Stanford University. We're now starting our second technical session. We're going to consider challenges and solutions for interconnected systems. I'll serve as the moderator for this session. And I'll let you welcome the speakers for today. This will include Niels Aguiliel de la Bommel and Cameron Terranci. Both of them are PhD students in Civil and Environmental Engineering here at Stanford University and working with me on an offshore wind project that folks will learn a little bit more about. This will be followed by Sora Bamin, he's a professor of also Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. And finally, Jean-Paul Watson. Jean-Paul is a senior research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. And with that, we'll get started. And I welcome Cameron and Niels on stage. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Thank you, Anesh, for the introduction and for the honor of being here. My name is Niels Aguiliel de la Bommel. My colleague here, Cameron Terranci, we're both PhD students, as Anesh said, in her lab. And our research is focusing on understanding the potential role of offshore wind and its associated transmission and storage system in California. To give you a little bit of context, as most of you probably know, California has goals of 100% renewables and other zero-carbon sources for electricity generation by 2045. And offshore wind, as we've heard today and yesterday, is expected to play an important role in this transition. Assembly Bill 525 required the CEC to come up with targets for offshore wind in California. And these targets have been established in our two to five gigawatts by 2030 and 25 gigawatts by 2045, which are very ambitious targets, since we have currently zero turbines in the water. A little more context on the floating offshore wind industry. As some of you might know, the floating part is an emerging technology. It is necessary in coastal areas where the seafloor is very deep, which is the case of the California coast. And currently, globally, there are 123 megawatts operating. There's up to 96 gigawatts planned. The technical potential of California has been estimated at 112 gigawatts by NERC. And a little bit over a year ago, Bohm awarded the first five leases for offshore wind farms in California, two of them in the northern region in Humboldt and three of them in Morro Bay. And each of them is approximately 900 megawatts. These farms are located approximately 50 kilometers from shore, and the depth of the seafloor is around 1,000 meters, so it definitely needs floating technologies. And of course, the integration of this resource is facing a lot of different challenges, which come in and we'll get a little bit more into detail. But just very briefly, the demand hubs are very far away. San Francisco and Los Angeles are far from these locations. There's limited transmission, especially in the northern region, and there's a lot of uncertainty because these technologies are emerging and nothing has been done on this scale. We're just going to be focused on answering what are the emissions, equity, resilience, and economic impacts for the offshore wind industry in California, also integrating the impacts of storage and hydrogen in this transition. And so we're going to accomplish this by engaging directly with local communities to understand what their preferences are for this new industry and its associated infrastructure that's going to be placed in their backyards. We're going to be conducting techno-economic assessments and capacity expansion planning exercises to understand the economic viability of this industry. And we're going to be integrating new methods and incorporating uncertainty analysis and how system conditions impact these planning decisions in the long run. And so to give you more context, there are two primary two regions of initial interest for offshore wind development. In the north is the Humboldt region. There's relatively little amount of transmission capacity existing in this region, so we'll need to build a lot of transmission lines to connect that to the Bay Area. So far, analysis has been conducted to analyze HVAC lines going to the center of the state and then down towards the Sacramento Bay Area. HVDC lines as well as HVDC subsea cables have also been analyzed by the KAISO as well as National Labs. And in the center of the state, there is relatively large amount of transmission capacity because of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Generation Facility. So there, there's still been analysis done to explore options of HVDC subsea cables going north and south, as well as HVAC lines towards the center of the state. And so there's been a lot of really great work in this field so far looking at generation expansion for individual offshore wind sites within the state using relatively coarsely resolved capacity expansion models that don't include a lot of transmission resolution. And in parallel, there's been really highly, highly resolved transmission planning studies conducted by the ISO and the National Labs that look at individual transmission expansion cases to see their deliverability impacts and the economic performance of different transmission lines. And what we're seeking to address in this pilot project is co-optimization of complementary resources like offshore wind, battery energy storage, hydrogen and transmission by developing a new model that can handle the flexible transmission topology needed to study this question. So to accomplish that, we are continuing the development of the pipes of the USA, a capacity expansion model that performs generation and transmission co-optimization. We bring in data sources from NREL, EIA, the CC's Plexus model, WAC-ADS, and also expert elicitation. And the goal here is to design resource portfolios that are robust on certain system conditions meaning weather variability. And to stress test these designs for reliability, resilience and equity implication. So what we're trying to achieve overall is understand the benefits, costs and risk of offshore wind in California. And as Cameron mentioned, part of it is gonna be developing a techno economic assessment where we're gonna look at the potential benefits of offshore wind using NREL wind speed data as well as estimating the cost of all these future projects and the associated transmission. We realized that this emerging technology has very little data publicly available when we decided that the best way to tackle this issue was to perform an expert elicitation where we're interviewing experts, asking them a set of questions to come up with data on cost and performances of different components in the system which we will use in our models to account for the uncertainty of this new technology. In terms of stakeholder engagement, we, as I just mentioned, are engaging with experts in the industry. We also plan a community acceptance study in California where we hope to engage with coastal communities and we also hope to engage with different tribes. Of course, we would like to engage with public agencies that are doing similar work and all of this would be done through visits, meetings and surveys. And so this project is gonna be supporting earnest goals by developing a new model for generation storage and transmission co-optimization. We'll be assessing community benefits, burdens and acceptance of this new infrastructure. We'll be stress testing the designs for resilience and we're gonna be developing affordable and robust decarbonization plans to help meet California's decarbonization goals. And our anticipated findings are to be able to provide some guidance on the economic viability, the public acceptance and engineering pathways to drive forward California's decarbonization goals when it comes to the offshore wind industry. And just to conclude, we'd like to thank the DOE, of course, the Bits and Watt Initiative that we're part of, pre-court energy initiative, Stanford University as a whole and of course our advisor, Inesh, has a video for all of her work and the work we're doing with her and we also just wanted to say we're really excited about earnest and looking forward to all the work we're gonna accomplish. Thank you. Okay, good afternoon. The previous two speakers from Stanford gave a wonderful presentation on how the issues are about co-optimization, capacity expansion planning and incorporating uncertainty are highly relevant to earnest and its goals. This particular pilot is about joint planning of electricity gas infrastructure in the New England context. And together here I am with Priya Donti and Dharik Malapragada and also Rahman Kuram for a post-doc with us. But also through this project, we are hoping to collaborate with many of you, including colleagues from Princeton, APRI and Stanford. So interdependence of New England power gas and electricity infrastructure is very well known, right? So we have a high seasonal energy demand and the national gas demand. We have well-documented constraints about the reliability of natural gas infrastructure and its impact on the transmission and the bulk power supply. And there are extensive decarbonization targets where various New England states have set forth with regard to VRE storage and building electrification. There's also a very famous study of IS in New England on operational analysis and renewable energy integration study from 2017 that we are building on in this project. So the key aspect is that there is a clear need to tackle the interdependencies between these two systems in this extreme climate events, extreme weather and changing climate events and also to integrate fine-grained operational models in the coordinated investment decisions. So these are actually the key starting points of our focus, how to also incorporate operational constraints in the planning process. Now through this project, we of course want to focus on context-specific as our PI in the morning suggested, context-specific insights on how, for example, the dependency of the New England bulk energy system from Canada and other states, neighboring states in the US in terms of import of natural gas has implications on the resiliency, not just in the one-two horizon, but long-term planning horizon. But we also want to understand general level insights about how poor coordination can have resiliency issues. For example, the famous Texas example that was pointed out. And so in the context of this particular pilot and how it fits to the earnest goals, we want to sort of provide an approach for joint planning of power and natural gas interdependent infrastructure from a cost-effectiveness perspective. We want to account for the uncertainty in the evolution of various technology trends ranging from storage to CCS to low carbon fuels in maintaining decarbonization efforts and explicitly including emissions constraints in the joint planning problem. We want to also tackle the uncertainties about supply-demand variations due to weather events, as well as disruptions which are caused due to extreme event situations. And in this process, we also want to account for the equity which is related to the inclusion of, explicit inclusion of the stakeholder preferences on the distributional outcomes. And we want to do this from a data-driven and methods perspective. We want to build on multimodal data analysis, optimization models including stochastic and robust optimization models and rigorous scenario analysis which is specifically informed by the stakeholder engagement and continuous feedback. So let me just summarize the key questions. So the first we want to sort of develop an approach which will help us understand and evaluate regional plans for electrification of heating demand and how to position and hopefully also decommission some of the natural gas infrastructure, how to justify those investments and decommissioning plans. And also in this process, explicitly model the uncertainty due to inter-annual variations and the climate change impact on the key supply-demand parameters, of course, including the role of various emerging technologies, as I mentioned, low-carbon fuels storage and negative emission site technology. And here is where we can potentially also collaborate with other pilots, especially in regards to how the customers respond from due to demand-side interventions and how those response models can be integrated into the demand models taken into account in the planning decisions. And finally, there is this clear interplay of resiliency and equity which this particular pilot also raises. And how does it do that? Well, we know that we need to account for uncertainty in the demand pattern so into climate change trends, right? So we know that resiliency investments need to be made and they need to be made in accordance with the emergence of new technologies. We also know that energy sources and the heterogeneity in building stocks, et cetera, will impact the distribution of energy transition costs. So here is the thing, right? So if we invest in resiliency using these technological outcomes, clearly, and there is no science to this, we already can predict that there's going to be having different distributional outcomes. And since they are going to have different distributional outcomes, clearly it also has an aspect of equity baked in, right? So is there a concept of what we call as an equitable resiliency? And can we through this project and through this collaborative engagement have a feedback loop, positive feedback loop between resiliency and equity outcomes? So this is rather a unique part which jumped out at us in this particular pilot project. We've already started to sort of do some preliminary work building on the fantastic work of Ram Raj Kapal and other people at Stanford to try to integrate various data sources which are available into our data pipeline. So for us, we are building on weather data, data from NREL, data from ISN New England, and also trying to account for the heterogeneity of building stocks. So from a bottom up approach, this word bottom up came up a lot of times in today's discussion. Our goal here is to sort of use this data driven approach using analytics and machine learning tools to create principle ways in which we can actually include scenarios for natural gas demands and a couple demands of power loads as well as VRE profile scenarios and disruptions to the grid. And the goal here is to sort of integrate these uncertainty models in this interdependent optimization and network analysis tool that we have been developing which we call, which Rahman calls as joint power gas planning model under uncertainty. And the goal here is to sort of drive this kind of assessment and metric evaluation kind of process that are the central goals of earnest. And so through this event, through this particular project, we want to sort of make the tools coming from uncertainty and optimizing uncertainty and decision making under uncertainty, uncertainty modeling and decision making under uncertainty as open source tools building on tools from robust and stochastic optimization, amen-enabled uncertainty representations and ideas from Bayesian optimization. The other thing which I would like to focus on here is not only that this particular optimization and decision making tool should naturally result in refined metrics of reliability, resilience, and equity, they should also help us understand what does it really mean to have generalizable performance in terms of planning outcomes. So my claim here is that today we do not have a conceptual understanding and practical understanding of what does it mean by generalizability and robustness of investment outcomes. In this particular project, we do need to sort of hope to create a framework for that. The preliminary work that we have been doing in leading up to this project already make us somewhat comfortable to be able to address these challenges. So for example, we can assess under different electrification and building improvement scenarios how the natural gas demand can be changing or progressively decreasing and what kind of electricity demands we need to sort of provision for going into the future under building heating electrification trends. Now how to integrate uncertainty, how to integrate resiliency into the system, how to bake in equity into the system, this is something that we would want to do this in this project. Now just briefly a few points, refinements to the task and then I'll end here. So we do want to have solicit feedback from stakeholders and partners in this pilot and other pilots to help us characterize the data. We want to sort of have a principal understanding of data-driven representations of uncertainty, tractability and robustness of the planning outcomes and finally refine this traditional reliability and reliability matrix called SAD or SAFE in order to try to push a little bit towards resiliency matrix, which can be quantified and assessed, which also accounts to a certain degree the nature of correlated disruptions in the face of future uncertainties and also then produce from a visual viewpoint spatially differentiated impact assessment tools which can be readily used by the decision makers for various reasons, right, for various outcomes. Thank you very much. Well thank you. After the previous speakers I would really like to talk about stochastic optimization and capacity expansion but I will suppress that desire. All right, so I'm up here to talk about NARM. How many people who are not at a DOE lab or DOE have ever heard of NARM, the North American Energy Resilience Model? All right, this will be interesting. I'm not going to convey the entire thing in seven minutes but I will give it a shot. The key thing about NARM, well I'll get into it. How about that? DOE of course cares about threats to the national energy infrastructure. This is a sampling of threats that we've looked at under NARM. Drivers of course vary depending on how frequent things are happening. What's recently happened, things like that but you can see everything from intentional threat to temperature rise to wildfires and hurricanes. These are threats that are in our space and we're doing analytics around these on NARM. So what is NARM? So NARM is a DOE, OE funded effort. It's driven primarily out of that but it also has work with NRECA, GDO and also NERC. But it's a large scale project. It's been averaging about 25 million a year with all these labs involved since inception, so since 2018. I was the threats lead to ad inception and I work on a bunch of varieties of NARM at the moment. One critical aspect of NARM is it's looking at multi-infrastructure impacts. So you see prominently a pure electricity and natural gas. These are regional and national models that we have. I'll talk a little bit more about this later. This is a lot of data and you might imagine it's very hard to get and it is hard to get. We got it and we can't give it to you. But we can actually talk about ways we can actually use the NARM model and do analytics and maybe share some of the results for some of the pilot projects. So I think that's an interesting linkage. COMS is something we're starting, we have the overlays for. We know where those are nationally in the U.S. in terms of fiber and everything else in the COMS networks and we're starting to integrate that into COSIMs. So that's kind of the general super high level view is trying to do a high level regional national resilience analytics using coupled COSIM relations for key infrastructures that we care about. All right, I'll give you a little bit more sense of what's happening. Everything starts with a threat model in NARM. You need to understand your threats. You need to characterize them with data ideally and figure out how those threats are going to manifest on the system. Once you have those, those form contingencies basically, then you can do COSIM of natural gas, bulk electric systems and quantify and roll up the impacts. And that's what this slide shows. I've got another slide in here talking about data infrastructure. Data is a huge focus of NARM for good reason. Somebody mentioned earlier it's hard to get good geospatial data. We agree, it's still hard to get good geospatial data but if you have money and can pay for it that helps a little bit. And there's other sources in the government that actually can provide good data as well. Far as COSIM goes, if people have heard of Helix, it's a COSIM framework. The idea behind the modeling analysis environment in NARM is it's intended to bring together the best of breed tools within the national lab system, couple them, integrate them and actually get them working in concert with the best of breed commercial tools, for example, powerful solvers. All right, organized around three capabilities. I mentioned multi-infrastructure planning models. We have those. We have tons of data and analytics to support this. And we have a software and computing architecture. NARM is actually hosted on AWS Cloud Cloud but it's protected, of course, by user. So this is a cloud effort. It's a huge software stack. If you know anything about DevOps and things like that, it's a lot of software engineers on the effort. A lot of programmers have gone in, programming years have gone into actually deploying this but we're actually there now and I think the lower right is iCandy. Just it's an iChart that says, look, it's a complex architecture. The upper right is we have two modes of kind of interfacing to this. One is kind of a canned UI where we think of things that people should want to navigate to and create threats and do simulations and visualize them. The others are the Jupyter notebooks so the more programming savvy of us are able to use those. And we actually use both of those. We generally prototype in Jupyter or Hub and then we promote up to NARM UI as we find things that are useful. All right, this is another iChart but we have 90, 70 data layers in here. A lot of this is focused on infrastructure itself but also things that are basically dependent of infrastructure like where are fire stations, where are security stations, where are hospitals, that's all important. Geographic routing, one of our biggest issues, frankly, has been getting good geographic or geolocated information for both the bulk electric and the natural gas side and making that consistent. So a lot of our effort is actually trying to get geospatially located information because when you look at natural threats, the geolocation matters. Whether or not you can actually prevent a wildfire up to a certain point and you use roads as barriers, you need to know where those are and if you don't know where those are, you can't do very good projections. All right, so what are we using some of this for? I didn't say I wasn't gonna talk about deterministic optimization so I will talk about that right now. Within the context of NARM, I mentioned threats are key. So we have a bunch of methods for identifying threats or characterizing threats. I've led the wildfire effort since 2020 so we have a lot of work going on and trying to characterize high-risk wildfire regions in the Western US. This is both under climate change and just seasonal projections, things like that. We have methods that are able to identify rigorously high-impacted minus K contingencies given those high-risk regions. So if you've got a bunch of different, I'll show you an example here in a minute, but if you have a bunch of different regions that could have impacts, maybe there are 200 components in those regions. You can't enumerate all of those possibilities when you're trying to look for high-impact events but you can use optimization intelligently to actually identify those and then simulate those in the context of NARM. So one thing we can definitely help, I think most of the pilot projects on are given particular threats of interest. We can identify high-impacted minus K that you might actually want to be resilient to and do analytics around that. So again, we're getting past squirrels in N minus one. We're trying to push into N minus K. And I should say K, we've run things up to K equals 100. So we're trying to get our simulations to run through major impactful events, not just small one-here, one-there type of events. Wildfire analytics demonstration. If you live in the Bay, which probably half of the people in this area do, the graphic on the left, the red regions are high-risk regions from last summer, or maybe the two summers ago, but a recent summer, that were projected for wildfire burn risks in the Bay. You can see the mess of gray is the bulk electric infrastructure superimposed on that. And then the lines in blue and the buses in blue are basically those components that intersect the wildfire risk regions. So potentially any of those components are likely to go out. You can think about all those components, it's a lot. It's like, in this case, like 97, I think. You can't analyze all those, and you're not gonna lose them all, but what's interesting is if you use these optimization methods I talked about to identify high-impact N minus K events, you can find a couple of components that if you take those out, basically take out all of the load that as if you had taken out every component that's in blue. So that's super critical, is you need to understand what the criticality or critical components are in your system. Once you have those, that can be the basis for actually hardening your system against those. All right, a couple more things to discuss here. Interdependency analysis. We would love in NARM to get past impact as loss of load. Megawatt hour is not an impact. People care about whether that lights on in the right places, and it's power actually providing certain functions. That's something we're starting to get better at at NARM. Again, that's a big data issue. There's also a modeling issue, but definitely data issue. But we have a lot of interdependency analysis layers thanks to Oak Ridge that allow us to actually understand in this particular region, you've got wildfire risk or losing power to firefighting stations, which of course is a bad thing because they're the ones that are gonna put out the fire. On the right side, I mentioned in the previous slides that we're using optimization to identify sets of vulnerable components that if they're outage yield high impacts. You can't just harden those. You can think of it like a portfolio optimization. There's something else you need that as input to an optimization process that's even higher that allows you to optimally invest your mitigation strategies. So in this particular case, in this Bayer example that I showed you in the previous slide, if you do nothing, that was about 210-ish megawatts impacted. And if you actually optimally invest some number of hardened components, basically undergrinding lines, you can actually reduce things down to about 100, maybe 110 megawatts, so you can basically have the impact. But after a certain point that kind of tails off, so basically you would have to harden the whole system to actually mitigate the entire impact. So we have these tri-level optimization algorithms in addition to the critical component identification which are based on optimization to basically tell you what to do if you have a limited budget, which of course everybody does. All right, potential leverage points for NARM resilience analytics. This is just my bias, but there's probably many more things we could use NARM for for any of the pilot studies that I've seen so far. One is modeling threats. We do wildfires, but there's also cold wave team, flooding, earthquakes, you name it. So cold waves, so if you're interested in that, intentional threats, we do that too. Co-simulation of contingencies, so we can actually do co-simulations in our model for natural gas, electric, for whatever contingencies you come up with. So again, you don't necessarily have to have access to NARM, but we have to map it to NARM models and we could probably do a simulation and do some studies. Scalable worst case or high impact in minus K identification methods, these identify credible high impact contingencies for analysis. And then we have these advanced, invest, disrupt, operate. I train myself slowly to stop saying defender, attacker, defender, because it doesn't really cover natural threats, but these optimization methods that actually tell you, given a fixed budget, where do you mitigate things and how was the best to do that? And with that, I will conclude. Wow, I'd like to thank our speakers for this session. We now have a few minutes for questions. So I'll open it up for questions from the room. I had some questions in the MIT work. Actually though, I think you had a slide about the goals of the work. I think they were like spot on. I just wanna understand how you're approaching that within the New England ISO, because one of the challenges with New England especially, is that as we go through electrification, the winter peaks that come, and I just wanna get a little bit more understanding of how you're approaching that in terms of the planning and your resource adequacy in New England for building and transportation electrification. Yeah, so currently what we have done is to sort of look at the residential and commercial, primarily residential sector in terms of specifically focusing on building, heating, electrification, and trying to understand from a bottom sub-approach way how the shift in the energy demand from natural gas to electricity is going to shape up under various technology scenarios and also envelope improvements, right? Now, once this particular understanding of change in the supply and demand is done, we can in principle try to evaluate this under various weather realizations, future uncertainties, either past realizations of future uncertainties of weather data, and then try to sort of utilize these uncertainty representations into this joint planning problem, right? Which actually co-optimizes not just the investment cost in one sector but another, but also has this interdependency taken into account, the interdependency between the two. And then try to understand what kind of decommissioning decisions if at all or strategic positions of form power resources in the presence of future investment in renewables is going to look like, right? So that is actually the kind of analysis that we have currently done. We would love to sort of collaborate on how the scenarios of failures can be integrated in a more principled manner, including the attacker defender, attacker defense kind of a setup. But basically these kind of optimization models are supposed to provide guidance on strategic investments, both spatially and temporarily, and how the nature of uncertainty is going to shape these investments. So it does tie to sort of some of the priorities of the New England ISO, both in terms of the resource adequacy and resiliency needs. And we would love to sort of bridge that gap between the two, yeah. There was another question, but there you go. Hi everyone, thanks so much for your presentations. I was wondering if you could share a little bit more about the equity frameworks, metrics, and data that you plan on using in your projects, or in the case of Lawrence, what that orbit used. Thank you. What do you want to? Maybe you can start somewhere? So I do not have a full understanding of this equity picture, but coming from a resiliency and this cost investment cost perspective, we can clearly see that our models currently in terms of investment planning, we can almost say very clearly they are not equitable, right? So in terms of evaluating, for example, where the investments are going to be, right? Relative to sort of the demand centers, right? So one claim or one sort of open question is, what's the difference between a resiliency improving investment outcome and equitable investment outcome? And are there some kind of commonalities between the two, which we can actually utilize to sort of look at the equity definition in a more nuanced manner? You see, it has to be looked at in a nuanced manner, and my claim here is that the resiliency aspect is actually not disjointed from equity, as it pertains to investment decisions in the face of future uncertainties. I don't have a nuanced, more different answer than this, but maybe others would add to that, yeah. I can try to answer a little bit for our project. This is not something I'm an expert in yet, and the way we're thinking about it for our community acceptance study is that we would engage with the communities and understand their willingness to accept different kinds of transmission system, different kinds of, different locations for the floating turbines, how it would impact them, engage with, again, all kinds of communities along the way of the transmission system, and also the coastal ones, and I would have had another thing to say. Dude, you have something to add for now? No, maybe one thing to add is just when we conduct these planning exercises, we're really looking at the affordability of different pathways of decarbonization, so that plays a big role into the equity of this energy transition, because we really can't take higher rates, astronomically higher rates, yeah. Just to add, it came back to quantify a little bit of environmental justice, we've also looked at which groups are the ones that would be the most impacted by the different systems and who's gonna have the benefits and who's gonna carry the burdens of offshore wind in California. At our NARM, we're starting to integrate some of the equity layers just to understand what is being impacted of particular buses in terms of zip code statistics and things like that. We say that's a very new effort in the last six months, but that's where we are with that. Hi, not meant to be a gutch if it's not included. I saw one map in the NARM slides that had Alaska as Alaska part of it, or cotton and white, lower 48, what are we talking? It's really conus at the moment, to be honest. And there's, I think the beginning data for the other areas has been the problematic aspect. Same thing, no one, well, I'll get out in front of it. No one asked about Canada and Mexico, similar reasons. So as we gather more, a couple more questions, I do have a question for you, JPU, which is this phenomenal effort with NARM is there, right? So how can we at the university ecosystem reach out to interact with NARM in a way that enables successful products and use for earnest? So if you can provide some examples of how should we reach out to you and structure the ask, yeah. So I think the ask, well, one good thing about NARM, I said the data's, we can't give that out, but most of the tool sets are either simulators that everyone knows how to use in the room or maybe knows somebody, you know somebody how to run them in a room. And then also on top of that, most of the lab tools are open source, so that's good in the sense that we can point you to we're using this tool for doing this kind of analysis. So if you have your own data, that's probably very easy to do. As far as engaging with people, I think reach out to me if you're on any pilot programs. If you want to do X, Y, or Z, I know enough of the NARM ecosystem and the management too and a part of it that I can actually point you to the right people and then we can kind of go from there. I think it would be interesting in particular some cases to actually do studies like you might be doing open source data from for the New England case. We've done cobalt of analytics for the upper Northeast too. So we could actually do comparisons of NARM models relative to academic models to just do more fidelity. So I think that's kind of the way to start is, those three aspects, one and another thing I want to point out is most lab folks are academics at heart too. So we do practice, but we also like to publish and do research. So I think if you come to us with a research question and say, hey, we found this cool tool, can we extend it in this way? You're gonna get a lot more traction than if you just say, hey, can we use your tool for free? That sounds great. And there is a question there, so yes, go ahead. Hi, just to follow up on the wildfire thing. So we've seen a lot about the consequences of wildfires. Rates go up, insurance goes away, right? Are you doing any analysis in collaboration with private companies or funders to do like a cost benefit analysis? If we harden stuff up, then what's that benefit? Can we monetize it? And more importantly, for the projects that aren't undertaken by the government, like can we get these things funded? So what's the, is there a value that you can attach to reducing the severity and length of wildfires? Yeah, so we've done a couple of things. So a lot of this still is in the research phase, but the tools are set where we can actually do studies for real customers. So we're at the phase now of engaging with utilities to try to figure out like, what can we actually do to help you out? So the utilities in California are spending a lot of money trying to underground lines. We believe we have better ways to actually prioritize that. And maybe, you know, you can go so far deep into the undergrounding stack. And after a while, it's not gonna matter. So we believe we can provide analytics that will actually tell you it's worth spending. I'm making these numbers up, two billion. But if you spend 10 billion, your marginal improvement is only 5% over two billion. So why are you bothering with that? There's other things you might be able to do in terms of undergrounding. And so is the major stakeholder there, the utilities who are gonna decide where to bury lines? Well, like right now, DOEs are stakeholders. So they're worried about national and regional resilience questions. We have a recent effort within our ECA that we're just starting for wildfire analytics that we'll hopefully be able to engage strongly with some of the co-ops to actually allow us to do analytics studies in their context and actually tell them where to invest and make our tool more, I guess, industry friendly. And that's kind of where we are with that process. So with that, I would like to move the final question to the two graduate students and ask a little bit. You'll have the final words, Nils and Cameron, before we close this session. But for the graduate students that are gonna be participating in earnest and are considering engaging in this sort of research, what are your words of wisdom? Go ahead. I think what's exciting about this consortium is that all these problems are very timely. If you look today, we just had President Reynolds from the CPUC talking about offshore wind. Our project is directly playing into this conversation that's happening on a wider regional basis. So I guess my advice would be stay involved with the conversations happening right outside of your research lab into the broader planning work going on. Yeah, I completely agree. And I would also add that one of the main things that I've really enjoyed about my research so far is how interdisciplinary it is and how many different projects there are, how you can participate in a lot of them at different levels. Of course, you focus in something, but you can discover a lot of other things. And I think earnest is gonna be quite incredible in that aspect and a great opportunity for a lot of graduate students to be interdisciplinary scholars. And with that, we'll conclude this session. Please join me in thanking all these speakers. So.


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I'll fight Keep fighting boys Fight the good fight Try to get K-Riz the win There's a Jonathan India launched into orbit die cut Ken Griffey I pray you rookie Jeremy Pena. Okay.  Oh our Kepler. There's a J Rob J rod rookie base Shane Bieber rocket arm refractor Dallas Keichel Complete this home real quick. Well, I forgets Can't be with zero He's sent see on Simply can't allow that. Okay. Let's say don't let him go all the way Castellanos refractor redepners You're dumb. Who poll stars gonna be Bryson Stott. Nice rookie there for the Phillies Bryson Stott rookie to 99 and a Josh low rookie on the scope Low rookie scope Manny Machado Geez it's a Mountcastle refractor. That's something that is something right there. No completed pass All right, it's an Anderson refractor Marthe That's no good There's a rookie Dela Cruz rocket arms Verlander with Mara fuel two picks and no completions. That's not good to Oscar Wilson contrasts How is it at 17? It would know Ryan Velaid refractor. This is not adding up. How does that work? They get to 17 with no completions Ricky Bruhan, there's O'Neill cruise space rookie Ray Mewtwo rocket arm hater Soler oh my god Geez man the heck Myers there's a launch into orbit mookie Yeah, that's interesting That's very interesting Mara field and orange auto nice one. There's Jose a break you on the orange ray wave that one is the 25 This one there a break you now a astro Longer a white sock And red is gonna be Shane Bieber back-to-back there when it's three out of five nice Bebes On the red lava three out of five really nice coat back-to-back packs there Darvish in a scope Chris Bryant. Let me you on the back. All righty there time. I'll do for 22 chrome Do some origins? We'll do a tier one last the best Bieber that day and argue And argue orange to 125 almond raw and she won 49 Deandre swift AJ Dylan base and it's gonna be Anthony Richardson on the rookie base AR Got a jersey to 99 that one's gonna be Cedric Tillman hometown roots out of Vegas What's up, Jace? Jace Michael Wilson rookie out of their Cardinals And on the back is RPA of Jordan Addison nice one there the Vikings rookie Jordan Addison RPA Box two making a break. There we go. Make it happen. Make it happen The redemption on the back to 25 nice Jay Jetta It's a nice little Vikings break here and a 99 Zach Charbonnet Rookie for the seabirds is Dalvin cook on the base There's Jake Hainer on the rookie Jalen Carter. Ooh one of five nice patch there three-color patch for the Eagles Ca one of five there nice Jalen Carter big man out of Georgia Got a redemption on the front. This is gonna be Dorian Thompson Robinson and 99 rookie auto DTR and this is gonna be a rookie jumbo auto of Michael Mayer Nice one there the murky for the Raiders Tied in All right, keep it going here miss a Tom another origins tier one After this guys I got Nicholas Justin Heinrich Valerie Jason Justin Steven Jeffrey James Jonathan and Chris a lot of orders in the queue if you guys um Our thing about grabbing something don't weigh much longer. I'm only staying till about 330 today, so I'm not gonna have a lot more space you guys do want to grab something So a grade of 75 Najee and orange to 125 say Kwan and nice little eagle patch there Two up and another Anthony Richardson on the base Another Anthony Richardson got a Jersey two-color patch of 75 gonna be hometown roots Ty J Spears That's true. I haven't seen Spencer at all today And will Anderson on the rookie out of there to 49. It's one their third or third pick overall in the draft Good um linebacker And next will be redemption. We got tank Dell another nice Texan there rookie jumbo jerseys They did well on the draft man. They got a couple good ones Yeah, it should be going today Mario. I gotcha Tank Dell Justin just got another one in Yeah, I should go today All right, Tom. We got four tier one Yeah, no problem Mario appreciate you sir. Oh, we got a silver ink out of the 10 that one's gonna be Esther Ruiz Rookie silver ink out of the A's a bunch of steels this year 299 Louis Castile or sorry Max Castile Max Castile when they rookie out of 299 And Jersey to 400 be Tristan Mackenzie game use Jersey Kristen Mackenzie box to Come on to Enrique come on to Enrique Need a man 55 sacks this season. Geez. Oh Ravens Ball first up. We have a rookie auto. It's gonna be Ezekiel Tovar to 299 Ezekiel Tova We have a bronze ink out of 25 gonna be Bryce Johnson Bryce Johnson Giants rookie. This one is a 299 Alec Minoa Alec Minoa there for the Blue Jays the veteran auto And Jersey to 400 is gonna be William Contreras. William Contreras there for the Brakes Don't already miss a Tom two more tier one Good luck. Good luck Yeah, Matt Abike is probably their best. He does it from Tackle Gets all those sacks from Tackle not even an edge rusher. It's got like 12 this year There's a nice one. It's gonna be Nolan Ryan to 99 Nice one there for the Rangers Nolan Ryan always always a different one Bunch of different Nolan Ryan's here. This one's a ranger 99 nice big on card out of there We've got um Gonzalez Oscar Gonzalez to 299 rookie auto And on the back is number to 400 gonna be Reese Hoskins on the uh game use method The game use Jersey there for the um Phillies and last box Good luck. Mr. Tom There's a Barry Larkin to um 149 nice big on card out of there All the famer for the Reds Barry Larkin Got right behind it's going to be it's a 299 Jose Queyos for the Royals Another rookie out of there It's a 299 And on the back we have to 400 gonna be Paul Canerca On the batting relic Game use bat relic there white socks all righty all righty there. Mr. Tom that will do it for your um Eight boxes appreciate you my man as always we'll get these right out to you


The 1980s is always looked at as a glory era for the NBA. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry revived the game, but they weren't the only players pushing the culture. I'm Rachel Demida and today we're going to come up with the Dream Team of the 80s. The first player on our Dream Team is Karim Abdul-Jabbar. Karim was an all-star every year in the 80s and his signature skyhook helped him become the NBA's all-time scoring leader while winning five titles in Los Angeles. Next is Moses Malone. Malone was the first player to jump straight from high school to the NBA. He was a relentless rebounder and one of the 80s most unstoppable forces. Moving on to Larry Bird. Larry Legend wasn't just one of the greatest winners in NBA history, he was one of the most creative. Bird was a brilliant passer and shooter, not to mention he won three NBA titles. Next on our 80s Dream Team, Michael Jordan. Jordan's most iconic moments came during his peak in the 1990s, but his most statistically dominant stretches and best dunks came during the Golden Era 80s. And our starting point guard, Magic Johnson. Magic Johnson led the Showtime Lakers to five NBA titles while winning five NBA MVP awards. Magic didn't define the decade alone, but you can't separate magic from the 80s. The 1980s gave us some of the most entertaining hoops and the greatest players the game has ever seen. It doesn't get better than Magic, Bird, and MJ. But did anyone miss the cut? Let us know in the comments below who your 80s Dream Team would be. I'm Rachel Demita for Uproxx and I'll see you next time.


Hello. Welcome to Vermont Statehouse Headliners. My name is Guy Page. I'm the host and producer of this show. This is our first show. Headliners is all about letting people know about the bills that are in the Vermont Statehouse. I've been a lobbyist and a journalist and I've written a lot about the legislature, but I realized that a lot of people don't know, maybe don't really care, doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes what they read in the paper or they hear in the news. So I figured I would just run off a list of the bills that have been introduced into the Vermont Statehouse this year, and we'd talk about some of them. A little bit about myself. I live in Berlin, Vermont native, married, three adopted children, like to go walking on Berlin Pond. I'm a Berlin JP. And by the way, is it Berlin or Berlin? I've heard different things from people who are born and raised here. So some of you have any insight into that. I would welcome hearing it. You should be seeing my email address somewhere in the screen, and I welcome any input, including how to pronounce the name of the town that I live in, but also on the legislation that comes up. And if you want to receive our daily column that we produce for Vermont Statehouse Headliners, please just send along a request by email, and we'd be glad to add you to the list. It's completely free. Yeah. Okay. So let's get going. Bill H-113 would expand the beverage container deposit redemption system. Right now it's just, you know, beer and soda pretty much. Well, this would add water bottles, wine bottles, containers for all non-carbonated and carbonated drinks, except for milk, rice milk, soy milk, almond milk, hemp seed milk. I didn't know there was a hemp seed milk, and dairy products. I did a little bit of research on why people are foreign again. One of the concerns I hear is that the back in the day when these laws were passed, there was a real problem of ditches just being full of containers and known as recycling anything back then. But now the argument goes, well, a lot of people just sort of recycle naturally because we've been kind of trained to it. And so maybe it's not quite as necessary, they say. And it's kind of cumbersome and it's expensive. And I will say that last fall I was walking a lot around the street, the roads of Berlin and Barry and Montpelier, and I picked up 1,600 bottles and cans. And most of them were, well, actually Bud Light was definitely the most popular brand. But a lot of beer, a lot of soda. But there were quite a few non-returnables. There's certain kinds of hard cider, believe it or not. I never realized, but this hard cider you can buy? No, you don't get your nickel back on that one. So there's definitely, you might say people are maybe more likely to throw these away if they don't get their nickel back. So take all that for what it's worth. I also know that the businesses, the stores, convenience stores, they're very willing to help out in this. I would describe to them all the containers I was finding and they'd say, look, anything we can do to make our roads cleaner and safer to be on, just let us know. So that's one bill. H111, this is an interesting one, creates a woman's health stabilization fund to support Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and offset any decrease in the amount of federal funding received in fiscal year 2019. Money's deposited into the fund shall comprise revenues from attacks imposed on manufacturers of erectile dysfunction drugs. That's Representative Mike Marwicky from the southern part of the state. And I guess the idea there is that if the federal government decides to reduce any funding for New England's Planned Parenthood organization, he's saying it should be offset with a tax on ED drugs. Now all of these bills, they've just been introduced into the Vermont House. Once they're introduced, they get sent to a committee. And there's nothing that says that that committee has to then take it up, look at it, study it, pass it along for another vote by the House and then have it move over to the Senate. No, it can just hang out on the wall as they say. It's up on the wall. And that means the committee hasn't discussed yet and a lot of bills at the end of the session, which is usually four or five months long, they're still up on the wall. So there's no rule of law that says that just because a bill is introduced it's going to become law. In fact, most of them don't. Picture those little turtles in their thousands trying to get into the sea and only a few of them make it. That is kind of what it's like with bills in the legislature. Maybe, I don't know, one in 50? Something like that. One in 50, one in 20 actually make it. So another bill, H110 would eliminate strikes and imposed terms in connection with collective bargaining for teachers and school administrators contracts. So the school strike because they don't like the proposed contract, that would be out. I'm not really sure what the thinking behind that is. I know there are some people who believe that schools belong somewhat in the same category as police and fire and public transit and other groups of workers who are not allowed to strike but receive other benefits. So of interest to all Vermonters, but especially Montpelier residents, I think H109 Dewey Day. This Dewey Day, this H109 would designate October 12th every year as Dewey Day after U.S. Admiral George Dewey. The only person to attain the rank of Admiral of the U.S. Navy was born and raised in Montpelier. He was a renowned U.S. Navy hero whose military leadership resulted in the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. The original Dewey Day celebration occurred in Montpelier on October 12th, 1899. And in recent years, there's been an attempt to kind of bring that back. I do know a little bit about George Dewey. When I'm giving tours of the State House, I like to tell groups of children that as a boy, George Dewey would stand at the top of the steps of the State House, blindfold himself, and then run as fast as he could down the steps and out across the street to his father's house. His father being Julius Dewey, the founder of National Life. So a wild kid, this young George Dewey. But sometimes a wild kid grows up into being a courageous man. Lieutenant Commander Dewey in the Civil War was aboard a ship that was sinking and the captain had ordered a abandoned ship. But there were four men stuck below decks on a burning ship and Lieutenant Commander Dewey went down below decks on that burning sinking ship and rescued those four men. So maybe the wild kid became the brave man who became really Vermont's most famous naval officer. Okay. On a more contemporary vein, H-103 would restructure drug possession laws to make possession of marijuana, cocaine, LSD, heroin and other illegal drugs a misdemeanor. That's right. Possession of coke, LSD, heroin, other hard drugs a misdemeanor while keeping possession with intent to sell as a felony. So this is the, it's not just marijuana anymore move in the Vermont Statehouse where other drugs, harder drugs, most people considered to be more serious addictive drugs are now being proposed to be moved into just a misdemeanor. So the process of the decriminalization now of the harder drugs has begun. And that has been proposed by most of the members of the House Judiciary Committee. Now House Judiciary is a very interesting committee, has a lot of Chittenden County people on it and they are generally very motivated to do a lot of the more, what are considered to be the more progressive things. Marijuana, some of the immigration legislation, it often comes out of judiciary and Berlin's own legislator in Northfields, Ken Goslin is on that committee. So I hope at some point on a future show to give him a call and he can give us a sort of an update on what his committee is doing. A similar law built by also by judiciary legislators would limit drug related criminal liability and civil forfeiture. In other words, we take your car because it had drugs in it. Civil forfeiture actions against persons associated with an approved safer drug consumption program. So if there's a part of this program that says, well, they were using or possessing a safer drug, then the forfeiture and the criminal liability would be limited. So again, it's all part of this trend to reduce the criminal aspect of drug possession in Vermont. H99 would ban the sale of protected animal parts or products. So that's a rhino and elephant. If you happen to, someone in your neighborhood says, hey, I've got a great rhino horn for sale. I'll give you a good deal. That would be against the law. H91, this comes to the contentious issue of the carbon tax or carbon taxation. H91 would enable Vermont to participate in a multi-state cap and trade program for greenhouse gas emissions caused by transportation, heating, cooling, and ventilation. A cap and trade program, to put it really simply, you put, say, nine or 10 states together. And the states that are producing the most greenhouse gas emissions have to pay the states that aren't. So Vermont is actually part of a cap and trade system right now for electricity generators. And of course, Vermont, we don't have any smokestacks or very, very, very few smokestacks for power companies. We don't have any coal plants, very little in the way of fossil fuel electricity generation. So we do really, really well. We make like a million bucks a year from these other states combined about that. And that money goes into our energy efficiency, efficiency of Vermont, weatherization. Now, the problem here is that this talks about transportation. Well, and on transportation, Vermont actually has the highest percentage of greenhouse gas emissions for transportation of any of the other northeastern states who would be part of this multi-state thing. So we would end up paying, it seems, common sense would say, we would be likely to end up paying them.  You would be paying extra because so New Jersey or some other state in the northeast does really well in this area, and you'd be paying them. The whole idea, of course, is to get everyone to use less. So it's kind of a sort of a force prevention, raise the cost, maybe people use less. Now, here's the problem with that. Let's say that home heating oil becomes too expensive for people to use. Now, in Vermont in July 1, we started using really clean heating oil. It's called an OSHO, an ultra-low sulfur. As of July 1 this year, all heating oil sold in Vermont has like almost no particulate matter, very little. Really, really clean stuff. If suddenly that becomes too expensive or discouraged, what are most homeowners going to do? Well, some folks will get a nice pellet system or a heat pump. Yeah, that'd be great. That'd be great for the environment. A lot of other people, though, are going to use their wood stove. They're maybe not quite so energy efficient and clean wood stove. So we have to think about the real world consequences of putting a big tax on fossil fuels. What will Vermonters do if we do that? Oh, there's a Trump bill here. H88, an act relating to requiring a presidential candidate to disclose federal tax returns in order to be placed on the presidential primary and general election ballots. I think they're talking about President Trump there. They want to see his tax returns. Don't know if that'll pass. Don't know how effective it would be if it did pass. But that does tell you there are some legislators there who want to see those tax returns. H90, this is about hunting and guns and gun safety. Requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to assist public and independent schools interested in offering hunter education courses. Which sounds pretty straightforward, right? What could be wrong with Fish and Wildlife and other gun experts teaching hunter safety to children who want to learn? I was overhearing a conversation yesterday where apparently there are legislators who do not like that idea. Who do not want either private groups or Fish and Wildlife to be coming into schools and teaching about gun safety. It's not that they don't like safety. They're all for safety. It's the gun part that they don't like. And so we'll see where this bill goes and in future editions of Vermont State House headliners. I'll try to follow that bill and other gun safety bills. H81 defines milk as, quote, the pure lactial secretion of doved animals. Of course we make a lot of milk in Vermont, so this is important. And I think there's some concern maybe that they're calling almond milk milk and hemp seed milk milk. And so they want to get a little distance between good old Vermont milk and these other products. I did have one of my readers respond with the question, what would the savants in the state house have us call the fluid produced by lactating mothers, those without cloven hooves? That's a good question. What would we call breast milk then? Anyway, H80 authorizes a gun suppressor, a silencer while hunting and provides hearing protection for persons while hunting. And this is an interesting bill in that the sponsors for this bill, there is a doctor who is very concerned about hearing loss. And there is a strong supporter of gun rights and hunting rights. And they have gotten together. I think these two individuals probably don't often vote together on things or work together on legislation. But on this one, they found common cause. And that does happen sometimes in the legislature where opposites attract and they come together over an issue and they work together. And this would be one of those bills. Act 46, there are about six bills regarding Act 46. That's the forced school district merger law. Act, Bill 78 would place a moratorium on school district mergers ordered by the state board of education until these legal issues are rejudicated. As you may know, Act 46 is facing a legal challenge in Vermont courts. The plaintiffs are very concerned that towns are being forced to close schools, to sell schools, sell school property. Also take on debt of less financially strong districts that they've been forced into a merger to. And just the whole imposition of this by the state board. And they're concerned that the law perhaps wasn't very clear on the state board having the authority to impose consolidation as much as it is doing. And they're very concerned that once the financial funds of school districts are merged and their investments are merged and their accounts receivable and everything all merged, as one lawyer said, it's going to be a real rat's nest to straighten out. So they want that moratorium because that day of required mergers is coming very soon. I think it's July 1 of this year. And they want more time to work on this and straighten it out. Plastics, for those of us of a certain age who enjoyed the movie The Graduate. One of the key lines there is the hero of the story has someone come up to him and says, my boy, just remember one word, plastics. And back then it was sort of like a good thing. You want to get into the plastics industry. There's a bunch of plastic bills introduced into this legislature and none of them like plastics. It's mostly they're really concerned about plastic getting into the waste stream. For example, H74 would prohibit restaurants from providing carry out bags, plastic carry out bags, expanded polystyrene food service products, and plastic straws. These would be banned under H74. A local bill, Representative Tommy Walts of Barrie, has H73 to approve amendments to the charter of the city of Barrie. The way that works is the city votes on something, say at the previous city meeting, and then the legislature has to approve or not approve those proposed charter amendments. That's just how our government works, that a municipal charter change needs to be approved by the legislature. So for you Barrie residents, we'll be watching that. H53 would establish the crime of disturbing the legislature with punishment of fine and or jail. We've had some protesters coming into the House of Representatives and yelling and carrying on and perhaps requiring more security, and the legislators don't like that. And so there is this bill that would say, you do that, you're going to pay a fine or do the time. From Barrie Town, you have Representatives Rob LeClaire and Topper McFawn, another charter change that would add gender inclusive language for town officers to the charter of the town of Barrie. All of these, by the way, you can look up on the Vermont General Assembly website. Just Google Vermont Legislature and up it will come. It's quite user friendly, and you can learn almost everything that you've heard is available on the website. It's had a pretty tough January, right? A lot of snow, a lot of ice. Maybe this is where this one's coming from. H65 requires removal of snow and ice from vehicles operated on public highways.  This law passes, you might get pulled over for that. H68 provides up to two consecutive hours of paid leave so that employees may vote in primary and general elections held in Vermont and on Town Meeting Day. Interesting idea. A lot of people say, hey, we don't have time to go voting. The employers are saying, wow, actually you can usually get there before or after. It's not like the lines are all that long for most elections. The sponsor for this is Representative Nadir Hashim, who is the first state trooper, currently employed state trooper to be elected to the legislature. He's out of Westminster down over by the Connecticut River. Another plastic bill. H50 requires that when a person installs a buoy, dock or floating structure on state waters, expanded polystyrene flotation foam shall be encapsulated by protective covering or shall be designed to prevent foam from disintegrating into the water. It would also prohibit nearby sail, like out of Marina, of non-encapsulated polystyrene foam products. So those white styrofoam bumpers, no. Those would go under this bill. I've talked some about gun control. This bill, H49, is about knife control or saying no knife control. This would prohibit municipalities from passing any ordinance or about possession, ownership, sale, carrying of a knife. So it's trying to carve out some knife rights there. Representative Pat Brennan from Colchester. H48 would raise the tax rate by $1.25 on a pack of cigarettes. Representative George Till, the doctor from Underhill. For those of you who are interested in sports betting, a young legislator would create a sports betting study committee to examine legalizing, regulating, and taxing sports betting, and to prepare legislation that would provide for gradual legalization. Back on the highway, this H38 would authorize primary enforcement of the adult safety belt law. Right now, a cop can't just look at you and say, you don't have your seat belt on. If you're driving by, he can't stop you just for that. He needs to stop you for something else and that if he happens to see that you don't have your seat belt on, he can give you a ticket, click it or ticket. What this law would do is if at any point the police officer notices that you don't have a seat belt on, he can ticket you. Another plastic bill, H33, would charge $0.10 for each disposable carryout bag used by a person for carrying goods, food, or other products. Well, I see that we are out of time. Got plenty more to talk about next week. We'll talk about some more bills and maybe some progress on some of these other ones. Hope it's been interesting. I would appreciate your feedback. Thank you very much.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2014 Ford F-150 SuperCrew Short Box STX is stock number 12411ZA. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used light duty truck headquarters. This 2014 Ford F-150 has the 5-liter V8 gas engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go, and it has four brand new tires. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood. Sunset metallic is the color, it's kind of a burnt orange color, looks really good. Very rare, you don't see this color very often. I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now, because it is your best way to check out the quality condition options, and of course the cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you like the video and how I do things here at Summit Automotive, consider clicking the subscribe button on my YouTube channel, and then click the bell notifications, and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 20-inch painted and polished aluminum rims, and it has brand new Lofen X-FIT HT tires, these are 275, 55R20s, and they have all the tread left, you can still see the little wear knobs on there. And the frame and underbody for being a 2014 looks really good. Front fender is in nice shape, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there, the headlight lenses are crystal clear. We get the painted front bumper, factory fog lights, front bumper is in pretty nice shape, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there, and the grille looks really good as well. The hood is in really nice shape, no major dents or dings, and the passenger side front fender looks really good too. Another side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes. And as you go down this side of this 2000, actually we'll check out that sunset metallic real quick, it's got a lot of metal flake to it, really a cool color. And as you go down this side of this 2014 Ford F-150 Supercruise Short Box STX, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. And once again if you like the video and want to check out all the videos, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel in the upper right-hand part of the screen. Back tires are brand new as well. And the back frame and underbody is in really nice shape. You always want to check the box rails, just a little bit of corrosion on them but nothing too bad. The rest of the frame and underbody looks really good. It's like that all the way underneath. Lower rockers look really good as well. This is where you always got to look for the cab corners rusting out, but this one's in really nice shape. Coming around to the back, rear bumper is in a great condition as well. It does have the full towing package which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in really nice shape. This is a flex fuel vehicle. You get the ranch cap, comes with a drop-in bed liner. And the bed liner is in really nice shape. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and that cap closes nice and tightly. Going down the driver's side looks pretty good. I will point out, just because this is a used truck, there is just a little bit of bubbling on the box side here. Really this is the only spot I saw on the whole truck that's of any concern. Backroom is in nice shape as well and that back tire is brand new too. You get the capless fuel fill with this vehicle which is a really nice feature. Never get gas on your hands and the lower rockers, cab corners on this side all look really good. Like I said, just on the box right there, that's the only part I saw that was any corrosion. Anyways, telescopic tomias that are built in directional signals, they telescope out like that. They fold in like so.  You get the bucket seats in the front. There are no rips or tears on these seats. They are in really nice shape. You get a lumbar right there, weather tech floor mats, auto, or I'm sorry not auto head, there's your headlamp control, tilt, steering wheel, power windows, power locks, and power mirrors. We'll take a quick look at the back seats. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here and it does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Those seats are in really nice condition, smells very clean inside this truck. And you get that weather tech floor mat back here which keeps your carpeting looking really good. And you do get a little bit of storage underneath those seats. Good current in airbags and child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors all look really good. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. We'll start it up. See that this one has 57,522 miles on it. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Goes with the information center and cruise controls on the left. Steering wheel is in nice shape, Bluetooth and volume controls on the right. This one has the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. Has AM FM and Sirius XM satellite radio capabilities. Turned out four wheel drive, your climate controls are right there. You have sync for your Bluetooth cell phone, AUG's and a USB jack. You can see just how nice and clean that carpeting and passenger side format are. Passenger side seat is very clean. Once again smells very clean inside this truck and the headliner is in great shape. You do get map lights right there and we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck all the way around. Looks like somebody's put LED headlights and LED fog lamps in here. They're super bright and under the hood we have the five liter V8 gas engine. 360 horsepower engine base, very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by the service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has four brand new tires. There is your emissions sticker and this truck is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this 2014 Ford F-150 STX Super Cruise Short Box or one of our other 450, almost 500 vehicles, new and used from two locations all at that website right there, summitauto.com. 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All right, so, okay, next, next, next situation. All right, so, it's been nice so far. I've gotten exactly what I want on the hand fight. Things are going exactly the way I want them to go. I got the wrist, I got the inside tie. All right, this time, this guy, I got his wrist. When I go to get to the end, he grabs my collar. All right, he's got my collar. Here's what I cannot do. I cannot shy away from this comfort of having my neck pulled. Cannot shy, here's what shy noise looks like. I start to fight back, I start to fight back up. I fly up, just stay in there. Move, don't pull back, just move in there. I put my forearm, look, I got his wrist. I put my forearm in, and as he pulls me, I just, I move in there, I'm not using any energy. I didn't use any energy there. I just track him, I stalk him, so here's what I do, watch. He's on my collar, watch right now. I have to get this off. I gotta get it off, not almost off, and I can't ask him nicely, that won't work. I gotta fight it off. And in the midst of fighting it off, I gotta stay in position, yes? So watch, I come inside on it, I use my forearm, and I literally push it off. I come inside, and I never break position in the midst of it, now watch. What's this scenario? Look at my stance, I've got good position here, right? Now watch what I do. Watch, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do, ma'am? Can you get my legs? Yes, I'm wide open, look. I'm like this, it's awful. Wrist, look at the position. Look at my body position, I fight it off. I just beat his defensive line. Now I have options. If he drapes, my brain says I'll drag. If he grabs my elbow, my brain says push him back, but when he pushes back in, pull. If he pulls back up, attack him.  I'm in a constant state of assessment, all right? And that takes training. It takes a lot of training and a lot of discipline. This is secondly led up, what happens? I got to take that, I celebrate, come around his waist, I get rolled for five. High alert all the time, all right? So, here's the drill, basic. I got the wrist first, because my collar, I fight it off, look, forearm, fight it off.    Pull him down, I crotch him. Those are our two options. One, two, three. That's one number.


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jaspiescasebreak.com, 21-22, Crown Royale, basketball, Pikachu number one just sold out with this team round them.  They were over 350 and again, you're gonna have a 1-7 shot to get them. Bulls were also a pretty good team at 100 and a lot of these teams just a little under 100 minus the Wizards, of course, were probably the cheapest team just around 50 or 60, I believe. But again, you're guaranteed a team and at the end of the day you just never know what pops out of your follow these teams. So here you go guys, here's the dice roll. So we're only gonna randomize the customer names and we're gonna match you up with this list right here. Seven customer names, Rob, Barry, Randy, Simon and Jeremy. Thank you guys and good luck. Let's roll the dice and it is a two and a five seven times. Good luck. Seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six and seven. Boom! Rob's staying at the top. Top and bottom, actually. There you go. Seven times. So Rob cleaning up. There you go, man. Playing the odds game. So Rob, you just won the pistons, the bulls, Simon with the T-wolves, Jeremy with the Sixers. Remember Jeremy, Sixers do have James Harden kabooms, if I remember correctly. Barry with the heat, Randy with the Knicks and Rob, you have the Wizards as well. So there you go, everybody. That was the quick break. Now I'm gonna paste your guys' name into the team list and we'll start the break in a separate video. Guys, appreciate it.