Item number SCP-3426 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures Until the nature of SCP-3426 can be definitively ascertained, containment should focus on preventing as many of the theorized conditions for its occurrence as possible. As such, scientific progress into a unified physics hypothesis and a creation of infinitely sustainable energy should be heavily impeded. Other areas of social and technological progress that could potentially result in an occurrence of SCP-3426 on Earth must be prevented by any reasonable means currently available. Additional measures may be taken in the event that the collective human race approaches attainment of Type 1 civilization status, as defined by the Kardashev Scale. Investigation of phenomena related to SCP-3426 will take place under observation gray voices. Mechanical probe surveys to a maximum range of 100 light-years will attempt to ascertain the commonality and range of SCP-3426, and manned excursions of post-3426 planets are currently in the planning process. Operation gray voices will centralize the relevant collected data, and collaborate with other Foundation internal research divisions, including the Memetics and Info Hazard Division, Temporal Anomalies Department, Domiturgical Department, and Biological Containment and Research Division, for the purpose of attaining a greater understanding of SCP-3426. Civilian surveys of exoplanets and cosmological imaging projects will be strictly monitored for images or data that show evidence of SCP-3426. Upon discovery, data of SCP-3426 is to be erased or edited as necessary, and amnestics administered to persons involved. Description SCP-3426 is a phenomenon that is responsible for the total extinction of a technologically and socially advanced planetary civilization. SCP-3426 may be an event, entity, process, object, or concept. To date, there exists no definitive hypothesis on the attributes of the anomaly. However, it is known that the conditions for the manifestation of SCP-3426 are self-consistent and follow an established pattern. It is believed that SCP-3426's manifestation is widespread and possibly universal. A planet that has been affected by SCP-3426 is termed post-3426. SCP-3426 planets and civilizations share a number of common characteristics. The civilization must have achieved a relative degree of global social-political stability. A limitless or indefinitely sustainable source of worldwide energy is in use, such as nuclear fusion, hydrogen mining, orbital solar collection, or enhanced geothermal systems. This energy must be widespread and plentiful enough for the civilization to qualify the type I civilization or higher on the Kardashev scale. A unified scientific theory or model of the universe must have been developed. Space travel is commonplace, and it is advanced enough to allow for detailed exploration of the local solar system. There exists an organization whose purpose is to catalog and contain as many anomalous phenomena as possible. Post-3426 planets display widespread anomalous material corrosion, reality distortion, complete or near-complete corruption of information and information media, and the pervasive presence of visual, cognitive hazards and abnormalities. Sapient life forms on a post-3426 planet appear in two stages based on time since SCP-3426 took place. If it has been one year or less since the occurrence of SCP-3426, such organisms appear suspended or frozen in place, lack any consciousness, and display total cell death. In some cases they appear translucent or blurred to the cameras and to the eye. At the words, intelligent life is apparently completely spatially erased, while possessions, information and structures created as a result of the species remain present, if highly deviated, no physical remains of the species itself exist. Data, items and artifacts were collected primarily through the mass uses of drones, orbital probes and imaging sensors deployed onto post-3426 planets. Further information on the exact properties or effects of SCP-3426 has been difficult to recover. Probes that enter the atmosphere of a post-3426 planet quickly deteriorate within 24 hours, becoming affected by the space-time distortion and material corruption permeating the planet's surface and surroundings. As a result, recovered data on post-3426 planets is extremely limited. Based on data and related analysis from Operation Grey Voices, it is believed that SCP-3426 induces a slow collapse of the consistency of universal constants and stable states within the planet. This collapse weakens forced interactions between elementary particles, creates extreme planet-wide ontokinetic and material distortion effects, and gradually prevents any information or conscious thought from being distributed. This process culminates in all matter on the planet reaching a state of catastrophic incoherence, theoretically resulting in the slow erasure of objects, concepts and life-forms originating from it. This phenomenon has been provisionally classed as ZK Lambda-class Cosmic Fragmentation Scenario. While research into SCP-3426 is yielded a vast variety of information regarding its nature and end results, the mechanism by which SCP-3426 acts remains unknown. Addendum 3426.1 Incomplete list of post-3426 planets At present, Operation Grey Voices has examined all exoplanets within a 75 light-year radius of Earth. In this current exploration area, 16 planets have met the hypothesized conditions required for the occurrence of SCP-3426. All 16 were affected by SCP-3426 either upon discovery or within five years of detection. A partial list of post-3426 exoplanets and their characteristics is shown below. Police 1214b Post-3426-2 Traits Ocean Planet Hydrogen and helium atmosphere Dominant life-forms were aquatic non-humanoids with primary settlements underneath the ocean. Technologically advanced society organized in the strict unified social hierarchies. Outposts existed both in the atmosphere and in space, used for the purpose of research into the local star system. The civilization had no clear leader of governmental system. Rather, computers dispensed resources distributed according to caste. Post-3426 characteristics After SCP-3426, Post-3426-2 had approximately half of its water transmuted into deuterium and tritium oxide. Consciousness in all sapient life-forms spontaneously stopped. Computers and other data storage devices underwent apparent global information corruption, with only 15% of the civilization's information remaining readable. Water molecules no longer flow. The substance acts as a single rigid continuous solid. Notes, none. Capular-443b Post-3426-5 Traits Thick atmosphere, strong gravitational field, and cold average temperatures. Dominant life-forms have mammalian characteristics such as body hair and live birth, but don't possess ectothermic circulation in the same fashion as reptiles. Dominant religion involved the worship of an entity ascribed to the planet star, which was said to be responsible for continually rebuilding and moving the universe. Post-3426-5 experienced a form of catastrophic reality degradation in which the formation of chemical compounds became impossible due to weakening of the electrostatic force. An additional anomalous effect causes all native living organisms to be perceived as a two-dimensional shimmering gray film. This effect is both present in photographs and video from the planet and physical artifacts collected from it. Notes, none. Lighten-B Post-3426-10 Traits Rocky planet with earth-like composition, orbiting a red dwarf, mild 292K temperatures, and nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. An intelligent life was humanoid. The planet had recently survived the effects of a catastrophic nuclear war, which subsequently led to a current period of utopian peace and social stability. Primary energy source was obtained through large-scale drilling into the planet's mantle. Post-3426 characteristics All events taking place on Post-3426-10 occur in apparent disjointed slow motion. Movement interaction even thought are anomalously decelerated. This deceleration is inconsistent among the surface, with some regions being slower than others. This effect can also manifest as a complete and total stopping of time, with all particle movement in an affected region ceasing. Announces of the mantle of the planet revealed that it had been transformed into a perfectly smooth, transparent layer of pink glass. Interaction with this glass results in malfunction of any nearby electrically-powered devices and an intense feeling of vertigo. The dominant lifeforms inhabiting Post-3426-10 appear to communicate in an undocumented Indo-European language with significant similarities to Hittite. The status phenomenon as an anomaly is currently under review.  Similarly to Earth, planetary society consists of a multitude of separated geopolitical states co-existing in a roughly capitalist system. Analog of the SCP Foundation notably was a peacekeeping organization that traded anomalies and used them strategically to prevent wars, research medical and scientific advances or expose social and economic injustices. Post-3426 characteristics, extreme spatial distortion, entire regions are displaced from the rest of the surface, while a low-static blur is visible across most of the planet. It is unknown whether this is a visual or an auto-kinetic effect. On occasion, a sudden tear in the space-time continuum within the planet's atmosphere is detected, followed by the appearance of black mist. This mist will usually move towards an unconscious sentient lifeform or data storage device to enter it. Once this has been completed, it becomes impossible for any being to comprehend any concepts related to or contained in the affected object. This has made data-gathering from Post-3426-13 extremely difficult. Notes, all containment sites operated by Post-3426-13's SCP Foundation Analog have been replaced by large spheres of total darkness. Mechanical probes enter in these regions of total darkness experiencing an unusual form of breakdown. The Addendum 3426.3 Addendum 3426.2 Recovered Data and Artifacts List Rough translations of recovered data were provided by the Linguistics Department under requests by Operation Great Voices. Translations are not guaranteed to be accurate. Item Source Computer Terminal Drive on Space Station orbiting Post-3426-2 We are undaverged of filing discovering it. The mathematics is working perfectly, too perfectly, perhaps for me to remain comfortable with this experiment much longer. Natural Laws, Behaviors, and Forces I cannot help but fear at what these findings imply. I cannot keep this secret. This conclusion is something that affects everything, not just on the planet, everywhere. That exists. We are ████, and as I stare further and further into the sand grains that make this world, I am further convinced that they are built out of mist and magic. Item Source Emergency message found playing on repeat in all structures in Post-3426-2 Attention Worldwide informational, physical, and chemical hazards, please remain calm and take note of the following precautions to ensure your safety.  It is all openings or viewings from outside the building you are currently in. If you are not currently inside an enclosed building, seek shelter in one immediately. Cover up or illuminate all sources of darkness in your location of shelter. Destroy any reflective surfaces in your location of shelter. Destroy any transparent surfaces in your location of shelter. If you begin witnessing bizarre, disturbing, or unsettling effects occurring in your location of shelter, do not report or point them out to any other person. Do and so will allow ██ to spread. When you begin to hear the screaming in your mind, move to a room or place where you can be alone. Darken the room completely. This will allow the fading to happen most quickly. Bring any possessions of sentimental value with you. The screens will become overpowering. Do not panic. Focus on a memory of great intensity to you, and be silent until you do not exist. If at any point you feel that you cannot continue, remember that a society-issued weapon should be available in every facility. Your death will be quick and painless. This message will continue until nothing is left to hear it. This message ██████ is it. This message will continue until nothing is left to hear it. Item Source A native plant from post-3426-5. As far as this can be ascertained, the plant is approximately 0.75 meters tall and is most likely a flowering plant. This plant was common across post-3426-5's ground and was pollinated by many native fauna on post-3426-5. Within the first 15 minutes of viewing, the object is perceived by all intelligent life with a plant-shaped mass of static. This static appears two-dimensional from all sides despite existing in a three-dimensional space. Extended observation of the static tends to cause discomfort in all observers. After 15 minutes have passed, the plant is no longer able to be perceived by the observer. The observer's memories of the plant are immediately retained, but physical viewing of the plant's location presents itself as if the object itself was not present. Testers could describe an unknown object perfectly, even if it was presumably obscured by the plant. The effect changes after additional two to three days have passed. All people who are affected by the property that prevents perception of the plant begin to see the plant as a miscellaneous flower that the observer attaches emotional value or meaning to. The flower type that is perceived varies greatly from person to person. Foundation AIADs, upon being presented with the plant, appear to perceive it as a random pattern of shapes and colors. The reason for this effect is undetermined. Item Source Official internal statement from the SCP Foundation's equivalent from post-3426-10 To all that remain. We, in a conclave of six, reveal our words to you today because Celsygnus will soon cease to exist. And it must come to pass because of our doing. We dealt too far, knew too much, we wanted to know secrets which were not meant for the mortals to know. Questions of gods and creators, questions of the elementary makeup of everything. Now we face the apocalypse, divine punishment for our transgressions. We have little left to say. In the coming days, you will find that the domain of physical meaning will shatter into a billion pieces. Specifically, this planet will be ravaged, both by a massive upheaval in universal laws that is roughly equivalent to the entire planet becoming a high-intensity, hostile matter affecting anomaly, or as you also know it, a segment M threat-RH phenomenon, and by a vast number of incorporeal entities. We believe they're entities, but we're not sure. That will attempt to slowly erase and corrupt all sources of information and knowledge originating from Celsygnus. Yes, this includes you. You have two choices. If you stay on Celsygnus, your consciousness will be ripped apart from you and leave only a pale image of anything you were. Time and space will blend or twisted forms into each other until everything and nothing happens at once. Every second squished together and lengthened into eternity.  Eventually, everything that originates from our world will collapse into itself and be erased from the universe. The only fragments of our legacy will be warped to be unrecognizable. Alternatively, you can take the preliminary space shuttle we have made out of all the anomalous material we still have left. It will get you far, but not much further. From what we understand, it is the very fabric of the multiverse itself that is coming to blot us out. Everything lives Celsygnus. May its death not be in vain. Item Source Handwritten notes scrolled into the inside back cover of a book on post 3426-13. The world is on slow fire. Swarms of bitter void break apart from the sky in attack. I don't think there's time left to escape. I think even if we did, they would follow. I looked upwards and in a moment the sky was suddenly black and the sun was even darker. All filaments and strands of infectious shadows. I don't even know how they got here, why they chose us. Why, why, why? They sent. Sent. The flying things, signals. I can't recall the names. But as it hit the black barrier they simply dis- dis- went away. We're going away too. Everything I know is fading. I'll look at the world, and half of the words I use for things have been blocked out by my memory. The computers don't work anymore. When I open this book, the words are replaced by bars of white and black and that color in between them. God, I wish I could remember the word. That's what they're doing, don't you see? They are v- nothing but nothing, and they want to make us unreal and time and space unreal. As I look out of this window, the top half of the building next to me is disjointed from the bottom half. The people in the window across are frozen. Then they flash and move for an instant, and are frozen once more. Every time they move, the color of everything turns red and blue and green and a strobe of terror. Reality is coming apart at the seams. I have. My sister is in the house with me. We are trying to keep out a reach of the unreal darknesses.  I asked her what the voice was saying. She said it was only a wailing. It is the end for her then. I will watch as the wailing overpowers her mind, and she forgets everything she is. She will forget she was ever an intelligent being. She will forget all the world, and all the past, and all the present and the future, the little of what we have left. She will then become unregisable to me, in my mind or to anyone's mind. Her consciousness and her identity will be severed from the rest of our knowledge until she dissolves alone in a universe of one, and becomes an object eaten by the all-consuming unreality. She was too young. I hear something in my head. The light. Level 4 slash 3426 slash classified Addendum 3426.3 Post 3426-13 exploration log Exploration log 3426-UA-13C The following log depicts the received camera feed of the exploration of the Void regions of post 3426-13, involving the uses of unmanned drone. This file is limited to personnel level 4 clearance or higher. While neither info hazards nor card needle hazards have yet been detected to be present in this transcription, all personnel viewing this file must undergo a level 2 hazardous meme scan before proceeding. In order to further investigate the widespread regions of Void present across post 3426-13, the SCP-S Sternenlicht, an unmanned exploration vessel, drops out of FTL in the upper atmosphere of post 3426-13. The Sternenlicht simultaneously launches a close-range automated drone, SKF-070, with camera feed connected to the main ship. T-plus-1-27 The drone enters the lower atmosphere and deploys parachute. Drone registered minor surface damage. Later analysis shows that a thin layer of the material surrounding the drone have been transformed into balsa wood. Cause of this event is unknown. T-plus-450 The drone lands on the surface of post 3426-13. Video feed shows that the sky appears to be phasing in and out, making formations such as clouds, and the sun periodically looks transparent. The sky is a pinkish-red color with a dark hue, caused by the low brightness of the red dwarf star, Trappist-1. A number of avian life-forms appear to be frozen in the sky. T-plus-5-1 Drone begins movement towards point of target. From its altitude, the camera can see the regional landscape. The area appears to be a coastal grassland plain. Ocean water drips towards the shoreline and misshapen angular waves. As the waves break onto the beach, they are suddenly turned into what are apparently perfectly cut diamonds. The diamonds fade away a few seconds after they are deposited onto the beach. Camera pans 180 degrees. A number of vaguely humanoid life-forms are frozen in place along the shore, then white wisps evaporating off of their forms. Debris is strewn about the area, and small fires burn in the distance. T-plus-5-11 Evreply there is a flash on the camera feed that blinds the view momentarily. After a few seconds the view returns, revealing that the entire sky appears to have lost all color contrast. There is a crackling noise, and the color of the sky returns to normal. Drone begins heading towards target location. T-plus-14-8 Drone passes over planet's surface for approximately four kilometers. Video feed notes the appearance of several more anomalous features. Several structures and buildings appear to be completely flattened into the ground, including two-dimensional images of the structures and their contents on the surface. The drone passes by a number of posters, billboards, and other signage. However, all words and iconography of the signs appear in unreadable black bars. Many of the objects Flora and Fauna on post-34-26-13 are worked or disjointed in some way, and some are translucent or nearly transparent. T-plus-17-minus-35 Drone approaches target. Drone shows a completely dark sphere, completely static, emitting no sound or light. The sphere is roughly estimated to be about a quarter mile in radius. Drone activates several sensors to scan anomaly, including light, sound, sentience, matter scattering, and conceptual identity. All sensors return negative. T-plus-17-minus-59 Drone breaches the barrier of the void. T-plus-18-minus-36 Camera feed begins to play faint sounds of static. A pristine, non-anomalous planetary landscape is seen, about 50 yards ahead. There is an industrial building with large glass windows and unreadable insignia branded on the front. Drone enters an open door on the first floor of the complex. T-plus-18-minus-55 Static slightly increases in volume. Drone emerges in a clean, bluish-white office space with a large plastic counter on the far side, decorated with potted plants. A sign is hung on the back of the wall behind the counter. Normally, this sign would be illegible or obscured by sensory bars, however there are words on the sign reading, nothing is here, lock yourself inside. T-plus-21-minus-42 Drone proceeds down open corridor. To one side there are large glass windows open to the sky. As the drone continues down the corridor, the windows appear to grow in shrinking dimension. There is a small object at the end of the corridor, which terminates in a dead end. The corridor is not lit well enough for the object to be identified. T-plus-22-minus-23 Seconds Set onto the floor of the corridor is what is evidently a television set. The television has the same shape and dimensions to match a typical CRT television from the late 1970s, as the drone approaches it turns on. T-plus-22-minus-31 Seconds The drone stops despite the control system from the starting of the lift being completely severed. The sound of static on the video feed suddenly increases in volume, nearly drowning out any other noise. The television shows a series of sounds and images, including clips of asteroids floating through space, large networks of massive supercomputers, crowds of people going about their daily activities, the drone itself hovering in front of the television screen, and an endless brightly lit corridor. These images cycle through each other, interspersed with flashes of white light. The cycling becomes faster, and the flashes of light last longer and longer. Faintly visible in the light now are outlines of shapes, amorphous forms that move about the screen. The amorphous forms combine and reform until they create the vague outline of a human head. The human head is looking directly into the drone's camera. Its mouth hangs completely open. T-plus-24-minus-57 Seconds The drone is suddenly propelled forward towards a collision course with the blank wall. The wall appears to fall away, and the drone is pushed forward into an empty white space and begins to fall. T-plus-34-minus-57 Seconds After exactly ten minutes it continued to fall, the drone suddenly emerges in the office lobby at the entrance of the building. The lobby is nominally the same in organization of parents and features. The sign behind the counter has changed words, it now reads, Go back to sleep, go back to sleep, go back. Outside the floor to ceiling windows, the entire sky has acquired a dull red glow. T-plus-37-minus-9 Seconds The camera notes the presence of a new hallway to the other side of the previous hallway that was not present before. As the drone approaches, faint sounds and mechanical operation, such as electrical beeps and running motors, become faintly audible. Just as the drone is about to enter the hallway, the video feed suddenly admits the sound of screaming, and the drone appears again in the center of the office foyer. For approximately two hours, the drone continuously attempts to enter the newly made hallway with the same events occurring each time. T-plus-2-hours-32-minus-32 Seconds Over the next two hours, the sun sets and night falls. There is knocking on the windows, but no movement is registered from the outside. The knocking on the windows become more and more frantic. From the outside, the stars appear to be blood red. The drone approaches the hallway, and is this time not impeded. The static in the background swells and crackles, and a faint voice can be made out just underneath the interference. The voice says, better to drown in blissful waters than to swim to a hellish shore. The drone proceeds down the hallway. T-plus-2-hours-38-minus-15 Seconds The hallway is an endless, brightly lit corridor with no exits or side doors, fluorescent lights are present on the ceiling at regular intervals. After a few minutes of travel, it is impossible to tell how far the drone has moved. The featurelessness of the hallway prevents any kind of relative positioning. T-plus-3-hours-15-minus-49 Seconds After about one hour of travel, the static slowly begins to quiet, and is replaced with the growing sound of high-pitched wailing coming from thousands of sources. A whispered voice intrudes on the audio feed. It says, the universe is an infinite staircase, but it is shattered. You will shatter it. We are the particles of glass drifting in unceasing pain. To peer behind a curtain of life is to anger the voice of nightmares and sorrow. Listen and turn back before you burn by the eternal splinters. T-plus-4-hours-1-minute-50 Seconds Dark wisps are emitted from the lamp, swarming together and flowing through the air. The audio is interspersed with intense high-pitched screaming. When the screaming is emitted, the video feed suddenly pixelates and shows random patterns of vivid colors. The pattern continues for a little less than two days. T-plus-51-hours-37-minus-4 Seconds A subtle change has now added to this pattern of data. Every time a pixelation event occurs, one of the pixels in the camera remains dead, sticking to the camera screen. Over time, the dead pixels build the entire camera view. T-plus-78-hours-23-minutes-30 Seconds The video feed has now been completely obscured by a variety of dead pixels. The sound of screaming has reached approximately 150 decibels, intense enough to cause rupturing of the eardrums. Shapes appear to form in the dead pixels, as if the pixels were moving through a field or an outline of static. The hallway's shape is vaguely visible in the static, as the drone continues to move through it, but now visible are hundreds of distorted human figures that stand still in the hallway, extending indefinitely through the corridor.  T-plus-78-hours-25-minutes-41 Seconds The intense screaming suddenly stops. The audio feed is completely silent. T-plus-78-hours-25-minutes-48 Seconds The swarm of humanoid faces all simultaneously turned towards the drone's camera. The figures disintegrate into black minute particles. The pixelation effect on the camera clears.  T-plus-78-hours-25-minutes-53 Seconds The drone activates its search light and shines it into the hallway. The hallway begins to spin and reflect in on itself. Different sections of the hallway seem to cross over each other, rotate and reverse until it creates a kaleidoscope-like pattern in place of the original corridor. The hallway splits in half repeatedly into sections separated by cracks of blinding white light. The hallway then appears to unravel and coil itself around the probe until it has no room left to move. The cracks in the hallway expand and the light spilling out of it grows brighter. T-plus-78-hours-26-minutes-36 Seconds The camera view switches abruptly to a continuous white field. T-plus-84-hours-11-minutes-47 Seconds Nearly six hours later, change is detected in camera view. The white field begins to gradually fade into total blackness. As this occurs, systems on the drone progressively shut down in sequence, and the probe begins to lose capabilities. T-plus-84-hours-14-minutes-21 Seconds The drone shakes violently as its processing systems completely fail. A dark red flash is briefly seen permeating the camera's view before the feed cuts out. End log. Addendum The transcription of this camera feed is based on general consensus from a variety of viewers of the drone's camera recordings. The accuracy or reality of this transcription is currently not known. Pre-recordings or attempts at computer analysis of this exploration log indicate that all reception ends past timestamp T-plus-17-minutes-59 Seconds. Past this point, the recording apparently consists entirely of static.


This is the way to do it. This is the way to do it. This is the way to do it. Young people are taking big strides towards achieving their goals. In today's program, we have Naomi Erongo, an Education Science student at Mastinemuliro University of Science and Technology. Let's hear more. So thank you for having me. My name is Naomi Erongo. I'm the C.O.O. to join the Adventures in Safari. It's a pleasure having this opportunity to be able to share my experiences and insights to the audience. Wow. So at a tender age, you seem to have a knack for business. How did you nurture this? First of all, let's say my background has motivated me. Number one, okay. I'm an orphan. My parents passed on earlier on when I was at a tender age. So when it came to high school, high school I got a scholarship by equity. They nurtured me until I finished. And when I finished, the first job that I did was equity bank. So that exposed me to the world of business, to the world of earning my own money. It motivated me. So from there on, after I did, it was an enormous contract. So after I finished, then I got another job. My chairman from my church that I was attending at that time had a shop, a wholesale shop which had investor agents, KCB agent, equity agent. So he employed me there. It also exposed me some more to the world of business. Then after that, before I joined a campus, I applied to a certain position in a supermarket in Mehoruru, Mehoruru by the day is my home. In Mugos per market, I got a chance to be at the customer care desk. It gave me another chance to be exposed into this business world. So by the time I joined campus, I was confident. And in campus, I had financial challenges. My background was somehow not able to support me very well. And I was relying on help funds. So I had to source for other means of me to navigate through these campus moments. So what can you say about the experience of the different positions of business you have been in and how they brought you to this place that you're in right now? I can say they gave me confidence. They gave me connections, they gave me network. What kind of businesses do you venture in as of now? I started by selling sweets in our hostels. So that was the first job that I was able to do. So there were these glow candies. There were these glow candies. They were yellow, orange. So first of all, before I came up with your idea, there was this emcee. I used to sell lollipopsies to buy a packet of 250. Then sell it and get a profit, 100% profit, 500 Bob. So I saw it was a good idea, but I wanted it to be unique. So there were these glow candies. I used to sell them at 20 Bob. So you get a packet of 200 Bob, you sell it, you get 600 Bob. So that is like 200% profit. So I used to sell them actually in the boys' hostels most of the time. It was illegal, but I used to sneak sneak. But at least it gave me something to navigate in. I knew a lot of people in campus, it gave me network, popularity. And the emcee, of course, became my friend, emcee Raj. So after that, corona came, we went at home. I used to buy popcorns, cook them, then sell to the children. I didn't do it for a long time, but when the school resumed, I had this idea of smoky and Mayai business. So I came to Masinemulero, found a company called Candy Fresh. Candy Fresh, they used to cook the goods for you.  In the evening you come, you pay for your trolley at 100 Bob per day.  So that is how I used to do it during the day. I used to do it during the day when I don't have classes. I come to town, I take the stock, the trolley, wash it very well, then go outside and sell them to people. And again my profits. So that is how I started. Then after that, the emcee now, they all used to sell sweets. He came and asked me, he saw me posting the smoky business and he was like, I was also thinking about the smoky business. Can you introduce me to it? Fine, I'm the guru here. I'll introduce you to it. He came, I came to introduce Candy Fresh, I bought a trolley, then the first day of his work, I came to Nayae. I came to Fanesha Kidoga, I came to Confidence. Yeah, I was a mentor there, I was so proud. Yeah, so he started his business too, like that. So there was a time to kind of let you go to Kachapa Biasara. This business is smoking and selling, and fluctuating. So it was a profit for Kidoga, a profit margin for Kidoga. So it was smoking and selling, but when you eat, you reduce. And you are not going to sell it to the market. So business was a little bit shaky to come and get ice cream. So we used to take ice cream, there was a friend called Hilary. She was a photographer, but she used to take ice cream in her time. So we used to buy boxes, each of us, we used to eat boxes, to go to the markets. For example, Shinyalu Market, we used to go to the whole day. So the ice cream, we used to go to Ten Bob. But you can imagine, she used to eat ice cream. She used to eat ice cream. Okay. I was disappointed. She said I should eat. I have bills to pay. I have rent. I have school fees. I have to upkeep myself, so I don't have to come myself. So, after that, she left the market. She had no money, I was also going to skip school. Of course, I was a student. I used to make sales. As a teacher, I used to have kids and unemployment, but I used to make sales because I used to wear ice cream and everything was in a box You had an upper hand I had an upper hand I used to smoke, I had an upper hand because I used to make sales I used to roll around and I used to say I used to smoke, I need to eat I understand I had to be confident in the market I used to be confident in the market I used to be inspired by what I do They used to say, damn, I like what she does By the time I used to smoke with ice cream I used to be inspired by what I do I used to feel motivated What people are telling me, I used to feel motivated I used to be inspired by what I do I used to smoke Good I would love to understand I used to have an idea I used to have an idea about how to do it Because many people, yes, I might have an idea about how to start the scene How did you do it? I used to challenge people how to start But personally, I have bills to pay And I have to pay them I used to tell people that I am a shikha So I have to go and look for it I have to spend money I have to spend money I have to beg I have to spend money So I want my financial freedom I want to get my money And know how to use it And no one will ask me if I have to use this That is my financial freedom So I have to spend most of my time So how did you find entrepreneurship to be like as a young person? Entrepreneurship is challenging Let me tell you It's not an easy road It's not for the faint-hearted Trust me So like Capital is the capital That is why I didn't For example, in my story of smoking I went directly to buy trolley Because I didn't have that capital So I went through candy-fresh I went through the capital I went through the profit And I went through June The next thing You answer You say I don't know how to answer It's a lot It's a lot So I have to research I have to find Social media YouTube I have to research I have to be inspired by people Then Just go Just start Just start It will flow Just start Yeah Speaking of research Did you get any training In terms of business And financial literacy As you're doing these small businesses? For me, I will say Basically Not a formal one But I find my research I read books I love reading I read books There's financial literacy I also go watch videos YouTube There's financial literacy And through the equity Okay I told you I was a scholar So In campus You join something that's called a chapter Equity Leaders Program Okay So In this equity leaders program We are also given Lessons Zoom lessons Or maybe Conferences And one of the topics Is financial literacy So Those are basic knowledge Inside I'm going through there That is quite Motivating You've been through all these And still managed to be positive About it And learn even more About it And So What is the story behind Tojuani Adventures? Tojuani is quite a story Give it to us As broad as it comes It's quite a story You remember the MC We are talking about MC Raj MC Raj Now He has been in the Entertainment industry He has skills So I can get fit And entertain And for me In my part I love adventure I used to go bike riding I used to go Like you say Once on a bike Once on a bike Once on an olive tree Once on a bike Once on a bike Once on a bike Once on a bike Once on a bike Once on an olive tree Once on a bike Once on an olive tree I posted in my status and guys were like Hey, I'm happy next time I'm back Next time you see So there was a time it was ice cream ice cream To make sure I had a business in Zure I was at the MC School in Mogyakawa When I went to the TV to eat lunch I was like, hey, I'm not going to go to the school I don't have financial income I'm not going to sustain I'm not going to have a parent that's going to sustain I'm not going to be a good boy What do we do? We're going to say, what are you passionate about? I'm not going to be a good boy Because if you're not going to be a good boy You're going to be at some point It's exhausting to be a good boy I'm not going to travel I'm not going to travel And according to the research I was doing on YouTube I was at Tours Something Tours and Organized Students Tours I left and went there And I took advantage of it You're not going to miss anything You're going to say, wow Do you know I have the same idea I don't know why we think the same But I have the same idea And he showed me a book where he was writing All his ideas are in the mind And he told me One day he wanted to start a Tours company See So we combined the idea And we were like, ah To come up with the same idea So me, me I can be arranging where we are going And These sites are good at researching those sites And you You can be hyping those people Because you're an emcee You can't You can't do anything You can't do anything You can't do anything You can't do anything So we were like, ah This deal is good So now we look for a name Look for a name So go sleep on it You look for a name And I look for a name At that time The emcee Badu Emcee Raj He had a program He was a state secretary He had to join He was a program He had a program He had a program He had a program And I have now at a certain time He had a program So he used to promote His friends' businesses So he used to promote His friends' businesses So I'm going to bring a lot of names, names, names, names. I came to Myanmar to get a chat. So we used to, we have a name to research IG, to know there is an existing business with that name. To search, to search, to search, to search. So we have a name to search IG, to know there is an existing business with that name. To search, to search, to search, to search. Eh, then I came to search, to search, to search, to search. Then MC suggested I'm going to sit here to join it to Jengane because there is a place where you can join. You can come and join. We can do this program, but it's not state-of-the-art anymore. But it's venues where you can join, you can join, you can join personal life. So that was like, wow, that is a good idea. So you can call it to join it to Jengane Adventures. But that was a long name. To join it to Jengane. It was a long name. So to join it to Jengane. To join it to Jengane Adventures. And that's how it came to be. Wow. I decided to have like-minded people, you know. And then you decide to go with the idea. So how did you implement this idea? And then you know this is my guide to come up with an idea. Moja, how did you implement that idea? Hiya. So, it's time to learn. It's time. After you learn, you have to actualize immediately. You have to learn and then start learning. To get that kind of attachment, that means it's a long holiday. So you have to learn the attachment. Red Cross and Kuru. So one day, one day, you have to go to the building and then you have to go to the building. So, as an MC, he is he is the one who has to go to the building. So, when he goes to the building, he is the one who will supervise the building and he will ask, hey, how did you learn to go to the building? Okay. I'll ask you. That is that is a common name in Jolika. How did you learn to go to the building? So, after I went to the building and I went to the building, he had an idea. He asked me to go to a place where everyone could use the office and take a bath. He left me to go to the building. No, no. I suggested to him, he should go to Mount Lungonaut. He will go to Mount Lungonaut to go to the building. He will ask to go to the delegation to take care of the whole tour. After twelve months, after twelve months, They're wearing a simple shirt. They're wearing a bag. There are a lot of different rates, a lot of different packages. A lot of different stuff. They're wearing a long or not. They're wearing a shirt. So the day I came, I love this guy because he's wearing a brand T-shirt. He's wearing a shirt. He's wearing a shirt to join adventures. He's wearing a shirt. He cuts me off with a logo and dresses and a shirt. He's wearing a shirt and a shirt. He had the opportunity to actualize the idea, so he had to brand his t-shirts and pay. So it was a long time ago that he had to join the adventures, and that was the first trip. He enjoyed it and the brand was already out there now. Interesting! So what kinds of activities do you engage in actually to join the adventures? We do hiking, we do camping, we do team buildings, we do especially team building for corporates. That's what we are currently invested in. We do group tours, we do road trips, we do birthday anniversaries. Wow! And what are the different packages you have to join the adventures? Okay, now we organize private tours, the group tours one. Now people organize themselves as eight people, they request for a tour, we plan it for them. We also do these public tours, these public packages, we come up with a package to go somewhere, then we advertise it on social media and people book from there. We have also kids packages where we organize our kids adventures, especially in long holidays and midterms. To now organize, then we give the parents one a book for their kids. We have corporate team building packages, we do team building for most corporates. So we have packages for them and they are very affordable. Wow! And saying that this is a business, how is the market of this industry? Okay, the market according to where it started, let me talk about Kaka-Mega. The market is, it has been a bit challenging because people are not used to traveling. It is a new, like a new idea you are introducing into a market where people, they didn't have that idea that they can go and travel, they can go and have fun. They only know their money. The idea of having fun is via clubs and via drinking, you see. But they don't have that idea they can come, they can go somewhere. So introducing it to Kaka-Mega was a bit of a challenge. But now we have covered at least ground. Yeah, we have to make a buck on your bucket. You spoke of a challenge in between there. What other challenges did you encounter and how did you manoeuvre them as you are doing this business? Another challenge is a connection with hotels and venues. As young people manoeuvre that network is very, very hard especially. And another thing is transport. You see these two events we are outsourcing them. And they might be a bit expensive, that makes our package expensive. An expensive package is very hard to sell. So getting those people who you can sign deals with that they can give you a cut, this price or this price is very hard. But over some time to manage. Nappen Avenue, you are just going for it. If you go inside and you go for it through the other way. Nappen, I just love your personality and I commend you for that. So what skills would you say managing this business has developed in you? Number one, it has made me develop financial literacy. At least I know how to balance accounts now. I know how to manage money. Number two, it has made me know how to come up with problem solving skills. No matter the challenge that is in front of me, I will know how to tackle it. Number three, it has taught me professionalism. At least I can present myself professionally to people, to clients. Number four, it has taught me to be a team player. Because running a partnership thing is not easy. Let's say it's like marriage. It has its own challenges but you must work it through. Doing a partnership business is not easy. Yeah, it's not easy. I just am at awe of what you're doing. How can one emulate what you've done to attain their dreams just as you have? Number one, I recommend a person to follow their passion. Don't do something because your friend is doing it or you're saying something is successful. You don't know the downfall of that and you don't know the challenges those people are facing and you don't know how to handle them. Just do whatever comes from your heart. It's easier to do that. That's why AMC recommended we do something that's from their heart. Number two, I love those people to network. Network and build relations that will come, will build the partnerships they need. Go to networking events. Expose yourself. Expose yourself. We have heard a lot from you according to Joanne's adventures. So, what are your plans if you want to travel? If you want to travel social media, to join the adventures, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, LinkedIn, to join the adventures. It's the only to join the adventures in social media. So, what can you tell a young person who is hesitant to do something? Maybe they are in school or they are almost finishing and they are wondering what to do but they are still hesitant. What can you tell them? Number one, just do it. Don't be afraid of failure because failure is not the opposite of success but it is a stepping stone towards success. Just do it. Don't be afraid.   Number two, do whatever you like. Do whatever your passion is. Don't let anyone's opinion undermine that. Number three, I insist again, network and build yourself, your connections because these days your network is your network. Then another one, continue building yourself daily. Learn more, read books, watch channels, have mentors who can hold your hand and go with you. Another one, do community work, community give back because at the end of it all, thank you so much for presenting yourself here. I'm sure most of us will take it into consideration. You have heard it. Failure is not the opposite of success, rather it is a stepping stone. Just do it, network, have the information, expand your thinking to have a successful goal towards your dream. This has been Youth in Action. I am Nyangwa Sokrenis. See you next time. The Way to Do It.


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Good afternoon, everybody. This is Guillermo Salvatia, your host on Perspectives on Energy here at Think Tech Hawaii. And today we'll be talking about the role of natural gas and the energy transition. So again, I am the Director of International Services for HSI, the Health and Safety Institute, where we train grid operators on how to handle everything grid related. So today we'll talk a little bit more on the role of natural gas in this energy transition. And going to be referencing a few of the capacity assessment reports from NERC, the NERC, which is the North American Electric Liability Corporation. And very interesting information on there. And one thing I want to make sure upfront that we understand that according to them, we are relatively fine for summer of 2023 and the beginning of the end of the year towards the winter of 2023. So, so far when it comes to capacity, capacity assessment and everything that we're looking at, in this case, we should be having adequate, not just the megawatt supply, but also adequate amount of fuel when it comes to natural gas. Sure, most of you already know that the majority of the portfolios out there, they usually run, a lot of them have a lot of natural gas running resources, whether it's a dual fuel type of generating site, or it's a combined cycle to combine two combustion turbines and one or you have, for example, a simple cycle combustion turbine that are used for peaking. Either way, that gas supply, according to NERC, seems to be in good order coming up throughout this year. Especially now that we've got these like quite a lot of these problems with the heat and load forecasting and we've been setting heat records day after day after day across this country. So, definitely something that could impact, for example, our consumption of natural gas in a lot of these resources, right? And of course in the winter it becomes even more severe, because not only are you competing with additional resources, for those resources to be able to use heating in the houses and industrial and businesses, but also you have some challenges when it comes to transporting the fuel, right? It comes to natural gas and those pipelines. So, yeah, so looking at the NERC 2023 summer reliability assessment that came out back in May of 2023 and it just, everybody looks to be in adequately good shape. Some of them have a seasonal risk assessment summary, which is elevated. They have the potential for operating reserves in above normal condition and that's consistent with the fact that you have higher than normal temperatures. And again, you lose one or two generators. You are likely going to experience some kind of load shedding possibly, right? But for the most part, there's no, I haven't seen any high risk assessment areas in the US. Just great news, right? Last year, year before, we were seeing things were painting a different picture regarding that, right? So, just great news in this case, right? When it comes to electric supply, we should be able to meet our forecasted load for the rest of the year in spite of this heat that we're experiencing and even what we expect to see in this winter. The other nice aspect of this is that there was regulation put in place and to be able to better manage winter operations for some of these generators. Same things happening with some of the gas pipeline suppliers. So, again, a lot of safeguards and that's usually, I believe, was a storm URI and the other winter storm that we had that affected the haircut region, right? And then some other areas in the Midwest. So with that in mind, you saw quite a bit of changes given the water capabilities of some of these facilities, whether it's generation or the delivery of gas, right? So, the only challenge that they normally would see would have been the delivery of gas in this case, right? Whether you have a constraint on the pipeline, don't have enough supply, or you're not, you're running out of that supply at some point because either there was a damage that occurred to those pipelines, or there was a lot more usage than was expected. Of course, mind you, a lot of this fuel supply is arranged for in advance, so that is usually a forecast and usually a firm contract in place. They got non-firm contracts, just like you see, for example, in transmission space, but the same thing happens with these pipelines. But that, for this year, NERC feels pretty comfortable, pretty confident that we should be fine. The long-term forecast, with the next five years, not so much, you see a lot more of the elevated risk in a lot of different regions, namely, WEC, for example, has some areas that are in definite risk as well, and some areas in the northeast and some areas in the north, right? So that's over the next four or five years, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that they have a lot of what they call premature retirements of base load generation. That could be natural gas, nuclear, it can be even coal, right? So in these instances, right, you're going to see that base load generation, they're retiring it early, they're replacing it with renewables. The problem with that is that anyone of these base load units can usually have an 85% availability for somebody's renewables in some cases. They have wind, for example, some of them have 15%, 20% availability, depending on how consistent that wind blow is, that wind forecast is throughout the year. Other areas, for example, some solar have maybe 40% to 50%. So in this case, right, you can't count on that capacity for that particular peak, which is why you need to have some of that base load generation. So as we have more and more of these premature retirements for these coal generators, which we have climate goals to meet and meet certain emission needs requirements, this problem now is exacerbated by the fact that the majority of these sites are either repowered to be able to burn natural gas, or they will go ahead and install, for example, a combustion turbine or a peaker that runs on natural gas as well. So this in itself presents as an opportunity to be able to meet that load for this variability, but at the same time, right, you're dependent on that supply, and as more, we're going to see more and more of these types of facilities commissioned, you may begin to see a problem or when it comes to constraints with supply, or if not enough pipelines are being built and put into service, right. So that's the challenge at this time, given the fact that we're seeing different things and you have two different priorities that really are interrelated, and they also affect each other very, very dramatically. One of them is to have very important climate goals that we need to achieve, but of course we can't be the only ones in the world retiring coal plants while countries like China and other parts of the industrialized developing world are putting coal plants online at a rate that's faster than the ones that we shut down. So that's definitely a problem, right. Putting ourselves into a position of reduced reliability to meet these climate goals, while at the same time these other countries are not abiding by it but any of those and their main goals just make sure they have enough electricity to meet their needs without any concern off of the environment. So that becomes a challenge for us as well. So given those challenges, I mean of course that for us one of those ways to meet those is again the transitional fuel, right, becomes natural gas. It's amongst one of the cleanest of all the fossil fuels. I remember in my day back in the early 2000s where we were getting away from oil here in Florida and replaced everything with natural gas pretty much. And that made a huge difference when it came when it came to emissions. And we got from we were one of the biggest consumers of oil to actually not consuming any oil at all. So that utility in Florida so it was a pretty impressive feat to go ahead and do that but it required having having a fleet that was mostly run on natural gas so then the soft presents a problem right. So, and that's the whole thing right, making this transition from very dirty fossil fuels to to emission free energy resources or renewable resources will require for example something to transition over until we see for example SMR or more hydro or more waste facilities that are clean but dispatchable, you're going to need something to be able to help you in this transition. Batteries were great to have those but you know three four or five hours and then at the cost for for installed for some megawatt they're just not right now right and the fact that you may have four or five days six days of weather where you're unable to charge or you're having a friend where your batteries won't be able to give you that supplemental backup right as you as you could get from a base load unit that's dispatchable So SMR is they're saying the earliest is 2029 and I got an SMR is a small budget or reactor, but so until then right we're going to have to rely on some of these combustion turbines or some of these combined cycle plants that are running natural gas and which you know is is at least something we have plenty of and we have the infrastructure in place to be able to transport that fuel from one from the source to to the delivery point challenge there of course is availability and even for example cybersecurity cyberattack or even infrastructure breakdowns right.  And in some places now you're even dispatching nuclear plants, they ahead, which I thought I never thought I would, you know, see this in my career but yet here we are with dispatching nuclear plants because they ahead, which is, you know, that's in response to load forecast and this renewable viability, which you know, I'm glad to see we the industry pivot was able to pivot and adapt, but again this has its own costs, and its own maintenance maintenance nightmares you can that changes the actual price dynamic for every megawatt produced by those generating facilities. And then of course if you're displacing nuclear to accommodate renewables, and that also changes the overall price of your system and that lambda price is different based on that. So as an operator right, what we do to train in this case right well, one of the things that I think is a permanent drill is a very, very important drill to be able to run of course is to simulate a loss of field scenario, whether you have your pipelines for example a compromise outside for attack, or there's something happened the weather wise which we've already seen happen and some of our regions right. One of the things to actually accomplish there is actually have the operators train have the plants individually trained on doing a fuel swap. In a lot of cases, most of these facilities, most not all tend to have liquid fuel storage on site, which allows them to run maybe several hours. I mean, most of the ones that I've seen had the capacity to be able to run maybe three or four days have followed. So that was rather an interesting, I guess, assets would be able to manage in that case because any you're given that ability challenges when swapping fuels. Usually you don't get much of a, much of a warning you may have maybe a couple of hours of warning. If you see it coming sometimes you don't you may have maybe a half hour warning based on the fact that you know you're either losing supply you you've had a problem with the pipeline. So, in this case, right, the system operator, the grid operator, for example needs to be well trained on how to manage those changes. And that's something that in my, in my previous job, we were able to actually do that as as one of our one of our simulation drills which I should get the operators. I'm familiar with the process of a system where I fuel swap depending on where you had a failure in the pipeline, or if you had lost all your supply. So that was a very interesting challenge. In fact, we already had a scenario at one point where real time, we couldn't run everything a natural gas you have to either pick one or the other, and you have to actually change some of the fuel mix that will go into that facility. So they were pretty much getting a lot of that real time in that in that in that particular system, but ultimately they had, and I'm sorry about the background noise, we've got a thunderstorm here tonight. So anyway, so that is Florida after all. So anyway, so then we were practicing on the challenges right when it comes to doing a fuel swap. And again, it's mostly facilities are able to do their fuel swap on site, they can usually they have rehearsed it enough real time that they can actually do it and it seems pretty seamless. And they will go from gas to liquid fuel, and they will just simply take it off automatic generation control, they will hold it at a steady load maybe back down. But in most cases, they would just keep it at the same load level and just swap fuel. And then you're just running again. Mind you, you would see a, you will see a definite change in the price because liquid fuels are liberal. It's quite a bit more expensive than natural gas. And right about now we're looking at 3.3 and a half between $3 and $4 per MMBT use is the price right now as as we're going through the summer so not not that expensive I used to see it somewhere in the teens at some point so quite a big difference. But right so in that particular process right simulating that in the system, that becomes really important right to get operators ready to be able to respond whenever there is a fuel crisis. So, that's one thing to expect right so so so at model review here so as a as a transition fuel right when it comes to going from these fossil fuels and majority fossil fuels or actually replacing some of these coal fired plants replacing oil burning plants or replacing aging infrastructure right specifically these older combines like plants. You're still going to need natural gas to be able to get you to the point where either SMR are available or we commissioned more facilities. Or we have a different resource that that becomes available or or like batteries are a lot a lot more widely distributed or you may even see for example the advent of distributed energy resources that actually on their own become quite the resource that are that most utilities can go ahead and dispatch, but the likelihood of that happening in the next four or five years not very high, most likely you're going to need for example having quite the mix right you're going to have renewables you can have an increasing number of renewables. But at some point right you're dealing with inverter based resources, and all the interesting behaviors that they that they exhibit whenever you have a fault on on the system, especially somewhere near those resources. So you will need to have for example base load and a lot of that base load for for now it's going to be in the form of combined cycle plants that are running natural gas and then peaking units that are going to be a simple cycle combustion turbines that are also running a natural gas. And with the liquid fuel backup right and seems to be the most reliable feature at this time the least definitely definitely the lowest carbon footprint compared to oil or definitely coal. And you, but you know you still might see quite a bit of technology using carbon capture in a lot of these places where they just can't retire these plants given the reliability requirements on that area and that that grit to polish. So, again, that's, that's the supply the supply challenge the other one of course is getting natural gas to the sites. Now, you know, I would love nothing more to see quite a mixed portfolio of generation resources whether you have some more nuclear, some new hydro, some other types of resources in not just renewables right but then also the green hydrogen blue hydrogen. And also will be a great addition to the fleet. Problem is with that right now is we can put a we can put like like an accurate price on it with these utilities can actually make a long term forecast and go ahead and make the capital investment on this technology that isn't even proven yet right. So, definitely it's as as an industry we're very like source agnostic we, we don't care where you get your, your energy from as long as it's reliable cost effective and then of course you know it's a safe and then, and then that will also meet these these zero carbon emission goals right. So, and the final thing I wanted to like remind everyone of course is is as we go into this transition where we retire more of these like base load units where it's coal or nuclear. We might see a whole lot more of these facilities either being repowered or replaced probably in the same location with combined cycle plants, whether it's a site repowering whether they're replacing all these borders and all these different industrial generation coal and oiled with the brand new combined cycle site for a larger generator or you might see a lot more of these CT's popping up everywhere, especially where there's a conveniently located site where they have natural gas. So that is what you're looking at and of course you know train train train train your operators on how to, how to dispatch the fleet, and the more importantly how to dispatch it and in light of a fewer shortage so they need to do a swap. And then of course that doesn't work. And you do have a problem where you're losing generation because you've lost fuel and the swap was and was not successful. And of course that would require taking other emergency measures up to and including the shedding of load, which usually comes by in the form of feeder rotation right. So, that's the different things that we're looking at. And but then again the role natural gas of course will be a present one and we got quite a large supply of that in this country and in Canada so I guess with that we're in the shape and in fact we can probably remain being a net exporter of that resource for for the foreseeable future. So anyway, so okay so that is all I have for tonight. I thank you so much for watching. Have any comments please go ahead and like subscribe or and then leave comments on below and I tried my best to respond. And then then again thank you again for viewing think like Hawaii perspective and energy. Thank you and have a wonderful afternoon. 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I think I have the best job in the world getting to be a part of this great people crying backstage and I was one of them. It's just amazing. The next thing I get to do is to bring a friend to the stage, Hunter Lovens, oh well she's already on the stage. She has attended SOCAP as a professor of business, as a climate activist and an advocate of sustainability and this year she is here as an entrepreneur. She's one of the gang now. Change Finance went live today on the New York Stock Exchange with a million dollars invested in the first day. Donna Morton sitting on the front row. It's a first woman-owned, woman-managed stand-up Change Finance. It's the first ETF that is 100% truly fossil free. And Hunter's here and she's going to talk to us about moving our money from doing bad stuff to doing great stuff. So Hunter, take it away. And I am inspired in the way in which we are dealing with climate change. And just north of us we are seeing the very real and very human effects of climate change. 15 dead and 100 missing. Who's not here? Barely too many. But Bucky said, you don't change things by fighting the existing reality. Invent something better. The future is already here. It's just not widely distributed. We have all the technologies we need to solve all of the problems facing us. Dr. Mark Jacobson down at Stanford. We can power the world 100% renewably by 2030. And Germany is on its way to doing it. Greenhouse gas emissions down. Economy up. Thank you. Tony Siba also from Stanford. Says not only can we power the world 100% renewably, we will. Because of four things. Fall in the cost of solar. Fall in the cost of storage. Batteries. The electric car and the driverless car. Fall in the cost of solar three years ago. City group. City group. Release the report energy Darwinism. Said this is the era of renewables because of the alarming fall in the cost of solar. Alarming to who? National Bank of Abu Dhabi. They know a little about oil. Even at $10 a barrel. Oil can't match solar on costs. Solar jobs are growing 17 times faster than the rest of the economy now. We build a new solar array every 150 seconds. This prediction came out in April. Solar will hit 2 cents a kilowatt hour in 2017. It just did. The Saudis announced a 1.7 cent per kilowatt hour solar array. People say we're going to be the Saudi Arabia of solar. Saudis said, excuse us, we're going to be the Saudi Arabia of solar. Actually, they're not. The Chinese are. The Chinese this year hit their 2020 target for deploying solar. These are floating solar arrays. Why? Because they can't breathe. The air that's out here. Derek Lelson on the change finance team used to work in Beijing with the State Department. She should have brought her masks from Beijing today. The Chinese can't breathe. So they're going clean. Last month, they announced they are going to start phasing out the internal combustion engine. They will launch the world's largest carbon market this year. And last week, Jerry Brown, I believe it was Tuesday, sat with Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board and said, Mary, if the Chinese are doing it, why can't we? Wednesday, Mary said, we can. Friday, Jerry said, we will. Now here's where it gets fun. Last October, the Fitch report said if Elon hits his target of a $35,000 200-mile range electric vehicle, the oil industry is toast and the auto industry is toast. Little Tesla is essentially valued at the market cap of General Motors. Why? They sell 300 times fewer cars. Why? Because it's not a car company. It's a battery company and a solar roof company. It is an integrated solutions company. So when the Aliso Canyon natural gas well blew out, Elon said, well, we'll just put in batteries. In six months time, 80 megawatts of battery storage, a world record time for deploying any kind of power plant at a price point about the same as a natural gas plant. Then Maria hit Puerto Rico and our government stood idle. The hospital ship stood birthed at Norfolk for eight days. Is that okay with you? It sure ain't with me. So I was writing a piece last week for Huffington Post. Elon, Puerto Rico needs you. Elon was already there. The minute the wind stopped, he started shipping power walls. He is now in conversations with the governor of Puerto Rico about transforming the island using micro grids. The technologies we need. And so Bloomberg, cheap battery storage, could dump the credit market. Driverless car. I mean, we've all thought about, well, what are cab drivers going to do? What are lift drivers going to do? If Tony Siba is right, we are looking at the end, the demise within 10 years and maybe as soon as five years, of the oil, gas, coal, uranium, nuclear, utility, auto industries, and the banks that hold paper in them. We are looking at the mother of all disruptions. And we've no earthly idea how to deal with it. It gets better. Mark Campinale, who is here somewhere at Carbon Tracker, created these numbers, the about to be stranded assets, the fossil assets that are on the books of companies like Exxon, which is, by the way, borrowing to pay dividends, and countries, all the oil-holding countries think Venezuela, amount to about 20 to 30 trillion dollars in assets that if Tony is right will be stranded within five years. We have some entrepreneur to do. Divas Launstraath, who was an SEC commissioner, said it is entirely plausible, even predictable, that continuing to hold equities in fossil fuel companies will be ruled negligence. What's your money doing? So we decided to create a company to do something about that. Change finance. This is hero, the buffalo, the bison, the symbol of the Native American. And we are going to move trillions from harm to healing. You want to come be a part of us? If you want a hero tattoo, come see Donna after this is over. We'll be happy to set you up with one. And it's starting to happen, guys. The big companies are going 100% renewable. It's getting to be a who's who of well-managed companies. Mars, about a month ago, put a billion dollars into climate protection. Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP, has shown that the companies that lead in measuring and managing their carbon footprint have 18% higher return on investment than the laggards, 67% higher than the companies that say they're not going to report. They're not going to measure. When the child in chief said we're out of Paris, 14 states, 240 US cities, 1,000 plus companies representing 120 million Americans said we're still in. 1,000 cities around the world have said we're going 100% renewable. Here's how I knew it was over this April. The Kentucky Coal Museum put solar on the roof rather than plug into the coal-fired grid that was right there. It's over. But now we have the very real challenge of entrepreneur the kind of world that we want to live in. A world of equity, an economy in service to life. And here's another challenge. We have left it until too late. My first book in climate change was 1981.  We need to roll climate change backward. Good news we know how to. If we take carbon out of the atmosphere and put it back in the soil, and Cat Taylor will have a great session later at SoCAP on how to do this. How? Hero, our bison. Grazing animals co-evolved with the world's grasslands, the world's second largest carbon sink after the ocean, which is giving up its carbon because it's getting too warm. If you manage grazing animals the way they co-evolved with the grasslands, dense-packed because there were predators. Now we do it with electric fences and opening and closing waterholes. You not only transform the land, you increase the value of the land, regeneratively managed, holistically managed, environmentally managed. Same picture shot from the same bridge in Wyoming, looking north, looking south. Same day. Meat gave brown. North Dakota commodity corn soybean farmer, until he realized he was going broke, breaking the soil, planting annual crops. So he switched. First he went to no-till. Then he went to cover crops. And in some of his plots, he went from a little over 1% soil organic matter, that's carbon, to over 11% soil organic matter in a span of 10 years. If we did this over the world's grasslands, in 30 years we'd be back to 280 parts per million concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. That's pre-industrial levels. We know how to do this. So Patagonia is getting into the act. This is curns of wheat, the long-rooted stuff next to annual wheat. They're making beer out of it. Come on, if we're going to save the world, we've got to have fun. This is what inspires me. We know how to do it. It's urgent. We have to do it. Maimonides said each one of us must act as if the entire world were held in balance and anything that we do could tip the scale. So why am I inspired? Because you're all here. Let's go do it!


Hello, everybody, E here, E here. This is going to be a very quick graphic novel, comic book kind of review. I will try to put the different covers up here somewhere, I'll probably cycle them out. For Clive Barker's Hellraiser, which is a series of comics based on the Hellbound Heart, mostly based on the movie adaptation Hellraiser, and the second Hellraiser that Clive, actually the third one too, because there's characters in there from the entirety, well, not past, I think, bloodlines. I don't think that they tied in anything after that. If I'm wrong, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. First thing I want to say is this series starts out absolutely fantastic with gorgeous artwork, wonderful storytelling, but that pretty much only happens in volume one and volume three. Volume two is absolutely terrible.    It goes from some of the most detailed artwork I have ever seen, ever, in any comics. They look just like the characters who played them in the movie, look just like it, to the most absurd, like child-like drawings I have ever seen in a comic book. I didn't really pay attention to the artist, if the artist changed or what. Only thing I paid attention to was the fact that, at one point in time, they completely rip off Dr. Manhattan and his plot line, and then they give it to, I don't, I don't want to tell you who they give it to, because that will be a spoiler, but excuse me, but they do.  If you want to try them out, if you want to, if you want to see whether or not I'm bullshitting you, whether or not it really does go downhill as quick as I said it does, then I, they're on Kindle Unlimited for free. I read them on my phone, I was able to double tap the screen and it filled up my phone, so that the panels did, and I was able to go around and read all the boxes and everything. It's a very, very cool experience. First time I've done it, no actually it's not, but last time I did it I had a Google Slate, which is absolutely massive tablet, it's like this big. With the Slate, it wasn't, I didn't have to do all the double-clicking thing, but it's the first time that I've read it on my phone. I'm currently reading what's an attack on Titan that way, and I really do love the experience.  You can read, I read all five volumes, which each one has five issues in it, they're about 120 pages each. I read all those within five days. I read one a day, so I would certainly, if you're thinking about it, I would certainly try the Kindle Unlimited version, but have you read Clive Barker's Hellraiser? If you have, let me know what you thought of it down there in the doobly-doo, and if you disagree with me about the artwork, I especially love to talk to you because I cannot imagine anyone with a vision enjoying this. The final two volumes especially, the first one's amazing, third one's amazing, second one not so much, but yeah, let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it or hated it, but until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been a comic book graphic novel review. I will talk to you guys later. Bye bye.


Okay, so the other day I did a quick little video on, you know, some scripts I wrote that got the GPS coordinates and the address based on GPS coordinates from an image and sorts it. And I put it on a server that you could upload to and I mentioned that when I tried uploading a bunch of the pictures at once or larger files it wasn't working and I thought it was some sort of limitation on the VPS I was running which after I thought it didn't really make sense because I have so much bandwidth I can use. So I looked it up and this makes sense I should have known this, you know Apache you can set limits for the server which makes sense because if you're you know a hosting company and you're hosting websites you don't want people being able to upload you know mass amounts of stuff necessarily all at once so and if they're writing the scripts how do you control that well with the Apache config files. So today I'm just going to show you real quick a few lines you can change to you know increase your file size limit on your server if you're in control of the server. So I'm going to use Vim as my text editor and you got to be you know have permission to edit this file so it's I'm going to sudo Vim or whatever text editor you like. ETC PHP the you know version of PHP I guess that you're running forward slash Apache to PHP dot INI so actually this is I guess PHP configuration for your Apache server so I mean this part might change and this is on a Debian based system files will be in this might be in a different place if you're running Fedora or some other distribution but Debian based distributions it'll probably be here if not if you search inside the ETC folder for PHP dot INI you'll probably find it gonna go ahead and hit enter then I'm gonna search for a file line that says post max size so there we go and in this case by default it's set to 8 so if you want it to be more you can obviously change that I'll change it to 100 megabytes next I'm gonna look for a line that says upload underscore max file size and you can see that is limited to 2 which was one of my problems because and it did seem like around 2 megabytes it would cut me off so let's go ahead and change that to 100 of course you know keep in mind who has access to these uploads you know you don't want everybody uploading 100 megabytes all at once and then you can also you know set a limit to the max files at once it's set here to 20 again I'll just set this to 100 this is on my desktop computer here at home so it's not open up to the world so you know I'll save that and then at this point you need to restart Apache so you know there's two ways you can normally do that you can pseudo service Apache to restart and that will restart it another way would be to pseudo sys control restart Apache to service and then there's you know another way but those are the two main ways you probably do it and your your file size and amount of uploads have changed so you won't have that limit of 2 megabytes that we had earlier that's it I just wanted to do that little update so if you're trying to use the other project and you're uploading larger files or a large number of files you can now do more I do thank you for watching and as always please visit films by Chris calm that's Chris of the K there should be a link in description as always I hope that you have a great day


Governor Andy Beshear visited the McGoffin County Career and Technical Center in Salyersville this morning in order to present a check for $4.3 million to officials from the McGoffin County Board of Education. The funds, which will be used to finance the construction of a new state-of-the-art vocational education facility, represents an investment toward the betterment of education and career training for all students in the area, regardless of the career path they choose. It is great to be here today with exciting news that we can all be thrilled about knowing that the next set of students and the next set of students after that are going to have more opportunity, better hands-on training, and McGoffin County Schools are gonna get a chance to look to the future to redesign their training and to truly give your kids in this county, in this community, the best possible opportunity for the future that they are so excited about. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting-edge technology, providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. Governor Beshear also took the opportunity to highlight his recent discussions with the Kentucky General Assembly, during which multiple aspects of the infrastructure needs of our area were discussed, all while emphasizing the success of bipartisan efforts between lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle to make such funding possible. We got together, we sat around a big table. We had the opportunity to make generational investments in water and sewer and clean drinking water is a basic human right. We got to sit around the table and talk about broadband which we know is the infrastructure of the future as important as anything else. We got to sit around the table and talk about the age and condition of our career and technical schools and I'm really proud that we all came together. Red and blue, Democrat and Republican, House and Senate, Executive Branch and Legislative Branch and we did the right thing. For Mountaintop News, I'm Joshua Sloan.


How do I become more productive in medical school? I know I've asked that question many times. I'm sure you have too. In this video, guys, I have a great two-part, easy-to-follow system that you can take to not only become more productive, but stay motivated in the process. I'm gonna give you that system after this intro. All right, guys, what is going on? Lux here for an empty journey, helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. If you're new to this channel and you want more tips on just succeeding in medical school, thriving, not just surviving, then go ahead and give this video a like and consider subscribing to the channel and joining the community. But in this video, I'm gonna answer that question where it usually comes from frustration. How do I become more productive? My to-do list is too long. I'm not able to see any progress. And by the end of the week, the month, I feel like I have so much more left to do than I actually have done. And I get that sentiment in this video. There's going to be an easy two-part system that I use to not only get my work done, but at the end of the month, realize how much I've done. And it keeps me motivated to kind of continue to work hard and grind as you are. So no time to waste, let's get into the system. So part number one is to have a list of done. It sounds a little bit strange. We have a to-do list, right? Which we all know, a list of everything we need to do. But I also go ahead and just do the extra effort of creating a list of done. This basically means as I accomplish a task, I move it over to the corner of my to-do list because I usually do it on like a piece of paper. And so one side is going to be my to-do list. And as soon as I scratch something off instead of just putting a check mark, I literally go in and put the effort to write down that I did it. If it was a syllabus chapter, you know, and I read it, I put it on the right side. If it was a workout that I put on my to-do list, I'd do it on my right side. Not only do the check marks feel motivating, but just simply writing and have a whole another list that you continue to gather over time of how much you've done. I just find that there's so much of a motivation factor that comes with it because you want to continue to fill that list.  But when you're creating a completely separate list of how much you've done, a list of done, then you just want to continue to fill it up. You're motivated to continue to work. And so I think if you go ahead and apply that principle of list of done, it's gonna be easy way to just continue to stay motivated because you will have a visual representation of how much you've done. Now the second part of the system is to create a habit of streaks. Now you've probably seen people on their calendar where they work out and they go ahead and just put an X on the calendar for every single day they've done it. This is kind of something similar. Your list of done is kind of your motivation for a day, but on a week to week basis, you know, that motivation may dip and rise depending on how our life is going. So what I like to do is I basically break down my life into three main components. One is school, obviously. One is fitness for me. And then the final one is personal. I have different goals that I want to achieve in each of those. And so, for example, for my fitness, it may be getting all my workouts in for the week. And so every week that I do it, I put a check mark in the calendar.  My personal goal is to read a book a week. And so every time I'm able to do that, I put another check mark. Every time that list becomes longer, it basically feels like it costs you more not to continue to have that habit and continue to stay productive. For school, it may be something very similar. You may want to have a goal that I want to have all my work done by Saturday afternoons. That way I can enjoy Sunday. You know, the goal may be different for you, but having a list of done is going to help you on a daily system. And then taking a step further in having a system to track your streaks is going to keep you motivated for a long period of time. The semester is going to be long. You know, med school is long. And so to have just a simple way of keeping tracks of your wins that really is where the motivation comes, guys. And I promise you, you'll be able to stay productive. I'm gonna give you a quick example in case you're not convinced. When I first started the MD Journey blog, I was writing, I think, one or two blog posts a week. And it got to the point where, you know, I lost motivation, I lost traction, but I had no accountability to continue. And eventually I got back to it, mainly because I started to see that people were being helped by the content. And so then I wrote a blog a week and I started to do the streak system and the list of done. And now I've basically put out something of usefulness, hopefully, on these videos and blog posts for like almost two years now. That it's been able to continue that streak. So understanding that you can apply it at any phase of your life, have something on a daily basis, like a list of done to keep track of how much you're able to do and then transfer that over on like a weekly streak calendar, where you're able to kind of see how long something has been going on because the longer your streak is, the more likely you are to continue that habit. So guys, I knew this was a shorter video that I'm used to making, but if you wanna know how to be productive, it's an easy two-part system that I think you can apply it regardless of where you are at school or wherever you are on your journey. So I encourage you guys to check it out. And if you did enjoy it, make sure you comment down below. I'm curious, what do you currently do to be productive and how do you think you can apply the list of done and the streak calendar to your daily life? Let me know. Maybe it doesn't even apply too. That's totally fine. Just come say hi in the comment section. It also helps this video get out to more people. So with that being said, if you did enjoy this video, make sure you give it a like and if you still haven't subscribed for whatever reason, I encourage you to. Because my goal for 2019 is, this is my impossible goal, is to get to 25,000 subscribers. I need your help, because currently I am at like 1,200 to 1,300. So I got a long ways to go, but I think I can make it. But regardless, I need your help. So share, like, subscribe, whatever it takes. But with that being said, I'm not gonna babble anymore. I'll see you guys in the next video. Thank you guys so much for watching.