Hello everybody and welcome back here to the channel. I'm Evil Rabbit, we're here on the Oculus Rift S here at Lime Rock Park in World Drift Series street tour cars, and we're gonna go full set and try and get some doors. Make sure you guys follow me on all social media, all of which are found in the description box below. Let's do it. We have to catch up to this 180. So we are on the Mazda R5 wheelbase with the Mazda R5 wheel. We are rocking the Panatec handbrake and shifters. And we are on the Panatec pedals again for the purpose of clutch with competing. We're gonna try and get in here. So definitely been having a lot of fun here in my Oculus Rift S. Now we're gonna get indoors. I don't know why not why it's tandem, but unfortunately the car's gonna get lost in the smoke with no liveries. So we're slowly getting back into this van's door. Probably have the wrong gear ratio, but man or ladies door, not sure. Don't have names on. Oh, I could almost touch the rear wheel of that car. Probably selected the wrong gear ratio, but we're right there. Going to probably be, oh, okay. Gonna probably be transitioning myself into running my Rift S in the remainder of the ESTA season. Gonna adjust that little cable that's being pulled on the backside of my helmet.  Yeah, I chose the wrong gear ratio. Probably, we're gonna go jet back to pits real quick to change our gear ratio. Gonna go back to standard gear ratio, which I felt like we were doing way better on.  This track on that factory gear ratio likes second gear better than running my Nismo gear that I was used to running. Yeah, we're not over revving now. We should be able to catch up to him now. Here we go. Plot right in behind this 180. Oh, he runs that really wide, all right. So we gotta flip that wider. Running all the super wide lines, which is gonna be super nice to just tuck in his door. Can't see in the smoke, I'm in the dirt, I can feel it. Can't see that car in front of me for anything when I get caught totally in his smoke. I need to slot myself in here. Get closer so I don't get lost in the smoke. Very nice tucked in deep, you don't get lost in the smoke like that. Then you back up and ah, can't see. Doesn't help that the cars are both white. So trying to track a white car in through the smoke is a little challenging. Little wheel-to-wheel door love. This R5 putting in work right now. Don't know where I am.  Look at that, we're way short. There we go. Look at that 180 right there. Pretty fun. This is actually so much fun right now. Got this guy running such flowy good lines. We can run some amazing chase runs. We may try and pass him at one point here. I think we might take the straight run. Give this guy a lead run for a little bit.  I hit my head on my seat. I lost that. I was looking the wrong way. We got all the through way going. Or not, he's gonna go straight. Only he can catch up. Gotta pay attention to where I'm going, not where he is. It's cool to look back though, but he's right there. It's really so much fun. When you get into a nice smooth arc where you know you're not gonna lose it, look how worried that. Definitely acclimating myself back fully into VR. Here, for drifting. Oh my Lord. All I heard was engine. Bottom arc ram and handbrake, didn't need it. Oh, that's a little wide. We're gonna loop that. If you're gonna follow me, he's gonna take the lead. This guy, it's always fun when you get in these servers and you find somebody that is, you're able to just throw down with. Except when you do that. And you lose it. Now we're gonna catch up to him. We kinda cut this short and we'll just kinda slot back in. So you guys are enjoying this. This was a special request video by a subscriber asking about driving world drift door cars on the R5. So we figured, why not come in here. There was some Tandems with the R5 to show its capabilities and also just to have a lot of fun in VR. So if you guys are enjoying this, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button. I would appreciate all the support. And thank you guys for coming. For more episodes here on the channel. I felt like I got hit. Oh yeah, we got a three way going. Okay, I'm getting bumped. Again, see where I'm going. Cut that short cause I got bumped. So as I think you guys were coming back and watching, I'm evil rabbit. Oh man, we are door to door train. Let's see you guys on the track. Let's grip this train too much. Well, yep, I looped that.


Welcome to All Hands Update, here's what's happening around your Navy. Four Navy officers served as judges during the 2016 Spirit of Innovation Conrad Challenge at the Kennedy Space Center as part of the Navy's goal to capture the attention and aspiration of high school students and effectively communicate the Navy's message. The challenge is an annual multi-phase innovation and entrepreneurial competition that brings teams of high school students together to invent, design and promote inventions in aviation, cyber technology and security and other fields of science. President Barack Obama presents the U.S. Naval Academy football team with the Commander-in-Chief trophy for their successful 2015 season. This is the 10th time the midshipmen have won the trophy in 13 years and the third time in four years, making them the winningest senior class in program history. Congratulations to all the newly selected Master Chief Petty officers. For a full list of those selected, head to AH.mil. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy at Navy.mil.


financial news network headline news update good morning folks this is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of well sunny Delray Beach Florida this is your 9 a.m. update and currently we're taking a look at the equity futures mix bag you got the Dow futures trading down 200 points the NASDAQ is trading up 83 the S&P is down 8 the Russell 2000 down 24 points you've got the spot follow-up to the train above its 50-day exponents moving average is trading out at 1858 the 50-day exponents moving average is currently printed at 1761 if price closes above that at the end of the day that is a suggestion to you and I that the ES mini should move lower and move but that that's a you know look at that for the end of the day right now you've got gold up two bucks silver's off three pennies platinum's down 18 bucks you've got lights we crude up 231 7612 let's go take a look at that ES mini so I mentioned that spot volatilics which is right next to it if it closes above 1761 and you see that the ES mini is consolidating with inside its daily profile that really sets up a likely moved down to the bottom of that profile 4635 what happens if the spot volatilics closes below 1761 well what the ES mini needs to do to generate some kind of breakout is closed above 4711 that's the top of its daily profile that also negates some topping signals the NQ negated topping signals yesterday those were at 16 448 prices above that level so it now needs a new topping signal in order to generate a short-term top a pattern out there we don't have that in place the US dollar index is a to be equal CD to the upside various reversal candle would confirm a sell the d-point price is trading right up into resistance that's the top of its but very structured profile 9602 we're trading at 95 99 right now if price were to close above 9602 today that tells you about a move to 96 81 or higher and would also tell you about the strength inside the US dollar index gold holding up pretty well we have to be careful about its bare structure profile meaning a close below 1851 20 which suggests to move back to the 1813 level silver looks very bullish here support has held lightspeed crude is trading below a key swing point at 77 23 a close below that suggests lower price natural gas is holding its own which is key support which was generated by a buy the d-point pattern out there at 4.7 25 in the 30 year treasury trader right up into resistance that's at 162 07 resistances in the range 162 07 to 163 04 folks have a fantastic Friday stay tuned Tommy O'Brien is up next we've got great programming all day be safe out there have a fantastic weekend I'll see you on Monday at 1 o'clock


Professor Ed Shine is colloquially known as the father of organizational culture. His lesson on culture is worth 45 seconds of your time. Oftentimes, we think of culture as monolithic, invisible, unchangeable. While it may be pervasive, it can be changed. Leaders should understand their culture. It's important to identify culture to go after almost any change you want to make in your organization. So what does Shine identify in culture? He uses a three-tier model. First, espoused values, what people say about their organization. Second, there are cultural artifacts. What we see in our organizations, uniform, insignia, patches. Then lastly, there are tacit assumptions. This is what the organization deeply believes. What you know about your culture could be impacting readiness. So take a look at Shine's work and understand your culture. Lead well this week.


We are not alone. We are not alone. We are not alone. We are not alone. We are not alone. We are not alone. We are not alone. We are not alone. Scientists say we have until 2030 before it floods. Because we're only two meters above water. That two meters is cultures. Two meters of language. Two meters of legends, myths. There's a sea wall made of cars. It's actually sad looking. From the climate change perspective what we're looking at in the Pacific and specifically in the Marshall Islands is that we will have more droughts that last longer. They might happen more frequently. Storms are going to get more intense. With a couple even centimeters of sea level rise we are to see additional impacts from something like a naturally occurring king tide. Most often the king tides come up and flood down here. And then it can destroy the graves. What we're trying to understand better here not only IOM but the community in general is what is happening with people's decision making around migration because there are concerns that people might migrate due to climate change or environmental disasters. The recent natural disasters that we've experienced is drought, mainly drought. Because the frequency of drought we've experienced was first 2013 and then back to back 2014 2015, 2016 and mostly the ethos that were affected were the islands in the north. Their food crops went down. Their water sources were that high salinity rate which is undrinkable. Even the water wells, even their water catchment they were depleted. One of the projects that we've introduced back at the time was the cadre program which stands for climate adaptation disaster risk reduction education program in short cadre. So this program we wanted to be enrolled at the schools with the understanding that the students themselves will go back to their parents not just their parents but the community around their places to talk about climate change adaptation. We're also working with communities and schools on disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness. In the cadre workshop they share lots of information about climate change. They also share some materials that the teachers can use in the classroom. The student responds to the lesson well they're quite excited. Our students become more aware about climate change and what are the things that they really need to focus on especially about coastal erosion how important planting is how to prepare themselves when there's a kingtides or there's a drought that is experiencing around the island. We have developed a youth leadership camp and that camp really focused on leadership skills that had education on climate change and it provided the young participants who are working in it the opportunity to create programs and come up with solutions. So in this camp we teach youth about leadership skills communicating skills and what they can do to of course spread awareness about climate change. My group in the first year we did elevate not migrate it was just to propose the idea of dredging and raising up the land. It is the most challenging thing this country has had to face because if they decide to elevate it will be impossible to elevate every single island and it's a place-based culture where your connection to your land is who you are. The cadre program was and I opened it for me I first thought that the message would not go at the community level from the students to their parents to the community My cousin's daughter came up to me Hey, did you know that word talking about climate change what are you doing to prepare yourself So that kind of made me really proud We also want to stay here but if the effect of climate change will still continue then we might end up leaving the island. Youth is really important because we make up more than 50% of the martial arts population to be heard and taken seriously. There's a martial law saying actually it was coined by late minister Tony Gibroom he said the ocean is made up of drops you take care of your drop and I take care of mine we can take care of the world I'm a little drop and now I really matter my voice matters


Baby! You must be looking at a different kind of guy right now! It ain't me! How's it going everybody? Dato do I hear back with another round of Dragon Ball Fighters ranked matches and it is time we are finally going back to one of my favorite point characters in the game, Android 17. I say point characters but I actually don't know where Android 17 is played most oftenly now. I would still assume point. I'm just gonna superdash there for the the experience of it all. Oh that was cool. I'm just gonna take a soft knockdown. Oh I'm going over! Sometimes you just got a chance it dude. Oh I could have side switched if I was a bit more careful. Watch the dragonmush. Watch the roll! Never mind the dragonmush was the least of our worries. He just rolled over on top of us. Soft knockdown coming overhead. I'm out of there. Into a punishment though. Yep I deserve that. I don't know why I still tech that way. I should probably tech a different way when I know we are at danger of that happening. Nice. 2s always work. Nine times out of ten that's gonna work for you. Mash, mash, mash, mash. Woo! Yo this guy is just playing stylish. I can I can I really like that. The fact that he countered that was really cool. Is this guy actually ultra instinct? Why is he why is he just one reflect and countering everything? Because I really like he switched out. I was gonna say I like what he plays UI better. I want to see the frame one reflect or just the I'm switching to back in. Low? I did not expect a low there. I'm out. You got it then. Hey you got it bro. I was trying to get out of there. I'm gonna get hit again. Why my guard canceling so much? I feel like he starts up one 2L. I'm like well see you. I'm not sticking around for the end of this. We should be dead here. Nice. Never mind. We turned that one around on him. Actually nice. We can just switch back out into 17. Get him with the orb and now we have our team pretty much situated the way we want it to be. Who had a lot of blue health? Krillin, right? Yeah Krillin had a decent bit of blue health. So this works out for a lot of it. Is he gonna EX kick? Yeah yeah yeah. EX kick sounded about right to me. I miss that. What a mistake. And with seven bars I mean we are pretty much guaranteed dead if he wants us to be. Is he gonna have to level three that? He does have to level three that snatched me out of the air. I'm okay with that though. That cost him a lot of bar. He's gonna get rid of 17 though but with our two main squad I still feel pretty confident. I wish we had more health but what do you think the EX wolf fang is for? Give me that. I knew a reflect could have been in the cards but the dragon rush still comes out. I'm more than happy to take those. He blocked that? Alright this guy's defense is kind of outstanding. This guy's defense is kind of outstanding. He also plays a very flashy defense as well which I actually admire a lot. No techs! I do not play any defense. I feel that was pretty evident from my guard cancels though. Level one should do it and now we're just kind of down to Krillin. Regretting not sparking early. Gonna be honest. I wish an early sparking probably should have been my move. Nice. Beam's gonna get the job done in a limit break Krillin. Just watch the damage. Off a vanish? Off one beam and a vanish? Yeah I'm taking all that. I'll take it all this life away. That is a decent chuck. Nice. Missed the reflect. Whether it was intentional or not I'm never gonna tell. It wasn't. I meant to fake it but I did not mean to take that long to hit him. Where's the EX knee? Just quit playing and show me the EX knee. There it is. No that could have been the big game changer. What? Why do you let me let... Okay okay that was unfortunate. Okay I promise you I did not mean to throw a wrong destructiveness kind of. That was supposed to be me sparking and return to him sparking. But that was... I must have fat-fingered the D-pad dude. Alright. Give me that. I do like the way he plays UI though. Also we made a huge mistake there. Could have gotten a lot more damage off of this. That is kind of the problem with UI though. It's gonna get caught a lot like that. Didn't have the... Oh not paying attention at the wheel huh? I'll take every free hit I can get. I'm bad at this game. I cannot defend. I'm too eager to stop blocking. I gotta just... I just gotta take the blocks. That would put me... That would put me in a much better position. But Android 17 is gonna go down. UI Goku is at a decent level of hell. I don't know if we're gonna be able to switch him in anytime soon. So instead I'm just gonna focus on base Vegeta 2S. I'll take that. Oh dude we could have switched him out but I think this is better. Just go with this. Six bars. I'm gonna spend that. Why not run the... Why not run the Vegeta stuff early? Now again his defense has probably been the thing I'm most impressed with so... I'm just gonna go with the cross-up then. I feel like he probably would have been okay with anything else. Nice. The fact that... Mmm the Wolf Fang is so good. The fact that you can just do that is insane to me. Alright we have the lead again. The lead is back. Nice. Must have tried to click a button. Didn't want to take the full Wolf Fang. I can agree. By the way for the rest of the set I really want to focus on playing defense. I want to block stuff. That's what I'm gonna... That's gonna be my next goal. Just block. I don't want to do anything fancy even if I miss a turn. I think that's okay. I think we gotta get back in the comfort spot of just being okay with blocking. Okay now I said all that. This is sparking trunks. My blocky's bad. I'm gonna get myself leeway though with sparking trunks. Alright we're not gonna spark until the last character now with Krillin being full health. Actually do we switch out? It was too obvious. It was too obvious. It was too obvious. It was too obvious. Of course I'd want to save Yomcha, sis. I'm sparking now. But I gotta draw all that time out. You already know. He had that much time? I... Okay I didn't think he would have nearly enough time to punish that. He messed up. What a huge mistake. Huge mistake but we're recovering slowly.   We went fancy last time. Not gonna go fancy again. Ah nice. Oh he fell back.  He fell back down into the wrecker. Nice. Alright come on let's go. We're not playing very good at all but we can clean it up. We can clean it up. Love it. I'm gonna get aggressive now. We got him in the corner. I'm fine with that. He's probably gonna spark uh... Yep okay he went for a counter I think right there. He went for something. He tried to get fancy. Nice. Love it. Didn't get to charge my power blitz though. That's unfortunate. We'll have to get it on the next character. Alright what's he gonna do? What's he gonna do? Bad positioning on my part. Yomcha's taking a beating now. Does he switch for Yomcha? He does. We just come right out though. We come right out. Okay we didn't get the combo I wanted but you were saying something bro. Were you saying something to me? Alright do we have any other assist? Alright remember just block. Blocking overhead dude. There we go. Okay you know what I said? I said we wanted to commit to doing that so I'm fine with that but yeah our defense is bad. I'm fine with committing there though. We're gonna lose a character. Wait maybe? Woo! There we go. See okay. I mean I think that was very risky what I did but whatever. We didn't block the the energy disc. Are you gonna switch in Yomcha? No. Ted bad felt that one coming a mile away. Nice. I'm the Yomcha. We're well on our way boys. We're following through with what we said we wanted to do. I'm just gonna do this. You know what hold on. Yomcha's looking kind of low anyway bro. Yomcha would want the final mix. Let me talk to him. Let me talk to him real quick. Do I dragon rush? Is that too risky? Is that too risky? It's not risky. Nice dragon rush. I didn't expect that one. The thing is the thing about sparking trunks is the last thing I think you're going to do to try to open me up is dragon rush. It is way too much to worry about to think about dragon rush. Nice. Nice. I definitely should have dropped that as well. I did not do what I wanted to do but we corrected course corrected. We're back on track. Nice. Beautifully done. Catch up. Big miss. Oh no. I didn't get my barrier up. Oh it's low profile under it.  I'm sorry. That was sick. That was clean 17. Oh my goodness. Okay. What was that? Two wins? Two to one. I'm feeling good dude. I really like this guys. I mean obviously it's very risky what he's doing when he's playing UI Goku but if you don't respect it you don't respect the arts of UI Goku. Okay. If you don't try to counter everything are you really playing UI Goku? Energy cutter. What's up? Haven't seen you in a little while my man. Trusted that beam a little more than I should have but that's fine. A nice jab. All right. What I should do is try to throw more key blast out so he tries to walk through him. I feel like that would work on him. If I throw more key blast out he'll probably feel more compelled to walk through him. Bad play. I am not a 17 player. I gotta stop going for that route. I'm not a good enough 17 player. That's plus. Why did I do that? I should have died for that but I didn't. All right. Nice enough. I definitely should have died for that. That was plus and I kind of just panicked but he did go for a drag rush so mashing in that scenario was the correct choice. Oh and a hit from Krillin right here is clutch because we are gonna take all of that time away. You thought you had sparking blast? Nah bro. Sparking blast was never there for you 17. Go ahead finish the job. Point characters back out. Sparking blast is gone. We're in a great position. If we can protect 17 I guess. Yeah I again we probably should just keep to the normal blocks. I was just really confident on that one. We're dead here if he wants us to be gonna cost him a bit of bar. Gonna cost him a chunk of change though. Yep. Pretty equivalent to what game one happened. I think this was game one when this happened. All right now the game is truly even. We didn't get a single hit in. The game is truly even other than a bit of love it. We still had smash. Man I should have done so much more with that opportunity. If you can't tell I'm throwing everything in the kitchen sink trying to get him to move. I was throwing every projectile I had out but he played it really patiently. 6m where is it? No tech. No tech. No tech. If we get the tech, if we tech in this match I think we have it. Yeah I think we can. Can we kill? Oh no. No he did the EX rocket kick way earlier than I thought. I thought he was gonna do at least one more key blast and I thought he would drag and rush. Oh no. We're getting played like a fiddle right now. In what was going to be the clutch game of the season. There we go. Finally a good reflect. I didn't do what I said. He had time to EX from leg. EX leg. EX knee. Damn we didn't do well enough. We didn't follow through on what we wanted to do this game. All right hold on. Just because we made a lot of mistakes doesn't mean we can't technically clean it up. All right maybe the cleanup is too far gone. Oh I tried to run out. I'm got clipped.  I mean he hasn't assist if he builds the second bar it's a for sure thing. No second bar. Okay he could have killed us right there. I always like try to beat up on the assist. All right hold on hold on. I can't kill with five destructive disc unfortunately. I wish he did more. We're gonna have to take a level three. Nice. Nice. Okay still possible. Probably not though. Oh no. Beautiful. Corner as well. And I dropped a level three input. Ladies and gentlemen truly the epitome of me. We saw that though. Okay okay okay okay work it. I don't think we could have killed with five destructive disc there either. Why did that what? I didn't think he'd throw another one. Oh that got way too intense. Is that 2-2? I messed it up. Okay but now I know what we gotta do. Now I know I'm capable of doing it. I promise you you're about to see a different player bro. You're about to see a different me. I think I've unlocked it. I kind of messed up there. I could have done way more damage but whatever. DP was super smart right there. Got a little extravagant. Walked forward for a second. I think we have to spark here now. Love that. You must be looking at a different kind of guy right now. It ain't me. Let me switch. Let me switch. Let me switch. He's too low. Oh I couldn't switch. That's fine. You must be looking at someone different because you weren't looking at the same player anymore. Man 17 is really low. Yeah I mean oh no he's going to switch me back in. I got too ahead of my schedule there. I just the blue health was giving me some serious anxiety. I don't mind. Really that stuffed me. I hit low. That's going to be 17. Damn. Okay well at least we have a sparking lead now. That's about all I can sum up. We started playing really sloppy there though. We got stuffed by that key blast and my thought process went out the window. Okay hold on. Refocus. Reshift. Didn't get too H for that. That's really good. Probably should have. Probably deserved to but we didn't and you're not going to see me complain about it. I'm just going to take another level three at too much bar. I don't want to get caught with seven bars. I'm also afraid of that. After image got your eye huh. After image got you seeing two. Seeing two. Probably should have said seeing double but you know I've never been one to speak with efficiency. I'm getting I'm rushing things again. Ah nice dragon rush. I'm rushing things again that I can I can tell. I'm getting too excited. I'm getting more hyped up. I'm trying to use my brain this set. Okay don't have any assists so I kind of stuck on the route I can use here. Beautiful. Beautiful. Just do keep it. Keep it normal. Oh what did it lag there or maybe that was just me actually. It didn't look like it jumped at all. You got him. He's kidding me. Okay we went with the overhead after image. He tried to level three us out of it. That was a smart play by him. If I went low again that would have worked but we're going to go ahead and take this one all the way to the bank. That was much more of a focus set. I didn't really talk too much. Hopefully you guys didn't mind that too much but if you enjoyed this video make sure to let me know down below in the comment section what your favorite moment was as well as hitting that like button and subscribing to the channel if you enjoy the videos we do here. Other than that you can also check out some of the other videos that should be on your screen right now but I have been Dr. Joya and I will see you in the next video.


The study investigated the evolution of antiviral defense in ectosozone invertebrates. It found that the ancestral form of the gene dyser, which is responsible for antiviral defense, had the ability to hydrolyze ATP, break down ATP molecules. However, this ability was lost in the vertebrate lineage, likely due to a decrease in ATP affinity. This decrease in ATP affinity was caused by changes in two regions of the protein, one near the active site and another further away. The authors suggest that these changes may have been beneficial for the vertebrate lineage as it allowed them to compete with dyser for viral dsRNA, thus allowing the vertebrate lineage to evolve without being hindered by antiviral defense. This article was authored by Adedigie M. Adoramu, P. Joseph Oraskovic, Brian Kalakskowski, and others.


The last method of accessing and analyzing data in type form that I want to show you in this course is getting a live report. This is a really interesting thing where it actually shows you tables of the data in a web page. And you can take that information and put it into a web page and embed or make it accessible in other ways. So I'm here in the analyze tab for my type form.  And what I have here is a report that shows how many people have selected each of various responses. So I have the cakes that they like and it's sorted by popularity. And I can scroll through some of the responses. Wonderful. And we've got information here and you see it even has the same formatting as the form that I created. Now, in order to use this information, I can put it in a website. Some websites will allow you to embed a web page. You might be able to use an iframe. Squarespace doesn't really like those. So I'm not going to do that. But you have a couple of options. Now you see right here, you can either go to general report that opens it in its own URL, or you can go to this same one is the same address. And it'll open it up. Now, in case you haven't noticed, there is one trick here. And that is that we have these codes. These are the response codes that we have from when we set up the piping. And truthfully, they're really awkward. But in general, if you're using piped answers, then it's going to look kind of confusing and may not be in a format that you want to share with other people. But if you have just straight text in your questions, then it's going to be adequate to stand alone. And all you need to do is go to this page, I'm going to click on that one right now. And then you see that it opens up in a new web page. And so it's bigger and it's better and people can see it one question at a time. Now, again, you may or may not be able to embed this into your own web page, depending on whether you can add something or use an iframe. But no matter where you are, you can use this link. And you can put that link into your web page. And you can share that with people. And they can always see the most recent updated and frustrated that you have. And that's going to be a simple and beautiful way of sharing the results of your surveys in your type forms. So you can start working with people and getting the data that you need for your own projects.


xux this is uh 2020 all-wheel drive transit cargo a cargo van and passenger van but this is uh a little dated but uh the new updates to the ford uh transit van are going to be electric and they're they're not releasing any you know there's like five of them in production or out to fedx i just wanted to try to get this started here um this is a presentation by ford i'm going to just let this play for one minute uh at a trade show fleet and truck leasing management magazine trade show let's just uh play a few minutes of this and i'm going to comment pause and comment on it hi i'm tiffanie chang and i'm the ford transit brand manager and i'm so excited to share with you our new 2020 transit transit's done really well over the last couple of years where the world's best selling cargo van and this next model really steps up the game the okay so number one selling transit van again their e version of this to the best of my knowledge is not in production yet and um like i said i believe there are five of them the the latest information i could find is that there are like five of them uh out the e versions of these so they're not in full production uh the ceo ford wants to compete on the Mustang f-150 and this transit van and um course lords town motors has this same van in the wings basically ready to go uh had they have followed the previous schedule um before the fox con deal um this van would have been prototyping and heading towards production right now they do have the stamping dies for the body panels of this van it's built on the endurance platform now i want to remind you that the endurance platform is four-wheel drive hub motors uh low height uh vehicle a battery electric vehicle which the the platform is already homologated and certified uh it's just would be the body uh panels and so forth the body construction would be the additional certification needed but let's just hear what they have to say about what the customers have demanded with this forward van very first breaking news i have to share with you is that transit has an available all-wheel drive this has been a huge want from our customers we know that they need something that gets them through challenging driving and weather conditions and we're so proud to be able to deliver this so what this does is an intelligent all-wheel drive always on system meant to provide enhanced traction and icy muddy snowy conditions and it really gives our customers that on-road confidence okay so that is exactly the endurance will the e version of this forward transit b four-wheel drive like the f-150 lightning i don't know i think they're gonna have to raise the the height of the bed of the floor in this truck a lot uh to accommodate a rear motor and um again i think that uh you're going to have the independent rear suspension which is going to be you know problematic for a real truck uh let's just uh pause this for a minute till i can get to the next section all right in this section she's talking about the low load load for which i do not believe forward is going to be able to maintain in the new vehicle because of their drive system the hub motor is superior here let's see what they have to say which means that we were able to preserve and maintain some of the things that our customers currently love about our transit including the low load floor and the ride height and that allows for easy ingress and egress and what that does is minimize driver fatigue throughout the day when and i believe they're going to have to sacrifice this um and i do not believe uh the lords town endurance high top fan is going to have to i think this is going to be a competitive advantage uh for lords town and let's just let this play a minute further i have some more information put in here and you think about our commercial customers they're in and out of the vehicle dozens of times a day you know they really need to make sure that they are not sacrificing comfort for that capability which we're able to offer them we are coming out with two all new engines we have a 3.5 okay they're just talking here about the and they've invested substantially in the ice drive trains for this vehicle and updating the ice drive trains for this vehicle and where's the bev ford vehicle we don't know i can't you know the ceo ford is talking a lot but we're not seeing i'm not finding the information about the progress on this vehicle for ford and they just fired all the engineers they worked on the f150 they're coming out with a completely new electric platform for 2025 i think their design on this van is going to be a stop gap at best like the ford f150 and um i think it's going to be heavy and it's going to burn tires like the ford f150 is all right this is a state of the fleet industry this is a great bob business media this is the editor of automotive fleet magazine and this is his 2023 evaluation of the market 2023 to be a catch up here for missed and cancelled fleet orders to say this is bullish for fleet vehicles is an understatement but let's just play a few samples of this i'll put a link in the description indications all indications are that demand for fleet vehicles during the 2023 ordering cycle will be extremely strong primarily because of the huge pent up demand created by the shorter ordering windows in 2021 in 2022 that resulted in the acceleration of early order deadline dates the cancellation of accepted orders and allocation restrictions for certain high demand fleet vehicles all of which has created a pent up demand for replacement vehicles that this industry has never seen before okay i don't know if we can get much more bullish than that my now he's talking mainly about ice vehicles he doesn't really do a breakdown for battery electric vehicles here my research has shown that the last survey of fleet managers indicated that they planned on converting 30 of their new orders to battery electric vehicles let's just move on here to this next section that's very bullish many fleet managers anticipate this catch up ordering cycle will continue for the next several model years so barring any unforeseen developments these fleet managers say they don't anticipate returning to normal replacement cycles until model year 2025 so i don't know what else to tell you about that i don't know if it could be more bullish for a fleet vehicle now what they are talking about here as uh let's just preview this chapter a little bit um what they're talking about here is fleet vehicles and he's putting an emphasis on vans but of course pickup trucks are part of this as well how confident are fleet managers that they will receive all the 2023 vehicles they actually order based on what i'm told there is a high degree of pessimism among fleet managers as to the likelihood they will have everything they ordered actually built and delivered to them in this model year and of course this is an monolithic response i mean i got a range of responses that went across the full spectrum that included many who said they have high confidence that they'll get all of the vehicles that they ordered but the majority of the responses from fleet managers skewed in the other direction and here are some examples quote i have no confidence in receiving my entire 2023 order and i base this on recent history i've had orders canceled now for two years in a row end quote or consider this quote i am skeptical about getting everything i ordered because retail sales are taking priority over fleet sales plus i'm also competing with other fleets for the same vehicles for the same volume end quote and well other fleet managers believe that the vehicles they ordered will be built they're concerned about very long order to deliver okay i want to add to this that you read those quotes fort is the dominant player in the fee in this field they can't even get ice vehicles out let alone battery electric vehicles i believe this leaves a giant opening in the market for lordstown foxconn to move right in and whether that's with the lordstown high top van which i need think they need to expedite and additionally the the two mih program fleet vehicles that lordstown is proposing to foxconn as the joint venture guys uh let's just go over orders but i also believe that there will be a limitation on actual deliveries from our orders for large fans end quote and other professionals agree with this assessment so here's another quote quote the us desperately needs more options for large and small vans in both cargo and passenger configurations end of quote and yet another quote quote manufacturer is canceling orders months after they've been accepted is incredibly frustrating to all end users and puts pressures on fmc's defined potential solutions the lack of product and long lead times for the past several years has been challenging to say the least end of quote okay um i'm not going to be a dead horse with this section i think you can see that although they're putting an emphasis on vans here uh and i do think the lordstown high top van is so important at this point in time um i think the same can be said for pickup trucks um which uh are hard to break out of the fleet numbers okay but they are significant uh but as you can see here the van is is by far um seems to be the pivot point in this market guys let's do this joint venture let's get this done lordstown foxconn uh i think there's a opportunity here everyone else is falling down in the van market and i just want to go through this section here real quickly and again the link to this will be in the description this is the solution these fleet managers are seeking to use to get their orders filled to fill the needs they have for these fleet vehicles a significant volume of production for high demand fleet vehicles so how are fleets coping with these ordering constraints so and how do they plan to do so in the 2023 model year so one ongoing strategy is to maximize actual deliveries has been to move away from sole sourcing and to expand the number of oems from whom they source replacement vehicles uh translate that forget about four they ain't getting the job done they ain't getting the job done nice and they ain't getting the job done on b v's they're not even close so here's a quote that illustrates this the reality is that we will most likely have to order from several different oems if we want to meet our order numbers end quote and another strategy being employed by some fleets is to elevate their 2023 fleet order volume assuming that oh that even though some of these orders will be canceled the net result would be actual deliveries closer to what they actually need so here's one example cited by a fleet manager quote I believe many fleet managers are going to order at the high end of their order volume for 2023 models the reality is that they will most likely need to continue this ramped up ordering for another two years to fully catch up end of quote okay so I just wanted to put this video out to give people an idea of how how big of a hole there is in this market and uh how uh Lordstown Motors is in a position to fill that hole and we're all waiting for the first quarter uh call but uh I think that you know people haven't looked closely enough at this and you have to realize on the battery electric vehicle front Ford is done taking orders this is what he's talking about here and um their battery electric van nowhere Rivian's battery electric van nowhere um you know there's small niche manufacturers but um there's an opportunity here for Lordstown to make a major move into both these markets and I think this makes a case for the van again Steve Burns was right on the money of course he worked at workhorse previously was his company so he also understood the delivery van market so this is all uh in the DNA of Lordstown Motors and really all they need to do is start production and launch these vehicles um there there is really no competition right now now as long as Fox content source the batteries and so forth boy oh boy there is a great opportunity here okay this is just the final little snippet from this presentation talking about fleets and fleet managers and their relationship with OEMs purchase vehicles in good times and bad so making fleets suffer the cost of no incentives because the market is booming will come back to haunt them when the bottom falls out and fleets are the only ones buying the OEMs need to look at the long game end quote and I am personally confident that the fleet industry will find a way to alleviate or work around these ordering constraints confronting us today nonetheless all of these sourcing difficulties for the past two years has created a very stressful situation for fleet manager suppliers and OEM fleet account executives in fact I'd like to give a shout out to all of the OEM fleet account executives who are in a very tough situation perhaps the toughest in their entire career but who are making the best of it so a word of appreciation to the fleet account executives who are in regular communication with our clients who are transparent and who are genuinely trying to help their fleets clients meet their product needs and I don't believe enough credit has been given to the OEM fleet account executives who are making the best of it during these really unprecedented times nevertheless today is a stressful time for everybody in the fleet industry and this is best captured in the following quote from one longtime fleet manager quote in my 25-year career I have never been so stressed in sourcing vehicles as I've been for the past two years end quote okay I think we're going to end it there I don't know this is pretty black and white so let's see what the earnings call has to say about the joint venture there's a massive case for this also for the purchase agreement we have no confirmation on anything although the breadcrumbs are saying everything's going to go through I'm hoping to get this video out before the call but should it come out after the call and we can all hope for a positive outcome on that but as you can see here as I say there is a giant pile of money on the table if these guys can just get it together and do this deal what the heck is taking you how can you even think twice about this Foxconn come on or Lordstown I mean I don't know whoever's in the middle of all this we're going to have to trust our executives at Lordstown and I do and you know we have moved again one quarter is four years at Lordstown and we've moved from a startup management team to a professional management team high tower is a giant in this industry and DJ Dan CEO Dan is you know you know icon capo so we got the right people in chance favors the prepared mind we're prepared here Lordstown is prepared to take advantage of this and with the partnership with Foxconn they should be able to ramp up and you know they're in a position to actually capture in my opinion if they can supply these domestic clients in the United States with these fleet vehicles battery electric fleet vehicles I mean they have a chance here to dominate this entire market segment they can establish a market share deliver well thought out vehicles which are already on the drawing board I mean this is a massive opportunity and I think it's got money written all over it all right


Well, last Friday, Madison High School held its annual winter outing, and Armist Brooks, who teaches English at Madison, was one of those scheduled to attend. Yes, this local version of the Polar Bear Club is quite a tradition at school. It was started many years ago by Madison's beloved and hardy founder, Yodar Kritch. It has since been carried on by our current principal, the beloved and neurotic Osgood Conklin. Since this frosty festival occurred during our official time off, attendance was not compulsory, but as Mr. Conklin so gracefully put it, be there. Everyone was given the opportunity to volunteer for some task or other, and after counting the welts on my back, I volunteered to arrange the lunch basket. Therefore, Friday morning, with the temperature hovering around 40, I found myself in the kitchen of the school cafeteria with my landlady, Mrs. Davis. Now, you look pretty this morning, Connie. Those earrings you're wearing are just lovely. What earrings? These are icicles. Aren't you freezing, Mrs. Davis? No, Connie, I'm quite comfortable. Well, no wonder. Move over and let me stand in front of that open stove with you. Even with these rubber gloves on, my hands are cold. It's certainly a dreadful day for a picnic. I'll never forget last year's little outing. Even the red ants had blue lips. I reminded Mr. Boynton about it the other day. I just couldn't warm up at that picnic. Nothing seemed to help. Heavy clothes, hot coffee. There must have been something there that could heat you up. He was, but he didn't. As a matter of fact, he spent most of the day with Miss Enright. You should have seen her showing off. Hiking, climbing trees. Miss Enright's very proud of her athletic ability, isn't she? She gives me a pain in the sacroiliac. And the way she fawns over Mr. Boynton... She does have quite a crush on him, doesn't she? You can say that again. She does have... Never mind. Now, where were we? Quite a crush on him, doesn't she? But I think your feelings toward Daisy Enright are perfectly justified. She's a conniving, ruthless, brazenly flirtatious cat, Connie. Well, it's Walter Denton. I'll salute you ladies in a minute. First, I gotta get rid of these basketball uniforms. May I use one of these empty baskets? Certainly, Walter, but why are you bringing these soiled uniforms into the cafeteria? To get them unsoiled. They're picked up by the same laundry that does the cafeteria's linens. Sounds reasonable. Yeah, it works out fine. Except that once in a while the dish towels come back with knee pads. We got a lot of important games next week. That's why I gotta get these into the laundry today. Want some coffee before we stow the jugs away, Walter? No, thanks, Miss Brooks. Say, how come you and Mrs. Davis got rubber gloves on? Mr. Conklin's orders. He's a bug on sanitary conditions in the kitchen. Sometimes I think the germs frighten him as much as he frightens germs. Don't, don't exaggerate, dear. Now, I'll just go and cover the lunch basket with the sterilized tablecloth, and we're ready. I'll be right back, Connie. I'm gonna go down to Mr. Conklin's office and find out when he wants to leave, Mrs. Davis. Very well, dear. Have a nice time. Oh, sure. Are you going to the outing, Walter? Yes, ma'am. Why? Well, since she's Mr. Conklin's daughter, Harriet Conklin has got to go. And it's an old biological truism, Miss Brooks, that where the honey goes, there goeth the bee. I see. But why are you going, Miss Brooks? You're gonna drive out to the picnic grounds with Mr. Boynton. A remarkable deduction, Walter. Gosh, that's a break. All along with the man of your dreams, clear out the Critch Canyon. Actually, old Marblehead, Mr. Conklin, would love to call it off. How do you know? Well, I just left him talking to Harriet in his office.  He was waving his arms and beating his chest to keep his circulation going. And every time he mentioned Yodar Critch, you should have heard his teeth. His teeth? Honest to Pete, his cracker, he's cracking like cast in that. All the ridiculous Yodar Critch indeed. What did you say, Daddy? I don't usually chew my cabbage twice, Harriet. But if you must know, I merely said... Breathing in here. It's very hard to understand you, Daddy. Are you really that cold? No, no, not at all, Harriet. I'm only thumping my dentures together to sharpen them. But don't you want to go to the outing, Daddy? No, I don't want to go to the outing, Daddy. The last time I crawled in that deep freeze we call Critch Canyon, it took me a week to defrost my arteries. But the temperature is only in the low 40s, Daddy. How can you stand there and shiver like that? I study nights. Oh, it's the use. It can't be much worse out there than it is in this office. Every time that blasted door opens, it sets me off on another spasm of chill. I'm awfully sorry, Daddy. Maybe you should... I'll get it. Who's got the dice? It's a freeze. It's the only logical thing to do. Hello, Mr. Conklin. Hello, Mr. Bruce. I was just reading this book. I've got to meet Walter Denton in the cafeteria. See you at the outing. All right, Harriet. Well, sir, I just wanted to let you know that everything's ready. Well, Mr. Brooks, I have been thinking, as you well know, I'm a great boy for tradition. Oh, I know that, Mr. Conklin. You're just about the most... Oh, hear me out, please. Each year, since I've been principal of this institution, I have faithfully, naysillously carried out the yearly pilgrimage initiated by Madison's beloved founder, Yoda Critch. But in view of the present unseemly weather, well... Oh, I'd give anything to chicken out. I'm afraid it's too late now, Mr. Conklin. I've heard that several members of the board expect to be there. Oh, well, if we must, we must. Now, tell me, Mr. Brooks, was the food prepared according to my hygienic standards? Oh, yes, indeed. I made most of the sandwiches with my own feet.  In fact, I'd better get back and help Mr. Boyd and load them into his car right now. Very well, Mr. Brooks, you're dismissed. Aye-aye, sir. Oh, s-s-sorry. Oh, it was on the sandwich basket, Walter. Oh, I used it to cover the basketball uniforms that are going to the laundry area. It was soiled, so I put a clean one on the picnic basket when I carried it out to the front of the cafeteria. But why'd you do that? Well, so as to make it more convenient for Mr. Boyd to pick them up.  But where's the laundry to be picked up? That's right here by the kitchen door. I don't like to rush your children, but the school bus is leaving pretty soon. Shouldn't you be on it? We have to wait for Mr. Brooks, Mrs. Davis. Yeah, that is. We would have to unless you can give her the message. I'd be glad to, dear. What is it? Just say that Walter placed the lunch basket up front in the cafeteria and the laundry's back here. Will you be sure and tell her, Mrs. Davis? Oh, of course I will, dear. You run along now. Okay, Mrs. Davis. Come on, Harriet. Root all through the red nose and rain here. Ah, sweet children. Well, I'd better wash my hands now. Hello, Mrs. Davis. I'm back. Hello, Connie. This water must be hotter than it feels. My hands are all red.  Well, we'll be leaving very shortly. Mr. Conklin's resigned to a day of chill-blame. Ah, that's nice, dear. I'll come out to Critch Canyon later with some of the folks on the board. Well, I'll be running along, Connie. I hope Mr. Conklin is pleased with everything. He gets very touchy when anything goes wrong on an outing. I know it, Mrs. Davis, but I'm determined not to worry. Like you always say, I believe that everything will come out in the wash. Well, during the next half hour, everything proceeded according to plan, with one slight exception. Since Mrs. Davis hadn't informed her of the fact that Walter switched the positions of the laundry basket and the lunch basket when the laundry man came, Thomas Brooks stood serenely by while he walked off with the food, leaving for the days outing a big basket of delicious athletic uniforms. At no, Mr. Boykin joined Ms. Brooks in the kitchen of the cafeteria. Hi, Ms. Brooks. Is this the basket for the picnic over by the wall? That's it. Why is it covered with a tablecloth? That was Mrs. Davis' idea. She said she didn't want the sandwiches to catch cold. You're too of a kind, all right. Oh, it's joking. You mind if I lift up the cloth and take a peek at our coming feast? Oh, I'd rather you didn't, Mr. Boykin. This lunch is going to be a big surprise. It should be nice and cozy driving up to Critch Canyon, just the two of us. Well, you mean just the four of us. Four? Well, Mr. Conklin's wife drove their car over to her mother's for the day. So I invited him to join us. Oh, dandy. And our other passenger? Miss Enright had no transportation either. Miss Enright? Now, that's what I call a nice forth for bridge. Only I hope it's a real high bridge. I know you're joking. Miss Enright's very fond of you, Ms. Brooks.  Miss Enright said that? Certainly.   Why bother with your car? We can fly to the canyon on my broom. Look, Mr. Boyden, why do we have to pick up Miss Enright? Well, we don't have to pick her up. She's out in the car now. She's planned several interesting athletic events for the outing, tug of war, a potato sack raised, three-legged sprints, all sorts of games and contests. Hello, Mr. Boyden. Didn't want you to get lonesome in this great big kitchen all by yourself. But, Miss Enright, Miss Brooks is here. Well, that's what I mean. How are you, darling? Hi. I see you're all dressed for the potato sack race. This potato sack I'm wearing? Yes. It's a skirt. Now, may I ask you a question? Of course. When are you going to pull the rip cord and bail out of that thing you're wearing? She's just a doll, Mr. Boyden. A great big cuddly rag doll. Really, you're so amusing this morning, darling, aren't you? Playful as a kitten. Yes, Mother. Excuse me, I'd better load the basket into my car, ladies. Want some assistance, Mr. Boyden? No, I think I can handle it all right. I'll just get this side with one hand, this side with the other, and... Is it heavy, Mr. Boyden? Heavy.  I'll be back in a few minutes, and we can lock up and leave. Do hurry, dear Mr. Boyden. Well, Miss Brooks, now that we're alone, we can be honest with one another. Tell me, have you been invited to the Yodara Critch ceremonies in the gym tonight? Not yet, Miss Enright. Mr. Conklin's being very choosy with his invitation. Yes, I know. Of course, he's already invited me. And under the circumstances, I don't believe it'll be any trick at all for me to persuade Mr. Conklin to let me bring a certain male biology teacher along with me. Do you see what I'm getting at? I should. You've been trying to get at him for over six years. Frankly, I don't think it'll be any trick at all for Mr. Boyden to reject your proposal, Miss Enright. Me? Rejected? Oh, come now, Daisy. You've been turned down more often than a bedspread. If you'll recall, Miss Know-It-All, I wasn't turned down as last year's outing. Not after our outdoorsy biologist friend watched me romp off with every athletic event. In fact, he was very attentive to me that evening. Yes, I'm afraid he was. I suppose you'll put on a lulu of a show for him this afternoon. Naturally. During the past year, I've sharpened my athletic talents, Miss Brooks. Even you must be aware of my tremendous prowess.  Exactly how do you mean that, Miss Brooks? If the girdle fits, wear it.  I'll be pitying you tonight while I'm dancing with Mr. Boyden. Did the possibility ever occur to you that I might be invited to this affair? Oh, yes, but it's a remote possibility, darling. Frankly, I don't think you stand a chance. Well, maybe that's better for both of us. By not sharing the same dance floor, I might well be saved from a manslaughter rap. A manslaughter, Miss Brooks? You know how the song goes, don't you? When we're dancing and you're dangerously near me. I get ideas. I get ideas. A short time later, the intrepid band of Madison High pioneers were at the picnic grounds in Yodar Critch Canyon. Oh, the wind sure blows through this canyon, doesn't it, Harriet? It's even worse than last year, Walter. But everybody seems to be having a pretty good time. Yeah, especially Mr. Boyden and Miss Enright. Oh, say that reminds me. He told me he was running short of guinea pigs in his lab, so he brought a mousetrap along to try and catch a field mouse or two. He told me to be sure and set it for him before he entered the next contest. Where is the trap? Miss Brooks is keeping it for him. Miss Brooks? At least she got custody of the mousetrap. Come on, she's right over there by the fire. Hi, Miss Brooks. Oh, hello, Walter, Harriet. Mr. Boyden wants his trap set now, Miss Brooks, so if you... I set the trap already, Walter. Tell Mr. Boyden he can forget about it. Okay, Miss Brooks, thanks. I see you've got the old lunch basket handy. Want me to take the tablecloth off for you? No, Walter, we're not to touch anything until the members of the board arrive. I wish they'd hurry. I'm starved. It sure is cold out here. See, look over there. Somebody built a snowman. That's your father. He's formed some mighty attractive icicles today. He's been a very good sport so far. It's for him. He's even won a couple of the contests. Of course, Miss Enright's sweeping most of the ladies' events. Oh, wait a minute. There she goes again. It's another race and she's leading. Come on, Miss Enright! Stay to sack race. Naturally, her sack was fixed. That's right. I fixed it myself. How did you fix her sack? Where do you think I set the mouse trap? Rest on my shoulder, Miss Enright. Easy now. Easy. Oh, thank you, Mr. Boynton. So, Miss Brooks, you deliberately planted that trap in my sack.  The clamp caused some minor surface injuries when it descended. However, there are no broken bones. Don't blame me. You should have brought a bigger trap. Oh, hello, Mrs. Davis. Did you come down with the board members? Yes, dear. They're still piling out of the car. But I thought I'd come on ahead and help you unpack the lunch. I'll lend a hand if you want me to. And I'll go tell Daddy we're just about ready to begin eating. Oh, before we do anything else, Connie, there's something I forgot to tell you at school today. What's that, Mrs. Davis? Yes, that Walter switched the lunch basket to the front of the cafeteria and left the laundry by the back door. What? But the stuff at the back door is what Mr. Boynton brought with us. Holy cow, then, the only things in this basket are uniforms. What a charming dilemma. And I wanted to wangle an invitation to the dance tonight. Uh-oh. Uh, hello, Mr. Conclean. Well, now that everyone's arrived, let's get set up for the meal of a lifetime. Uh, Mr. Conclean, I... We can talk later, later. I'll just lift off this tablecloth. There we are, huh? Doesn't that look good, Ms. Brooks? Hand me that sleeveless jersey. Nothing like a tasty sleeveless jersey when the chill blasts of old men whistle through the canyon and fill the air with... Hand me that sleeveless jersey! Everyone, where's our lunch? Mr. Conclean, I have some wonderful news for you. For years, I've respected your campaign to ensure sanitary conditions in the kitchens of our public schools. Never have there been such a crusader for pure, hygienic, germ-free food. Just what are you trying to say, Ms. Brooks? Mr. Conclean, when they get back from the laundry, we'll have the cleanest sandwiches in town. Good, following New Barton's ranch drive was produced and directed by Larry Burns, written by Joe Quillan and Al Lois with the music of Wilbur Hatch. Mr. Conclean was played by Gale Gorton. Others in tonight's cast were Jane Morgan, Dick Crenna, Bob Rockwell and Whitfield and Mary Jane Croft.


July is going to be hotter than ever because you get up to $50 off any smartphone at Appalachian Wireless to your agreement required. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless, an East Kentucky network company. Let's go down and burn my building down if we have to, with the elect. In Pike and Letcher counties, folks are coming together and looking for a fight. Not a brawl in the street, but a fight against a proposed hike in electricity rates. In Pike County, a handful of people came together for an organizational meeting with hopes of organizing a regional protest rally against Kentucky powers proposed 17 percent rate increase. And I've had several people express interest in organizing a, you know, and I think at this point it's a purely a conversation, but some type of, you know, a public, I guess, show of disagreement. In Letcher County, though, the rally seemed to already be underway. You can take a twig and break it, right there, but if you combine us all together by QOR, guess what you can't do, can't break it. Organizer Steve Brewer spoke to the crowd at the Letcher County Courthouse, urging them to rise up against Kentucky power and march on the Public Service Commission. He compared this fight to that of unions organizing and fighting for their members. AEP has picked on us long enough. Every year that we do nothing, they go away, they pick on us again, they pick us on us again. And let me tell you something, come next year, you know, what they'll ask for? Another increase. But let me tell you something, we're going to stand up and we're going to stand up AEP. And AEP is going to know that we are tired of what they're doing to us. And the people listened, and the people spoke. They need to cut back and be within their means. Let's do what we can to help our neighbor. Let's do what we can to help our own family, and let's try to get this done. They forgot that we're the customers, and without us, they wouldn't be in business. I go to Frank for a week, let's go. Let's go down and burn my building down if we have to. I'm at 100% agree with that. I'm ready to fight. In the movement against Kentucky Power's proposed rate increase is underway, a march is being planned for Monday in Weizberg, the first of many organized demonstrations if Brewer has his way. We're already two strikes down. When you take a governor that appoints a guy that was an attorney for the power company, and he puts him in as chairman, you're already a strike down right there. But we don't care. I've seen two strikes turn into a home run quick. So we're maybe down, but we ain't out. So we go for that, and after Monday, we'll decide where we go from there. In Pikeville and in Weizberg, Chris Anderson, EKB News.