Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We got today the unveiling of our beautiful team of the season so far, Car Design. And they actually gave us the full design today, which I think is pretty cool. We're going to take another look at it over here again on Twitter and talk about it a bit. But I like that car design. It's cool. I'm not so sure about the green. You know, if we take a look at this again, I'm not so sure about the green here, boys. What this green, like the outline. I feel like this car, if it had a gold outline, like this, this kind of like bright gold along the outline, it would look a little bit better. I wonder if they're putting in this like green color, because there were so many people who complained during team of the year that the pack animation looked just like UCLs. So I wonder if they're putting in this green color to make the pack, the pack animation be more of a green color. That way we can actually tell when we're getting a Tots card. I don't know. That's just my first off theory. But this is a pretty cool car design. It's different. It's like mostly blue, but then you have the gold that's kind of, you know, breaking out with the shards up above in the top right.  But I like this car design. It is cool. And so that was basically all of our content today, which is kind of, you know, something to laugh at as well. Not really to laugh at, but just to that's the state that we've gotten with this game is that a pack design is considered content. Other than that today, I think we got the La Liga challenge. We had the Syria challenge yesterday. So now we have the Bundesliga Syria and La Liga challenges have all come out. And I don't even know if there was a league on in the pack code, but it would make sense if they were going to put one in. But that has not come out yet. So we'll see what happens. I would be very curious to see that if they don't have a league on challenge, does that mean we're not getting league on team this season? I don't think we that I don't read, I wouldn't read into that at all. But that's just something I thought about since we haven't had a league on challenge yet, but we've had all these other ones. So other than that, really no content today. So not a ton of stuff to do. So what happens when there's not a lot of stuff to do on this market cards rise in price. I posted a picture this morning on Twitter of me flipping a few cards. This man right here was the one who I flipped the majority of last night. The cards are fluctuating right now, boys. Cards are fluctuating a lot. This Hudson adoy, I bought last night late, late, late Sunday into Monday, 230, 240,000 coins. I sold them for 260 this morning. People, a lot of these cards rose throughout the day today because nobody had anything else to do. And so they just went out and they bought some of the cards because obviously these prices are a lot lower than what they were. 93 to all of these at 300k or below. Again, here the Hudson adoys, I got this sun at 243 got a sale at 267, which was nice. And then a couple losses that I had taken earlier in the week that are still there. So my recommendation to you this week would honestly be don't be afraid of trying to trade cards. Honestly, do not be afraid of trying to get on the market because especially here on PlayStation, I'd be a little bit skeptical about Xbox as the servers look to be pretty slow, which is probably going to be an issue on Friday for team this season. But as we're going to take a look at footbin while this is trying to load, and you'll see that a lot of these cards, especially on like the lower tier end, rose today, a lot of the lower tier end of cards rose today on the market. And that kind of tells me that maybe more of the casuals on FIFA today were involved with buying cards in the market just because there was nothing else to do. And a lot of the casuals maybe don't understand the market as well as some of us do guys that play this game day in and day out and really pay attention to this stuff. A lot of those guys probably just don't understand it. But if you look at a lot of these card prices, they're up today, Mendy 600,000 coins. Not this set is what I'm looking for. Marcelo last night was 1.09. He's now 1.2. Again, it's kind of on like a per card basis because Ben Yetter was 1.45 last night. He's still 1.45. But a lot of the lower tier stuff, as I mentioned before, started to rise today as well, especially if you look in someone like the winner refresh section. I think that where's my guy at? Mateus Cunha is up. He's 2.24 right now. He was like 2.05 last night. Future stars have risen today in the lower tiers. Telemans, I think. What is Telemans? Palacios was like 1.80 yesterday. Tamori was 400k yesterday. Olmo was like 1.20, I think. Hudson Adoy, again, shows 2.68 right now. He was 2.39 last night. This guy's actually kind of low still. Telemans. I like that at 210k for a flip. But if you guys want to make coins right now, which I know a lot of you guys are probably trying to make some last bit of coins before Team of the Season actually starts, scroll through these Team of the Weeks, scroll through these promo teams, and these cards fluctuate, especially on a lower level. These cards are fluctuating daily and people are buying these cards because I think they're just seeing, hey, this stuff is too low. They're playing the game of FIFA midweek. Again, people are still at home with not a lot to do. As you can see, Kappa this morning had a low of 117k. He hit 1.15 throughout the day, and then he just kind of rose back to 1.30 throughout the day. That was the case with a lot of these cards on the markets. Verner is up. He was like 420k. He was 400k at one point, but he is up. Again, a lot of these cards, especially on the lower tier, like cards under $500,000 coins wrote, yeah, Verner was, that was Sunday. Verner was 400k this morning, man, and now he's 450. He was 428 at one point, and now he's back to 440. So informs, special cards that are out of packs, especially if you're on the PlayStation. Now, I'd be a little bit more cautious on the Xbox because there's just not as much demand on that console for a lot of different reasons just because there's less people playing. This Holon is 143 last night. He had a peak of 157 today. So right now it shows him as 149 on the market. So if I could pick myself up, one of these informs for like middle 140s, it looks like I might be able to get a sale somewhere around, you know, maybe like 157, 158, close to 160, maybe with like a Hunter Kemp style or something like that. So that could be something that maybe we're having server issues. EA, what is going on right now, man? I'm just trying to make a video about your game. There we go. So yeah, he shows us 154, 155. So maybe like a Hunter Kemp style, you might be able to get like 160, of course, because people are still paying for those Kemp styles. It is a Hunter at 165, 158 with a Hunter. So like when you see a low price like that on flipping, right? Holon says he was 149 and it says it was updated 47 minutes ago. You might want to sit here for a couple of minutes, right? Maybe refresh the price and try to snipe him a little bit and see if you can get an undercut because a lot of people just look to take sell prices and they look to sell cards based on a foot bin price. So they'll go over to foot bin, they'll see that this card is 149K and they won't think twice about actually going to look on the market and they'll go list the card up and try to sell it and then maybe they're like, okay, so he's 149. Let me let me throw him up at 145 and then I know I could probably get a sale at like one, closer to 160 on this card on like an upswing, especially with a good Kemp style. So I would look to pick that card up and then possibly make, you know, five, six, 7,000 coins a profit on a flip like that. And when you have coins, you can make a lot of small flips like that, which is what I did this this morning from last night into today with basically these, just these two cards, spending, you know, maybe 15, 20, 30 minutes looking at these cards on the market and, you know, picking up probably somewhere around like 50K total profit right here after tax, actually maybe a little more. So those are some nice flips that any of you guys could have done with most of your coin budgets with that. So the one thing that I'm kind of interested about this week is I still feel like they're going to drop another SBC or two before the promo actually comes and like to try to maybe drain some coins off the market because yes, we did see a rise in the market today. I'll show you the index special just as a little bit more proof. And I know a lot of you guys want to buy your teams, right? And I've heard some people say that the lowest point was going to be Wednesday. I don't believe that I was pretty adamant on Friday, night and on Saturday and even on yesterday on Sunday. When I was thinking that the lowest point was going to be at some point on the weekend, it definitely was. It was the Saturday, the midday panic that was almost like a magic event, unexplainable, like really weird. And then also on Saturday night into Sunday morning, stuff got really low as well. So that was kind of like your low point. And now cards are starting to rise again because there's not much to do in the game. And people are starting to buy their teams back because they're realizing that prices are, yes, really low. But there could be another round of panic and we'll kind of, you know, process that information later on this week. There could be a little bit of a round of panic, maybe on Friday, depending on how they juice the cards, who gets in and especially before Premier League team this season on that Friday, there could be some more panic. So a week from this Friday before Premier League team this season, there could be some panic then too. But we'll talk about that in due time when it comes. If you haven't bought your team and the players haven't moved much, like we looked at some of these informs, let's say somebody hasn't moved much, like maybe the Zimbabwe is maybe only up like 40, 50 K, you could still see a fluctuation, maybe a 10, 20, 30 K undercut and then one more person undercuts that. And then boom, you're right there at a low price. So still look for some of that stuff on the market. But again, just to prove the point, 103 points on the index special early this morning. And then we rose all the way up to 107 points as of just about right now, early Tuesday, when I'm recording this video. So it was a rise in the market, man. A lot of the, this is the index special on foot bin. So a lot of this stuff rose. What about index icon? Let me take a look at this. So this started the day at 50 points, and it's up to 50.7. So a small rise, if any, and then index gold, I'm assuming this might be up as well. 52 points up to 55. And then, you know, kind of down a little bit from there. But SPC fodder wise, we didn't get a pack supply SPC today. Just the, the Bundesliga booster, which I think is untradable. It is. Or the Serie A booster. Never mind. La Liga. We've got all three of those in packs. I'm getting them confused. But it looks like some people might have gone in and bought some 83s. Last night in my video, I shouted cigarettes and at 1,000 coins. Looks like he's 1.2k. Again, I want to see this fodder drop, man. I don't know who's investing in fodder right now. I don't get it. I don't, if you're investing in fodder, then you better have some sort of leak that an SPC, that is a big SPC is going to be coming before team the season starts on Friday. Because if we don't get any SPCs throughout this week, and we don't get any big SPC on Friday, first day promo day, which even if we do get an SPC, there's going to be so much supply from lightning rounds. And people who have saved up their packs, they won't be able to hold them any longer. We're going to see this fodder drop. So if you've invested in fodder, I think that I would get it out sooner rather than later. You're hoping for an SPC at some point this week. Do I think that's anywhere out of like the realm of possibility? No. I mean, it's, it's very possible we could get some sort of SPC this week, like a player SPC. I mean, they already dropped the twins, SPC right here, the silverware twins. That's got two days remaining. So if they're going to drop an SPC though, before Friday and team of the season, I think they would do it today on Tuesday, because then it could be out for three days or for four days, then they could take it away. So I would assume that if we get anything, it might be today. What else can we get today? Maybe another, like another loading screen, the possibility of another loading screen, I guess, like maybe they start to tease who might be in because I think the votes are technically done. And they're being counted right now for who's actually going to get into team of the season most consistent. So the voting for that is actually over. Boom. Look at this, man, a 149. So I'm going to add that to my transfer targets. And I'm also going to add this one with the open bid, right? So somebody's already dropped a bid on that one. But I'm going to add this 149, because now somebody has listed at 149. And that again, kind of sets its price there. All we need is one more undercut. And then we're in luck for a very flippable Erling Olan. Dude, this guy is going to get a team of season card as well. I'm honestly, I'm very stoked for Bundesliga Tats, because it's going to be an insane time on the market with with a lot of the Bundesliga cards that we could get this year. I mean, there's a ton of already like Boatang, Alaba, the the center back cards, and we have like what do we have? We have Kabak, which has gotten a pretty good card. We have a lot of really good Bundesliga cards. Gretzger's got a couple. He got an informer wrote to the final. Of course, Lewandowski, Werner, a lot of Bundesliga cards this year. I'm really excited to see what team the season brings for those cards. So yeah, again, if you're wanting to trade in this market again, don't be that scared. You might think that, okay, there's nothing to trade with right now because there's nobody on this game. That's actually very false. There's actually a lot of people that are buying cards. So get on the fluctuation trading, man, out of pack specials. Get on the fluctuations and watch those cards fluctuate day in and day out. And if again, if we have a day or two days of no content coming up in foot, that's just going to make prices rise a little bit, a little bit more. And even on some of these gold cards, last night in Bapé was around 420,000 coins, which he still is. So right around the 420k mark, Neymar is up a little bit from where he was on Sunday. I think he's 540. Maybe he's reaching towards 550. Getting close to 550 is Neymar. But then on the lower end, I was looking at Hyunmin Sun last night at 100,000 coins flat. And I believe he's somewhere like 106, 107. So he's up maybe 5% today. A little bit of a rise on some of these meta, weakly gold cards. If you want to do a little bit of investing or possibly like Thursday flipping type things, the earlier that you buy, probably the better. Kante was 120,000 coins flat on Sunday night. I think now he's upwards of like 130k. But that's just kind of how it goes, man. A lot of people are now taught to buy their teams on Sundays. That's why you see a lot of these prices going up. Gold de Bruyne as well was 90,000 coins. I think you might be like 95k now. Looks like he's even higher than that. He's inching closer to 100,000 coins. So a lot of this stuff is really starting to just slowly pick up, especially on the lower tier. And if it's meta, then it's probably rising. And if it's a good links, good nation, of course, all that good stuff, then it's probably rising right now in the market as people are starting to buy their teams because they're getting ready for team this season. And also there's just nothing to do on this game right now, mid-week. And also the servers are so bad, man. Are you guys having this issue? I mean, this isn't anything new, but it's just exceptionally bad tonight. So you have the green light for me to try to trade this week. I don't know if I'd really mess around with icons. I have a couple of them. It doesn't look like their prices have really moved that much. If I could search the market right now, I would do it, but I'm kind of stuck on this loading screen for whatever reason. So out of pack specials, informs, or promo cards, you can absolutely try to trade with those this week, trying to make some last minute coins before team this season actually comes out. And then league SBCs as well, bronze pack method is supposed to be very profitable right now. I don't mess with that that much. But a lot of people are saying bronze pack method is very profitable, because people are probably doing league SBCs to try to stack up packs for team this season, most consistent, because last year, that was the only way to get packs. We didn't have upgrade SBCs during that time. And again, to be on the lookout for more info from EA about team of the season, they're giving us a tidbit every day, whether it's a card, or, you know, like an update to the card, which we now have the full card design that we're going to have in game. So hopefully they give us some more tidbits of information as we go throughout the week this week, maybe like if they're going to be updating the the weekend league rewards and stuff like that. That would be nice to know earlier ahead of time. And that could also cause some market movement. So just be on the lookout for that sort of stuff this week. And hopefully your servers are better than mine.  It's going to be an insane couple, actually like month and a half, if they run it like they normally do, it's going to be a while, but we're going to have to be in the middle of team this season so far. So if you enjoyed that video today, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace.


All right, here are your exams. 50 questions. True or false? True. Homer, I was just describing the test. True. Look Homer, just take the test and you'll do fine. All right, brain.  But let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer. It's a deal.


Welcome to the 8th installment in the series Whatever Happened 2. In this episode, we are taking a look at the Bolliger and Mabillard sit down looping model. I will be discussing why I think a few were built within 15 years, and why I think none were ever built after that, despite many of them having great popularity, as well as if I think we could see a new generation of standard sit down loopers from B&M being built in the future. This episode is also special, because I have a guest here to help me out on this one. You may know him. This is Chris from Airtime Thrills. Chris, take it away. In 1993, Bolliger and Mabillard, otherwise known as B&M, were still a pretty new company. They had just opened their first roller coaster known as Iron Wolf, which was a revolutionary stand-up design at Six Flags Great America in Gurney, Illinois, just three years prior in 1990. Of course, they would also introduce one of the most innovative roller coaster concepts ever seen in 1992 with Batman the Ride. Low at Six Flags Great America. This was a truly spectacular, never-before-seen model called the inverted coaster, in which riders would hang under the rails with their feet dangling freely while whipping through intense twists and inversions at a rapid pace. The inverted coaster would go on to become one of the most successful major steel coaster models ever produced, with 32 separate installations over the course of 22 years, with another slated to open in 2021. But what about the more traditional styles of sit-down looping roller coasters, which were popular at the time? In the early 1990s, aerodynamics was still known largely as the premier builder of looping roller coasters. In fact, aerodynamics manufactured the very first modern inverting coaster known as Corkscrew at Knotsbury Farm, which opened in 1975. Corkscrew featured two back-to-back Corkscrew inversions and would quickly catch on with many parks ordering their own variations of the classic aero loopers. Many of these were record breakers and very cutting edge for the time, often featuring as many as four, five, six, or even seven inversions. These mega loopers were jaw-dropping rides for their time, but often wouldn't provide a very comfortable ride experience, with many complaints of frequent head-banging against the hard over-the-shoulder restraints and the awkward hand-crafted transitions from element to element did not help matters either. Corkscrew would employ the use of pre-designed cookie-cutter elements on their coasters, which meant all of their inversions were the same size, only adjusted to be elevated higher or lower above ground to account for the forces. After B&M came onto the scene in 1990, capabilities of looping roller coasters would be pushed much further than ever before. With the assistance of new technology to aid the design of roller coasters, B&M would be able to accomplish much more with their updated designs, twisting the track in many ways never before seen. Busch Gardens Tampa was looking for a major new thrill machine to add to the park around this time as well. B&M would be hired to build their very first standard sit-down roller coaster, which would come to be known as Cumba, opening in the year 1993. Cumba would prove to put the park on the map for roller coaster enthusiasts, with the ride being praised to this day for its intense positive forces and great, visually spectacular use of dugout trenches. In 1995, Port Aventura in Spain would receive Dragon Con, a ride very similar to Cumba in layout, but featuring an extra inversion, bringing the world record at the time to eight. The last B&M sit-down looper of the 1990s would debut in 1999 at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida. This ride is known as Incredible Hulk and features seven inversions and a tire-propelled launch to begin the ride, launching passengers into a huge zero-G roll. This is a very unique version of the B&M looping model, still being one of only two B&M's built to incorporate a launch. The next sit-down looper named Wildfire would open in Branson, Missouri's Silver Dollar City for the 2001 season, featuring a pretty standard layout from B&M with five inversions, but would make great use of the tree-covered terrain in the area. Following Wildfire would be the longest gap between all of the ground-up B&M sit-down loopers, as well as the very last B&M sit-down looper to be built from the ground-up. This ride opened as Led Zeppelin the Ride in 2008, changed to Time Machine in 2009. This was the star attraction of the ill-fated Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which of course also changed its name in 2009 to Freestyle Music Park before completely going under after the 2009 season. Led Zeppelin the Ride would sit standing but not operating for many years before finally being moved to the new for 2017 Dragon Park in Vietnam, and the coaster was renamed Dragon's Run, where it still operates. Led Zeppelin the Ride would be the very last B&M sit-down looper to ever be built, which means we haven't seen a brand new one designed in well over a decade. However, there is a near clone of Incredible Hulk being constructed to open with Universal Studios Beijing, currently slated to open in 2021, but this one will feature a Transformers theme. Should this Transformers coaster feature the standard sit-down looper trains as Incredible Hulk does, then this will be the very first newly constructed standard B&M sit-down looper to open in 13 years. So what happened to these sit-down loopers? The late 90s and early 2000s saw the introduction of many new radical coaster concepts, many of which are now viewed as being quite gimmicky. These new models were met with varying degrees of success. One of the very successful models to come to the forefront of the industry during this time was the B&M floorless coaster. I believe that the sit-down model was mainly rendered obsolete with the introduction of the floorless coaster by B&M first introduced in 1999. The floorless model wasn't much different than the sit-down model, and parks would begin to buy floorless models at a rapid pace. And in all honesty, why would they purchase the standard sit-down model when they could go for the floorless? The floorless coasters offer basically the same ride experience, the only major difference being the floorless trains not having, well, a floor. Although the floorless coasters are essentially just the B&M custom looping coaster with a slightly different train, many of the parks were able to really market these rides as a radically different type of ride experience than anything else that was around at the time, simply due to that one key difference. This was during the days when six flags would still purchase many coasters from B&M, so many of these floorless coasters were installed in the U.S. alone and served as a great addition to these parks in the very early 2000s. But getting back to the standard sit-down loopers. There is probably more than just the floorless coasters alone to blame for them never gaining traction. Even before the introduction of the floorless model, there were only two sit-down loopers to open within a period of six years. With the third sit-down looper, Incredible Hulk, opening less than two months after the first floorless opened. It seems like B&M themselves never put much of a focus on their standard loopers. Their very first creations, as mentioned prior, were the stand-up and inverted models. To add to that, B&M also introduced other revolutionary concepts around this time. Even though B&M are often criticized now for being too predictable, they are a company that introduced a lot of brand new ideas in the 90s that would go on to be wildly successful even to this day and would lead to many trying to emulate similar types of experiences. In addition to developing the modern stand-up design, inverted and floorless coasters, B&M also opened the very first dive coaster, Oblivion at Alton Towers, in 1998 and their first two hyper coasters in 1999 with Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Raging Bull at Six Flags Great America. They also improved flying coasters drastically with their very first flying coaster, Air at Alton Towers, opening in 2002. Overall, I do not believe the standard sit-down looper from B&M will make a surprising comeback in the future. Looking at the way the company has innovated with many unique takes on the traditional looping coasters, starting with the stand-ups and inverted coasters, all the way through to present day with their newest looping model in the wing coaster, it is clear that this Swiss company has always distinguished themselves as premier manufacturers of looping coasters by creating alternative types of ride experiences that stand out from the typical roller coasters with inversions which are offered by many other manufacturers. I would like to give a huge thanks to Chris from Airtime Thrills for helping me out with this video. If you haven't checked his channel out yet, you definitely need to do that. He has some of the best content on roller coasters and amusement parks out there. Let me know what you all thought about this episode and be sure to leave your suggestions for what I should talk about in the series next if you have anything in mind. Have you had the chance to ride any of these sit-down loopers? And how was your personal experience? I would love to hear it. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to like it, watch the first seven installments in a playlist on my channel, and like my page CoasterDaddy on Facebook as well as following me at CoasterDaddy official on Instagram. Thank you all so much for watching. This is CoasterDaddy. Bye.


People do not know much about nuclear radiation, they cannot feel it, they cannot see it, they cannot smell it. Quite a few people assume that any amount of radiation can be harmful, potentially even deadly. However, we are living in the world where we are exposed to natural radiation on a daily basis. Red Watch is an activity we started more than three years ago now, in Berkeley. With the intention to measure radiation, we could potentially associate with the releases at the Daichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima. We were indeed able to find radiation three days after the incident that we could associate with the releases of radioactivity in Fukushima. However, the amount of radiation we were able to find was really small, much smaller than the levels of radiation we are exposed to on a daily basis. So we have our air monitoring station on the top of H-Ray Hall at UC Berkeley. So this is our system. We collect the air and measure the radioactivity in the air and then we post the information right on our website. The new air monitoring system we have installed here in Edgebury is the only one in the world which allows us to continuously monitor the radiation in air here in Berkeley and provide that information from the measurements to the public in real time on our websites. So this is the data that we collect from our air monitor that's on top of the roof. This is radioactivity that's in the air and around our system. So you can see that it varies quite a bit. So if we go out to something like a weekly view, you can see that there are low points of radioactivity and that's mostly dependent upon weather conditions. We want to combine the science and the service to the public to inform the public and educate the public about the world we are living in.


Good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you are and welcome to the AI for Good Global Summit all year, always online. I'm Charlotte Kahn from the ITU, the International Telecommunication Union. Like most of the world, the AI for Good Global Summit has gone digital with weekly online programming, allowing us to reach even more people in 2020. AI for Good perspectives offer expert insights, global visions and shared solutions from the AI for Good community. Today we bring you the second episode of Aetri's AI for Making a Better Tomorrow on the subject of AI-based language learning technology. Aetri is the National AI Research Institute of the Republic of Korea. So let's take a look at a short video about Aetri. Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory is the main R&D branch of Aetri, the nation's finest general intelligence research institute for shaping our future society. We are in charge of research and development in the field of superintelligence and superperformance to build the foundation of a superintelligent information society co-existing with human-based autonomous intelligence to materialize superperformance computing to overcome the technological limits of existing computers. First, for the realization of a superintelligent information society, the Intelligence Information Research Division is focusing on a language intelligence, voice intelligence, visual intelligence, and big data technology, which are the core technology of the artificial intelligence. Our exo-brain technology, which enables humans to Q&A with computers using natural languages, is being used as a legal inquiry service in National Assembly Library and National Research Council of Science and Technology. Our interactive voice recognition technology is being used as a pilot service to teach AI-based English courses in elementary schools around the country. Our automatic translation Genie Talk technology is applied to solve the language barrier by providing multilingual translation services performed at 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Finally, our visual intelligence deep-view technology is applied to track down illegal waste disposal in Sejong City and Seoul. We will continue our research beyond single intelligence technologies into an integrated intelligence technology capable of infinite autonomous growth. Intelligent Robotics Research Division has developed an autonomous driving technology by using AI-based perception, decision, and control technologies. In addition, we can envisage the future of a smart life by developing the core technology of AI Robot that improves a long time and highly intense working environment. With personalized services, Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Research Department is in charge of researches on the intelligent drone technology that autonomously performs a given mission while flying indoors and outdoors. We also develop an intelligent counter-drone technology that detects, tracks, and neutralizes legal drones. IDX Plus Research Department develops human enhancement and assistive technology that augments human capability by understanding physical and mental conditions. We developed a real-time predictive system to prevent elderly injury due to fallen and a wearable muscular support suit to help them strengthen diminished muscle. The ultimate aim is to develop a cognitive computing technology which understands, learns, and predicts user emotion and behavior based on daily life data. As remarked above, through the Super Intelligence Researches, we will do our best to realize a Super Intelligence Information Society that co-exists with autonomous intelligence centered on humans via a core AI technologies and industrial applications such as autonomous vehicles, intelligent robots, intelligent drones, and the human enhancements. In the future, Atree Artificial Intelligence Research Lab will do its best to advance Korea's artificial intelligence technology to the next level through the development of next generation AI core technology and to achieve the fourth industrial revolution through intelligent innovation in the manufacturing and ICT industries, which are the strengths of Korea. Now let me hand over to our expert host Dr. Miran Choi. Dr. Choi is principal researcher and standardization specialist at Atree. Dr. Choi. Thank you Charlotte. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Miran Choi from Atree Korea. Thank you very much for joining us in our prospective session. The subject of this session is on AI-based language learning technology, which we have been developing for more than five years. We will introduce AI Language Tutor, which can listen, talk, and teach based on educational contents. The AI Tutor achieves its goal with a high performing speech recognition and dialogue processing technologies. This AI-based language learning technology will be applied to the public education from the next year, and it will contribute to solve the social problems, such as expensive private education costs and communication difficulties of multicultural families. Next, let me introduce the speaker of this session, Dr. Jin Xieofang, as a senior researcher at Atree, has been involved in the research projects on machine translation and dialogue processing for language learning. The technologies that she participated in have been transferred to several companies and are being used in practice. Her current research topic is about the dialogue system based on reading comprehension for language learning. Now, let's watch the presentation. This talk is about AI-based language learning technology. Regional disparity and income inequality cause inequality in education. Further, the education inequality is reported to widen since schools shut down due to COVID-19. Equality of opportunity in English education needs to be insured to reduce the gap in all regions and income and to increase educational equity. Also, it is crucial to support non-face-to-face language education during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is why we started this research. Our goal is to develop an artificially intelligent language tutor which can listen, talk, and teach just like a native tutor. Now, let us briefly introduce ourselves. Atree. Atree is Korea's national research institute that develops the ICT technology to contribute to enhancing industrial competitiveness of Korean enterprises. Recently, Atree intends to play the role of a national AI research institute for making a better tomorrow. Developing an AI-based language tutoring system, AI tutor, is also part of the effort. So, what technology is needed to develop an AI tutor? First, for the AI tutor to listen, spontaneous speech recognition technologies are utilized. Moreover, in order to enable free talks, spoken dialogue processing technologies comes in, including task-oriented and open-domain dialogue technologies. Lastly, it is important to combine AI and educational content optimally for educational purposes. The AI tutor should be able to recognize non-native, spontaneous English speech. Speech recognition is the most important function in English-speaking learning service. Errors are inevitable in non-native speech, ranging from articulation, grammar, to expression. Only if the speech recognizer writes them down as they are, then the system can accurately evaluate pronunciation or speaking fluency, and provide educational feedback on grammar and expression errors in subsequent stages. The AI tutor also needs to assess and give feedback on the pronunciation and fluency. To achieve this, it has to learn native rubric to assess students' speech, compare the native pronunciation with the students for feedback. Now, let's see how AI technology enables the AI tutor to listen. First, for speech recognition, it is important to improve the acoustic model by sufficiently collecting and transcribing the English utterances of non-native Koreans. It is effective to perform these tasks by nationality or by mother tongue. In particular, provided that the training data isn't sufficient, the deep learning acoustic model features performance improvement in proportion to the amount of training data. Pronunciation evaluation is usually conducted by an evaluation model trained by deep learning or regression learning to maximize the statistical correlation between the fluency score manually evaluated by the human expert and the fluency score calculated by the computer. Let's move on to the next skill, talking. Our AI tutor talks freely with students on topics. So, our AI tutor supports off-topic conversations as well as on-topic conversations. On-topic conversations are supported by a task-oriented dialogue system. The system converses with a student on the given topic using its task-oriented dialogue policy. Students can review what they learn by practicing conversation with a system. The system gives the student feedback that includes grammar checking, error correction, and suggestion on proper expressions. Off-topic conversations are supported by an open-domain dialogue system. Off-topic conversations are provided to motivate and intrigue students. Even if the student goes beyond the given topics, the system provides immediate answers to the student's off-topic chats and hence lets the conversation continue. Now we'll check briefly on how the AI technologies enable free talking. The first part is on-topic conversation modeling, which is based on a task-oriented dialogue system. Generally, a task-oriented dialogue system accomplishes one or two goals, such as scheduling and ticket booking. Thus, the knowledge required for a task-oriented dialogue system is relatively limited because it is aligned with one or two tasks. However, a dialogue system for education should help students learn dialogues of various topics. Therefore, it is necessary to construct various dialogue scripts continually. Considering that building knowledge for a task-oriented dialogue system is a high-cost task that requires high expertise, we propose a simple hierarchy format named DialogMap so that the script data can be built easily and quickly and reused efficiently. The DialogMap written for a topic would be automatically converted into the knowledge understandable to the dialogue system, such as knowledge for user intention understanding, dialogue policy rules for dialogue management, and knowledge for dialogue generation. The knowledge generated is used to train each module of the dialogue system, allowing the system to understand the user's intention, manage the conversation, and generate system responses. The second part is off-topic conversation modeling. Off-topic conversation for education purpose differs from the conversation with a general-purpose chatbot. First, the off-topic conversation of an AI tutor should be controllable. To achieve this, we developed Hybrid Open Domain Dialog System, with example-based approach to ensure the controllability and the deep learning-based chatbot to improve the conversation coverage. Another difference is that the persona of AI tutor should be consistent on the same topic while changing in different topics. For instance, an AI tutor can be a box office staff in one dialogue and a school teacher in another dialogue. To maintain consistency of each persona, we classify the persona-related dialogue and proceed the persona-related conversation corresponding to each topic. We have strived to apply AI technologies developed for the last few years to the English Education Service. Four years ago, which was 2016, we launched an AI tutor-based English Language Learning Service in Ulleungdo Island as a pilot project. Ulleungdo is an island at the eastern end of Korea with extremely limited education infrastructure. This experience became a very valuable experience for further services. In 2018, we developed an English Education Service called In-Class with Donga, which is the most influential educational publisher in Korea with over 70 years of history. In-Class is an AI language tutor based on the dialogue selected from textbooks. It consists of three stages, word practice, sentence practice, and debate. Now we're starting a new attempt towards AI Peng Talk Service. Korean educational broadcasting system is developing AI Peng Talk Service with the support of Korean government. Under a pilot project run at 58 elementary schools until last spring semester, we applied to the service our AI tutor technology and collected comments on the AI tutor service from students, teachers, and parents. Let's take a look at the AI Peng Talk Pilot Service. It's a classroom with AI Peng Talk. First is word practice. Is this fun like this? This is a small elementary school in Ul-Tin, Gyeongsang-Puk-Tteok. There are 40 students in this simple rural school. This is the fourth grade classroom. Seven students are studying English with their teacher, Jung. The students review the contents of textbooks, practice correct pronunciation, and compare them with other friends. The students said that studying English became fun with AI Peng Talk Tutor. School class is over. Ji Young, who does not go to the after school, starts studying English at home. This is Yoo Sung's house. Yoo Sung also studies English at home, after school. Since one-on-one customized learning is possible, he reviews what he learned at school. The service is currently being piloted at 58 schools. In 2021, it will be provided to 6,000 elementary schools nationwide. We'll give you a demo of AI Peng Talk Pilot. There are more features under implementation. Today's demo only includes a few of them, such as word, sentence, and conversation level practice, and let's talk dialogue practice. Here are our expectations toward the service. First, it will contribute to providing equal education opportunities to bridge the gap between all regions and incomes. Second, it will expand the students' opportunities to be exposed to and use English within and without the school. This will help every student develop basic communication skills from primary education. Third, it will support non-face-to-face language education during and post the COVID-19 pandemic. We would like to keep our efforts to develop an AI-based language tutor to achieve above goals. Let's start the demo now. Word level practice. Listen and repeat the words. Cook. Cook. AI tutor evaluates students' pronunciation and gives feedback on each word like excellent, good, or try harder. Writer. Writer. Writer. Doctor. Doctor. Teacher. Singer. Dancer. AI tutor also gives final score for students' whole word level practice. Sentence level practice. Listen and repeat the sentence. What do you do? What do you do? I'm a writer. I'm a teacher. I'm a teacher. I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a dancer. The student is required to repeat the sentence. I'm a dancer. AI tutor also gives final score for the sentence level practice. Conversation level practice. Listen and repeat the conversation. Listen to the whole dialogue. Are you a singer? No, I'm not. What do you do? I'm a dancer. Are you a singer?  AI tutor gives feedback on each sentence. No, I'm not. What do you do? What do you do? I'm a dancer. I'm a dancer. AI tutor gives final score for students' whole conversation level practice. The student is starting to practice another conversation on the same topic. Teacher? No, I'm not. What do you do? I'm a writer. Are you a teacher?  No, I'm not. No, I'm not. What do you do? What do you do? I'm a writer. I'm a writer. Let's Talk enables episode-based free talks covering both on-topic and off-topic ones. The first episode is about Pengsoo, the AI tutor. The student must ask Pengsoo questions about his name, where are you from, and where do you live to complete the mission. Peng-ha! All about myself. Ask me questions. What's your name? Great. Pengsoo, let's be friends. What's your dream? What's your dream? I want to be a superstar like Beats. Where are you from? Great! Second mission, where are you from, success. I'm from the South Pole. I want to be a superstar. Where do you live? Great! Final mission, where do you live, success. I live the easiest now. I'm from the South Pole. All missions complete. Ask me five questions or say goodbye. Do you like them? AI Pengsoo can handle them. No, I don't. I like dancing. Ask me for more questions. Are you happy? Couldn't be happy. Ask me three more questions. Can you swim? Of course, I love to swim. Ask me to more questions. Sorry, I don't get it. Ask me again. Okay, what is your last question? Goodbye. It's time to go now. See you next time. Peng-fa! Another episode in Let's Talk. The mission is buying fruits. Students practice English with AI Pengsoo through role-plays. May I help you? First mission, say the name of the fruit success. How many? How many? The student tests the calculation ability of AI Pengsoo by ordering 100 apples. Okay. Here we go. I have no money. Don't give up, just check the hint. How much is it? Great. It's 100,000 won. Thank you, please come again. Bye. Free Talks encourages students' participation and makes studying English enjoyable. Thank you for your presentation, Dr. Wang. I hope you have a good achievement in applying AI technology to language learning for the online education. Now, I will ask three questions on your presentation for the audience. My first question is you just introduced AI Language Tutor. Can I test it by online connection or by downloading the AI Language Tutor application? The quick answer is yes. You can download EBS AI Pengto from Korea Android App Store. It's still a trial version with only part of functions present. But we can expect direct version from next year. As we introduced in our presentation, we will introduce AI Tutor and external education companies to provide final service. That's the case with AI Pengto. The second question is if someone in other countries wants to use this technology, what should the person do? Well, if you're just an end user like a teacher or student who wants to teach English, you can use the app provided by the current app store directly. If it is the other way around, your company that wants to provide services in your country can do a lot more. For example, in your country there may be unique English pronunciation or special English teaching content. Therefore, it is better to optimize the system for your country. You can use your pronunciation data to refine your speech recognition model or developing your own educational content for the dialogue system. In the purpose of use it for other language education such as French, German, Chinese or Japanese, you'll need to have your own training data and educational content for the language to retrain our system. Your answer will help a lot for people who want to test your system. Now my last question is can you tell me about future plans on this project? We have transferred our English and also Korean language learning technology to several companies including EBS and Dona Manson in today's presentation. With these tech transfers we hope that students will have easier access to various online language learning content both at school and at home. The research on technology also continues. In terms of speech recognition we are starting how a system can travel high performance by learning only a small amount of speech data. In the case of dialogue system we are starting an end-to-end technology that can automatically extract and learn conversation knowledge from traditional language education content without extra effort for dialogue map. Through these studies we hope that AI language learning technology will be applied more quickly and easily to more languages Thank you Dr. Huang for your detailed explanation. Okay I hope you all have enjoyed the episode 2 of AI for Good Perspective presented by Atri today. Thank you for your participation and let me hand back over to Charlotte for the closing. Thank you Dr. Choi and Dr. Wang for the presentations and inspiring discussions. Please join us again on the 3rd of November for another fascinating insight into Atri's advanced work on AI in the Republic of Korea when the subject will be AI for security and privacy.


Well, good afternoon. Thank you all for coming in this afternoon I know you're looking forward to getting started on your pregame exercises as well as holiday celebrations So I'm going to keep this as short as possible I wanted to take a moment to wish all Vermonters a very happy and safe Thanksgiving Day and weekend I hope everyone has the opportunity to spend this time with family and friends To recharge and of course to kick off another Vermont winter The skier areas have opened up many cross-country skiing centers as well beginning Friday Killington will host a world cup tour which would be a great event for Vermont and it's I believe third year It also looks as though it's going to be a great snowmobile season It's the probably the best start in a number of years And it's also the last weekend of deer season at least for rifle season and to top it all off this also marks the start of the holiday season and As well, I hope many get out to support our great Vermont businesses At a time when the nation feels so divided Let's consider using this time of year to reflect on our shared values and what brings us together I know Vermont can lead the way in restoring our sense of unity And there's no better time to start than Thanksgiving when we give thanks to all the good in our lives Kicking off the Salvation Army Kettle campaign this morning was a reminder to think more about helping and supporting our neighbors This sense of community and responsibility to each other is an important part of what makes Vermont so special I know we can carry that spirit throughout the year as well as a reminder It will be cold this week starting tomorrow So if you or someone else, you know needs heat heat or shelter Please call 211 our team at AHS is ready to help and of course Let's stay safe on the roadways and drive responsibly as we celebrate the holiday And finally as we celebrate this one of our oldest traditions I want to thank the men and women who serve or have served our country Those who can't be with their families today or tomorrow Including our Vermont National Guard members that were currently deployed Again, I hope for honors have a very happy Thanksgiving That we look out for each other and remember those in need And those who are serving away from their families today And so with that, I'll be happy to open up the questions Were you thankful for not necessarily as governor but just what's got you? Well, I'm of course thankful for my family, the great support of my friends And the world we live in here in Vermont, where it's a special place We're very insulated I think from some of what I see across the country That's happening today and across the world So we should reflect on that and think about how special this place is It's been to me, some place that I've spent my entire life thus far And I believe that again, we can make even better And I'm just, you know, for the respect I believe that Vermonters have And the core values that we experience, I think it just makes us a little bit different And I'm very appreciative of that That's just something to be told when I want to shop 25 to 30 miles from Be careful on your drive today, by the way, Stuart I'm snowing out Oh man, I walked into that Does it make you, does it change your calculus about having something so close To the inevitability of Vermont following suit? Is Vermont going to be the next day? Again, you know, we've debated this, discussed this over the last couple of years And it's no surprise, we knew that Massachusetts had voted by referendum To go to a tax and regulate system We know that Maine isn't far behind We know that Canada has voted to legalize as well And Quebec, sharing a border with Quebec Is going to be something that's surrounding us in some respects We moved forward with a decriminalization bill last year Voted to legalize up to an ounce, grow in your home So this next step, again, isn't a surprise Well, it would be a surprise to me as if there wasn't a bill to move forward with this in the next year or so My feelings stay the same I'm not saying never, but I want to be sure That we have a way to deter and as well to detect impairment on our highways I think that's important and it's not just for marijuana but for alcohol As well as a combination of drugs and marijuana So I think we have to step up our game in that respect So I look forward to having that debate as well as prevention For our kids, more education, for our students And we need a marketing campaign in that respect So I'm sure that we'll be having that debate in this next session And we'll put forth a number of initiatives if that comes to be About where we go from here I'm still looking forward to hearing from the seeing the report That has been, draft form has been distributed, I guess, for some I haven't seen it yet, but mid-December I believe that I will have the final report and then we'll go from there So what will you do if the legislature sends you a bill this spring? Well, we'll be working together I would hope along the way to be sure that some of the areas that I feel are important are covered And then we'll just have to see how the process goes Is there any way to move forward without a roadside testing mechanism? I just, again, I've said this over the last couple of years I just don't know what the hurry is We have all the opportunity in the world to make sure that we get this right And so if we all agree that public safety is important And impairment on our highways, I believe the vast majority would recognize that And why don't we do that either simultaneous to the passage or before the passage So I'm going to continue to make my argument in terms of why we should do this Either concurrently or before I wonder, do you worry about the safety of marijuana that Vermonters are legally consuming now Given that it's not regulated? You know, again, this isn't just about marijuana It's about the combination of all different types You could be, as I've said before, in Colorado, I believe And I don't know if it's five nanograms or whatever it is Detection of THC You could be under five You could be under the legal limit for alcohol And you could be taking prescribed prescription drugs and be impaired I think that's the point we need to make sure that we're moving forward In areas where we can detect impairment What that means, I'm not quite sure But at the same time, having some sort of testing I think makes a lot of sense Considering everything that we've seen on our roadways And learn from other states as well Again, I'm sure that they're experiencing this And what we can learn from them To make sure that we set this up We do so appropriately If they're monitors who use cannabis Decide they'd like to go down to Massachusetts To make sure they're getting something that's regulated and tested Do you have a problem with that? Well, again, you know, in some respects We decriminalize up to an ounce It's there And if they choose to drive to Massachusetts That's up to them Do you have any real problem with that Sort of activity going on? Philosophically, no So there's been a conversation about How you'll be forced to change your Your approach a little bit with the Given the new house dynamic That you might be willing to compromise On the bills that you previously mentioned One of those bills is something that you've got You can't proceed with tax irregularly Until there's a technology which does not now exist I would hope that there's You know, this is obviously Changes the landscape It's a different situation Than it was two years ago But I would hope that we can make our argument Work together in order to be sure That the Vermonters are safe And I believe that we can make that Legitimate argument So, again, I've worked in the minority Throughout my entire political life This is no different And you can accomplish a lot When you reach across the aisle But it takes some reaching on both sides But I believe that we can come to agreement Whatever it is, the subject is But I feel strongly that we need to To make sure that we're protecting our citizens It's the highest priority of any government Where's the vetoing? Well, we'll see again I'm not going to use the veto threat It has less effect at this point But again, I feel strongly about this And I hope that we can come to agreement I believe that the others as well Would agree that we need to Make sure that Vermonters are safe And those coming to Vermont Not just Vermonters, but those coming to our state Are safe as well So I think we have an obligation To make sure that we get this right At the last legislative session With a bit of a fight with lawmakers Over education spending Will you have a specific proposal To reduce the rate of growth education Spending in your budget proposal? We'll continue to have measures Where I think investing in education In different ways, changing the way We look at education To make sure that we're focusing on kids You can expect to see some of that And we'll look for savings as well Will those proposals be as far reaching Or as bold as the first two attempts? Well, I would say that It probably won't be as bold Because we saw how that worked out But again, I believe that we all have We have to face the challenges here In Vermont, they haven't gone away We have a demographic that's changing We have a shortage of workers in the workforce We have fewer kids in our school systems And we have increased costs in education And across the board And this unfunded pension liability That we've been facing for 10 years That we recognize So having said all that I believe that it's in all our best interests To look for any opportunities To give a better education At a more price that we can afford Commissioner Greschen talked last week About the pension obligations Plus debt service Total amount of about 40 million And projected revenues from July For 2020 fiscal year It was about 32, 33 million So there's already sort of a gap there How will your budget Reflect those realities? Are you going to have to make cuts? We're going to have to live within our means Once again, I believe that Vermont has elected me With that in mind that they have appreciated The approach that we've taken in terms of What they keep in their pockets And not raising taxes Should be the last resort And so we'll continue to present a budget That does just that That doesn't spend more than we're taking in And reflects the values that we have So, yeah, I mean it's going to be It's going to be difficult We're going to, even if we have a surplus Which it looks as though we may have a surplus That will probably go towards this Increase amount of unfunded liability That we are on a path We have an obligation to keep paying down Now that the election is over Are you going to reveal your clean water plan? Well, you know, again It's not a clean water plan It's the way that we fund it I think that got mixed up in the message And maybe that's partially my fault But we've always had a plan For clean water We're moving forward with that We have a number of capital projects That are being utilized at this point And we're spending about 70 million dollars Over these last, these two years In doing so It's the funding mechanism that makes up That amount of, say, 15 million or so That we need to come up with an ongoing source So, again, you'll see that in the budget proposal In January The President's Council of Economic Advisers Should report this week About employment, job growth That sort of thing And noted that Vermont is very well with its unemployment rate But we're dead last in terms of jobs created Do those two numbers make sense to you And what's the plan here To address that last place Finish and job growth? Yeah, it's unfortunate There were 50th out of 50 In that respect But I think it's indicative Of the situation we're in And it goes back to our shortage Of the workforce and demographics And everything that I've been talking about And I believe the legislature And others are understanding that More and more every day What's unfortunate is We have jobs available here in Vermont Right now Hundreds of jobs At least a couple thousand openings Right now We don't have the workers to fill them And it's difficult When you think about job growth It's difficult to have conversations With companies To encourage them to expand Which many of them are, by the way UTC, Aerospace, and Virginia Is an example of one who They want to expand by 150 jobs right now But it's tough to convince them To expand when you don't have the labor force And that's why everything that we've been doing Trying to encourage more families to move to Vermont Trying to lure more people in Showing what we do so well That we're a great place to live, work, and play So we'll continue You'll see some proposals to continue to do that We've seen some, I think, positive Positive growth in that area But again, what we're looking at When you see some of the major employers in the state Have had some significant downgrades in jobs We've made up, in some respects In some of the smaller areas as well So it's not, it looks bad But from my standpoint I look more at how many jobs are available And the opportunities that surround that When you hear companies approach you About wanting to come to Vermont What companies are they? What's the top sort of sector That's interested in Vermont? It's interesting when I went on the trip Last week to Quebec And on the first trade mission Since I think it was 2003 by a governor And we talk with one company That will become more visible In the next month or so I would say That it's going to be coming to Vermont And that one is a manufacturing company So we've seen some areas Specifically from Canada That we've had landed, I think, Three companies thus far This will be the fourth But they're manufacturing And so manufacturing isn't dead here And I think that we have a great In some respects A really talented workforce in that area And I believe that there's some room for growth there But also in the tech industry The food industry and so forth Is that ISUN or the one year that's about to come? That one is coming So that's of course ISUN is the fourth ISUN is the fourth This would be a new one Yeah, a different one than that So this is one that we don't know about Right So in this next term Can you give a couple of examples On how you'll address that sort of workforce shortage? I know you had several proposals in the first term Anything new you could point to That you'll try and it's lawmakers We make a go back in trying to encourage The Think Vermont Home campaign Because I still think that's viable I mean look at the success we had In some respects I mean just from the notoriety Of the remote worker program The $10,000 incentive That isn't even implemented at this point But we had I think 2,500 inquiries About that program alone So there's an interest in coming to Vermont I think we just have to find Different unique ways to do that The status day weekends Have been effective Not at all in nature But effective We'll continue to find different ways Different approaches to doing that And again the remote worker program Was something the legislature came up with So they have some ideas as well If we can all again identify the problem And we have that goal Of attracting more families More people to Vermont If we all can accept that And have a vision And I believe that we can change The trajectory here in Vermont But we're going to have to work together In order to do so Are you concerned at all about how the GMP race rate case has planned out here And if so are you thinking of looking into What's going on there Well I'm not sure exactly what you're Referring to but there's the rate case That's in the before the PUC At this point right And we know we are Had spoken to our commissioner I believe last week And we are going to Take maybe a different approach there And make sure that we're doing What we're supposed to do In the public service department To make sure that we're working For rate payers of Vermont That's their mission And so there'll be some pushback In that regard but we'll make our case With the PUC And what would that look like That new approach Well it's just that we may Litigate at this point And so that's what the Commissioner wants to do And we'll move forward with that How do you feel about the Neenah news I think it's great news I heard about it last week But we were obviously Wanted to be Didn't want to say anything Before it became evident That it was going to happen And it looks as though it's Going to happen We're looking forward to Working with this new New organization, this new company In order to preserve the jobs And it looks like in fact That there may be more jobs Attached to that which would be Great news for that region In particular We'd be looking to make any Staffing or administration Changes depending on Your second term Well I'm going to be meeting With all the cabinet members Over the next month or so To see if there's any You know I haven't asked them If they want to continue Either to be fair So we'll have those conversations I don't expect any Any drastic changes So you're happy with the team Yeah I've got a very talented Team and I'm very grateful For everything they've done Over the last two years We're more seasoned now Than ever and I believe That again when you look back Two years ago to where we were Then to where we are today We are light years ahead But all because of them And their talent Just one clarification On the GMP story That essentially paints Commissioner Tierney And cohoops with Mary Powell And that there's really no one Who's defending the rate Payers interest now Do you believe that anonymous Letter that's circulating? Can you talk to your commissioner now? Yes I spoke with her actually Yesterday about that No I have no reason to Believe that whatsoever In fact it might be just The opposite it's Unfortunate that this anonymous Letter came out And that again Anonymous is the key word here And I believe that In many respects it's unfounded So I have complete faith In the integrity of my Commissioner and we'll Continue to do what we've Been doing is watching out For repayers The Department of Motor Vehicles Was named in the lawsuit for ACLU Recently that they worked With immigration and Customs And enforcement officers Targeted migrant farmers here in Vermont Specifically for their activism work With migrant justice Is this something that you're concerned about? Well always a concern But I believe that we've been Working together We came to agreement With ACLU And others earlier And I believe we're following through On that some of these cases That are referenced Are before Before the agreement And so we'll We'll look into it obviously We're taking this seriously We want to treat everyone fairly And we'll continue to do so If I remember correctly The law that you signed It doesn't require Cooperation with federal S79 But it allows individual state employees To share if they want to Is that correct? I wouldn't want to get as specific As that but I don't believe so So Are they allowed in any way To provide information To the federal government? Well there's always There are opportunities To share information In many different ways With the federal government Not just in regards To this situation Sometimes it's in conflict And it's difficult to define So I'm not sure In this particular case Whether it has any merit I don't believe so But we'll look into that Are you aware of any instances Since F79 was signed In which information has Improperly flowed I have no reason to believe that it has But again we'll look into the merits Of the case And be sure that we're following The letter of the law We want to make sure that people feel safe here I mean we're fairly clear I thought in F79 And that's my feelings as well We don't want to be the Enforcement arm of the government We want to make sure that we protect Vermonters Are you aware of any pressure Oh I'm sure there is I don't know specifically But I'm sure that there's been pressure So Would you have any problem With the guy working for the DMV To call up ICE and say There's an illegal 123 Main Street apartment Yeah I'd have a problem with that You don't want them to do that What is your favorite part Of the Thanksgiving meal And do you cook any of them The favorite part for me Obviously I think is turkey Because you know It's the gift that keeps on giving For the next week And I like leftovers so I'm good With whatever is cooked at Thanksgiving Did you shoot a turkey this year No I did not Did you try to shoot a turkey this year No I did not Can you cook any part of the meal Or do you just sit around and wait for it to be served For the capability Of helping If needed But my services Are not usually required Or requested or wanted You're banished Do you have any Thanksgiving traditions That you and your family Follow over here Well the family in some respects My daughter has moved to Providence She's married now My other daughter has been Going to other areas So we Our traditions have been Simplified let's say So it's going to be a very Very Small gathering in our In our home Stuart's always hungry Stuart I thought Stuart was going to Massachusetts I want to get back One more young guy One more quick question What do you think about the report That's seven days ago today About a super fact that supported you During the campaign being the biggest Spender during the election I didn't see the article But I guess That doesn't surprise me It's not anywhere near what it was Two years ago But obviously We worked in our success Could you One without it We certainly could Yes That's a lot of money Finds a lot of spots We will never know Thank you very much Have a happy Thanksgiving


My name is Emmy Ortega Anderson, your host for Pinoy Power Hawaii. We come to your homes and share wonderful success stories and perhaps realizations, adventures, and basically to fulfill our mission. We are on air to empower, enrich, enlighten, educate, and entertain. Today we're going to do just that. I have wonderful lovely flowers, if I may call them. They are gorgeous in every way. And they make up all the beautiful colors of the rainbow, which is the theme of our show today. Without further ado, I'm going to introduce my guests. First to my meet-it-left is Trish, Hailey, and Jaira. Oh, I'm going to say Ateno. Good afternoon. We want to welcome all of you here to think Tec Hawaii, part of our empowerment. So, let's start with Trish. Tell us a little bit about your growing up. I grew up in Bicor region, Naga Kamarini Sur. I was so fortunate that my family is so accepting when it came as a transgender. I actually transitioned with how I was like in preschool. This time that I have long hair, I wear makeup and I wear heels. There is some discrimination, there is some bullying. But as long as you have the support of your family, I think, and you like yourself, that's the most important thing. So you didn't have too much of a difficulty because you were comfortable? Yes, especially because my family is very accepting about it. That's really, really important, Trish. I'm glad you mentioned that. Now we have Kylie. Welcome. Tell us a little bit about you. We grew up in the same region, which is Bicor. Unfortunately, I don't have the same family support as her because I grew up in a really religious family. When I was young, my dad used to beat me up. And then I thought that it's just because that's how Filipino parents want to discipline their child.  So although it was a very hard transition, I actually haven't transitioned yet. I think I'm still a trans dresser because I haven't taken hormones and everything. Actually, in the Philippines, there's only bakla or tomboy. But when I came here in America, I came here like around almost three years ago. When I came here, my eyes just opened to that there's actually a lot of genders out there. And that's when I started to figure out what I am. Although I'm not there yet, I think I'm getting there. Okay, so you are also comfortable. Now we have Jaira. Aside from what Trish and Kylie have shared, please tell us a little bit about you. My name is Jaira and I'm from San Nicolas, Locos, Norte. Oh, San Nicolas. I'm in Locana. When I started transitioning right after high school, that's where I started taking hormones and stuff. My family was okay about it because I have to do something to go to school every day to pass my exams every time. It's just for us, for them to be happy no matter what I am. Right after first year of college, that's where I moved here. That's where I continue doing transitioning and taking some hormones and stuff like that. Was it difficult? Did you experience a lot of changes in your body or any discomfort? Not really. It's just emotional. You're very emotional. I think when we transition, we feel more confident about ourselves. We are not afraid to go out and show what we really are. Although there's a lot of discrimination still happening today, we really need the courage to stand up for ourselves. Do you think it's more acceptable to be transgender here in America or in our country? I think it's more acceptable here. Walking on the street, buying stuff, going anywhere, you cannot hear anything about yourself. They are respecting you from head to toe. Right two years ago, I went back to the Philippines to have a week vacation. I was just at the mall and people are staring at you. People are wondering. They are just calling you Bakula or something. It's Philippines. We are still fighting for our equality there anyways. Here it's more free. You have your freedom to be what you are. Everywhere I go for me, I have the same equality as what women get from the people. Let me ask you this question, Jara, because you look like you have fully transitioned. Yes. You have the boobs even bigger than Ate. You have the feminine features. For my face, I don't actually have any surgery.  It's SRS, for assignment surgery. For my face, I just have to take hormones. You have to take hormones, you have to take the beauty regimen, like shots. You have to take vitamins every day. You have to take Myra E as well or Vitamin E. It's just for you to take care of yourself. If you want to change yourself completely, you have to give all your best.  Now that you are transitioning, is there any regret? No. So far, personally, I've been feeling good about coming out. Although I'm not really supported, especially in America, coming out here is really nice. Especially at school, I go to women's restroom and everyone is really open-minded. They got nothing to say about it. So yeah, it's nice. We just wanted to tell people, as a transgender or transsexual, we have a different spectrum. We're just doing cross-dressers. We're just born in the wrong body. And on ourself, we feel like we are a woman. So that's why we do this to ourself. We do take hormones. We do have these operations. We do estrogen. That's why for us to feel comfortable with ourselves because we were born inside of us as a woman. So we need to be comfortable so we need to take those. We're just born in the wrong body. Okay. But other than that, any other difficulties that you might want to mention of this? How about facial hair or body hair? Is that a problem? For body hair, I think no. I never had a problem with my body hair actually. I'm so thankful. I think Filipinos don't have any hair. I think while you're taking the hormones, I think it helps to lessen it. Yeah, lessen it. With every facial face, it's not growing anymore. Well, if you're taking hormones, that's what your doctor instructs. So how about the voice? Because I couldn't tell. Thank you. Do you go through that modulation or change? For me, since I'm not taking hormones yet, I think having a female voice is like I can do it. But when I do it for a long time, it gets a little bit strange. It gets a little bit difficult because I have to maintain it. But sometimes I just feel like, oh my God, am I using my voice again? So I've got a mind. Sometimes it gets out of my mind that I'm using it. Because I guess for me, I got used to it doing this way, my voice. Yeah. You just adjust. Yeah, I just adjust. Okay, the big question.  Me? I'm sure he has that scenario, right? Yeah, definitely. It's mostly all the time anyways. For me, I tell them before going forward into anything, going on a date or something, before they talk to me, I have to inform them who I am. This is me. If you want to continue talking or something, then let's do it. But if not, then it was nice meeting you. Okay, so it's great to be honest on the start. Yes. Tell the truth rather than hide. We need to tell the upfront. The very thing when you meet them is tell them upfront. Some of them are really accepting, but some are not. So we just need to accept. That is so awesome. What are your goals real quickly? Eventually? Like with our body? Your body. Do you ever want to raise children? I mean, I have the consequence, I have it, but I think it's a choice that they made from the very first time they start taking. For me personally, I want to have a children. You have that one. But I don't mind if it's adopted. Maybe in the near future, yes. I'm sure you have those tendencies, right? That's actually my dream. It's my dream. Right now, I'm a mom of three dogs, which is I feel like I'm really a mom actually. But looking forward into the future, then I really want to have my own family. I want to raise a kid. I want to be a mom. Just be a normal. I just want to be with someone else who will take care of me when I get old and be with me and every time, you know. Okay, so do you dream of helping someone transition, helping them to come out of the closet so that they won't have the difficulties that you've had as far as the struggles? Yeah, I guess this pageant or this platform really can open up to people. You just need to accept first yourself. And then one of our goals is to generate quality. Yes. Because once they see us on the show, they want to transition also. They've been thinking they want to do this. I was like, oh, she can do it. And then so I think I can too. And then this platform could really open up. Okay. Well, quickly, I know Lauren's going to ask you other questions, the other contestants. Give us just quick details on Saturday's pageant. October. So Ms. Maharlika Yusei Pageant will be held in Hilton, Hawaiian Village, Carl Boulder. We'll start at 5.30pm. October 12th. Okay, tickets are how much? Tickets is $85. Okay. Our person. Quick. Who they can call? Can they call for tickets? Can they call you? They can call us. Let's give you. If you go to our website, Ms. Maharlika Yusei, for the pageant information that they did, they can contact us. Or they could come to the door at Hilton, Hawaiian Village, Carl Boulder on Saturday. That might not be possible because all the seats are counted and everything. So individual candidates, they were given like tickets for us to sell. Oh, okay.  Right. I know we sell out every year. Yeah. So that's how popular. I'm going to be there with my papers. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Hard to pick a winner because it's all beautiful. And you complete the colors of the rainbow. Rainbow, yes. All right. That completes the first phase of our program for today and it adds to our empowerment. My name is Emmy Ortega Anderson bringing you unique stories that helps to empower us. We will be back after the break. Aloha and welcome. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. Every other Monday at one o'clock, I am here. I am here on deck with various guests talking about different topics of the world and the ocean and international law, different areas where we all have seen and want to travel to and learn about. Please join me for my next law across the sea program. Aloha. You should watch Talking Tax with Tom and this is Tom. This is Tom Yamachiki, president of Tax Foundation of Hawaii. And we meet every couple of weeks. We talk about tax, tax policy. What else do we talk about, Tom? Well, you asked me a whole bunch of hard questions. I want that. Yeah. That's what we do. We recover tax, fiscal policy, economics, 101, 102. We try to explore how the state works economically in terms of fiscal policy and in terms of tax. And if you don't think that affects you, look again. Okay, Tom Yamachiki and me. I'm Jay Fidel, Talking Tax with Tom. Every couple of weeks. Watch our calendar and you'll see us. Aloha. Aloha.  I'm here and we're back here with our team, Colors of the Rainbow. And I'm sitting on behalf of Ms. Amy Anderson Ortega here at ThinkTech Hawaii and Pinoy Power Hawaii. And would like to welcome you back in our segment for the Colors of the Rainbow. And we have here three lovely ladies. Hello. We're waiting for Ms. Maharlika USA 2019. And of course, can you please introduce yourselves? My name is Lexie Faye Escalante-Tabamo from Cagandora City, candidate number six. My name is Glen Fanatics. I'm from Maccadice City, Metro Manila, candidate number five. And I am Maria Jajapariso. You're reigning Ms. Maharlika USA 2018. Yes. And we all know that our team is Colors of the Rainbow. And it's very, very timely within this month because we're also celebrating the pride of the Honolulu Pride Month, right? And that will be on October 19th. Yes. And can you tell about Ms. Maharlika USA and being a winner of 2018, Jaja, what have you learned about this pageant? Well, I have been joining a lot of pageants in the past since I was in the Philippines, started joining pageants when I was 14. But this pageant is just so amazing. I love the fact that the organization will really push you to be at your best. Not just for yourself, but also for the people who can benefit of it. For example, when I won the pageant last year, they gave me the chance to support one of a charity or a beneficiary for a certain project that I want to do. And yeah, this year I'm going to be, no, it's going to be next year March that I will do it. Yeah. And we all know that Ms. Maharlika USA is a socially relevant pageant because our advocacy is for each of the candidates to share whatever they wanted to have for their projects. And then the organization will help you guys, right? And as you were saying again on March 2000. Yeah. I'm going to be flying to the Philippines to do my project. In 2020, right? It is. Yeah. And then you will be, what will you, what will you going to do on the Philippines? For, I decided to support young trans people like young trans kids who is, you know, going on through a lot like emotional depression, like hard times in general. So we're going to be supporting them, like providing them support. And in terms of what? Like, we're going to be holding like events, feeding programs, and like a lot of like seminars and stuff for them to be able to know more about who they are and more about what trans is, what transition it is. Yeah. And of course, once again, this is Lexie Faye. Hello. Tabamu, candidate number six. What they can expect from you on the said night on October 12. Well, it's actually my second time joining this Maharlika pageant because I joined last 2017. And I was the first runner up and then you encouraged me to join again because it actually was fun because I came out when I joined the pageant last 2017. And I'm so lucky that I found your organization Miss Maharlika USA because when I came here in Hawaii, I was a teenage boy with like a top cut and like a boyish look. But when I found your organization, I was like, I feel like I belonged here. I feel like, you know, I'm so comfortable with people around me. That's the time that I realized that I'm a transgender. I have to transition, you know. And I feel comfortable about my body right now, ever than before. So this year, I'm just going to have fun because look at these wonderful ladies. Like, look, all my sisters already. So just going to have fun and give everyone a good show. Yes. And of course, you would like them to be there again on when? Okay. The pageant will be on October 12 at Hilton Hawaiian Village, the Coral Borum. And it's actually a free show. You just have to pay for the buffet, which is $85 per ticket. And you can contact us for tickets and visit the page Miss Maharlika USA 2019 on Facebook. Yeah. And don't forget to mention that on your page, you can also click. Yeah, our photos. Yeah. We have our Facebook page Miss Maharlika 2019. We have our photos posted for Miss Social Media. We can vote for us, number six, number five. And for the rest of the ladies, you can like hit like or any reaction would count and share would be like two points. Yeah. Anyway, candidate number five, right? Yes. Hi. Is this your first time to join? Yes. Kind of beauty pageant. Yes. It's my first time to be out in the crowd and my first time to join this pageant ever. And what can you tell me about your experience, please? Experience. Enjoying the pageant rest. Actually, it helps me to build up my confidence. First of all, I would like to thank you for my family at HMS Hose to put me in this pageant. Thank you, Laurence, to help me decide to join this pageant this year. It's supposed to be supposedly next year that I'm going to join. But, um, sorry. Of course. And then, of course, you would like also to invite your friends. Do you have any specific friends that you would like to invite? Yes. I would like to invite my friends and family and relatives lives at the west side of this island. I would like to greet my auntie of a happy belated birthday first. Okay. Sorry to Mr. Birthday. And thank you for HMS Hose family. Sorry. Is it okay for me to ask a question? Sure. Do you have boyfriends, ladies? Is it okay? Yeah, it's okay. It's totally okay. Right now, I'm ready to mingle. Okay. Because, yeah, I'm focusing on my job. But if someone knocks the door. He'll open the door. He's always welcome, you know. And how about you, Chacha? Yeah, I'm currently in the relationship. And how is it? Oh, it's amazing. There's not much of a difference until like a straight relationship. I mean, love is love. It doesn't, you know, it doesn't question gender at all. Yes. Because no matter who you are, right? Yeah. As long as there is love within our hearts, that's only matters, right? Aside from our pageant, okay, what they can, what will be the show all about, right? And the theme is who runs the world. And it's a song of Beyonce's that echoes the. Feminist. Yeah, the feminist song.  In your own opinion, what is your perception or meaning of who runs the world? Well, for me, anybody can run the world. I mean, we are all created equal in the image and likeness of God. So I feel like every person has like a good core to their heart. But for me, I think it's everybody. It's us who runs the world. It takes care of the world. Just understanding and love and harmony. Yes. Speaking of love, because I just wanted to reminisce that this show is a socially relevant show, right? Because in 2016, in the inaugural of the show, Miss Marlika USA 2016, our team is one love. And this is very timely because we would like to spread love to one another after the tragedy, the Orlando tragedy shooting, right? And in 2017, our message or the team is my world, my responsibility. And then in 2018, which is... It's dreams do come true. Yes. It really is. I mean, yeah, going up, you know, I went to the stage where I was so confused. I was so confused. I felt like I started questioning myself. I knew at the very first that I'm special. I'm like a magical stone. But then I was like, is this right? What do I have to do with it? So I always dream of like, okay, one day I'm going to be a princess. Although by the time I'm like a prince. Yes. So what should I do? And then, you know, just believe in yourself. And yeah, the last year's theme is really irrelevant. It's like dreams do come true. Yes, ladies. And again, ladies and gentlemen, why don't we invite them once again on our show on October 12th, a Tilton Hawaiian Village Coral Forum, ladies. We have a message to our audience here right now. Hello, guys. Come watch us on Tilton Hawaiian Village Coral Forum on October 12th at what time? It's 5.30 a.m. And expect to witness a very amazing show because aside from the pageant, there is going to be a lot of special guests and the much-awaited dance showdown from your queens from 2016, 2017, and 2018. And yeah, just expect to see these beautiful ladies compete in different spectacular costumes, swimwear, which is, oh, God. I'm so excited. And their evening gown. Question and answer. Also the candidates have their own customized evening gown, right? Yeah. And then they design your gown. Everything, actually. Yeah. You design your own dresses, right? Yeah. And of course, for today, ladies and gentlemen, we'd like again to thank, I think, thank Hawaii, especially Pinoy Power Hawaii. With our main host of this event, Miss Emmy Anderson, or yes, Miss Emmy or Tega Anderson for letting us to be here. We love you, Madame Emmy. And we'd like to see you again on our show on October 12th at Tilton Hawaii Village, Colorado. Mahalo, everybody. And God bless. Thank you so much. And see you once again.