Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. For today's video, I want to talk a little bit about creating your stock, your own stock video library, how you might go about doing that, why you might want to do it.  And most times when you go out for a shot, you're probably going to end up with video clips that can be put into one of three boxes or maybe just one of two boxes. One is voice to camera. So the kind of talking head, intro, outro scenes. The second one might be shots of whatever you're shooting, active shots. And the third might be bureau shots intended to just kind of break up the clip a little bit if there's long talking sections or you're looking to have kind of a framing scene. You might shoot or put in some of your bureau. Now something I find very helpful is after I finish shooting my video, I go through and I edit my video. I'll then kind of leave the video folders sitting there on my computer for a while, maybe for a few weeks. And then periodically, I'll go back through my old video shoots and I'll see if there's anything I might want to keep for stock purposes. If I do find clips that I think have stock potential, I'll put them onto my NAS. And then, and only then, I'll delete the original videos. Now, I personally don't keep all my original clips because most of them are not so incredible. And once you've used them in a video, that's kind of the main use for them. But I do engage in this process of going into my old shoot folders, looking for anything that might be useful to me in the future. So a couple of weeks ago, I was in Ireland and I went to see some interesting things. I went to see a whiskey distillery and I went to see the galley head, which is a wonderful natural lighthouse in Peninsula, West Cork. Now, perhaps in two or three years, let's just say for the sake of argument, you might be putting together a video on the topic of Irish whiskey or amazing lighthouses in Ireland. And you might be very, very grateful to yourself for having kept a couple of those clips of the galley head. So let me just show you guys what my process is kind of roughly. So this is my raw folder here on the desktop computer that I edit my videos on. And what I'll do is, as I said, once every few weeks, I'll go into these folders. And I can just kind of see it first glance. Some of them are informational videos, like Ireland, Israel, that's not gonna have stock potential. But something like if you go into the folder of Nadi, right? Which is a salad bar in Jerusalem. Now, perhaps I might be doing a little video in a month of best restaurants in Jerusalem and this kind of clip of the signage for Nadi, which is gonna open and play here in a second, hopefully. This is not just an amazing clip. It's kind of short, something else like the salad bowl, right? Now, what you're generally looking for when you're trying to identify which clips in a shoot might have stock potential. You want to have ones that are kind of more than a couple of seconds. Ideally, you wanna have stabilized shots and you wanna have things that, again, you can think might be interesting to you in the future. Now, just a couple of words regarding where and how you might want to store and build up your stock video collection. So this is, firstly, the number one destination where I keep my stock is on my NAS. I use the Synology DS920 Plus. It's a really, really fantastic NAS that Synology sent me a couple of years ago when it was brand new on the market and it served me so, so well. So what I do is every time I finish one of my videos, these videos, like this video I'm making for YouTube, I'll firstly go and save the final I put that video onto my NAS. And then about once every month, I use a slightly unusual optical storage media called the M-Disk and I actually create two different copies of my finished videos. One I store in a sort of CD archive box here in my office and the other one I move to an off-site location. So I have an off-site copy of my videos and an on-site copy and the NAS is kind of the intermediate area where I'll put them. Now on my NAS as well, I have a stock folder and I kind of use the same process which is these DVDs, which are basically long-time archival Blu-rays, the M-Disk that I mentioned. They store 25 gigabytes, so I'll wait until I have 25 gigabytes in my stock folder and then I'll create another M-Disk and I'll call it like stock three and I'll write down the dates of stuff it contained. But while I'm building the library, as you can see what I tend to do is just drop in clips occasionally as I'm editing videos like Hardiman Coffee, Old City and then I'll try to organize them into folders at a later point in time. So you can see South of Israel, OA-22, Turkish Coffee Stovetop, Jerusalem, Old City. So I haven't actually put a lot of stock videos into this folder recently, but when I do more videos, gradually this will fill up to 25 and then I'll save it as a disk. Now two more things you can do with stock videos. This is a website called Pawn 5. It's a very popular website for selling your stock video footage. Now Pawn 5 has a really, really nice user interface you can upload over FTP, you can upload over just a web browser and you get a higher cut of the sales if you agree to be like I am an exclusive contributor. So in the past, I have been uploading my stock to Pawn 5. So what I'll do is I'll firstly keep it on my NAS and then I'll duplicate this to Pawn 5 and then some of it does sell, which is nice, but I have to be honest, if I wouldn't get in, recommend getting into stock video for the money because now and again, I don't know if I make like $20 a month off Pawn 5 or $30 a month, but it's definitely not a big money spinner. And to be honest, recently, I just haven't been bothering to put stuff up to Pawn 5 because the amount of stock I generate is small, therefore I don't think I'm ever gonna be have a big enough stock library that's selling, it's gonna really make sense. So another place you can put your stock is this website called Pexels, P-E-X-E-L-S.com. If you haven't heard of it, it's a free open source library and what a lot of people don't know about Pexels, I think is that it's not just for photos, it's also for videos. So I'm gonna go on to my Pexels accounts, this is me here, Daniel Rosel, and in videos, this is just stock stuff that for whatever reason I thought maybe wasn't good enough to put up on Pawn 5 and I put it up on Pexels instead and this is just a little panning shot if I remember of different Palestinian beers and now you can give it a label in Pexels and download it and play it back. So this is another option, the cool thing you can do with Pexels is group stuff into collections.  Now what you're doing when you're uploading stuff to Pexels is that anyone can download it and I actually quite frequently make use of videos on Pexels for my own stock. So it's a nice feeling to be able to kind of give back a little bit to the community by uploading my own stock video like this, video of a guy in the old city pressing orange juice, stuff that's pretty easy for me to film living in Jerusalem but for someone else in a different part of the world they might have a very hard time getting that clip and now I've put up a clip that anyone can download but my point is you can use this for yourself so you can upload your own stuff to Pexels and then wherever you are in the world you don't need to have your NAS tethered next to you. You can go into your Pexel accounts and say, oh yeah, that footage of that little bit of stock of a McDonald's sign I took six months ago, that would be great for this video or the Irish bar or this shot of the train departure sign that I took in the train station. I wanna do a video about trains in Israel and if I could just use that clip again that would be super useful. So this is a clip. So I think that's enough information for getting your own stock library together, having something like an NAS or a home server or even just a dedicated volume on your computer is gonna make it easier. What I recommend doing is my workflows work pretty well for me about every three or four weeks. I'll go back through my original footage reels and I'll pull out anything that has stock potential or I think I might wanna keep later. I'll keep that clip, I'll keep those clips and then I'll delete the original files, store that in the stock folder of my NAS and then regarding what you can do beyond that. Well, if your stock's good enough and you wanna get into selling stock video you can create an account on Pond5 and upload stuff to sale or you can also just upload it to Pexels which is basically a free photo and video library and share it with other creators to enjoy. Hope this video is useful if you're looking to create your own stock video library and if you do wanna get more videos from me do please consider subscribing to this YouTube channel.


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Welcome back to the channel here for Sunday Highly On Update. After a week that has delivered a significant piece of update on the company post-Q2 that fell unfortunately on a lot of deaf ears and created quite a churn in the community. Not so much for me, I was muted and I shared that reaction and hopefully put some folks at ease in keeping some context around a Q2 quarter that just was what it was during a time that if you were paying attention this week is on the precipice or a couple of months away from some amazing catalysts, have a very important charge to share my insights about what I picked up this week, what it could potentially mean, and there was a couple of pieces of content, those who are bullish on the company and follow the company intimately, they're going to know about the auto conference interview with JP Morgan, their analyst, Mr. Peterson, who's just been really, really good. I've given proper accolades to the coverage really for really the past Q&A calls on their calls. I think they've been fair, but I found that some of the pointed questions that we got during that interview was fantastic. Now, the Bloomberg interview was on the fly. There was a few errors in the interview, one specifically naming the stock at an all-time high. I chuckled a little bit at that because shortly after they showed the stock charts, which are ugly at best, but I found that to be actually the most interesting piece of content that was released this week based on the answers that were provided by Thomas Healy, the CEO on trajectory insights, timing, impacts of the business, a lot to unpack here this week. I sometimes get a pretty natural excitement to do this project. I will share with you this week has been a little bit different and that I kind of couldn't wait to release this. There was a piece of content that was released this week. I want to give some proper kudos and actually apologize up front. I really haven't been providing enough kudos to Robert Bowie, who has been providing highly on updates and doing a pretty darn good job of kind of bringing the community together. I often encourage people to take an independent view, especially when it comes to finances and whether or not you watch Robert with investing in entrepreneurship. It's a channel that I highly endorse. Robert, I've come to know through YouTube, never met him in person, but I do feel like I know the guy because he's pretty transparent. He kind of wears his heart on his sleeve during the videos. That is a compliment, by the way. He probably came out with what I've considered to be one of his best pieces, if not his best pieces of content here as of late. Just passed over a thousand subscribers, so congrats to Robert and his efforts. I will continually beat the drum on pointing out those patrons and the community that are making some fantastic contributions. Second will be Helion, who actually posted to Twitter the cleaned up version of the Bloomberg interview. Helion has done a great job of taking specific pieces and milestones of content and really repurposing them to his audience through social media. It was a piece of content that Robert had initially thrown on Twitter based on just catching it on TV and then filming it with his iPhone, which was fine for me because I wanted to see the content. It was fantastic. If you did not catch both of those pieces of content and then, of course, if you wanted to support that message, I encourage you to kick over. I generate some pretty good churn on the Highland content and, rightfully so, I charge myself with an enormous amount of responsibility to try to convey what it is that I feel is, at this point, very contrary to a stock price at an all time low and a company that is on the precipice of breaking into the industry in a way that is going to be fun to watch. It's going to be fun to evolve with. It is going to be a long and winding road. Again, for you guys that get caught up in the short term here in 2023, there are foreseeable catalysts. There are foreseeable potential milestones to be met with this company. Multiple catalysts, I might add. Tom Asili alluded to those catalysts when asked about the potential for financing and the opportunity to maybe raise that financing in a little bit better stock position, get a lot more bang for their buck out of a potential capital raised through the issuance of stock, which I think is probably a foregone conclusion. However, I would encourage you not to look at that as a negative thing, rather a necessary thing to continue along building out their portfolio of product offerings into the future. Now, if they were forced to raise, as Thomas talked about, like the rest of the industry, which I found was really, really insightful to be shared, it put a little bit more color on the Q2 call, which met a lot of investors and people who follow the story with some adversity in the painting, a picture in the EV space viewed upon as fairly negative in this time. It has just evolved over the last couple of years. It has probably evolved for the worse when it comes to having an environment that is conducive to Hylian. I look at it in a little bit different light. In other words, I can take this environment right now. Hylian is not poised to benefit from a momentous shift into electrification. This could be the greatest gift that we've ever been provided in that, what if the industry was quickly adopting right now and Hylian still wasn't prepared to benefit from that paradigm shift in the industry that I continually talk about. I believe that paradigm shift to be inevitable, i.e., the shift to electrification. I believe that there is still fleet interest, but I believe, based on what Thomas Healy talked about, the difference now, as opposed to two years ago, was euphoria, throwing money at electrification without really any type of expectation of any type of payoff. Now fleets are making cash conscious decisions to quote the phrase of Thomas Healy, and I think appropriately deemed now in response to where fleets are in making decisions in a situation where financing has over doubled. The cost of financing, the very mechanism by which fleets take ownership of trucks to put into class A, rigor has doubled. To be cost conscious on those decisions are just the environment that we are in right now, coupled with probably the most expensive ERX that we will see in the current time, with the potential of actually decreasing those cost of components right now, cost of input right now with low volume purchases of parts only drive up the cost of what we're looking at now. The 40,000 of IRS credit that Hylian has awarded for the ERX is just a small drop in the bucket when asking fleets out there to incur those higher costs of input now. Thomas Healy, again, spoke to fleets being willing to make those upfront investments as long as they can have some assurance of a total ROI over the course of owning that product. Thomas Healy doubled down on the Bloomberg interview to talk about a three-year ROI. If we're talking about an eventual product through the hyper truck that can return a three-year ROI, we are in the driver's seat. There's going to be, again, people who tune into my message and they listen to my words about talking about the prospects of where the company is going. It always gets drawn to the magnet of the stock price, right? Rightfully so to an extent. We are currently in an environment where the stock price is recessed to an all-time low. I look at the company and I believe that the prospects as they sit right now for making waves over the coming months and years is as high as they've ever been. That is irrespective of Carnot, which if you go back to 2020 when this company turned to public, 100% of investors, 100% were not made previ to the potential of Carnot at that time of making decisions to invest in this company. Now in 2023, you have the opportunity to invest in this company with that knowledge at a stock price far less than the decisions that were being made as Hybrid EX and ERX was the governing suite of the products in their product portfolio. The Carnot SKU did not exist. That vertical sense coming known has fallen on deaf ears the stock price has gone down not directly based on that. It just is what it is. However, when we look at this objectively and you can make decisions about investing in stationary power generation as well as the potential that Carnot has to generate power on board their Class 8 vehicles, there was color added to the hydrogen fuel cell project with highs on the unit is built, it is running, and it is running on the test track. So when you look at a portfolio here that is pretty well defined, I'm not going to suggest that Hylian doesn't have any more secrets up their sleeve. However, this product portfolio is worth investing in. I will say it again. This technology and their moat as described on the auto conference interview with JP Morgan is their moat surrounding their technology, proprietary technology owned and has exclusive rights from Hylian, which is where their value comes from. Well, I've heard some criticisms about bolt-on products and taking a bunch of nuts and bolts and throwing them into a basket and shaking them up and dumping it out. You've got the hyper truck ERX. Thomas Healy said something that caught my attention on the interview talking about a go-to-market strategy that's similar to Tesla. I make no comparison whatsoever between Hylian and Tesla, outside of the fact that their go-to-market strategy is similar to that of a Tesla and eerily incurring some of the same preliminary challenges that Tesla did probably in more difficult markets is Hylian than Tesla, but to start to get to market and then start to in-house source some of those or even produce some of those components that go into the truck in more of kind of a lateral shift, not to OEM status, rather an in-house provider of everything that is powertrain. I think that will be an interesting shift for Hylian as time does evolve and they become a little bit more established with their financial footing. For the you guys that monitor this story over the week, I would hope that you had the same reaction as me. I was encouraged. I'm in a place now mentally cut above the consensus on the social media. I know there was some shotouts as well. This week, I apologize if I don't get to everybody, but Excalibur appreciated his response as well, admitted to me or even in the video or in a comment on one of my videos that there was a little motivation for him to produce that content and I'm in debt for that. His opinions carry weight with the community. As far as I'm concerned, he should be a recognized advocate for the company, not to suggest even by his own admission that he's right or wrong. He's a lot like me and that look, here's the way I see it. I could be dead wrong, but here's how I see it and I think those vast opinions across the board are super productive for the community as a whole and I just want to thank Excalibur for his efforts, continued efforts from Andreas Rutowskis, as well as Silent Alert this week, doubling down on some of the statistics. I gave the jewel Tweet of the week, so I'll give myself a little bit of kudos to make sure that Thomas Healy, who talked about, I believe a 200 kilowatt Carnot generator would be what would be necessary to run the Austin plant. Well, I said, okay, well, put your money where your mouth is, save these current utility bills that go against CapEx and we'll compare those to over a 12 month basis once we have the ability to install Carnot and power the Austin plant. What a fantastic way to showcase your product to suggest that they're running the entire company on low onsite generated electricity at seven cents per kilowatt. Pretty cool initiatives there. Had a little fun with it, whether or not that'll happen or not. I don't know. It was just a fun comment to suggest that if they're going into production of stationary power next year, would it not make sense that if it's good enough to sell to somebody else, that it's good enough to put into rigor for themselves? A few highlights from the calls of Glean and really the big takeaway from this week is to understand that those pieces of content are out there and to make sure that you're self educating yourself up as an independent investor on those pieces of content. But I'm going to go through my laundry list of notes as I did review the content again, both of them this morning for a second time to make sure that I didn't miss anything. There was a lot said I highly endorse both pieces of content. Me personally, I kind of edged to the Bloomberg because I thought Thomas was really, really well spoken. He was on point. I didn't think the interviewees did a very good job. I really didn't. I didn't think that the lady or the gentleman that was interviewing him had a whole heck of a lot of knowledge about highly on. But Thomas really carried the interview, did a wonderful job with the responses. But just a few highlights here, deliveries of stationary power in 2024. Hmm. I would contend it $1.24 per share. It's worth investing in that proposition. I did. I bought 3,500 more shares this week and I have more money to deploy if the stock continues to go down. The only thing that Robert said that I would just caution you on, he's got some puts at $1 and that's the way to play it. But as far as picking targets of $0.80 or $0.75, be careful doing that. If you want to accumulate shares here at this price point, do it. Don't think that you're going to catch the bottom. Invest in the companies for the right reasons. And catching a low in the stock is not the right reason to invest in a company through the stock price. Okay. That's a bit of education for you in moving into this. In other words, if you're looking to enter into the company at the all-time low at $1.80 with the idea that you're going to somehow exit the position at $1.20, $1.50, $2.45, then you're kind of missing the psychology of investing and the philosophy that I have in that my share bases that I'm accumulating now are multi-year positions, period. Anything less than that is uncivilized. Okay. So this vertical that we did not know about in 2020, we are now Previ too and it has quickly come to market. Bill Peterson talked to Thomas Healy and actually made the comment and it resonated with me and it was something that I thought when Carnot was purchased, that Carnot was purchased for very little money in respect to its potential. Now, you take on the 3D printing machines and you take on the IP and the technology from a company that is going through divestiture, you would expect to get a good deal on it at the same token, you wouldn't expect to be turning out revenue a couple of short years after acquiring that technology. And whatever revenue they can produce from this, there has been an area, a discussion about potential margins or potential profit for Healy on or the business model on how they're going to drive revenues on stationary power. But to be in talks now as early as 2024 to start to establish stationary power as early as next year after having acquired the technology a few short years ago is magnificent. Now, this is a value proposition that I'm telling you is there. You look at the stock and people are going to be like, yeah, right, it's a proof of its story, Ryan. There's no value, it's no value. I look at it the way I always look at it much more diplomatically through the lens of an investor that got a bonus vertical without even knowing it when I was initially starting to build positions. Now, these new positions, trust me, are in respect to Carnot and not my old positions obviously were established without the knowledge of Carnot existing. However, those existing positions are fortified now with the knowledge and the prospects that I think do surround Carnot and the opportunity. It was the first time on the Bloomberg interview where Thomas in what I picked up on, and I don't know if you picked on as it as well, broke the holding companies into two verticals. Do you notice that? Starting with two total addressable markets, two Tams for class A space, which has been legacy Hylian as well as what he deemed to be a larger addressable market for stationary power. What? I said it once, I picked up on it, thought it was phenomenal, doubled down on that with the discussion with Bill as well, talking about the opportunity through stationary power to glean revenues on both of those specific verticals. But I think the real takeaway for investors is to understand the opportunity in each of those verticals and understanding Hylians right at the very beginning of uncovering the potential in each of those in a small capacity. But I would suggest investing in the company right now through a stock price that has never been so attractive. I commented on Robert's video and I said, look, with regard to the stock price where it is now, it's a very simple application. It's not hard. I think a lot of people are driving their decisions based on that acute three-digit figure. And I just, I think that's wrong.  I know the company is going to be at five, 10, 15, 20, 25 and north. I know it's eventually going to be there.  I'm already telling you now. So when that happens, you will get the same approach, conservative, responsible, diplomatic in reporting out on where I think the prospects at those times will be for the company in what they have accomplished up to those milestones and beyond. I think there's a lot of people, it's amazing who operate on that very, very shallow premises. See, I told you that the stock was going down here. I just entered 15,000 shares. Wonderful. I really hope you can take my my insight in challenging you to be a share owner over the long term. To double your position, people are going to look at 15,000 bucks and they're going to be like, damn, I'm out. This is incredible. Thank you, Ryan. You're the man. I'll subscribe to your channel. I'm a lifelong subscriber and all the while whisper out of the side of my mouth to suggest that you just left potential for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table. That's how to handle the stock. Stock is down. The further it goes down, the better buy it becomes assuming that the bullish conviction is there. If you buy this company and you're bearish on the company or you don't buy it because you're bearish and the stock goes to zero, you would have been right. This is business. This is stock ownership. Where I see a landscape and a community of people consistently taking sides. A lot of people are wishy-washy. They go back and forth. I'm super bearish. I'm super bullish. They go back and forth. All the while, really, my consistent charge on this is to hold or not to hold. That is the question. Just make sure that your focus on owning the stock is on the company and not the stock itself. Very, very dangerous to be making your decisions based on stock action day-to-day or specifically even making your decisions or awarding criteria, whether it be negative or positive, based on historical stock performance. That's even more dangerous. Somehow because it's gone down, it can't go down further. Very dangerous. The stock is down. Therefore, it's a buy because it's going to go up next week, next month. I don't control the stock price. I've never continued to control the stock price. I will just continue to say that I am a stock owner in the company. I will declare my overall shares in the company when it's prudent to do so, but for you guys that are keeping score, you guys can understand that my share position is continuing to grow in the company and my cost and basis is continuing to decrease over time. Those installments that I'm getting now in a company that is sitting on such an incredible opportunity in each of their respective verticals is a position that I'm absolutely comfortable with making, especially in light of a stock market that I own S&P, I own single stock. I own all those assets and I monitor those assets just the same as I do my speculative investments. I can tell you it's not like I'm just so excited to be a passive investor in the S&P 500 and so angry with my investment in Hylian. I look at the landscape right now and it appears to me overall from a macro perspective to be challenged. Do I have fair expectations overall? Do I expect Hylian in the acute to just somehow just start outperforming when I don't think that the macro environment, especially with when it comes to the microcap space is conducive for that type of activity. In other words, the microcap movement is not moving up as a whole, it's moving down as a whole. Things have been re-racked and recalibrated within the microcap space of the last couple of years. It is not an environment of complete euphoria that it was during the SPAC craze, right? When Hylian was able to de-SPAC their initiative, they are now where they are three years removed of that and is still shaking off the funk of that in my opinion. It is a proven story and Neriya, I suggest to a subscriber base that tunes in to me that those catalysts are just a few short months away. It's worth waiting and seeing. It's certainly worth waiting and seeing for the would-be share owners, the company who see it my way and that I'm not looking at that as being the end-all be-all. I look at it as being the beginning. You think it's been hard over the last three years, try holding as long as me. I am absolutely steadfast with my decision to hold long term. If this company gets up to what I would consider to be a fair valuation, let's get to $10, the original SPAC value associated with the company. Now the company is going to be significantly different. We're provided value on its $700 million of cash that it came to markets with. Now having a different environment and having reduced in its stock price and market capitalization as a company, it's going to earn that $10 back based on its ability to churn capital and to drive top-end revenue and eventually be earmarked for the potential of future profits. That's going to be the new value of the company. The first milestone is $10 to achieve that initial valuation when it came to public markets at $10. At $10, I'm back in the black. I think that's a reasonable goal. I think here now where the stock price sits, I think eventually it will happen whether or not that's a year, a two years, three years down the line is irrelevant to me. It's fun to set those milestones around where I think the stock is going to go, but that is the first milestone. Now, do I sell at $10? That to me will be just the beginning. I'm hoping to report out on specific catalysts going forward as to the grow out and the build out of this company because we are still pre-commercial. We haven't even entered into commercial state. However, Thomas Healy said that we are starting the fleet trials within the next couple of weeks. He alluded when talked about the financing topic a little bit, talked about a few catalysts being on the horizon. I don't know if you guys picked up on that. Why take financing now? They're going to be opportunistic about this. In other words, if they announce some catalysts and fleet trials are going good and for whatever dumb reason in the stock market, the stock goes to $6, $8, they will raise. I don't care if that's a month from now, two months from now, three, it doesn't matter. They have the opportunity, they will raise. The reason why they won't raise now is number one, they don't need to as admitted by the CEO. Number two, and this is conjecture on my part, so please take this with a grain of salt. The reason number two is because the stock price. I think any educated soul that follows stock market investing can certainly understand that they need to borrow a little bit more in a position of strength rather than a position of weakness. They are in a position of weakness now. Those remaining SPAC dollars at $350 million will and could potentially be the most valuable dollars that ever existed in this young company's life as a lifeline or to be fair, a bridge towards something more material into the future where the company can be a little bit more sustaining in their initiatives. The financial position of the company at $350 million does really set them apart. The management's expectation is to use that capital wisely. That was also disclosed to separate Hylian from the rest of the industry where, by goodness, Thomas Healy talked about Lordstown. I don't cover it enough to understand that Lordstown was one of those that went bankrupt. Another was a Protera, I believe, was one of them, and another company as well, just within the last couple of weeks or months or just as of late, and the rest of the industry scrambling for debt financing. Hylian is not in that position. I think it's great. I think it puts them in the driver's seat to potentially wag them out into the future where, potentially, some of these headwinds that they have in the industry can settle out a little bit, get a little bit more positive favor, get a little bit of institutional buying on the company. If nothing else, these stock prices should be attracting buyers. If the opportunity is as good as I suggest that it is, some internal buying would probably be nice, albeit not really one of those things that I put a whole lot of value on at this point. If I was in upper management, I would say, look, I already own my shares. I know the company is going to be doing well. It may be perceived a red flag that they are buying here at the bottom, and perhaps maybe shed a little bit more of a darker light on those purchases. I think it would be a bullish sign for the company. However, kind of look at it from Thomas' perspective, and maybe he looks at it and says, you know what, I already own X number of shares. I'm good. I don't need to be bottom fishing my own company. That may look a little bit suspect if they do actually get a little bit of a northern trajectory on the stock. I think he would rather just avoid those negative optics of the company of going bargain fishing on his own company, maybe looked upon a little bit more negatively in that the stock has recessed. They're providing another opportunity for the Hylian to bottom fish the company. I will say that tongue in cheek by suggesting that that same opportunity exists for those of us out there that have been following the company, and it's publicly traded. You can do what you want. You can actively find shares on any of the major brokers minus one that was reported to me that Hylian is not being offered on M1 Finance anymore. That was a new one to me, but I've never had a problem acquiring Hylian shares in the open marketplace. The fleets shift on solutions due to new challenges. I found this to be fascinating. It was an awesome insight to the industry as a whole looking at a couple of years ago where companies like Pepsi are just jumping on board with Tesla. There was an article that came out this week that deemed the Tesla solution as the solution for long haul class 8. That is misinformation. Pepsi needs to be more careful with their information because that is false information. The Tesla solution is not a long haul solution. So if you don't believe me and you look at the 500 miles of range, just look at the performance that even some of the patrons of the Model 3 Tesla that patrons are driving around that are rated at 300, and they're actually getting like 175. The same thing with Semi is they're rated at 500, and they're going to end up getting half of that because of the 20 and 80 rule of the battery. The downtime, I can't even go into all of the deficiencies with Bev. I'm a small investor in Tesla. I'm okay to do that, but outside of that, I don't buy the statistics that they put forward on their solution. Companies are much more aware they are going to be taking a second comb over of the industry and making those decisions not frivolously, but rather based in statistics for those companies that truly do have a solution that fits their bottom line. Does Hylian meet that? I'm going to leave that to you. I believe that they do, but it's up to you to suggest that Hylian's not going to find their place in the space to deliver a solution that drives that TCO and ROI over time. Thomas mentioned the go-to-market strategy like Tesla. I found that to be an interesting takeaway in comparison. Good for you, Thomas. You've actually given some light on the business plan and how they view Hylian as just a powertrain provider and that the OEMs have done a great job. Thomas has said this before, and I think it's a great line that he uses all the time. The OEMs have proven over time that they're really good at building trucks. Why do we need to start now? I just think I said it in a little different way. That's how I would say it. A little more scathing. He's a little more up a road with the comment, but he's right. Peter Bilt and Pakar Freightliner, all of the international Volvo and all those OEMs, they've been making trucks this whole time. Why change that? The idea to integrate and really fortify what it is their focus is, I think speaks to their business lean model and quite frankly speaks to why they are in the cash position that they are, even in the face of expanded timelines and an environment now where a 5% prime interest rate on financing cannot be good for the industry when they're looking at financing these products. Willing to pay up front, this was a takeaway that Thomas talked about with a diesel truck at $200,000 and the hyper-truck YRX at $400,000. He continued on talking about a BEV being 5-550, hydrogen fuel cell being 6-650, the latter solutions not even having infrastructure in place, 700 natural gas stations across the country, but then furthering that and doubling down on the fact that there's four BEV stations public and three hydrogen fuel stations total in the country. Cross check me if I'm wrong. The Nikola bandwagon, they're going to come and throw stones at me and they're going to say, no, Ryan, there's more, there's this many and they make it up. They pull it out of their backside. These really, well, they don't exist. Check it out. Fact check me. If there's 700 hydrogen fuel cell stations, they're still selling it over $10 a diesel gallon equivalent. It's expensive. Electricity, right now the cost of electricity is on par with diesel. What is the benefit? I would suggest now in this environment that the green initiative and the anti-green, which was also talked about in the interview, the Bloomberg interview, really does create headwind in allowing fleets to really look at it and say, yeah, I mean, we're interested in electrifying the fleet for the good of the planet, but it has to make economic sense. Really cool. Reduced over cost with time and volume. Thomas talked about the fleet's willingness to actually incur those upfront costs. This is something that I actually believe to be true. I believe that fleets can monetize that understanding that they're putting a tractor in play, that the more it runs, the quicker they can drive ROI. And compressed natural gas is the key. Renewable natural gas is the key to that end. Whether or not that's going to catch on, whether or not that's going to prove to be true amongst the industry, and we see the hyper truck actually running on RNG on routes where it makes sense. We need to identify those routes that it makes sense on. Fleets should already have that where the shoe just fits for a hyper truck, ERX, other routes, perhaps the shoe doesn't fit. And this is something that Excalibur talked about on his video talking about, initially when we looked at the ERX, we imagined that the ERX was going to float around on a magic carpet hauling freight at max payload across this country for 1,300 miles a trip. And no matter what the route it was going to fit, I've always contended that this was going to be a route specific type of solution, always. And where it fits, I think it's going to be great because I believe that those fits are going to be put into place and get that return that we all expect through the statistics. In other words, I want an Anheuser-Busch to come back and say, look, we put it in this route and it makes perfect sense. The highly on solution is going to be that solution for that route, a little presumptuous on my part, but that's what it's going to take to move the needle on this project anyway. So why not forecast that those specific route identifications are going to happen over time? Okay. I talked about the hydrogen fuel cell hyzon project is actually up and running on the test track. So we'll expect to see more color on that. So very cool stuff. I thought the biggest takeaway, and I'll start to round down the video, guys. I know these long videos are sometimes a little bit arduous for people to sit through, split them up in chunks, if that's what you need to do, because I find that it's probably the most prudent way to have an open discussion on highly on. At this point, I think it's super important to just kind of discuss and summarize what's happening week to week, and I'm fascinated by the story. But the most interesting question by Bill Peterson was, what does this company look like in five to 10 years? Okay. This is what Thomas said, be a tier one supplier. This is it, guys. If highly on holdings can be a tier one supplier to Peterbilt. If you don't know what a tier one supplier is, Google it. I had an idea about what it is, and I Googled it, and I educated myself up on how important that could be. This is their goal. Your bet at this point at a dollar or $9 or $14 or $28 or $38 or $58 hinges around highly on's ability to become a tier one supplier to Peterbilt. I'll let that sink in. At some point in highly on's history, we valued this company based on its ability to do just that. If they cannot become a tier one supplier, right now they're sourcing the trucks, they're buying the trucks, outfitting the trucks, sending them back to Peterbilt, extremely inefficient, not the way we want to see longstanding. In the short term, it works fine, because we're looking at such low volume production that works, it's fine. They'll take a loss in the initial orders, right? Super important to understand that. Highly on gets deemed a tier one supplier, and they can focus their renewed efforts on what they do, get a little bit of recovery in the stock, which is necessary, my friends. We all can all agree it's necessary to get a little bit of recovery so that highly on can be provided a little bit of lateral movement in way of their financing options. We are talking about a whole different opportunity, and it kind of sheds a little bit of light on the way I look at the stock price right now being more of an opportunity than a detriment. That's what the man said. That's not what I'm saying. That's what he said. Where do you see highly on in five to 10 years? We see ourselves as a tier one supplier of electrified powertrain solutions that in its essence is the elevator pitch for highly on. Your bet at this point at $1.23 is contingent upon their ability to see that end and realize themselves as a tier one supplier. It's that simple. Now, the second is a skew that I challenge each and every one of you guys to put yourselves in this 100% category of people who did not know that stationary power was even an option for highly on when they first announced the Carnot acquisition as a standalone initiative going forward. The Carnot technology is a good enough reason to look at this company as an opportunity, not a detriment at $1.23 standalone, irrespective of what they do with class eight. Oh, Ryan, the product's going away. I disagree. Oh, Ryan, the hyper truck ERXs are going to turn into dust. I disagree.  I just disagree. Oh, Ryan, the Carnot technology doesn't work. I disagree. Oh, Ryan, the hyper truck ERX doesn't work. It's not good technology. Oh, Ryan Thomas Healy is not a good CEO. I just disagree. I just disagree. And we look at the vertical of the stationary generator power and we look at what that could mean for the company as short as 2024 as they start to introduce this. One thing I want to add that Thomas Healy talked about is something that I talked about first. He obviously knew it, but he didn't share it. And it's funny because he used the same generator name that I did in Generac and thinking about it in a different way of providing primary power, not secondary power, and how people justify paying. What's a Generac now, guys? 25,000, 3,500? I don't know, depending on the kilowatt that you buy, but he said people are justifying those purchases for the three or so times that it goes out and 20 hours of runtime per year because when it does go, power go out. It's a real detriment to keep the refrigerator on so you can save the stakes and the fish. But he talked about the idea of the Carnot technology liking to run, being very low maintenance. I saw this in one of my tweets this week out of the very few that I made this week where I want one. I want to build in the country. I would love to have a Carnot generator that had the ability not only to provide 110 power, but to also charge my 24 volt batteries that drive my pumps from my pool. The opportunity here, guys, by his admission is larger than the Class 8 opportunity, larger addressable market. My vision for the company specifically is that they make good on their promises on both verticals. I do not want to see the Carnot technology be one of those things that they put all their efforts in and then kind of divest from the Class 8 initiative because I will mention that the other vertical that they talked about in where he envisions the company in five to 10 years is the Carnot technology being able to run the hyper truck ERX. I would like to see all three verticals survive hydrogen fuel cell Carnot as well as RNG because I think if highly on abandons that it's going to be a real disappointment for me even in the face of positive return on stationary power. I really want to see them follow through. I would like to see a invigoration through secondary means of the hybrid EX. There's some in the community that don't like the product. It's really unfortunate that Thomas does not even name the hybrid EX in their product portfolio. I think in these lean times the hybrid EX has proved to be a supplement to the revenues now which are 100% driven by the hybrid EX1. I think in hilly terrain I think it may actually have a secondary windfall of interest once highly on becomes a little bit more of a household name. The cash burn we've talked about my friends. We talk about and I'll wrap up the video with this. I think some of the key statistics on where the company will be in five to 10 years is enough to look at this company with a different lens at $1.23. I'm not telling you to buy. I'm telling you I bought. I'm not telling you to buy. I'm telling you I bought because for me anything less than $10 which is where I think we'll eventually go on our first stock position milestone is inevitable. For me buying the stock at what I consider to be a 90% discount to that end just makes fundamental sense to me. You're crazy. You're misguided. You're caught up in this highly on thing. No, I'm not. This is just where I feel like the soft spot in the market is so impressive on it. If we get this thing up to $10, $15 I may digress on my highly on content. I'll go back to fundamental investing which is what I know, love and quite frankly is what has made me put me on this trajectory to a millionaire self-made. I might suggest I had no help. None, none. But right now this press on this particular market which I think has met some real resistance via headwind is affecting and recessing the stock prices not to our demise but rather to our opportunity. Just the way I feel about it guys. That's my weekly summary. I hope you guys agree. If you disagree, leave your comments. If you agree, leave your comments. I would encourage you to check out the sources that I named at the top of the video. Check out those pieces of content that drove this content this week off of Bloomberg as well as the auto conference sponsored by JP Morgan and the interview was placed by Bill Peterson. It was fantastic. If you check out those as well as some of the few sources that are putting highly on content out there on a pretty consistent basis, I will continue to do my fair share in providing those fair acknowledgements to those content creators because I think it's important to continue to footstomp this message and really help share this message. I'm on a new trajectory in sharing this because I think my conveyance of the message based on my real feeling about the prospects of this company, I've never felt so steadfast now and I find it ironic in the face of where the stock is currently resting in what I feel like is one of the greatest opportunities that exist right now in the market. There will be better times and you're not going to be able to go back in time and regenerate this. Hey, Ryan, I wish I would have done this. I wish I would have done that. Well, I wish it time is right now. Guys, thank you so much for tuning into the content and we'll catch you next week.


Welcome to the third event of the Anabaptist Mennonite biblical seminary colloquium on active nonviolence titled understanding and engaging movements for movement for justice in 2020. Cosponsored by the Crock Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. We acknowledge that both AMBS and the University of Notre Dame are located on Pockegan and Potawatomi land. The Pockegan Potawatomi have been using this land for formation and education for thousands of years and continue to do so. My name is Janna Hunter Bowman. I'm an assistant professor of peace studies and Christian social ethics at AMBS, as well as a member of the advisory board of the Crock Institute. Please note that this session is being recorded. In this cosponsored series voices from different streams of nonviolence, including communal liberationist and strategic nonviolence are speaking as witnesses to the power of nonviolence in action. We're exploring urgent issues of racialized violence and high stakes election scenarios as strategic nonviolent responses. To start us off on the 23rd of September organizer and nonviolence trainer and AMBS graduate Sarah Nahar encouraged participants to find a core of five people to work with in alignment with the national campaign. Last week on October 1 Maria Stefan and David Courtwright spoke to the use of strategic nonviolent resistance to defend against illegal usurpations of executive power and help carry movements for justice through any November election surprises. Coordinate with movements of movements, including the poor people's campaign Maria said. My point is this in these trying and critical times voices from various streams of nonviolence are converging to encourage us to organize with our local communities and build power in coordination with national movements for justice that we know that we understand and that we trust. This brings us to our culminating guest speaker. Today we're asking, what can we and our communities do to organize for justice and build movements for justice. After hearing from our guest presenter today, we'll have the opportunity to discuss in breakout sessions, then we'll come back for question answer time as a full group. And you're welcome to send your questions throughout through the chat box. Now, Jason shank Quaker minister organizer and L card and co instructor of witness colloquium is going to introduce us to our guest presenter today. Jason. Thanks Jenna. So, it's my honor to introduce the Reverend Dr Liz Theo Harris who as you have heard is the co chair of the poor people's campaign with the Reverend Dr William J Barbara the second. This campaign organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in the 21st century America, and has since emerged as one of the nation's leading social movement forces. I'm glad to virtually welcome you Liz to AMBS here the campus of which not quite three years ago hosted the kickoff for the Indiana organizing for this poor people's campaign. I myself have known Liz for nearly a decade and the approach to organizing that she and others have modeled at what is now the Cairo Center at Union Theological Seminary. The building of movement across color lines to end poverty led by the poor has become a guiding principle for my organizing and ministry here locally with the people's history of Elkhart project. Then just last fall in this colloquium. We together drew on Liz's applied research for Bible study of reading the Bible with the poor from her doctoral work, always with us, what Jesus really said about the poor. The leadership is increasingly recognized on a national level by sojourners or political or others. It's the way that Liz's work has informed my life, my faith, and this course that makes it such an honor to have her here today. So, thank you so much Liz, and I'll turn it over to you. Thanks so much it's great to be here with folks and it's an honor to be partnering in this conversation together. So I'll share a little bit about the poor people's campaign and this political moment that we're in and how we see it. And then look forward to some, some good conversation. The poor people's campaign is Jason was saying is organized all across the country and there are coordinating committees of poor people of moral leaders of activists in almost 45 states across the country. And right now we're engaged in a campaign called we must do more. It stands for mobilizing, organizing, registering and educating people for a movement, but a movement that votes there before this pandemic were 140 million poor and low income people in the United States. That was nearly half of the US population. And what we've seen over the past seven months on top of 200,000 plus dead has been tens of millions losing healthcare coverage, tens of millions at the risk of losing housing, millions losing jobs. And one in 10 Americans, this past month feeling depressed or suicidal because of the weight of injustice all around us. So we started the poor people's campaign, because we were following the call of the Reverend Dr. Martha King who said that there were these evils in the world and that you couldn't get rid of one without getting rid of them all. And so we approach this work with an intersectional analysis, we say that these five interlocking injustices of systemic racism and poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy and this distorted moral narrative of religious, especially Christian nationalism are five evils that you can't get rid of one without getting rid of them all. So we've come forward with a moral agenda and a policy platform that we launched this past June. That policy platform puts forth solutions and how to pay for them about everything from free higher education to universal healthcare to guaranteed adequate income to living wage jobs and and unionization rights. It includes shifting monies from police and the military into investing in education and the well being of everyone in the nation. And it has puts forth some pretty bold and visionary demands and policies around the mistreatment of indigenous and native peoples real immigration reform real police reform and sees that we can do it all together. And now this is a crazy political moment in our country. It's a time when we have fewer voting rights than we did 54 years ago, despite people fighting and dying for those rights. It's a and when we have a Senate that is willing to try to stack the court and rush an appointment of a Supreme Court judge. At the same time as they're not willing to pass the just stimulus bill, we can see that the nation's priorities and democracy is not right.  Well, indeed, we are living in a time when we have those elected officials who are indeed depriving the poor of rights, and in fact, allowing for billionaires to make money off of profit off of a pandemic. What is really important about the work we're doing in this election is about shifting the narrative, getting our nation getting our elected officials getting our candidates to talk about and act about the solutions to the problems that are facing 140 million and growing people in this country. And, and, you know, part of what has happened over the past decades is that our politicians don't actually speak to the issues that are facing people and and folks aren't hearing their name or their condition. And with a study, not long ago, a study that shows that that if poor and low income eligible voters were to turn out in the election, vote around an agenda, not for particular, you know, we are a non partisan movement, but but to vote around living wages and health care that that in 15 states, just a small uptick of poor of eligible poor and low income voters voting together around an agenda could radically transform the entire political landscape. In 2016 election, there were 15 states were less than 20% Michigan 1% you know Pennsylvania 4% you know North Carolina 19% Florida about 7% of eligible non voting poor and low income voters were to actually show up and how do they show up well we have to, we have to organize against voter suppression. How do they show up well we have to make sure that there's transportation and childcare and we need to push forward election day should be a holiday. But then also how do how do they show up folks need to hear and see that we have candidates and politicians that are willing to put forward bold policies around the issues. And we know that that's possible, and that in those 15 states with just a small number of poor and low income voters, voting that it would have, it would have exceeded the margin of error. In the mid terms, it's actually 16 states, again, less than 20% of eligible poor and low income voters. So, so we're saying, and we're organizing those 140 million and in fact, you know, it was about 34 million poor and low income people who are eligible but did not vote. And so our campaign is all about organizing, reaching out to shifting narrative, speaking to the issues and demands of of poor and low income people, including having folks join a movement, but a movement that sees that saving the soul of our democracy matters. And so that's, that's a lot of the work we're doing right now. And it's, it's great to be here and to be able to be in conversation with you all today. Thanks Liz. I know you had shared a video we weren't sure if we would have time. Did you want to do the, the pain and poverty clip to give people a little sense of that'd be great. Great. So I'm going to share my screen here. So this gives a little bit of the context for this, this movement that Liz is talking about. I worked 41 years in the coal mines. I have black lung and it's just unfathomable what these poor coal miners have to go through in order to get what they have worked for and deserve. At one time, poverty was a temporary condition. You were on a down slope for a minute, but you could bounce back up. We can't bounce back up today. It's permanent. We're not going back to the factory and building cars and trucks like we once did. Good job working at McDonald's or the grocery store doesn't pay enough for one person to live. We work a 40 hour work week. Still not enough. Living from paycheck to paycheck rent at $600 a month. We got water bill, electricity. I do this for my kids and it hurts. I'm 46 years old. I've lived in poverty here in West Virginia every day of my life and I'm working. I am working poor with a bachelor's degree. I'm doing the best I can with what I have. We're in the height of mass water shutoffs.   It was kind of terrifying. I'm 42 years old and I'm a cashier at McDonald's. I had lost my house. You're welcome to come inside. There's a lot of people that are living in their parts. You never notice until you're in the same situation. I want to have stuff to give my children. I'm paying all the bills and they need school clothes and stuff and they'll be asking me for I can't give them. Now I'm a Kansas farmer's wife. Kansas farmers are committing suicide. Why? They're usually in debt, up to their eyeballs. I see poverty in my own community. There's a 70% unemployment rate in the reservation right now. Here in New York City we're home to millionaires and billionaires and we have so many people living in the street and that's just not right. I've been a homeless veteran twice. I've lived in a shelter. I've been living down here since I was 17. My only chance of going to college was joining the Army. We are demanding that we stop the war on our poor. 700,000 people in this country are on the verge of losing their food stamps. This budget holds for shrinking the social safety net programs like Medicare. I just know that everything that's happening to us isn't right. I'm in stage five of kidney disease. I fell behind on my health care and they canceled my health insurance and they told me I have to wait until open enrollment. There's only five stages of kidney disease and I'm in a fifth stage. It's murder. If you ask me, it's murder. I lost a son to that violence. And I lost a daughter. No parent should have in America. She has to bury their parents. For lack of medical intervention. I'm well and because my children. My God. We often will show that video either at the beginning or kind of somewhere through one of these presentations because it's so important to get the faces, the stories and the figures of what's really going on and to also see these fighters who are organizing and mobilizing in communities all across the country. The goals of the campaign are to shift the narrative and to build power. Dr. King talked about the idea of building power in some of the last sermons and speeches of his life. He said power for poor people will mean having the ability, the aggressiveness, and togetherness to make the power structures of our nation say yes when they may be desirous of saying no. We have a lot of no going on right now. No stimulus. No post office. No future funding for education. No healthcare expansion. No hazard pay for essential workers who are really paid expendable wages. No real police reform. No accountability for state sponsored violence. No to peace. And so the idea of building up the power, the aggressiveness, the togetherness, the ability to be able to make power structures say yes. We may be desirous and are already coming forward saying no is really what building a movement building a campaign is all about. The issues of racism and poverty ecological devastation and militarism are far too grave, far too great for just one policy for one program for one protest for one feeding issue to be enough. What is needed in these times is a movement. And when we look at history movements are successful. When those that are most impacted are in the forefront in the words of Frederick Douglass those in pain must have must must strike. Those who would be free must strike the first blow those in pain know when their painters relieved. Right. And so this idea of of a movement that is led by those most impacted, but it's also a movement that is moving millions and moving people from all walks of life. What we have in the poor people's campaign and what we're seeing I think in this moment in history is unlikely alliances of people coming forward. We've been doing a lot of work in Kentucky, and folks there say, well we're organizing from the hood to the holler. We've been connecting folks through caravans. This past week we had ones, and we had folks from Mississippi and folks from Maine. We have four black folks in the Delta of Mississippi, and poor white folks in the, the abandoned warehouses and industrial factories of the Northeast, all coming together and saying, we want to be free. We can do better than this, it doesn't have to be this way. We cannot live in a world that doesn't have enough. In fact, we have five abandoned houses for every person without housing. In fact, even though tens of millions of more people said that they were went hungry in the past couple of months, we throw out more food than not just feeds this country, but feeds the world whole over. And we have some of the best medical equipment, some of the best medical advances that have ever happened. And yet, we have literally about 100 million people who have no health care, or inadequate health care that they can't afford to use. And we see these disparities, even this past week, as so many in Washington have gotten the COVID-19 virus, right? And you see these teams of dozens of folks and all of these resources going, and we should save everybody's lives. We should heal. You know, the Bible says when Jesus comes to a leper, the leper says, well, if you choose, you can heal me. And Jesus's response is, I do choose. Well, we have the medical technology. We have the food capacity. We have the educational resources to choose to actually eliminate these problems. And in fact, poverty and inequality costs more, costs more than what eradicating poverty would. So, for every dollar we invest in early childhood education programs is $7 saved in the future. If we were to, if we were to just turn one contract with Lockheed Martin for one building of one military set of planes, basically, we could expand Medicaid in 14 states for just the cost of one contract. So it's not that we can't do this. It's that we don't have the right political priorities at the moment to do it. And so it's not a scarcity of resources. It's a scarcity of political will. Well, when you have a scarcity of political will, when the power structures of the nation are saying, no, when you need them to be saying yes, then the solution is to organize, organize, organize. And in an election year, the solution is to mobilize and organize and register people, not just to vote, not just for one election, but for a movement, but a movement that engages in nonpartisan, but deeply political organizing. And that is prepared to push, to push forward an agenda, and to push whatever candidates, no matter what party they come from, to take up the needs and demands of poor and low income people when they're elected. And that's what our work is focused on. And that's why, despite the stories of pain, despite the hardship, I mean, there are people that are on that video that we just watched who are no longer with us. And it's been a short period of time since we made that video. Folks have, you know, there isn't a day that goes by in my, my life right now, where I'm not hearing about more loss more sickness more homelessness, and I'm sure that's the case with you all. And so, so the, the, the stakes are just too high for us to do anything less than organize everybody, like our lives depend on it and so that's exactly what we're, what we're doing, and we're doing it from deep moral and biblical and constitutional values and foundations. And we're doing it with a broad and diverse group of people who indeed hold the key to shifting the economic and political landscape in this country and across the world. And we must, we must push back against the narrative that blames poor people blames immigrants blames queer people blames women blames people of color for all of society's problems. We must stop believing the lie that that that if we just fight each other that that things will get better. We need to believe in the possibility of abundance, and that, and, and, and, and come against this lie that this is as good as it gets that we can't do any better than this. When we actually can and must. And in fact, it's what history reminds us is necessary, and what our biblical and, and constitutional foundations say we're obliged to. You know, I'm interested and excited to be here among you all for us to have more conversation for folks to, to have some time to talk in these breakout groups, I do want to have if people are interested. There is a lot of information about the poor people's campaign and about this we must do more campaign. There is this whole study that that is about unleashing the power of poor and low income voters that you know really runs against much of how pollsters have been talking about this election. There's been a lot of money being put poured into a, you know, trying to win a couple of undecided voters. But but very little time and resources towards trying to bring some of those eligible but but poor and low income voters of all races of all geographies together to be able to shift. I also want to encourage folks that to check out and read the moral policy platform to heal and transform this nation. We call it a Jubilee poor people's Jubilee platform because you know, many folks for many years have said well you can't ask for all of this, you know, you're, you're, you're asking for too much shouldn't we just focus on health care shouldn't we just talk about, you know, an earned income tax credit and our response to that is that we we need it all and we can have it all and and we will only be in a true for society that establishes justice and and and promotes the general welfare and and provides for the common defense. If, if we actually, you know, put the resources of this wealthy abundant nation and organize it around the needs and demands of those who are the most vulnerable the most marginalized. I have a saying in our work that when you lift from the bottom, everybody rises, and indeed, that's, that's not just morally a good idea. It's economically sound. So, indeed, that's that's the kind of organizing we're trying to do to organize from the ground up from the bottom up. We say in our work that the rejected are going to lead this revival and in fact folks are poor and low income people people undocumented folk folks that are being bruised and battered by the police folks who, you know, are losing family members to the lack of health care and to the lack of this nation being able to, to take real responsibility for the violence that's happening in this country and around the world. But, but who are coming together and building a movement and it's a very hopeful thing, hopeful and these very hard and difficult times.  Thank you so much Liz for those powerful words and for your introduction into your life work and into a movement. Just let's just recap a couple of key points here. One, Liz has talked to us about the way in which the poor people's campaign is working from some of the convictions articulated by Martin Luther King about the evils of systemic racism poverty ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism are interconnected. And this is what leads to that a particular kind of an intersectional approach that that is vital for thinking about what can allow for the a holistic movement that actually is meeting people's needs. She talked about the goals of changing a narrative and shifting power. And then that you interestingly Liz confronted one of the, one of the points that I suspect that you hear a lot is that, well, that's not realistic. And right away the response to that is, in part is twofold. One, drawing on Douglas to say, Well, we're working with a movement that is led by those who are most impacted. And it is in that ground up work that we can and we will work to do better and to do more. So thank you for that that powerful introduction, and we're now going to move into breakout groups. And we invite you to introduce yourselves, perhaps naming where you're coming from, and then speak to the question, if you so desire, what can we and what can our communities do to organize for justice and contribute to movements for justice. Of course, you're also welcome to articulate questions that you have from what Liz has said. And after you talk amongst yourselves about seven minutes, we'll come back together and we invite you to put your questions into the chat, and we'll have a time for Q&A together. Thanks. So Jason's putting us into breakout rooms now. When you see the invitation, please click join and that will take you to your breakout room. We'll see you in a few minutes. I'm going to pause the recording here. Welcome back everyone as you're coming back from your breakout rooms. People are coming in here so you can start to add your questions into the chat and I'll hand it over to Jana, who's going to be facilitating the Q&A. Welcome back everyone come back from your breakout sessions. As Jason mentioned, we welcome you to put your questions into the chat and we'll take it from there. Liz, one question that we have that has come in from even last week was, if people are indeed connected and create a small group of about five people or so. How can they get connected to the Poor People's Campaign? What's the best way to get connected to a local affiliate and to the national campaign? Yeah, so we are a movement that is really from the ground up and so the state coordinating committees are the center of gravity of our work, right? So if folks are in one particular town and are starting to organize, then the idea is to connect with the rest of the folks that are organizing in that state. And you can get information about the Poor People's Campaign and the states where people are active and some of the actions and activities that are taking place by going to our website. We also have web access, PoorPeople'sCampaign.org, and there's an interactive map. And from there you can both find out who else in your state, in your region are organizing and you can get connected to the chairs of the work and the coordinating committee in the state. I think in this moment when we're doing all of this work also around the larger election. There's also lots of stuff that people can do just in groups of twos and threes and fives in terms of texting and calling and making sure people are registered, making sure people are aware of the issues. You know, introducing the campaign, helping to sign up more people to do poll monitoring in some of the states that we're doing that kind of voter protection work. And so you can also find out that more general information at either vote.PoorPeopleCampaign.org or PoorPeopleCampaign.org slash voting. You can get there two ways, but you know, you can take this more pledge that we have right now where we're asking folks to say that they'll reach out to at least 100 people or 100 organizations or 100 communities, congregations. But then there's lots of ways I mean they're there, you know, we're doing every couple of days we're doing, you know, call ins and text ins and, you know, there's there's a lot of work that folks can do that's, you know, safe and from wherever you're kind of in place to make a difference in this election and also to register people for a movement, right. That isn't just about this election. Even while you're answering that question, several people posed a similar question so I know that is one that people are really feeling so thank you for that really concrete information. Another question here coming from a variety from a couple different people, but it has to do with power. A couple people are interested in hearing about power and why different Christian groups, Mennonites among them but not only Mennonites, who have an ambivalence about power, and so who might feel uncomfortable with this notion of building power. How, how you might speak to that theologically, and, and then also in practice. I have, I have a lot of favorite Bible passages, I'm a bit of a scholar. But, but one of my favorite ones. And, and a theme that I really love and appreciate from from the Bible is the agency and kind of power of, of impacted people of poor people. I've got a story for instance like the woman who is hemorrhaging blood, right, with the, and how she, you know, is in this crowd, and she approaches Jesus. And she can't really, she's not even sure she's worthy of getting his attention. But what she knows is that she needs to be healed. And she reaches out and she touches his cloak. And, and it says in the Greek that the power went out from him. Right. And that he then turns around and says who touched me. And it's because he realized that there was somebody that was there claiming her rights. And so I, I think when I think about power, I don't think about, you know, the ruling authorities, like I don't think about, I mean, I'm very aware that our, our, our Bible is doing polemics with, with those in power, whether those in principalities, whether they're the Caesar is a pharaoh, right. But, but, but it's very clear that by having Jesus is, you know, titles being God and Son of God and, and savior of the world, at the same time as Caesar's titles are God and Son of God and savior of the world. That there is a contestation for, for authority, for truth, for love and for justice. And that the Christian response to that is that the power is in people, especially in impacted folks and folks that that have nothing to lose but their chains and folks whose backs are against the wall and all we can do is push. All we can do is reach out and touch that cloak. And then from there, that's where transformation happens from, right. I mean, in, in, in John, the fact that that the first person who is resurrected is not Jesus, but it's actually a Lazarus, right. And that that's where Jesus becomes so much of a threat to the Roman Empire that they decide in John that that's when John when Jesus must be crucified. It's a crucifixion. It's, it's a punishment, not for your average murderer, not for your average robber, not for someone who's, you know, committing petty crimes around drug offenses, it's reserved for those that have been deemed revolutionary insurrectionists, a threat to state power, right. So, but but in John, what where Jesus becomes this revolutionary this insurrectionist this this threat to the powers and principalities is because Lazarus dies and is brought back. Again, we have story after story in our biblical texts of the power of people of the, of the, the truth and love and justice from below that comes up that is exactly what God is all about. You know, when we think about something like the Exodus, you know, the, this kind of mixed multitude of people, this apiru the that that becomes the Hebrew people, but who starts off as this ragtag band of people who have been marginalized and oppressed by the Pharaoh by empire, but who build an authority and a power amongst them that they're able to win justice, not just for, for them, but for for whole peoples and so, so again I, I love having conversation on this and we could talk about the Bible. And I think for many, many weeks, many days, many years to come but I think there's a lot of biblical foundations that talk about. And I think, in fact, and this is maybe a controversial or a challenging statement and, and, and take it as such if it feels that way.  But I think it's often those in power, who say, you don't want power. And those in power, who say, well power corrupts and power absolute power absolutely corrupts. I don't think that that comes from a mom who's trying to figure out how to feed her kid. I don't think this I this this philosophical notion that power is a really bad thing. I don't think that power is used what you do with the authority or given what you do with the resources that you have at your disposal. That God cares a lot about, but, but the idea that you have power coming from people from within from below. I don't, I think that it's those in power who have tried to tell us that that's problematic. What you're saying to, or maybe implicit there is that we all are exercising power. It is being cognizant of that and then being deliberate about what we're going to do with the power that we are exercising in different ways. Another question. This particularly comes as we're thinking about how a seminary is partnering with the Crock Institute for International Peace, which of course is not a Christian organization. It's a God moral movement with leadership from two ministers. What do you see as the role of the Christian tradition in this interfaith pluralistic society, which were apart. This person writes I love how you draw wisdom from the civil rights movement and also acknowledge so much has changed since then. So I, I think this is a really important question because I think it's actually also a question about power. So yes, there are two Christian ministers who are the co chairs of this poor people's campaign. And yes, this poor people's campaign has faith leaders from more than a dozen faith traditions, and from about 20 of the largest kind of national bodies of different religions, whether it's a network of progressive Hindus, whether it's engaged Buddhists, whether it's the Union of Reform Judaism, whether it's folks that are indigenous and native peoples and various spiritualities and religions there, whether it's all different kind of stripes of Christianity and then other other faiths as well. And so what what what we know is going on, and has happened throughout history, is that there is always kind of a theological biblical bad battle that takes place. And it and, and that is that those in with with the wealth and resources of society and with the political power, always try to basically co-opt religion to make it stop them up right. Dr. Barber, the co chair of the campaign will often say, so often we have faith leaders and especially Christian ones who pray PR a why for leaders like Trump like different, you know, folks that are in in political authoritative roles, while at the same time that those political authoritative leaders pray PR a why on the poor on the marginalized on the vulnerable right and that that that that isn't true to traditions, and that is actually an that we need to talk about kind of a moral response to that. If people listen for instance to Pence's acceptance speech at the Republican convention, or if you really listen to almost any political rhetoric in these days right I mean Pence actually took two passages from the Bible, and replaced either the flag or America in the place of Jesus's name in what in his quote in his acceptance speech for for Vice President for the United, you know, for running for president on the Republican ticket that that kind of battle for the Bible right that that kind of co-opting of of religion to make it adhere to the status quo. It has to be pushed back against, you can't really build a movement. We don't take that kind of Christian nationalism on. And so, so I think that that, you know, we, we operate from from that place, but we also are very aware that it's people of many different faiths and people not a faith who who need to build a movement, but that the real moral issues in our day are not these kind of personal behavior issues it's not that Jesus was a card carrying member of the NRA it's not that that God cares about who is having sex with who, but that what our sacred texts and traditions that we watch and show is that how you care for the marginalized, like when you feed the hungry that this is what are, you know, this these are the real moral issues in our day and again if we look at our sacred traditions, if you, you know, if you, if you erase those 2500 in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Testament, you know, really the Bible falls apart and that, but you have to contend you have to be engaged in that, not that it's the only thing but but that if you're interested in taking on systemic racism and poverty ecological devastation and militarism that you have to see the role that Christian nationalism religious nationalism plays in in upholding that whole system. That's really important and I really thank you for for bringing that drawing that thread out in our in our work together. There's another question that dovetails with a thread that emerged in your last response and a couple people have asked this question I'll just read one articulation of it. I'm very involved in voter registration and in voter mobilization. One of the challenges I have in is in the communicating of the urgency of this election, while remaining non partisan. Do you have suggestions. Yeah, I think, I think that that's really important. I mean, the, the, the COVID crisis that we're in the world on fire to do with the wildfires and hurricanes and storms the, the kind of militarization of our communities have happened. Not just under Trump, not just under the current Senate. And, and, and by really a bipartisan consensus that has allowed for us to be in the place that this nation is in and we often will say in the poor people's campaign that talking about Democrats versus Republicans. It's just too puny of a narrative of a frame that to get at the real kind of emergency and crises and possibilities of this moment and so I think you don't have to talk about the, you know, who you're going to vote for, or, or what candidate or party stands where. I think you can talk about the issues that are impacting people. I think you can talk about the reality that that that it doesn't have to be this way, and that it's in people's power and ability to actually change it. And so I think that, that, that folks are very familiar with the fact that things are not well. But what, what folks aren't always familiar with is that they have the power to do something about it. And that's because of, you know, long history of voter suppression. That's because of, you know, both a political system and a media and communications kind of apparatus that that that really kind of sends a message that that people don't matter really, poor and marginalized people and our issues don't matter. But I think that part of how you excite people to be able to engage in this election and to be engaged for the long haul in a movement for justice is by by saying that that this is what has. This is how we have changed, not just voting. You know, again, we often will remind folks that, you know, some of the most important policies that have been passed have not passed been passed in election year. And some of the most radical things that have come have not come because the politicians that passed those policy policies were radical themselves. People pushed and it was able to be made possible. And so I think that I think a lot of this has to do with people feeling like, do, can they make a difference? And, and is there, are there options? Like, is there, is there something to be excited about in this moment when there's so much death and destruction around. And, and I think, again, this is part of why we register people for a movement. You know, I'm, I'm tired of being in communities where people will come in for a minute at an electoral season and, you know, hand out some socks to poor people and, and basically say and then never come back. You know, we've been in, in some of the hollers of Kentucky where where folks, you know, just haven't had a politician literally in decades come. And I think it's partially like, how do people see that they have, have the kind of power to change things. Yeah, you're on mute. And unfortunately, even though we have so many wonderful questions is generating wonderful conversation and people are just enlivened by what you're saying, we are going to have to formally draw this particular portion to a close, but this is only to say that this is the beginning of our work together in building a movement for justice in organizing ourselves locally and combining our efforts and working to build power regionally and nationally for what can be and for what we say must be. So thank you ever so much Liz for being. I trust that you're going to hear a lot more from the people and the communities that are represented on this call. So thank you very much. This has been the third of a four part series with the Crock Institute for international peace on understanding and engaging movements for justice in 2020. The final portion of the series is coming this Saturday, October 10. And this is a nonviolent and nonviolent direct action training. What you're seeing on your screen here is what is available on the witness colloquium homepage where the series is being promoted and the information is available. You are already registered for the nonviolence direct action training by virtue of being present on this call. We are asking that you take just a minute or two to fill out a check in form if you're planning to participate a little background about about you will help the session leaders in their final preparations. Jason has put that into the chat. And that has also come to you via email, if you are registered so far. So thank you once again for being with us. We hope this has been a resource to you I know that I have been nourished and encouraged by this time together, and we'll look forward to continue to working and struggling together. Thanks and we'll look forward to seeing you Saturday. And thanks again, Liz and Jenna just, I know people have asked the about the training being the fourth of a four part series do you want to speak to the rest of the semester Jenna. So, I guess indeed this is the fourth, the training is the fourth of a four part series. The foundation or the platform for hosting this at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary has been a witness colloquium that is free and open to the public. And since we all are on zoom, because of the pandemic, those who wish may continue to participate in those sessions will continue moving forward will gather with a guest speaker every other week. And then on the off weeks will gather to to debrief and discuss. So, feel free to continue to you can write to me if you're interested in learning more about what's coming up throughout the semester. Is there anything else Jason. I think that's it we'll send out a an email to follow up with resources that Liz shared as well as the link to the video I know people were asking for that. So for the look, watch your email for the recording and resources and information about sessions to come. All right. Thanks. We'll see you next time. Thank you. Thank you.


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Hi, my name is David Rovois and welcome to this video about line art tips or inking tips with Krita 2.9. When you start inking, you'll probably need to switch often between an eraser preset and an ink preset. The fastest way to switch is probably with the numpad divide key on your keyboard. This key toggles switch between your previously selected presets and your actual one. When you open your artwork, select an eraser preset, then select directly your inking preset. Now you can draw. Then when you need an eraser, press numpad divide key on your keyboard to switch to the eraser. Then press again the numpad divide key to draw again. You can toggle switch to the infinity like this. Note, this technique works also with any presets. If you want a better visibility of your final line art while inking over your sketch, you will probably want to turn your sketch to a brighter value. Turning it to a brighter blue tones help to better see what you are doing with your line art. There is many ways to turn a layer into blue, but the less destructive and the less resource intensive I found is to uncheck the blue channel in the layer properties. Then reduce the opacity. With this method, you also can keep drawing on your sketch layer while inking. Your black or dark color will be displayed automatically as bright blue. Note, this technique works also on groups. I use a lot the stabilizer feature of Krita to smooth my lines. But I often need to turn it off and on while working and the tool option docker take too much room on the screen to be always displayed. If you right click on your top toolbar, you will be able to configure it. After for the available action with the keyword smoothing, then add the items basic and stabilizer to the right panel. The right panel is a vertical representation of your toolbar. Press apply to preview the change. You can rename the two features into on and off to have shorter label on your top toolbar. Now you can access to control your stabilization mode with two simple buttons. Correcting a proportion or moving a part of your drawing at the inking part is often difficult. You can transform your inking layer, but it's hard to repeat the same action, especially with complex transformation, for the layers under. If you groups all your layers and apply the transformation directly on the group, you'll be able to deform all the layers with a single action. If you want to protect a specific layer from the recursive transformation, just lock it before with the little lock pad icon. You can create amazing speed line effect with Krita. Create a new layer. Select the ruler assistant editor. Display your tool option docker to select parallel ruler. Click on the canvas to create a new widget. Then go back to the brush tool and in the tool option activate the assistant checkbox. Now all your lines should be parallel to the ruler. You can do various lines width or thickness with your pen pressure, according to the fact you have the right preset for doing it. When your work is over, you can go back to the ruler assistant editor and delet your ruler. You can now transform your line to bring an additional fluid movement or life to them. You can also paint other type of speed line using the other ruler. Feel free to explore. That's all for today, I hope you learned something with this video. Any help is welcome to improve and grow my channel so feel free to subscribe or share it or thumbs up this video. If you want to support this type of video tutorial on a regular basis, I invite you to be my patron on Patreon. For anything else, comment below, I'll be around. See you on the next video tutorial and waiting for this, goodbye and have fun doing inking with Krita.