Hey, sick doers, we hope you're doing well and finding time for self-care. Now, let's begin. Do you go through life and feel a lingering sadness that never seems to improve? You're not alone. Depression is a complicated condition and affects you in different ways than you may think. So with that said, here are six signs that you are subconsciously depressed. Please note the information in this video is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. All content contained in this video is for general information purposes only and does not replace a consultation with your own doctor or mental health professional. Let's begin. Number one, you always feel tired. When you wake up, are you finding yourself feeling drained? Does this feeling seem to last no matter how much sleep you get? Depression comes with a number of physical effects that are often passed off as something else. Constant exhaustion is a common physical side effect. Even if you sleep a good number of hours each night, you can never seem to catch enough rest. This makes it hard to function during the day. Number two, you're easily irritated and angered. Does it seem like everyone gets on your nerves? Even if these people are well-meaning, you can't help but wish they'd go away. It's not uncommon for depressed people to foster negative thoughts and feelings about the people around them. While we all have those days where we prefer to keep away from others, if you're noticing that you're pushing people away more than normal or if a friend is withdrawing from others, it can be a sign of something more. Number three, you have a hard time with emotions. How do you feel right now?  Do you often have periods of time where you can't? Psychiatrist Peter Sifnios coined the term alexithymia as being unable to describe how you feel. For example, while you may notice that your heart is racing, a normal person would be able to tell if they're excited or nervous easily. On the other hand, a person with alexithymia wouldn't be able to distinguish if it was fear or excitement causing it. Not knowing your emotions makes it extremely difficult to know where to begin in tackling them.  Have you developed different eating habits? Do you find yourself forgetting to eat or are you unable to stop eating? You may develop chaotic eating habits as a way to cope with how you're feeling. Over-eating may be your only source of pleasure causing you to lose sight of your physical health. On the other hand, you may lose interest in food and end up missing meals. Different stressors in your life can throw off your sense of balance, which can also affect your eating habits.  Has anyone ever told you that you don't seem depressed? You or they may be accustomed to the media's portrayal of what a depressed person looks like. Someone who never leaves their room, doesn't dress well, and always has a miserable look. While those are clear signs of the condition, depression doesn't always appear that way. According to psychotherapist Jody Amin, depression affects all personalities and can look very different from person to person. People with depression can suffer in silence too. These are people that can perform tasks towards their goals and do their day-to-day tasks, but still have lost their spark. Then number six, you find it hard to put a smile on your face, but you still do. Do you try to mask yourself as a happy person, even if you don't feel that way deep inside? Many people who experience depression can seal it behind a smile. Depression can be quiet on the outside, but extremely painful inside for some, while there's display of their symptoms more outwardly. Having an honest conversation with a mental health professional or someone you trust should be a top priority. Even if you worry about burdening others, appearing weak or feeling vulnerable, confronting and processing your emotions with others is a great first step to recovery. It's difficult to deal with depression alone. You may be struggling now, but there's a world out there of people cheering you on. Confide with someone you trust and talk to a trusted professional to get the help you need. Be sure to like this video and share it with anyone you feel will benefit from it. Make sure to subscribe to Psych2Go and turn notifications on to keep up with our uploads. Thank you so much for watching and stay tuned for the next video. Take care.


You may know the look, you come home after petting another cat and are greeted with the evil eye from your feline companion. Your cat seems to know you've been around another animal, and it seems to you that they might be envious. But can cats really get jealous? If so, how do they show it and what can you do about it? Many people, including animal behaviorists, feel that cats do show a form of jealousy, but it is distinct from human envy. Jealousy in humans is described as the thoughts or feelings of insecurity, fear, and concern over a relative lack of possessions or safety. One in cats, jealousy can present as aggression, they show aggression toward other cats that threaten their security, especially if their status or territory is compromised. Aggression often surfaces when a cat does not feel in control of its environment. Why do cats get jealous? Cats can become jealous and stressed for several different reasons that have to do with being insecure in some way. Insecurities can arise anytime there are big changes in a household and your cat doesn't feel in control of its environment. New people or pets in the household can make cats feel jealous in two ways, stress about having fewer resources because the newcomer will take them away, insecurity about their place in the household, and the amount of attention they will get from the newcomer. Most cats will have a home territory, and they may be picky about who treads on it. If another cat, or even a dog, strange animal, or guest human, invades this area, a cat will often become stressed and may lash out at the intruder, trying to drive them off and re-establish their security. Can cats get jealous of other cats? Jealousy over the presence of another cat is very common. All cats have different personalities, and some will be made insecure and display jealousy more easily than others. It is important to watch your cat and observe their cues and triggers. You may see inter-cat aggression when two cats are stressed about having to live in close proximity to one another. Inter-cat aggression can occur between cats that don't know each other, such as neighborhood cats, as well as cats that live with each other. It is especially important to take care when introducing a new cat to your household. Aggression is often made worse by hormones, so having cats spayed or neutered may help. Consult your veterinarian for tips on how to safely introduce a new cat. Will my cat get jealous of a new puppy or adult dog? Many cats show aggression and other signs of insecurity toward new animals, and that includes dogs and puppies. Cats can be particularly difficult because they often move into the house and seem to simply take over as they explore the house, eat from the cat's bowl, and take away some of your attention. It isn't unusual for an overly curious dog to take a few swats on the face as well as some well-timed hisses from a cat in the same household. Hello! This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high-quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Do cats get jealous of babies? Very much like dogs that move into a household, babies also tend to spend in a cat's environment. They make unexplainable noises and produce strange smells, from your cat's point of view. Nighttime is no longer a quiet time for your cat to roam around the house, and stress levels in the house tend to rise. All these examples can contribute to insecurity, and hence a jealous reaction, from many cats. How can you tell if a cat is jealous? Some cats are simply more confident and comfortable than other cats. Cats that feel insecure may show different behaviors that can be interpreted as jealousy. Signs include aggression, such as hissing, swatting, growling, or even unprovoked attacks, and stress behavior, such as hiding, peeing, or pooping outside of the litter box. Some cats will even demonstrate destructive behavior. The signs of insecurity vary from cat to cat. If you see changes in your cat's personality, talk to your vet. They can help you find the source of the stress, whether it's a medical issue, jealousy, or something else. Jealousy and insecurity are generally driven by personality. Although some cat breeds are known to be more high-strung than others, it doesn't necessarily mean that individual cats of that breed will lash out more aggressively. How can you stop your cat from being jealous? Cats don't become insecure unless they have a reason to be, so the best way to stop jealous behavior in cats is to identify and eliminate the underlying causes. Sometimes the problem might be another animal or person in their environment. Cats thrive in steady, consistent environments where they can exert control. Your cat might need to have their own space that cannot be intruded upon by a new pet or person in the household. Make sure you are giving your cat plenty of attention and time with you. If they need to adjust to a major life change, allow them to do so at their own pace. Ask your veterinarian or an animal behaviorist for help if your cat is not adjusting well. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also, don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


This work goes back to really a dramatic moment when the Boston Marathon bombings had occurred in Boston and there was a manhunt underway after the bombings to look for the suspects. We are following developments out of Boston this morning where police are searching for the second Marathon bombing suspect. When the dust settled and the manhunt was over, the solution I compared notes and realized we both had the same experience as many others which was in a near information vacuum from other sources. We were relying heavily on Twitter and other social media to understand what was going on moment by moment. I remember very clearly the lockdown and of course MIT was involved in the incident as well with one of the police officers being shot. That's right. It was right here on campus. And I remember very well my friends and I used Twitter and other social media platforms as one of our main sources of news because usually they were way ahead of traditional news sources and it was after the fact that I realized that a lot of what I was reading during that week was actually rumors, false news and that's why I was really concerned about the effects social media is having on consumers of news. Then if you remember I walked into your office and we talked about changing my PhD direction and focusing on automatically detecting and verifying these rumors that spread on Twitter. I thought it was fantastic because and had a tremendous amount of foresight. Today we're sitting in 2018 talking about veracity, predicting veracity of information flowing online but this was years ago that you had the idea to really study this in depth with sophisticated machine learning to create new types of algorithms for veracity detection and I thought it was one of the best ideas I had heard in a long time. So it was for me a no-brainer to get involved.


Welcome to Hawaii, the state of clean energy. I'm Mitch Ewan, normally at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. And we're over the hump day. We're Wednesday already. I can't believe how fast these Wednesdays turn over. I'm delighted to have a general, a Brigadier General retired, Stan Osserman, who's actually retiring again today. Number three. Number three. After how many years at HCAT? Six. Was it actually six years? Wow, did that ever go by fast? So Stan was the Executive Director at the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technology, basically focused on hydrogen. So we have two hydrogen nuts, or enthusiasts here today. And we're going to be talking to you about hydrogen.  And just to set the scene, I want to show first the first animation, which will tell you all about hydrogen and why it's so great. So roll the first video, please. Hydrogen. The simplest element. And also the most abundant. Hydrogen makes up roughly 75% of all mass in the universe. Hydrogen also powers most of the stars in our universe. So it's only fitting that it has come to be recognized as a viable alternative energy source. And we need alternatives because fossil fuels are problematic. They're messy, dirty, expensive to obtain and not secure. And they're limited. Hydrogen, on the other hand, is everywhere. Hydrogen can be produced from a wide variety of sources, including water itself, using other renewable energies. That means it's clean. Really clean. As a zero emission fuel source, the only byproducts are water, heat and electricity. Easily transported. Hydrogen can be stored and distributed on a large scale as either gas or liquid. As a fuel, hydrogen itself is very light. In fact, hydrogen is 472 times more efficient by weight than lead acid batteries. And it isn't just for transportation. Hydrogen can also effectively produce and store energy for power grids. Hydrogen gas is transformed into energy within a fuel cell. As hydrogen passes through a fuel cell, electrons are released and an electrical current is produced and captured for use. Electric vehicle motors powered by hydrogen fuel cells are twice as efficient as gas or diesel engines. They can travel farther distances than lithium batteries, especially in heavy vehicles and can last for decades. Hydrogen-powered fuel cells are scalable to buses and commercial fleets such as trucks, trains, ships and aircraft. Fuel cells allow for fast, easy refueling. And hydrogen can be easily adapted to current refueling stations, making it a convenient fuel source for everyone. It is a proven, safe, clean and efficient energy source currently in use worldwide. Hydrogen is everywhere, including our clean energy future. Okay, now wasn't that an awesome animation? I mean, well done Stan and to the team up at Manoa Innovation Center that did that. It won an award, didn't it? Yeah, that was actually done by a company called Hyperspective. And it won a Pele Award here for animation. They actually did three videos for us. They did this one. They did another one I think you're going to show, which is on MicroRids. And then a third one, which we don't generally show, but it covers our project that we're doing for the Air Force called Perl. And the reason we don't show it is the Air Force wanted their logo on the end. We sent it forward to get permission to put their logo on the end. And then the folks who made the video for us said, but our policy changed so we want to take all this stuff out. And they said, are you going to give it approval or not? And they said, well, it depends.  And then you have me do it again and again. And I run out of money editing videos. So we don't show that one to anybody. It's also a really good video. I'd love to see it sometime. I haven't seen it, but I heard somebody who did see it say it was really great. Well done. So anyway, that was everything you need to know about hydrogen in two and a half minutes. So that tells the whole story of why it's so great and why we need to be implementing this in Hawaii. And it's also, in my opinion, the key to solving climate change. Because when you use hydrogen, you make it from water. Just like I said in the video, you do something with it and then it turns back into water. It's just the perfect cycle. And why we haven't made on after it faster and more aggressively is beyond me. But that's what we're going to talk about doing this show. But I want to run the second video that Stan talked about, which is about microgrids, which is another great technology which is very amenable to hydrogen. Well, the transportation world is going to turn electric. Exactly. It's all going to be one big grid and one big electric system. So this microgrid stuff is important too. Yeah, we're all going to be electric and hydrogen. More efficient. Let's roll the other second video. There are over 300 million people in our country and the vast majority rely on large scale centralized power grids for their energy. But the infrastructure is aging and it is vulnerable. Natural disasters, cyber attacks and other threats can leave large swaths of the country without power. Fortunately, there is an alternative. A renewable energy microgrid represents a different path for the future. Renewable microgrids generate power from sources like solar, wind, hydrogen, waste to energy and geothermal. That power can be stored within the localized system using technologies such as advanced batteries, hydrogen, flywheels, pumped hydro and others. These microgrids can provide reliable and efficient energy transmission, especially to critical facilities like hospitals, airports and military bases. Unlike our current large scale systems, microgrids eliminate single points of failure and are therefore more resilient to disasters, threats and power outages. Our current energy infrastructure loses a lot of money. Grid outages cost up to $33 billion annually. They are expensive to build, expand and maintain. And they're inefficient, losing more than half of the initial energy to factors such as line loss, spending reserves and theft. Microgrids solve these issues and greatly reduce transmission loss and maximize efficiency. They also reduce carbon emissions and eliminate imported fuel costs, keeping money within our local economy and even create new local industries and jobs based on clean renewable energy. Our energy grid was built over 100 years ago when energy needs were simple with the increased complexities of energy demands, power sources and transportation. Now our old grid struggled to keep up. We required new ways to generate, store and deliver energy. Renewable energy microgrids are a potential long term solution that will provide safe, clean, reliable and efficient energy for generations to come. Back so now everybody is educated on both hydrogen and on microgrids which are the two evolving technologies here in the world and particularly in Hawaii. Yeah, and Hawaii is going to lead the way. It's going to lead the way because we have a mandate to be off of fossil fuels by 2045 for our grid and we have high pressure to get off of fossil fuels in the transportation sector by about the same time. So we've got to do this stuff or we're not going to make it. It's the law, there's a law in the books in Hawaii that we will evolve to a hydrogen economy. In 1996-10, Hawaii Revised Statute. There you go. So look it up and read it. It's in the law so we've got to start following the law. Speaking of that, so Stan, where are we with Hawaii and hydrogen? So what's our current status? Actually there's a lot going on in it. This year we were pretty successful in the legislature. We had hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are now considered electric vehicles in statute. So they're eligible for a lot of the benefits other electric vehicles have in terms of tax breaks and HOV lane and parking and things like that. Which makes it really attractive for people to want to get into the vehicles. First last year surf goes to sit up their station and brought in their MRI. So we actually have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles available to the public. And it's a heck of a deal. Yeah, it's a great lease. It's a really great lease. I would have taken advantage of it but as you know I'm moving to the big island. And the lenders who put together the lease package wouldn't let me take the vehicle off island so I had to turn it down. But it is a really good deal. Did you get your fuel for three years and all your maintenance paid for? All included in the lease. It was a pretty decent lease too. I was impressed. But there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that most people aren't hearing about or it's not making the press, it's not big headlines. But a lot going on on the big island where hydrogen makes a ton of sense because the distances for transportation just make sense of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. It can go those long ranges without having to recharge. And the potential for renewable energies on the big island to produce high volumes of hydrogen. And if you can store that hydrogen in tanks or ammonia or liquid hydrogen then you can transport it to Oahu and help Oahu get renewable faster. And get us off fossil fuels quicker. And I think people underestimate the impact of the economic impact of coming off fossil fuels. Think of all the money that we send out of our state just to pay for gasoline and diesel fuel and electricity. When all the sunlight and wind is falling down out of the sky and blowing past us. And we could be making so much energy with it and not having to spend all our money and sending it outside. That means jobs in Hawaii. That means a stronger economy. That means so much more tax revenue for the legislature to do good things. It's something we all ought to be really looking at. I looked at the economic multiplier effect. We export six billion dollars right now to pay for fossil fuels. And if you apply the economic multiplier, that's like how many times the money swishes around in the community. By the time you blend it out it's worth about 12 billion dollars worth of economic activity here in the state. Which we're just blowing away every year. And 30% of that just goes out of tailpipe somewhere in the form of heat so it's nuts. In fact you asked about where we're at and it's funny because if we were all running hydrogen vehicles and doing hydrogen technology now and somebody came along and said, hey Mitch, I got this great idea. We're going to drill wells and we're going to find oil. Really cheap. We're going to pull it out of the ground and we're going to put it in pipelines and we're going to ship it halfway across Alaska. We're going to put it in ships and we're going to sail the ships to California and put the oil in a refinery and make gasoline from it and diesel fuel. And then you can drive your cars on that. We look at them like they're from outer space and go, are you kidding me? Why the heck would we do that? But right now all the infrastructure for that equipment, that whole industry is already so huge to replace it as just monumental. And that's what we're living with and that's why it's so hard to change. We've got so much invested in fossil fuel and fossil fuel technology including the automobile company. So a lot of money for them to change and get rid of their engines and go to electric drivetrains. They're all starting to change now. I mean we've got Toyota, Honda, Hyundai. I'll have hydrogen vehicles that they're now leasing. And they just announced a month ago BMW is going to have their hydrogen car out in 2020 or 2021. We're almost there. You can bet GM and Ford are right there. They're not talking much about it. But we already know GM has built several Army fuel cell vehicles on the tactical side and they've got more work going on. Ford just launched an electric 150 pickup truck. They're the most famous or popular pickup truck. And they even pulled it out pulling a train that's over a million pounds. They're pulling this train. And you can bet that fuel cells are right behind that electric truck. It'll be out there. You can put money on it. Well we had the 15 Equinox GM Equinox vehicles here, the hydrogen vehicles. They were really popular. Yeah, really popular. Really successful. Great drive. Great pickup. The whole nine yards. And we were able to refuel them in under five minutes. Continuously. So we have a station over at the Marine Corps base and you had a station to take them. And then there's another station up at Schofield. So we had three stations all on military bases unfortunately. But it was just the same experience as anybody would get going into the 7-11 and pumping their own gas. You know, all automated. You just touch the screen to say start. And then the computer would take over and end the fill when they're ready to go. And like I said, there was no fill that went over five minutes. Yeah. So it was really awesome. You know what the problem was with those Equinox? They were supposed to be brought in and spread around the senior leadership so they could all get exposed to it. But the guys who would get it would like it so much. They wouldn't let it go. We could move it to the other. So all these admirals and generals that were trying to expose this technology, they loved it so much they'd tell their driver, let's keep this car. The driver's like, you know, he didn't have any choice. He didn't have any choice. But they did. They kept them. And so a lot of the exposure we hoped to get out of it never happened because there were such good vehicles that they didn't want to go home. They were great. Well, we're coming up to our first break. I can't believe we've blown through the first 15 minutes already. So we're going to go on break down. We'll be right back in one minute's time. See you in a few seconds. Aloha. I'm Keisha King, host of At the Crossroads, where we have conversations that are real and relevant. We have spoken with community leaders from right here locally in Hawaii and all around the world. Won't you join us on thinktechhawaii.com or on YouTube on the Think Tech Hawaii channel. Our conversations are real, relevant, and lots of fun. I'll see you at the Crossroads. Aloha. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines. I was the head coach for the Punahou Boys varsity tennis team for 22 years, and we're fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my book, which is also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about leadership, creating a superior culture of excellence, achieving and sustaining success, and finding greatness. If you're a student, parent, sports or business person, and want to improve your life, and the lives of people around you, tune in and join me on Mondays at 11 a.m. as we go Beyond the Lines on thinktechhawaii. Aloha. So we're back, we're live, and we're talking about our favorite subject, hydrogen, of course. And I've got a guru of hydrogen here, Stan Osserman, who is... We're going to talk about what are the next steps. We've given everybody a bit of background. You know what hydrogen's all about now, more than we know. And so we've said how great it is. So what do we need to do to pick up the ball and run with it and get it over the goal line? So I've asked Stan to comment on what do we need to do this year and next year? What are your thoughts on that, Stan? Well, we actually already started a little bit earlier. This year, like I said, in the legislature, we finally got some momentum and we got some good traction with some of the folks in the legislature. And in particular, the representative from the Big Island, Mark Nakashima, who's now the deputy speaker of the house, he decided that he wanted to really see the Big Island step out in hydrogen.  And they asked us for all kinds of input. What should we do? What can we do? And we gave them some really good suggestions, some things to think about, where to get resourced within the state and where to get funding on the private side, how we could get these things going. So that's, first of all, that's a huge win right there. We have a lot more backing from the legislature, both House and Senate than we've ever had in the past. Next, they reorganized the state energy office and they're really focusing a piece of it, more of it on action versus statistics and policy stuff. And so they want to see the energy office actually make things happen within the state. And they hire a good friend, Maria, from the PUC to go in there and work in the energy office to help get that started in transportation. And then we've got a lot of private sector people that they just, you know, they call me, I get calls at least once or twice a week where people say, hey, you know, I've heard about this hydrogen stuff and I got some questions and I run a warehouse 24 hours a day doing handling food and stuff. Are there hydrogen forklifts? And so I tell them, yeah, they're commercially available, plug power, 20,000 out in the field across the US.  They have a manufacturing plant here in Hawaii and they want to take it off the grid. And you do that, or can you at least have a grid tide thing where you can offset most of your electric bill? Yes, you can do that. And it's building more and more. And I'd say I've never seen in the last six years, in fact, I was doing energy stuff for a few years before that while I was still in uniform, I've never seen the momentum for hydrogen the way it is now. At the local level and at the international level and at the federal level across the US. So I know last week, Dave Mulliner from our office, for the very first time took the folks from Department of Energy Hydrogen, including Sunita Satyapal, you know her really well, to occur to the Secretary of the Air Force level meeting to talk to the Air Force about hydrogen. And I can tell you without any hesitation that the Army is deep in the hydrogen now. They're sold and running down the road. The Navy and the Air Force are starting to figure out this is pretty good stuff, and they're just starting to really get serious about it, but they are getting serious about it. And I see those as huge things, just like the internet. When the military takes off and starts showing people how cool it is, that's when you really get the people to understand. So there's 330 million people in the United States and although ThinkTech's a great platform, we don't reach 330 million people regularly. So it's hard for you and I to really push that noodle and get it out to the rest of the world. So all your people out there that are seeing us, please send this show to all your friends, and then ask them that you have emails for, that we can go viral, and then have them send it to all their friends. So it's like a nuclear reaction, and we get this stuff out there. So that's the best thing you could possibly do. And you've got two great videos that explain the whole thing. And then you have the hydrogen guru here and explaining some of these things. So please get this out there. After you get the stage of clean energy out there, then Hawaii, Stan, the energy man, get that one out there too. We'll do all of them. We'll double team this whole thing. Stan has his own show. It's a great show. He's been doing it about five years, six years. You have a zillion episodes, and he talks a lot about hydrogen. It's very entertaining, and it's really good information, actually. Yeah, we try to make it really interesting. I sit there and take notes when I watch it. The guy from Nikolai Motors telling us how much a battery charger costs. Everybody says, hydrogen bus is so much more expensive than a diesel bus. But when you buy that, or a battery electric bus, you also have to factor in the fact you're buying a battery charger. It can be up to half a million dollars if you want to recharge that bus in like two hours, or in a fast charge. And if you have a fleet of buses, you have to pay for the transformers and substations, because there's usually not enough power going to a building to add all those chargers. Exactly. You even got chargers. You've got costs outside of your actual chargers. And those show up over time. You commit yourself to 20 or 30 buses, and all of a sudden you realize you've got an unseen bill behind the scenes for a whole lot more money. In fact, I think the Nikolai Motors said, it was like almost the cost of the vehicle for the infrastructure. You're literally doubling the cost of the bus. Whereas the hydrogen, once you get the tanks going and you get some kind of source of hydrogen, it scales up really well, and the price drops off and drops off. The more vehicles you get, the cheaper it gets to run. And also you can contract out the supply of hydrogen. Anybody with a field with 300 or 400 acres that wants to make hydrogen, you put up a PV array, make hydrogen, and you get an off take agreement from the bus company or some other outfit that's running a fleet of hydrogen vehicles. You can do a firm fixed price contract for the transportation energy. And those companies would buy it in a heartbeat because the one thing that scares them to death is the fluctuation of fossil fuels. As soon as there's a crisis anywhere in the world, boom, price of oil goes up or drops. You can't tell when to even buy futures or what to do because it's so unpredictable. But hydrogen, everybody owns hydrogen. Every country in the world, we might even not have any more wars. You and I are both military guys. Maybe we won't have any more wars because what do you fight over if it's not energy? Everybody has hydrogen. Exactly. And how many soldiers wouldn't get killed if you didn't have to protect a fuel convoy? Exactly. Factor that in. We pitched that really hard to the military. Other things that we pitched hard to the military are, in fact, our friend a boss, I asked him when I first started working here, I said, what is it about your technology that the military really wants? He goes, oh, it's clean and green. I go, they don't care. The military blows things up. They don't care. And it's expensive, by the way, so it's not clean and green. That's not the big selling point. The selling point is it's quiet. It doesn't make any noise. Can you imagine if Honolulu's traffic is 40% or 50% more quiet? Because you don't have engines running and loud mufflers and stuff. It's also not as much heat. So we wouldn't be heating up our cities and things like that. In the military, heat means thermal imaging. It means at night, they can't see where you are. And then you can use this equipment inside enclosed places like freezers or hangers.  You're just making water. Or low particulates that go right in the bottom of your lungs. And then you're treating your veterans after the fact for blown out eardrums from the noise on a flight line and contaminants from the fuel they're breathing. So there's a lot of benefits to this technology. Exactly. I want to talk about the Big Island initiative they took this year in the legislature for transportation services contract. Why don't we talk a little bit about that? It's a new funding mechanism that's really awesome and they showed a lot of initiative in getting that through. Why don't we talk about that? In the grid industry, there's a thing called a power purchase agreement where a company could go in, like a solar company can go in, install your solar, install maybe some battery backup, and then instead of the customer paying for it all, the customer just pays for their electricity like they do with the electric company and they pay off the solar. And so it's called a power purchase agreement and it even happens on a large scale. The electric company can buy solar energy from a big solar farm if a private company owns it. What the legislature did was they applied that same model to government purchased vehicles and infrastructure using renewable energy. So what this allows county and state government to do is to start putting their fleet vehicles out there and getting the infrastructure paid for to build the infrastructure, the PV, the hydrogen production and things like that and battery charges for charged plug-in electric vehicles. They can pay for that using this power purchase agreement model and a private investor and private company can come in and do it and then just basically charge the state or the county for leasing and renting the equipment or buying the energy from it. And it's actually really good. It's a great way to get public-private partnerships going in the state and that's what's been missing. We can't count on the government to pay for everything and when there's a financial motive there for the private sector to make some funding, money off of it and create jobs, why aren't we doing it that way? Exactly. And it means that we can replace our infrastructure, our vehicle infrastructure faster because you've got a bigger pot of money that's funding this whole thing rather than the government, they have so many competing demands on the treasury. It's hard to meter it out but if the actual vehicle is paid for by private industry and you're paying just like a service charge, then that makes it a much easier proposition to do it. So that way we can accelerate the conversion over to our hydrogen technology. And then everything else grows on that because if you have a big fleet of buses, for example, they use a lot of hydrogen. So they're going to be wanting to buy hydrogen and so then somebody who has a solar farm is going to be able to have a customer and he's going to put in a solar farm. Not only that, this program would potentially allow him to use the solar farm as a part of that transportation services because it includes infrastructure. If you have to build a big garage, a maintenance facility, if you have to train your people, workforce development, I'm not sure about that part but you pay for a lot of their stuff. I think the definitions are pretty flexible but really hats off to you and HNEI for the work that you guys did with the Helion bus over there. The one bus and then fortunately you were able to capture the two volcano buses for Helion also. So that's a head start. The county over there can now start to replace some of their really old, really I want to say decrepit systems and build a at least partially public-private partnership fleet that can take better care of the folks over there that have to commute from Hilo to Kona for work and have it hydrogen fuel cell. So in one field swoop, the big island could be a beautiful demonstration for the technology on an international scale and also help the county get much better service for their citizens. And help our citizens, especially our low income citizens who absolutely rely on public transportation to get to their job. Some of them have to walk miles just to get to a bus route and not only just replace the existing buses but make that service so good that your first choice you'll make is I'm going to take the bus because you've got enough buses you can count on the feeder system, the whole line of yards. Marry up bicycle, parking and things like that. Believe it or not, we've blown through all our time, 30 minutes already. I believe it. We're going to bring you back out of retirement. You'll never retire. And I will do this again. We've got a whole list of other subjects that we haven't even touched on yet. Stan, thanks so much and congratulations and enjoy your retirement because we're going to enjoy your retirement because you're not going to be quite as nailed down by the bureaucracy although I never saw that stop you. I always find a way to work around it. Thanks for having me on this show and thanks for all you do for the state in hydrogen. So, signing off. We'll see you next Wednesday for another show. It might be hydrogen, you never know. Aloha.


Russia threatens the world with nuclear weapons again. What deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said about nuclear powers involvement in conflicts is fully in line with Russia's nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted. Earlier, Medvedev wrote a post on Telegram, commenting on statements made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, that Russia must lose in Ukraine. According to the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, nuclear powers don't lose in major conflicts on which their future depends, and it should be clear to any Western politician. It doesn't occur to Western politicians to draw the most obvious conclusion that a nuclear power's defeat in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear one. Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts that their future depends on. Medvedev pointed out. Medvedev, a top ally of President Vladimir Putin, said that Western allies should understand the risks of increasing supplying powerful military equipment to Kiev and that the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war could trigger a nuclear war. Asked about Medvedev's comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the remarks were in line with Russia's nuclear doctrine, which states that after aggression against the Russian Federation with conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is threatened, read the nuclear doctrine. There is no contradiction there. Peskov stressed. Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly used high alerts and hints at a readiness to aim or use nuclear weapons since their invasion of Ukraine began.


Hi there guys! Alright, so in this series what we're gonna do is we're gonna walk through the creation of this particular cabinet prop here. What I'm doing is I'm going through and I went and got a bunch of reference of the interior of the Firewatch Tower and so what I'm gonna do, what we're gonna do in this video is concentrate on the cabinet here that they have but I'm gonna go through and make all these props into procedural tools that we can go and just generate lots of variations of all these things like even the rugs in the bed trash can with actual rigid body stuff that we can just like throw a bunch of junk in there and just let it settle so we're gonna do all that stuff. So yeah, anyways we're gonna start with this cabinet here and try to make it so that we can get all these variations. You can see they have a bunch of different variations between the towers that they had in the game so we want to have that sort of control. And we're gonna go through and using Houdini Engine version 2, we're gonna go through and create all these tweaks that you see here that allows us to create almost an unlimited amount of variations for our particular counter object here and basically I'm gonna walk you guys through how I built this whole thing. It's all procedurally UV'd and everything like that so all the UV's are there and we're gonna go walk through and learn how to create these overrides here that allows us to go and add more cabinet areas but then we can dive into the individual cabinet sections here and let's say I want to change the doors here on primitive zero to back to drawers and then change that drawer count to something like four or five like so or even two. And then we can go to primitive one we can go and change that to doors and make it double door like so and then maybe primitive two is just single door and then we can add another override over here and that's primitive three so change that to like five drawers right so lots and lots of tweaks and then we're gonna go through and set up our colors and I'm gonna walk you through every single step so we don't leave anything out. Again we're using Houdini Engine version two the latest so I would go up to the wiki so if you just type in Houdini Engine version two one second I'm just gonna bring it over here for you guys all right what you need to do is you need to go to the releases it's kind of hidden so you just go to releases and then all the way down the bottom here so this is the latest version this is the official release you want to go and get your version for your particular for UE 425 or UE 426 so you just want to download this then when you actually have the the binaries downloaded for Unreal for your version basically you want to follow the install directions and so you can just go to the documentation if you go to let's yeah so if you just go to documentation here and then you go to getting started installing you should note that currently with the 18.5 it doesn't copy the plugin to the Unreal install folder anymore I'm sure they're working on it it's because there is v1 and v2 in there so what you need to do for the v2 plugin is just copy it to the particular folders right so you just want to copy it to your engines plugins runtime Houdini engine folder if you don't have the Houdini engine folder when you extract the binary file so when you extract this particular file here it will create that Houdini engine folder and then you just need to move it into your plugins runtime wherever you installed your Unreal engine so anyways that is that so I just want to make sure everyone knows how to do that just to get the engine but yeah we're gonna walk through this whole process and from start to finish so lots of cool pro tips in here lots of cool tips in getting procedural UVs and stuff I do on a regular basis for these HDAs when I'm at work when I'm at my D job alright thanks so much talk to you guys in a bit


You're tuned into the COVID-19 community report here on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, California. I'm your host, Autumn LeBae Renaud and today is Friday, April 17th. We're sharing local news and resources focusing on what's impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. And the show airs live at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays and repeats at 5 p.m. both days and at noon on Sundays. You can also listen online at kdrt.org. This is episode 10 today. I've been shining a light this week on some issues that many find hard to discuss. On Tuesday we talked about food insecurity and mental health. Today we're talking about public housing and domestic violence. These are not fun topics but they're really important to address right now because while sheltering in place is hard on everyone, there are some situations it disproportionately exacerbates. My guests today are Lisa Baker, CEO of Yolo County Housing and Bridget Guerra, a legal advocate with Empower Yolo. And we'll get to our first interview in just a few minutes. If you've been listening over the last couple of weeks, I've spoken quite a bit about the role that nonprofits, including this one, play in our communities and how at risk all of us are at this time. It's become clear that loss of events, grants, and program income have begun to paint a portrait of devastation across our nonprofit landscape. Many of us who applied for the paycheck protection loans found out this week that we will not receive them because the government ran out of money for this round. Yolo County's nonprofits care for the most vulnerable in our communities and enrich the fabric of the whole county through a wide range of programs that support, teach, and connect. So I am very pleased to share that the Yolo Community Foundation is leading an unprecedented partnership with Yolo County and the cities of Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, and Woodland. The project is the new COVID-19 non-profit relief initiative. These local jurisdictions are providing staff and funding to support the initiative's three components. The first is a community-wide campaign to encourage direct contributions to nonprofits, the second is a relief fund to provide grants directly to them, and the third is technical assistance to help nonprofits through the crisis. Two weeks ago, I interviewed Yolo Community Foundation's executive director, Jessica Hubbard, who says that while the initiative provides grant funding to help nonprofits seated by generous city and county donations, really the most significant part of this effort is encouraging businesses and individuals to give directly to nonprofits now because that is where the need is greatest. And Hubbard adds that while Yolo County's nonprofits are struggling with a greater demand resulting from COVID-19, funding opportunities critical to their survival are declining. I can attest to this. With the importance of social distancing, for example, it's impossible for us all to hold in-person fundraising events. And we're also losing revenue from facility closures, from freezes on paid work that require interaction in group settings, and all kinds of other unanticipated impacts. Despite this, many nonprofits are increasing services in response to the crisis or creating innovative new programs, which is exactly what we're trying to do here at KDRT and Davis Media Access. So information about the activities and the needs of Yolo County nonprofits, as well as links to donation pages, is available at the Yolo Community Foundation website, which is yolocf.org. There's a button on the left side when you go there to click for all the information on this COVID-19 project, including the Relief Fund application and technical assistance opportunities. Sincere gratitude to all working on this fund. There's so much that's gone into the launch of this, it launched yesterday. And really, also my thanks to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors for bringing it forward. We are going to take just a brief moment for music and we'll be back with our first interview. Yolo County Housing is dedicated to working together to provide quality affordable housing and community development services to all within its service area. And it's something it's done since 1950. The Housing Authority and its allied organizations provide assistance to approximately 2076 households in cities spanning Yolo County. And here to tell us more is CEO Lisa Baker. Hi there, Lisa. Hey, how are you? Good, how are you doing? Good, thank you. Sounds like you've got an adding machine going in the background there. I hope it's quiet. So your organization provides a very front line type of services. Let's start by having you tell us just a bit more about the kinds of assistance programs you run. Sure, we run a variety of programs around the area of housing and community development. Our biggest program is probably one most people are familiar with, which is the Housing Voucher Program, where we provide rental subsidy to residents who rent either in other affordable housing units or in the market. And then we also are the owners and managers of property, including public housing and tax credit properties. And we are partners in development of housing. And then sometimes we're funders of the construction of affordable housing. And when we're not doing that, we're also the largest provider of migrant farm worker housing for migrant families during the farm worker season. And then separately, we have in-house services devoted to self sufficiency and resilience building. And we also do grants work in the area of community development and services for communities that we serve. You and I have talked a lot over the years and I'm always astounded by how much work comes out of your office. So one question I've had is, you know, public housing is often involves multi-dwelling units. So with the COVID-19 pandemic, have you had to develop any particular containment strategies for all the properties? Well, I think that's the case for anybody who's providing a group settings, whether that's being in a city or a county in their communities or the housing authority or other property managers. We do have to adapt to the pandemic and do the work that we need to do in order to keep our families as safe as one can be in this uncertain climate. And so, yes, that has meant doing things like closing all nine of our offices to foot traffic. So we are handling our day-to-day work since all our personnel are essential, essential function personnel. So we are still at work, even though you might not be seeing us as much as one normally does. And so we're taking our work in through mail, email, fax, and phone call. And we are continuing to provide those services, property management, maintenance, and sort of the financial backing piece on the processing of rent payments and subsidy payments on behalf of people. We're just doing it in a completely different way so that both our residents and our staff can remain safe. Certainly. So with the rather grim economic picture we're all looking at, I'm going to imagine that there are going to be more and more people perhaps in need of your services. How do you even begin to wrap your your head around that? Well, I think it's no secret that it was already difficult. Well, true. Yes. Heading into this and we were kind of in an unprecedented shortage of housing of any type, but especially housing affordable to people. So I think when we mean affordable housing, I think we're often very much thinking about that that one or two person family making less than say $14,000 a year and that's true. But many sort of folks still fall into an affordability space all the way up to maybe about $60,000 a year for a family of four. And all of these families were very disadvantaged before the pandemic hit and now at this sort of unprecedented loss of economic marketplace funding in the marketplace. Yes, our demand has really skyrocketed and it's really only the tip of the iceberg because we're going to really know what the impacts are after the pandemic ends. Right now there's a little bit of a safe harbor because there's eviction protection and there's mortgage forbearance. But that doesn't mean those funds won't be due when the pandemic ends. They will still need to be, they will still be there waiting to be paid. And that's the part that we need to start doing the advanced planning on. Right. And I imagine, you know, we're seeing both the state and federal government respond to with a variety of economic stimuli. And I'm hoping that there's something specific that will be addressing the housing affordability issue. But what? So I do think that that's on top of mind for folks. And we are having those conversations. I think a really good example of that is the federal CARES Act that passed. There was quite a bit of funding in that for housing authorities in particular. And that money is just starting to roll out. And we're working through the guidance that we've gotten on what we can do with that, whether that means it's there to help stabilize the families we're already serving, which for us is almost 3,000 families in Yolo. Or if we're going to be allowed to expand our capacity under that CARES Act. And in the meantime, we're already working with our fellow agencies around the country on advocating for a round two package that will actually start to address what these downstream effects could be. Yeah. So the housing authority is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. And I think you had a big celebration planned that now is probably not going to happen. I also wanted to ask you about the community development piece, because the thing that you and I have talked a lot about is all the ways that you work to build community within the various residential projects and all of that, including things like after-school programs. So there's a lot that's not happening. How do you begin to navigate around that? How will you celebrate when you can't celebrate in person? A really good question. I think we're celebrating by doing the work. I was just thinking about our 70th anniversary and sort of within the context of housing authorities in general. We were born in the Great Depression, so we were there for the Great Depression when folks were mustered out at the end of World War II and needed affordable housing. We were there for those returning servicemen. When there was the gas crisis and the credit crunch in the 1980s, housing authorities filled that gap and served those families. And those are all predating my time in the industry. But we were there for folks in the natural disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina and the campfire. And Yolo took refugees from both of those events. And so we know our brother and sister agencies are there for us, should a terrible catastrophe also strike us. We've been there for the families in the Great Recession, and we're here for you in the global pandemic. So I think the best way to celebrate our 70 years is to be here for you. Well said. If someone wants to find out more about you or get information about, you know, getting housing, what are the best ways to contact your organization? Well, I will give you the best ways to contact the organization. I just want to touch on the service piece, and I know you're going to be talking to Empower Yolo, which is one of our many partners. And you're right, it's difficult. We have after-school learning centers, after-school programs. We have medical and dental things for our farm worker families when they're coming. And most of those are done in a group setting, and that can't happen right now. So we have taken our social service folks and our MSW internship program, and we have sort of revamped them into a wellness unit. And so we are doing call-outs to identify our most vulnerable families in all of our programs. And then we are putting them to either do information referrals to our service partners, be that connection, or for folks that are just socially isolated, where they're sort of weekly or bi-weekly call to keep them connected to the rest of humanity. And so we've got folks on the front lines there making those calls every single day and making those connections. So very proud of the work that they're doing, very proud of the work that the folks in the office are doing. I mean, if you're paying an income-based rent and you're in one of our programs, when you suffer a loss of income, you don't have to not pay your rent and then have a big bill at the end. You can notify us and get your rent reduced for the following month, and that's one way we're going to be protecting you if you're in our portfolio. If you want to find out more about us, best way to kind of follow us along is on Facebook at YOLO Housing. And if you want to contact us directly, we have an inbox that we monitor that you can get through our webpage at www.ych.ca.gov and our main office number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. We have nine offices throughout the county to serve you, but right now we're going to be serving you remotely and it's still there for you. Good, and I hope that you and all your staff, you do so much work, so please stay safe, stay well while you're doing it, and thank you so much for making time to talk with us today. I appreciate that. Thank you for having me on. All right, take care. You too. Bye-bye. That was Lisa Baker, the CEO of YOLO Housing, and Lisa is someone I've known for years.  It's just the woman does so much, much respect to Lisa. I'm going to read a few announcements, and then we'll take a brief music break, and we'll be back with our second interview. Lisa touched on the work that her agency does with farm workers, and on Wednesday, $125 million in disaster relief assistance for working Californians that will provide financial support to undocumented immigrants impacted by the COVID-19 crisis was put forth by Governor Gavin Newsom, who said the state will provide $70 million in disaster relief assistance, and grant makers concerned with immigrants and refugees, a network of foundations focused on immigration issues have committed to raising an additional $50 million. The fund is expected to provide a one-time payment of $500 per individual or 1,000 per household, and you're right, that is not a lot, but it is a step in the right direction. Of course, this announcement was met with some pushback, but I want to say that many of these workers serve in essential capacities as farm workers, and a little reminder that California grows much of the food for the rest of the nation, and we would be sort of lost without our farm workers. People who clean hospitals and more, they're not eligible for unemployment payments of the federal government stimulus checks, and Gavin Newsom said that every California, including our undocumented neighbors and friends, should know that California is here to support them during this crisis. And speaking of support for essential folks, local law firm Colcarny Law is providing some free legal services, such as creating a will to first responders and healthcare workers. Yes, that is a heavy thought, but that is a generous offer. You can learn more by emailing staff at Colcarny Law, and I'm going to spell that K-U-L-K-A-R-N-I-L-A-W, Colcarny Law. All right, students at Davis Senior High School Newspaper, The Hub, along with their teacher Kelly Wilkerson, continued to produce an informative podcast about the local experience during COVID-19. And if you know me, you have to know that kids making media is one of my favorite things in the whole world, so I love their podcast. Their latest offering examines the huge shift online learning from a teacher's perspective. You can catch it online at BlueDevil Hub, bluedevilhub.com. And we are going to hear a little bit more music and get set up for our next call. Okay, our next interview focuses on Empower Yolo.  With us today is Bridget Guerra, who's a legal advocate for Empower Yolo. Bridget, thank you for joining us. Hi, thank you for having me. So I mentioned earlier in the show that the shelter in place order is harder for some than others. How is the pandemic affecting the populations in Empower Yolo serves? What are you seeing? So what we're definitely seeing is a significant spike in domestic violence since the shelter in place order. And we believe that that's attributed by, of course, survivors, victims being confined in their home with their abusers day and night. We certainly see a significant financial stress building up in the home, isolation from support like friends and family, and essentially separate ties from the community that they would otherwise be available to outside of the quarantine. So as a result, we're seeing a significant increase in restraining order petitions that we're doing, we're doing at least four days. And that certainly wasn't the case before the quarantine was in place. Wow, that's that's a daunting number there you just mentioned. Yeah. Yeah. So what kinds of help are you providing in addition to helping file those restraining orders? What other kinds of assistance are you really being is Empower Yolo really being called upon to to provide right now? Of course. So we're continuing to provide our normal services, along with restraining order clinics. We offer family law legal clinics to assist family law matters outside the scope of restraining orders, such as divorce petitions, custody matters. We continue to have our clothing closet open from 9am to 3pm. We continue to assist with food distribution in Yolo, night's landing and savings. We continue our therapy sessions online and we have we still have our shelter open. Of course, at this time, though, I will note that we have to only limited to Yolo County residents for our shelter. But that's not to say that we can't provide another avenue for housing for the community, because we're working closely with Yolo County Housing Department to house homeless seniors that are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms. So we can house them as well. And all of that can be available for the community if they call our 24 hour crisis flying. Yeah, I just my first interview was with Lisa Baker of Yolo Housing and she mentioned Empower Yolo. So I kind of love that that you mentioned them to and it's great to know about that reciprocity of work that's going on. So if someone is at risk for one of these areas that that we've mentioned already, what should they do? Well, certainly my first advice would be if they have access to a safe telephone, then they can call our 24 hour crisis line at<PHONE_NUMBER> and I'll just repeat that<PHONE_NUMBER>. And they should be aware that we at Empower Yolo continue to operate our offices during regular hours in Woodland, Davis, and like landing and then by appointment at West Sacramento. And of course, they're all at a safe location such as our West Sacramento PD. And we continue to keep our offices open so we can remain available to serve in the community. Great. And I imagine that others can call that that crisis line as well if they have a concern about a friend or family member, right? Absolutely. Absolutely. They can also call our main business line at<PHONE_NUMBER> in case they want to inquire about services for friends and family. We get that all the time, of course, and our wonderful client navigators are always able to navigate the callers to the appropriate department or department for that assistance. Okay. And apart from financial support because, you know, I've been talking a lot about nonprofits and how we are all going to need financial support to get through this, are there donations of other goods or services that that Empower Yolo welcomes? And if so, how would we get them to you? Of course. So, along with monetary donations, we are, you know, looking for donations from cleaning supplies, sanitizer, toilet paper, water, really anything that someone would like to donate along those lines. And if they ever have a question regarding whether or not they can donate something, then I again would refer them to call our main business line so that we can just check in with them and make sure it all goes well. All right. And donations to the clothing closet as well. Are you looking for anything in particular? Yeah. So, we're usually looking for women's clothes, children's and at this point, we've been needing more men's clothes as well. So, really just clothing and the fact that if they are seeking to donate them again, I would refer them to call the main line. Okay. I'm going to repeat the line, the lines you gave just to make sure we have those right. So, the main business line for Empower Yolo is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Do I have that right? Mm-hmm. And the 24-hour crisis line,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Yeah. All right. I really want to thank you for taking time to call in today. And is there any closing thoughts you have before we sign off here? Yeah. Just to know that Empower Yolo is here to continue our community in whatever state that we find ourselves in and that we are here for the community. Great. Well, we thank you for your work. And thanks for making time for the interview today. Of course. All right. Thank you so much. All right. Take care. That was Brigitte Guerra, a legal advocate with Empower Yolo. I'm going to cut to music for just a minute, and then I'll be back to wrap up. As I mentioned earlier, this is Episode 10, and I want to really thank everyone who's been tuning in and giving feedback on the show. It's felt like a very tangible way to get helpful information out there, local information.


And Robert Downey, because he's the wildly intelligent and witty and spontaneity with his humorous, unlike any other. Well, Chris Evans has played a superhero a couple of different times, so let's go with him. Yeah. Mark Ruffalo. He's smart, he's intelligent, there's a massive heart and he should be in Congress. Maybe he's not the kind of person you'd necessarily see in that scenario, but what a benefit it would be if someone like him was kind of running the show. Chris Evans, ah, Chris Pratt, there you go. Chris Pratt, yeah. Wildly enthusiastic and energetic and hilarious and loves kind of having a good time and gathering the crew together and kicking it off. Anthony Mackie. He's a charming man. We've got Tom Holland, yeah. He was a gymnast for many years and his agility and speed and whatever is pretty insane. Paul Rudd and Scarlett Johansson. I was just in the room with them right now and they seem to have good chemistry in there. They're both just lovely people. Me. Because I'd like to. I haven't really worked out my motor transport yet in any way getting there, but I'd be down for it, that'd be cool. Mark Ruffalo. He's incredibly charitable and empathetic and aware of the other people's situations and how he could help. He's a very selfless person. There's scratch and sniff tattoo of Robert Downey's face. In my face, just on their back. Just because it would be ridiculous and wildly regrettable for all of them. I mean, I loved hanging with the Guardians in Infinity War. I love that experience. It was so cool. I mean, each time you kind of interact with a different crew or set of actors or characters, it brings out something different in yourself and your performance. And I'd like to kind of chill with them. That'd be a lot of fun. Go anyway. Yeah, and they're kind of from out of space as well. So we'd have a familiarity and very different, unique personalities and sort of mashed up together. We'd have some cool, fun conflict. I'd love to do that. I'd love to see Daryl Moore. I'd love to do a little mockumentary TV show of us living together and rooming together and our day-to-day adventures outside of saving the world. Just sort of the regular stuff. I thought that was a lot of fun to shoot. And also I think it'd be cool to have a TV show like that. Surfing, fishing, we got the pub. It'd be good fun. Taking to Asgard and, you know, I think you explore that world. Asgard works. That's what I meant by home. Let's say Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman. I don't think Thor and him have hung out before. And I think they get along. I think they'd have some fun. Yeah, maybe it'd be more fun just for us to go and do something completely different. He's just a great guy. He's very kind and just a lot of fun to work with. So we'd do something different. I think it was on Avengers 1 or 2 where it was the original six. Trying to get, we had like one line each in the scene. Pretty simple thing. And we just couldn't get it together. We just kept cracking up and laughing. And then Joss Whedon, who was directing, was just exhausted and was just getting angrier and angrier. But the angrier he got, the funnier it got. I was in high school. And it was one of those moments where nothing changed. No matter what age you're at or what point of life that sort of inherent quality to when you're not supposed to laugh. You laugh even more. It was pretty strong.  Because I feel incredibly proud and thankful to be here in this film and this situation. And I don't know. I'd be worried that if I changed something it would redirect the course of this whole experience. And I couldn't be happy with where it is now. Whose first role was in a West End musical? I'm going to say Benedict Cumberbatch. Spider-Man. Is it Tom Holland? A coupon? That sounds really like a strange, weird...  I'm trying to now think who passed on. Who died? That sounds like a shady job. I'm going to say Mark Ruffalo. Zoe Saldana? One of the guardians. All the guardians. Chris Pratt? Oh, that makes sense. That seems insulting. This is easy. What else you got? Oh, it's got to be Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah, that makes sense too. Cancer. There you go. This whole secretive thing, it's just not my style. It gives me a lot of anxiety. So I'm very much looking forward. I will be celebrating not only the premiere of The Avengers, but the fact that people can actually not have to keep these crazy secrets anymore. I can't take it. I was going to say he's the worst to keep this secret. Mark Ruffalo is the worst. He's so bad. He's like embarrassingly bad. I think they've got him under control now. They really had to like... He's the security risk for sure.


Crow Wing County Administrative Services Director Debra Erickson has just been named as the Minnesota Association of County Officers Auditor of the Year. Erickson was recognized for her efforts representing Crow Wing County as well as her service to the Association as Chair of the Elections Committee. Erickson had served as the Crow Wing County Auditor and Treasurer before being named Administrative Services Director. All 87 counties in Minnesota make up the Minnesota Association of County Officers. The organization includes county auditors, treasurers, recorders, financial officers and registrars in Minnesota. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


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So today then I want to show you how to find products that have the capability to do over 3,000 pounds in sales in one single day So here we are then in the Shopify dashboard of one of my stores and these are the sales numbers from last week Then so I for this store I typically average around kind of like the 2k mark as you can see it fluctuates up and above can't for round that Number but then actually on the 29th I did a little bit over three grand it dipped down to where it usually sits But then actually on the 31st it jumped up to almost 4,000 pounds in one single day So with this particular store then probably 85% of the sales come from one single product and then the other 15% is made up from a simple upsell offer So what I've done then is I've put together a list in this Google document of just a different websites different tools and different methods That are used so I'm just going to run through these quickly then with you guys one by one And hopefully help you guys then find some pretty decent products as well But before we get into this then as always I am giving away a free one-to-one call with me on this video All you've got to do then to enter the drawer is simply log the video and leave a comment down below And if you come to my previous video then just make sure you stay tuned to the end of this one Where the winner will be announced and that means so then let's get straight into this So ideally then you want to go for products that solve a problem Slash makes somebody's life easier because then there's a need and I want for the product And if you can then you want to try and find a product that people have never seen before and this is the hardest thing to do So when people typically then talk about saturation when it comes to dropship in most of the time Then they're talking about selling the same products or advertising the same products that everybody else is advertising So to differentiate yourself from everybody else you either want to make sure you advertise that product in a different way So when people see your ad they see it as a different product because it's not just the same image or the same video Or you actually do want to advertise a unique products that you don't see typically very much on Facebook And you can do your own research then to see if there are ads of a particular product, which I'm going to be showing you later on in the video So cost-wise then ideally you want to try and find items that cost less than ten dollars to you And that is delivered as well For a couple of reasons really number one because then you avoid any kind of import taxes if you are shipping to the UK Because the limit is around the 15 pound mark and then perceived value wise you want to try and make sure that when somebody sees that product They're happy to pay at least double what you're paying for it So if you're paying ten dollars to live delivered then you want to perceive value of at least twenty dollars that way It's going to leave you at least ten dollars cost per purchase Which is kind of like a decent amount and a decent target to work towards when advertising on Facebook So total orders wise then Typically I try and find a product that has over 500 orders, but as it says there in brackets that is just a guide So orders you can't 100% take that figure as Your deciding factor of whether you've got a winning product or not because a product might have 10,000 orders But then all of those orders might be going to one country Which means there's a whole bunch of other countries which haven't seen that product or haven't been ordering that product And therefore it may be a good product So the first couple of ways I want to show you then is simply using Ali express Obviously, this is where we are sourcing our products from so it's a great place to start your research So I've got my Ali express drop shipping center open here The way you access it then is if you simply go into your account click my Ali express and then you can see up here We've got a tab for drop shipping center and then these are the three things that I'm just going to run through with you now So hot DS items is hot drop shipping items It's going to show you the popular items essentially that other people are buying and drop shipping and then if you just Bring down this tab here. You can select the hot drop shipping items for each niche as well So if you have built a niche store and you're struggling to find that winning product Then you can simply go in find your niche and find one then that is selling really well in your niche So let's say for example, you're selling Earrings we can click on earrings and it's going to give you the earrings with the most amount of orders So the next thing then that I want to show you then is this trusted suppliers rank And this is actually really be good because it shows you what The best rated suppliers are on Ali express and again You can filter this by a category and then when you find a store So let's take for example this this store here looks like they sell dog Products there's a couple of interesting ways Then I like to find products using this method to number one is obviously the top selling you can scroll through try and find a unique item That you haven't seen before it's always good to have a knowledge then of the niche You're going into because then certain products will stand out to you because you have a knowledge of the niche And the other thing I like to look at as well is new arrivals This is really a tab you should be checking out quite a lot because if you can find a product That grabs your attention looks really good and be one of the first people to sell it on Facebook Then that's just a recipe for going viral and essentially just making loads of money off one product And then the third and final thing just to double check with the notes is the product analysis So if we just go back to Our hot drop shipping items or let this load up And let's just take the wireless earphones then for example because I know for a fact that these are really popular right now All you do is you take the URL head back to the product analysis Put the URL in there click search and it's going to give us the sales history of a particular product So we can make sure that we are essentially going into this product and going to start selling this product At the correct time so as you can see sales are fairly steady then for whatever reason sales shot up Last week in fact and then sales start to drop down Perhaps they had some sort of sale on and then you can see the soul slowly started to creep up again So to me what this tells me then is that sales are fairly consistent. So it's quite a solid product There's quite a solid demand for this at the moment So now then would be a good time to actually go in and start selling the products like this What you would want to avoid then is if the graph will say in this top left corner And it was steadily and slowly declining that would be a sign-in of a product that is coming to the end of its demand And therefore it wouldn't be a good time to sell a product like that So back to my notes and the next thing I want to show you then is see the CJ drop shipping marketplace So these guys work with drop shippers and they can source and ship products for people like us So these guys have got a first-hand experience of exactly what products are being sold and fulfilled and shipped and Therefore it's a great place to start with research because it's going to tell you as you can see you can filter by the last seven days Last three days and it's going to tell you how popular these items are essentially how many sales have gone through in this past amount of days So again, it's just a great place to look and find products I was having a look at this website earlier in fact and this products here grabbed my attention Especially with summer coming up people spending more time outside going to the park I think a products like this was going to absolutely kill it and again Then if you've already chosen a niche you can filter by the categories choose Whichever niche you're in so home and garden with the summer coming up It's going to be a good niche a good popular niche and again, it's going to show you the most popular products That are available that you can go ahead and drop ship yourself as well So back to the notes then the next thing I want to show you then is google trends so if you're not using google trends then make sure you get used to using it because Again when it comes to you can pretty much just search a product And it's going to tell you exactly what kind of search volume it's getting and has been getting then all the way from Well the past five years you can go from you can select the country as well. So if we were to go worldwide And as you can see I've got wireless earphones in the search term We can see that wireless earphones are on the upward trend So again as I mentioned earlier a very good product to get into right now And what we want to avoid then is if the If the graph was going the other way So if it was on the way down then that is a bad sign It shows that that product is coming to the end of its trend And therefore less and less people are buying it Another thing as well is that google trends tell you Where this popularity is coming from so if you're not sure What kind of products you want to sell in one of the beauties of drop shipping is We can sell to pretty much any country that facebook will allow us to And whichever country e-pack it will ship to Then we can see exactly where the demand for a particular product is as well So that being said then that's google trends make sure you get used to using it Find your way around it's fairly simple to use and definitely a valuable tool It's 100 free as well. So definitely worth using So back to the notes then another thing you can do then is use facebook to check on competitors And then model the ads that they're running as well So just as an example then all i've done is searched for teeth whitening And then the words get yours because they're the kind of words that you would see in an ad And if you just click on videos like I have done here It's going to list all the different videos with those keywords in and it's going to give you the views as well So you can easily Find a video that's got a decent amount of views. So for example this one then that's 2 million. I can open that up So for whatever reason it's not loading. Let's try that again. Sorry about that for whatever reason my internet just cut out So for example, then this one here we can see it's got three quarters of a million views We can open that up and we can see the exact ad they're running And which we can go ahead and then model our ad on And if we have a look at the ad description as well again, we can model ourselves on that as you can see Like the most effective ads don't have to be really complicated. The simplest thing works And that's handy. In fact, they've got a short url as well So another little trick I can show you is if you just copy and paste this into your url bar and put a plus sign on the end Then it's going to tell you as well how many clicks that url has had So it can gives you an idea then of how popular and how interested people are In that particular product and it will tell you as well where that traffic has come from So as you can see a lot of it's come from facebook The majority are mobile so it gives you exactly what you need to model your own facebook ads on So again back to the list Now they're all the kind of like different methods are used to find that particular product I showed you earlier in terms of how you would then go ahead and start marketing the product It really does depend on the product So facebook works best than when you want to target a specific country because you lose that control when you use instagram influencers because somebody might have 100 000 audience sites but 50 000 of those might be from the us 30 000 from the uk and then 20 000 from a whole load of different budget countries So if you want to focus on one particular country So if you just want to focus on the uk and you just want to focus on one specific audience as well So people interested in dog walking then you can't beat facebook the options and different tags and variables It gives you it's just second to none To any other marketing platform And then if you want to go down the instagram route then things Nishes such as the fitness and fitness and fashion these niches. I can't talk right now tend to work the best because they're quite visual niches and those spaces then are absolutely huge on instagram So when it comes to things like instagram influencers, again, they just lend themselves Towards that towards that method of marketing and a couple of quick tips Then when it comes to instagram influencers stick to a personal brand So a page that has a face behind it and try and if you're tight on a budget as well Then stick to influencers with a smaller audience size So anywhere up to half a million at the very max instagram also works really well for brand heavy products So for example, then people buy Fitness clothing and fashion clothing or just clothes in general Because of the brand it has on them. So if you want to build a brand from day one Then getting an influencer on board is key to your success Because if they agree with your brand and your brand's vision and mission statement And you can get somebody with a decent following to represent your brand People will want to buy your clothes because of who's wearing them And that being said guys, I'm going to wrap the video up there I've just have just about went through everything. I wanted to any questions on any of this at all Please do leave a comment down below And if you enjoyed the video if you're still watching thank you very much Hopefully it is because you enjoyed the video So please do leave a like and if you want to be entered into that one-to-one raffle as well that will be announced tomorrow Then don't forget to leave a comment down below as well. So that being said guys Thanks for watching and let's get into announcing the winner of the previous video So here we are then guys on the previous video. Um how to create high convert product pages for your Shopify store So it was quite a heavily requested video actually. So if you haven't watched it yet, make sure you go and check it out Um, so i'm just going to take the url head over to our random comment picker Get the youtube comments start the raffle then see who's going to be the winner We've just hit 4 000 subs as well, which is awesome. So thank you very much guys It's all thanks to you who watch the videos and the winner then is flouesh Thanks for the value. So thanks for your comment. Make sure you reach out on instagram We can get that call arranged and that being said guys If you just want to get down to business and get a call booked right away Then you can do so there is a link down below in the video description And that being said, thanks for watching. Thanks for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you all in the next one


To all the parts of Africa, fighters opposed to Myanmar's military junta fought with troops in the east of the country on Sunday, May 23. They also claimed to have killed more than 13 members of the security forces, captured four and raised the police station. The fighting was the latest since the coup that overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1. A national unity government set up underground by opponents of the coup, announced a new flag and a new command structure for the People's Defence Force, which is set up to oppose the army.


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I've been so used to seeing your tear-stained faces as I pass you by out on the South Lawn. I have held a first meeting with the—it took a little while, didn't it? I have just attended the first meeting with the commission, chaired by Dr. Kissinger, the Commission on Central America, and have explained to them, if any explanation was needed, what it is that we have in mind for that commission, that I have believed for a long time that this country in the past, even though it has suggested plans for better neighborly relations with the countries in the rest of the Americas, while the intentions were good, somehow maybe there was an insensitivity about our size and us suggesting something as a plan that everyone should adopt, that I have been looking for a way in which we could get their cooperation, their ideas, and bring all of the nations of the Americas closer together as equal partners and allies. And that this is the kind of long-range plan to bring this about, to alleviate some of the conditions that have made many of those countries subject to recurring revolutions, because the revolutions have always been, for the most part, have been revolutions that simply changed one set of rulers for another set of rulers. And I began this before I had even taken office with regard to our nearest neighbor Mexico, and to see if we can't make the borders meeting places instead of lines for confrontation or separation. And the very fact that we are all Americans from South Pole to North Pole here in these two continents with a common pioneer heritage, with a common desire for individual freedom is such that I just hope that we can begin to bring this about and bring together the more than 600 million people in our two continents in the Isthmus, and that their job would be to start with Central America and see how we could have economic and social reforms that could help bring this about. President, how far are you willing to go militarily to save Chad from falling into the hands of the rebels backed by Libya? Well, Chad actually, you might say, is in a sphere of interest of the French. France, because of its historic relationship with that area, has made it plain that they considered this their principal place. We're in consultation with them, and we have in answer to request provided weapons and some trainers in the use of those weapons. We are at the same time now because the concern of all the northern African states there, or the central African states, about the Libyan intervention, Qaddafi and his adventuring down there, have them all concerned. And for that reason, many of the African states are providing troops. We have volunteered to, some of them, to aid in the transportation of those troops. But we're not in any way in line for participating militarily other than that. What do you think are the chances, in view of the fall today, of the Faya Largo that the Chad will survive under the present regime? Well, it's a very volatile situation, and I don't know that I could, I'm not going to hazard a guess, but Chad looks so small on the map when you see it pictured so often there. We forget the size of Africa because if Chad is superimposed on an American, a map of the United States, you find that it's a country that extends virtually from the Mexican to the Canadian border and is a few states wide when it's looked at in that way. So, Faya Largo is a city, of course, but it's our understanding, as well as we can get information out of there, that the Harbury forces have been withdrawn, that they came out not dispersed or captured or overrun. But again, I have to caution you that any reports we're getting, there are conflicting reports of all kinds coming from there. But no, I don't think that this is such a key spot, that this marks the imminent end of the war. The reason I gave you the geographical description is that's a long way from the capital and Jima, where the French paratroop forces have gone in, things of that kind. I'm going to start, as I said before, I'm going to try to start with some back there a little further, because I never get beyond about the first two lines. You, yes. The President, would the United States allow Chad to fall into pedophilia in the Libyan rather than intervene? As I've said before, it is not our primary sphere of influence. It is that of France. We remain in constant consultation with them. But I don't see any situation that would call for military intervention by the United States there. The President, I wanted to ask you a question on the commission. Have you decided whether to retain or remove the Cuban-American member of the United States? There is, as you know, a clearance that has to be done for everyone who is appointed to any group of that kind or any position, and pending such a clearance which is going on while I'm not going to comment about any. I think it is a fine commission and represents a variety of viewpoints, and I hope that it will be passed intact. Mr. President, you've described Chad as lying within the French sphere of influence. Do you feel the French are at the moment doing enough to counter Libyan adventurers? I have to tell you that I'm not aware of what their plans might be or what it is that they're prepared to do. I know they have introduced ground forces in there, but I'm just not privy to their military planning, and I think that's explainable. I think that they know that the more something is talked about, the more chance there is of leaks, and the leaks in this case could benefit the wrong people. Mr. President, you have said that you're in consultation, close consultation with the French. Do you think that it would be helpful if they provided air support to Chad, and should they be providing more than the limited ground forces and the trainers that they've sent away? Well, as I say, I don't know what their plans are. Frankly, we had believed at first that there was going to be some aerial activity there. Now, I don't know whether they're negotiating at the same time with Libya or not, but I know that we had thought that because part of Libya's forces and key forces in their first advance not only have been motorized troops on the ground, but have been aerial attacks. Why are we so concerned about that part of the world? If it is the French sphere of influence, what is it about Qaddafi and perhaps the Sudan or Egypt, why is this an American concern? Well, I think the whole attitude of Qaddafi and his empire building is of concern to anyone, but the main concern is to the surrounding African states. They are all very much alarmed and disturbed because they believe that Qaddafi is intent on adventuring far beyond his own borders, and they believe that they're all under a threat. Mr. President, are you worried that United States forces are being stretched too thin around the globe, as I believe the Army Chief of Staff hinted recently? Well, I think what he was pointing out is that in training the military and planning your own security, you have to consider what are all of the contingencies that could require for our security some action by us. And then this is why you have war games in various parts of the world and joint training exercises. And what he was pointing out, I think, was that today, unlike a previous day when weapons weren't quite of the kind they are now, the world has grown more interdependent that at one time and within my lifetime, our principle protection were shore batteries of artillery along our coasts. And I think he was pointing out that our military requirements are different. And in considering the possible contingencies and where we would feel that our security was actually involved is so much more widespread than it has ever been, that our peacetime forces, yes, if they had to be called into action, but I think also that's considering that they could be called into action in all those places at once. United States now has Marines in Lebanon. We have AWACS planes in North Africa. We have a military training mission going on with Egypt. And we have a show of military force in Latin America. And there's an impression now that you are responding to trouble spots always in a military fashion. Has there been a change in your approach to problems around the world? Is there a shift in our policy? I don't think so at all. Previous, under a previous president, a few presidents back, there was an entire division in Lebanon. This was part of our peace program there. They're not there in a combat state. They're there to help while the Libyan government or the Lebanese government tries to regain control over its own territory. The war games in Egypt that are going on or the practice maneuvers, joint maneuvers, that's an annual thing that we've done for a long time. Now, I noticed that you changed the tone and said that it was a show of force in Central America. Well, we have held joint maneuvers, both naval and on land, repeatedly with our friends and allies here in the Americas. As a matter of fact, many of you have referred to the one in Honduras as the biggest. It's only about half as big as the one we held within the year in Panama, where there were 10,000 troops involved. Are you saying that it's not the American role to play policemen around the world? No, it is not. It is to recognize that the threats can be that widespread and the threats to our security, because we know, for example, that a great percentage of the strategic minerals that are needed for our industrial might come from various places in the world, the oil that we import. We can't stand by and say that we have no consideration of what might happen in closing off the sea lanes from that are used by the tankers supplying us with the oil that we must import. So this is all based on what could be, what could involve our own security. I was just going to get back into the middle layer again. All right. Are you going to China? Hi. Are you going to China? I'm going to have to have a seat there. Give us a hand. Do you expect me to define Larry?