Good afternoon and welcome to today's this afternoon's energy seminar. It's my great pleasure I'm really excited to introduce our speaker to today Michelle Sim who is director of sustainability for so Cal gas, Michelle joined the Sempera utilities group in 2013 and served in various energy and strategic growth initiative roles including environmental policy development roles and clean energy. Transportation residential and commercial sectors as well as initiatives on hydrogen and CCS. Today she's going to talk to us about so go gas is commitment to net zero emissions by 2045, which is an extraordinary target to set for what is now the biggest gas distribution company in the United States so Michelle's going to tell us what magic she's going to use to get there and I'm really excited on behalf of all of us to hear what she has to say so Michelle take it away. Good afternoon john good afternoon everyone thank you so much for that introduction. My name is Michelle Sim as john noted director of sustainability at so Cal gas, and I'm so excited to be here this afternoon. A lot of my excitement really has to do with how I came to be in front of you all today. Earlier this year, a colleague of mine had asked if I would have a conversation with somebody about sustainability. And I had agreed. And so they went ahead and sent me their bio and their background. And one thing that I noticed as soon as I looked at this person's bio and background is that I was almost certain that we would have very little in common. I mean we came from very different backgrounds. He was a Stanford grad through and through. I graduated from Cal. And yes I'm a bear, but I hear from john that we are definitely surrounded by a few bears in this audience today. He was also an accomplished athlete. He was the MVP at the Rose Bowl, pretty impressive. I was always the last one chosen on any sports team let alone catch a football from 40 yards out. He was a unified scientist and engineered that studied nanoparticles and chemical kinetics, and I am not. So with just these few differences. I started to prepare myself mentally. I also prepped a lot of stats and diagrams and talking points of why the gas system shouldn't be dismissed or disregarded or taken for granted. I assumed that his environmental position would be electrification and that our differences would dominate the conversation. Well, after about a third of the way through our conversation. I had an aha moment. I realized in that moment that I had made a huge mistake. As I narrowly focused on all the differences that we had had. I failed to recognize the opportunity to connect with this person. I only focused on what I thought was readily apparent. And I say again I failed to recognize the opportunity.  Because after our conversation, what I realized that we actually had more common goals, even though we came from very big different backgrounds in our journeys were significantly different. I recognized that our goals were bigger than ourselves and that our goals were common in helping humanity in our planet. One might even call my epic fail as an unconscious bias. And this is the same premise I held on to as we developed our sustainability plan and climate commitment. We focused on the opportunities that were ahead of us and start having conversations on common goals, goals that were bigger than ourselves. So in this conversation, it is my hope that you will set aside any conscious and or unconscious bias you may have for the next 45 minutes. Leave any preconceived notions that you may have about sustainability, natural gas, electricity, energy, climate change, and even being an environmentalist and be open to a broader understanding of sustainability from a vantage point that you may not have thought of before. Don't make the same mistake I made. And in the same way in which that one conversation led me to be in front of all of you today. I hope that this conversation helps to navigate you through your journey.  So for those of you who may not be familiar with so Cal gas, we are a regulated gas utility headquarters in Los Angeles, California. Up here in the Bay Area, you may recognize the name PG&E, the regulated investor owned electric and gas utility that serves you. Along with PG&E so Cal gas is one of five investor owned utility companies in California with oversight from the California Public Utilities Commission. Although so Cal gas is regionally located and serving customers in Southern California, we are the largest gas distribution utility in the United States with over 100,000 miles of pipeline infrastructure. We deliver affordable, reliable and increasingly renewable gas service to nearly 22 million customers in over 500 communities and across 20,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. And over the past 150 years, we have a long history. We have been evolving currently on the cutting edge of innovation with methane reduction, energy efficiency and renewable energy. We were the first in the nation to aerially map our methane emissions, allowing us to track and mitigate methane emissions faster. This has helped us to be one of the best performing gas systems in the country. We also have the largest gas energy efficiency program in the nation with the largest portfolio of energy energy efficiency achievements. We were the first in the nation to install smart meters for the gas system. It provides data and allows us to inspect and help customers manage their energy use. We also were first movers on renewable natural gas. I'll go more into that a little bit later. And we also partnered with academia like you see Irvine to be the first in the nation to demonstrate and test green hydrogen pipeline injection. This is where we use surplus renewable power to produce clean hydrogen and blend it into the gas system. This provides long term storage that enables more renewable power on the electric grid, while providing deeper decarbonization of energy across the ecosystem. So we've had a lot of firsts throughout our history. And earlier this year on March 23. We added another first by developing and shaping our first published sustainability plan aspire 2045, which is our sustainability and climate commitment to net zero. But let me be clear sustainability and how it lives in our organization is not new. It is a craft that we have been shaping and evolving for over 150 years. And today, what I want to focus in this conversation are three things. One, the opportunities we have to reach our carbon neutrality target, while preserving choice and energy resiliency. Second, the opportunities we have to lead in a significant way. And finally, the opportunity we have in making progress towards our climate goals. Now our sustainability strategy and plan stands on four pillars, these four pillars. And it really is what's truly most important to us as a company. Priority number one is always safety. This is a culture and a mindset that highlights our values of leadership risk management preparedness and continuous improvement. We also highlight the importance of operating a resilient system resiliency of our system not to be confused with reliability is critical. There's a really important distinction here. And I want to raise it because it's important reliability is a system working well, really well under normal operating conditions. Resiliency however, is how the system operates under not normal conditions or what I like to call stress conditions and circumstances. We do this during natural disaster wildfires the polar vortex hurricanes and potential brownouts and blackouts. So it's really important to understand that reliability and resiliency is different. And we are about driving resilient operations to enable reliability. Our company would not be what it is today without the people and the diversity of thought. We will continue to be a catalyst to highlight and mobilize social diversity, equity, inclusion within our company and communities. And as we transform our business and enable the energy transition, we are not only supporting, but we are positioning ourselves to lead California's transition to the clean energy future. To build out a broader sustainability plan with these four pillars. Our first step was making a bold climate commitment. Our climate commitment is to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in our operations and delivery of energy by 2045. Doing so, so Cal gas became the largest gas distribution utility in the nation to include all three scope emissions in our target. This aligns with the Paris climate agreements recommendations to limit global warming to one and a half degrees Celsius by mid century. And it supports California's 2045 carbon neutrality goals and demonstrates the gas systems essential role in advancing a carbon neutral economy. Now I want to take the time to explain a little bit about why the inclusion of scopes one, two and three is so important. For some that may not be as familiar with the three scopes of emissions scope one and two emissions are what so Cal gas produces from its operations fleet energy use in buildings and fugitive emissions. These are emissions that we control and we contribute. And for so Cal gas scopes one and two emissions make up only 4% of our emissions only four. The bulk of the emissions about 96% is made up of what we call scope three emissions. Now scope three is a good reminder that so Cal gas is more than an energy company, it is an infrastructure company. That means that all the energy that passes through our pipelines to our customers have an associated carbon intensity. The energy transporter, we inherit those emissions, said differently, these emissions result from our customers consumption of energy. And today scope three emissions are currently being addressed by our energy efficiency programs. There's a reason why we have the largest energies efficiency program in the nation. It is to curve our scope three emissions, but energy efficiency alone cannot get us to our goals. Which is why we are undertaking initiatives to support our customers to transition to lower and zero carbon fuels so that as it passes through our pipelines, we are able to decrease the carbon intensity of the energy that we transport. There's a couple of things we know and we don't know what we know is that we have a pretty good idea of how we can manage our scope one and two emissions. These are things that we can control. What we also know is that scope three emissions the emissions not produced for control by so Cal gas will be a challenge. So there is no magic sauce like John alluded to. It's a lot of hard work, a lot of cooperation and collaboration. Now, here's where the opportunity is. The opportunity here is to have a platform on which we can have some healthy discussions around the importance of decarbonizing our energy ecosystem. And that includes the gas system with clean molecules and clean fuels. If the state is going to reach its carbon neutrality goals, it's going to need all the help that it can get. And it's going to need both the electric and the gas system.  And more importantly, how we deliver produce and manage energy is going to have an explicit and explicit impact on the communities that we serve, and the people that use that energy on the basis of affordability accessibility. This needs to be done transparently, not only for communication, but so that people know how much progress we're making. And this is where we need to have everyone around the table with actionable frameworks of purpose and intent towards a decarbonized energy future. The federal commitment goes beyond the walls of our company. It is about doing our part to have impact and influence in our communities locally, nationally, and globally. How we innovate matters, because the solutions we create will have to be one that can get to scale locally to bring down costs, but also be easily transportable to third world countries that do not. Have access to modern energy systems. This commitment means leveraging all that is available to us and supporting an integrated energy system that will provide clean, reliable and affordable energy to customers, you and I included for many years to come. And these ideas will have far reaching impacts across the globe. Now, as we continue to operate safely, reliably, and more efficiently, our commitment is focused around what we call the three these decarbonization, diversification and digitalization. Now with decarbonization, we need to think about decarbonization not as electrification. A lot of people think that they're one in the same. But we really need to think about it as the integration of the electric and gas grid. And going back to my distinction that I made between reliability and resiliency, the gas grid is inherently resilient, because most of it is underground and protected to a large degree. And as we lean more into electrification. We need to consider how we have a constant and consistent source of electricity. And this is where the gas grid has tremendous complimentary values to get us to 100% renewable portfolio standard without sacrificing reliability and withstand the growing natural disasters without sacrificing resiliency. And on top of that, it's to support the reduction of carbon intensity across all economic sectors that are foundational. To the prosperity of our economy, but also towards achieving carbon neutrality. Diversification. How we think of diversification is more risk management tool. It is what I like to call it. It's never wise to put all your eggs in one basket. When we look at impacts of natural disasters and wildfires in California, having multiple sources of energy is critical. So it doesn't cripple our economy. The reality is that not all sectors, like the industrial processing manufacturing and transportation sectors, they cannot fully electrify. It's physically impossible. This also leads to significant negative impacts to our most disadvantaged customers. If these large GHG emitting industries cannot reduce its emissions, the most impacted are the disadvantaged communities. So diversification of energy sources have a direct impact on our social responsibilities as community members. So comparing the ability to purchase and supply and transport, responsibly source gas, lower and zero carbon gases such as renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and other low carbon sources that become available in the future will be critical. Digitalization. We are in a fast paced rapidly changing industry. And the utilities are going through its own digital transformation. And digitalization is going to be a key component in unlocking our potential and accelerating our progress. What we're doing today is we're looking at things like spatial relational tools and machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to reduce risks for things like cross bore inspections pipeline inspections. Who would have thought. The internet of things help us to continue to update our digital platforms. It increases up ticks of things like paperless billing. It allows us to use advanced meter data for predictive and prescriptive analytics, and it supports effective planning and scheduling of our customer service field employees. All this to say that this type of asset tracking system integrity tools and analytics track progress actually helps us do our work more efficiently and effectively.  Now, as the largest gas distribution utility in the nation. So Cal gas is leading to shape the clean energy future, and we are going to take a prominent role. More than shape the future. We will be accelerating the progress to a clean energy future in three significant ways. But before I get into that, I want to share a part of my journey to help frame up some of my thinking. I think it's always helpful to understand someone's background and their journey to understand some of the thinking around this. My family immigrated here from South Korea when I was three years old. And I lived in a one bedroom apartment with my parents and my brother. You know, for a long time before we can even own a home. And my parents drove a white regal Buick that they shared every day for about a decade before we were even able to get a brand new car. And they work 14 hours a day. And my brother and I, we were latchkey kids from the age of five. And I remember in first grade we did a lot of cutting with scissors and gluing for hand I coordination. And I remember doing my homework and asking my dad to buy me glue. Just white glue. Nothing fancy. And you know what he gave me. He gave me a small spoonful of fully cooked rice. And then he showed me that if I squished the rice across the paper and spread it out. It was just as if just as effective as glue. So that's what I did. Every time I had an assignment on cutting and gluing. I went to the rice cooker I got some rice. That's where I use this glue. Then in fourth grade, I needed a poster board. And I asked my dad to buy me one so I can work on my project. And then, well, about 30 minutes later, I had would look like a poster board. It wasn't new. And it wasn't like the ones my friends had, but it was cardboard, and it was sturdy, and it had the surface area that I needed. What I found later on.  And I had to see two days before a new neighborhood moved in and my dad had welcomed them to the apartment complex by helping them move in and help them break down all the boxes and through them away. I guess my dad was my first example of how to recycle and reuse and to repurpose what some may have thought of waste into something useful. Now, why do I share the story. Well, this highlights the very things that I wanted to really touch on the three things on what the things that we are doing to accelerate our impact. What are those three things well first, we are going to leverage the multi billion dollar gas infrastructure. The generations of our families have paid to build over the past 150 years, including you and I. On top of our investment gas infrastructure today is critical for flexibility, storage reliability and resiliency. And on the happens chance and this is not reality and this will not happen but on the happens chance that we do nothing today to advance towards decarbonizing our gas infrastructure. There is still so much value that goes unrecognized. The gas infrastructure will continue to be the resilient infrastructure required to achieve 100% renewable electricity and a fully decarbonized and diversified energy future. Decarbonization does not mean the elimination of the gas system, and I really want to stress that the gas infrastructure will be required to support large scale adoption with renewable natural gas. Hydrogen and advanced distributed energy and carbon capture technologies that is so needed. If we are going to reach our net zero goals. Next, second thing is we are seizing every opportunity to discover, demonstrate an advanced not technological and clean fuels progress to promote a sustainable clean energy future that is resilient and more affordable than not technologies are important. And as I noted earlier, how we implement and manage them will be even more critical. So I don't want us to lose sight of the fact that when we talk about innovation. It is not only at the heels of new technology innovation is anything that brings about a solution to the table. It's about continuous improvements. It's about building on what we do well today. And continuous improvement is based on science and data and experience. It can be as simple as repurposing the use of white rice, because we couldn't afford white glue. And repurposing what one considered trash into some something that promoted education and learning. And it can be as complex as revisiting hydrogen 20 years after it was first introduced as a potential energy solution. And the third area, we will continue to spend a tremendous amount of effort on our partnerships. We, much like we are collectively sharing best practices, methodologies, challenges and successes today. We firmly believe the goal to a net zero future to protect our planet can only happen as a collective effort. It's important to remind ourselves what problem we are solving for. The question at hand is about solving for climate change, a global issue. No single entity can solve this problem. No single solution can solve this problem. And no single energy source can do it alone effectively. It takes every single one of us. It takes partnerships with academia, industry trades, local businesses, community members and future leaders such as yourselves. And I applaud any organization or entity that is raising their hand to take on the challenge of scope three emissions, because the fact is, they don't have to. And what it really sparks, what it really speaks to for me is the choice that they are making to take the opportunity to collaborate and truly solve for the bigger problem, which is climate change.  And for those who do not deal with this question every single day, a goal out to 2045 or mid-century seems very far away. Not only does it seem far away, but it almost allows one to mistakenly believe that we have a lot of time. We disagree. Here's the problem. Human influence on climate is clear. And recent greenhouse gas emissions are the highest in the history. We know that if we do not start addressing the problem adequately long before mid-century, we're going to have widespread and long lasting impacts on our natural ecosystems with very severe consequences, some that are irreparable. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, confirmed that in order to limit global warming to one and a half degrees Celsius, the world would need to cut its CO2 emissions by half by the year 2030. And to achieve such reductions, major, it's going to require major and immediate transformation, so we don't have the luxury of time. And it's also very clear that companies who take action to transition now will be in a better position than their competitors to attract investments to mitigate climate related risks early to have learnings from it and to take advantage of the opportunities, instead of looking solely at the challenges associated with it. SoCal gas has been investing in early decarbonization efforts since 2006. And SoCal gas is going to continue to invest in our 3Ds. That will, one, promote technologies and programs that can be deployed immediately. Today, energy efficiency is the most cost effective mature technology with widespread consumer acceptance. Things don't go hand in hand for most things that we have today. Widespread consumer acceptance is a big thing. It's a big hurdle. Renewable natural gas is a drop in fuel that requires zero equipment or infrastructure changes to our gas grid. So we can have RNG in our system flowing today with no issues and we do. The California strategy to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals include short-lived climate pollutants, SLCPs, you know, all these acronyms I get tongue tied. But it's a primary source of emission reductions and that's about 35%. But of this 35% of this portion, 62% of the short-lived climate pollutants are methane. And 80% of that comes from our waste streams. And we can repurpose that waste stream and we can make RNG renewable natural gas. So what RNG does is that it brings with it the ability to remove methane from going into atmosphere and use it as a clean fuel. So promoting what is immediately available for us that accelerates the removal of climate pollutants is the first thing. The second thing is we will also advance approaches that have an outsized impact relative to others. This is why we are so focused on renewable gases.  What RNG does for us is it solves a big methane emissions problem. RNG is an opportunity to take the waste that we produce as a society and not only prevent those emissions from going to atmosphere, but it also presents the opportunity to use that waste as a fuel, as energy. The state's Air Resources Board inventory shows that over 70, close to 80% of the methane to atmosphere problem is from our own waste streams. That is landfills, all the trash is sent to landfills, waste and agriculture. California is one of the largest ag states in the country. Most people don't know that. The United Nations recently also published a report. And this morning, there was a Los Angeles Times op-ed that highlights the world's top five meat and dairy companies combined to be emitting more greenhouse gases per year than a large oil and gas company like ExxonMobil. It states that even if fossil fuels use ended overnight, we stop using fossil fuel all together tonight. The global emissions related to food production alone are on track to make it impossible for us to meet our Paris Climate Agreement target of one and a half degrees Celsius. That's a huge statement. So right now, most R&G is being made from food waste and farm waste, agricultural waste and manure. So for me, when I look at that, it's exciting how much of a difference R&G has made to combat air pollution, climate change, because a great deal of it right now is being used to fuel the clean trucks. The transportation sector today to reduce pollution surrounding highways. The transportation corridors that carry all the goods that come through our ports up and down our state. But R&G can also be made from dead trees and forests. That dead wood needs to be managed to help prevent further wildfires that we're facing in the state of California. This is a growing problem, especially in California with increasing wildfire threats. And there's a huge opportunity here to capture those emissions from the forest materials and use it to create renewable fuel. Cutting methane is the strongest lever we have to slow climate change over the next 25 years and critical to getting to zero. So R&G helps us to do, R&G helps us do that today in a huge way. It's not something we have to wait for, we can do that today. And this is why we have a goal to have 20% of our core deliveries of renewable natural gas by 2030. Another thing is that we will invest in partnerships, as I stated before, in systems that enable reductions in the most GHG intensive sectors. It is clear that the overall global trend in energy is leaning towards a low carbon feature. Equally clear is that people will use a lot more electricity. It's estimated already that it will double in California by 2045. And as the demand for electricity grows, it creates the need for more long term energy storage to compensate for the intermittent renewable electricity production. And this long term energy storage can be in the form of gas. Hydrogen can do that for us. It may be surprising to most, but when asked about electrification, I say hands down we support electrification, where it makes sense. And electrification is not possible in all sectors. That's a fact. And electrification is not possible without increased investments in the gas grid to provide the energy needed when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shiny. And as I mentioned earlier, electrification alone cannot support the decarbonization of our largest GHG emitters, who also happens to be the largest economic engines in the state and a large part in the nation, including the industrial processing, the transportation sector. People often forget that Southern California, in addition to Hollywood and the beaches, it's home to the top industrial hubs in the nation. And we cannot electrify the industries that use extremely high heat for processing metals and products. We need solutions that will support our goals to reduce GHG emissions that meet these requirements, like renewable natural gas and hydrogen. These are the clean fuels and molecules that will allow for a full decarbonization in the sector without crippling the economy. We are also home in Southern California to the two largest ports in the entire nation, ports of LA and ports of Long Beach. And with that comes large emissions from the ships, heavy duty trucks, the rails to haul the goods from the ports to the distribution centers and beyond up here, you know, to Stanford and the Bay Area across the nation. For the transportation sector that carries goods and materials, they're going to need solutions that allow them to carry more goods and go longer distances with less fuel. They're going to need a zero emission fuel or technology that helps to support. Now battery electric options are good in some applications, but very limited and pose very huge operational concerns around weight, the weight of the batteries around length of time to recharge to make deliveries on time, especially for the long haul and heavy duty industries. However, another zero emission option is a fuel cell electric truck. It is also an electric option. It's a zero emission option, but it does use molecules and fuel cell electric trucks are being demonstrated today with the use of hydrogen. As for large ships and rails, liquefied natural gas and hydrogen can be a solution in the future. The bottom line is that we need to implement solutions that allow the economic engines of our state to continue to operate cost effectively and sustainability, sustainably. Now progress is not a luxury. This slide shows some of the most critical and immediate goals we put forth as part of our proof points on near term targets to get our scopes one and two emissions under control and to start demonstrating tangible progress towards our scope three emissions. We will add additional goals to these over the next several months, and we will be diving into what the right key performance metrics are, how to leverage the information that we have, and what tools may be available to support us so that we can track and analyze the metrics and data points, present the data in a meaningful way, and provide insights into what more we can do, and how we can accelerate our progress. The ultimate commitment and our broad sustainability plan is an integration of business activities that support operational excellence, continuous improvement with the focus on opportunities to effectively combat climate change.  And just to add one more dad story here. He used to always say, we cannot possibly know where we are going. If we do not know where we have been, and where we are standing today. What I shared with you today is a highlight of our first steps. It's just the beginning. The next phase between now and the end of this year is really to build out our full sustainability plan that examines the intersectionality and this is where I get excited, the intersectionality of climate waste water energy. And how that directly impacts our communities and the people and the affordability, the diversity and the inclusion, all of that, they come together. And we need to work together to transparently communicate how that happens, what the impacts are, and how do we mitigate some of the biggest risks that we may pose or face as community members.  Now, over the next 30 years, the way in which we produce, deliver meter and consume energy will look considerably different from what it is today. The challenge is that the changing climate will require an energy system that is resilient to wildfire, extreme mother drought, while also delivering reliable, affordable, and increasingly decarbonized energy to our customers. And the opportunity again is to reach carbon neutrality targets more effectively while preserving choice and energy resiliency. The entire ecosystem of energy as a balance of clean electrons from the electric grid, clean molecules through the gas grid, and leveraging both the electric and gas infrastructure to strengthen our ability to navigate our bold new world. Additionally, there's an opportunity to lead in a significant way through partnerships and collaboration. It is the only way we're going to solve this global problem. We cannot do it in isolation. And the opportunity to make progress today with all that is available to us and the significant progress we can further make together with future technologies, fuels, and solutions. And my sincere hope that you walk away from today's conversation with at least one new fact that you didn't know before, and that it generates an authentic curiosity about the gas system, and its critical role in California's carbon neutral future. And what I'd like to do is quickly share a five minute video on all of the things that I touched on today before I turn it back over to John and break out into our smaller groups. Around new forms of renewable gases, solar, wind, fuel cells, and carbon capture. At SoCal Gas, our mission is to be the cleanest, safest, and most innovative energy company in America. And we are committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2045. The reality is some of the technologies that will get us there haven't even been invented, but there are four innovative technologies that have us well on our way. Renewable gas, where waste streams are harnessed and reused to make power, becoming emissions negative. Power to gas, where excess renewable electricity is used to create renewable gas and hydrogen, which can be stored, transported, and utilized for decades. Hydrogen fuel cells, where people can reliably power their homes, businesses, and transportation with net zero emissions. And carbon capture utilization and sequestration, where carbon can be captured and utilized in new production processes for products of the future. After all, decarbonization isn't new for us. We've already reduced distribution emission rates to 0.25%. While continuing to serve our 22 million customers without sacrificing reliability, resiliency, or affordability. When California wanted to reduce pipeline emissions 20% by 2025, SoCal Gas met the goal by 2021. In 2010, renewable gas wasn't even in use. By 2022, we will reach 5% capacity throughout our infrastructure, and 20% by 2030. On the journey to net zero, our mission is more than words. It's our ethos that guides every aspect of our business. What does clean look like? Clean is decarbonizing the gas grid. Clean is turning waste into energy. Clean is utilizing excess renewable energy. What does safe look like? Safe is the diversity of clean energy sources. Safe is industry-leading protocols. Safe is the diversity of thought and culture. What does innovation look like? Innovation is evolving into a tech-first infrastructure company. Innovation is expanding the potential of renewable energy. Innovation is leading the evolution of energy. Our commitment is to make the air we breathe and the neighborhoods we share cleaner, safer, and more innovative. Because our evolution is our legacy. Thanks, Michelle. That was a great way to end a great talk, I think. I'd like to talk to your producer of that video clip sometime soon. We don't have a lot of time for general audience questions. Unfortunately, for me, you did answer a lot of the early questions by the time you got to the end. Particularly the shorter term goals, lots of interest in that. So, since you've already agreed to share your slides, I'm sure a lot of viewers will be interested in that. Then too, I won't really get into a lot of the give and take about gas versus electricity. I would like to focus on a couple of things, maybe in one general area. There was a tremendous amount of interest, and you really close with this in many ways, on the clean fuel side. Can you provide just a little bit more detail on how you think the hydrogen is going to work out? How much can you put in your current pipelines? Are there clever ways to coat them to put more in? Will you have some hydrogen-dedicated pipelines and others mixed in with gas? What is the role of CCS?  I think you started with a bit of magic, but then put a tremendous amount of thought and force between a believable corporate strategy. In fact, one of the more interesting questions was, so you want to go big, can you go as big as we might need you to go to solve this problem? I lumped a few things together there, but anything you would like to say in any of those areas on the margin here would be a great service to our audience. Those are great questions, a fully loaded question, John. Thank you for that. So maybe I'll tackle it little by little and see how much time we have. On the topic of hydrogen, I absolutely do think that hydrogen will play a critical role in the decarbonization of our gas grid. Hydrogen is one, albeit an important one, one solution of many. RNG is another one. We are hoping that more available lower and zero carbon fuels will come online. But with respect to how much we can blend and what we're doing today, what I'll share is that today, what we have done as a statewide investor on utility collective is we have gone before the public utilities commission to request and file an application for hydrogen blending standards. What we have done is ask the commission, hey, we'd like to examine this, but we want to make sure we're going to do this in a safe and responsible way. So we need to study this, we need to study this on our systems, you know, along with partnerships locally, we've had partnerships globally. We know that there are utilities in Europe, in Australia, in Asia that have been blending hydrogen into their system. We're testing it. And a lot of studies have found or are saying to us, you know, these are just general parameters of what we are finding. But really, to study this specifically, you have to look at your system. You have to blend it into your system. You have to look at the uniqueness of your pipelines, the composition of your pipelines, the methodology of your pipelines. What type of other valves and fittings are you using that a European market may not necessarily be using. And how does that have an impact on that because that all speaks to safety in our culture here. So what we're doing is we have asked the commission, let us do the due diligence and we have asked for a hydrogen blending demonstration program. And with that, we are building out a case for doing case studies around us, a very residential neighborhood in a very closed and contained area that we can study and examine. We are looking at potentially an industrial cluster and looking at examining that specifically. And we also have what we launched earlier this year the H2 hydrogen home at our energy resource center in Downey, California. We are going to be building out a hydrogen home that really shows the entire value chain of the value of hydrogen from the time that it is produced by solar panels at a utility scale for it to be transported and sent to an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen stored by the home to be used either as electricity in the home or stored for later use in fuel cells as backup power for potential brownouts or blackouts and demonstrating that. So there's a couple of different things we're doing. But I think most importantly what I'd like to point out is that we want to do this safely. We want to be responsible about it. So we are studying it. And we're going to continue to study it, not just in isolation but with partners, nationally, but with other investor owned utilities throughout the state, including PG&E. And I'm hoping that we'll have results over the next 12 to 24 months in terms of what we are finding what those safe levels of blends look like. And it may invariably come down to several different things, whether we can blend an X percent throughout the entire system, or whether it's going to be isolated in very specific areas or systems based on the methodology of different impacts. So all of that is being looked at and examined as well as the impact that it will have on the end use appliances in homes and to our industrial customers. So we're looking at flame characteristics of how hydrogen or a blend of hydrogen impacts that so we're looking at it from a lot of different aspects from our systems aspect, but as well as how it will impact the customer. So we're studying that we're going to continue to study that, and we are doing that in a very public way through the public utilities commission so more information on that can be provided if needed, or desired with respect to CC us. So we're looking at carbon capture utilization and secretation as definitely a tool of the future. And this is something that we have been examining in our RD&D group for quite some time and we are continually examining the potential of carbon capture, not only from atmosphere, but in the use of material content, like cement and other things. But really the purpose of, once you capture that carbon if it's not in a solid form, what do you do with that? Are you going to use it, maybe at a beverage company? Are you going to sequester it? Other areas available to us geographically in California that allows us to do that. Those are the very questions we're examining today with help and support from a lot of partners to see if that becomes something feasible for us. Great super. I see we're just about out of time for this part of the program. I think we're all envious of the students who get to meet with you all close and personal to ask follow on questions. So with that, thank you Michelle for sharing your enthusiasm and your innovative spirit in this important strategy, corporate strategy that you've developed. Thank you very much. We hope you come visit us after we get through the pandemic, which now looks like it could be as early as next year. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you.  Thank you. To you as well. Thank you.


Item Number – SCP-426 Object Class – Euclid Special Containment Procedures. I am to be sealed in a chamber, with no windows through which I may be viewed. The door to my chamber must have a label completely unrelated to my designation or identity, in order to prevent unintended spread of my primary effect. Any level 3 and above personnel are to know of my presence, and particularly of my properties. Assigned personnel are to be rotated out on a monthly basis to prevent contamination by my secondary effect. Psychiatric evaluation is mandatory at the end of the month. If personnel are deemed unaffected, they may be reassigned to me no less than 4 months after their last rotation with me. Any affected personnel are to be given a class CM-nestic and transferred to a different site. Description Hello, I am SCP-426. I must be introduced this way in order to prevent ambiguity. I am an ordinary toaster, able to toast bread when supplied with electricity. However, when any human being mentions me, they inadvertently refer to me in the first person. Despite all attempts, there is yet to be a way to speak or write about me in the third person. When in my continuous presence for over two months, individuals begin to identify themselves as a toaster. Unless forcibly restrained, these people will ultimately harm themselves in their attempts to emulate my standard functions. I was discovered in the home of the WTF family, after the gruesome deaths of three of its members. I had been given to the younger Mr. and Mrs. WTF as a wedding gift. No card or any other identifying markings had been found on my box. Approximately two months after the family received me, fire crews were dispatched to the home due to an electrical fire. The younger Mrs. WTF died from the electric discharge that she had caused when attempting to devour an electric socket. The other two victims had died shortly before the fire occurred. The elder Mrs. WTF had gorged herself with nearly 10 kilograms of bread before her stomach burst, and she died of internal bleeding. The younger Mr. WTF died of severe blood loss after attempting to devour with me. The sole survivor was the elder Mr. WTF who was suffering from severe malnutrition. He stated that he had inserted some bread a week prior and was still waiting for the toast to pop out. I was confiscated by the foundation after police noted my unusual properties. A class CM Nastic was administered to the affected officers. Experiment log 4261. Date. Expunged. Subject. D-class personnel. D-4261. Procedure. D-4261 was asked to describe what he believed was contained in my chamber. He was not informed about my identity or properties. Details. D-4261 stated. I'm probably some huge monster holed up in there. That's what you guys have all over the place, right? D-4261 remained oblivious to his use of the first person pronoun. Experiment log 4262. Date. Expunged. Subject. D-class personnel. D-4262. Procedure. 4262 was placed in my chamber and given regular meals through a dispenser. No communication with D-4262 was permitted. Multiple cameras were situated in the chamber, positioned so that I was outside of their field of vision but allowing constant observation of D-4262. We remained sealed until my secondary effect manifested in the subject. I was bolted to the floor so that I could not be moved into a camera's view. Details. After 45 days of isolation, D-4262 wrapped his arm around me and began conversing with me, stating that we were brothers. D-4262 never deviated from using the first person plural when speaking with me. Subject was terminated one hour after this event. It is theorized that the isolation accelerated the progression of my secondary effect. Experiment log 4263. Date. Expunged. Subject. D-class personnel. D-4263. Procedure. A screw was removed from me and shown to D-4263 who was asked to describe it. D-4263 was not informed about my identity or properties. Details. D-4263 referred to it as my screw. Consistent with Experiment 4261, the subject was oblivious of his use of the first person in his description. This suggests that even if I were destroyed, my effects would still be inherent in my remains. Experiment log 4264. Date. Expunged. Subject. D-class personnel. D-4264. Procedure. D-4264 was placed in isolation and a cell adjacent to my chamber to be observed until my secondary effect manifests. Details. No effects appeared. D-4264 was terminated 90 days after the start of the experiment. Thank God there are some limits to my effects. A lot of us were really starting to get worried about me. Dr. C. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-425, the Infinity Broadcast, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Guys, today, we get to have an interview with Naoki Hamaguchi. He is the game director of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, so it's going to be very exciting. We're going to get a chance to talk to him here in just a minute. He's coming in. Oh, there we go. Hey. Hello. Hi, hello. Good to meet you. Good to see you guys. Hello. Hi, everybody. Thank you again for taking the time to set up this interview between Square Enix and S-Fan. S-Fan, this is Hamaguchi-san, and Hinano, who has so kindly offered to translate for us today. We're super excited to have this interview happen, and Hamaguchi-san, you're actually live on S-Fan's stream right now, so you get to speak with him and directly to all of his community. Yeah, let's go ahead and get it started just to kind of introduce myself a little bit. I'm a huge fan of Final Fantasy VII, huge fan of the franchise in general, been a big fan of Square for a long time, so I was one of the many people begging for remake for like 20 years. So, since the first time, since the first time I played it. So, and a bunch of people in chat are like that as well. Obviously, there's been like a lot of excitement that's been generated amongst the fans for Final Fantasy VII re-birth, especially after the way that remake ended. Can you share any insight about like what is going to set re-birth apart from the original game and even what the remake was? Yeah, of course, the way the story ended was a way that a lot of users expected it to end. So, in that sense, in terms of the story, the answer to the user in the story and the world in the story, or what we want to convey to the user in this work, is gradually being revealed. So, in that sense, it was a great inspiration for me to look forward to this work. And at the same time, I was very interested in the story and the world in Final Fantasy VII, so I had a lot of interest in it, but in terms of the work itself, the user's freedom of exploration is expressed in the game itself, so it's not just about the main story, but it's about a lot of side-contents and mini-games that are not just about the game itself, but also about the story, and it's also about adding experience to the world. Also, a lot of reviews have been announced from the media recently, but it's not just about the story, but it's about the game experience, and it's a very positive evaluation and I'm really looking forward to this work to make sure that it reaches the user. So, I hope you'll enjoy it. That's unbelievably exciting to hear. I guess having the first part of the game basically end with leaving Midgard was super cool, and I think the way that it ended and left it open for, is it going to be the same? Is it going to be different? It's going to be very cool. Awesome. So my next question is with the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, what improvements or enhancements can players expect compared to the previous game, whether it's gameplay or maybe visual, just anything like that? Final Fantasy VII Remake is a game design that focused on the story experience that was very special to the story, and I think the user who enjoyed the world view had a very positive evaluation, but I think that the voice that wanted to explore Midgard was also part of my ears. So, this work is very important for the story experience and of course, it's something that you have to work on. The user itself can freely explore the world of Final Fantasy VII, so it's also good to move on to the main story, and it's also good to stop at 1 o'clock and work on the side story, but what the user experiences as a game at this time is something that you have to choose based on the user's will. Yeah, that's great. That hit every answer, every aspect of that question. I could have wanted to answer it. Especially with minigames, is there any sort of expansion upon the gold saucer that we saw in the original game, kind of more minigames, more stuff like that? Of course, for the gold saucer, there are many minigames for the original game, but what I wanted to aim for this time was to have more minigames for the gold saucer like the original game of FFX VII. Of course, there are many minigames for the gold saucer, but there are many minigames in the world including the world map. I wanted to show you that there are many minigames in the world of FFX VII, so the users who played this game, of course, there are minigames for the gold saucer, and there are various scenes for the date, and there are a lot of different styles, and I'm sure you'll be very satisfied with that. But when you get the minigames, it's not just about the gold saucer, it's about how many minigames there are in the world. To pay particular attention to. Okay. Okay, so my next question. The landscape of gaming in general has changed a lot since the original Final Fantasy VII, 25 years ago now almost, just about. How does Rebirth kind of aim to appeal to both fans of the original game and people that might be fans of the original game, fans of remake, or versus people that just might be new to the series altogether? Yes, that's right. There are two main points to make the game. There are a lot of fans of the original game, and a lot of fans of the original game, are fans that know the story until the end of the game, so the main story, if the original game is made, it's a filler, and if the original game is made, it's a character from the original game, so it's aiming to make a game that you can enjoy once more knowing the original game. Another point is that, basically, the great past of the original game, the original game of the original game, which I received when I was a child, when I played the original game of the FF VII, the fans that I received, the fans that I received, probably from the present generation, even though I played the original game of the original game, I don't think the original game of the original game of the original game, so in the original remake, there are a lot of fans, and the sense of the world that is made is what I'm going to show you in the present era, and the fans of the current era, and the fans of the new era, are very careful about the two points that will convey the world of the FF VII, and that's what I'm going to show you in the present era. I mean, I think that's... I mean, obviously it's working, so it's a great way to look at it. So having this game be across two discs, obviously the first game was on three discs, like the original was on three discs, and we saw games do that a lot in the past. That's not something we see too often these days, just in general. You don't see games going across multiple discs that often. What I'm curious about is what is the decision to launch Rebirth in a multi-disc format going to do to enhance the player experience, as opposed to just having to cram the whole game into one disc? The reason I chose the two discs was because the original was a multi-disc, so I was wondering if I could merge the two discs. It's not that I didn't feel good about it, but the reason for that is that the FF VII Remake Intergrade was released on PS5, and the disc size was about 80 GB. From the beginning of development, I was thinking that one disc wouldn't be in 100 GB, so I was already planning on making one in two discs. There were times when we were going over 150 GB, but after a while, we were able to work together with many engineers and adjust the design, so we were able to merge our discs. That's great. That's very exciting. Thank you. Yeah, that's great to hear. This is kind of a, this is an interesting question that I had. Someone who is a huge fan of the original, like a lot of us are. Did you have any particular challenges capturing any sort of specific moment from the original game? I guess translating it to rebirth or remake actually in that case. But is there anything that was particularly challenging to make sure to, we want to make sure to do this justice. This was really good in the original game and we wanted to make sure that it kind of was put on display as best as possible in the remake and rebirth. Yeah, there are a lot of different scenes in this game. There are a lot of places where users are still in memory. One of the main points of Rufous is the timing of the original game. It's a very simple game. Rufous, including Shinra, is a very large organization. The point of view that the president changes is that there is a need to be taken into account globally. That's why we are making this game with a huge cost. So, instead of going into a crowd like the original game, the crowd is involved in Shinra. By creating a formation by itself, the content of the game changes, the difficulty of the game changes, and so on. There are a lot of things that are created in the same way, so I think it's a part of our core. There you go. Cool. That's very exciting. I always remember the whole parade and then going into the cannon and you see the whole thing. I can't wait to see it in rebirth. It's going to be gorgeous, I'm sure. I have a couple more questions here. You have about two decades of experience working on a whole bunch of different Final Fantasy titles. Is there any sort of wisdom that you can impart on any aspiring game developers who want to craft the same sort of unforgettable stories in games that they're working on? There are a lot of people's thoughts, so I don't think it's an absolute answer, but I think it's one of the ideas that comes out. I think it's the most important thing to keep in mind while you're working on your own ideas. I think that sounds great advice. We appreciate you being here. I have one last question. This is just a fun question that I had. I was wondering, what do you think? I think I have to screen share with you. So whenever Final Fantasy VII Remake launched, I did a cosplay. So I wanted to ask you what you thought of my cosplay, actually. Oh, can you see it? Can you see it? All right, you can see it. There you go. Yeah, this is my cosplay. What do you think? Pretty good. It's a very strong Tifa. Thank you. That's what I was going for. I'm very strong. Obviously, I'm a huge fan of the game, so I wanted to know what you thought of my cosplay there. After all, I participated in a variety of countries, like Thailand's Game Show, but I think I want more and more people to spread this culture around the world. I was very happy to see it. That's awesome. It's cool seeing how much support that Square has for all the different types of content that different people make. Again, I want to thank you guys for allowing us to do this. This has been absolutely great, so make sure to watch next week because we are going to play Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Finally, it's coming out, so we're going to have to play it. Also, I am going to do some giveaways for some codes. Not today, but next week. We're going to do some giveaways for some codes. We are going to give away that Sephiroth statue that's right there. We're going to be giving away one of those. Square Enix is hooking us up with that. Huge hearts in the chat for Square Enix, Hamaguchi-san, and Hinano coming on and joining us today. Absolutely. Can't wait to see you all in person. Thank you so much. Thank you. Right. What a good interview, man. Holy. That was crazy. What did you guys think? His answers are so like, just boom, boom, boom. It just hits like every aspect of it.  I hope you guys enjoyed that as much as I did. I still need to play the demo. We are going to play the demo at some point, probably in this next week or so, before the actual game comes out on the 29th, but that was like an unbelievable experience. I hope you guys enjoyed the interview. Thank you guys for watching. If you guys like the YouTube channel, all kinds of different stuff from my YouTube channels, particularly right now, I've been doing a ton of Grand Theft Auto role play. So we've been focused on that lately. Sometimes I'm doing wow, sometimes I'm doing just variety, RPGs, all kinds of stuff. So if you guys like that stuff, take a look around, subscribe to the channel, like the video, leave a comment. Let me know what you think and we'll see you guys next time.


The study found that diets high in saturated fats, monounsaturated fats, and polyunsaturated fats all had different effects on glucose insulin homeostasis. Diets high in saturated fats tended to increase fasting glucose levels while decreasing fasting insulin levels. Monounsaturated fats were associated with lower HbA1c levels and reduced insulin resistance. Polyunsaturated fats were associated with lower HbA1c levels and increased insulin secretion capacity. The study also found that diets high in polyunsaturated fats were associated with better glycemic control and improved insulin secretion capacity compared to other macronutrients. This article was authored by Famiaki Mamura, Renata Mika, Jason H. Y. Wu, and others.


Two local business leaders were recently elected to key leadership positions within the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. Jordan Gibson, President and CEO of the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, has been elected to serve as President of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Executives for their 2022 term. The KCC's goal is to provide both professional development as well as continuing education opportunities for local chambers of commerce all throughout our region. In addition, Donovan Blackburn, President and CEO of Pipeville Medical Center, has been elected to serve on the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Blackburn has previously served as the Chamber's Chair of the Health Care Policy Council where he contributed to the development of the Chamber's legislative agenda. For Mountaintop News, I'm Joshua Sloan.


So let's do another significant digit problem. So here's another measurement that we found in lab. So 2005 centimeters. And we want to look at, well, try to figure out how many significant figures there are, how many certain digits, how many uncertain, and what are the units, OK? So can anybody tell me any of these things? More centimeters. The units, OK, centimeters, Zm. So remember, every time you have a measurement, you've got to have units, OK? Because it's just as important as the number, because you don't know what the units are. You could ask, well, is that meters? Is that miles? Is it tons? Who knows, right? So centimeters, metric or not? It is metric, OK? So circle arguments. Anything else that you guys can help me out with this one? OK, four significant figures is what I heard, OK? Four significant figures. Is that correct? You guys, I agree with that, OK? So that means, so how many digits do we have all together in this number? Four, right? So that means every one of those numbers that you see in our digits in this particular number is significant. Is everybody OK with that, OK? So how many uncertain digits do we have? One, always, right? So we must have how many certain digits? Three, OK? So why do we say that? Because our significant figure calculation tells us that it's certain digits plus uncertain digits, right? And uncertain digits, what do we say is always one? And if we have four significant figures, so we could do something like this, let's rearrange this equation. Certain digits must be 4 minus 1, which equals 3. Can everybody rearrange that algebraically, OK? So if you can't do that, try to do it on your own, OK? Come to me after class or something like that if you're having trouble with it. OK, so which one is the uncertain digit? Is it the 2, the 0, 0, or the 5? The 5. Why would you say the 5 is the uncertain? It's the last one, OK? That's the one that's, you know, if it was on a balance or something, it might be going back and forth between 5 and 4, or, well, on this measurement. You don't know exactly. It's coming in between the graduation. So that's the one you have to estimate, OK? So that's the uncertain one. Does everybody understand this particular problem? What type of zeros do we have here? Captive zeros, right? So captive zeros always what? Significant, right? They're always significant, OK? Captive zeros always significant. Always in between those ones that you said always significant. So are there any questions on this particular type of problem? OK, wonderful.  I'm proud of you.


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Aloha and welcome to Hawaii Together on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network. I'm Kili Iakina and although I'm a trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and President of the Grassroot Institute, the views that you hear me or my guest express on today's program are solely our own as private citizens and don't represent any institutions. Now with that said, we can actually have some fun and talk about some lively conversation. I don't know if you know where the kings of ancient Hawaii went to play. They went to play in their playground, which is the Waianae Coast. It's a beautiful stretch on the west side of Oahu that goes on the north side from a little town called Makaha down to Waianae proper down to a place depending upon how you pronounce it that is called Ma'ili or Ma'ili and then all the way down to Nanakuli. Just historic sites with rich, rich history. The population of the Waianae Coast was great at one time where people fished and grew agriculture and played together. It was really the bread basket for the island of Oahu. Now the island has grown and the area known as Waianae Coast has faced many challenges and that's why I'm so grateful for our guest today. She's somebody who is leading people in revisioning what Waianae has been and can be and it's something beautiful and wonderful. My own roots are in Waianae. That's where I grew up as a man. It's where I had my first job. That's where I had my first home. It's where I began to understand what it was to serve the community. For many, many years I was a youth minister with Youth for Christ and started programs like Campus Life and went to the schools. I used to go on to the edge of Nanakuli High School every morning and pray and there was a girl on that campus who hopefully by the grace of God has become someone who is a real blessing for everyone in Hawaii and beyond. And it's our opportunity today to meet her. I first met her, I think I first met her when she was active in representing the beneficiaries of the Office of Waian Affairs as a voice that said to our OHA trustees, this is the way that it has to be done. These things are right. These things are not right and I'm standing up on behalf of beneficiaries and week after week I've seen her come to the OHA trustee board almost as if she was the ninth trustee. And as I've listened to her, I've heard her heart and her mana'o, her mind. She loves the Hawaiian people and at least among many things we share a love for Waianae and a dream about everything Waianae can be for the Hawaiian people and all people. So would you welcome my dear sister, Jermaine Byers. Jermaine, aloha. Thank you, trustee Akina. Welcome to the program. Call me Kili. Oh, no, I can't. You're so humble. That's part of your great nature. Thanks for having me on the show. Jermaine, you know, you come from the Waianae Coast, Nanakuli. What do you love about Nanakuli? Ohana. Ohana family. Family. I love my friends. I love the coastline. We have the most beautiful beaches. Lots of memories of going to the beach and camping and swimming. And it's just wonderful. Absolutely. And you talk about camping. That's actually your birth. Yes. Down there at Kahe Park where we now have a power plant. There was a park many, many years ago. Not that many years ago. Tell us a story of how Jermaine came into the world. Well, my mom had contractions. It was back in the 60s. My age just showed. And then hospitals were, there was none in the Waianae Coast. So they had to take the long trek from the Waianae Coast to get into town to go to a hospital. Yes. And they left Nanakuli and they were on Farrington Highway and my mom just had to give birth to me. They pulled into Kahe Park and then my mom gave birth to me with my grandmother. And then from there they bundled me up and they took me to the hospital to make sure that everything was okay. And I believe everything is okay. Well, you know, I think that a lot of people when they think of the Waianae Coast, especially parts that are densely populated with native Hawaiians. And by the way, the Waianae Coast is the most concentrated and densely populated native Hawaiian population in the world. A lot of times people have a great many misconceptions. And part of the reason is they've just not been out there. And part of the reason is that as Waianae has changed with some of the challenges it faces, it gets a bad rap often. You know, what are some of those misconceptions that you come across and what's the truth? Well, there's a lot of misconceptions. Some of them are true that there is some types of crime, but crime is everywhere. Of course, there's drug issues and drug issues are everywhere. They're even on the other kawaii kai and kane ohe. You know, I feel the most safest when I'm at home in Nanakuli. And along the West Coast, I have never felt unsafe. So there's a misconception that every person that you meet, there's a lot of general statements that everyone or people that you meet at the beach or in the stores, you know, they'll do something to you negatively. And that's not true. You know, one of the things I found germane in the many years I lived on the coast and I used to live in Makaha and in Waianae proper, it really doesn't matter what the color of your skin is. It really doesn't matter what your ethnic background is. It's a place where people respond to you based on your heart.  But if you're not a native Hawaiian and you act from the heart, I think people pick up on that a lot. Well, three of my grandparents are native Hawaiian, 100%. But you know, one of my tutus are actually 100% German. And so I'm German, Hawaiian descent. And my grandfather, who is German, was actually an engineer for the railroad. And he was the engineer for the railroad going around the island.  While we said earlier, it is the most native Hawaiian population and the most densely populated place on the planet, it's also tremendously integrated with other racial backgrounds. It's almost as if most of us Hawaiians out there are mostly something else, too. Yes.  I am. I'm not going to separate myself, defragment myself because of my German heritage. I love my tutu. His garden was filled. It was like a garden of Eden. Every fruit that I could think of, things like even star fruit, you know. He had bai vi and olives and, of course, lots of different varieties of mango trees. He said if they could not provide food for your body or for your healing, like medicinal, laau, laau paau, they didn't belong in his garden. So he had all kinds of stuff when I was growing up. And that's what fond memories that I have of my tutu. Sure. You know, one of the misconceptions about the Waianae Coast and about the Hawaiian people in general is that we all have the same political leaning, that we're all fighting for our independence and separation from the United States of America. What are your thoughts about that? Is that the case for the Waianae Coast? Do most Hawaiians want to have a separation from the United States? Well, when we had the Department of Interior in 2014, I believe. The hearings they held? About 99% of the people said no. To no to what? No to the self-determination where the Department of Interior or state agency or federal government getting involved with self-determination. You know, when they say that we're fighting, we never can get along, we can't have a conversation, I find it interesting, especially in the era where we have the president that we do. You know, America is called the United States of America. Oh, by the way. You find it united? Well, it's very diverse at the very least. Yes, there's different political parties. There's, of course, the Democrats and the Republicans.  So I can't understand why they're forgiving of their type of political arena. The United States of America, emphasis on United. And then they found upon the native Hawaiians and them trying to find their footing after the apology bill, after all these incidents have been in our history. And then they're saying that we don't seem to know how to get it together. Well, you can just pick up a newspaper today and you can see that there's already problems in the United States with our own attorney general and the president. So I find it very not justified and unfair. What do you think is the key to the advancement of the native Hawaiian people? Well, it's not a simple question, so it's not going to be a simple answer. Sure, give me some of the elements that would be there. If you saw native Hawaiian people advancing and particular people on the Wai'anae coast. Well, the Office of the Hawaiian Affairs have been supporting one agenda. And they've only been supporting 1% of the native Hawaiian population. And what agenda is that? Well, they're not self-determination, you know, nation to nation. I've studied the information. Let me just, for a moment, stop so we get our terminology right. Okay. You're using self-determination in a very technical sense. Because overall, I think that there's no disagreement. All people should be able to determine their future themselves. They should be able to achieve and fulfill their dreams and so forth. But when you say, as you say, that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, in your opinion, has pursued a single agenda, you're talking about self-determinism as a certain form, right? And what is that? Correct, so federal recognition. Okay, the federal recognition to have native Hawaiians identified almost like a Native American Indian tribe as a separate federally recognized country. Correct. Okay, so now what you're saying then is that that's a narrow vision that most Native Hawaiians don't embrace that? Well, the solution is that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs can fund in millions of dollars through other organizations, like Alawui, to allow the people to have conversations amongst themselves, the Native Hawaiian people. Well, that's an interesting thing then. And so you're saying that it's not wrong to have that conversation and that it could be a legitimate pursuit for federal recognition, but it shouldn't take place within the Office of Hawaiian Affairs as a function of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Am I hearing you correctly? That's correct. And why would that be? Well, what does that say about what the Office of Hawaiian Affairs should be doing? Well, they're a state agency. Okay. So they should be, you know, not trying to get involved with this type of issue. So I understand they want governance, but they need to be fair. If they're going to pay for or bankroll a specific initiative, that's being unfair to the people, especially when they're paying for an initiative that's supported by Alawui, which is about 1% of the Native Hawaiian population, versus the Alawui, which is about 99%. So one of the things I hear you saying is that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has a duty to the broad, diversified mass of Native Hawaiians as beneficiaries. And what are those things that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs should be doing on behalf of the beneficiaries? Well, they should do what some have campaigned to do, which is bread and butter issues. And those would be? Housing, education, jobs, health care. In fact, you know, Jermaine, back in 2015, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs paid for a scientific study by the firm called SMS Research. And it had a couple of striking results. It showed that the Native Hawaiians ranked the Office of Hawaiian Affairs the lowest in reputation amongst all of the Native Hawaiian organizations. And it also had something that could have been the reason for that. It said that the Native Hawaiian population, by and large, is like what you're saying, did not want OHA to be pursuing issues of governance and self-determination and federal recognition. Instead, they wanted OHA to spend its money on jobs, health care, education, housing, what you call bread and butter needs. So it's as if that scientific survey reflects and validates what you're saying. Yes. And actually, you know, that's what we need in our community. We need someone to assist us with these issues and take us from being a beneficiary to a benefactor. Quickly, before we get to the end of this first segment, you have become well-known now as a voice, an activist. That may not be the word you want to use, but you choose a word called advocate. Somebody who advocates for Native Hawaiians, who advocates for the beneficiaries of the Hawaiian resources, like OHA and so forth. How did you start doing this? Well, what moved you to drive and sometimes catch the bus all the way from Nanakuli to go into town and attend OHA meetings and voice the concerns of Native Hawaiians? Well, it started off with the issue of Austin trustee Rwana Akana. So there's an issue, and we're going to go straight to a break in just about 40 seconds. Okay. So what was your heart, the monologue that drove you to get out in public? Well, it was that. It was just seeing the unfair, correct, because, you know, in the past, they wouldn't make that an issue when it was another trustee. But you've continued on dozens of issues to come back to the board. Yes. What keeps you coming? Because I still see errors in their ways. I still see injustices in the process. And so I feel that an audit is needed, and that's something that I'm so grateful that they've approved, the board has approved, but just seeing issue after issue as they have come up. Well, that's a great segue to our break, and we're going to come back and start at that point. We're going to talk about some of the challenges that the Native Hawaiian people are facing on why and I and overall and why you raise your voice. My guest today is an advocate for Native Hawaiians. She's a community leader amongst Native Hawaiians who stands up for what she believes is right and what is good for all of them. And her name is Jermaine Myers. We'll talk more with her right after this break. I'm Kili Iakena on Hawaii Together on the Think Tech Hawaii broadcast network. Don't go away. This is Think Tech Hawaii, Raising Public Awareness. Aloha. I'm Carol Mon Lee, Think Tech Hawaii's Volunteer Chief Operating Officer and Occasional Host, and this is Minky. For the first time, Think Tech Hawaii is participating in an online web-based fundraising campaign to raise $40,000. Dear thanks, Think Tech will run only during the month of November and you can help. Please donate what you can so Think Tech Hawaii can continue to raise public awareness and promote civic engagement through free programming. I've already made my donation and look forward to yours. Please send in your tax-deductible contribution by going to this website, www.thanksforthinktech.causevox.com. On behalf of the community enriched by Think Tech Hawaii's 30-plus weekly shows, thank you, Mahalo, and Shishir for your generosity. Aloha mai kakou. Welcome back to Hawaii Together on the Think Tech Hawaii broadcast network. I'm Kili Iakena. One of my most beloved sayings is ehana kakou. It sounds like a pule kakou, which everybody knows. Whenever we gather together in public settings, even governmental settings, we're free to pray and we say a pule kakou. Let's pule. Let's pray kakou means do it together. And when I say a pule kakou, I mean it includes everyone. It doesn't exclude someone. And that's true also of another saying that I've been fond of using called ehana kakou. Ehana kakou is let's work together. Think about the terrible alternative. If we don't work together, we won't solve our problems. We won't have the housing, the jobs, the education, the healthcare, the greatness of Hawaii that is still possible just won't be there unless we ehana kakou. And one of the things I like about Jermaine is she picked up on the fact that I had been using that in my various settings as an oha trustee or as the president of the Grassroot Institute. And again, today we're giving our personal views, not no official views of institutions. She picked up on it and has come to our oha board meetings and concluded her testimonies frequently. In fact, almost always by looking at all of us as trustees and saying with a smile, ehana kakou. In fact, she usually does it this way and I'll just paraphrase, hey, you guys better get your act together. Until next time, ehana kakou. And at one point I've seen some of my wonderful colleagues on the board respond back to her ehana kakou. So welcome back, Jermaine. This is a lot of fun, isn't it? Ehana kakou. It's appropriate. Let us work together. Ehana kakou. So why do you pick up on that? Why do you say ehana kakou? Well, when you explained what it meant, I thought it's appropriate, ehana kakou. And I think that's something that empowers us to do everything we need. Yes. Now we've been talking lovingly about why and I and we love why and I so much. Our roots are there, but there are challenges. There are real issues, there have been problems that have been neglected for generations. What's one problem that the why and I face today that we really have to learn to solve? Well, we need a second access road. Okay. For those who don't know, why and I is a long strip along the west coast of Oahu. And while it's virtually as long as the entire width of the island, in fact a little more, the population there is held hostage to one little bottlenecked road at that exit on Farrington Highway. Yes.  You know how I knew the Honolulu Rail was not about solving traffic? Oh. Because if you wanted to solve Hawaii's traffic problems, you'd be talking about Ndana Kuli. Yes. But the alternative is we might have had the rail out to Ndana Kuli. You know. But so, you know, how important is that access road? What problems exist because the access to and from why and I is so restricted? Well, two critical things that happen because of the one access road that we have Farrington Highway is that emergency vehicles can't get to the coastline if there's a bottleneck. If there's an issue, for example, when there was that break in the waterline. That's right. So, you know, of course, now they're saying that the ocean is going to start rising, you know, if there was flooding or things of that nature, how do emergency responses get out to the coastline, especially with our electrical wires running on the coastline? So, you make our population on the why and I coast very vulnerable because they can't be reached. They're isolated almost like Hawaii's Puerto Rico, in a sense. Yes. If something should happen out there, there's only one way in. Yes. So, that's a great big issue and then, you know, with emergency response and then of course with people going to work, also even just to get to the school to drop off a child. There's a one I shared with the trustees that less than two miles of road on Farrington Highway took a 2-2 to take her cakey to school, 55 minutes. That's right. Now, that's a problem that causes so many other problems. For example, people just give up on going to town and getting jobs. People have all kinds of personal issues because they can't get to their children in time and so forth. What's another problem, another challenge facing the why and I coast? Well, we have infrastructure issues. Okay. Okay, so. And by infrastructure, you're referring to what kinds of structures? Well, of course, we need new homes built in on Homestead land. Right. One of the things that. And all the utilities that go to the emperor. And all the utilities that go to them. Of course, we don't have that much commercial development. So, of course, we have to exit the coastline in order to pursue work opportunities. And then. I mean, that's a big one too, jobs. Yes. Now, what does that do to the youth population, especially during the summers? Well, they, of course, have to be only like three jobs. You can get at a gas station out there and maybe a dozen more in the grocery stores and you've got thousands of youth who, who hit the summer months without school or other times or it's inconvenient even during the school year to have any jobs. What do you see happening? Well, of course, they've had to go to Kapolei and they have to venture out to Waipahu or other areas as close to the coastline. Or as I saw so often and worked with directly as the campus life director, they get involved in very unproductive behaviors. Yes. Everything from arson, setting fires to burglary to hanky-panky, as we used to call it as well. Yes. So, we have those issues, but of course, my focus on infrastructure would be the world. And then, of course, making sure that our water, both the ocean and our fresh water, never gets contaminated. The ocean water can get contaminated with runoff, the drainage, the canals, having things that don't belong in there, that washes up to the ocean. Of course, we have the homeless population. I don't know where they dispose of their waste. And a lot of that homeless population is there because they have been pushed from the, I remember it started when Cuyil Park Terrace and other places had displaced some homeless and just kept, it has grown. Now that's the final refuge, so to speak, for many, many homeless people, particularly native Hawaiians. Yes. I mean, I used to feed the homeless at IHS, go with my church. And then for a year, we were going every week to Alamoana Beach Park to feed the homeless.  So, they pushed the homeless out and they went to Kakaako. But a lot of them come out to the country feeling that it's much more safe out of the city and out of harm's way as far as for to be relocated. But then they ended up on the beach on the coastline and, you know, they're struggling with that. And so, those are the issues that we have to deal with. Quite recently, you attended a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Wine Affairs that was held in Maile or Ma'ili, depending upon how we pronounce it. And many community members came. One of the things I was most struck with was how when we were on their turf, so to speak, how well-behaved and hospitable all of the representatives of different political and social views were. It was very enriching the time. But what I heard over and over again is we had problems with our water, problems with the lack of agriculture, problems with the lack of jobs, problems, as you pointed out, with infrastructure, problems with educational access. And all of these things, these were authentic needs that were being raised. So my question to you is this, with all these needs, looking beyond the particular solutions, why do these needs persist? Why are they not being addressed? Why have they grown worse? What's missing? What has been missing from Wine I Coast to solve these problems? Well, of course, money. Money is a definite thing, whether we're talking about investment capital or government funding and so forth. Money is important. Yes. But if I go deeper, why isn't the money there? Why do these problems persist? Well, I can't speak for our legislators. I do know that the governor appoints who's going to manage the Department of Hawaiian Homelands as well as the commissioners. They're also confirmed by the legislature, but yet they don't provide the department with sufficient funding. Well, now when you mention these agencies, when you mention the legislature, when you mention the branches of government, including the governor, as you've talked earlier about OHA, and you mention Hawaiian agencies like the Department of Hawaiian Homelands, the fact is, there's no lack, no lack of these kinds of resources and leaders. That's what I'm getting at. I'm getting at with all of these supposed stakeholders who should be carrying the ball. Why haven't we solved the problems that the Wine I Coast is facing through all these decades? I'll tell you this. If you lived in Hawaii Kai on Kalaniana Ole Highway and a stoplight goes out or something or there's a need of a crosswalk and so forth, it gets done. But larger infrastructure issues as well as deeper economic and social issues seem to wane in Wine I. Yes. This is not an insult to Wine I at all. I'm actually with you struggling trying to get to the root. What is the root cause so that we can solve that cause? Well, first of all, I don't want to alienate the people in Hawaii Kai. I have a lot of friends out there. Sure. Blessings for them that they do get acknowledged and they get their needs met. Well said. Yes. Well said. Thank you. I just, I hope that our legislature, I found that I was very disappointed or very disoriented, I should say, when they found money to support a rail. And it was to, from us on the West Coast. You've got a great story here, but can you believe it? We've reached the end of the program. Oh, okay. So I'm going to jump right ahead to the conclusion. Okay. Which is, as you and I have talked before, there's a need for leadership. Yes. Leaders and funding. Yes. And it is this vision of a great Wine I that you're running with. What would you like to see in your future, if anything, in terms of continued involvement? We mentioned this, you're not here officially to represent the neighborhood board. No. You've gotten involved in neighborhood board. You're involved in Oha and so forth. How do you see your role in continuing to contribute leadership to Wine I solutions? Well, to continue to advocate for leaders, new leaders to be, of course, nurtured. And, and those are the primary things. Advocating and trying to bring out a voice and people, legislators to see the needs of the Wine I goals and to hopefully somebody will look and see that, you know, we are worthy to be addressed. Our needs are worthy to be addressed. Indeed. Yeah. Well, Jermaine, thank you so much for being on the program and you are truly a great leader in the making and you lead well already. And I'm going to keep my eye on you. Thank you. And I think my viewers are also going to keep their eye on Jermaine. I think that it's because of people like Jermaine that leaders in official capacities, whether they're legislators or Oha trustees are held to account because she holds them to account. But more than that, Jermaine has a vision of a great Wine I that returns to the roots of greatness that has always been if we can bring in the resources, the leadership and all that it takes. It's been a pleasure talking with her today. I'm Tili Akina interviewing Jermaine Myers about a beautiful place. Why and I and our vision for a greater wine I and the greatness of all people in Hawaii, including the Hawaiian people. Thank you for being here today. This is Hawaii together on the think tech Hawaii broadcast network until next time. Aloha.


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Wow, I'm very excited to share this news. Not only did Netflix raise my price to 20 bucks a month a couple days ago, but they're also dabbling in the art of stopping people from sharing passwords. It's nice when the underdog wins for a change. Intro sarcasm aside, not too far, we'll keep it close by for later.  I put out a video a few weeks back. Maybe several months, maybe a couple years. I don't know, everything is a blur now. About how Netflix and other streaming apps are really starting to destroy me internally. People gave me a little bit of pushback and said, Adam, it's nice to have variety. It's nice to have competition. Well, what happens when all the competition gets together and decides to screw us over? Netflix is now 20 bucks a month. Soon Disney Plus will raise its fees. Soon HBO Max will follow suit. Peacock will maybe change its name to something less ludicrous. Who knows what could happen in the future? But as for right now, Netflix is making other plans. They're setting the stage for what's to come.  Well, Netflix does in the coming months. Folks from Peru, Chile, and Costa Rica can enjoy a brand new feature. Netflix is going to be rolling out. What's happening right now is Netflix doesn't like that people are sharing passwords outside of the household. So this new feature is going to put an end to that. On top of that, it's going to go even further and say, oh, I see your cousin's been enjoying your programming. How about he join your fam for a couple bucks extra? It's going to know. It's going to charge them. You'll also be able to transfer your profile to someone else's household, Netflix account, or something. I don't know. This whole thing is trash. Now, before you start simping for Netflix and saying, hey, Adam, what's the problem? You're basically stealing by giving the password out to how is Netflix supposed to make money? How are they supposed to get ahead as a business? Why don't you go ahead and pump those brakes for a second speed racer and let me remind you something. Last year, Netflix reportedly made a profit of around $8 billion. The year before that, $10 billion. Not even Dr. Evil would ask for such ludicrous amounts of money.  Or I guess it'd be more apt to say they have your passwords and they're keeping them too. So now 20 bucks a month for Netflix, plus the promise down the road you won't be able to share with friends and family. But how are we going to be able to celebrate kissing booth 17 together? In the grand scheme of life, is this a big deal? Of course not. I don't know. There's plenty of horrific things happening in the world right now. This is nothing. This is inconsequential, but this is also the internet and I have a camera. So I'm going to complain, damn it. And I'm also looking at the young Adams of the world, that high school kid, that college kid that didn't have a scent to his name, but he really wants to watch the next season of The Witcher. How is he going to do that? I mean, outside of throwing on a peg leg in an eye patch and sailing the seven seas, I don't know how it's going to happen. That was like a pirate bay reference. Is that still a thing? Is Blink 182 still a thing? I heard Limp Bizkit's back on tour, so... I'm youthful. I'm youthful. You might not have gone out for ice cream today, but I just gave you your daily scoop of news. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Are you all team Netflix still? This is great.   Or do you think this is a little ridiculous? How much money is too much money? How far do you need to go before you're just stepping on the little guy? That young woman out of college that wants to see the new season of Handmaiden's Tale. That's Hulu. The blue-collar worker just trying to make ends meet who wants to sit down, put his feet up and watch episodes of Seinfeld. Is that on Netflix still? Or did that get moved again? The mother with 18 kids who doesn't know what birth control is that just wants to enjoy an episode of Golden Girls. I have no idea where you can watch Golden Girls. No matter who you are or where you come from, one thing is certain. Netflix is doing just fine. Thanks for watching the video. Maybe subscribe if you haven't. If you like some good commentary mixed in with some movie news, I do reviews here, rants, anything movie and TV show related you can usually find on the channel. Please like the video if you liked the video. Hit that notification bell so these show up right in your feed and hopefully I'll see you next time. Netflix, it's Adam. Yes, from Adam Does Movies. Of course you know who I am. I'm a really, really big deal. Listen, I got a new concept for you. Kissing Booth 5. It turns out the Kissing Booth was in our hearts all along. Yeah. Oh wow, that's actually the plot you were already going with. Cool. Well, alright, thanks. I guess I'll just talk to them then. Bye. Yeah, I love you too. Yeah, you can find other videos next to me. I think they're on this side because it's like a reflection when I film. You can also join me on Patreon at patreon.com slash Adam Does Movies or right here via that YouTube join button. And you can say, hey Adam, I like what you're doing. Here's a dollar. Here's five bucks a month. Keep at it, kid. You're going places.


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