Thank you for everyone for joining. I am Charmaine Clark with the Office of Community Development, Community Liaison. Thank you, everyone, for joining us on this Zoom training. We will be talking about the Safeguarding Your Neighborhoods, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program, which will be conducted by the Columbia Police Department. I want to acknowledge our director, Gloria Syed, who is the Director of Office of Community Development. I have my colleague, Valerie Austin, that is on this Zoom as well. So we will get started. We have Sergeant Moody, who is with the Columbia Police Department as well as Marcia Noble. She is the ceasefire coordinator, and we are about to get started with this training. Sergeant Moody, you may take it over. Good afternoon, everybody. Again, my name is Sergeant Moody with the Columbia Police Department. I'm over the crime gun intelligence unit here. It's been a unit that started here. I just got added on to the unit about four months ago. Some of you I know from working the community response team and some other projects up around the North Columbia area. So happy to be here and happy to present this information. Ms. Clark said Ms. Noble is here. Besides me, I'll let her introduce herself real quick. Hi, it's a pleasure to be here. I go by Jan Noble's. I'm the ceasefire coordinator here with the Columbia Police Department. This is a new position for me as well. I started in October of 2020. Before that, I spent eight years as a Victims Advocate with the Columbia Police Department, and about seven years before that as a Victims Advocate with the Richland County Solicitor's Office. So I may look familiar to some of you as well, due to those reasons. Thank you for having us. We want to go ahead. We can go ahead and get the PowerPoint up. We can go. Like I said, we've been brought here to talk about Project Safe Neighborhood. And to share with everybody the strategies Columbia Police Department is used to make our community safer. Columbia, unfortunately, has a share of crime, including violent crime and gun crime. Community safety is not just a law enforcement issue. We must have help and support from the community. That's why all of y'all are here, and to learn about it, and to help us out as well. And many of you on today's calls are community stakeholders who may in position to help our efforts. You can go on to the next slide. Project Safe Neighborhood is a proven evidence-based violence reduction strategy that focuses law enforcement community and service providers on individuals who are most likely to commit gun crimes. The foundations for the Department of Justice PSN strategy are three-tiered. It's community-based. It's targeted, and it's comprehensive. It's community-based with each local program. It's contoured to fit the specific violent crime problems in our areas. It's targeted, it utilizes law enforcement and community intelligence along with cutting-edge technology to identify and target the most violent offenders for enforcement action. It's comprehensive due to us. It directs US attorneys to marry enforcement efforts with support of prevention and reentry strategies to truly combat violent crime in a lasting way. The concept of Project Safe Neighborhoods that many cities across the country have similar crime problems so that if we all collectively share best proven practices, we can adapt and emulate programs that have proven successful in our cities. Some of the highlights for the City of Columbia Police Department's program. With the community, we have several community meetings, which I've been a part of, and some of y'all have been a part of. We do home visits with youthful offenders. We do handle with care initiatives, where school-aged children are exposed to crime. We do a handle with care form on scene. We pass those to our school resource officers and get passed to our schools. And so that while they're at school, they can get counseling, they get handled. They can be brought off to the side, checked on. During the school year, make sure that everything's OK due to that traumatic experience that they had. We do Project Child Safe, which is the gun lock program, where we distribute free gun locks. We have several gun locks pretty much in every region. And also, officers can have a few in their cars and bring them to the community meetings where we can hand those out to people who may need them. We have Ceasefire Columbia, which Ms. Nobles helps with. And our focus deterrence program that connects with at-risk offenders. Our targeted approach is we use technology evidence and intelligence to identify offenders who illegally possess and are used firearms. Some of the technology, we use a ShotSpire, which we've talked about in the past in different things. We use Niven, which is the national database, to put shell casings into to identify then different guns and different shell casings from crime so that crimes can be connected and incidents can be connected. We have the City of Columbia surveillance camera network that we use on a regular basis when an incident happens. We check on that. We have license plate readers from the city. And we do support our local law enforcement intelligent efforts to identify criminal offenders. CBD also has created the crime gun intel unit, which I am ahead of, to leverage the intelligence we create. We host bi-weekly crime meetings with local law enforcement, area law enforcement personnel, the probation parole, prosecutors, like I said, with Richland County and different things like that. We can discuss crime trends, crime offenders, and any intelligence that we need to get out. So the local law enforcement will know what's going on. And then we do connect with our law enforcement partners. Covers the comprehensive network. First off, let's get started about ShotSpotter. Some of you may not have heard what ShotSpotter does. ShotSpotter is a company that describes itself as an advanced system of sensors, algorithms, and artificial intelligence to detect local and alert. Detect, locate, and alert leads to gunfire. Basically, how this works is there. We have a lot of sensors through a seven mile area of Columbia, our hardest hit areas for violent crime. And those sensors work with each other once there's a gunshot detected. It goes through a quick check through ShotSpotter alert system. And then we get an alert on cell phones. We have an application that officers have on their cell phones that we get an alert that's supposed to come to us within 30 seconds of the shot fired incident. Then that, of course, gets officers in route to those incidents a lot quicker. And hopefully, we're able to catch those violent offenders in the action by getting there quicker. Let me go on to the next one there. The mission of the CGIC is to identify, analyze, investigate crime, gun, intelligence with the goal of producing actionable intelligence to assist in identifying, arresting, and prosecuting offenders who unlawfully possess, enter, use firearms, and identify illegal sources for crime guns that are being used in Columbia. In January of 2020, last year, CPD stood up our new crime gun intel unit after receiving federal grants to focus on the offenders firearms and locations associated with gun crime. Our crime gun unit staff with an inspector, which is Inspector Modzolesky, unfortunately, couldn't be here today. Sergeant being me, seven additional sworn and non-sworn investigators, officers, journalists, and we have an explosive detection K-9 team. And we also have Ms. Nobles, the ceasefire coordinator. Part of our team includes an assistance listener who has visibility on the cases we develop and the offenders we identify for state prosecution. As stated previously, Columbia, like many cities, our size has a problem with crime, to include violent crime and gun crime. In Columbia, like many of these cities, identified a need for crime gun unit to focus on and develop intel on armed offenders, crime guns, and hotspot areas for gun violence. With the ultimate goal of breaking the cycle of gun violence, getting these firearm offenders off our streets, we're storing peace to our challenged neighborhoods. Go on to the next one. Although our crime gun unit may be new to CPD, the concept has been utilized around the country for the past several years before becoming formalized by the ATF and the DOJ a few years ago. The CPD was the first department in the state to receive a federal grant and stand up a dedicated crime gun unit. The original County Sheriff's Department has since stood up a Niven Task Force, which, as I said before, we work very well together and we share information pretty much daily with them. And the Myrtle Beach Police Department has received their own crime gun unit grant as well this year. As a result of the formalization, DOJ defines seven core processes which are best practices that all crime gun units should follow. In the first two steps, after we lawfully take firearms in the custody and collect and fired, cartridge casings, at crime scenes, we will test fire the Niven eligible, seize firearms and submit those test fired casings and seized evidence casings to sled for them to be entered into the Niven system. We also trace the firearms our officers were seizing in order to determine where these crime guns were coming from. In step one, ShotSpotter has significantly improved our ability to get all shooting scenes and improved our ability to render aid to victims, witnesses and neighborhoods while identifying suspects and collecting ballistic evidence. Crime Gun and Tell analysis of the next slide will give you an overview of what we key on, but our analysis is to develop actionable intelligence that can further an investigation with the goal of identifying armed offenders and getting them off of our streets. Once we are able to charge armed felons, our local and federal prosecutors who are already part of our team, such as the solicitor's office and the US attorney's office all work together to hold these identified offenders accountable. The Crime Gun and Tell analysis, all of our CJU processes have been formalized into a CPD policy that has been distributed throughout the police department. Steps three and four in the CGIC process. This chart provides our operational flow, overview of data intel, our crime gun intelligence focus on and what we do with it. On the left side of the chart are the core intel sources for our crime gun that our crime guns would use daily. You got the ballistics evidence, the Niven data which we talked about, the crime gun recovery info, the E-traces which are what we put the guns in a system for the federal government and it tells us who bought that gun so that we can then part of those people where the guns from if they were stolen and different things like that. The CGIC then couples this intel with arrest and development and ongoing investigations as well as shooting incidents then layers that information with surveillance video and other lawfully obtained information and intelligence that will hopefully help us build this intel in the three main categories. The gun intel, the shooter, possessor intel and shooting locations intel as we try to develop X-mal leads for follow-up investigation. You go on to the next. So what is Niven and Lavin's terms is like a gun leaving fingerprints on a fired shell casing. That shell casing where the firing pin hits the back of the shell casing leaves an identifiable mark that we can test and that we can evaluate and that we can match with other shell cases to tell which guns that shell casing came from and match them to the different scenes. Then we then put that information into the database where we can match with all over the country. We've gotten hits from shell casings from California, from the North Carolina, from Georgia, from pretty much all over where we've had notifications from. We go on to the next slide. Like I said, right there, you have the basic anatomy of a gun and then you have the shell casing right there and the bullet on the bottom right there with the shell casing, the cartridge casing, the bullet, the gunpowder and the primer. Like I said, where the firing pin strikes the primer in the back of the shell casing there, it leaves an identifiable mark that we are able to distinguish. You go on to the next slide. This is just pretty much going over the same thing. Like I said, these are some of the marks that we see on the shell casings that help us identify the shell casings from the individual gun. As I said, these are our core deliverables that the crime gun unit puts out. The CGI leads that we develop are given a unique number. The tier one leads will be initially referred to the assigned investigator while tier twos will be assigned to CGIU, my personnel. Tier threes are still provided to assigned officers for intel purposes, like multiple shot, spotter shooting scenes linked via Niven with no crime gun recovery and no victim's witnesses or suspects. The crime gun unit will not conduct an independent investigation in tier one leads unless we receive the concurrence of the assigned investigator. So basically any kind of crime where a person is hit or something like that, one of our investigators gets put on it of course and then those leads that we get from Niven go straight to those investigators so that they can develop those leads and hopefully help aid them in their investigations. All gun possession cases reviewed for possible federal adoption. We do have three task force officers that are assigned to the unit and to the department. Those task force officers work hand in hand with ATF. A couple of them are in the ATF's offices and then one we have on site here at headquarters. But those TFOs, those task force officers are able to make federal charges on all of our cases that we bring up gun related crime in the federal system. All gun possession cases, if the offender case is federally eligible and it meets the current guidelines our TFOs will prepare to refer the case through the local ATF office. The TFOs should be communicating with the assistance listeners that we are reviewing their case for possible adoption. And if we are writing the case for federal adoption to ensure that we don't take a plea on state or case charges. Our violent offenders list is another thing that we put together in the crime gun unit. This is our top 10 offenders in Columbia identified through a documented Intel based scoring system represent our priority offenders who are on the street. They're not in custody, even those with pending charges. The list is posted on the CPD shared drive. That way all officers, all members of the CPD can get that violent offenders list and is shared through the solicitors office. This process will be explained later. This is our process of using Intel to identify our priority gun offenders, communicate it to our stakeholders such as Richland County, PPP and the solicitors office to be sure these offenders get our focused attention. Since not every gun offender possessor may be a priority case, we want to make sure everybody knows who really needs our attention. You can go on to the next. And I'll pass it on to Ms. Nobles to talk about the ceasefire initiative we have. Hey, good afternoon again. So ceasefire Columbia is a part of the safe neighborhood grant that we received. And just to kind of give you guys a little bit of a background, criminal justice statistics tell us that a fair percentage of crime, particularly gun and violent crime is committed by repeat offenders. That same research tells us that when offenders are arrested and convicted of crimes, 70% will re-offend and be re-arrested in a couple of years. For the re-offenders, the numbers only go down. The numbers are worse for the younger offenders. They have a lack of education, a lack of job training and employment opportunities. They have substance abuse problems. So when these re-offenders are released, they had right back to the same communities. And so that's what we're trying to do is target specific communities with ceasefire Columbia. So what we do essentially is identify chronic repeat offenders that have not gotten the message. We bring the offenders in for what we call a call in where they're put on notice by law that if they re-offend, we will hold them accountable. It is a two-pronged approach. So on one hand, we have law enforcement with the threat of prosecution. And the other prong to that is we introduce them to social service providers on our ceasefire team. These social service providers are comprised of government and non-profit organizations who offer help to break the cycle of recidivism by helping them get educated, get clean, get counseling and get job training. The ultimate goal being to lower recidivism rates that lead to lower crime rates, which leads to safer communities. We can go on to the next slide. This is a few pictures of previous ceasefires that we've had and it lists the law enforcement agencies that we partner with, as well as some of the service providers we partner with. And just to kind of reiterate again, the goal of ceasefire Columbia is to deter crime, develop and promote community outreach efforts, provide training for participants and support other gun reduction strategies. The way to accomplish this goal for us is to continue building relationships and trust between prior offenders and community stakeholders, service providers and our citizens. The community at large is impacted when offenders choose to re-offend. And so by taking part in crime reduction strategies, you can make a difference in your community. And so that's what we're trying to do is bring attention and awareness to these programs so that the general public is aware of what we're trying to do to combat crime in your neighborhood. Thank you. Next slide. 2020, a year in which we launched our crime gun unit, the COVID-19 pandemic began many cities across our country experienced astronomical increases in crime to include violent crime and murders while Columbia actually had decreases in all of our violent crime. Initial terms on our strategies are encouraging but there's still a lot of work that needs to be done. As you can see at the bottom of the slide, the Columbia had a 24% decrease in murders and about a 2% decrease in aggravated assaults since these initiatives have started. And that ends our presentation for you. I don't know if we're opening it up for questions but we'll be glad to take any if you have any. Thank you, Sergeant Moody and Ms. Nobles. We are open for questions. I think it was some real good information that was given a little more detailed information to some of our neighborhood leaders and that was the goal. So we are opening for questions. If anyone has any questions, would you please state your name, neighborhood that you're representing and you may state your questions, direct your questions to Ms. Nobles and Sergeant Moody. Come on, one question, someone has a question. It was real good. Well, I mean, I do have a question. Okay, Ms. Matthias. And I'm representing a college space community council as well as I work in the North Main area. Will we get a copy of those slides or that information that was presented? I can get with Sergeant McIntyre, the CRT Sergeant. Ryan McIntyre? Yes, ma'am. I'll get with McIntyre and I'll send him a copy of the slides and then he can send them out to you. I'll make sure he marks you down and anybody else who would like a copy of the slides. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Yes, ma'am. Any other questions, comments, in reference in regards to the Project Safe Neighborhoods program? Thank you. Charmaine, this is Laura Bell speaking. Okay. Wendemere Springs. And I would just like to say thank you to the Columbia Police Department for all of their efforts to keep us safe. These programs seemed very well-intentioned and I'm sure they're doing a lot to promote safe neighborhoods and I really appreciate their efforts. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Well, that was the goal with this presentation. That was the goal for this presentation to give more detailed information to the community leaders and neighborhood leaders because we do know some of the officers, they'll come out and they'll give brief information of what's going on in your neighborhood. So we wanted to focus more detail like Ms. Noble talked about the ceasefire information and how the numbers have, the percentages have been going down since these new programs have been implemented. So we wanted to give people familiar with that so you can share and spread the information to the other people in your neighborhoods if you have any problems, especially with some of the things that are going on now in our neighborhoods. So this is very vital and good information. So that was the whole goal and the target for this presentation. So do we have any more questions, comments? If you do, please state your name, your neighborhood that you're representing and you can direct them to Ms. Noble and Sergeant Moody. If you have any questions or concerns or comments. Oh, and what? Okay. Well, Sergeant Moody and Ms. Noble, Marcia Noble, thank you very much for your brief presentation, prayerfully and hopefully everyone enjoyed it. If they need to get in contact with y'all, where would you like for them to contact you at? Would you mind giving them that information? Yeah, you can contact me at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Again, it's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Or if you wanna give me an email, you can email me at urskine.moody at columbiasc.gov. And it's urskine-e-r-s-a-i-n-e.moody at columbiasc.gov. Okay. Again, thank everyone for joining. I really appreciate it. And hopefully, like I said once again, hopefully you enjoyed this brief presentation. Thank you again for joining us and you will be posted on our next upcoming All Access event. Thank you.


Well, hello and welcome to understand men now.  All right really quickly if you're brand new to my YouTube channel Please hit the subscribe button hit the bell so you can be notified of new videos And any time during this video if the content resonates with you, please hit that like button so I could be seen in the YouTube Algorithms really quickly my coaching is what I call heart centered radical honesty It's direct a little tough love and a lot of heart and occasionally I use Explosives to enhance the sentence so if an f-bomb or two isn't your cup of tea I suggest logging off right now Lastly, these are my thoughts my perceptions my opinions by no means do I suggest this is the truth You have to decide the truth for yourself. I'm a bit of a contrarian So my advice goes contrary to public opinion or traditional advice So all I ask is you give it a chance and if it doesn't resonate with you, that's okay, too All right, let's talk about how guys fall in love when a woman does this Well, let's face it today It's getting really really really hard to fall in love with people and what I mean to say if you're single and looking For love and you're in midlife, which is after baby making years and before retirement It's becoming increasingly hard to meet people whom you're compatible with and more importantly people who are Emotionally mature enough to be in a healthy happy relationship In fact, most folks are suffering in the inside in some way shape or form of not feeling good enough Not feeling lovable not feeling likable Which causes them to actually be dating today to fill the void inside of them that whole inside of them So what they're seeking oftentimes is connection and physical sex Without that real understanding of what does it take to make a relationship work and furthermore? What does it what what is a relationship all about a relationship is about commitment? It's about agreeing that we're going to explore something for the long term rather than the current dating process Which is short-term in fact many people these days men and women alike are only capable of a Casual relationship and in many cases these casual relationships are more like a Situationship or what I call a friends with benefits But you just don't know about it and what I mean to say and I'm laughing but sadly laughing when I mean that you Don't know about it is you guys are really just Marginally socially friends, and you're having physical sex, but you're not really aware that that's all that the other person wants And so this is one of the reasons why in my private coaching I talk about the need for radical honesty I talk about the need of genuine vulnerability authenticity and transparency Because the reality is today most people are flaky in the dating process And this is true of men and women alike their communication is flaky their behavior is flaky It's inconsistent that because of these devices now. It's ruined practically the Well, it's ruined in the sense that there's all this perceived choice And it's true because of these devices We have access to people that we wouldn't otherwise meet in our daily life, and yet it is causing so much Information overload that human beings are becoming rather Flaky and what's worse they're becoming very They lack courtesy and they lack care Let me repeat that they lack courtesy and they lack care about someone else's feelings And by the way, I know ladies you can you will you will scream at the top of your lungs saying I get it I get it men are bad men are bad men are bad folks I experienced the exact same thing that women experience So this isn't a one-sided coin This is true of men and women life, and I believe it's because the vast majority of human beings As I said earlier are struggling because they don't feel good about themselves. They don't love themselves And they don't like themselves because the reality is is most of us were wounded in our childhood Or in our adult experiences and these wounds have gone unhealed I'm gonna repeat that the majority of the population is wounded on the inside Whether it's childhood wounds and traumas or adult traumas that have gone unhealed and the vast majority of the Population does little or no personal development work on a daily basis, and I mean a daily basis I mean a daily basis You know they could have a Deepak Chopra book sitting on their nightstand, and you go wow They're so of all and yet it's never been opened. It's not highlighted and scratched and pastes pages are all You know fold it over like most of my books And So I share this with you all it's because we have to get real with what's happening out there And there's this hyper focus on Chemistry as being the indicator of relationship success without the recognition that it's important to share the same values To have lifestyles that are blendable with one another and as I said before emotional maturity In fact, I believe the vast majority of the population a Significant percentage of the population is actually rather dysfunctional dysfunctional in their relationship skills in their emotional maturity This is why I continually recommend to my audience checking out the book the Hoffman process the Hoffman process This is a deep dive into healing childhood wounds and traumas that cause negative patterns and limiting beliefs in one's life and The minute you begin the exploration of personal development. Let me tell you your life actually becomes even more chaotic because of awareness and The beauty of awareness is that it's an opportunity you get the choice now Do you want to be a victim or do you want to be a victor? Repeat that you want to be a victim or do you want to be a victor and sadly here in the United States? We are the majority the population is sucking on the nipple of victim consciousness It's always somebody else's fault. It's always the guy's fault why the relationships don't work out It's always the woman's fault why relationships don't work out You know, it's interesting. I was watching I've been watching a show-on-show time called couples therapy couples therapy And these are real-life couples therapies with hidden cameras and in the beginning of season 2 What's so fascinating is the therapist says most couples go to therapy Thinking that the the therapist must fix their partner. They're pointing the finger at their partners fix my partner fix my partner fix My partner without looking inward. I Mean, that's the way human beings operate. So is it any wonder?   So I just laid out no hope, right? And you have people falling in love most every day in some way shape or form And not everybody is going to have a juicy delicious healthy happy relationship In fact, the vast majority of people are going to have dysfunctional relationships And many people will settle on dysfunctional relationships. It's because it's better to have something rather than nothing I'm here to advocate when you do the personal development work when you Understand the mechanics of a healthy happy relationship. You become a magnetic attractor for people like yourself This is why folks whenever I say before the penis goes inside the vagina You should be reading the book eight dates by doctors john and jolly gotman because this is the mechanics to a healthy happy relationship This is this is the blueprint. This is the roadmap. This is the conversation you should be having If you want to explore something deeper But Jonathan I'm just told to sit back in my feminine energy and all the magic will work out by just being in my feminine Ladies that's not how it works It's not about leaning back in your feminine energy. It's about leaning into your sovereignty your self worth your self esteem And being intentional in the process.  It's just called the It's really just dysfunctionality That's it. It's dysfunctionality So how do we shift this how do we shift this narrative?  Give me a good reason why I should date you. Why are you worthy of my time?  I say this a little tongue-in-cheek? I don't mean it that Crass or cavalier Lee But at the same time, why should I consider investing any time with you? You know what? I think people men and women should be spending time not proving themselves from the chris rock perspective of Showing up as the ambassador of them best selves I rather by showing up as our authentic self Our authentic self So that's going to tee us up for the conversation about where and how men fall in love So if you watched my video this morning, it was a short about men love creativity I talked about Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote the book e pray love. She also wrote a book called big magic And in the book big magic, she encourages everybody to explore their creative side Because our creativity gets us out of our head and into our hearts Out of our head and into our hearts And so this is where we're going to lean in today is leaning into your heart Of what makes you unique? What makes you special? What's your superpower? What makes you weird? And so I'm going to share with you a little bit about my private coaching for a second because there's an exercise I work with my clients. It's called. What's your weird? What's your weird now? I want to read you a poem really quickly. It's a short little quote I should say and in this quote it says We are all a little weird and life's a little weird And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours We join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. Can anyone guess who wrote that? I'll read it again, and I will share but can anyone guess who wrote that? And the best illustration of weird to me Is the movie when harry met sally when harry met sally And sally but these are this is a couple who met on a trip from I believe michigan to new york And it was they were graduated college and they couldn't stand each other at the end of this trip And little by little over the years they began developing a friendship And sally was very unique especially in the way she ordered food in the way she ordered food And this is my version of it But she would she was very neurotic in the way she ordered food And what made this so special was the two of them did have a fight And at the end of the movie at the end of the movie Harry realizes he was in love with her and he rushes over to her and he says I love it that it takes you an hour and a half to order a ham sandwich I love it that you think 71 degrees is cold. I love it that you're the first person I think of when I wake up in the morning and the last person I think of when I go to bed And when I realized I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you I rushed over here to tell you He didn't fall in love with her good qualities. He fell in love with her unique qualities So I want to share a little story I mentioned before About a client of mine and she went through my private coaching some years ago and one of the exercises I shared is the weird Exercise and she loved it so much that she called me out and said can we take a break from coaching for one week? By the way, she gave me permission to share this And in that week she created a book and I want to share it with everyone in this book It's called welcome to my weird the peculiar quirks of alexandra walkins And you can see that's a picture of her right there Now she's a creative type so coming back to creativity And what she did is she's a photographer as well So she took all her photographs and wrote little captions about her about herself in here That made her unique peculiar weird different than everyone else And she created this little copy table book. In fact, it's my signed copy of it right there Let me read you what she says. She goes jonathan. Thank you for inspiring this book You are an amazing dating coach and I am forever grateful for your guidance. There she is right there alexandra While I'm sharing this with you is um after doing our work together literally a month later She was fixed up on a blind date with someone and on their third date. She gave him a copy of this book Now glenn the man that we're talking about was the man who gave his kidney to a total stranger He gave his kidney to gave one kidney to a total stranger. I mean a real mensch of a guy And on their third date he gave a copy of I think third or fourth date She gave him a copy of this book and as he's thumbing through it He goes I'm in love with you now. He didn't mean it literally, but just that peculiarity Those the uniqueness within her also her creativity Is what actually helped bond him with her which helped him bond him with her and they eventually they lived in san francisco They eventually got a place in san diego They moved down together about a year after meeting and they've been together ever since and i'll share this video with them And I share the story because they illustrate And alexandra is a beautiful lady. I mean she's gorgeous on the outside, but she is absolutely peculiar And glenn appreciates her uniqueness Her peculiarity her weirdness So I want to read you that quote one more time and i'm going to share the author with everyone real quick We are all a little weird and life's a little weird And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours We join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. This is dr. Seuss And I think it's a great illustration to recognize folks The old pattern old way of dating. Is it working? What's going to require if you want to find a juicy delicious healthy happy relationship? It starts by finding that juicy delicious happy relationship within yourself This is why I continually recommend my book What the heck is self-love anyway?  It's a journey of personal development self-help and spiritual work So you can heal on the inside so you can have a vaccination to emotional chaos By the way, there's a link to all my recommended books in the description below And why I say this is We when we actually work on our shit We actually open ourselves up For that beautiful delicious relationship and it's not going to work by the way And your dating life is going to even become progressively harder Because you got to sip through a lot of needles in the haystack This is why radical honesty is meant to be done over the telephone I literally want you to interrogate guys before the first date So you can actually see if you're a fit with one another and again I teach all these techniques in my private coaching. There's a link below to schedule a free discovery call with me Because through this experience through radical honesty, you're going to avoid hopefully The wrong guys and start teeing it up for the right guys Because when you're with the right guy, just like glennon alexandra He's going to appreciate those things about you that you might not even appreciate about yourself So I invite you all to explore what your weirdness is and before I wrap up today's The content segment today, I'm going to share with everyone a weird thing about me I'll share a weird thing about me and I invite you to post a weird thing about yourself in the comments So something weird about me is I can't stand condiments. I can't stand condiments Ketchup mustard mayonnaise and relish are the grossest thing on the planet to me I literally cannot have them on a table when I go to like a coffee shop restaurant I ask the waiter waitress to please remove it because it grosses me out Um, I'm okay with high quality mustard I mean really really high quality kind of like it But I can't stand the garden variety something that comes out of a plastic thing. Oh, it grosses me out I barely can walk down the aisle of a department or a grocery store So that's something unique and weird about me. We all have something unique and weird about us So I invite you today To explore those parts of you that's both creative unique different special and weird Because that's and Most importantly when we can honor our uniqueness within ourselves Maybe just maybe you can do the same for another human being We are riddled with judgment here in the united states in particular And it is through judgment and intolerance that's making this process even harder Because the reality is is we are all a little weird and life's a little weird And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours We join up with them and mutual weirdness and we call it love And that's how guys fall in love when you reveal that part of you that is unique And that's my invitation for everyone. Are you in agreement with me if you are give me an amen All right, I think this will be a great time to start our Q&A portion of our live stream So if you're watching this video live There is a chat box there and you can post a question by writing the word question And then post the question there after or you can purchase the super sticker super chat There's a little dollar sign the chat box All the funds from the super sticker super chat goes to a scholarship fund in the name of my son connor asley That's a picture of him right there. That's my son who passed away a few years ago It would be truly an honor if you did contribute today to the fund This fund helps defray the cost of personal development for those who need personal development work or I else and excuse me Not or and I donate to those personal development causes such as the hockman process and insight That truly makes a difference in people a lot people's lives So again, it would be an honor today if you found value in this live stream so far to purchase a super sticker super chat All right, let's go swimming. Let's go swimming. Oh, by the way, check this out Let's keep let just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming This was a gift from one of you beautiful ladies out there in the youtube land. I want to thank you so much for this gift Um, I also have a this is the dory and I also have the nemo Nemo finding Nemo. Yeah as well. All right And I want to thank everyone so far Uh, all right angie writes What should I act when What should I act when a guy I'm dating for a few weeks is still in touch with his ex at a regular basis doing yoga They broke up nine months ago. He also wants me to meet the yoga group. What should I I think you mean? how should I act so Again, this is a great illustration of what I was sharing before and that's radical honesty So what you could simply say and let's call him tim for example tim I understand that you have a connection in a relationship with a past lover of yours And I want to be candid with you that makes me feel a little uncertain Or it makes me feel insecure not to suggest you're doing anything or you have any feelings with her But you I wonder how you would feel if I was continually talking to an ex. How would that make you feel? Or better yet, how would you feel about that? So I'd like to have some open dialogue about this to find out where you stand between the two of you And now I recognize that you can have a friendship with a past lover in your life, and that's totally okay I understand that At the same time, do you still have any feelings? Do you communicate on an intimate level with each other because if I'm going to be dating you and I'm going to Be giving you my heart body and soul then I'd like to know that what said between us Stays between us. I'd like to know that you're not talking about our intimate conversations Or that you're seeking advice from her because that makes I would feel very uncomfortable with that So can you let me know where you stand? now ladies All you can do is be vulnerable Authentic transparent you can't guarantee if he's going to do the same But I invite you to lead by example because you might find that either a it's purely platonic and it's okay Or you might uncover that there is a past connection with them And it might you may have to reconsider being in a relationship with them So that would be my invitation for you angie is to lean into the conversation And see how he reacts you have ladies It's important to almost become a detective today to become a detective today And um it literally requires that So it's important to watch his body language watch his languaging watch his actions Does his actions match his words? Is he demonstrative towards you? Is he is he vulnerable authentic and transparent or is this just a relationship where basically this is all you do How's your day going? Did you have a good day? I hope you have a good day Folks many people have surface relationships and I invite you to go below the surface And that was that would be how I uh suggest you talk to him and if you I recommend rewinding this Listen to the the script I gave you and try that out for size. So angie. Thank you so much for that That's a great question All right, I see we have a super sticker and I want to thank angie for the ten dollars way to go Thanks so much. I really appreciate All right Let's see what else we have. Let's go swim in Nicole says question when a guy you like sends you gifts does he Does he love you secretly does he love you secretly? So I don't have the book handy, but if you're not familiar with the five love languages the five love languages The five love languages is how human beings express love in five particular areas now Most people have one two or three primary love languages and then they have secondary love languages or third or whatever So the five love languages are words of uh affirmation or like we leo's call it words of adoration Physical physical physical touch quality time acts of service and gifts So what's happening most likely in this particular case is this man Shows his love or affection through gifts And I think that's just to recognize that that's what he's doing would be a real And I I hope you're demonstrating appreciation to him for his efforts So I invite you to look at so what was your question? Um When a guy says does he secretly love you it certainly means he has a deep affection for you He has a deep affection for you is it's not a guarantee. Listen love happens folks Let's clear this thing up about love Because most folks focus on love based on the good things the good things True love happens and I think of my mom and dad who were married 66 years before my mother passed away Actually, they knew each other 72 years. Can you believe that? um Love isn't the good things That's not even the weird things where love happens is They stand beside you when you're going through chemotherapy and they're wiping the vomit from your face That is where love resides. It's not in the good times. It's through the tough times This is why I'm such a proponent of not Using romance as a way to bond two people together Romance should be reserved for two people when they're in relationship Not as a way to get into relationship because most everybody is suckling on the nipple of chemistry equal relationship success And if you're not familiar with my relationship iceberg You can see the tip of the iceberg says chemistry Above the water line is attraction But true compatibility lies in shared values blendable lifestyles and emotional maturity That's where compatibility lies and emotional maturity is that space where you're going to say i'm going to be there for you through thick and thin And yet sadly most people are dating today seeking connection and sex casual relationships with no commitment You know, I almost want to say today we should be and i'm not suggesting this as an absolute But think back when if a guy wanted to get laid he had to get married He had to marry you to get laid. So there was a real level of commitment Today commitment is this much It's zero.  There's basically the agreement That you'll be monogamous and exclusive with one another, but that's no guarantee so folks ladies It's time to put your chastity belt on and i'm not saying a guy has to jump through hoops I'm saying you both have to jump through hoops getting to know each other at a hard centered level instead of this surface level Of chemistry equal relationship success It takes a lot more than that to really be in love with someone and it's not just giving gifts A real love is i'm going to be there for you through thick and thin So when I say my hope is when I say I love you to my next partner my my last first kiss It's going to mean I'm here You matter We're important I've got your back. I'm not going anywhere and I only want you. I'm here meaning i'm present Most folks are so much in their head. They're focusing on the future. They're focusing on the past They're focusing on whether or not the guy paid for the valet I'm here be present You matter that's saying that you're important to me that your feelings matter to me that i'm gonna I'm actually going to care about your feelings and then we are important That means that the relationship is a separate entity and I recognize that we have to invest Both of us have to invest mutually for this relationship to work out Sadly most people don't see the relationship as a separate entity. They're more focused on what they can get Versus what they can give and this is true of ladies as well as men I'm here. You matter. We're important. I've got your back That means that when you're sick, I'm gonna be there for you.   I'm here. You matter. We're important I've got your back. I'm not going anywhere and I only want you so love is a lot more than Just showing up for all the good times love is being there through the tough times And so I just want you to understand he's showing affection right now through his love language But real love happens when you establish the deep roots of trust The deep roots of trust and again if you need some help with that That's my area of expertise to teach you how to create those deep roots of trust Check out the free discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you I want to thank our uh, who wrote that in Nicole, thank you so much for that question. I really appreciate giving you a big gigantic chop and barrahawk All right, let's go. Let's keep swimming. Let's keep swimming ah What do we have here? Purchase the super stick or super chat Glenn says surelock is my hero. Jonathan's a close second. Thank you so much. I appreciate it All right. Do we have any questions?   I don't have a I have a filter. I also say this for comedy What you might want to say is look we seem to have a great relationship Would you be interested in exploring this beyond friendship? Would you be interested in exploring this beyond friendship? Now, that's one thing you can say to him The other thing you can do is have a couple cocktails and get flirty with him. That's another thing you can do You can tell him. I'm really attracted to you. I'm physically attracted to you. Just let it slip out in conversation That might be enough of a hint. But this is the time for your your green light This is the time for you to drop the hanky. You can simply say I'd like to explore a relation a romantic relationship together I'd like to jump your bones. I'd like to explore the physical with you beyond the friendship That's at least an option And you could even just simply start by saying I'm physically attracted to you that gets a guy's peacock going If he's genuinely interested now, here's the thing. I invite you to ask yourself Does he have childhood wounds and traumas? Does he have adult traumas? Does he do personal development work because he may not only he may only be capable of friendship and may not be able to go deeper And that's okay, too But I'd rather you make effort and fail Then make no effort whatsoever. We men are used to it and by the way We have been beat we've made lots of we make effort and we get rejected We make effort and we get rejected and we make effort and we can get rejected This is why men's hearts are just as fragile as women's hearts because we've been rejected over and over again And after a while that wears on our emotional psyche as well So just try to get an understanding of where he's at Where he's at emotionally And give it a try that's listen. What do you got to lose?  By the way, there's a great Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Elaine Talk about not screwing up the friendship if they have sex together I would highly recommend looking it up. It's the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Lane Are talking about exploring sex together, but they didn't want to ruin the friendship So you might want to even watch that episode ahead of time with them To kind of tee it up. That's just a suggestion. Anyway, so coming back to your question Shannon I hope that helps out And when you say he won't do anything physical that's certainly representative of being respectful of you And I don't think it's going to hurt. I don't think it'll hurt your friendship If you're honest with him it might make it a little bit uncomfortable But I'd rather you give it a shot than waste your time or or having regret Folks, I'd rather you explore opening your heart to men In a kind, gentle way because if it's sincere and from the heart You can't say the wrong thing to the right guy and that's my invitation for you Shannon. Thank you so much. Great question I really appreciate it All right, Kimberly writes Jonathan. I asked my guy deep questions You suggested and he asked me to quit watching you. Is this normal behavior? Um It's is it normal behavior? It is certainly Okay, so most likely he either feels threatened by my content or he's not capable of going emotionally deeper Either he's threatened by my content or he's unable to go emotionally deeper So then this is an opportunity for you to ask yourself Does this man have the emotional capacity to be in the kind of relationship I like now folks I'm not here to suggest you can't be in a relationship with a man who has no emotional capacity You can be with men who are an emotional vacuum if you wish if they pay the bills and take care of you That's an option But thankfully women aren't dependent upon men like they used to be in the past So and not to suggest that your boyfriend has to fill your emotional Basket if you will But why would you want to be in a relationship with someone who couldn't be radically honest with you? Where you couldn't be vulnerable authentic and transparent You know, most people will tell you who have been married 30 40 50 years who are happily married They all say the same thing I married my best friend. I married my best friend and what that means is I married somebody that I can say almost anything to I don't have to say everything but I can say anything to Knowing that it's a safe place. That's what friendship means So it's hard to say Why he's threatened by it But my guess is it's because he's not able to go emotionally deeper And by the way, I always recommend leading by example.  Why are you so threatened by my videos? Is there something that you can't share with us? Call me up. I'll get on the phone with you, dude If you want to get on the phone and talk to me, I'll do it Because guess what your lady wants to go deeper on an emotional level And if you genuinely care about her if you really care about her Then why not invest in some of the books? I recommend and do this work together because listen These days ladies The the cow is for free. You can get the what's the expression? Why buy the milk?  So dude? I'm going to talk to you right now. What are your intentions? With my youtube follower What are your intentions? Why don't you tell me? Anyway, I went off on a I went off on a rant so Kimberley, thank you so much for that question. Is it normal behavior? There's no Normal is a relevant word. It just happens to be his behavior. So Hey, throw this video and see how he responds Let me refrain that share this video and see how I respond. Thank you so much kimberley I want to give you a big gigantic job than bear hug for that one. I really appreciate it All right, let's keep swimming Let's see how everyone's reacting to my lab my last rant Uh Gray says, uh I want to thank lisa for the dollar super sticker I guess it's not a super sticker, but thank you so much um Gray says I suggested eight dates book and he was out god's protection folks when a guy doesn't want to invest in this work He's not legit too legit to quit It's not legit if he ain't gonna get into if you're not willing to get your hands dirty, then they're not legit They got your vagina for free Don't let him get it for free anymore Cosmic queen says thank you for your insight and sincere encouragement. Thank you so much. Glenn says. Thank you kimberley says. You're the best Thank you so much All right, let's keep swimming Ah Jenny says do you have a list of books you recommend by the way in the link below jonathan recommends books? I highly suggest you checking that out tk says What what about jonathan's videos that make you so angry? Oh someone else was saying they're angry. Okay, got it all right Let's go swimming All right folks. I got if you have a question post the word question All right, here we go jane p writes Question why do guys tell you they love you very soon when they don't really know you only a few weeks of dating All right, I've got a confession to share because I have done this So If you're not familiar with well first off there's two things going on when a guy Comes on strong love bombs you all that kind of stuff. It's not necessarily Narcissism every everything is narcissistic today. It's not narcissism. I know you didn't bring that up. I'm bringing that Okay So when a guy likes you it could either be lust or limerits limerits. I invite you to google it But limerits means extreme infatuation. I even shared recently How I had this extreme infatuation for a woman. I just met I was so smitten by her And it was really chemicals being released in my brain to my body that made me think this was love And this is what chemistry is all about chemistry drives us To another human being and sometimes it's beyond our control. It's like Crack cocaine. It's like heroin So it's not necessarily a cognitive thing. It's an unconscious thing happens when we think we like someone A lot like when we think I got something my two when we think we're with the one So it's not uncommon for men to do what's Again, it's called love bombing But another thing it's called what I alison armstrong calls it cut and paste cut and paste and what that means is We men will cut and paste you into our lives to see what that looks like I call it trying on for size trying it on for size This is like when you go to the shoe store and try on different shoes You're trying it on for size and that's what men do when we're boasting about real sincere care Because it takes it takes us kind of be amped up to to let go Of our need for freedom I'm repeat. It takes us being amped up to let go of our need for freedom To actually want to commit with someone now the scary part is When those chemicals release and they're gone is their real love. This is why folks i'm here to encourage Listen social activities hobbies mutual interest spending time with family and friends as part of the dating process Instead of the rhetoric of just going out to dinners all the time and having surface conversations How's your day? Did you have a good day? I hope you had a good day. Did you have a blessed day? Most folks have surface conversations. I'm here to invite you to go to deeper conversations and recognizing that most of the time You're meeting a total stranger, which is why I recommend reading this book talking to strangers What you should know about people you don't know And in addition, I highly recommend reading the book emotional intimacy emotional intimacy Because this will help prepare you to ask better questions to get at a deeper intimate level with someone because ultimately real love happens Through thick and thin but it happens through intimacy into me. You see This is why i'm so tired of the current dating rhetoric and especially those entitled women who expect to be Romance or to be swept off their feet and the guy paying for the valet and folks. Yes, that is a big It's a big complaint. I have it's an argument I had with some other dating coach about this and it's it's listen I have a beef around it.  But more importantly, I care about my own feelings and lastly Transparency if it's material to the relationship speak up about it Most folks don't do that. They have very surface relationship.  I like people with depth who speak with emotion from a twisted mind. I don't want to know what's up Folks i'm here to encourage deeper intimacy deeper connection And it starts by reading these books. By the way, there's two other books. I highly recommend how to build trust in a relationship by claire robin and couples communication by olivia Listen, I don't know how to pronounce her name couples communication. Check these books out on amazon It's time.  They're winging it. They're winging it most men are clueless This is why I encourage you to lead by example by expressing yourself and not leaving it up to the god But jonathan all the other dating coaches told me i'm in my masculine if i'd lead the relationship You're not leading the relationship.  So again, why do men do that? It's a natural thing to do And what's most important is have deeper conversations When it does happen and that's my invitation for you jane. Thank you so much for that question. I really appreciate it All right, we're gonna take one more question before we wrap up today. By the way, you can purchase a super stick or super chat All right All right twit says question if someone says to me, what's your biggest fear? I wouldn't go deep other questions. Maybe but I should but should that question be a warning sign Oh, I love this question okay, so You might say to someone if someone asks you what's your biggest fear You could say, you know what being abandoned in a relationship. That's a fear. I have To be rejected is a fear I have Folks if being honest, let me reframe that if being vulnerable authentic and transparent I'm using those fears is a turnoff to a person Then this person doesn't have depth by the way when two people would depth get together You could say almost anything and it will not harm the relationship But as I said continually throughout this broadcast, most people are on the surface or on the surface Surface I'm here to suggest go below the surface So if someone asks you that and that's a turnoff then I invite you to answer to me What's your fear in sharing that? If you're afraid they're going to use it against you. I'm not here to suggest divulge a secret Don't divulge any secrets, but I'm a human.  And I invite you to read this book. That's my invitation for everyone All right By the way, can I get an amen? Does this resonate with you? Please let me know hit that like button Legally blonde says I love this guy. Thank you so much. I appreciate it All right, let's scroll here All right folks, you know, this is going to be a great place to wrap up today folks I want to thank you all for your love kindness care. I want to thank this beautiful lady You gave me this dory cup. Just keep swinging. I just keep swimming. I really appreciate it I hope you found value in this if you did please purchase a super sick or super chap before we wrap up I'd love to collect more funds for the connor asley scholarship fund And if this has been a value to me, do you please share this with your friends? Please check out the links below to a discovery call my My podcast my membership program or follow me on instagram as well. I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart I want to wish you a super duper wonderful evening I'm going to wrap up as I always do first off giving myself a big gigantic shot the marig of self love I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm going to ask you to turn to someone a pet a teddy bear pillow and give it or them a hug of love Because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it. You can all use more love in our lives I want to thank you so much. I'm going to say good night to uh, holly nicole glenn finding dory sunflower natalie holly jones sarah grace jennifer Uh, teresa sweetheart. Good to see you. I'm so happy. This is all resonating with you. Thank you so much Have a blessed evening. Bye now


This paper proposes an end-to-end uncertainty aware finger movement classifier called Evidential Convolutional Neural Network, ECNN. It is designed to improve the reliability of SEMG-based hand gesture recognition. The proposed methodology is evaluated on the NENAPRO Database 5, Exercise A, and compared against other state-of-the-art methods. The results demonstrate that ECNN outperforms existing methods in terms of both accuracy and reliability. Additionally, the proposed reliability analysis provides a new perspective on evaluating the quality of SEMG-based hand gesture recognition models. This article was authored by Yu-Joo Lin, Rameswamy Polanyapan, Philippe De Wilde, and others.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow investors trading up 6, we have NASDAQ down 94, S&P's off 10, gold contract flat, $19.47 an ounce, we have silver up down $0.44, $23 flat, notes and bonds, 10-year note flat, $1.1310, 30-year up 3 ticks at $1.2805 and $king dollar, $king down 459 ticks, $102.0082, the year is at 109, the yen is at 141 and the British pound is at 127 to 1 US dollar. What we do have out here today folks is this, we have divergence, we have a small range but what we do have is that on the E-mini that does have a high volume low. So bottom line is that the E-mini got down to 44.03, we're 20 points above it right now so that can get tested before the close. Now the divergence is the aspect of the NQ's, the NQ does not have that. Take a look at the NQ, what you're going to see inside the NQ is a differential. Bottom line is that we got down into a lower price but that wasn't a high volume low. So I suspect what you're going to see is more pressure on the S&P's as we get into the close versus the NQ, we'll see if the NQ's follow it, normally it's just the opposite. The gold contract is in a monster ABC down, 1875, so you had two different things with gold. We have one ABC and structure inside another because you had an ABC structure down to 1902, we had a larger one down to 1875. Today what you did, you got to 1929, you did reject lower price, you know, that bottom line is that you're still below the B point so my take is that we're going to get down into those lower levels and it's going to be all about the dollar because what you see, just this little pop here, I suspect what we're going to see in the next hour is more than likely the dollar is going to try to get a little bit higher. The dollar's getting smoked out here today, the dollar's down 449 ticks, well it's not getting smoked but it's already at a lower low and the bottom line is that you're coming into a swing. The swing they're coming into here is that 102,006, we made 102,022 and we're at 102,098 right now. So I think you're going to get a little bounce out of here and if that's what we get, if you get the bounce it would make sense that you get a little bounce in the dollar, S&P tries to test this low that was out there, you know, small trading range though, that's the bottom line and there's still light volume just like yesterday. So this is just a small pullback for market that doesn't want higher price. Stay right there folks, we'll come right back.


Welcome to Stand Energy Man here on Think Tech Hawaii, stand awesome in here on an exceptionally rainy day in Hawaii. In fact, just north of me, they're having a pretty massive thunderstorm and flood warnings. So it's a pretty busy day today. But the subject today is something that's kind of near and dear to me. You know, I've been working hydrogen issues for almost a decade and transportation issues for even longer than that. And it's always frustrating to me that so many people that really understand hydrogen just don't seem to have a voice in getting it across the people that can make a difference. People with funding, people in government, people in state legislature, people in the federal government, congressional members, they just don't seem to get it. So probably since the days of Bush II and maybe Clinton, Bill Clinton, we just really haven't had a lot of focus on hydrogen. But things changed. And they changed about around 2017. And this week, there was a press release, actual advisory, that was set up and sent to the new administration. So early in 2017, an international group of companies joined together to promote and expand the role of hydrogen across many industries. This group was encouraged and supported by the US Department of Energy Initiative called Hydrogen at Scale. Initially, there were fewer than a dozen companies involved, but they represented manufacturers, automakers, industrial gas suppliers, major oil companies, and smaller hydrogen technology companies trying to get things going. The group grew quickly and today is over 60 members around the world with a common goal to promote a cleaner, more sustainable world and provide economic stability and prosperity by using hydrogen technology. The group is simply called the Hydrogen Council. But their work has driven hydrogen to the forefront of the fight for clean energy. And this short paper that was introduced this week is an appeal to the Biden administration. And it's made by several members of the Hydrogen Council calling themselves Hydrogen Forward. I'd like to read the entire proposal. It's not really long. In fact, it's very concise. But I'll be adding some comments to emphasize and explain some of the parts of the proposal to give you and maybe some of the folks in Congress and the Biden administration a little more clarity on what this proposal puts forward. First of all, it was put together by Steve Angel, the CEO of Lindy, a big industrial gas company, and Tom Lienberger, the chairman and CEO of Cummings. They're a diesel engine manufacturer. But they recently bought one major fuel cell company. And actually, I think they bought a couple other companies as well. But anyway, this statement was sent out on March 8, 2021. So yesterday, it hit the airwaves. And I'm just going to read it right verbatim. And when I change to opinion, I'm going to talk about my opinion right after some of the paragraphs. And when I do, I'm going to put my hat on, so you know I'm talking about me and not reading the document. So as our nation welcomes new executives and congressional leadership, we're called to harness Americans' ingenuity and innovation to solve one of our generation's biggest challenges, climate change. Doing so will require never-before-seen action from the public and the private sectors working on lockstep to adopt and accelerate new and existing technologies to power society. Recognizing the opportunities and the challenges of the moment, our companies, Cummings and Lindy, remember the folks that wrote this, joined a coalition called Hydrogen Forward, a group consisting of our fellow founding members, Erlachied, Anglo-American, Bloom Energy, CF Industries, Chart Industries, Hyundai, McDermott, Shell and Toyota, and united by a shared vision to accelerate the energy transition through mass scale deployment of hydrogen. So once considered the energy solution of the future, already developed hydrogen technologies provide a significant opportunity to decarbonize energy intensive industries and advance global environmental and economic objectives. These technologies, which are in use today, allow hydrogen to store, use, and transport energy while generating zero emissions at the point of use. So many people know a little of how much hydrogen technology has already been in play in hundreds of large industrial vacations and how much that hydrogen technology has advanced in the past two decades. Like, did you know that the cooling turbines and most public utilities that generate power use hydrogen to cool their equipment? There's just thousands of uses of hydrogen, including rocket fuel for NASA's rockets that send people to space. We just don't think about hydrogen. Everybody thinks it's not safe or there's something fundamentally dangerous about hydrogen because it does contain a lot of energy. But the hydrogen we're talking about is just the basic gas, not a nuclear weapon, not anything cosmic. It's just a gas, it's very versatile, very plentiful, and has been used in industry for many, many years. So the thing continues. And because of this unique storage properties, hydrogen also provides low carbon options to heat residential and commercial buildings, provide backup power during grid outages, and enables large-scale, efficient, renewable energy integration into the U.S. power grid. So here I am. This single sentence captures the huge impact that hydrogen could make, literally replacing propane and natural gas over time for cooking and heating, and even more critical is the role of storing energy from renewables. Solar and wind are characterized as intermittent renewables, meaning they're not always available. Like at night, the sun doesn't shine, so solar panels don't work. And they require massive storage on the future grid. We just don't appreciate how much energy can be stored in millions of barrels of oil and millions of gallons of fuel oil. And to replace all that with clean renewable energy and store that energy is a humongous task. This storage can be achieved in several ways, but the darling that most grid operators have in mind are lithium batteries because they're efficient. Engineers love efficiency, but efficiency is only one consideration. Safety is another consideration. The current lithium cobalt technology has thermal instability issues and can cause some very serious, very hot fires that are very hard to put out. The availability of the components to make these batteries is another one. Every nation can make its own hydrogen if they have water and a clean electrical source. They can make carbon-free fuels to power their equipment. There's an environmental impact at the production stage for batteries. That's another problem. The mining of the raw materials is something that we don't even do in the United States. We don't mine lithium. We're just starting to open a couple mines, but the EPA has such strict restrictions on mining these materials that we generally stay away from that. So a lot of these materials like cobalt and lithium come from other countries, and they have human rights issues and things like that. The disposal of batteries at the end of life has virtually been ignored except by the bigger companies like Tesla who recovers their batteries and re-uses them actually into their commercial residential batteries. But most importantly, the cost is unsustainable, and the prices will go even higher as components get harder and harder to source. Don't forget, we're talking about changing all of the cars, all of the trucks, probably all the trains and buses and everything, maybe even boats and airplanes and ships to use other renewable resources. And if we're going to do that, if we're going to electrify the transportation sector and energy requirements keep growing on the grid, that's going to double the energy requirements that we currently have by combining transportation and grid. So for electric transportation being the future, the grid storage requirements would just make batteries totally not only unaffordable, but the world will require more batteries than the earth can produce. So the statement goes on and says, however, in the United States, hydrogen is perhaps the most publicly visible, most publicly visible in the transportation sector, whereas the potential to revolutionize the way we move both people and goods. Transportation related emissions account for almost one third of all the greenhouse gases alongside battery electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles like passenger vehicles, buses, long haul trucks and other heavy duty vehicles can significantly reduce transportation related emissions. This is where I spend most of my time. I've been involved in aviation, transportation and mobility for over four decades. And I can assure you that when it comes to moving just about anything, it's all about weight. Cars, trucks, trains, aircraft, spacecraft, even boats, ships and other things benefit from the hydrogen because it has, as an energy source, has the most energy dense of energy storage of any element. And it's plentiful in our universe. It's the most plentiful element in our universe. And it's safe. Just like we here in Hawaii, we're very respectful of the ocean.  So like the ocean, you have to respect the power of hydrogen and you have to handle it properly. Handling hydrogen properly is considered, it is considered safer by virtually all professionals than gasoline, propane and natural gas, and even pure oxygen, which most people think is very safe. A lot of professionals that deal with bottled oxygen, they'll tell you it's really kind of scary. In fact, pure hydrogen is not flammable until it's mixed with an oxidizer like air. But for transportation, we always store the hydrogen at 99.999% pure in the tanks that are specially designed to hold it. So the content of those tanks cannot burn. And if the hydrogen escapes its tanks, it travels vertically at 45 miles an hour. That's 60 feet or six stories in one second. That doesn't pool or puddle on the ground and mix with air and cause flames and heat that spread and move laterally and burn things. So the hydrogen flame, if it does catch on fire, is more like a torch. So in transportation, hydrogen is the energy source of choice. Okay, back to the statement. In addition to climate benefits, the hydrogen scale up will help bolster our national nation's strong industrial base and robust supply chains to retain and create millions of well paying jobs in manufacturing and technology by 2030. The US hydrogen economy could generate $140 billion in revenue and support 700,000 jobs. Back from my comments for island communities particularly like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and thousands of other nations and communities around the world that import all their energy, even Japan. Hydrogen can be made carbon free by using renewable energy like solar and wind or my very favorite, in-stream hydroelectric and water. This would have a huge impact on island economies and hydrogen facilities are the ultimate and sustainable conditions for energy independence. It facilitates it, it makes it happen. So back to the statement. Further, because hydrogen is sourced, produced, and used domestically, our nation will be able to capture the full economic benefits of the entire hydrogen supply chain, including production, infrastructure, and end use. At Lindy investments in renewable hydrogen are helping us to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions in a variety of sectors including transportation. We announced late last year that our Ontario California facility will soon produce enough renewable hydrogen to eliminate 50,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. At Cummings, we announced plans to launch the largest renewable hydrogen electrolyzer in the United States, in Washington state, partnering with a local public utility. The project is expected to launch later this year and will allow the utility to harness renewables and store their energy for later use. Okay, this is critical. This is one of the big things that most of the utilities haven't quite latched on to yet. The role of making hydrogen, that hydrogen plays, is grid stabilization. Hawaii, particularly the mainline in the middle of Oahu, has reached an intermittent renewable saturation point that destabilizes grid operations. That means that the electric utility here will not allow additional solar projects connected to connect to the grid in certain locations because it's too destabilizing. So even if you wanted to put solar panels on your roof, many places on Oahu, you can't because there's already too much solar and because it fluctuates so much, the electric company won't let people add more to their grid until they can figure a way to stabilize their system. The interesting thing is, electrolyzers, that's the equipment that makes green hydrogen, can load follow. In other words, it can increase production when there's a surplus of power and the electric company doesn't need all the power it's producing. And it can decrease production when the grid needs more power and there's not enough power to go around. So you need to throttle our electrolyzers back. For most utilities, having 15 to 20% intermittent renewable generation in the mix limits connecting additional solar on homes, businesses to the grid just to avoid the destabilization. Hydrogen production allows more solar and wind resources to be used. So if we're going to go into the future, trying to do more and more renewable energy, we're going to have to get our hands around how to help the grid balance all of those intermittent renewables on their system. And you can do that by using electrolyzers to make hydrogen in the community, in subdivisions, in industrial areas with all the solar and wind you can provide or even other things. Like I said, in-stream hydroelectric for me is great because it's 24 hours a day and it's pretty steady. It doesn't fluctuate a whole lot. So it doesn't add to the grid stabilization. But if we want to have more sustainable power production, unless you happen to have Hoover Dam in your backyard, you're going to be counting on solar, wind and things like that that are a little bit less stable. And believe me, at 15 to 20% saturation, that's not a whole lot. The data I heard from the US Department of Energy was when utility companies get to about 35 to 40%, they have literally hit the wall and they just can't function more sustainable. That's a 30 to 40%. They claim that over 50% is totally undoable at this point in time without the introduction of things like hydrogen electrolyzers to help load follow and balance the grid out. So in closing the statement says, as a new administration re-engages in the global climate diplomacy and pioneers a modern era for US climate and energy leadership, we firmly believe stakeholders in public and private sectors must collaborate to accelerate the deployment of hydrogen. It has been heartening to see early signs of support among Biden administration officials to date. During her confirmation hearings, incoming Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said the United States should be energy secure in the cleanest possible way and notes that hydrogen is a necessary tool to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. And former Secretary of State John Kerry in his new role as climate envoy acknowledged that investments in hydrogen and other technologies will transform our economies. And that's a key point. I don't think that people really understand the economic impacts of not being dependent on other countries and other imports for your energy. There is not a country on the face of the earth that couldn't become energy independent using hydrogen and renewable energy resources instead of fighting wars and fighting over oil just to keep your industries going. Through the first 100 days of the Biden administration will be a fury of activity. Our nation's most priority must prioritize climate policies and establish a clear strategy for hydrogen investment through infrastructure development and deployment. As we mobilize to create a healthy and sustainable world for generations to come, we must remember the choices we make now will have tremendous consequences for the future. And this letter was written by, like I said, Steve Angel, the CEO of Lindy, and Tom Linebarger as the chairman and CEO of Cummings Diesel. And they represent hydrogen forward as an initiative led by 11 companies committed to working with shareholders in the public and private sector to advance hydrogen for a cleaner, stronger U.S. economy. So that's the statement that went out. And it went out from a FTIconsulting.com. And it's directed at getting the new administration to really take hydrogen seriously. But I'm telling you that the hydrogen council and the efforts of this hydrogen forward have really made a huge difference. I've watched the industry grow tremendously over the past three or four years. And right now, timing, we used to say in the Air Force, timing is everything. And this is the time for hydrogen. So I'm going to wrap it up a little bit early today and just call it, call it, you know, enough, enough reading by Stan. But hydrogen really does have a voice now. Thanks to the Department of Energy. Thanks mostly to the hydrogen council and the people and the business people, including big oil companies, Total Oil and Shell Oil have been in this hydrogen council from nearly day one. It's a great, great opportunity to get everyone involved, create new jobs and new careers more importantly, more than just jobs, new careers for everyone in America in every state and territory around the world, other countries. And other countries have picked up on hydrogen and are actually outstepping the United States of America right now. It's kind of embarrassing. But Asia, China, Europe, and even the African continent are moving forward in hydrogen in ways that we still haven't quite caught up to yet. So when you hear hydrogen, don't think Hindenburg, don't think H-bomb. We're not talking nuclear weapons and we're not talking natural disasters where blimps covered with basically very flammable paint caused any kind of issues. Think about how many times you've heard of hydrogen in the news as a disaster. It's not very often. And we've moved millions of pounds of liquid hydrogen from Canada all the way to Cape Canaveral as rocket fuel since the 60s. And it's been done safely and it's been done very professionally. And that's the kind of technology we need to have moving forward so that we're not sitting here looking back after 50 years or 100 years of also fuel and sink. Why did we do this to our environment? Why did we do this to our precious earth? So until next Tuesday, just stand the energy man, stand officer man, and think tech. Think about it a little bit more. And if you get the chance to drive a Toyota Mirai or a Hyundai Nexo or their SUV, the Nissan or Honda's Clarity, even Mercedes makes a production car in hydrogen now. You get a chance to drive one, get out there and check it out. I think you'd be really impressed. Until next Tuesday, this is Stan Osterman signing off. Aloha.


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