Welcome to WTDC 17 here in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I got the great pleasure to be joining the studio today by Mr. Andrews Ansep, who is Vice President of the European Commission. Mr. Ansep, thank you for joining us. Thank you very much for inviting me. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about the theme of this conference, WTDC 17. Is ICTs for SDGs? In what concrete ways are countries in the European region integrating ICTs to attain sustainable development? We know that the European Union is biggest donator when talking about the development date, when talking about just about EU budget. Then we invested 32 billion years within the last five years in development projects, when talking also about member states, then even 82 billion years, but a very small part, just 500 million years is going into digital, and it's not enough. We know that those digital solutions, they can be really efficient solutions, not only in developing countries, but also in the European Union. For example, just recently in Sweden they implemented the e-procurement system, and according to them, they were able to save even 20% of their spending. In some African countries, in Asian countries, it's really possible to make some miracles with those investments into digital. In India, they gave digital identities to their citizens, and in this way, they were able to cut to those middlemen when paying state allowances to their citizens, and according to their ministers, they were able to save 8 billion US dollars a year, so huge amounts of money. We have to pay more attention on digital developments in African countries. In the European Union, we decided already that in every development project, there has to be also a digital component. We created a digital for development program, and I myself, I would like to support those digital developments also in African countries, because digital public services, for example, they are always more efficient, they are more transparent, not everybody will be happy, corrupted people will be not so much happy about this, and those digital public services, they are always more inclusive. If people, they are more better informed, then they would like to take part in this decision making process also. So it's our moral duty to help African people, but now we don't have just to help, but we have to cooperate, because in many areas, some African countries, they are really highly developed, and we can copy their experience, for example, in Europe. Talking about cooperation, collaboration, how best should ITU and the European Union work together in your opinion? We are working closely together, and when talking about digital developments, then the basis for those developments is, of course, connectivity, for connectivity. Quite often, we have to solve issues connected with the spectrum, and our major part in those issues is, of course, ITU, and I would like to say our cooperation in this field was really successful. Now I'm looking to have deeper cooperation when trying to support digital developments in developing countries. Finally, very briefly, what do you hope will come from this conference? I hope more and more people will understand that it's not enough to provide development aid only to deal with survival issues, with drinking water, food, roads, democracy. Of course, this is needed, but we have to invest also into digital in developing countries. Andrew, thank you very much indeed. Thank you, you're welcome.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today, we're very fortunate to have with us the legendary Norm Chomsky. Norm, welcome to NewsClick. Good to be with you. Thanks. I've only been virtually. About 60 years ago, 70 years ago, MSSR wrote a line which I wanted to read out to you. He said, a civilization that cannot solve the problems that it's created is a decadent civilization. I find this to be a very opposite line norm. How would you characterize the civilization, particularly in the western countries in our time? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book called Failed States, which was primarily about the United States, but it generalizes to other western societies. They have, especially in the past 40, there are plenty of problems before, but for the past 40 years, most of the west has been engaged in a project which is great for the people who designed it. They're living in heaven, but it's a disaster for almost everyone else. It's called neoliberalism. The guy in the 70s really took off with Reagan and Thatcher. The design was pretty clear in the beginning. We now see the results. They worked out pretty much as anticipated. The wealth has concentrated to an extraordinary level. The general population has stagnated, declined, take the United States. By now, 0.1% of the population has 20% of the wealth. About half the population has negative net worth. Debt, other liabilities are greater than assets. Roughly 70% or so are living from paycheck to paycheck. Anything goes wrong, tough luck. Benefits have significantly declined. Concentration of wealth, of course, immediately translates into even greater control over the political system. It's always great, it's intensified. That shows up in the legislation which is designed to destroy unions, to destroy labor rights, to create a global system which turns out to be harmful for the perpetrators now. A very fragile global system designed to squeeze every cent of profit out of possible with mobility of capital, of course, no mobility of labor, free, and highly protectionist. A lot of talk about free market, but that's garbage. Highly protectionist system designed to ensure investor rights. So take drugs, for example, since that's not everyone's mind. There is a drug, Remdesivue, which seems to be of some use in overcoming symptoms turned by a corporation, really a huge drug company. The drug was produced in part, as always, by government research development subsidies. But they want a patent on it. And according to the neoliberal rules in the World Trade Organization, they have monopoly rights for decades, so they can charge $20,000 a dose if they want to. Now there happens to be a law in the United States by Dole Law, if you want to look at it. And what the law requires, not permits, requires the government to ensure that if a drug is produced with government support, it be available to the public at reasonable price. But we live with criminal governments. They don't pay any attention to the law, none. Reagan made that very clear, everyone else follows him. So nobody pays attention to this law, so they can charge what they want. Well, now there's so much public pressure that maybe they'll back off of it. But that's the way the system is designed. And it's had these effects on the general public. I've left out a lot. It's created what's called a precarious, huge number of people with very precarious positions, no unions, no support. As Thatcher pointed out, there's no society. Reagan and Thatcher were right on target. The first things they did was move to destroy unions, the only protection that people have against predatory capitalism. So let's destroy them. Reagan didn't even enforce, didn't even purposely didn't enforce the labor laws that require some observance of labor rights. It hires scabs, illegal everywhere in the world, break up strikes, corporations have been picked up the board, did the same. So people are left on their own kind of atomized. One consequence is a lot of anger, a lot of resentment, hatred of institutions. It's fertile terrain for demagogues to come along and say somebody else is full. Immigrants, black blacks, Reagan's welfare mothers, he was an extraordinary racist.  That kind of Trump is a master at this, does it all the time. That's what the big fuss is about, building the wall and so on. And it's happening in many countries, easy terrain for demagogues. That's the world we're facing. It's a world of extreme savage capitalism. It's had 40 years to wreck things. Europe is intensified by the structure of the European Union, which transfers all decisions, major decisions to unelected Troika and Brussels. With the big banks looking over their shoulders, you can predict what that's going to be. So yeah, the world is in, I haven't even mentioned the worst part. I mean, let's take India. In 50 years, India is going to be uninhabitable under present. If the present conditions persist, very likely, not for certain. But under the current course, the best scientific analysis suggests that India will simply be on all of South Asia, will be uninhabitable just because of worsting the planet. Who does this benefit? The rich and powerful. The fossil fuel companies, the banks, the manufacturing polluters. What are we doing about it? Well, most countries are doing at least something. The country that's doing most is the United States. It is racing to the abyss as quickly as possible. Trump's main program is to destroy the prospects for organized human life. Literally. This is the most criminal president human who has ever lived on earth. Hitler was a monster. He wanted to kill all the Jews, kill all the Roma, 30 million Slavs when you get rid of it. He didn't want to destroy organized human life on earth. Trump does. He knows exactly what he's doing. It just doesn't matter. And the people behind him, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and pouring money into fossil fuels, they understand perfectly well. It just doesn't matter. The logic under which they operate says maximize your own gain tomorrow. Nothing else matters. In fact, if you read the neoliberal gurus, people they worship, Milton Friedman, says it's straight. The only role of a corporation is to maximize profit for shareholders and of course management.  It's not their business. And civilization would collapse if you don't live up to this. Now this is neoliberal doctrine back to the 1920s. It's not new. Now this stuff goes back to, in fact, the concept neoliberalism goes back to the 20s in Austria. Ludwig von Mises, the great guru Friedrich Hayek. They love authority.  Total lie. They love the state. They love state power. Von Mises in the 20s could barely control his euphoria. When the neophyte incipient fascist regime in Austria smashed up the labor movement, destroyed social democracy by violence. So that was wonderful. It was eliminating interferences with sound economics. He praised fascism as saving civilization. When the Pinochet dictatorship came in, they rushed to endorse it and to take part in it. It was a perfect experiment for their neoliberal ideals. There could be no objections. The torture chambers took care of that. Money poured in, you know, from international investors from the World Bank, from the United States. They were smart enough to overcome their doctrines, to leave in place the highly efficient nationalized copper company Cadelko, which is the basis for most of the state revenues. So forgot their doctrines with that. Perfect experiment. What happened? Five years they totally crashed the economy. They had to take over more than it had under the end. Did that affect anything? In fact Hayek said that when he visited Chile under Pinochet, he said, I couldn't find a single person who didn't say that there's more freedom under Pinochet than there was before. Which is probably true considering the people he saw. That's neoliberalism. They're perfectly happy to emerge from the present crisis with a system very much like the one they instituted in their benefit, much much harder, more brutal, more authoritarian, more police control. That's fine. That's perfectly consistent with neoliberal ideals back a century. So we should not be surprised at that. And of course they're working on it relentlessly. While they're telling everybody else, you know, stay home, they're working very hard to ensure that the outcome will look very much like this. That's a brutal form of class war unfolding before our eyes. But as you say this norm, which is I think something that you would have anticipated, you know, given our understanding of what was going on, we anticipate this. In fact, as you said, your book was called a failed state. But as we are talking, the streets of the United States are on fire. People have decided that they're just not going to take it after the murder of George Floyd. And even liberals seem to be losing patience. I read George Packer, he wrote an article with the title, We are living in a failed state. It's quite astounding to see a liberal write about the failed state. And of course it's heartbreaking to see the murder of another African American, but then to see people come on the street.  Well, actually, what's happening does give a sense of hope. First of all, the murder of George Floyd is not an unusual event. I mean, events like this used to happen pretty frequently and nobody paid any attention to them. What's encouraging, hard to say this in the midst of these horrors, but what's encouraging is there is a reaction. That shows that there has been a kind of improvement in the level of civilization in the country. Things that passed under the radar before, at least a lot of people notice. No, they didn't protest before, but they're protesting now. But let me say a word of criticism about it. I understand it, sympathize with it, good thing. But notice the focus on the few policemen. One of them is a murderer. Three others stood by and did nothing. And there's a lot of denunciations of those three who stood by. But it's useful every once in a while to look into the mirror. Can you think of anyone else who stood by for actually all of our lifetimes long before while all these things are happening and didn't do anything? People like me, for example, and the rest of us, what have we done to alleviate the circumstances that lead to this? Yes, we can certainly blame the policemen for standing by, but there's a deeper problem, deeply ingrained in white society. Even people who are activists and protesters, we pretty much stood by. The protests today are very reminiscent of others. So in 1992, after the Rodney King murder by police in Los Angeles, after the policemen who killed him were released from the court without any punishment, there were huge protests. A week of protests, I think about 60 people were killed, federal troops were brought in. The effect, as usual, was to shift public attention to rioters. We have to have more law and order, more force. That's the typical response to protests that become violent. We're reliving it, except now there's more protest. And I should say this raises a question that activists should ask themselves. They should always ask themselves. You have to distinguish between tactics that make you feel good and tactics that actually do good. The ones that make you feel good are easy. Like if I can break a window and show how angry I am, it makes me feel good. Is it doing good? No, it's a gift to President Trump and the right wing. They love it. And though it's maybe hard to restrain yourself in times of bitterness and horror and crisis, if you ask yourself, what am I trying to achieve? The answer of what to do is quite clear. Over time, consistently, nonviolent protests, which are hard to courage or strength, these have shifted opinion in support of the cause we're advancing. Violent protests consistently have been a gift to the harsher, more brutal elements in society. And you have to think about that if you're serious about the cause. It's hard. It's not easy. It's easy to sympathize with, especially blacks, that the Buddha on their neck for 400 years can't criticize any reaction. But on the part of others, they should really be thinking about these things. That's a very powerful thought because I think the question of strategy and the question of tactics should be taken, of course, very seriously. I wanted to ask you about something that I think doesn't get talked about much. We are playing with the concept of Corona shock. And we are suggesting that while the more capitalist states have been having a harder time with this pandemic, it's quite extraordinary that socialist countries seem to be bearing up much better. One of the first books I read of yours was the New Mandarin's book, which was about Vietnam. It affected me a great deal, Noam, because your writings on Vietnam were so important for those of us coming up and understanding American power. Vietnam and Prime Minister Nguyen have had a completely different attitude to the global pandemic. And in fact, despite sharing a 1400 kilometer border with China, they have had no casualties. Now, I wonder if you have anything to say about this country that was so brutally bombed by the United States for a considerable part of its 20th century history, has been able not only to have no casualties, but donated 440,000 pieces of protective clothing to the United States. How is one to understand this, a country so brutalized as being so generous in the middle of a global pandemic? Well, it is pretty striking to see the reactions of the Vietnam figures, which I can't verify, but scientists seem to take them seriously. They seem to indicate that the number of fatalities was either very low, maybe zero. In fact, if you look over when the pandemic struck, the United States was singularly unprepared. And there were many reasons for this. The main reason is that it is the most business run of any society. But when a society is business run, it's going to be geared for profit for the rich. That's a tautology. So hospitals were run on the business model, kind of like an assembly plant. You don't have spare resources. You don't have an extra bit. That would be a waste of money. It doesn't work very well, even in normal times. But when there's a catastrophe, or even anything mildly wrong, it's a catastrophe. Under Obama, who was science-oriented, the first W. Bush, H.W., had established a science advisory board. When Obama came to office, within the first days of his administration, he activated it. Then he asked them to work out proposals for an impending pandemic. Everyone knew it was coming, so what should we do? Within a couple of weeks, they gave him a detailed plan and it was implemented. As soon as Trump came into office, first days dismantled the whole thing. No profit. This is extreme neoliberalism instead of mild neoliberalism. Extreme savagery instead of mild savagery. From the first day in office, Trump defunded the Center for Disease Control every year. Eliminated programs of American scientists working in China with Chinese scientists to try to identify potential coronaviruses. Hard, dangerous work, Chinese scientists. Some of them were killed doing it. But all of this dismantled. That's the extreme end. U.S. totally unprepared. Within days, amazingly fast, Chinese scientists identified the virus and sequenced the genome. Given it to the world, everybody knew. U.S. nothing. Intelligence knew. Health officials knew. Didn't want to do anything. That's the worst. Europe was sort of in the middle. Some reacted. Some didn't pay attention to these Asians. But in the China area, almost everybody reacted. Vietnam was remarkable, but New Zealand, Australia reacted how it contained. South Korea was one of the most remarkable. They had a very severe outbreak, immediately contained, almost total testing. No lockdowns. They didn't need it because they used test and trace techniques. And it was pretty much under control. Taiwan the same. Hong Kong the same. Singapore pretty much. Singapore even had hospitals that had been established and kept vacant in case there would be a pandemic. The West much worse. The United States, the bottom of the barrel. And I think it pretty much correlates with to what extent is a government business run? To what extent does the government care about its population? These are inversely correlated. Not always. You have dictatorships that don't care about the population. But among the countries we're talking about, these are inversely correlated pretty much. And you sort of see it. So, in fact, one of the most amazing cases, which is another gap you're not allowed to talk about here, is Cuba. There's something called a European Union. There's a rich country, Germany. They were able to more or less contain it. Extra capacity, extra health and diagnostic capacity and so on. Pretty lewd. That's a very rich country. There's another country, not very far to the south, which had a huge pandemic in the north. Italy, northern Italy. Do you see German doctors in northern Italy? If so, it's been kept a secret. You do see doctors from Cuba. The one internationalist country in the world, which once again is sending thousands of doctors to places most affected, working in the most difficult conditions, just the way they did after the huge earthquake in Haiti and Pakistan. This is a country that's, I don't have to tell you, it's been under the U.S. boot for 60 years. The U.S. is trying to crush it. Terrorist wars. Economic warfare. So stringent that if a Swedish company wants to send medical equipment, they can't because there might be some, they might via the anger of the mafia don, so they can't do it. And it's Cuba, first of all, that has it pretty much under control itself and is now sending help to other countries. I mean, the irony of this is beyond words. It's another thing that you don't see headlined in the press exactly. In fact, when it is discussed, occasionally it is, Cuba is attacked for forced labor, for forcing doctors to go so the state can rob them. Well, it is based on a, like a lot of folder propaganda, it is based on a sliver of truth. And a part of the funding that goes to the doctors goes back to the government to use for health services, for training and improving the health services. Cuba's totalitarian state, slave labor, got to increase the punishment. Is this manufacturing concern? Well, it's a pretty good example of it, I think. But here's the European Union on the one hand and getting international aid for the one internationalist state in the world, the one that's under the most attack by the mafia don. That's the world we're living in. You don't talk about it. Well, Noam Chomsky, it was a pleasure to have your news click and especially to end that time with you, with you speaking so passionately about Cuba. Thanks a lot. Good to talk to you. Thanks. On to the next.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here. It is Wednesday So that means it is what I eat in a day Wednesday.  We've got diesel and Lola. I'm going to show you a couple of new things I got my sips by tea subscription box I want to show you that and you guys I found an amazing and I mean amazing flat iron that I cannot Wait to share with you guys and it is a killer price So there is a lot of fun stuff coming your way in this week's what I eat in a day So if you want to join me today, stay tuned So here's my breakfast for this morning, I am so excited. I've been trying to eat a little less processed food We're gonna talk about that in an upcoming video, but with that being said I am trying to have a more substantial Maybe a little bit higher smart point breakfast so that I'm not as hungry throughout the day Especially on days that I work out. So what I have here is one honey crisp apple And then I'm having a container of my cigs strawberry zero percent milk fat yogurt Great ingredients in this yogurt and it's really delicious And then I went ahead and made myself a slice of avocado toast So what I have is one slice of the Trader Joe sourdough bread. You guys know I love this you can see it's frozen I just buy it and throw it in the freezer and then I pull out a piece as needed And then I have two smart points worth of avocado one hard boiled egg And then I topped it with the Trader Joe's everything but the bagel seasoning and then I have a huge cup of water This is my second cup of water today. So I'm doing well. So let's go through the points for my breakfast My apple is zero my yogurt is three My Trader Joe's bread is two my avocado is two and my egg is two So my toast is six smart points. My yogurt is three. So this is a nine smart point breakfast. Hi, how are you? Hi, baby. Oh, yes. Good dog. Yes a good girl Are you being a good dog? Hi, baby. Good boy. Are you cozy? Yeah, you're cozy Yes, you are it is morning snack time. It's about 10 o'clock that breakfast kept me full really long So I'll be having a little bit later lunch today, but I am going to have my coconut almond bill bar you guys This is a mat. This is an almond joy Legit has flakes of coconut chunks of almonds and it is only three smart points.  It is satisfying. It is absolutely delicious All of the bill bars are three smart points except Most of the nut one so your peanut butter is four points and they just brought back Permanently in a full-size bar the toffee almond that one is amazing. That one is four smart points as well All of the other bars are three. So definitely check out bill bar My code here on the screen will save you 10% and give you free shipping Write it down because you can use it over and over it does not expire So this is going to be my three smart point absolutely delicious morning snack you guys smart sweets 2.0 or 3.0 Has arrived. I am so excited about the changes that smart sweets has made it to their candy So if you're not what if you're not aware of what smart sweets are essentially these are Bags of gummy candy.  So these are your gummy bears Petrines my favorite sweet fish which are like Swedish fish and then sour blast buddies which are like The sour patch kids. So what's great about these is they only have three grams of sugar They also are plant-based and they do not use any sugar alcohols So there was a little controversy over a couple of things about smart sweets One was that they use carragean, which is a seaweed derived Product that is not good for your body and they also used a fiber that Supposedly affected your GI index and raised your blood sugar So people that followed a low carb diet or even people that were sensitive to those ingredients Wouldn't eat the smart sweet. So they listen to us and they have reformulated Their smart sweets and now what they use as far as sweetener is they strictly use Allulose as their sweetener. It is a non artificial sweetener. I'll tell you guys all about allulose But I want to show you the Nutritional labels so they are a little bit more calories. They used to range 80 To 90 calories per bag the smart points are exactly the same. They are still three smart points per bag They're still gluten-free non-gmo and free from sugar alcohols There's no artificial colors or sweeteners and you guys they really are a fabulous product But here is what's changed as far as the smart sweets go So the net carbs if you are someone that follows a low carb diet the net carb on these are 10 per package I believe before they were eight so the net carbs has went up because of allulose But let's talk first a little bit about what is allulose? So it's a non artificial sweetener found in nature. So it's in figs and raisins and it has zero GI Impact on your body. It doesn't react with your digestive enzymes and it passes through your body without being converted to simple sugar So it's great for someone who follows a low carb diet Or if you want as close to a natural sugar as you can have in a package allulose is great So the peach rings here they have eight grams of allulose per bag But since it isn't absorbed by the body you subtract it along with the fiber and that's how you come up with ten net carbs Now on WW we don't watch our carbs, but it's still good to know That they've chosen something that our body processes and does not spike our blood sugar So basically smart sweets 3.0 is the leader in the kick sugar campaign They've spent over a thousand hours to formulate this new product They listen to us They took action and they seize the opportunity to say hello to allulose and always stay away from the added sugars The artificial flavors and sugar alcohol. So no more care and G in no more Fiber that is questionable. So basically they listen to us and they came out with a far superior product So I'm excited I will let you guys know that I've tried all of the flavors with the allulose and I think that the texture is even better than it Was before their starch is different I'm sorry their fiber is different and their sugar is different So it just makes it a little bit less chewy and just soft and delicious They really truly are in my opinion better than the old version of the smart sweet So highly recommend you guys giving these a try you can't order these off of their website My code here on the screen will give you free shipping So check them out and way to go smart sweets for creating a healthier version. So here's my lunch for today I'm so excited. It is 12 30. So what I have here is I have five smart points worth of French fries I just cooked these in my air fryer. I also have three of the chicken skewers from Costco I will insert a picture here because they're gone the package has been thrown away and on my chicken skewers I have zero points worth of the French's honey mustard. I love that just drizzled over those skewers It's so good and then I have one cup or one serving That'd be great value organic steamable California blend and then I've got some leftover I'll just have those with dinner tonight And I just added a little bit of spray butter salt and pepper and then for dessert I have a sugar-free vanilla pudding cup with 13 lilies chocolate chips Which are zero points and the pudding cup is two My fries are five points. So that makes seven of my veggies are zero My chicken skewers are one point for three, which is amazing So that makes this a five six seven eight eight smart point lunch including dessert guys I have to have to share this with you. I got this curling wand and I am literally Literally in love and not only is it pink which hello, that's just an automatic love But this thing works incredibly so I'm gonna pop in some pictures of my hair curled with this in my hair straight You guys this curling wand is Amazing so I wanted to show you this is how it comes packaged. Let me pull it out and let's talk about it All right, so here's what it looks like they normally are black and silver But for Valentine's Day Duvall came out with this fun pink Which I love and then they cut it comes with the glove as well so that you don't burn yourself when you're curling your hair So I have the 32 millimeter They also have a 25 millimeter and that is just the size of the barrel for curling your hair But this is so awesome you guys my curls come out like beachy waves I used to do it with my flat iron and now I'm just loving this wand and I'm using this to curl my hair It also gets rid of frizz and flyaways. It is seriously absolutely amazing So this wand I find easy to use you just turn it on it heats up within about 30 seconds And you just twist your hair around it and in no time at all you have beautiful beachy waves And it doesn't do that damage to your hair because you don't keep it on your hair very long I do not use the glove I should because I've actually burnt myself a couple of times But I truly truly love this curling wand it is 70 percent off right now Down in the description box is a link if you click the link it will give you 70 percent off of the curling wand There is a code that you have to enter it check out for the 70 percent off. It is not an affiliate link I do not receive any money for showing you guys this wand They sent me the one to try and this is my honest review you guys. I love love love it They actually have the smaller one and they also have a flat iron And I think I'm gonna be buying all the products because for the price of this wand It is around $20 with the 70 percent off That's cheaper than the store and this you guys is over a hundred dollar wand So I love it highly recommend if you're looking for a curling wand that gives you those beachy curls Highly highly recommend again. I inserted some pictures so you could see my hair straight and once I've used this one But again you guys I'm loving it So I'm having an afternoon snack and I made a smoothie you guys this is so delicious It is like tropical paradise in your mouth. It is so good. So here's what I put in my smoothie So I use the quest protein powder because I am out of the devotion angel food cake And I wanted to use this up before I ordered another container You guys know devotion is my all-time favorite. This is second runner up to that I buy this off of the protein wise website. It's almost gone So as soon as it's gone, I'm gonna restock my devotion angel food cake again I do prefer devotion over quest, but this it was in my pantry So I'm using it up and if you're interested in devotion I do have 10% off the link is down in the description box below for you guys So I would recommend devotion, but if you are interested in quest it is on the protein wise website It is one point for one scoop and then I use one points worth of the Kroger card master milk This is basically regular milk. I like it much better in my smoothies than almond milk And then for my fruit, I use my will wanna Smoothie singles these organic smoothie singles from Costco you guys Obsessed so this is what it looks like. There are six of these big bags of frozen fruit It is pure organic fruit peaches pineapples strawberries grapes and passion fruit So what I do generally is use about half of a bag in my smoothie and then that way I'm getting two smoothies per bag So I'm really getting 12 smoothies out of this bag and it was $10. So love it I do not count blended fruit. So my protein shake smoothie is two smart points one for the milk and one for the quest Protein powder and then I'm gonna have one of my chicken sticks from Costco I'll insert a picture for you guys like right there of what the packaging looks like because we threw it away But this entire chicken stick is only two smart points So I'm gonna have that for two in my protein shake for two So this is a four smart point snack my February teas are here You guys are loving seeing the fun teas that come in my sips by subscription service So again when you get your teas each month, it comes in this really cute box It's just so well done and then there is this paper here That walks you through the teas that you received for the month and then all of your teas are in your box So let's take a look at this first Your teas are custom-made for you based on your preferences that you select when you take their online quiz And then that way if there are certain teas that you don't want whether it be a flavor of tea or a caffeine level of tea You can select that in the little quiz and they won't send that to you So they do tailor the tea specifically to you so for February in my box It looks like I got a vanilla cream spice. Okay, that sounds really really delicious and that is a caffeine free tea I also got a lemon green tea, which is low caffeine Which is great because I do like to have a cup of tea at night It curbs my little sweet tooth that I get after dinner and it's zero point So I do like to have a hot cup of tea at night So zero or low caffeine is great and then during the day I stick with the high caffeine teas like this Republic Chai and also this star dust blend Oh, that sounds delicious. So let me pull these bags out and we'll go over what I received and what's in the teas Oh, here are my teas you guys. I'm so excited for this star dust one But let's start here. This is the lemon green tea by ie green tea you guys. This is liquid It is a pre-brewed condensed green tea. So it's literally a liquid in this package So what is in this tea is green tea purified water lemon extract citrus citric acid and stevia So this is a low caffeine tea. This is so awesome So this packet makes 16 to 20 ounces of green tea by just adding it to hot or cold water I am super excited about this. This is something I would say for the warmer months It would be great to have this as an iced tea and it's already done You literally add its cold water drop in some ice cubes and you have a really good good for you green tea It is an organic one and then this is the vanilla cream a spice This is a caffeine free tea again an organic tea, which I love sips by usually sends organic, which is amazing this one. It has barley Interesting cinnamon chicory root chamomile Carob rubios and then some natural flavoring. So this is a vanilla cream a spice caffeine free This is a great dessert alternative And then over here we have my republic chai, which is a high caffeine tea This tea has black tea cinnamon orange peel ginger cardamom Chinese star anise cloves and black pepper that sounds really good This is not an organic tea by the way This one is not and then this you guys how fun is this can you guys see those sprinkles? So fun. So this is a loose leaf tea.  It has black tea vegan sugar stars blueberry Kiwi orange peel natural peach flavoring and blue luster best Okay, how fun is this? This is a David Bowie inspired tea So that is so fun and it is high caffeine. So it's great to steep for a little boost during the day So that's what I got this month from a sip spy again You can pick this up monthly tea subscription service my code here on the screen gives you five dollars off of your first box It is not an affiliate link. I do not receive any commission It's just five dollars off for you guys and I love to share my teas with you and you guys love seeing these two Great subscription service if you love tea and you want just something different teas that you can't always find locally So highly recommend sip spy for tonight's dinner. We are going to be making ground beef goulash This brings me back to my childhood. I'm so excited for this recipe. So let me show you what is in tonight's dinner first You're going to need some soy sauce minced garlic Pasta, of course, I'm using my very favorite fiber gourmet pasta you guys I highly recommend that you add this to your must haves on WW they make an elbow a spaghetti a Routini and a penne there is 19 grams of fiber and 8 grams of protein in one serving of this So not only does it keep you full but the taste and texture is so delicious And the best part is you can have two ounces for only three smart points. It's the only pasta We have in our house. We do not buy pasta other than fiber gourmet. We both absolutely love it You can find this on the net triton website There is a link down below click the link and it'll bring you right to the website and you can search all of the Hundreds of WW products, but definitely definitely add this to your cart best pasta ever Also, we'll be using some healthy request tomato soup salt and pepper 96 for extra lean ground beef Parmesan cheese Velveeta shreds and onion and a green pepper. So let's get started on tonight's dinner So the first thing that we need to do is chop up both our green pepper and our onion I'm just gonna add them here to the same bowl because they are added to our ground beef at the same time And then we will get our ground beef started Next we're gonna go ahead and get our ground beef browning here on the stove Once it starts to brown we are gonna go ahead and add in our veggies and our garlic When your ground beef is just about all the way cooked through I went ahead and added a big scoop of my minced garlic I'm gonna give it a quick stir Just until that garlic becomes fragrant and then we're gonna add in our veggies next up our chopped up onions and green pepper By the way, I only chopped up half of that green pepper per the recipe and just put the other half in my refrigerator and then we're also going to be adding in just a pinch of pepper and Then we're also going to add in just a pinch of salt and we're gonna pop the lid on this and let this simmer for about 20 minutes I lied before we put the lid on we are going to be adding in our can of our healthy request tomato soup And then we are also going to refill this can and add that same amount of water and Three tablespoons of our soy sauce. So I'm just gonna kind of wing that the recipe calls for soya sauce I'm not really sure what that is and I couldn't find it in my store. So I'm substituting just a soy sauce So I am gonna go ahead and add in a full can of water then put the lid on and let it simmer for 20 minutes Well, you guys already see me. This is looking and smelling so good. You guys I'm gonna go ahead and add in my package a fiber gourmet Stir that up really well and we're just gonna let this simmer on the stove for about another 15 minutes Or until our pasta is soft You can always add in some additional water if you feel like it's Sucked up all the water getting the pasta soft So not an issue at all to add in just a little bit more water But we're gonna let this simmer on the stove about another 15 minutes. All right, our goulash is done The noodles are nice and soft. There's really no liquid left once the noodles are soft I did end up adding about three quarters of a cup of water to finish cooking the noodles And then in my measuring cup here I have one cup of Velveeta shreds and I have one cup of Parmesan cheese So what I'm going to do is just spread that evenly over the top of the goulash left that melt down Do not stir go ahead and serve it directly with the cheese melted right on top and this makes six Servings so I'll go ahead and get mine plated up and I'll be back to show you my dinner and give you all of the smart points And here is tonight's dinner So I have one sixth it makes six servings for the goulash and one sixth of the recipe This is a lot is seven smart points on all three plans If you do opt for a zero-point pasta on purple it drops it down to five smart points but that's a lot of goulash for seven points and then I just paired that with some Leftover California blend from earlier today with spray butter salt and pepper so this is going to be a seven smart point dinner What's happening?  I heard that they make a sugar-free one But my particular Walmart does not carry that that one is three smart points or is one smart point So the regular one that I'm having is three and then I just have some fresh strawberries and some fat free ready whip So this is a four smart point strawberry shortcake dessert Thank you for joining me on this week's what I eat in a day on Wednesday I hope you enjoyed seeing all of my food throughout the day diesel and Lola that flat iron you guys What a fantastic deal that is less than you can buy one in the store and this one is Spectacular I have dry coarse hair very thick and this thing works wonders I am in love also if you're interested in sip spy Don't forget about the five dollars off down in the description box Also in the description box is the recipe for tonight's delicious dinner and the discount codes and links to all of the things I can save you some money on and last but not least in that description box is the link to my Facebook group We would love it if you would come and join us. 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Hello everyone, welcome to our premium vehicles of the week. I'm Gabrielle over here at Oxmer Toyota. This week we're going to have three luxury brands and we're going to go ahead and start with this Acura right here. Our first vehicle is the 2019 Acura 1LX Premium and the A-Spec package. Now that exterior color is in a white.  There's going to be a backup camera. Heated leather seating. Clean car facts. One previous owner. Blue tooth. There's going to be a sunroof as well. Now that interior is in an ebony. Mileage on here is $60,162. The price is $28,995. Our second vehicle is a 2019 Acura MDX 3.5L advanced package. The exterior color is in a gray. You are going to have alloy wheels. There is going to be 12 speakers navigation system. You're going to have blind spot monitoring. Blue tooth backup camera. There is a sunroof. Clean car facts. Power lift gate. There's also going to be heated leather seating. That interior is in an ebony leather. The mileage is $48,678. The price is $39,995. Our last vehicle is a 2021 Volvo XC60 T5 Momentum. That exterior color is in an onyx black metallic. You are going to have alloy wheels. You're going to have blind spot monitoring. There's going to be a sunroof. You're going to have a 10 speakers. There is a clean car facts. There's also going to be the 8-way power driver seat. Now that interior is in a charcoal Napa leather. The mileage on here is $22,260. The price is $41,995. All right. If you all have any questions, feel free to let us know. Now all of our contact info is listed right here. Thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. Bye.


No, you're not.   You'll always start over, because you don't get it. You don't wanna see me lie. I'll be coming with that payback. You don't wanna taste that. Don't wanna see me on the tag. Trust me. Real quick before we get started, look, what I'm interested in is people that wanna self-develop, grow, go to the next level, okay? Who in here wants to be successful? Raise your hand. Okay, but who in here can be successful if you don't take action when you know you need to take action? None of you. The difference between average people and successful people is successful people do what it takes when they get an opportunity to do something, okay? Dude, a lot of you in here right now, you're consuming, you're not a contributor. You're not contributing to your own life. You're literally a consumer. If it's easy, you'll do it. If it's complicated, you won't. You've got to change. If you don't change, nothing will change. Like, I don't know how fucking, like, uncommon sense is just common sense. It's very easy, isn't it? If he's a certain way, there's no way he'll change unless he'll change, right? But in order to change, what do you guys start doing?  There's three kinds of coaches that change my life. I have three coaches in my life or I find one coach that can teach me all three. Number one, sales. Need a sales coach. Number two, speaking. You got to learn to speak.    It's why you're broke.  So sales, speaking, and what else? An image coach, right? An image coach. Do you got to have a good image when you're working with somebody? Do people got to want to be in your presence? Yes, why are we talking about fitness?  You're not going to get up in front of 10,000 people. You're not going to build a brand on social media and recruit the world. You're not going to do any of it unless you're elite and you look elite. See, I hear with my ears, but I also see with my eyes. Okay, all the senses, when you're closing a client, when you're getting somebody to do something, all that shit's got to be in tune. Do you want to just get one of them or do you want to get all of them? All of them. You know what me and my wife decided to do? We said, all right, they got all these big dogs that got all this money. They're money. You know what people want? Somebody real.  Yeah. Most of you don't have nobody real in your life.     Or can we say, come on, let's go. Let's go. Let's go.  Like you're in it. Like some of you, you're not in it.  He wants you to want it more than him.  That's what you need to do. He wants you to take his soul. He said, I love talking to him on the phone. Did you all remember that yesterday? He goes, anytime he calls me, I answer because that motherfucker's gonna put me on another level. Is that you? If that's not you, that needs to be you.  Or I do the opposite, or I can do what she wants.  Here's the test. Here's the answers to the test. Image coach, okay? I wanna talk. Who signed up on the fitness yesterday? Can somebody tell me?  Everybody that he says your name, come up to the front.   You'll never be successful. No one's gonna make you successful except you. Am I right? Am I right?  You don't get it.  Some of you in here, the money he spent to get me in this room, you're still not paying attention.     You'll always start over because you don't get it. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor. I'm gonna tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video.  Me and Jacqueline, me and Jacqueline, we found a guy that was our mentor. Guess what? He said, he said, invest 3% of your income into sales training. 3%. Okay? I was making around 300 grand. What is that? About nine grand, okay?  Me and her invested three grand a month each, three grand for me, three grand for her. Every month to go train with this guy, we did it for 18 months. We're in our 20s. It was the only guy that we found that knew how to speak, talk. He was a great communicator. He was a great presenter.  It never changed.  I wanted to do it exactly the way he did it. And you know what? It paid off. You know what we decided to do then? Go to 10%. Now I'm not telling you to tie. This ain't a church. I'm talking about you.  I spend 10%. I mean, if I make a million, I spend 100,000 a year. People say 100,000.  How do you think I got to a million?  Some of you guys in here making a couple hundred grand.   You're gonna be right here. Why?   Spending every dollar on you to grow? No, you're not.  Fucked off a hundred there. Fucked off 200 there. Fucked off 1,000 there. None of it goes to you getting better. Dude, stop saying you wanna be successful when you don't.  Does everybody get it? Here, you wanna know how I made it?  Open your ears. I changed. I changed. All of you in here are capable of being unreal. I've spent a day with you now. I know who you are. I know how you feel.   What do we need to do? Somebody tell me what we need to do. What do we need to do to change you?  We need to make you homeless. What do we need to do?  You know what's shitty?  And it's sad. Okay? The low people, you know what they do? They complain.  They cry. They whine.    It's a separator. You want to conquer and divide? You guys need to decide today what you're gonna do. Do you guys want to stay where you're at? Or do you want to go up?  You want to go up?   They're trying to play it safe.  Dude, we built our business on being broke. Dude, my wife, just so you're aware, we have more money we know what to do with. You know what she tells me every day?  We're going under. Why? Because I want to work broke.   You guys need to put your back against the wall. Some of you in here aren't on my level. When I get fired up, you don't understand.  You're asleep, man. You're not intense. You have no energy.   Well, dude, do you want to change? Like, do you want to earn more? You got to be different, man. Guys, like, this is it.  Or do you want to change? Okay, then fuck, man. Like, dude, kill the old Jew. Kill it. Kill that motherfucker. What is selling?  When I'm at the table and I'm talking to somebody, there's not a chance in hell that this deal's not going to go down. You get it? You get it? You get it when the whole room understands that everybody's signing? If you've ever been in the room with somebody that's so magnetic, so infectious, the room is literally just filled with vibes of buying.  He's taking his mind and he's hijacking everyone else's.  You guys feel me? But dude, if you guys don't change your fuck, you can't even use it.  Only I can use it. You're like, well, I want to be like him. No, you don't. Because I go to the gym every day.  Hey, I'm not that good looking of a guy.  But you know what? I get in good shape and it makes me better looking. Does that make sense? Every day that we're closing, are we going to be doing it face to face or on the telephone?  Yes or no? You want to be in front of somebody and have them look at you and respect you and appreciate the fact that they're in your presence and appreciate and respect your time?  Are you a closer? Come here. Let's do this. All right, give it up for him guys. He's going to show us how it's done. All right, what, Tommy? All right, Tommy, come on bud. Yeah, all right, Tommy, you're going to speak up a little bit. Is that cool? Okay, guys, what are the objections that a closer gets? Think about it. Think about it. Okay, think about it. Talk to wife. What else? More research. More research. Hold on, hold on, research. I get three quotes. Okay, that's more research. I will put three quotes by it, screw it. Talk CPA. Don't want to do alone. Don't want to sign an agreement. What else they say? Too old. What? Insurance drop. They're so gonna move, stay. Hate the way it looks. Same day. Holes in the roof. Better technology. Come on, anything else? Anybody see anything else? Okay, you ready? We are going to rate Mr. Tommy. Good. Great. Or unstoppable. Okay? I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 objections. Okay? Tommy, can you overcome all 13 of those? Okay. Tommy says he can overcome all 13. Is he good? Is he great or is he unstoppable? I'm gonna let you guys decide. Is that cool? Here we go. All right, Tommy, he goes over all the numbers with me. Everybody listen up, are you ready? Okay, this is how you need to judge yourself daily. Don't yawn, son? Come on. All right, Tommy, you ready? Hey, I appreciate you showing me all the numbers. Thank you so much. The presentation has been shown. I say, Tommy, I need to think about it. Yeah, I totally understand. If something was good to do today, why should we put off to Groupon? At the end of the day, this is just the preliminary process. I'm not even sure if you can get fully approved yet. Okay, good, great, unstoppable.     What is it, your boss? Listen, can we be honest with each other? Yeah. Good, great, or unstoppable? Good. All right, number one, all right, I'm gonna put Marks next to him. All right, you ready? Hey, listen to me, and I'm not judging him. You're not judging him either. We must tell the truth. Does Tommy wanna make more money, do you think? Yes. How's Tommy gonna make more money? Getting unstoppable.  Why are we training? To become unstoppable. To become unstoppable. Do you wanna be the best in the world? Yes. Listen, are you the top 20% in your industry?  I'm not even saying one. I'm saying top 20. If you're not top 20% earner, you know what?   You guys need to have a new standard. This is the law of attraction. Does anybody know what the law of attraction is?   You do what people that are at the top are doing. You know what they're doing?   All right, here we go. I'm gonna move quick. You guys rate him. Is that cool? All right, cool. So I need to think about it. You guys said he was good. Hey, I really appreciate you. Thanks for showing me the numbers, but I need to talk to my wife. Go. Cool, yeah, I totally understand. People tend to make a bigger decision than it really has to be. Is she home right now? No.  Do you think that would be something that you'd be upset about? Yeah, I just need to explain it to her. Okay. Do you think that you have all this down back where you can explain this to her or do you think it would be better time for me to come back like when she gets home after work? Sure, so we're not moving forward now. What do you think? Good grade unstoppable.  I know, I know.    Do you guys feel me? Yeah. Let me tell you guys a little secret.   Is it crazy?  Where sells people? Do you guys know that? What do we do?  Does anybody do anything else all day long other than sell?  And when I call you up here, if you can't handle this, what does it say?  You know what average people make? Average money. You know what kind of lives they have?  Is that what you want?  You want to know why I'm mad?  You guys should have five, 10, 15 ways to handle every one of these. What else do you do all day long?  That's what you do.   There's this thing, it's called an epiphany bridge. Here's where you are now today. Look, see you guys?  And you're making 10 grand a month. And then this motherfucker is making 100 grand a month. I'm just giving you an example.  Aha! That's what I need to do. When will you have it? Cause when you have it, it's called an aha moment.   And it takes you from where this motherfucker is to where this motherfucker is that fast. You just go there. It's a decision. There's no fairy tale dust. I'm not better than you. You're not better than me.  But some of us can make decisions and some of us can't make decisions. You guys get it? Hey guys, that's what I'm gonna tell you. You're the true one percenters. You made it till the end of the video. Do me a favor, share it with the friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are. Set your notifications and then subscribe to the channel. We got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon.


Okay, we're back. We're live on a human Wednesday morning for the 10 o'clock plot with Roland Graham, solar tech Hawaii, who is our neighbor on the sixth floor here at Finance Factors Center. Welcome to the show, Roland. Hello, Haji. Thanks. Great to be here. So tell me, what is solar tech Hawaii? Tell me about the company. Tell me about who's involved in doing what. Yeah, sure. Thanks. Solar tech is a PV contractor. And we've been around for about eight years. Our president and founder, Mike Tanavasa, started the company, still runs and owns the company, has a fantastic team together. And yeah, I've been thrilled to be a part of it. Mike started the company, kind of the grassroots as a service company, doing a lot of service for solar PV systems. And as a result of those first three years or so, thousands and thousands of customers on their roofs, troubleshooting, servicing, doing things that were needed at the time, back in the time when solar was really, really cranking across the state. And now for the last four years or so, doing both a mixture of service as well as new build-outs, new systems, and very active. Basically, 50% or so of our work is service-related work and 50% of it is new build-outs. We're also finding a lot of customers that have had PV in the past. Consumption patterns maybe have changed.  Maybe they've had them on their roof for eight, nine years, those early adopters. And it's time to get new panels. So we see some of that out there, demand from the customers. And so that's, yeah, a bit of history and solid company with good technicians, a solid crew that have been together for most all of the eight years together as a team. So this is your headquarters and finance factors? Yep, yep. This is where our main office is at. And as you can imagine, obviously our field guys that are doing all the work are in their mobile offices, if you will, moving panels all over the island and installing every day, no matter where it's at, primarily here on Oahu. But yeah, this is our headquarters, this is where we're at. Yeah, well, that's something like our thing. We have our headquarters, our studio here in the sixth floor of finance factors, but you like to contact people remotely. And so that's an example of you're in your office, we're in our office, we're 20 feet apart, but it works as well. And if you were in Varanasi, India, it would work about the same way. And we do have correspondence in Varanasi, India, by the way, in case you're wondering. So are you an engineer, by the way, Ron? I am not an engineer. No, I go to the company. I'm a business development and sales of the company, so the sales manager with the company and so customer relationships and emerging markets. This is where I really focus in terms of growth for the company. Okay, very important. In any tech company, that's very important. Those are the people you meet. So a couple of things you said I wanted to drill down on. You know, one is, you know, so Mike was doing service, Mike was doing service on solar, you know, and two things, one is what kind of things do you have to do to service solar panels, solar installations, what is service on solar? I mean, some people might think that it's just good for 20 years, leave it there, it'll be fine, but that's not really true, is it? Well, yeah, it's an excellent question. In the ideal world, that's absolutely true. That's true about our televisions, that our washers and dryers and, you know, all the technology that we engage with, we get them and they come with a 10-year warranty and we go out, we hope we never have to use that, but we like to set them in place and let them run and do their thing. But, you know, solar panels are out in a fairly harsh environment. You know, they're exposed to a lot of sunlight, of course, they're built for that. And so it's real common now for many manufacturers to be shipping products they have for years with 25-year warranties. That has been pretty solid for many of the reputable manufacturers. So in the most part, you can put them up on your roof, expect them to run for 25 years. And there may be some, you know, some things that happen in harsher environments where metals might corrode a bit in terms of mounting and these kinds of things. So you'll want to keep an eye on that. And that can be helped by washing them periodically, especially if you're in specific areas. People ask us this all the time, should I wash my panels every year? You know, our experience there in terms of service and washing and cleaning, if your house is fairly close to the H1, that's probably where you're gonna have the most amount of dirt buildup. We see that all the way along the H1 corridor, there's a lot of dirt sticks to your building and sits on those panels. Now we get a fair amount of rain in certain sections of the H1, you know, Hawaii, Kai all the way through Manoa and all in town here. But so if you get out into the leeward areas where there's less rain, then they're not gonna get washed off as much. But otherwise in most locations around the island, rain is washing them off pretty good. So that's the PV panel. The other piece of componentry to a PV system is your inverters. And there's two primary kinds of inverters. There's your microinverters where you've got one inverter for every panel and they're mounted right up underneath the panel up on the roof. And so that's a piece of electronics that is a potential place for failure. The primary manufacturer of microinverters in this space has been for years, has great warranties on those things. And we're not seeing too high a failure rates there. Again, for the most part, you're absolutely right. Put them up on the roof and let them run. They're 25 year warranty now on these inverters. And for the most part, we're not seeing any major problems. But from time to time, one of those things will go out and they'll need to be replaced. And so that's a piece of service that can happen. And then your last piece is kind of, for lack of a better term, a control center with an internet gateway where collecting the data from those panels and those inverters. And in most cases for many manufacturers, that data is being fed up to the cloud and a dashboard is available to a consumer on their mobile phone, on an app or a browser. And they can see what their system is producing. They can go back and look at the records and see what it produced last year on February 28th if they wanted to, I mean, but usually what they're doing is matching it up with their utility bill. If their utility bill is from July 20th to July 19th, they'll go take a look at their PV system and pull up the data from that particular timeframe and see how that corresponds. And so that's another piece of componentry that has a potential for failure. In most cases, again, it runs pretty solid. But those are the service slash maintenance things that typically will be pulled out on unless some major event happened. There was potentially a re-roofing that needed to happen. So the panels need to be taken off and put back on. We do a lot of that, remove and replace a lot of that. And so that would be another reason to get out there and touch the system. Otherwise, you're right, Jay, for the most part, most customers can count on that system once it gets put up there, largely running as intended for long periods of time. Well, if you have an option, I don't know if it's an option or it's always part of the deal, but if you have an option to take maintenance and to pay for it or not, you should probably take the maintenance because if you don't take the maintenance, you may wind up spending a lot in order to catch up later. Am I right? Yeah, I mean, there's risk and reward there, right? Certainly as a contractor, we want to help customers have their systems running consistently, stably all the way through and touching that system periodically, especially after the first five years will help prevent, right? An ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure. So if a system goes down, sometimes it can be frustrating. Oh, I didn't know it went down, I wasn't watching it and now you're coming in and you're doing firefighting on a system that has been down for a period of time and a customer is like, I want this back up and running as quickly as possible. And so you're right in that sense that some maintenance, an ounce of prevention is a good thing to do. We at SolarTech, we provide a five-year workmanship warranty on our stuff. So if a customer has an issue anytime in the first five years, you know, that's built into our deliverable from the very beginning. So feel free to call us at any point in time.  And then of course, if you're out there to the house anytime that it's needed to get up on the roof, take a look, help our customers. Beyond that five years, then there may be some diagnosis and then potentially a quote, you know, to serve as something if they didn't buy that, you know, that service contract that would go beyond five years. But anyways, those are the options for the customer to make sure. And SolarHotWater, you know, we haven't necessarily touched on that, but we do a lot of that. And it's very similar, very similar. And then you know about Bill 25, pending in the city council right now. In fact, all kinds of, you know, when I say an advocacy going on around this bill. And so I think it's worth, you know, discussing that a little bit. So some years ago, there was an attempt at the state level to incentivize or to require solar water heaters on every new residents. And there were so many exceptions. I don't think it was all that successful. But now the city council is doing it again in this Bill 25, just coming up now. And I wonder how you think that might affect you if you're an installer of solar water heater, no? Yeah, there could be a number of ways that that affects us. We've certainly seen communities here on Oahu, specifically where we do most of our work, where the developer, their builder, has done solar hot water as a standard option. We've seen some of that with or without legislation that requires it. Part of their competitive advantage, if you will. And so, you know, that has been done in the past. We, otherwise, you know, I think a mandate for it would certainly help raise the awareness of the benefits for it. Oftentimes, we'll have customers contact us for solar PV. And one of the predicating questions we'll ask them after looking at their bill and doing initial assessments of what their consumptions are, we'll ask. Having not seen the house, do you have solar hot water? It is one of those low-hanging fruits, if you will, when it comes to the cost of the system, the investment for the homeowner and the return on investment over time. It, you really can't beat it for return on investment, especially with the tax incentives that are still in place at the state level, the slightly reduced levels of tax incentives at the federal level now in 2020, still a fantastic return on investment, solar hot water, especially if the usage in the home is four or five people or more. We see that going up Hawaii Energy, the incentive group here, as you're aware of, has published some numbers. It's in the range of $20 to $25 per month per person that you can kind of estimate your savings when you get solar hot water. And so that's some real easy math and you can start to see those numbers. Now, obviously different families usage will vary depending on how long hot showers are. I'll often ask families, do you have teenagers, right? Because you might be on the high end of that savings, maybe because of the long showers, teenagers sometimes take, but depending on the family profile, they're going to see some savings there and solar hot water is a great way to go. So I would be in favor of that. How would that impact us? It would certainly, I would expect to drive demand, our direction, as well as any other contractors out there. But more than that, the bigger picture, Jay, I think, which we all should be cognizant of, and that is, are we on a trajectory towards our goal of being fully sustainable as a state, as an island chain by 2045? We don't do these, we don't help our consumers become aware of the savings and the impact positively. Then it's going to be a hard row, one contractor at a time, being out there knocking on doors, talking to people one at a time, it takes a lot longer than if the legislation were to come and really raise the awareness. And so I think it would certainly have an impact on our business, that's true. Well, one of the part of that bill is to make all new homes, residences in the county, quote, and I quote, because I'm not sure what this is defined as, EV ready, electric vehicle ready. And this speaks of the sort of the decorations on setting up a solar program in the home. For example, if I'm inclined to get an EV, I would really like to connect my EV to the solar facility on my roof. I would like to have it all automated, all work perfectly fine together. And then I've got sort of the perfect arrangement. If I do that, are you finding that? Are you doing that? Are you recommending it? What do you think of that aspect of the bill? Yeah, excellent, powerful set of questions there. I love it. There's an irony with electric vehicles. And it's probably not lost on most people who have really thought it through. And that is all around town. And I'm not speaking disparagingly, I'm just talking about reality. All around town, we have these EV charging stations going in and I'm in favor of them, absolutely. I sat about six months ago in an EV seminar that was put on by Hawaii Energy and the manufacturers of EV charging stations were there. And we've seen these all around. They get the preferential parking spots in a lot of these different places. And I'm absolutely in favor of that. My question at that seminar to the group in general and I didn't mean it sarcastically at all, right? But how many of those EV charging stations are actually delivering clean energy to the car? Right. Because most of those large buildings are not many of them, especially in the high-rise space where we are downtown Honolulu, are not powered by solar, certainly not by the owner of that building because they don't have the real estate for it. So our grid, as we all know, is largely powered by fossil fuels. Now, again, our utility is deploying large solar fields and that's fantastic, that's awesome. So we're getting more and more clean energy. But if you don't have a PV system at home or at the business where you plug in, when you plug in your EV to your house or to that place, it's worth considering where's that power coming from? Because if it's coming from fossil fuels, then I've essentially done the exact same thing as a consumer as going to the gas station, right? I'm filling up on fossil fuel either way. So when a customer starts talking about a PV and EV, that's a wonderful marriage. That's a fantastic direction to go. Now, the question really becomes for a homeowner. My PV system is running all day long. I might be gone. Very typical living pattern. You leave in the morning to go to work. You come home in the evening. Your systems have been producing all day. I come home from work, 536, 630. I go to plug in my EV. Now, my PV system is going down in production, right? Sun is setting, it's going down. And so I'm switching back over primarily to my utility. So that's something to be thought through again because you can buy a PV system, have EV cars and actually not necessarily affect positively your eco-vill if you're still using a lot of your stuff at night. So that takes us into the broader picture of batteries, right? How do I make sure I capture all of this PV, use it for my own consumption when there is no sunlight to actively run that PV system? So these are conversations and dialogues that we're having with almost every customer, every customer when it comes to, and the same thing is for air conditioning as it is for EV cars. I come home, my house is hot. I crank up the air conditioning to get it cooled down, right? When my PV system is losing its production, right? So my consumption in the home is cranking up. We come home, kids have had sports, whatever we turn all the showers on, we're running hot water systems. We start doing laundry and our dryers are going. We turn the stove on, we start cooking. All these high-consuming items inside the house are all running at a time when there's very little PV production. You look at the general demographic of usage, right? And so those things do absolutely, Jay, have to be considered a thought through and even one of those things. Well, it seems to me that the key to reaching our goals here really a key thing is storage. And you can have, there are other kinds of storage, but the one that comes to mind over right now and for the past several years is batteries and batteries are expensive. And there's a bill or there will be, if there isn't already a bill in the legislature, wrapping storage into PV installations. Now, my understanding is that if you build right now under the law, if you build a house with PV and storage, you get a tax credit on the whole package. But if you add storage later, you don't get a tax credit on that storage, which is really irrational, I'm sorry. And PV interests are probably including your trade associations have been trying for the last four years to change the law on that so you can get a tax credit on add-in storage, which is so important. And the legislature in its infinite wisdom has not seen fit to pass that bill over the past four years of trying. Maybe in the fifth year, maybe something will happen. How do you feel about that bill? Isn't that it bill goes beyond just incentivizing for installers like your company, SolarTech Hawaii LLC, but for the whole state, for everyone, it seems to me, if we're gonna reach our goals, we have to do that. What's your view on it, Roland? Yeah, I totally agree. And there are two conversations when it comes to that legislation, one's at the federal level, one's at the state level. And it's worth noting that they obviously are two different conversations of two different legislative bodies. The tax credits are in place at the state level. The fact that we don't hear any rumors of them going anywhere, like the federal level is scheduled to go down. And it started that step down here in 2020. And at the state level, we don't hear any rumblings of that ever going away. That's great, that's excellent. I do, though, of course, agree with you being in the industry that more would be better. Especially here at the state level where we have some critical of that. Now at the federal level, as I understand it, and this is just pretty recent news, the budget that was signed by the White House, despite lobbying by our industry, our trade industry, for wrapping in storage with PV and extending the PV credits that are already in place, that has all not been signed into legislation, as I understand at the White House in this current budget. Wind power incentives were added in there. And I'm not in that industry, so I can't speak to the specifics of that, but as I understand it from my reading, wind power was added in there, but solar PV currently is going to, tax incentives are going to step down to zero. This year is 26%, next year 21%. That's in 2021, and then going to zero, as I understand it, with no extensions currently signed into law. That's at the federal level. And that, of course, it's terrible, really. I mean, there's no self-selling it from my perspective. Obviously I'm in the industry, so it would make some sense that I wouldn't have some bias towards that. But I'm talking to customers all the time as consumers. And so I feel that I empathize at their dining room table as a consumer, right? That I want to pencil out this investment. This is a 25, 30-year investment. I want to see it pencil out. I want to see it have a direct impact on my utility bill. And I want to see this and become an asset for my house. I don't need to make money on this. I'm not building equity like in buying a home. We hope to build equity and have this thing be a phenomenal asset. But we do want to see a direct return on investment. And those tax incentives are a key part to making that happen. So yeah, we'd like to see that happen specifically with storage wrapped in as a tax incentive in and of itself. Because as you know, Jay, we have a pretty solid history here in the state with PV adoption through the different phases, right? When the NEM program first came out with ECO, it was wildly accepted, really. I mean, it was fantastic, the number of consumers, both private and commercial, that adopted it. All of those customers had no batteries, right? And so at some point in time, they may all want to be considering adding batteries to an existing PV system without adding PV panels. And it would seem to me that it would make sense for the state in meeting those targets that those incentives would help make that happen. Because we can then offset that usage. I'm sorry, production of PV to be used in the evenings. Without that, yeah, we're really gonna be back as consumers drawing from the grid. And then it's a matter of, where did that, did we do massive battery systems at the grid level? We see massive PV systems being put out there, but massive storage is a slightly different piece. So I think we need to be incentivizing private, home owners to add PV storage, right? To their systems that are currently producing. Yeah, the nature of an incentive doesn't have to make anybody rich particularly. It only has to tip the scale. It has to reach the tipping point where it changes consumers' sentiment in a way that we all want. And so it doesn't have to be huge, but it has to be a sort of governmental nod, an expression of governmental policy. Yes, we think this is good. Yes, we will be able to reach our goals this way. So get on the bandwagon, and just to show you how sincere we are, we're gonna give you this incentive. And I think you have to tune that. Going forward, you have to think about a sunset, but maybe not right away. Sometimes the legislature thinks of a sunset the minute they adopt the incentive and then everybody says, oh, they're not serious. They don't really mean it. This is gonna go away so quickly. I saw that happen in the technology tax credit back in the early years of the century. Anyway, this all raises the question of the relationship of the solar installer companies like yours and the solar installer industry and trade associations with the utility and the utilities, I say the utility, I mean all the utilities, both utilities in their efforts to build solar, community solar, large scale utility level solar, and they can go out and with the approval of the PUC, they can organize huge solar facilities. And that has to have an effect on you because it means that some people who might be incentivized to put solar in their rooms won't because the utility will have its own solar and that's clean energy and why should I worry about my own roof? And I was telling you before that Marco Mangelsdorf, one of our other guests on these energy shows, keeps track of how much solar is being installed. Right now, we're on an upswing. Last few months for reasons I don't fully understand, we're on an upswing, there's more solar being installed. But query in the long term, how do you see this playing out? And do you see companies like SolarTech, Hawaii, LLC, being on the bandwagon for larger installations for hundreds of megawatts, that will have an effect on the larger picture rather than the individual single family residents? Yeah, yeah, good series of questions there again, Jay. You know, we're a proponent of local company, right? Local contractors, that's who we are. We feed our families. We put our kids in our local schools. We are local people. We feed back into the local economy. And so, yeah, we're huge proponents of promoting local contractors getting access to bidding and on large and small projects, presuming, of course, that the contractor has the capacity to do so. And so, yeah, that's the answer to that question. How we see it impacting individual homeowners is interesting. I'll offer my perspective, and others might have different perspectives. My perspective on that is, one, I applaud the big solar farms. The big one, Milani just went online here recently. Fantastic, years in the building. We've got others up on the North Shore. Really, for our overall state goals, right? I applaud it, 100%. Does it take food off our table as a small local contractor? Well, I haven't seen, unless I missed it, I haven't seen the per kilowatt rate on a consumer's bill go down just yet. And if you wanna know the truth of the matter, I don't expect it will. Now, I'd love to be wrong on that. I'd love for one day to come home, open up my own bill and go, wow. I'm only worth 17 cents per kilowatt hour. What is the last one that? But honestly, I don't expect that to happen despite the fact that clearly, the cost for producing power with a kilowatt is so much less than on those diesel-generating plants. Very interesting world, very interesting. It's a very interesting perspective. Yeah, I mean, I would love to see somehow that savings get passed on. And I don't say that in a way to be disparaging towards our utility. Our utility is a partner of ours, right? They really are. And we may love aspects of them. We may dislike aspects of them. That's true about any large organization, right? But the reality is, I don't suspect. I mean, somebody please prove me wrong.  In which case, the incentive is still there for me as a homeowner to get my bill down. And PV is really the best way to do that. In solar hot water, obviously. So solar hot water. Thanks, Roland Graham. Solar Tech Hawaii LLC, our neighbor here at Finance Factors Center. So much appreciate your patience in starting the show and your knowledge ability. We really appreciate that. And thank you for joining us today. I hope we can do it again. Thanks, Jay. We really appreciate the time. Glad to join the show and best to you guys in the show as you guys continue to grow it. Aloha.


Now, we are on to a developing a formalism which brings out what field theory is about and how to deduce results from field theory. So, last time we start. So, what we are doing now is forced harmonic oscillator or rather Green's function. So, we use the Lagrangian formalism and the Lagrangian is of course, integral d t of and we had set m equal to 1.  And then what we do here is that we propose a Fourier transformed variable for q and similarly for f right. Our definition will be g equal to is the convention for the Fourier transform. So, if we do this then we can see that half q dot square. So, this is our definition of Fourier transform convention. So, do not worry what the g is any function g this is the convention. Now, we try to calculate what happens to the half q dot square or to q dot square. So, q dot square will require you to take something like this and differentiate it under this integral sign. So, if you carry out this exercise all you have to do is take this expression twice I am very sorry d e d e right. So, we will have d e d e prime and because you differentiate you get a I e down q tilde of e and here e raised to I e prime t q tilde of e prime right we are just squaring q dot. But from this we get integral d e d e prime then minus e times e prime and then the q tilde e q tilde e prime and then e raised to I e plus e prime t. So, if we look at this under the integral d t sign. So, then under integral d t this becomes delta function of e plus. So, this becomes integral d e d e prime over I need not well let us write it down anywhere times the minus e e prime and then q tilde e q tilde e prime, but delta e plus e prime. So, using up one of the e integrations we will get d e over 2 pi and 2 pi delta thank you. So, 2 pi is gone here and minus e squared e squared times q tilde e q tilde minus e and that is it. Now, we have to put it alongside this omega squared q squared it has to be added on to omega squared q squared, but q squared is just going to have without any I e appearing this thing twice. So, it does not seem to have e and minus e. However, you can always reverse the integration direction in one of them because it does not change the meaning of what this expression is and then you can write the q squared also as if it is integral of. So, integral d t q squared and there is an omega squared q squared this also becomes equal to omega squared times integral d e and times simply q tilde e q tilde minus e. So, you can recast it in that same form and then we had added damping factor which we make proportional to this. So, we make it proportional to q squared. So, we had a term minus epsilon integral d t of q squared where these integrals are all from minus infinity to infinity because this can be between arbitrary times, but eventually we want in the Fourier transform we certainly need e going from minus infinity to infinity because otherwise we do not have Fourier transform and yes therefore, these integrals are all otherwise we do not get delta function. So, these are all integrals from minus infinity to infinity. So, this is also integral minus infinity to infinity. So, the point being that this thing added to the exponent in the path integral will add a positive definite quantity with a negative constant in front and it will cause damping, damp at large values of t. So, it is damp at large values of q if you go to large values of this q squared then this begin becomes large and will damp everything out. So, we do not have to worry about very large q's and you can focus on a finite region. So, thus the transition amplitude q f infinity q i minus infinity this transition amplitude becomes integral d q of e raise to i we have dropped h cross now times integral minus infinity to infinity of d t of sorry and we are going to rewrite it in terms of e. So, becomes d e of one half this e squared and then we have sorry this is Lagrangian not Hamiltonian. So, this is minus sign. So, there is that minus sign, but that minus sign comes multiplied with this i. So, if I have to recast this in that same line I have to write. So, I write this minus sign as i times i take one i out. So, I will get minus omega squared, but minus i epsilon times the q tilde e q tilde minus e and now we also have to introduce these terms this term q times f and that q times f we write as equal to we put an overall half and we write for symmetry q tilde e forcing function tilde of minus e that will come only once, but to keep an overall factor half outside we also write q tilde minus e times f tilde e and I can now put a big square bracket outside ok. So, the half multiplies all of this. Ultimately it can also be again made a Gaussian. So, if you can just look at the structure of this aside from a time derivative there which in the energy domain will just become multiplication by energy. This is quadratic in q or q tilde variable and this is linear in q. So, all you have to do is a term that is of the form f squared and you can make it into a complete square. So, that is what we do by choosing q tilde e to be equal to small q tilde divided by right.  So, you need let us fix what this has to be let us see what all is required to get it right. So, if I just take q tilde e and q tilde minus e big q tilde minus e then does the product work out to be that. So, I pulled out this. So, it will give this term correctly and the cross term has to be q tilde e f tilde minus e divided by this which is correct and this divided by this times this. So, I will get both these terms right. So, this is the correct definition. So, we will have to just subtract the square part of this term.  So, this we have to change where this we have to change to q tilde eventually, but let us write it like this right now q tilde e q tilde minus e q tilde e times. So, this way which we had taken out of course, will multiply the whole thing. So, into e squared minus omega squared plus i epsilon times q tilde minus e. So, that is one term d e and so, we will try to make it q tilde e, but with some Jacobian. So, let me just say times a Jacobian, but here we get. So, that got cleaned up and all we get is a this squared term has to be subtracted and so, in the exponent minus. So, we will we have to draw some or we can write times because it does not matter times i times and no and the half factor because that half factor is existing here as well.  So, put minus sign here and now I have to argue to you that this Jacobian. So, actually that this Jacobian is one that is what we want to check right. So, what we observe is that this shift amounts to I can now Fourier transform it back. So, then it will become q of t equal to all q of t. So, now, note what we have done is just take Fourier transform of this back. So, we get capital Q of big q of t equal to the small q of t and plus this Fourier transform d e over square root 2 pi e raise to i e t f tilde e over the e squared. So, this Jacobian is one because this has no dependence on q. So, one in whichever dimensional space you want to think of some kind of infinite dimensional space, but it is still identity and therefore, likewise well I need not actually be too ambitious right now. All I have to do is make sure that I have changed variables from I can still write without any loss of generality q capital Q of t that is all I write. We know that this is function of e and this is t, but we know there is a relation. So, we can always work out main thing is that we want to move over to doing an integration over big q rather than small q. If we try to go from time domain to the energy or frequency domain, then again the Jacobian will be variation of this with respect to variation of g tilde which will leave behind a delta function of 0 or something. You know some I will define quantity, but which does not depend on q itself. So, whatever that Jacobian is is a constant ok. So, this constant overall constant I am not going to worry about we will leave it outside. I do have some note here that says d q d t that is done in time domain. So, I will not check what happens if you do the better idea. The point is you leave this measure in the time domain this you can always convert back and it will give you the usual t expression, but in q good. So, we do this only this the big Jacobian we do only in the known variables and known time domain and now observe that the front first factor the integral f tilde f tilde over e squared minus omega squared does not depend on of q and the q part. So, that or we can write the whole formula. So, that this expression q f infinity q i minus infinity is just going to be equal to this expression right. Because here I can certainly convert back to time domain without worrying and it will give me back my old Lagrangian except in the variable big q instead of small q and times this additional exponent e raise to i times the this term. We will next try to convert that term also to time domain. This front factor is simply seen to be the answer when forcing function is 0. So, this is with forcing function f you can put it here and we have dropped our memory of Dirac some point, but there are Dirac bases. And so, that becomes equal to i over 2 and now we claim that this is going to be in time domain equal to f right f of t f of t prime. So, both d t and d t prime where the d is the time domain propagator. In other words just thinking in terms of Fourier transform this thing which is 1 over e square minus omega square plus i epsilon we think of that as d tilde of E ok. This is easy to check right because there is both d t and d t prime. So, if you if you take this d t minus t prime and insert it here then the denominator will not depend on the t or t prime, but you can take e raise to i e t to this with this f of t and e raise to minus i e t prime with f t prime and do the d t and d t prime integrals you will just get f tilde of t and f tilde of minus f tilde of E and f tilde of minus E and be left with the denominator as is and 1 d E integration. So, this is same as this and so, that is an elegant way of recasting and this is our answer sort of and this for the force harmonic oscillator. So, sometimes we will write a short form for it which is also equal to this arrow goes there. So, notation is here f of argument 1 d of 1 and 2 and second f of argument 2 and then integral over t and t prime. So, this we will use as a notation for this and we can we are still we still seem to be stuck with this q f and q i which look arbitrary. So, what is actually done is also to extend the space range. So, we then define yes. So, what we do is introduce a vacuum to vacuum amplitude just for the possibility that after you have done some drama the two vacuum may differ by some overall phase.  This vacuum to vacuum amplitude is a very important concept. So, that is so, we can show that this also becomes equal to similar kind of thing and overall thing without any j. So, this in the presence of any forcing function becomes.  In fact, f is in time domain. So, we should have said it there at t equal to and therefore, it does not appear here does not afflict the overlap over there. So, then that factor that we have there the f d f just comes out of the whole thing and we get that this equals e raise to i over 2 minus i over 2 what I have minus i over 2 f d f, but this is what we wanted because we had made that proposal that any averages can be calculated by varying this now with respect to this external current. So, f is sometimes well right now it is not a current it is just a forcing function in field theory it becomes a current. Many of these ideas were actually developed by Schwinger and they have eventually come back into the although in early developments for sometime it was ignored. So, this idea of constructing vacuum to vacuum amplitude writing a generating functional and by introducing external forcing function with respect to which you can vary now d f varying with respect to d f will bring down a q. So, you can calculate a q q correlator by varying with respect to f twice. So, this can be used. So, this is the this is now the average this is not quantum mechanics. So, and i is because there are i minus i square and if you have any operators all you have to do is write whatever power series you have in q you just construct that same power series in variations with respect to f. So, you will get higher powers of variation and now that we have committed so many sins we even if you have a transcendental function all you do is replace wherever you see a q by i d by d f is the same answer. So, you can calculate the average value of any operator or products of such operators by doing this.


I'm a son of first class in the United States Army and depression really hit me about six years after dealing with PTSD. When I got back from Afghanistan I had a lot of memories of you know guys that we lost throughout the years and my depression really kicked in.  So depression is one of the most common mental health conditions in the United States and service members often experience depression when they're returning from deployment especially so we want to make sure that people have access to care. It can't be effective if you're breaking down. You can't be effective if you can't put yourself out of bed. You can't be effective if you're having all these negative thoughts. We got to change our mentality of the way we think about behavior health in the Army. We got to really look at the way we're treating each other about seeking behavior health and try to turn it into a positive thing. There's the myth that people think that well if I feel sad or if I can't manage my feelings and it means I'm weak but the reality is that depression is something that happens and often affects many people over the course of their life. Don't just suffer in silence. Having that battle buddy to have your back in your darkest moments I think is really beneficial and important. Getting help does not signify weakness. I would say it's actually signify strength.