Muscle tissue, there's actually only three types of muscle tissue, and its function is super straightforward, muscle tissue shortens. That's it. The tissue itself shortens. When tissue shortens, it can cause movement. Depending on the shape of the muscle structure, you can cause different kinds of movements. So you can imagine this massive bicep. If I shorten my bicep, I'm actually going to flex my forearm at my elbow joint, right? If I contract and shorten my triceps, I'm actually going to extend my forearm at that elbow joint. And that's because you actually, your muscle tissue only contracts. So if you want to relax a muscle or stretch it back out again, you have to have another muscle to actually do contraction to sort of counterbalance that. Because it shortens, it always causes movement of something. There are three kinds of muscle tissue. If there's a movement in your body, a muscle is somehow involved in that. The muscle tissue that I just demonstrated is skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle is attached to bone most of the time, but actually not always. The orbicularis aurus is a circular muscle that surrounds your lips and makes it so you can make a kissing move. You got to do that every now and then with your orbicularis aurus. Sometimes when you make your kissing move, you also close your eyes and so you need your orbicularis oculi for that. Thank you, skeletal muscles. It's not the only movement. Skeletal muscles aren't the only things that are moving. Something else is moving. Aww, you have cardiac muscle. Cardiac muscle is only found in your heart and it's responsible. It's contracting and it's responsible for generating pressure to move your blood through your body. Thanks, heart. Everybody pat your heart right now.  And then the last kind of muscle tissue is called smooth muscle. Smooth muscle is a involuntary muscle. It surrounds blood vessels and bronchi in your respiratory system and it causes changes in the diameter of those tubes. So when you see smooth muscle, it's actually there's smooth muscle in your digestive, surrounding your digestive tubing as well. And that actually allows for peristalsis, right? So movements are happening. Smooth muscle is helping us do that. That's it. That's muscle. I don't think there's anything else I need to tell you about it. It takes energy to make it happen. Super cool. We're spending an entire six lectures and labs on skeletal muscle and that's it. And then another three on cardiac muscle. So we're going to see these guys in a little bit more detail in the future. Let's do our last tissue type, nervous tissue.


Hello, this is David Diger Hernandez, and you are watching Spirit Church here on the Encounter TV Network. The Holy Spirit within you is your qualification for ministry. When the Holy Spirit took up residence in your being, God gave to you power and authority over demonic beings. I want to teach you how to cast out demons and set the demon-possessed free. That's what I'm going to be talking about right now, but first Stephen Maktuzuma is going to lead you in some very anointed worship, and then we're going to get right into this message here is Stephen Maktuzuma. Let me be to you a sacrifice Lord, you have my heart And I will search for yours Jesus take my life and leave Lord, you have my heart And I will search for yours Let me be to you a sacrifice And I will pray And I will sing of love come down Who shall we see Your love come down Who shall we see Well, as you can probably tell this isn't the normal set for Spirit Church and over the next few weeks You're going to be seeing different setups as we transition to the new and final location For this season of our ministry We are almost done with constructing the new television set But in the meantime as I said you're going to be seeing different sets in front of you Don't get used to any of them. I will tell you when we're on the new set. I promise So I'm talking to you about how to cast out demonic powers Now you've often heard it said that you have authority over demonic beings I taught over the past couple of weeks about signs of demonic possession But now I want to teach you how you can cast them out And really there is no how to when it comes to the very specific application of laying hands on someone who is possessed by a demonic spirit Really what I'm talking about here is how to live such a life that gives you authority over demonic beings. You see There is no ritual that you have to apply to cast out demons There is no special prayer that you can pray that will cause them to leave someone if there were a special prayer If there were a ritual then the power would be in that ritual the power would be in that prayer Rather than in the power of the Holy Spirit But you and I both know that the power to drive out demonic forces comes from the Holy Spirit himself Living within you now How do you live in such a way that that authority that power? Manifests causing the demonic the demonically oppressed to go free when you come near them when you lay hands on them when you drive out that demonic beam Well, the key really is time in God's presence And I'm gonna talk about that for a moment, but I want to share with you this story to illustrate the power of what I'm talking about I Was ministering in the east coast and this was a conference that I was speaking at with nothing But just a bunch of youth and young adults. It was a powerful time in God's presence People had come from all over the east coast to be in this meeting and I was ministering. I forget the message even to this day I believe on being light in a dark world But during my message I began to sense this stirring in the spirit the atmosphere began to shift and Toward the end of the service all of a sudden out of nowhere this girl Begins to scream and growl and cuss and contort She was shaking under the power of God I knew immediately that it was a demonic power inside of her So she begins to manifest and the usher's come forward and they say we have to remove her from the service She's a distraction as they're dragging her out of the service the Holy Spirit quickened me He said call that girl forward.  She's fighting them. She's kicking her She's trying to stop the movement with her feet She didn't want to get anywhere near me.  She's cussing at me. She's cursing me. Her body is just shaking. She's her face is contorting Just as I go to lay hands on her someone else in the crowd begins to manifest someone else who was possessed by a demonic being so I said bring that person up to and as they're dragging that person up another person begins to manifest and Then another person begins to manifest and another person begins to manifest Until there are about a dozen demon possessed people standing in a line all of them screaming many of them cussing All of them contorting their faces looking at me with rage and hatred in their eyes I've cast out demons out of for many people and many of them have told me that while I was praying for them They felt this hatred in their hearts toward me and they wanted to kill me So knowing that I'm looking at this crowd of people. I can see That there is this demonic hatred on their faces and I can feel that demonic influence on their bodies And so I just prayed a simple prayer. The Lord told me just pray a simple prayer It's how I was led in the moment. I said in the name of Jesus and the moment I spoke the name of Jesus. In fact before I could even finish Pronouncing the name of Jesus. I said the first syllable I said in the name of G and as soon as I got that first syllable out all of those who were up at the front for deliverance fell out under the power of God and They began to twist on the ground like snakes and they all screened I said in the name of Jesus and I prayed a simple prayer of deliverance. It was something like I command you to let them go and All of them at the same time Every single one of them were delivered They all stood up and instead of screaming Instead of yelling instead of their faces contorting instead of them slithering on the ground like snakes. They stood many of them with tears streaming down their faces and They lifted their hands and they began to worship God. They were set free in an instant My friend, that's how Jesus did it It doesn't take a long ritualistic prayer to cast the demon out You don't have to go back seven generations this way seven generations that way You don't have to interview the demon. How did you get in? What was your door that was open? How did you come to have influence over this person? What is your name? You simply have to speak with power and authority come out in the name of Jesus and that demonic being has to go That's how Jesus did it. That's how we are to command the forces of darkness. No, there is no process to it I know you've heard otherwise, but we have to look to the word There was only one instance that I I've seen Where Jesus asked the demons name and that was the man with the legion of demons in him But then he cast them out in an instant, too. There was no process. There was no fighting There was no generational curse to break many people asked me do you believe in generational curses?  And so This is the type of influence and power God wants to give to us Acts chapter 4 verse 13 says The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John For they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the scriptures They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus Peter and John had no special training in scriptures. They had never gone to seminary. They had never received anything that we would deem as an education when it came to the bible But they had one thing better And that was the fact that they had been with Jesus now. I'm not against bible school My point is simple there is power when you spend time in the presence of God The more time that you spend in the presence of the Holy Spirit The greater the manifestation of power will come through your life The greater the amount of time in the presence The greater the intensity of the power upon you The key to the power of the Holy Spirit Is walking in the presence of the Holy Spirit now Acts chapter 19 verses 13 through 16 say A group of Jews was traveling from town to town casting out evil spirits They tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in their incantation saying I command you in the name of Jesus Whom Paul preaches to come out Seven sons of schiva leading priests were doing this But one time when they tried it the evil spirit replied I know Jesus and I know paul But who are you then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them Overpowered them and attacked them with such violence that they fled from the house naked and battered Not only were these men embarrassed, but they were overpowered by this demonic being the demonic being made a show of them Why because they didn't know Jesus for themselves. There was no personal relationship They did not spend time in the presence of Jesus In mark chapter 9 verses 2 through 12 We see a powerful story about the transfiguration of Jesus Now i'll read a little bit of the the portion of scripture to you the scripture says six days later Jesus took peter james and john and led them up a high mountain to be alone As the men watched Jesus's appearance was transformed And his clothes became dazzling white far wider than any earthly bleach could ever make them Then elisha and moses appeared and began talking with jesus. So here we see That peter james and john go to the mountain top with jesus Now jesus was glowing with the glory when they come down from the mountain skip ahead now to verse 14 when they come down to the mountain This is what happens verse 14 says when they return to the other Disciples They saw a large crowd surrounding them and some teachers of religious law were arguing with them When the crowd saw jesus they were overwhelmed with awe and they ran to greet him Now why was the crowd overwhelmed with awe? I believe it's because jesus was still glowing from the glory of the transfiguration experience He came off of the mountain top from a heavenly experience from an open heaven And he comes down from the mountain to find that his disciples are with the Pharisees arguing And he comes in he's still glowing from the glowing from the glory of god The crowd looks at him And they stand in awe they can see the very glory of god on him now One of the men in the crowd spoke up Teacher I brought my son so you could heal him He is possessed by an evil spirit that won't let him talk And whenever this spirit seizes him it throws him violently to the ground Then he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid So I asked your disciples to cast out the evil spirit But they couldn't do it Now here's the interesting thing This wasn't all the disciples that were there that were trying to cast out demons remember peter james and john Were there at the mountain top with jesus? Why is it that jesus was able to cast out this spirit as you'll read later in that context you can read down to verse 18 Why is it that jesus was able to drive out this evil spirit? Why is it that that the other disciples were not? Why is it that these men who had been with jesus were unable to drive out that demonic power? It's because they had been with him But they had not been with him to the mountain top They had been in his presence sure they were able to cast out other demons Jesus says later this kind comes out only through prayer and fasting that tells us that there are different kinds of demonic spirits And different levels of wickedness different levels of power in the demonic realm So the disciples that had not visited the mountain top were the ones who struggled to cast out demons my friend If you've ever struggled with casting out a demonic being If it's ever taken you a really long time to do it If you had to stay there for three four hours driving this thing out My suggestion to you is that you spend more time on the mountain top Because the scripture tells us that with a simple command Jesus would drive out demonic beings you say oh, but that's jesus however That's the same power that dwells in you my friend You have the same exact power that raised jesus from the dead dwelling in you So how do you cast out demonic beings? It's simple Spend time with jesus when you're spending hours with jesus It will simply take you seconds to cast out demons And if it takes you seconds to cast out demons is because there's power on your life If however, it takes you hours to cast out devils Perhaps you should increase your time with jesus that power that authority comes from being in his presence And that is it for the lesson. I want to pray with you now I want to pray that god would invite you to the mountain top That god would take you to the deeper places in his presence that would cause you to walk in heavenly authority Come on. Let's pray and let's believe that god would use your life in this way father in the name of jesus I pray for that one receiving this prayer now And I ask lord that you would give them a greater hunger for your presence That you would invite them to the mountain top to spend time in your glory That they walk in the glory of god That they walk in your presence In the name of jesus we pray and I want you to say it because you believe it say amen The truth is my friend That you'll hear many things about spiritual warfare and demons that aren't true You've heard it said new levels new devils But my friend there's no devil who can walk on your level When you walk in the presence of god I want to welcome now the new members of spirit church. There you are up on the screen We love you and we are praying for you. I always say that because I always mean it if you like information on how you can join the spirit family Then go to david hernan as ministries.com slash spirit church sign up today. 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It's a two part one teaching really But broken down into two messages signs of demonic possession It will help you identify and discern demonic possession in people Terra Oma writes excellent teaching again. I'm not surprised. Just please and grateful to jesus Kyle writes such an anointed worship song amen christ alone. He is lord of all Thank you, brother david and steven. This is indeed the ministry of the holy spirit worthy is the lamb hallelujah He's talking of course there about steven mocked zuma who does anointed worship My favorite worship leader of all time go and be sure to check out his playlist here on the encounter tv network I know you'll enjoy that music Narmada writes thanks a lot Again, praise god for the provision of godly men like you pastor david pray that god continually uses you for his glory Praying for you and looking forward to the next one And the final commenter writes. Hi. 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I do have a map showing where the area is at if, you know, anyone wants to see. But I wanted to see if there's anything we can do there to remove the additional sediment in this area to reduce the risk of flooding. You know the area I'm talking about? Yeah. So I think we can both address this question. So some of the images that Steve showed of the log jams being removed are in that area or just upstream of it. So that was, as my understanding, I was done this past summer. A lot of the trees that people see, especially if they're looking at them from the Orchard Park market or from Hulan Road, a lot of those trees are actually up kind of on the cusp of the floodplain. So they don't interact with the water surface until the water starts spilling out of the channel. If there are additional tree blockages that we're unaware of, we can probably collectively address them. But my understanding at this point is that the clearing has been relatively comprehensive through there. The problem with removing sediment is locally is that you just end up creating a divot in the channel that ends up filling back up. It's really a regional issue.  And so the material is being removed by nature. And then I also am aware that the Zone 7 drainage crews did clear a bunch of sediment out of that confluence area with Salsa Poitos Creek last summer. Right? Yeah. Because recently we're still getting a lot of concern from those neighborhoods. The Lakin Orchard Park area from that neighborhood and also the owners of the Orchard Park Center, I guess. Concerns about sediment as well that has been accumulated back through there. Basically where that, not breach, but overflow, overcrest or whatever it's called in that area. And so that was one of the areas of concern that if we can look into, you know, further look into, because we've got these winter storms coming in, and the neighbors there that were flooded, you know, twice in that area are concerned and rightfully so. Yeah. I mean, we can certainly take a second look at some of these spots, but I will point out that part of the reason the Levy Reconstruction Project is prioritizing construction in this reach is because of these acute sensitivities and because it is an unlevy portion of the system. So there are no Army Corps levies between Green Valley Road and East Lake Avenue. That's part of the reason why the creek jumped its banks there is because there is no protection there. Also, it's important to realize that the New Year's storm that we got last year was four and a half feet, water surface elevation four and a half feet above what the channel could contain itself. And there was a creek clearing and walkthrough that was done last December immediately before that storm system came through. So that came through on a relatively clear and free creek and there's just no way a storm of that magnitude can be contained within that natural channel. So that's why we're prioritizing the project to start there. Well, thank you. I think it's a reminder. I just want to thank Supervisor Friend and Dr. Strudley for going back to D.C. Month in, month out to get 2024 Pahoa River really levy improvements are not going to come fast enough, but thank you again for that effort.  And thank heavens that we have it coming now. Thank you. You know, there's been a significant amount, a significant amount of work in particular in the Santa Cruz County side from a maintenance perspective, a funding perspective, a repair and a rebuild perspective associated with this is a 75. At the end of the day, it's a 75 year old levy that was built to standards that were inadequate in the late 40s and are clearly inadequate to protect the lives and property of the communities today. And it took a significant amount of legislative work to get to a process by which we could make this prioritized at the state and federal level. We've accomplished that. Basically a $500 million project, half a billion dollar project. We're having this project covered by the state federal government. With the first segment, because of regulatory relief from Speaker Revis's bill beginning, you know, within the next year, which is a pretty remarkable thing. It didn't. Supervisor McPherson's point, it can't come fast enough that the conditions by which the communities have been living under the flood threat are actually not substantively changed over the last 75 years. The communities because the levy is the same levy. Let's change. And there's been floods as, you know, in 55 and mid to late 90s and 17, it barely held and then broke again. So the underlying elements of it aren't fundamentally different. And there has been significant and continued advocacy to receive this funding. And we finally were able to secure that. It's still going to be a few years until this is fully completed. And so I have a couple of questions just in regards to that, maybe for Dr. Strudley. Well, first question actually for Mr. Weissner, you had mentioned that you'd mentioned the culvert clearing and some of the tree removal in that area as well. If the community, maybe a little bit to Supervisor Renan at this point, if the community sees an area or has a concern of an area in advance, they want your crew to check out what would be the best way that they could, they could submit a request for your team to go look at something. Yeah, there's several different ways to reach us. I'll mention my Santa Cruz app. That's a great way to reach us. It has very specific information about there about tree down trees and so forth. But if you're not technology oriented and you want to just make a phone call, you can certainly just call the department. Department of Public Works at<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's our main line during normal business hours. And then we have a dispatch number, which operates 24 hours a day. That's<PHONE_NUMBER>. There's also ways to email us to and our website has all of these very well articulated. If you go to the County Department of Public Works's website. Thank you. For Dr. Strudley, the repairs that the Army Corps are completing will make those segments, those vulnerable segments significantly stronger than they were in the previous storm. I mean, really building it to a modern standard, kind of giving you a preview of what the future levy will look like. What is the top line message that you would provide to residents in both Watsonville or Pajaro or in the South County region on both sides? Or as we're working through what could be a potentially challenging winter and before we're able to complete the rebuild of the levy, what's the message for the community from a preparedness standpoint or an information standpoint? What would you like them to know? So I tell this to everyone in response to the questions, for example, to, you know, what kind of storm scene are we going to have like El Nino? And I say the same thing in response to this question, which is people need to be prepared to react and respond to messaging that comes out from our emergency management partners. If there are evacuation warnings or orders that come out, they need to heed those because as you said, the parts that are being reconstructed right now by the Army Corps and their contractors for these repairs, they are in fact, excuse me, stronger than what was built in the 1940s. But they're just small parts of this levy system. The rest of the levy system is the same old levy system we've had since the 40s, which is undersized and structurally weak until we can build a new levy system. So people in general terms can hope for the best and prepare for the worst, but in specifics as Steve alluded to in the beginning of his talk, people need to have their go bags ready. They need to have their arrangements made and their own self responsibility aspect of preparedness until we have a new levy system built and they can rest easier until that time we're going to be taking every effort we can to bolster the system to provide some extra level of effort to try to keep this system contained and structurally sound until we get these new levies, but we are still living with a heightened level of risk until those new levies are built. Thank you. Thank you. Just one additional question to the point of being prepared. You mentioned that there would be sandbags distributed in October. Is that coming next week to celebrate flood preparedness week? So we do this every year and we have a regular group of fire stations that we distribute to. We'll pretty much take them to any fire station that will take the sand and the sandbags. It's a bit of a lift for them because they have to monitor it and then let us know when they need to be replenished, but we've made those deliveries and you can find a list on our website as to where those are. Great. Thanks. We're going to open up for the community. Is there any member of the community that would like to address us specifically on this item? Good for you, Steph. Thank you so much. I'm glad I showed up today just to tell you a few things about what's happening with my community on the top of Summit there. I don't fully know, but the last time I was out there driving around, maybe like a month ago, I think the road by the church there, Skyland Church, going over towards the fire station, I think that still looked like whore.  It's in Santa Cruz County. It's in Santa Clara County. I like Santa Cruz County to communicate a little bit with Santa Clara County because I'm looking at these roads, whether it's flood or fire, these are escape routes for my community. And we feel kind of trapped at the top of the mountain here is something's going down. Okay. And also there is a pole that's in front of my home. I think it's on Miller Hill there. PG&E needs to come in and replace that pole. Because again, you know, in event of disaster flood or like the winter storm that we had last year or a high wind event, that pole can go down.  Okay. Now the Soquel Creek, my apologies, the water from the rainstorms comes from probably from my house, right? And you might want to do some investigative work up around my house around the Silver Mountain winery and in the canyons in there. It's horrifying. There's radical stuff that's pointed down towards Capitola and Santa Cruz County. Just so you know, I don't know if it's all private land, but and how to deal with it. It's like a sandpile with huge massive trees all pointed downhill. And so it's hard to say whether or not you want to disturb it or not.  So it doesn't bring something catastrophic down on the Capitola. Okay. Anyways, thank you so much. Thank you. Is there anybody else in chambers? We'll see none. Is there anybody online? Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir, would you, you had wanted to speak to as well? All right, please feel free stuff. I'm sorry, Madam Court, we'll bring it forward. Yes. I was wondering if the soil or the drinking water was affected by the flood and borrow. It was tested. I think you will take that under advisement. Is there anybody online? Yes, sir. Colin, user two, your microphone is now available. I don't question the intent and sincerity and work that people are doing on this. However, so many trees have been cut down everywhere and trees and vegetation help hold the soil in place. So I question the wisdom of like clear cutting along the freeway over the years along the rail trail everywhere. Also, refer people again to geoengineeringwatch.org and to view the film, The Dimming. He states that drought and day lose scenario is a hallmark of geoengineering. Here's just a few notes here. The nanoparticles that are released and 60,000 nanoparticles are the width of a human hair are covering the planet like a layer of glass. And this results in climate ecological collapse. This is huge destruction. 60, 40 to 60 million tons annually of climate engineering particles are distributed and the planet is ubiquitously contaminated. So what we're talking about here today is in huge part caused by geoengineering. And that should be halted. He states there is no natural weather at this point, none. Thank you, Ms. Karen. We have no further speakers chair. Okay, Nick, we'll bring it back to the board. Let's see if it's an exception file. I'm sorry. The action is it's just a receive. So there's no specific board action. We appreciate both of you providing the presentation. Oh, just one quick. The question was the drinking water impacted through the sediment at all. So I can't say for certain we are aware that generically when there are floods, there are water quality concerns that play into agricultural viability in particular organic farming because of potential can't contaminants that can come from floodwaters. But I don't actually I'm not aware of to what extent the water supply has been affected by any contaminants in the floodwater. Thank you. All right. Thank you for the team for that presentation. The final item before closed session is item 11, which is to consider report on recycling and solid waste long term planning progress to direct community development infrastructure return on a report November 19 2024 with a recycling and solid waste long term planning report and take related actions that lend memo the deputy CAO. We have the agenda board memo. And here today we have case across our recycling and solid waste services manager and bill Hawks for the Department of Ministry of Analyst.  All right, please confirm the microphones on bill. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, chair friend and board members for the opportunity to share some highlights of the county's recycling and solid waste services. Cycling and solid waste services responsible for all aspects of waste management, which includes preparing for the closure of Wayne of Vista landfill and designing a transfer facility to replace it before it closes. We are regulated by state environmental laws, including the most recent climate action bill SB 1383. This slide in the next were completed during a study session with our consultants HFNH where we mapped out how we are going to accomplish our goals of waste diversion and given the legal trends and chagging economic climate. This was conducted pre COVID or as we have it listed on the slide, the uncertainties. Our vision for the future of solid waste and diversion in Santa Cruz County takes into consideration the values and aspirations of the community. We all want to live in a community that we can be proud of a community that is innovative and a leader in promoting a sustainable environment. While we've been planning for a transfer station to be co located with mechanics processing at the point of this landfill. We have been looking at the potential for alternatives composting such as waste to energy technologies like gasification or even the potential for an anaerobic digester. Both of those types of technologies would help with items that aren't truly compostable, such as compostable foodware cups and bags. In fact, we may want to look at revisiting our biodegradable packaging ordinance to exclude these items as they will not compost in the timeframe that most commercial composting operations take place in. The most recent aerial survey of the point of this landfill took place last fall into 2022 and revealed that at the current rate of space use space utilization, there's approximately five to seven years of remaining capacity at the landfill. It's vital that the county have a transfer station up and running before the time period lapses so that unincorporated county residents continue to have continued access in the South County for their waste disposal needs. In 2022, the county held a protest vote to establish a new recycling and solid waste infrastructure enclosure charge that first appeared on the unincorporated parcel tax last year in 2022-23. This charge was approved for five years and we will have to return to the board every five years with the new engineers report and protest vote with adjustments as necessary. The allowable use of these funds is limited to the Buena Vista Transfer Station project design, construction, and eventually the bond payments. We're also allowed to use these funds for any current transfer operations from the Buena Vista landfill, as well as contributing to the landfill closure costs, which currently are estimated to be between $15 and $16 million. We currently have in the closure fund approximately $12 million. Beginning to assess the charge now, we are able to pay for design and permit stages, as well as to lower the overall amount that we will have to borrow by placing money in a reserve account. This is an informational flyer from our website that we have devoted to the Buena Vista landfill project. As you can see, it's a little bit out of date as our EIR is not yet completed. As of today, a project description is being developed along with the EIR and once ready, we will update the information on this website and this board. The Ben Lohman Transfer Station has been in operation for over 30 years and it's in need of maintenance and upgrades. What began as a project to address some stormwater runoff issues as well as some electrical upgrades quickly escalated into the realization that the scale house needed upgrades and the scales themselves were approaching the end of their useful life. It was decided to add these improvements to the scope of the project rather than to perform each project over a span of time. The legal dumping continues to be an issue throughout the state in Santa Cruz County is no different. One of the best tools that we have in the county to combat illegal dumping is our bulky item collection program that was written into the franchise agreement that's available to all residential green waste customers. Customers receive three bulky item collections per calendar year by appointment. We also have outreach and education staff that do targeted outreach to businesses and residents to help business owners and residents collect correctly sort their waste. Green Waste also has outreach and education staff that our staff works with to better serve the county residents. In addition to our county roads crews and parks departments we also partner with other area nonprofits to conduct litter cleanups and illegal dumping abatement. And with the help of the general services department we recently were able to obtain a surplus vehicle surplus van actually that is being donated to the downtown streets team. And CDI is working with downtown streets team to add a new crew that will be in addition to the north coast and Felton projects. One of our partners the trash talkers which we brought to this board last year has been helpful in bringing many of the jurisdictions and county partners that work on issues of illegal dumping and the same to the same table to discuss and coordinate our collective efforts through their Pitchin Santa Cruz campaign. Park staff have been placing Pitchin signs throughout the county unincorporated areas of the county at parks beach access points and as well at trailheads. The signs have a QR code on them that can be scanned and will take people who scan it to a website with all the local jurisdictions information Santa Cruz City Capitola RTA RTC. The county has also recently procured two high powered cameras along with two decoy cameras that we will be deploying in the coming months after we receive some training from the manufacturer. These cameras are solar powered. They have a five second delay which means that they won't take a picture and unless something's been sitting there for five seconds. And the will only actually be checking these cameras if we find an illegal dump dump at that location. During the most recent storms at the beginning of 2023 the county dispatched disaster debris boxes to the hardest to the hardest hit locations throughout the county. One of the lessons that we learned from the January storms was that need to monitor these boxes and remove them at the end of each day. Unmonitored boxes became overfilled and created a cleanup issue for CDI staff as well as residents in those communities. During the March storms we did use this knowledge and we did not have any boxes that became overfilled as the boxes were emptied more frequently and were monitored at all times. They're also taken away at the end of each day. Santa Cruz County debris management efforts will require improved waste management tracking from the time waste is collected through the time that waste is disposed. This cradle to grave waste management system is necessary to achieve reimbursement of under both state and federal programs. Waste management and diversion really begins with education. With our green business program we are able to work with businesses and not only reducing their waste but also how to properly manage their waste reduce energy consumption and to be role models in the business community. Our partners environmental innovations are excellent at helping businesses achieve their goals of becoming a green business and they promote the companies that become certified on their green on their media pages through the California green business network. Similar to the green business program the green schools program aims to educate young people to be good stewards of the environment. The lessons that are taught meet science state science requirements standards and our grade level appropriate. The lessons focus generally on stormwater runoff and waste reduction SB 1383 implementation began January of 2022. Its primary goal is to reduce methane from the atmosphere. The number one contributor of methane gas to our atmosphere is open landfills that leak methane from rotting organics. Another important aspect of SB 1383 is to collect edible food before it becomes food waste. The amount of food insecurity in California is staggering. We're lucky in Santa Cruz County that we have the nation's second ever food bank and the first in California in the second harvest food bank. They are a great partner and are helping the county as well as the four other jurisdictions to fulfill this requirement. Food waste is now being diverted from landfills in every jurisdiction within the state of California. Our programs allow customers to use their existing green organics cart to dispose of food waste. All food items are currently accepted except for raw meat compostable foodware and bags. Outreach and education continues to be conducted by both county and greenway staff to educate the public. SB 1383 also requires a group effort by many government agencies to meet the goals that the legislation envisioned. TDI has been engaging with other county departments to meet the procurement policies and compliance enforcement and mandated by SB 1383. TDI continues to promote reusable products over single use products and advocate for extended producer responsibility or EPR legislation. We recently concluded a campaign that we partnered with the California Product Stewardship Council to get people to switch from one pound single use propane canisters to refillable reusable ones. And also to petition the store owners to become either refill stations or exchange programs. The campaign was successful in that we were able to obtain nine locations throughout the county that became exchange locations. For the past several years, Gray Bears has been accepting polystyrene at their shanticleer location for recycling from the public. Due to spatial constraints, staff safety concerns as well as cost, they stopped accepting the material for recycling. While TDI was researching the potential places that could continue to recycle the material, we found that all of the options were actually cost prohibitive and quite so. At the same time though, TDI has learned of new legislation SB 54 which could solve the problem of polystyrene for us. SB 54 was recently signed by Governor Newsom and will require all packaging in California to be recyclable or compostable by 2032. It also requires there to be 25% plastics source reduction by weight and unit by 2032. Sorry, by 2025. SB 54 creates a de facto ban on polystyrene. The material currently only has a single digit recycling rate and will need to meet 25% of 25% recycling rate by 2025. By January 2025 and a 65% rate by January 23rd 2032. As you can see by this quote from the Nature Conservancy that's on the slide, the fact is that with such a low rate of current recycling, the chances of them actually being able to continue utilizing the product within California is highly improbable. We all asked that the board take the recommended action and one accept and file the recycling and solid waste long-term planning progress report and recommendations on zero waste planning. And to direct the Department of Community Development and Infrastructure to return on or before October 29th 2024 with the recycling and solid waste long-term planning progress report. Thank you. There are questions from board members. Supervisor Connor. Thank you chair. I just want to make sure I understand that last point you made about Styrofoam, which is you're saying that it'll, thanks to SB 54 effectively be outlawed as soon as 2025 because that's when that first 25% Yes. Okay. That's encouraging. Obviously, it's too bad. I don't have anything to do with the Styrofoam between now and then, but I understand that unfortunately gray bears doesn't want to take on the program anymore and the other nearby options are, as you said, cost prohibitive. I was curious. I mean, the SB 54 bill also points out that, you know, it talks about monitoring levels of, I guess, recycled content or like how much each one of those materials are actually recycled. Do we have any kind of monitoring of green waste and their recycling rates?  And ends up in the trash anyway. I mean, inevitably that will happen with some amount of the recyclable materials. Do we have any data back from green waste as far as, you know, what percentage of different recyclable material types are actually being recycled? Casey Colasa recycling saw waste services manager green waste does give us quarterly reports and annual reports. They lump all the recycling together as one, you know, data quantity, but we can get breakdowns. What happens is our, our county's recyclables can mix with their other jurisdictions and that they're sorting facilities. So I think they can portion out we can get numbers by, you know, how much is plastic and paper and cardboard so forth. Yeah, I'd be very curious to see that. I think that it's, you know, we should demand some accountability for the people who say they're doing the recycling on our behalf, you know, that that's actually happening. And I think that with some of the modern tools, image recognition and cameras, et cetera, that it is definitely possible to get that level of reporting at this point. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to thank you for the staff for this report and see that we're making progress on all fronts really and several months ago I toured the region Marina landfill waste diversion facility with the CDI team and learn about their, its capacity to take the county's organic waste and we learned that in fact it can take all of our organics and regent did agree to include all of our county's organic waste stream and their feasibility study. So that I think that's terrific, terrific news and I hope that's moving along as you anticipated. I also appreciate the progress that we you've made in partnering with downtown streets team, particularly in Felton and the north coast very much appreciated in that organization to be commended. Hardly, and I appreciate you working with human services and Hill Services as well and your collaboration with trash talkers a relatively new agency or new group that wants to make Santa Cruz County the cleanest county in California. The, what's the anticipated timeframe for CDI to finish its analysis of building a composting facility in Buena Vista versus sending our organics to the Marina facility. Do you have a timeline on that? We're close, we're about that 30%. We keep, we have alternatives for the compost facility. Currently we're studying the idea, like you said, of taking all of our organics to continue basically continue status flow with with processing the material, cleaning up the part of the landfill to pay that so we can deal with our water quality issues up there. It's still an option for the compost facility, but it's looking more and more and that because it is expensive. And we do have this local area to to take the material that that will continue. As far as a timeline, I know we're, we were hoping to have that EIR as I mentioned already completed by this this summer. We had a recent meeting with our contract or construction management project management team for that. And it's looking probably I think she said some time we should be able to see a full project description go through some time this this year or this fiscal year. Okay, thank you. Any other questions or comments? I'll start by thanking the presentation on this. And we brought up the potential need to look at the biodegradable packaging ordinance and I'm just wondering if we could speak a little more about that and how we could be helpful with that and or if that's something maybe they could go to an integrated waste management task force for some input prior to coming to the board. It could definitely go to the waste house for us. That's always a good start. It's I mentioned that just in the sense that we can we can use that that ordinance and amend it to ban certain materials complete outright. Sorry, sorry, polystyrene. I don't want to get in trouble. Polystyrene is is on that list that we can, you know, but we really should look what I really want to look at is the the compostable foodware cups and those bags because we've heard from our processor that, you know, they have a 90 day throughput and it those those materials can take up to six months. And it's kind of telling because I so I do the annual report for to CalRecycle every year. And they're for the last couple years they've had a question on there of what where if we've found any murfs or any any facilities that will accept that material for composting. And I don't think there's any jurisdictions in the entire state that have I know anywhere on this region nobody's taking it, not with our throughput rates. So that's that's that's what I was kind of getting out at that that we could take those those materials off of that off of that ordinance and just have to be recyclable period. I think that's probably something worth exploring. So if there's an opportunity for us to have that come back, I think it would be good. And then if there's, you know, also if there's an opportunity for the integrated waste management task force to weigh in on that as well, I think. I think it's probably best to go to the task force first and do like a study session. Yeah, sounds good. And then you mentioned the camera placement. And I was just curious if that if those cameras are going to be placed at just sites where there's frequent dumping and so just to get some. Yeah, my bandwidth in a little bit stretch lately, but I have conversations with our road superintendent Alex and we I'm just working with him to get, you know, the top six hotspots located because we actually have to bring it to the board. We did some cameras as well. So we'll have four total once the board accepts allows us to cut the gift and we have two decoys. And so I want to put cameras at the top four hotspots and then the decoys at the top top two and then, you know, we can move them around. They're not, you know, it just takes a cherry picker to be able to move around. Great. Well, that concludes all my questions. So just want to thank you all for your work on this. Thank you. Open it up for the communities and remember the community. I'd like to address this on this item. It is an action item. I see none in chambers. Is there anybody online? Yes, chair colonizer to your microphone is now available. I think of Judy Barry who worked with the earth first trying to save the forest and she stated capitalism cannot exist without destroying the earth. The corporations are the instruments of capitalism. It's corporations producing all these plastics and other contaminants. And what they do is they privatize the profits and they socialize the cost. So here we in the county with county funds are supposed to try to take care of basically a problem that really can't be taken care of. Microcurrents are everywhere. So the cost of capitalism's corporate contamination is what we're dealing with. You spoke of the illegal dumps make it illegal for the corporations to dump their plastics on everyone. And they got to do it a whole lot more during the pandemic and plastic does not decompose. So I see this as unless the production is prohibited, we're going to always run around trying to be good Samaritans to deal with ubiquitous forever contamination, including cell phones, masks. I heard you're wearing a mask and there are a lot of masks in those ways. It's a myth that mass pose no danger. Wearing a mask and now it says here's a little fact for anyone wearing a mask. You'll probably cut me out analysis. Is there anybody else online? You have no further speakers chair. Okay, I would bring back to the board that we need a motion for this item. Yeah, I'm happy to accept and file recycling and solid waste long-term planning progress report and recommendations on zero waste planning. Then directly the Department of Community Development and Infrastructure to return on a before November 19, 2024 with a recycling and solid waste long-term planning progress report. I'll second it. We have a motion from Supervisor Cummings and second from Supervisor Handerst, Supervisor Cummings. And just for clarification, do we need to include direction on the compostable waste ordinance and having that go back to the Integrated Waste Management Task Force? First study session? Well, we might as well just add it on. I mean, it's an easy thing to add on. So with additional direction that why don't you articulate the additional direction? The direction is to have the Composable Waste Ordinance go to the Integrated Waste Management Task Force for study session. Is it okay with the seconder? Yes. Okay. I'm on the task force as well. So we're directing you to do more work. Well, both of y'all directing each other to just have a good old time. So if we could have a roll call, please. Certainly. Supervisor Koenig. Aye. Cummings. Hernandez. Yes. McPherson and Friend. Aye. And that passes unanimously. Presentation, thank you for your work on that team. We're going to move into closed session. Council, do you anticipate anything will be reportable out of closed session? No. All right. We'll move into closed session.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we have with us Professor Vinay Lal, a very well known historian, is with UCLA as well as with Delhi University in the past and now dividing his time between Delhi and California. Vinay, good to have you with us. Thank you for having me here. You have been writing a lot on Gandhi and contemporary politics, also a certain kind of critiques of different kind of movements that are taking place. How do you look at the current moment, particularly that you have movements spanning very different kinds of societies, very different kind of countries from United States to Egypt to all over the place. Do you see this as something which is a new moment in our history in terms of the kind of movements we are seeing? Yes, I mean I think that this particular juncture is I think in my view a very significant moment in contemporary history. Let's look at it I think this way that you've had in the Arab world for about a year now a considerable amount of descent unrest which has brought down a number of regimes, long-standing regimes with links largely to the American administration. A couple of years before that we had a movement in Iran and there have been manifestations of that movement in fact this year as well so I'm referring here to the so-called green movement which commenced in June of 2009. You've had substantial number of people gathering together in places like Israel. There have been demonstrations on a very large scale obviously in parts of Europe where we have a different set of so-called crises. I say so-called because there's always a crisis it seems to be somewhere around somewhere right and I'm not quite sure how meaningful that word is anymore frankly in the English language but nevertheless there have been large demonstrations in Athens in Madrid in Barcelona and then of course we've had the Occupy Wall Street you know which has now branched off in the US into 100 different movements right. I mean perhaps all rivulets feeding into one stream I think that that also remains to be seen whether that's the case because I think very very often what happens with movements of this kind is that they're different agendas I mean so we can say that in the case of the US so let's look just for a moment at the US and then we'll go back to the Middle East or to West Asia right but if you look at the US I think that it would be correct to say that yes there has been one kind of rhetoricals drive that seems to unify all of these different movements some of them have taken place on university campuses of course on wall street some of them in cities such as Oakland right and and that divide has been usually represented as a divide between the 99 percent and the 1 percent right so that might be perhaps common to all of them but but I'm absolutely certain because I think that's the nature of social movements that once you go deep down into a study of each of these you'll find that they might also be driven by agendas that might not be completely congruent with each other right so there may be different agendas in different cities which may nonetheless share something in common right now if you go back to the to the to West Asia and I think that that's where we really ought to be focusing our attention on for many for many reasons one of those reasons being that I think the West has always thought that it was the the motor of history right that you know the West would sort of dictate what would happen or that if there were revolutions occurring elsewhere in the world they would emulate what had happened in the West I think here we have actually a reversal I mean you've got the green movement which commenced in Iran in June 2009 and I think that this is an extraordinarily significant movement I think the ramifications of which have not been clearly understood whether in India or in the US or indeed elsewhere partly because I think it would be impossible to say that this was driven by external agents but one point could also be considered common in the sense that there is a very large degree of alienation from the kind of neoliberal economic policy and the consequence of the politics has become in some sense bypassed that countries no longer control the politics of their countries because economics is not in their hands yes now in that sense isn't it in that sense isn't there a common crisis of the neoliberal order which manifests itself as a political crisis that's one way to look at it you know although I suspect that that kind of paradigm has been available for us to think through for a very long period of time in other words I think that you know that when you look at these political disturbances we would have to ask well were there forms of economic injustice that had driven these political agendas right I mean so let if you if you look let's say just for a moment okay let's supposing you look at the at the time that the Cold War ended you know the fall of the Soviet Union the fall of the Berlin Wall the breakup of the Warsaw Pact all of that now clearly I think I mean that you know you could read it purely as a political okay set of events but clearly there is some aspiration and maybe the left may not want to hear it in that way frankly but there was some aspiration for economic justice as well because if you're living on the other side of the wall and you're seeing what's happening in West Germany I mean you can see the clear divide between yourself and the people over there you can see the divide in the standard of living so over then so on sure the difference of standards of living obviously was a driver in the fall of the absolutely but I think that you're you're right on target here when you're suggesting that that one of the things that perhaps is common to all of these movements whether they are in West Asia or in Europe or the US you know whether in fact for a moment just hypothetically we could put something like the movement in India the so-called an azare movement in that camp which some people would say well it's some kind of manifestation of popular unrest but I think if you leave that aside and you look at certainly what's happened in Israel Europe West Asia and so on in the US I think you're right that there is a deepening sense of anguish okay and unrest about the aggravation of economic injustice under neoliberal regimes right and the fact that whoever you elect seem to be completely powerless to control what is happening so in that sense if you see that whoever each of the countries have seen for instance one set of incumbents go out another set come in but the policies haven't really changed and that is the deeper anger against a political system per se in the case of Egypt of course Mubarak there was not even a change of guard in that sense earlier for 40 years you were the same people yes yeah but but you know I think by the same token we would have to understand that I mean there have been critiques of this neoliberal regime they've been critiques of the WTO I mean what was Chiapas all about for example I mean Chiapas was the one of the first rebellions really of this kind in a way and it broke out right after NAFTA North American free trade agreement so I think if you if you look at you know the long trajectory of this I think clearly there have been movements of this kind over the course of the last two decades what is what is significant and perhaps different is the fact that now they seem to be occurring in many places around the world but they signify not only a sense of deepening economic injustice and the sense of grievance that one might have about it but I think they signify also something about the fact that politics as we understand it is perhaps a different game now than it has been before by which I mean a number of different things one is that I think that there is a peculiar way in which politics has been evacuated of any real meaning so if you look at the US I mean for 150 years the US has been magisterially successful in masquerading as a country with two significantly different political parties in point of fact there is no real significant difference between these two parties I mean it's basically tweedle d and tweedle dump the point here simply is this that I think in the US it's very clear that we've really not had an opportunity to understand politics in any significant sense other than party politics okay now I think the ground reality let's say in India let's shift to India for a moment and then we'll shift to the to west asia I think in India the same argument might be made by some people who'll say that well there's no substantive difference between let's say the BJP and the CPM and the congress with respect to policies on neoliberalization now of course I mean one could argue that you know but if you certainly look at the way in which direct foreign investment is being welcomed in in West Bengal okay when it was under the CPM in the last few years to some would indicate the fact that there is no significant difference on the other hand clearly the ground realities of how the CPM worked I think are very different in fact actually right I think there's still actually significant differences in how one significant differences not simply between political parties but between parties and what might one might describe as other kinds of political interests which have a significant impact on how politics is run in this country and the obvious example would be obviously you know the so-called maxels who have political representation to some degree but they're also those who don't have political representation right so what I'm trying to suggest is this that I think one of the most unfortunate things about our times and I think this is where I think there's a glimmer of hope now in what we see happening in West Asia and in the US and elsewhere one of the most unfortunate things is that politics has really been evacuated of most of its meaning okay and so what you're seeing now particularly in West Asia is the resuscitation of a kind of politics which really does allow people some kind of voice where people say that they're going to take things into their own hands now one might add some caveats to it because then one might say that okay let's look at what's happened in Egypt where okay Mubarak was overthrown and yet the situation seems to be fairly dire even today right but I think that we have to measure these things not in not with respect to how they unfold over a course of three months or six months or one year but I think over the course of how they unfold over the course of several years maybe decade or two decades then I think that's a very important point to make that I think that one of it is that the crisis of politics that even you had the right to elect your leaders yes India whether it's India whether it's the United States or Europe yeah and you changed them didn't make a difference to exact the policies of the ground particularly economic policies that's one part of it the second as you said that particularly to like West Asia the ability of the people to change the policies by being able to come on the streets and raising issues raising demands and directly influencing politics now the problem of course there is that ultimately even today the only instrument of politics finally that we really see is still the nation state yes so effectively whatever you may do on the street yeah if it does not translate into politics of the nation state you still do not get the politics you want and Egypt could be an example of that kind yeah so where do you think does it mean that how do you really think that street can influence ultimately the politics of nations yeah without being an electoral or a political player in that sense yeah well that's a very difficult question I mean it's a very difficult question because you know you've put your finger on what is a critical problem with the nature of modern political movements which is that you see we are all captive to the idea of the nation state the nation state seems to be this seems to represent the apotheosis of political possibilities right I mean what is it that the Palestinians want at the end of the day they want a nation state but the fact of the matter is at least from the poll from the political point of view that I am firmly convinced about namely that the nation state is in fact in most respects and in most places the most severe oppressor of human rights so all your aspirations are geared towards this I mean this is what the Palestinians want this is what the Basques wanted right this is what separatist movements want they eventually want their own nation state and then the nation state in turn becomes the vehicle of forms of oppression which cannot be managed in any sense of the term right and managed is not the right word because I don't because we don't certainly want to manage them in the way in which nation state have managed their conflicts right so I think that this problem will persist namely that you know for the last two centuries the only game in town effectively has been the nation state right so each freedom movement its culmination is something called the nation state and so the way that I would pose a question you're asking I mean if I had to rephrase it would be you know what are the real possibilities political possibilities what are the possibilities for emancipation for economic justice so long as what we are working with is something called the nation state right now I think that that as I said is a very difficult question because in a sense the nation state is a fate a complete I mean that's what we have so what we would then have to think about is well are there different ways to forge notions of political community you know right and does West Asia for example promise us something in this respect at the moment the answer would be no because what's interesting is that you know that you've got these rebellions that have broken out obviously in Egypt Tunisia Libya Bahrain right and so on and so forth but it's not clear that the people involved in these are really thinking about the transgression of boundaries and borders right


Here's just pictures of four of the existing LNG import facilities that we have in the United States and you can actually see there's one off of Massachusetts one off of Georgia one off of Maryland and one of three that we have in the Gulf Coast region now What is liquefied natural gas? It's natural gas that's cooled to a minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit now What this does is it reduces the volume by over 600 times which it makes it easier to transport and store So in other words Let's just say if we had a cubic foot of natural gas There's a certain amount of BTU within that but the same cubic foot of liquefied natural gas would have six hundred times the heating value So you can see we're storing the liquid or transporting the liquid you are actually storing and transporting a much much higher Heating value than with pure methane So you can see here a ton of liquefied natural gas is equivalent to 47 MMB to user 47 million BTU and one ocean going LNG tanker can hold the equivalent of 3bcf of natural gas pricing around the world Various from region to region in Japan they price LNG landed off of the price of crude oil that's imported the so-called Japanese cocktail What it amounts to it's just the average price For the crude oil that's been purchased as cleared through their customs And so it really it's Japanese cleared customs crude pricing, but it's just referred to as the Japanese cocktail In Korea and Taiwan again, it's it's the price of LNG landed is tied to the BTU equivalent basket of crude oil postings In the UK continental Europe and Southeast Asia It's a combination of oil and coal prices again converted to BTU bases And then the pricing for LNG on a BTU basis is equivalent now in the United States and Canada We have been traditional importers and we have very limited export facilities But we have a competitive natural gas marketplace As you all know from you're studying in earlier lessons. We have the New York Mercantile exchange So we have an open active competitive marketplace for natural gas now Russia China in the Middle East They regulate the price the various the countries the governments do and they actually subsidize the price for their citizens You can see here that because of the growth in the shale gas We have you know steadily Declined our imports over the years Now the US as an exporter Some of the reasons that make sense for us. We do have a surplus gas supply the shale plays and the tight formations Have resulted in abundant relatively cheap supply of natural gas $3 or less as an extremely cheap price for natural gas and the EIA estimates that estimates that we're producing about 3 BCF a day More supply than we have market for and as I mentioned in the previous slide We have a competitive natural gas based pricing market This is actually causing some renegotiations of some of the existing global contracts in other words Japan sees the coming of LNG exports by the United States, and so they're already talking to some of their suppliers and saying, you know Look, we want to get off of this crude oil pricing type of mechanism in our contracts and convert over to some type of natural gas index We have existing LNG import facilities those pictures. I showed you in the beginning and we actually believe or not We are exporting virtually at the moment The since we no longer need Natural gas imports in the form of LNG What's happening is those entities in the United States who have contracted for tanker loads are literally selling them Mid-sea so to speak sending them to different ports rather than coming to the United States And then we actually have had for about 20 years a small LNG export facility off the coast of Alaska in a point called Kenai and that's opera been operated by Conoco Phillips You can see here now the Red squares represent existing LNG points again off of Massachusetts Cove point Maryland, Elba Island, Georgia, and then we have about four in the Gulf Coast area Now these are going to be the logical Facilities to export they have about 60 to 70 percent of the infrastructure in place already They can handle tankers for offloading. They have on Onshore storage they have connections with pipeline companies. So what they're doing is they're building the gasification Excuse me the liquefaction trains. We talked about the fact that The natural gas has to be super cooled. Well, that takes a liquefaction facility or train To be built. So in other words, they've got a lot of the infrastructure already in place So some of these other companies that believe they're going to dive into this particular arena Are not going to have the facilities. It's going to cost them a considerable amount more Investment you can see here, of course, the natural gas exports and re-exports by country again, we have declined In terms of our imports and then all of a sudden you can see we've actually started to to do some exporting and Then the ways that it's gets to market again. This is that logistics and value chain we talked about for natural gas in the case of Exporting LNG you can see here that the well head gas is going to move by pipeline to the liquefaction facility And then it gets shipped to a particular port of entry where it's re-gasified And then distributed to the various areas of need. So it's sort of the Opposite process that we've been used to for decades now where we actually receive the LNG and we re-gasify it and we utilize it through the pipeline system to the various end users Pricing wise again here in the United States We've got a financial natural gas forward market, which you're familiar with is the NYMEX provides price discovery So everyone knows where the price is now just currently based on the one-year average price for natural gas that Henry hub It's approximately three dollars and five cents at the time that I put this particular lecture together Now these are the estimated supply chain costs. Okay, and US dollars premium BTU Approximately two dollars and 15 cents represents the process for the liquefaction Shipping overseas is about a dollar twenty-five Regasification at the new port of entry is approximately 70 cents premium BTU So you have total costs of about four dollars and ten cents So in this particular situation, you're really around seven dollars and 15 cents and I apologize This still says 705 on it now when we compare that to world pricing You can see that there are not that many places in which current LNG exporters can make money at seven dollars and fifteen cents now throughout Asia. That's still a pretty good deal And they're still going to make money in parts of South America But over in Europe you could not at the present time Export LNG and make money over there now this situation has dramatically changed one of the Events that created impetus for the US to consider exporting LNG had to be back in March of 2011 with the Fukushima Nuclear power plant disaster in Japan as I mentioned earlier Japan is solely dependent on imports For natural gas and imports in the form of LNG well at the time they shut down all of their nuclear power plants So the demand for natural gas in Japan spiked and we were seeing prices upwards of 14 dollars per MMB to you So you can imagine at the time those planning the LNG export facilities at the United States were expecting Extremely lucrative business and very very large profit margins such as is not the case today and in fact Japan is looking at relicensing their nuclear power plants again


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey today, we're gonna look at the Draconian Brimstone edition from Randy Butterfield and Midnight Cards. Hey, if you don't know Randy Butterfield, he runs Midnight Card Company and he's out in Indianapolis. He's very prolific and I have done reviews for several of his decks. This deck here, this is inspired by all the dragons of lore. The Draconian Brimstone is a deck of custom playing cards and they're beautifully printed by the legends playing card company with their exceptional classic finish. The tuck box is highlighted by the symmetrical dragon scale design. The tuck is produced on a black matte paper stock and it features an orangeish red foil and a Pantone gray that also has a UV spot ink overlay, which is pretty cool. The Draconian Brimstone deck is perfect for any collector, card player, magician, flourisher or any fan of dragons. The tuck case is wrapped completely in this dragon scale design and it kind of mirrors the back design of the cards and we'll see that in a second. It does say Draconian Brimstone there at the top. There aren't any words on the sides per se. The bottom says that they were designed by Midnight Cards and produced by Legends Playing Card Company and the tuck flap just has some ornamentation. The back of the tuck case has this huge scary dragon and that is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. Like I said, these cards are printed from the Legends Playing Card Company and they are done with their classic finish. The back design features a borderless optical illusion formed out of dragon scales. It is a two-way image so it looks the same reversed and it's a beautiful fanning deck, beautiful deck for flourishing and or cardistry. Your two jokers are both shields with swords piercing through them. Both have different colors and different illustrations. I would assume that the dragon face is an homage to not only the Brimstone deck but also Randy Butterfield and then again you see the LS on the other joker, which would be an homage to Lauren Sullivan and the Legends Playing Card Company. Your ace of spades is a huge dragon face overlaying an ace spade pip and it does say Draconian there at the bottom and if you look through the aces, I'll put them up on the screen there, there is something kind of cool. In the ace of diamonds and the ace of clubs, you're going to see the LS symbol for Lauren Sullivan, who is the brainchild behind Legends Playing Card Company. The face cards incorporate a clean design that keeps them functional and provides the highest level of playability. Each card back and face contains elements of borderless fire fissures throughout and the details are crisp and the colors are striking. The face of the spot cards also is a black face so it kind of matches the back and you have a kind of red cracked lava look as a watermark behind all of that.  The court cards are traditional in appearance however they're exploded. They're a little bit bigger than a normal court and they're borderless so you don't have the border going around the edges. They also have a recolor so that they keep the same coloring that you see throughout the deck. Alright so that is my review of the Draconian Brimstone deck from Randy Butterfield and Midnight Cards. I want to thank Randy for providing this deck for me so that I could do the review for you and if you want to check him out or purchase these decks, you can head on down to MidnightCards.com. Thanks, bye.


Tough game out there, Yusuf. How was it like there on the pitch? Yeah, we started very well, I think. But, yeah, after they get a free kick and they score. And half-time 2-0, of 2-1 down. And, yeah, it was, it didn't feel like they were better than us. They just, they scored 3 kicks outside of the box. Yeah, and lucky with the ball, they fought good for them and they scored. And, yeah, on the field he had a different feeling, but it's strange. I have a double feeling. So, with that feeling, you've played obviously against a lot of teams in Europe and every team in the A-League. How does the Asian game compare to both of them? When they get the chance, they score directly. This is the difference, I think. They are more patient and wait for the moment like a free kick or a chance that they get from some mistake in the defensive. And then they score directly. So, yeah, we must be careful with that. We learned today on the hard way because we lose 3-1 at home. But, yeah, there's a quick, quick lesson. And now you will see what's going to happen in the next games. And obviously looking forward to the final road to the A-League and the rest of the Champions League. What's the biggest lesson we learned as a squad? The biggest lesson is that you get goals like easy if you don't be alert or sharp and in every second of the game. There's a quick lesson and we must take this to the next games, especially when we go to China and to South Korea. So, yeah, we learned quick now and we learned the hard way. So, we will see what's going to happen.


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