a weekly basis and it's interesting to see how these musicians at many times it's their first time on radio and they just come alive. You can see it in their eyes, you can hear it in their music. The other show is Live in the Lone where Doug Kelly and I interview musicians that are traveling through the area and that's why it's called a pop-up show. We are creating the show time to accommodate their time frame and not ours. So thank you, Davis Media, for a wonderful opportunity not just for me but for the artistic community in Davis.


Welcome to the second edition of the E4M Media Ace Awards. These awards were established in 2015 to recognise the Indian media service agencies and their professionals, for the work they have done and for the contribution to the Indian media industry at large. The work is being rewarded on the basis of client retention, people retention, new business wins, innovation, volume of media handled and thought leadership to ensure that they become a showcase property in the Indian media industry. These awards are being given away for work done between April 2015 to March 2016. The process for these awards began with media service agencies sending in their nominations under the various categories. The extensive information received was then organised and analysed by E4M to ensure all the work done by the agencies gets recognised. The judging process took place in Mumbai. The jury sat together and went through all the entries to choose the winners after much deliberation and discussions. And now, ladies and gentlemen, presenting the jury of the E4M Media Ace Awards. The jury was led by Sogato Gupta, MD and CEO, Mariko Limited and it consisted of some of the biggest names in the country, people who are respected, trusted and have in-depth knowledge of the media industry. I think media agencies play a great role in terms of driving growth besides the other partners today. And I believe that these awards will raise the bar in terms of the work that is done. And I think we need to make these awards aspirational. We need to recognise great work because recognition drives even greater effort in the following and subsequent years. And I wish all the people who have participated in it good luck. And I hope that these awards actually catalyze the efforts of making more great work and more fantastic work in the years to come. The exchange for media, media ace awards and the jury board congratulates all the winners.