The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody, welcome to Iran Brookshow on this Monday, Monday, November 6th. I hope everybody is looking forward to a fantastic week. You had a great weekend.  Well, maybe not a bunch this week as I am traveling. I hope to see some of you tomorrow at the University of Illinois-Champaign, where I'm giving a talk. And then on Wednesday at the University of Chicago, I'm not sure if that's open to the public or not. And then in Utah on Thursday, and then in Denver on Friday, I know that one's not open to the public. But I hope to see some of you anyway, because some of you might be participants in the program where I'm speaking in Denver. So who knows? And I know that some of you I will meet in Denver anyway. All right, let's see. Just to remind you, the Iran Rain Institute is a sponsor of the show. 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But in particular, the left in anti-Semitism and broadly on anti-Semitism, it causes its source and all of that. But in particular, we'll talk about why the left has become and manifests such anti-Semitism. So please join us. And if you're applying for the scholarship, please do it through the Einwand.org start here, because then they'll see that my pitching it on the show is helping, and they'll continue to sponsor the show. So we have to show them that they're getting a benefit. Yes, let's start with domestic politics. A bunch of polls came out this morning, over the weekend really, with regard to the 2024 presidential election. And they basically show, the polls show across the board that Biden is struggling, really, really, really struggling. People don't like him. Even Democrats don't like him. You know, whoops, what's going on here? Something is not working. Huh, weird. Let me see if I can get it to work. All right, it'll start working anyway. Even Democrats don't particularly like him, a significant percentage of Americans think that Biden is just too old. Most of them also blame him for a bad economy, for inflation, for the at least perceived loss of standard of living. So Biden generally, whoops, we've got internet, internet disruption. So it's not just here. It's just the internet has gone.   You guys there? Anybody there? No, doesn't look like anybody is there. Doesn't look like anybody is there. This is frozen too. OK, we're back. So we are back, I think. Let me know if we're back. Let me know if you can hear anything. Still on, still on. We hear you. I'm here. We are here in chat. OK. The question is, is it streaming, guys? Can you tell if it's streaming? Let me go all the way, raise my hand, go down. All right, just a momentary disruption. It felt like it was much more than a momentary destruction.  Once I let me just regroup here one minute and go to history. There we go. All right. So as I say, Biden is too old. The number of people saying is too old, plus 42. 42% more people say he's too old than he's not. So really struggle. In a question, do you think Joe Biden's policy have helped you personally or hurt you personally? Hurt plus 17%. 17% more people think he hurt them than otherwise. Under 30, Biden still wins, if you will, but only by six points. He can't win a general election if he's only beating Trump or whoever by six points in the under 30. That is his constituency. That is the group he relies on. He depends on. He needs to win that by double digits. Otherwise, he can't win. With old people, Trump beats Biden easily among older people. So he can't make it. Hispanic voters, Biden is beating Trump by 12 points. But he beat him by a lot more than that in 2020. So Trump keeps picking up between 2016 and 2020. Trump picked up a lot of Latino votes, Hispanic votes, and now he's picking up even more of those points. And by 24 points, the most important issue to everybody is economics, and they think that he's done a poor job in economics. What's interesting, though, which hurts Republicans but might not play into the presidential race but could play into House and Senate races, is by 31 points, Americans favor having abortion legal. That is, should abortion be legal? 31 points, which is a huge advantage that is pro-keeping abortion legal. So that is going to be an issue that will continue to hurt Democrats, even if it doesn't could Biden specifically in a contest versus Trump. It would be interesting if Trump won, and I mean, it would be interesting. It would be a disaster. But if Trump won and the Democrats won the House and Senate, or at least the House, and put a veto on much of what Trump was doing, but we would just be a zoo. It would just be a zoo if that actually happened. Anyway, these polls, the polls show several polls, not just two polls, two big polls, show Trump leads Biden in five critical states, and five states that Biden won in 2020. Trump is now leading him in those states. Now, we're a year away from the election. Anything can happen in that year. But the reality is that Trump is beating Biden pretty much across the board. And he beats him in Nevada by a lot. He beats him in Georgia, in Arizona, in Pennsylvania, and in Michigan. And they're basically tied in Wisconsin. So it really does look like right now, if the election was held right now, Trump could beat Biden. Unfortunately, the real sad thing about this is that polls like this will just strengthen Trump's position in the primaries. Because the big argument not to vote for Trump in the primaries is that he lost to Biden already once. And in Nikki Haley seems to poll even better than Trump versus Biden. And so does the Santas. But if these polls hold up, then that argument goes away. He can convince people that he can beat Biden. I still think that if everybody who is against Trump actually goes out and votes against Trump, that is for Biden, not because they support Biden, but because they dislike Trump, I think Trump loses. But given how much people dislike Biden, I think what mainly happens is a lot of people stay home. And the consequence of a lot of people staying home is Trump gets elected. And that, again, it's still a year. There are all the lawsuits. There are some lawsuits that are really, really problematic for Trump. He might be in jail. There's a lot of issues here, but it definitely seems like Trump has the energy behind him. Voters seem to think that the economy would do better under Trump. Voters also seem to think that there would be more peace in the world under Trump. The second one is probably true, because we would sell out to our enemies, and there would be peace. Yeah, and it is interesting how the uncertainty in the world right now and Biden's real challenges are hooting him. And of course, one of the things that's going to hood Biden, and this is a real challenge that he faces around the Israel Hamas war, is that right now, his position is alienating Arab-Americans who are a significant voting block in places like Michigan, which he needs in order to win. And that group is alienated. They might not vote for a Republican, but they might stay home. And in Michigan, in a close election in Michigan, that might be the difference between Biden winning and Biden losing. But he is also alienating, and not so much him, but the Democratic Party as a party is alienating the Jewish vote. And God, Biden needs the Jewish vote in order to win in not just Michigan, but in Georgia, in a number of different places. He needs the Jewish vote, but he is probably, the Democratic Party is alienating. Now, whether they will still vote for Biden and maybe vote against Democrats down ticket is hard to tell. You know, the squad now, the far leftists, Democrats are all going to have challenges in primaries and the Democratic primaries. They're all going to be challenged by other Democrats. There is a real movement to try to get them out of Congress. We'll see. The districts are far left, so they might actually win. But there is a real challenge now, and this is a long-term phenomena that I'm sure we'll talk about it in the future episodes. There's a real challenge right now to keep the Democratic Party together. This is the topic on Democratic divided, which should have been next to the Biden versus Trump, but stuck in the end. The reality is right now that the Democratic Party is being torn apart not only by Biden's age and by Biden's incompetence and by the economic numbers, but what's really tearing it apart right now is the war between Hamas and Israel. There is a significant pro-Palestinian group within the Democratic Party. They are outraged at the rising death toll in Gaza. On the other hand, many liberal Jews are furious that so many progressive Democrats aren't more outraged by the slaughter of October 7th. Within the DNC, we've had 300 employees sign a letter asking their boss to demand a ceasefire. A junior state department foreign affairs officer has sent a massive internal email to organize a dissent cable on the administration's Israel policy, so there's real dissent within the administration. More and more, every day, Democratic House members are coming out against Biden's policy pro-Israeli policy. We've got at least five of the liberal House members. This is a squad I told you about a minute ago. We're going to face primary challenges. That's Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Kori Bush, Summer Lee, and Jamal Bulman, to a large extent because of the Israel stance that they have taken. The money on the pro-Israel side is pouring in. Tlaib has accused the Biden administration and the Biden of supporting genocide of Palestinians. And Chris Murphy, the Democratic-Connecticut, a chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, said that Israel's current operational approach is causing an unacceptable level of civilian harm, again demanding a ceasefire. On college campuses, of course, we're seeing the extent to which Democratic politics among young people who might not vote for Biden. These young people might not vote for Biden because he is too pro-Israel. So we're seeing a huge pro-Palestinian move on the part of young people. Young people are getting more and more of their news from TikTok. As I described last week, TikTok is overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian in terms of its content. And it really does look like this is going to be an issue that is going to have real electoral power, is going to really hurt Biden. And it's going to alienate the party. This is a significant issue right now. It's splitting the party really in significant ways. In a Quinnipiac poll that was out on Thursday, respondents were asked, do you approve or disapprove of the way Israel is responding to the October 7th Hamas terrorist attack? Overall, half approved and 35% disapproved. But only 32% of respondents age 18 to 34 approved the visual response. That is, young people overwhelmingly are anti-Israel, an anti-Israeli response. And Democrats disapprove of the response, disapprove of the Israeli response, 49 to 33. It's Republicans who overwhelmingly approve of what Israel is doing. So again, the Biden administration is basically acting against 49% of his own party. And he's only getting the support of 33%. I don't think this is probably being caught in these polls that show less and less support for Biden. And I think this is only going to get worse, not better as things evolve, as things move forward in Gaza. I don't see Israel moderating anytime soon, although we'll ultimately be forced to do the Biden administration will shift. It will turn pro-Palestinian. It'll turn pro-Pacific fire very quickly here. It's a matter of days. Israel knows this. It's trying to go as fast as it can now. It, of course, wasted three weeks of pandering to the Americans instead of going in force right in the beginning. And because Netanyahu was afraid, but it's going to have very little time to do what is necessary. All right, we'll get to Israel in a minute. Quickly on Argentina. Argentina elections are in two weeks, literally in two weeks. And that is on November 19th. You get a run-off election between Sergio Massa, the political representative of the existing political party, of the people in power today in Argentina that have brought about the complete and utter mess and disaster that exists in Argentina today. And Javier Millay, who is a self-described libertarian, self-described ANCAP, self-described revolutionary. And it's going to be fascinating. Right now, the polls have them very, very close. It really is all going to depend on who the conservatives, the people who voted for the conservative party member, ultimately vote for in this election. Do they go with the existing guy, the Peronist existing kind of left-leaning political party? Do they go with status quo? Or do they go with what are probably resulting in complete chaos but with radical change, with a radical shift, with somebody new and completely different, an economist who promises them to get rid of the peso and replace it with a dollar? So in the first round, the leftist, the Peronist, got 36.7% of the vote. And Millay got 30% of the vote. And the question is now, what happens with that other 33% of the vote? How does it split? Who gets it? Who gets it? And the conservative basically endorsed Millay, but that doesn't mean her voters are going to follow suit. Other politicians who ran or tend to be further to the left, they're going to all vote for the status quo candidate. The real question is going to be how the conservative vote. It was a significant voter block. And anyway, and turn out what matter and who votes. Millay is a huge favorite among the young. He gets 54% of the vote among 16 to 35-year-olds. He does very badly with 56-plus-year-olds. Again, it is the young who are willing to be radical. It is the young who are willing to make dramatic changes, the old, a status quo biased. Although you would think that the old know how bad things have been in Argentina for how long and would be open for some dramatic change. What have they got to lose? It's not going to get worse than it is now. It's interesting, though, because while the old prefer the status quo candidate, a significant number of them, about 20% of them, basically saying they're not going to vote. So they're not happy with the existing candidate, but they're not willing to be radical either. 12% say they haven't decided yet. But with the young, Millay gets well over 50% and is solid. He's got his work cut out for him. And unfortunately, he's got very significant negatives, just like negative appeal from people, just like Biden and just like Trump. I mean, Biden and Trump, it doesn't matter who wins, they're going to be immediately disliked by 50% of the population. That is, they both have unbelievable negatives. It's like the only reason people are going to vote for one or the other is because they hate the other guy more. It's all about the less of two evils. We do not have on the ballot, it doesn't appear that we're going to have a candidate that a significant number of Americans actually say, yes, I actually like this guy, I actually like this person. I want to vote for him. I'm excited about voting for him. I mean, clearly, about 25% to 50% of Republicans think that about Trump, but that's about it. Nobody else thinks that about Trump. Maybe it's 50% of Republicans. That's what he's polling at among Republicans. All right, so that's where we are. We got an important election in two weeks. It's going to be interesting. There are, by the way, elections in the US tomorrow, which are going to be interesting. Some elections in Virginia, an abortion ballot in Ohio, a Republican state, a red state, but something to put into the, I think, the Constitution, the right to abortion. There are going to be some other interesting races tomorrow that hopefully we'll be able to comment on on Wednesday once we get the results on those. All right, finally, let's talk about what's happening in Gaza. Israel, as you probably know, we've talked about this, has in so-called Gaza City in the northern Gaza, so the whole, so it's basically split Gaza into two. It is told for days and days and days, well over a week, the residents in the north to go south, and about two-thirds of them actually listened, but there's still hundreds of thousands of civilians in the north in Gaza City and neighboring towns. Israel is now cut off Gaza City and the northern Gaza strip from the south. It basically has reached the Mediterranean, so it has a corridor in which it is functioning from Israel to the Mediterranean between north and south Gaza. It's also taken over a significant amount of territory in the north of the Gaza strip and is slowly moving into more and more built-up areas, slowly moving into areas in which it's going to have to engage in very close combat. That combat is already happening. All accounts that I'm reading suggest that there was intense fighting on the ground. Israel took a significant position, the Hamas had, near the shore, but it's going to be brutal. They are trying to close tunnels. They're trying to collapse tunnels. Also overnight, the last two nights, we've seen some of the most intense bombing of Gaza City since the beginning of the war. Hundreds of targets are being hit and destroyed. Again, the consequence of this are going to be a lot of civilian casualties. As this happens, you're going to see more and more and more and more pressure on Israel to stop, to ceasefire, to withdraw from the Gaza, to negotiate something. And Israel at some point will be unable to resist that of my predictions so far. They're trying to buy as much time as they can. Now, I don't think they have to capitulate. I think they could do what's necessary. But I think knowing Israel, knowing Netanyahu, knowing the people in his government, he will capitulate. He will capitulate to the west. And there will be a ceasefire at some point. The question is, how much can Israel do before that? Anyway, they are collapsing tunnels, destroying tunnels. They are moving into Gaza City. There will be more intense fighting, more significant Israeli casualties as the days progress here. There are already over 30 Israeli soldiers have died since Israel entered the Gaza Strip. But so we will see what happens in the days to come. But this is a very urban warfare. Urban warfare with tunnels is a very, very difficult warfare.  And it's going to be very, very difficult for the Israeli Defense Forces to move forward and to achieve all its goals. Particularly given the intense pressures under to preserve civilian lives, not to destroy civilians. So to play by the so-called rules of war. So we will see how it evolves. And again, I will keep you updated. Some additional things. There have been some clashes between Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank and Israeli forces. Israel has killed a number of Hamas operatives in the West Bank. And on the West Bank, there continues to be fighting. Nothing too dramatic and a lot less than what I think were some of the worst fears. Iran, of course, and many others have called on the West Bank to rise up against Israel. You're not seeing an uprising. Most of these battles are Israel venturing in to heavily populated parts of the West Bank to capture or kill Hamas or other terrorist operatives. It's not a consequence of some kind of uprising on the West Bank that is not happening in spite of the cause. On the northern front, it seems like there is some escalation. Hezbollah is more aggressive. Or at least, it's not clear if it's Hezbollah or it might be elements of Hamas that are in Lebanon that are more active. Just about two hours ago, the 30 missiles were launched out of Lebanon, basically targeting, but this is reality, basically targeting my parents' place in Haifa. I don't think they quite made it to Haifa. They were all really knocked down. And I'm not sure they made it that far south, but they were also all in that direction, basically, of where my family lives. My family lives on the side of the mountain, ultimately facing Lebanon. So it would be in direct sight. But they launched about 30 of these. Israel used both the arrow and the iron dome to knock those down. I haven't seen any reports of damage or casualties as a consequence of this. But of course, those reports lag. And this was literally breaking news before we talked. It does seem like Israel aircraft, artillery, and tanks are basically attacking Hezbollah positions at the Lebanon in response to the rocket barrage. I still will reaffirm what I said at the beginning of all of this. Israel needs to take Hezbollah out. They cannot just wait and do it on the terms that Hezbollah wants. They need to, without any slowdown, they need to tell the Lebanese civilians to evacuate to north of the Tani River, to the north of the southern Lebanese area. And they need to basically turn that entire area into a parking lot. They need to destroy it. They need to make it impossible for Hamas to operate there. They need to put so much fire on the ground that Hamas cannot launch missiles, cannot operate. They need to go after every single ammunition storage facility Hezbollah has. They know where they are.  And yes, again, civilians will be hurt. They need to send a very clear message to the Lebanese government. They don't want Lebanese civilians hurt. The Lebanese government needs to send troops to southern Lebanon and to stop Hezbollah and Hamas from using their territory to attack Israel. And until they do that, Israel will never be in peace. There will never be peace. Hezbollah has to be destroyed just like Hamas. It is hopefully, hopefully, on the verge of being destroyed. By the way, Israel is now releasing photographs of rocket launching sites, munitions, stockpiles in the Gaza Strip used by Hamas. And all of these are inside mosques, residential buildings. As if anybody needed proof, as if anybody needed proof, in schools, child centers, Israel is now publishing videos and photos. Won't change anybody's mind, of course. But it's good to get the evidence out there. It's good to have it in photographs. Everybody will say that the Israelis are just doctoring it and making this up. Or, as the left says, what choice does Hamas have? Israel has better weapons. Hamas needs to use whatever tools they have. And if that means civilian shields hiding behind civilians, so be it a choice that they have. All right. Finally, much of this war, suddenly the, let me just see if I covered everything. Yeah, I mean, just one other point I'll make. Hamas' political head, bureau chairman, Ismail Hananya, Hanaya, who should have been killed years and years and years and years ago. He keeps traveling around, meeting with heads of state. He's in Iran right now. He lives in Qatar in a beautiful hotel suite. A lot of the money that the Biden administration and others have pumped into the Saudis and the Iranians and the Qataris and the UAE and all these other countries have given to Palestinians. And Hamas, over the years, has gone into his pocket to sustain his lifestyle. This guy travels all over the place representing Hamas. It is time that somebody put a bullet between his eyes. It is time that whatever plane he is on be knocked out of the sky. It is time for this guy to die. It is time for Israel to make real its commitment to destroy Hamas, including the political wing of Hamas, to destroy everything about Hamas. And as long as Israel tolerates this, is willing to let these so-called pretend murderous genocidal diplomats travel around the world under the guise of Hamas, Israel cannot win.    And you need to kill the political leaders who are making this possible. In that sense, I think mosques should be targeted because they're mosques. Because they are the places in which the violence is incited. And the violence is incited in the name of Islam. The violence is not incited in the name of nationalism. Hamas does not want a Palestinian state. Hamas wants a caliphate. Hamas wants an empire. Hamas wants Islam to dominate the world. Israel and killing Israel is just one step towards more. Mosques are, at least in Gaza, mosques are the hub of what Hamas is all about. It's time that the West recognize that the enemy here is not just people with guns. The enemy here is the Islamic totalitarian ideology that Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda all represent. And of course, the regime in Iran all represents and supports. The Taliban, another part of that. So anyway, I have no problem in targeting mosques in this context. I've been warned now by Richard that I'm now on the edge of inciting violence and YouTube might not like it. OK, let's see. Let's see what the borders is of YouTube. I'm providing what I think is the appropriate strategy. Mosques are legit targets, given that that's the inspiration that is the violence, the inspiration for the incitement towards violence. Not to mention the fact that they used to store weapons and all of that stuff. All right, what else? Yes, I was going to say this war is also a propaganda war, and it's being fought online. And in this war, Israel faces a number of big challenges. And the big challenge is that it's not just Hamas that they have to deal with. It's Hamas in the entire Arab world, which and Iran, who have become very good online, very good in using social media to promote their cause, very good in spreading the ideology and spreading their lies. But it's not just the Arab world. Clearly, there are two powers out there with a strong incentive to amplify what Hamas is trying to get across, the propaganda that Hamas is trying to get across. And those two powers are Russia and China. And Russia and China are a response of a massive deluge of online propaganda misinformation. Thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of bots, I think their last count, 40,000 bots have gone online since the Hamas attack, all spewing propaganda that is being from Hamas. And this is the kind of effort that you would expect. Only the Russians and the Chinese can really manifest. And of course, the Russian and Chinese, particularly the Russians, are world class at this. They are the best at this. They've been doing this vis-a-vis American politics for a very long time. And there is a massive, massive, massive campaign right now that they're engaged in. And of course, in America, the left is embracing this, retreating, resupporting, spreading these ideas out, making sure that this propaganda is leveraged, making sure that they buy into it completely, and are using the internet. So there's a sense in which it's not just China and Russia, it's also the United States, or at least people in the United States that are helping promote this. And then on top of that, you've got even people on the right, like Candace Owen and others, who are spreading this garbage out there, this anti-American, anti-Israeli propaganda out there. Just be aware, there is a lot of content out there that is being pushed on you by Chinese and Russians, and ultimately by Hamas. The way to combat this is to help push good material. It is a war for the eyeballs and for the minds of young people who get everything they know on social media. So please use your social media to the extent that you can to promote good content. By the way, Ben Shapiro is excellent on the Israeli Hamas issue. There are others who are excellent. Michael Schurma is very good. David Deutsch, David Deutsch the perperian, is very, very good on the Israeli Hamas issue. Those are the voices you should be promoting and use it. Even Steven Pink is good on this. So use this to retweet, repost, share, do whatever you can. Of course, my material, please do my material. But repost it and share and get it out there, because it's really, really, really important that we counter the propaganda that the left and some elements of the right are reinforcing that is coming from Hamas. Of course, the other party that is constantly reinforcing Hamas talking points are good friends, the libertarians. All right, cool. 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I know Jonathan Honing did a sticker earlier as well. Yeah, right at the beginning, as did Silvanos. So they're responsible for us being so close to the target. So if you want to do a sticker, $2, $5, $10, $100, whatever you think this show is worth, value for value, please come in, use that button below with a dollar sign to support the show. I really, really, really, really, really appreciate it. Thank you. All right, let's take. I've only got three questions, so this is going to go very fast. If you're going to support the show, do it now. Otherwise, it will be too late. Silvanos says, I encountered a troubling claim that baby-supported Hamas, under the table, back when Gaza first held elections to maintain the territorial bogeyman status quo and thoughts, is baby capable of such extreme cynicism? I don't think BB was prime minister then. So this claim about BB doing it is just false. Now, is it true that Israel helped found the Hamas? Is it true that Israel helped found the Hamas to be an alternative power center to the PLO? Yes, that is absolutely true. That happened in the 1980s. It did not happen under Bibi Netanyahu's watch. It happened under the watch of other Israeli prime ministers, which doesn't really matter.  But it is a reality. It is true. The idea was that the PLO was the enemy. Yes, Al-Fad was the enemy. And they believed, as so many people believe, that religion is peaceful, that Islam would be peaceful. This is really before the Interfadas, before ISIS and al-Qaeda, but they still should have known better God. They should have known better. They believed that by supporting the creation of Hamas, they would bring an alternative voice to the negotiating table other than the PLOs. What they got is a voice that's 1,000 times more militant than the PLO ever was, much more committed because it has God on their side. And it landed up backfiring in dramatic force. I don't think that makes any difference. It doesn't change the nature of Hamas. It doesn't change the reality that Israel must eliminate Hamas from the earth, must eliminate the threat that it poses to its own citizens. It doesn't matter. Any Israeli government should do this, no matter what. But it is a reality, and it is a reality that should show you and emphasize to you the real, real, real, real evil of pragmatism, the real, real evil of the enemy of my enemy is somehow my friend. This is what the Americans should have learned when the Reagan administration supported al-Qaeda or the beginnings of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 1980s because they were fighting the Soviets. This is what we should have realized over and over again as we support bad people in fight for other bad people. Those bad people we support originally will turn and bite us. They will turn and come after us. You cannot win that way. You have to stand for principle, and you have to fight on the side of good. You cannot create a big umbrella with evil and hope to come out of it unscathed. This is just one more lesson in that. So it doesn't change anything, though, in terms of the morality of what needs to be done. All right, we have two questions left, $2 to make our goal, $2. Jason says, for $5 of fun, imagine a magic wand. Would you rather have Christie Haley on GOP ticket, even if Dems choose Warner Porter for a healthier debate? Yeah, but I'd want Haley to be on the top of the ticket. I don't like Chris Christie. And once Chris Christie stops, once Trump is gone, this is a fantasy after all, then there's no need for Chris Christie. Chris Christie's only function is to serve as an attack dog on Trump. So I would like to see Nikki Haley choose somebody different than Chris Christie, somebody who could solidify one of the swing states for her, maybe somebody out of Georgia, maybe somebody out of Michigan, maybe somebody out of Arizona. Hard to exactly tell, but I don't think Chris Christie helps her. And she needs to get somebody who has at least perceived more conservative than her and is from a swing state that he needs to have to capture. So I'm hopeful that it's Haley and somebody in this disaster. And yes, that would be a much healthier debate. There is no debate when Trump is on stage. It's just an insult match. It's imagine who can insult whom. Frank says, your family lives near Mount Carmel Park. There's no Mount Carmel Park. My family lives on the Mount Carmel, on the Carmel Mountain. I grew up on the Carmel Mountain. And yeah, so I don't want to say more than that. It's just the way my family lives. It's irrelevant. But that is the way my family lives, Frank. All right, Apollo Zeus got us over the hump and got us to our targets. So thank you, Apollo. Really appreciate that. 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This episode of The P.Vas Show is brought to you by mountgoxmtegox.com and usgoldcoins.com, 1-800-HOT-COIN, and mezzigrillmezegrill.com. Welcome to the premiere episode of The P.Vas Show. I'm P.Vas and today joining me is the president and the founder, Nicole Fraser, the signature scent by Nicole I. Hi Nicole, how are you? I'm doing great. Yay! I can't believe I have you in my studio for the second time.  But hopefully not too much. So how are you? I'm doing great. Congratulations. Yes, thank you. Thank you. I'm so glad. Look at you. Thank you. Yes. So Nicole, the first time I met Nicole, it was at an event for the Pamela Quincy first year anniversary and I went with Camille McDonnell and we were sitting there and all of a sudden you came and you said right next to us, very lovely and you just said, aren't you Camille? And I was like, yes, that's Camille. And then you were like, I have a body product that I want to give to you. And you gave it to her and I love the bottle. It was blue, my favorite color. And ever since then I was like, oh my God, she's amazing. Thank you. Thank you. Your whole aura is beautiful. Thank you so much. And she took it home and she told me that she loved it. She loved the smell. She loved everything about it. And then I started following you on Facebook and I'd just been following you all your fashion shows, everything you've been sponsoring. But I want to know how did it all start? When did it all start? It started in 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ooh. Yes. I started researching about all natural products that are used with essential oils. Nice. And I started making perfume. Very nice. And I started out with three lines of perfume. Wow. Three lines. You all hear that? Three. Yes. Now, what made you choose a natural line versus a synthetic line? My parents, they are very holistic and it's healthier. And so when I've learned about the essential oils, I saw the properties of it, the therapeutic portion of it that can help people, can aid to certain things. And I just saw the part of where you could use it for other things. And those other things, I started making perfume and various products. Very nice. That's amazing. Wow. I didn't even know anything like that. I didn't even know anything about that that you did that. Right. I know. That's amazing. Now, when you were in Atlanta, Georgia, what made you get into, what made you move here from Atlanta, Georgia?  Oh my God. I'm sorry. And so when I came here to be there for her, I started making a hair care line. Chemo treatment, radiation, it does a lot of harsh things to your skin. And so what I did, I made her a hair oil called Serenity Hair Oil. Wow. Serenity hair through the times where she was going through her treatments and it soothed her skin and it helped her get through it. So then from there, I started making a line of products. Amazing. Wow. I didn't even know that either. You see, you would never know those little things. Right.  You would never know those things unless you ask somebody or unless you got to know them. Yes, absolutely. And it's really good to hear coming from you because you know, you could definitely feel that you put your heart into it. Yes, I do. And when you put your heart into it, girl, it is on. Well, I cannot wait to see the products. I mean, her stuff is amazing. Like, she brought everything here. She brought her perfume, her lotion, body wash, body butters, hair care products. There you go. Now, tell me a little bit more about, like, how do you get started into the whole fashion sponsoring and all that?  Yes, I am definitely a big entrepreneur. I'm a leader and I'm a go-getter. And I started... You hear that, ladies? I started getting... She did it again. Go-getter. Yes, I started doing events and I found an event on Event Bright with Pamela Quincy. Very nice. And I asked, would I be able to sponsor? And that's how I started doing the fashion shows and different types of events. But prior to that, I was doing my own events in Atlanta. Very nice. And... So you were doing some in Atlanta, too? Yes. Oh, wow. Yes. Were you doing fashion shows or...? No, I was... I'm actually in a store in Atlanta called Seven Andes. What? Yes. Yes, I have my body butters and my body washes there. Wow. It's an all-natural, grocery, health food store. That's amazing. Yes. So you have a store, you have perfumes, you have everything, like... What more could you want from Nikolai? Make sure to check out her website, guys. And her Twitter, too. Yes, a perfume creator. There you go. And your website is... Signature Sense by Nikolai.webs.com. Very nice. Make sure to check it out, guys. Now, also, when you started doing the fashion show with Pamela Quincy here, that definitely opened a lot of doors for you. Yes, it did. I mean, ever since I saw you on that day, all of a sudden you were in every other fashion show. Yes. Like on my event, in bites. I was like, whoa, what is going on, you know? And I know that I always kept in touch and I was like, I want to bring you here to the show. Thank you. I don't want you to be my first guest. And here you are. I'm so proud. Thank you. Thank you. Now, we're going to be right back. And when we come back, we're going to have all her products, and we're going to test them out. Maybe I'll put a little shimmery stuff on me. Who knows? Maybe I'll put some face mask. We'll see. We'll be right back, guys. Okay. Today's episode is brought to you by mountgox.com. That's mtgox.com. It's an online exchange services for Bitcoin. They now take Euro, British Pound, Australian Dollar and Canadian Dollar, the continuing fees of 0.3% now through August 9th. And USGoldcoins.com, 1-800-HOTCOIN, our trusted advisor for investments in rare gold and silver coins. And he takes the mystery out of buying silver and gold by holding your hand. They take a hands-on approach. Better to call and speak directly for current inventory at 1-800-HOTCOIN. And mezzigrill.com, where authentic Mediterranean food meets modern flavor. Now serving breakfast is located in 8th Avenue at 55th Street in NYC, just a couple blocks south of Columbus Circle. Hey guys, we're back, and now Nicole is going to show us her signature scent product line. Hi, thank you. We're going to start off with our skincare line. We have pink clay mask, which is great for your skin. It gives you an even tone, and it takes away blemishes. Very nice. We also have serenity hair oil, like I said before. We use that for people who are going through any type of chemo treatment, radiation. It just aids to the soothing for your skin. We also have Brazilian body butters that are nourished to skin for rough, dry parts of your body. As well, we have a shower gel. It lathers very nice. You use just a tint of it, and it lathers beautifully.  This is my favorite color right here, guys, blue. What I also do is we do wedding favors, we do pension party gift bags, and we have an example of a wedding that I've done. It was a hot pink and black affair, and this is the wedding gift. You get a one ounce body wash and body milk. Very nice. And it's a lovely gift bag. No, this is really cute. Look at this, guys. Wow. And it's especially customized for... With your personal information, that the person wants. Now, also, I hear around the town, I heard about your perfume line. Yes, I have three signature scent perfumes, identities, Nikolai and Zha Zha. Zha Zha is my evening wear perfume. And my perfume names come from my family. Wow. Identities comes from me identifying with my natural beauty. Nikolai is my middle name, and Zha Zha is my niece's name, which is Jada. Nice. Very nice. Thank you very much. Now, this oil, that's the one that your mom used? Yes, that's what she used when she was going through radiation and chemo treatment. Chemo treatment with breast cancer. Wow. Yes, it helped her skin be soothing as she was going through the process. Very nice. Yes. Now, I also heard that your signature scent was... You sponsored the Samsung. Yes, I did. I was honored to be a part of that charity event. It was Samsung Hope for Children's. Very nice. We had a great time, and I had a full page of my company. Very nice. Look at this. Signature scent by Nikolai. It's proud to help support Samsung Hope for Children. It's beautiful. Yes. I love this bottle, by the way. That's like my favorite bottle. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes. And I was able to be honored to give my perfume bottles to the honorees that was there speaking about the Hope for the Children. Very cool. Very honored. Can I try this? You sure can. Yay. All right. So... And you are holding a Egyptian hand-blown 24-karat trimmed glass perfume bottle. What? That's awesome. Which holds one ounce. Wow. This is amazing. Thank you. This bottle is beautiful. Thank you so much. This is for... No. You did not. No. It's not designed customized. Let me see. Let's see. Let's see. See? And it's the traditional way of bringing back perfume where you apply it with the stick. This is really good. Thank you. All right. Look at this. Wait. Let me bring you the bottle. How about that? This is a beautiful bottle by Nikola, right here. And they can purchase any of your products. They can go to my website, which is SignatureSense by Nikolai.webs.com, or you can speak to a representative at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Very nice. Thank you. Well, thank you so much, Nicole, for coming on our show. It was my pleasure. And I am so thrilled because you are my first one, and I hope to have you again here. Absolutely. Because the next time, I want you to put that mask, that face mask, that butter. I want you to put it all over my face, and I want you to give me a whole treatment over here. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, thank you guys for watching the Peabash Show. And next week, stay tuned because I have a very special surprise.


skipper beckoning the whipper snapper to his cabin the fat will be in the fire in five minutes yet there was no conflagration no fuss no searching of the passengers no whisper of what had happened in the air instead of a stir there was a portentous peace and it was clear to me that Raffles was not a little disturbed at the falsification of all his predictions there was something sinister in silence under such a loss and the silence was sustained for hours during which Mackenzie never reappeared but he was abroad during the lunch hour he was in our cabin I had left my book in Raffles' birth and in taking it after lunch I touched the quilt it was warm from the recent pressure of flesh and blood and on an instinct I sprang to the ventilator as I opened it the ventilator opposite was closed with a snap I waylaid Raffles all right, let him find the pearl have you dumped it overboard? that's a question I shan't condescend to answer he turned on his heel and at subsequent intervals I saw him making the most of his last afternoon with the inevitable Miss Werner I remember that she looked both cool and smart in quite a simple affair of Brown Holland which toned well with her complexion and was cleverly relieved with touches of scarlet I quite admired her that afternoon for her eyes were really very good and so were her teeth yet I had never admired her more directly in my own despite for I passed them again and again in order to get a word with Raffles to tell him I knew there was danger in the wind but he would not so much as catch my eye so at last I gave it up and I saw him next in the captain's cabin they had summoned him first he had gone in smiling and smiling I found him when they summoned me the state room was spacious as befitted that of a commander Kenzie sat on the city his beard in front of him on the polish table but a revolver lay in front of the captain and when I had entered the chief officer who had summoned me shut the door and put his back to it Van Hoeman completed the party his fingers busy with his mustache Raffles greeted me this is a great joke he cried you remember the pearl you were so keen about the emperor's pearl? the pearl money wouldn't buy it seems it was entrusted to our little friend here to take out to canoodle dumb and the poor little chap's gone and lost it ergo as we're Britishers they think we've got it but I know ye have put in Mackenzie nodding to his beard you will recognize that loyal and patriotic voice said Raffles Mont is our old acquaintance Mackenzie a Scotland yard and Scotland itself that is enough cried the captain have you submit to be surged or do I force you what you will said Raffles but it will do you no harm to give us fair play first you accuse us of breaking into captain Van Hoeman's state room during the small hours of this morning acting from it this confounded pearl well I can prove that I was in my own room all night long and I have no doubt my friend can prove the same most certainly I can I said indignantly the ship's boys can bear witness to that Mackenzie laughed and shook his head at his reflection in the polished mahogany that was very clever said he and like enough it would have served you a good step to board but I've just had a look at the ventilators and I think I know how you worked it anyway captain it makes no matter I'll just be clapping the derbies on these young sparks and then by what right roared Raffles in a ringing voice and I never saw his face in such a blaze search us if you like search every scrap and stitch we possess but if you dare to lay a finger on us warrant I would not dare said Mackenzie as he fumbled in his breast pocket and Raffles dived his hand into his own horde his wrist shouted the Scotchman and the huge colt that had been with us many a night but had never been fired in my hearing clattered on the table and was raked in by the captain all right said Raffles savagely to the mate you can let go now I won't try it again now Mackenzie let's see your warrant you'll no mishandle it what good would that do me let me see it said Raffles preemptorily and the detective obeyed Raffles raised his eyebrows as he perused the document his mouth hardened but suddenly relaxed and it was with a smile and a shrug that he returned the paper will that do for ye inquired Mackenzie it may I congratulate you Mackenzie it's a strong hand at any rate two burglaries and the Melrose necklace bunny and he turned to me with a rueful smile an all easy to prove said the Scotchman pocketing the warrant I have one of these for you he added nodding to me only not such a long one to think said the captain reproachfully that my ship should be made a den of thieves it shall be a very disagreeable matter I have been obliged to put you both in irons until we get to Naples surely not exclaimed Raffles Mackenzie intercede with him don't give your countrymen away before all hands captain we can't escape surely you could hush it up for the night look here here's everything I have in my pockets you empty yours too bunny and they shall strip a stock if they suspect we've weapons up our sleeves all I ask is that we are allowed to get out of this without jives upon our wrists the buns you may not have said the captain but what about their bell that you are stealing you shall have it cried Raffles you shall have it this minute if you guarantee no public indignity on board that I'll see to said Mackenzie as long as you behave yourselves there now where's it on the table under your nose my eyes fell with the rest but no pearl was there only the contents of our pockets our watches pocket books pencils pocket knives cigarette cases lay on the shiny table along with the revolvers already mentioned you're humbuggin us said Mackenzie what's the use I'm doing nothing of the sort laughed Raffles I'm testing you where's the harm it's here, joke apart on that table by all my guards Mackenzie opened the cigarette cases and shook each particular cigarette there upon Raffles prayed to be allowed to smoke one and when his prayer was heard observed that the pearl had been on the table much longer than the cigarettes Mackenzie promptly caught up the colt and opened the chamber in the butt not there, not there said Raffles but you're getting hot try the cartridges Mackenzie emptied them into his palm and shook each one at his ear without result oh give them to me and in an instant Raffles had found the right one had bitten out the bullet and placed the emperor's pearl with a flourish in the center of the table after that you will perhaps show me such little consideration as is in your power Captain, I have been a bit of a villain as you see and as such I am ready and willing to lie in irons all night if you deem it requisite for the safety of the ship all I ask is that you do me one favor first that shall depend on what the favor has been Captain, I've done a worse thing aboard your ship than any of you know I have become ill any of you know I have become engaged to be married and I want to say good-bye I suppose we were all equally amazed but the only one to express his amazement was Von Humann whose deep chested German oath was almost his first contribution to the proceedings he was not slow to follow it however with a vigorous protest against the proposed farewell but he was overruled and the masterful prisoner had his way he was to have five minutes with the girl while the captain in Mackenzie stood within range but not earshot with the revolvers behind their backs as we were moving from the cabin in a body he stopped and gripped my hand so I've let you in at last Bunny at last after all if you knew how sorry I am but you won't get much I don't see why you should get anything at all can you forgive me this may be for years and it may be forever you know you were a good pal always when it came to the scratch some day or other you mayn't be so sorry to remember you were a good pal at the last there was a meaning in his eye that I understood and my teeth were set and my nerves strung ready as I rung that strong and cunning hand how that last scene stays with me and will stay to my death how I see every detail every shadow on the sunlit deck we were among the islands that dot the course from Genoa to Naples that was Elba falling back on our starboard quarter that purple patch with the hot sun setting over it the captain's cabin opened a starboard and the starboard promenade deck which he did with sunshine and scored with shadow was deserted but for the group of which I was won and for the pale slim brown figure further aft with raffles engaged I could not believe it cannot to this day yet there they stood together and we did not hear a word there they stood out against the sunset and the long dazzling highway of sunlit sea that sparkled from Elba to the Ulan's plates and their shadows reached almost to our feet suddenly an instant and the thing was done a thing I have never known whether to admire or to detest he caught her he kissed her before us all then flung her from him so that she almost fell it was that action which foretold the next the mate sprang after him and I sprang after the mate raffles was on the rail but only just hold him bunny he cried hold him tight and as I obeyed that last behest with all my might without a thought of what I was doing save that he bade me to do it I saw his hands shoot up and his head bob down and his lithe spare body cut the sunset as cleanly and precisely as though he had plunged at his leisure from a diver's board of what followed on deck I can tell you nothing for I was not there nor can my final punishment my long imprisonment my everlasting disgrace concern or profit you beyond the interest and advantage to be gleaned from the knowledge that I at least had my desserts but one thing I must set down believe it who will one more thing only and I am done it was into a second class cabin on the starboard side that I was promptly thrust in irons and the door locked upon me as though I were another raffles meanwhile a boat was lowered and the sea scoured to no purpose as is doubtless on record elsewhere but either the setting sun flashing over the waves or the rest of blinded all eyes or else mine were victims of a strange illusion for the boat was back the screw throbbing and the prisoner peering through his portal across the sunlit waters that he believed had closed forever over his comrade's head suddenly the sun sank behind the island of Elba the lane of dancing sunlight was instantaneously quenched and swallowed in the trackless waste and in the middle distance already miles a stern either my sight deceived me or a black speck bobbed amid the gray the bugle had blown for dinner it may well be that all save myself had ceased to strain an eye and now I lost what I had found now it rose now sank and now I gave it up utterly yet anon it would rise again a mere moat dabbled and now I gave it up utterly a mere moat dancing in the dim gray distance drifting towards a purple island beneath a fading western sky streaked with dead gold and cerise and night fell before I knew whether it was a human head or not end of the amateur cracksman


Welcome to the first smoke-free seminar for this quarter, spring 2021. Our speaker today is Professor Fanxing Li from the University of Tennessee, Northview. Before we introduce the speaker, I want to show you this the least presentations for this quarter. Our next seminar is next week, same time 230. The speaker is Professor Ross Boddick from UT Austin. This quarter we have some speakers from China and Australia, so it should be very interesting. We're very happy to have Professor Fanxing Li to speak with us today. He received his Bachelor and Master's degrees from Southeast University in Nanjing, China. He had worked at APB Consulting from 2001 to 2005 as a senior engineer and then a principal engineer. He's currently a faculty, a full professor at the University of Tennessee, Northview, where he is the James McConnell professor in electrical engineering. His research interests include renewable integration, demand response, power markets, power system control, and power system computing. So today he's going to talk about a large-scale test bet for power grid controls. So Professor Li, I'll pass the, let you share your slides. Thank you, Chen Wu. Good afternoon, everybody. First of all, I want to thank Dr. Liang Ming for inviting me to give this talk for your smart grid seminar at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford, and I'm very honored to be a guest speaker here. I also want to thank Chen Wu and Vahila to provide the logistical support to my seminar and Chen Wu's introduction. The title of my presentation is Current Large-Scale Test Bet, LTB, as a virtual power grid for closed-loop controls in research and testing. This test bet is commonly known as the current LTB in the rest of this presentation and in the research community in electric power system. This work of current LTB is not possible without the funding support from Current, which I will mention a little bit later on. Current LTB is a big project by a great project team. I'm very grateful to our team with several main contributors as follows. The first one is Dr. Kevin Tomasowiek who co-leads the current LTB project and is also the current overall director. Kevin initiates the idea of developing current LTB back to 2015 and then asked me to drive this work. I'm also grateful for his trust of me to lead the effort. Also, I want to thank Dr. Han Tao-chui who is the chief technologist for this effort. Han Tao is my former PhD student and now the research assistant professor at Current and he is a very brilliant young man and will be a assistant professor, tenure-track assistant professor at Oklahoma State University starting this fall semester. Also, I want to thank Dr. Joe Chau and Ali Abu as senior technical advisors for current LTB and certainly many other faculty members and graduate students with Young Current contribute to the work as well. I'm really, really fortunate to work with all of them on this current LTB project. Okay, next I want to borrow a minute to briefly talk about my department and my university. My school is the University of Tennessee at Knoxville at UT or UTK. It was established in 1794, even four years before the establishment of the state of Tennessee. So we have a really long history. We are best known to general public for our magnificent stadium, which can hold more than 100,000 people. So it's our landmark. If you have a chance to visit us here in the future, I will definitely show you around our campus and this huge building, huge stadium. Our department of EECS is located in the New Minkow Building, opened in 2012. We have about 50 faculty members with four US NIE members and 10 plus ITV fellows. In the power area, we have five professors in power system and five in power electronics. And the department is the host of and the headquarter of current research center. Okay, our EECS department current existing undergrad student enrollment reached about 800 and we have 170 PhD students. Our research expenditure perfectly reached more than half a million as of fiscal year 19. So we are ranked pretty high in some barriers in terms of PhD students per faculty members and research expenditure per faculty members. Okay, all right. So now let's talk about the current C-U-R-E-N-T is a single R, okay. So it stands for Center for Out-Wide Area Resilient Electrical Energy Transmission Networks. See, like I mentioned, excuse me, it's a single R. You know, university engineering professors couldn't do spending very well. So when we realize we missed one R, then that's too late. Okay, so now we try avoid to talk about the current versus the currently, okay. All right. Anyway, currently is funded by US National Science Foundation engineering research center program. And the funding comes from both US NSF and Department of Energy. Excuse me. The lead university of current research center. Yes, University of Tennessee with three partner schools, RPI, North Houston and Tuskegee. Our base budget is $4 million per year from 2011 to 2021. Yes, this is the 10th and the final year of current. It's the first and the, excuse me, the first and only NSF ERC dedicated to bulk power system research. And we have more than 30 industrial members. Okay. Here's some introduction of current vision. It is to develop control and modeling approach for a nationwide grid, which is fully monitored and dynamically controlled for high efficiency, high reliability, low cost, better accommodation of renewable sources and full utilization of storage and responsive load. Also from the educational side, our mission is to produce new generation of electrical power and energy system engineering leaders with a global perspective coming from diverse background. Here is an overview of the systems on the current research scheme, you include three planes, fundamental knowledge, enabling technology and engineered systems. And the agent act with the four different research threats, monitoring, modeling, control and actuation. Here that the engineer's system basically includes hardware, testbed or HTTP. That's another testbed and large-scale testbed, which is software-based. Testbeds will drive the center's research program via system specifications and closed-loop scenario studies. Background, why current LTP or why we want to build this large-scale testbed. The researchers in power system community often struggle to obtain realistic data for research since we don't really own or operate any power grid. Also, researchers like us need to use multiple tools to manually create interactions among different software packages to achieve our research goals. For instance, if someone wants to test a real-time control algorithm, he or she needs to use a dynamic simulation tool to produce mock measurement signals that will be fed to another piece of software as control inputs. And then the output from such a control module will be fed back to dynamic simulator to verify the control algorithm. During this process, either a manual or some scripts need to be developed to facilitate the closed-loop interaction. So our goal is to make this process automate so then the user can make one button click or maybe a few button clicks to finish the closed-loop interaction. Here the closed-loop automated interaction is really the key. This differs this large-scale testbed from typical simulation tools. Meanwhile, we also want some standardized models and test systems with high-penetration renewables for easy benchmark among different research results. So in short, LTP is closed-loop simulation platform plus large-scale system models. This slide shows the overall architecture of LTP modules. On the top, we have the current models with HVDC overlays as well as wind scenarios for our research. On the bottom, we have modules representing conventional EMS functions such as state estimators, dispatch, and visualization modules. On the left, we have possible simulation engines for power system dynamic studies, such as our young house ANDYs tool, or opera artis if there's a grade-dine, LL, Lawrence liberal national labs, grade-dine tool, or other customized modules. On the right, we have this new research algorithm and controls which represent the research results from the users of this LTP. All these four blocks are connected by data streaming and communication network module, which I will elaborate later on. Here are some design considerations, such as interoperability with modular architecture. Also, we want to consider measurement-based control interactions to simulate the PMU sampling and the streaming. We also need large-scale models, such as a 1000 bus North American power grid model with projected HVDC overlays. Here, I want to talk a few words about the grid simulation engine. Right now, we have our own young house Python-based tool called ANDYs, which has a building library for fast prototyping and so on. ANDYs is like a white box to us so we can do whatever we want for fast prototyping of modules and routines. Also, we have interface to other research tools, like grade-dine, developed in C++ with features like a connection with Madelika and high-performance computing. Also, we interface with commercial tools like OPRT-EFSSM, which supports Madelika Python interface and so on. Our goal is to use our own white box Python-based engine ANDYs for fast prototyping, in a relatively smaller system, like a few hundred bus to a thousand bus. Then, once verified, we can utilize more commercial grid tools for much larger-scale verification in the scale of tens of thousands of buses. Here, I want to talk a bit more about our young house tool called ANDYs. Available functions include power flow for AC-DC, hybrid system, time-domain integration, icon analysis, and some plotting data-streaming interface. We also have unique features like symbolic modeling. For available models, we have 49 models included, such as general gen-class and PWA models and wind turbine models. We support several data formats like our own ANDYs data format or PSSE and MATLAB format. Supported test systems include MPCC 39 to 140 bus system and also WAC, EI, and ERCOT system with 50 percent wind and 30 percent PWA models. Open source distribution can be found here. In the past couple of years, we developed a hybrid symbolic numerical framework to enhance and improve the previous dynamic simulation engine of ANDYs or this is basically the new generation of ANDYs. Symbolic programming basically means that writing code for complex mathematical equations is just like typing an equation in word. Once you follow the symbolic modeling language, then we have code generation which will generate the code such as solving power flow, solving Jacobin, solving numerical integration for persistent dynamics. In other words, once you type the equations, then the symbolic library will generate the Python code for the programmer or the user of this tool. This significantly reduces the effort of researchers so they can focus more on research works on their own rather than spending a lot of time in coding and debugging. Certainly, we also need traditional numerical programming in the loop for some maybe customized functions. This is shown in the blue blocks here. The yellowish block represents the symbolic programming part. That's why this approach is called a hybrid symbolic numerical framework. As the engine is really the critical part in this platform, we made a lot of verifications for our simulation engine. Here it shows our benchmark with MBCC 140 bus system using TSAT, which is a commercial tool for power system dynamics. As shown in these two diagrams, dynamic simulation results match very well with the results from commercial tools like TSAT. The left diagram shows the frequency at bus 22 and 25. We're supposed to have four curves, but we seemingly have only two curves here. The reason is that the two curves from ANDIS and TSAT match with each other very well, so they're fully overlapped. Then that's why it looks like only two curves here, but actually there are four. The same results can be observed for the right diagram for the terminal wattage at bus 21 and 25. Next, I want to talk about the LTB-PMU module. This slide shows the measurement model built-in LTB called LTB-PMU. After the simulation engine performs the dynamic simulation, the ideal results will be processed in the following four steps. First, we added a delayed model. Then we added some measurement noise into the data, and then we may consider loss of data at some probability. Then we obtain the realistic data, or non-ideal measurement data. Then we can send this non-ideal realistic measurement data to other modules like a communication module or other modules for further processing. This slide shows the LTB width, which is a web-based realization. For power system researchers, the visualization tool helped us test our research code and identify problems or even motivate us to find new research ideas. Later on, I will show a few short videos, which you will get a better idea of the realization tool. We also developed several system models and various wind scenarios. We started with NRELs, National Renewable Energy Laboratories, Wind Speed Data for Future Wind Farm Locations, and Wind Dynamic Modeling Guidelines. Eventually, we built the 50% wind penetration in WAC and 50% in ERCOT and 50% in EI for wind, as well as 30% solar penetration on top of that as the future scenarios. Certainly, we built many other scenarios in between 0% penetration to 80% renewable penetration. All these three systems are integrated together to form what we call the Thousand Bus Current North American System. We also use MISO, Midwest and Mid-Continental ISO study results of the multi-terminal HVDC topology, as shown in the figure here. Next, I want to talk about the data streaming part for the LTB. We basically have two approaches. The first is the dime. Dime stands for distributed message environment for passing data between asynchronous heterogeneous modules. It is a point-to-point data streaming approach for faster prototyping. For example, if one module wants to send something to another module, so like an LTB PMU may want to send something to realizations, then this can be done with a dime module. Also, we have an LTP net. In the LTP net, we employ a tool called the MiniNet to develop the communication network details for LTB. It's based on standard IP-based streaming or detailed communication network. Next, I want to discuss a little bit about the dime. It is a Python-based transparent streaming server, and it supports unlimited MATLAB or Python or C++ clients. Developers can import a dime API and then gain a streaming capability. In this diagram, here we show LTB widths here on the left and then the open PDC on the right and the other modules on the here. That's the NDs and other modules here. So as long as you follow the streaming protocol and the streaming server will help delivering data from one to another. LTB net, this is the emulation of communication network. In the last few years, we completed software-defined communication network emulation, which is now integrated in the loop of LTB. From the viewpoint of module dependence, we have a four-layer architecture with a physical power system layer at the bottom, and then measurement layer, communication layer, and the application layer like EMS functions or control functions. About the communication topology, we constructed a nationwide communication network. I want to mention that there's really no publicly available model about nationwide BlackBone communication system. So we use this ACM report here to develop our US communication network and use it to emulate the communication system in the current grid. So now we can bring all the pieces together to form the data flow diagram in LTB. We start with the large-scale system model and high penetration scenarios. Both are fed to NDs, and then the dynamic simulation results or the data output will be fed to LTB PMU through DIME streaming server. At LTB PMU, we create realistic non-idea measurement data from the idea data, basically by embedding noise, embedding some communication delays or missing signals. So then what we get here is realistic measurement data, and that measurement data will be forward to different modules such as OpenPTC for storing the data and or LTB realization to realize the system. And also it can be forward to the new control algorithm. That's basically the researcher's results. And then in this new control algorithm, based on the research, maybe some parameters will be modified. So then that modified parameters will be sent back all the way through DIME server back to NDs. So then the NDs will make adjustment in its dynamic simulation, just like in reality, the control signal being taken and actions being taken. So then that will make the system perform differently. So then the new updated dynamic simulation results will be sent to LTB PMU. And then here there is some processing to generate non-idea realistic measurement data. And then we repeat this loop. So everything happens within this loop and happens in real time. So that's why we call this a closed loop simulation. This is really the fundamental difference of this platform from maybe the simulation tool. For a typical simulation tool, it is open loop, but here it is a closed loop. So also I want to mention this new control algorithm is based on researcher's results. So we basically provide this platform as an environment for the researcher. So then they can focus on their research work rather than dealing with all the simulations and mock measurement creation. Now let's play a quick demo to illustrate what the LTB can show you with this LTB visualization as front end presentation. So left side shows the uncontrolled case and the right side shows the controlled case for WAC system damping control with wind generators. This case study is a good example showing the LTB platform can demonstrate the advantage of new control algorithms. Also it helps researchers to identify and view the simulation results Okay so after some disturbance there's the system oscillation and then this controlled case will bring the system back to steady state a lot quicker than the uncontrolled case. And also we have a plotting window to show the timeline flows. We can also see that for the controlled case the dynamics dies out a lot quicker. So that's why we call this research demonstration platform. The actual algorithm about this research can be found in this paper below here. And also I want to mention that it helps researchers to view and identify problems during research for example. Without this front end realization it is very difficult for someone to find out what's going on or what's going wrong among the enormously large volume of data at hundreds of buses and at the data rate of 20 or 30 snapshots per second. Next I want to show another quick video of projects that deliberate cyber attack may cause the system to separate into two islands which are not necessary. The blinking dots are the PMUs with malicious bad data injection. The right diagram this small window here shows the maliciously injected data causing operator to think the system frequency deviates from the threshold to trigger a special production scheme of separation. Which means the system is actually good but because of the false data injection attack the operator thinks there's something wrong and then started the system separation which is not necessary. All right okay let's move on the third and the last short video demonstrates the impact of communication delay on control. The left part shows the case of no delay and the right case shows the 300 millisecond delay under denial of service attack for example. Let me play the video. So after some disturbance happens the previously working algorithm assuming no delay will not work you see here. So without delay when everything communications idea it works but with 300 millisecond delay then the algorithm doesn't work. So this is as an example to demonstrate what this platform can show or can help researchers on their research works. Here's a summary of LTP achievement. We've finished a number of modules including ND simulation engine dime server, LTP PMU module, a number of current test system, LTP net for communication system emulation, LTP visualization and also we finished a number of research integration for demonstration and I'm also pleased to report that currently LTP won the 2020 R&D 100 award last year. Here I want to briefly mention LTP as a driver for research as a platform development researchers are main developers okay so and also we have research driven development and then in turn the platform enhanced the understanding of the models methods and the systems and we also have large-scale system and scenarios which are used in research case and inspire research works that use data to collaborating our models okay. Finally I want to summarize the difference of traditional simulation studies versus LTP based approach. In terms of prototyping, traditional approach is a more open loop based on MATLAB or Simulink. LTP approach can integrate many different programming languages. Right now we have MATLAB, we have Python and C++ for different modules. Data interface, we have online data streaming between heterogeneous modules like I mentioned previously developed maybe in different programming language and a traditional approach is usually offline or no automated interface. You have to do it manually. Communication network typically non in traditional simulators and we have a built-in LTP net. For closed loop testing and systemic testing usually it's a manual simulator controller loop however in LTP we have real-time closed loop testing environment and we have ready-to-use modules. Okay so this one shows our virtual control room at the current research center located at the fourth first floor of Minkau building in the Department of EAS, University of Tennessee. Here are some ongoing users of LTP. We have five software maintenance support agreements signed in the last year, academic year with users from universities, national labs as well as university users. You know also played a critical role in for funding such as in six externally funded projects totaling 4.5 million dollars and also it's being used in one of LLNL's project and it also supports a recent NSF career project by one of our faculty members Dr. Pogar at UT. Here's the roadmap for LTP as you may see we have taken consistent progress towards the GEN3 goal that's the NSF terminology. So since this is our year 10 so we're basically here okay we you can see that this progressive effort we started several years ago from 20 percent renewable penetration to 50 percent to 80 percent regarding the scenario development and also in terms of LTP platform functionality we developed a lot of functions over time and now the LTP is quite a mature tool and right now it's in the maintenance mode. Some future directions certainly we need some minor enhancement such as enhancing load models for large-scale systems. Right now we have the IP and motor load model and maybe we want to enhance it with some demand response model there we want to refine realisation for various use cases we want to improve the computational efficiency and some possible larger enhancement may include integration with our hardware test bed which is a hardware-based test platform we may link it with economic and market tools and we may link distribution system simulation models to make a co-simulation environment we are seeking some external grant to a larger grant to develop major modules like this bottom three shown here. LTP is available at Good Hub and this location is open source well-documented and the majority of this content can be found in this paper published in IEEE Power and Energy Magazine and also we have several related technical papers shown listed here and this acknowledgement we want to thank our funding support from US NSF and DOE as well as our project main team members um we want to thank our industrial members that's here and this is the presentation now we're open for Q&A turn on thank you for the presentation Professor Lee I think there is one question in the Q&A how is the false data injected I think you're talking about a cyber right yeah demonstrator attack realistic that is how you see this attack oh okay actually we do this research uh it's assumed that the false data injection attacks is already there so we didn't really discuss how that can be implemented however because well because this is a really the platform we presented this platform either can do such such things it's up to the researchers in cyber security to figure out what's going on related to false data injection attack but I want to mention that the cyber attack did happen in several grids the most well-known one is a ukrainian system collapse and it's very likely a cyber attack and also it happened in a brazil grid so it is getting more realistic and it's happening okay all right I I think we can look at this question in a different way how how did the researchers simulate the data is it based on some realistic data they obtains oh yeah so for example they can hijack some previous events that basically shown here so if the attacker obtains somehow obtains the system variables in previous events that you you really had to separate the system and then they inject the system so then the operator may think oh there's something bad happening so then we need to separate the system although you don't really need to do that or the things could be even worse like the hijacks the data and then you inject very misleading data or bad data and then makes the operator think something really severe happening then they may trip the load and or trips that generator so I see okay uh yeah second question uh so could you please clarify how you validated the generation of synthetic data um okay so uh based okay so I'm not 100% sure about the question so I guess you mean how do we verify the results is good so we basically verified and benchmarked the dynamic simulation tool with the uh several commercial tool like a psse and a t-set okay and and this some of the test system uh are well benchmarked with the real system operation you mentioned at the end of your presentation there are currently five users yes so so let's say if Stanford wants to be a user how how what kind of procedures okay it's uh actually uh it's an open source so you can just go there download it and then follow some open source uh agreement and for those users uh they basically they want to get the support so the agreement really the maintenance and the support agreement are there real data involved you know the archive in the system that uh what do you mean real data real real data from the actual real grid operation yes no not really because many times that data very are very sensitive so but we do have the the North American system and different versions of that we benchmarked with as much as we can with commercial tools and some typical like events we well known event and we know what's the consequence so then we perform the study make sure it produced results aligned with uh what's uh happening in the real system yeah so that's probably the way for this industry i see any questions from the panelists liang do you have any questions oh there is one more can we get some economic application economic application so i assume you mean uh the uh economic dispatch or some economic study for power grid so if that's the case i can talk a little bit about actually our ongoing project we we develop we are developing uh uh economic dispatch up to five minutes interval so then we actually had a preliminary study of the economic dispatch so we can show that dispatch results are in the realization platform but we because in the demonstration we can let everybody wait five minutes to see the updated results so we have some function like a speedy the display so uh in the demonstration we update the the five minute dispatch results every two or three seconds so then the users will see uh some continuous control map changing every two or three seconds and uh that's uh being used for one of the ongoing projects uh we should have that module integrated uh hopefully uh by the by the same next year this time thank you if there are no more questions let's thank the speaker for the wonderful presentation thank you ching and hila and also yeah thank you all yeah okay have a nice day yeah thank you bye bye all right