Welcome. My name is Tracy Berry and I will be your instructor for SharePoint. I've been in the computer industry for 20 years and been developing web-based, data-based solutions for many of those years. And SharePoint is just the perfect example of that, so I have a lot of good advice, best practices, and tips and tricks to share with you. Getting started. In this unit, we're going to take a look at SharePoint Foundation sites, get you comfortable navigating those SharePoint sites, also making sure you're comfortable with the different components built in. SharePoint Foundation sites. In this topic, we'll take a look at some of the different features, such as navigation, also the various components that exist within SharePoint Foundation. SharePoint 2010. There are two distinct products that make up the foundation base. And these are SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, which is a more full-featured product and offers more bells and whistles and more functionality as well. Now, SharePoint Server 2010 has two versions, Standard and Enterprise. Enterprise gives you all the features that are available within the SharePoint Server environment. You can layer these products to add different features and enhance the experience of your end users. SharePoint Foundation. You use SharePoint Foundation to organize, manage, and share information. Now, storing the information in a SQL Server database makes sure that you have one central location for all content, regardless of where the individuals are when they're interacting and when they need that information, wherever they are, assuming that they're part of your secure network environment, they have access to the information. Now, multiple users can also connect in at different levels. So, I can have a user that is a reader of one portion, but yet that same user has bumped up privileges as a contributor or even an administrator of some other portion of a site. So, even though a user is logged in, they have options as well. And you may use SharePoint Foundation with their web browser, preferably IE, or Office 2010. It's greatly incorporated in between the two, and it makes it very easy to collaborate with others. SharePoint Sites. Collection and related web pages. Now, a collection is a top-level site in the sense that from central admin, your administrator must create this collection for you. Once the collection is created, it can consist of many types of templates, and those templates are made up of many web pages. Now, the tasks that can be performed, depending on the templates, are that you're able to post documents for sharing, control document versioning, also discussing topics of interest in discussion threads, creating events and announcements which are great ways to keep everybody in the loop, storing documents, images and forms. This becomes, in a sense, a content management area where we can secure, we can have versioning, as well making sure that certain individuals securely get to exactly what they need. You can create and assign tasks or to-do items. Also, contact lists. Scheduling meetings is also beneficial and helpful, utilizing some of the features such as some of the workspace templates that are available. Point hierarchy. Now, a top-level site, such as Outlander Spices, would be considered the collection level and usually someone from central admin or some other such upstream service must build this collection for you. Once you are given a collection, at that point you are in charge of its permissions, you are in charge of its ability to have sub objects as well, such as sub-sites, first-level sites like our sales, support, acquisition. If I'm in charge of sales, I have the ability to then make other second-level sub-sites, such as national sales, internet sales. You also have the ability to create sister sites, so we would consider sales, support and acquisition to be siblings, where we have national internet and technical support. These are all going to be siblings as well. So the term used by SharePoint is parent and child. So the parent-child relationship is also the backbone of the permissions, because you will have the ability as well to have inherited permissions. So whatever permissions the parent site has, naturally flow down to the child sites. Or you can have a site that has unique permissions that will break the inheritance, therefore it will not feed down. Just as unique permissions. And so the hierarchy of your site also, you typically want to keep the entire collection to this particular one, two, three structure. Because if we get the structure much deeper than this, meaning third, fourth, fifth-level sub-sites, we often run the risk of one, having a URL path that's too long, and two, it becomes very difficult to find and difficult to maintain. So try to keep a simple collection with a one, two-level site, potentially under our second-level sites, it would be okay to have a workspace, but usually not another full-fledged sub-site. Navigation tools. Now as you're navigating through in SharePoint, you have several tools available to you. You have the Navigate Up button. You have the various tabs that will be available. You will often see the Browse tab. You have the Breadcrumb Navigation. You also have a top-level navigation. Now Breadcrumb Navigation naturally happens because of the hierarchy. The top level navigation typically also feeds off of the hierarchy, but can be customized. As the left navigation bar, Quick Launch, picks up the patterns of the objects that are within a sub-site or within an area. Think of this as the local navigation, or the current navigation. And this Quick Launch bar also can have some customization practices as well to add things outside of the hierarchy within. Regardless of which technique you use, it's best to leave the top-level navigation with the primary main topics. Once you get to a main topic, the left navigation tends to then be the current changing what do we have existing in our internet, national, or trade show sites. Navigate to a SharePoint site. To navigate to a SharePoint site, you open the web browser. By doing so, you then type in the address bar the URL of your site, or paste it in if it's been copied to you in say, message body of an email through an invitation. If you're prompted, you might need to enter your username and possibly the password. Authentication is provided by Windows. However, if every install is different, so if by chance you are asked for a password, just make sure you've been given the proper credentials and then based on the security clearance that has been assigned to you, the interface will look a bit different. For example, if you're an admin, you see more features.  SharePoint elements. Now, elements or objects within SharePoint are our lists, libraries, views, and web parts. Now, lists and libraries are containers that hold information. A list will hold information similar to a spreadsheet type arrangement with rows and columns. Libraries are vessels or storage containers for other files such as Word, Excel, PyroPoint. Although they don't have to be Microsoft products, you may store non-Microsoft products in a library as well. Now, a view belongs to a Lister Library. And when a view belonging to a Lister Library is customized to have sorting and filtering, certain columns, certain pieces of information visible, we can use that as a reporting mechanism. Now, web parts take the best of all of these and combine them. You have the ability to have a library or a list with a default view of some sort that you can then assign to a web part. And what a web part does is it allows that particular piece of information that lists that library with that view built in to be shown on, for example, a home page. So if you have announcements and you would like those announcements to be on your home page, you would simply build a web part for the announcement that talks to the library or the list, whatever it is, in the case of an announcement, a list. And then you would optimize a view to make sure that that list is presented appropriately on that home page. And so web parts are copies or instances of the original lists and libraries with a certain view to prepare the information and share just what is needed to that specific audience on that specific web page. The ribbon Now, the ribbon allows you to change, manipulate, upload, whatever the features might be. Now, of course, we had the browse and page. These allow us to do features that will allow us to, for example, edit a page, make changes. Once we're editing a page, in the example of this ribbon, we'll have the ability to save and close any changes that we've made, cut copy paste, do an undo to just the edits, not the content we're adding, but just the edits of how we arrange items on a page. We have various formatting features that might remind you of a word processor and they are basically just that. It will allow us to add formatting to the various text elements. We also have styles, just as in the Office products you use styles, you can use styles as well within a SharePoint environment, making sure that when you have designers building pages, they are all using the same look and feel, the same syntax, et cetera. So that when I see a label that's 14 point bold and navy blue, I know that means the same thing on all sites. So we can build that into a style instead of having to build it manually. You also have an insert tab which will allow you to add items such as images, web parts, other such elements you might want to add within a page will be found in the insert area. When you're on the page ribbon and you enter into the edit mode, then and only then will this bar present itself. Once we save and close, this area will close as well and will be left with just the browse and the page again.


Welcome guys, good morning I will present to you about the radio network and how we are trying to get to a production ready payments and a network for a theorem I Want to thank Jeremy from fanfare for starting because basically what he described is very similar to what we are facing Testing trying to go to the main it So first of a little bit about myself, so I'm leftist carapesas. I have been working in the theorem space since 2014 Working on Solidity this plus-plus a theorem and some other stuff and Later, I joined brain bot as the core developer for adding network and there's the development team lead So we're going to talk about today. Essentially The current status of Raiden what we call the upcoming red eyes release Then get a bit of more technical Deep dive on the writing protocol talk about how we implement this protocol looking at the writing architecture We're going to talk about state machines very similar to what the fanfare guys are doing and then what is missing to get to production readiness So First let's talk about the current status of Raiden and the upcoming red eyes release Yeah, nice colors. So we were trying to get into a Release mode for DevCon like many many other projects, but we Were not a Lot of things came up because of the main a testing that also Jeremy mentioned So we are still on the last phases of testing the software To prepare for the minute release So the red eyes release will not be a production ready release because it will be missing some Key components which we will describe later in the talk the goal is to get mainnet feedback because Yeah, testnet is one thing but not many people use your software on the testnet and as Jeremy also said The behavior is rather different When you try your software on the testnet And we will release once we iron out most of the bugs But I guess we won't find out everything. So we will also have a bug bounty for the mainnet release So whenever we make the post, please watch out for them a bug bounty rules So now I'm going to go a bit more technical. I hope you guys are all awake To explain how the radium protocol works First of this is our The life cycle of a channel essentially People can open a channel so two participants either of them or a delegate can open the channel Then we have an open channel and anybody can deposit tokens or a delegate can deposit for either one of the Participants at this point we have a live channel and it can be used for transfers There is a lot of things that I can talk about our Protocol and the messages that are exchanged in a the happy case, but I've already talked about it in other talks and perhaps I Can just give a small overview here. So here is a mediated transfer From Alice to Dave through Bob and Charlie and the messages that are exchanged for a has time lock transfer So this is the happy path that the core of riding payment Through the payment channel network. I Want to go to a bit more interesting stuff. So essentially pending transfers So whenever you have a network like the above like we have Alice Bob Charlie Dave Ewald and Francie let's say and then Alice wants to send transfers to everyone through Bob So we send the has time lock transfer and here we see the state of the Alice Bob channel The receiving state of Bob so we keep a lock for the pending transfer and for each transfer that is going on we are putting all the locks in a miracle tree and Essentially, this is how we so all we need is the route which changes with every new lock and As the protocol continues A target like Dave will ask for the secret. So this is The pre-image that we will ask from from the initiator We will get it then send it back to the mediator and we will unlock the pending transfer and remove it from the miracle tree So This is how transfers would happen, but then at some point people would want to close a channel There are two possibilities to close a payment channel in writing network One is the happy path, which finally enough is not implemented yet You have only one transaction because both parties agree that they want these final balances and then the sign and send one Cooperative settle transaction on the chain the unhappy path Which is the adversarial one is what we have implemented right now So each party updates the contract with their side of the state of the channel and then we get to the settlement At the settlement The contract pays out the fin the finalized transfers for both parties and then we also have pending transfers So transfers that were not unlocked while the channel was closing and then we need to feed The the contract with them pending transfers how that happens we can see it here We need to involve the blockchain So essentially we have the token network, which is the the main contract that holds all of the channels and the secret registry which is essentially something that we got from the sprites paper from Patrick McCurry and At this point, let's say that the protocol continues a gets see gets the secrets from a sends it back to be But at the same time a closes the channel At this point be cannot continue with the protocol and has to go on chain What can he do? He has to prove that he knew the secret in time So he registers it in the secret registry contract and we have the block at which the secret registration happened so he can prove that He was aware of the secret on time then the protocol continues and as we discussed before so the Bee will have to update his side of the channel, which is essentially the mercury and the monotonically increased transferred amount Sorry Yeah, so someone This case be can call settle or a delegate can essentially settle the channel and this will pay out however much was owed to a and however much was owed to be from the finalized transfers and then we have to If they are big enough deal with pending transfers because this is another on-chain transaction so Bee will take his mercury, which is essentially like this whole thing and Send it to the token network and the token network would take from the secret registry where it's of the pending blocks Were registered and what will happen is that it will pay out Transfer one to be and transfer three four back to a So in conclusion what happens here is that be will receive transfer one because he Actually knew the secret and the register did on chain But transfers three and four will go back to the initiator. So a because the protocol didn't continue until the end So that's a few things about the protocol. There are a lot of more messages we can go on and on about but I would like to speak about What so how we are building this so what is the architecture that we are following for the right and client? Here is a very very high level overview at the core of a right and lies state machine and essentially Everything generates state changes that are fed to the state machine So like the transport layer gives us the state changes polling blocks and events will give us state changes API Calls will give us a sentence. They will all go in the state machine generate a new state and I also external events because there should be no side effects inside the state machine And we also log stuff in a database a Bit more details about this. So the state machine is a differential state machine. So essentially we It's just a simple function that takes a previous The current state state change and generates a new state and must have no side effects We save the state of all known channels in the database and that allows us to be persistent Which means that if right and crosses or if somebody starts it then whenever we restart it will be exactly the same status before This something that took us quite a bit of time And with the state machine we have improved the stability Because you can write unit tests for each part of the state machine and test State changes individually So how does the state machine in the database which we it's essentially right ahead log That's what wall stands for interact so Everything is a state change in writing, but before we do anything we log every state change inside the database After it's locked then we dispatch it to the state machine And that generates the new state and some internal events. So internal events is anything that has side effects. So and on-chain transaction and off-chain methods even just Making an entry into the debug log So this loop continues and continues and this is the how writing works At some point we take a snapshot of the state and put it back into the database and that is an optimization because When we want to restart after after a crash, let's say what we will do is we will have to replay all of the state changes To get into the same state that we were before and that at some point Let's say if right and was running for four weeks Would take quite a bit of time and as such we start by requesting the latest state that was snapshot it and Then we start and replaying the state changes since that snapshot Going away from the state machine, let's talk a little bit about the transport layer So since we deal with off-chain messages, so we receive and we send Messages to our channel partners. We have to have a specific transport layer Our architecture is transport agnostic in By design. So it's just a common interface of send receive and we can have pluggable transport layers. So We started with UDP, but We had a lot of problems due to not punching and we have now switched to using the matrix protocol So what is matrix and why are you are we using it? There is a blog post that you can check in writing network Medium account that has a lot of details about why that choice, but I will just go through some of the main points So it gives us a reliability As opposed to UDP transfers, you know that when you send the matrix Messages it will arrive and it will reach its target All connections start from the client to the server through HTTP long polling And that allows us to go around all of the NAT problems That may not sound too important, but when we were using UDP only Half of our issues were about the network configuration of the user and we ended up dividing network configurations Another good thing about matrix is that it uses a federated server setup. That means that we Don't have only one server, but it's a federation of servers And all messages are federated between the servers So if let's say one matrix server goes down, the protocol doesn't go down with it And it also gives us encryption out of the box So which are the entities that are starting the writing transport I want to give a big thing to my crypto to digital virtues to exchange union and to ki decentralized Because they are the first people who are running a matrix servers To help boost up the transport network of writing If any of you are interested in actually running a matrix server, just talk to me later or send us an email So we also have a rest api. That's how most users Interact with the writing client. It's very simple just exposes through rest api endpoints all of the basic functionality Let's say open channel close settle make transfers We also have some debugging endpoints through which people can give us their events And we can debug what's happening But most importantly, it's a work in progress. So an api is meant to be consumed by developers So it's made by us. We are also developers, but we don't have enough feedback yet So we have some kind of assumptions about how the endpoints should work Or About even the hierarchy of of the url endpoints. So please guys if you Want to play with writing test it use it and tell us if endpoints are Make sense or if You will need more endpoints less endpoints, etc We also have a user interface. It's just a web UI. You can go to this link of the qr and see it We have a video that is made by my colleague Christopher It's very nice. It explains how you can use writing through the web UI Essentially, it is just Showing you the Rest so it's just a Layer over the rest api So the next section, which is pretty Interesting is how can we achieve production readiness? What does production readiness mean? So as Jeremy said testing is is hard and Especially testing a protocol implementation is really hard. So we have been trying We had a lot of tests on on the testness so coven and rinkaby And then we started also testing on the main net and then things blew up like completely So you have a payment channel network, which Has a lot of moving parts has time logs. We have a separate transport layer And this is layer two and then you have layer one and we rely on really one layer one working correctly which Yeah, sometimes it doesn't like we're building software on top of something that's still experimental I would say Jeremy mentioned a lot of things about gas prices Yeah, we saw that like in the main net especially We have confirmation block. So five blocks of confirmation for reorgs that makes the user experience Terrible, but gives us safety Because it is an automated protocol that has to send transactions and once they are sent You have to assume that their mind or else everything breaks Because the protocol is just not followed. So basically exactly what Jeremy said before What do we do for testing then? So we have of course like most others A suite of automated tests We use Travis at this point. Maybe we will switch to something else since it has been pretty unstable for the past months Our cumulative the cumulative time is around three hours the test suite But we have parallelized the jobs and it takes about 50 minutes It covers a lot. We feel very confident when it's green, but it doesn't cover everything So My colleague Ullo made a new tool. We call it the scenario player essentially unlike them Continuous integration system that spins up a new private test for every Test run this uses existing test nets or a private test net And through a YAML language essentially create scenarios like you open 10 tunnels and 100 transfers in the meantime kill nodes restart nodes and Check if things if the balance is check out at the end And what is good about this is that even our non so tech Oriented colleagues can write scenarios here because it's a it's YAML. So it's it's pretty readable And the best thing that we The manual testing we have been doing a lot of manual testing. So clicking buttons on the user interface Making scripts that spin up nodes make hundreds of transactions kill stuff restart stuff In order to find bugs and we have found quite a bit of bugs So a lot of things go wrong when doing stuff like that on the mainnet Soon we would like to in order to feel more confident hit the state machine with fast testing essentially All of this is probably Not optimal. So the best way to Test a state machine would be to just feed it random but valid data And see if it breaks if you get into an invalid state, you have a bug So that's what we plan to do in the future for for testing So, um, we talked about what we have right now and what is coming with Veridice mainnet release, but we said it is not production ready and I cannot state this enough So what what is missing to achieve this production readiness? Um, first of all fees, right? So you would think that the payments and network has fees by default We we will not at red eyes Our production ready list will of course have fees But since we are trying to go and build incremental software that works, uh, we have scoped fees out for the mainnet release Of course, why are fees important? Well, I mean You need fees to incentivize mediation of transfers And also with a proper fee model, we can also Have a incentives to have a balanced network Another thing that will be missing from red eyes will be monitoring Patrick will talk a lot about this in the pizza talk later But what it is essentially is that if you go offline For an extended period of time with our defaults, it's more than two hours So it's not like if you just go offline, you lost money You just need to be offline for more than two hours Then you are in the danger zone of your partner closing the tunnel and basically, um, you're not having enough time to, um Claim your funds out of the tunnel So we will have a monitoring services that, um, we'll be looking at your tunnels and if something, um So if your partner acts while you're offline, they can take care of it Um, finally, um Uh, at the moment we have suboptimal routing, um, because, uh, when we create, uh, The route to the target, we only know, uh, the initial capacity that was, uh, the positive to the tunnel And we create, uh, the route to send, uh, the transfer through Using this, um, assumption Uh, in reality, you know, it's a, it's a moving network, uh, capacity changes all the time So we need to be able to, um, know the current capacity Our solution to this is to use a third party service. We call it the pathfinder And he will have a current view of the tunnel capacity because, um, nodes will be incentivized actually to send them Send to the path, uh, pathfinder helper capacity updates Um, so whenever you want to make a transfer, you just, uh, query the pathfinder What is the optimal route and then you send it, uh, that's very good because then You will get the optimal path so it will cost less and also, um The pathfinder will also, uh, give you, uh, a route that will help keep a healthy network So, um, you can, you guys can try it. Uh, we have a release every week, actually Preparing for the, um, for the mainnet everything is right now on the testnet all three testnets We have, uh, the contrast deployed so robsten, covan and rinkabee Um, and, uh, watch out for the bug bounty Whenever we, uh, finally make the red eyes mainnet release If you want to have a lot more, um, fun with riding and, uh, get into it and, uh, use it in a hands-on workshop My colleagues, uh, Jacob, Ulo and Paul will be hosting, uh, hands-on riding workshop, uh, from 1 p.m. To 3 at the micado room Uh, I will also be there. Uh, I think that the entire team will be there So you guys can just come interact with us and, uh, see how to use riding So that's all. Thank you. Uh, if you guys want more information Just follow us on twitter at ride and network Uh, take the website or just follow me at lefteris.jp Thank you very much


Here's a quick geojabrit demonstration to show you if you have two lines cut by a transversal So that a pair of corresponding angles are congruent then those two lines are parallel a Quicker way of writing that would be if you have corresponding angles that are congruent then the lines that created them are parallel So Here I have an angle and I can change the value of the angle and if I create a Corresponding angle now first of all what is a corresponding angle a corresponding angle is an angle that is in kind of the same position But on a different line in other words m and n are these two lines cut by a transversal t and Corresponding angles are angles in the same spot now I could say this angle angle a b c is kind of in like the northeast Quadrant if we wanted to think about it that way So northeast quadrant and northeast quadrant and I see that these two lines Regardless of what the angle is those two lines will be parallel So this is a construction of Euclid and if you wanted to learn a little bit more about that Feel free to ask your teacher or Google around But basically the point is if we have corresponding congruent angles then lines are parallel and now we can use that statement in further proofs Take a minute to read this if then statement the if part refers to given information In other words, we're given that we have two lines cut by a transversal and alternate interior angles are congruent The conclusion of the if then statement is what it is. We're trying to prove we want to prove that lines are parallel So let's draw out the given information So here we have two lines cut by a transversal let's call one of the lines m and We could call the transversal t Now our job is to show that alternate interior angles are congruent But which are the alternate interior angles? So the alternate interior angles could refer to let's say this angle and This angle those two blue angles it could also refer to these two green angles Now for sake of argument, we only need to pick one of the angle pairs. So I think I'll pick the blue angles So we're given that those two angles are congruent It'd be easier if I could just name the angles. Let's call this angle one and angle two So we know that angles one and angle two are congruent Now as it stands right now angles one and angle two are congruent The only way that we can prove lines are parallel are with corresponding angles. So corresponding angles Take a look at angle one angle one and its vertical angle. Let's call this angle three. I Know that angles one and three are congruent because vertical angles are always congruent So now we know angles one and three are congruent because one and three are vertical angles So if one is congruent to two and One and three are also congruent, then we can say that angles two and three are also congruent So two and three form corresponding angles and corresponding angles will allow us to say that the lines are indeed parallel. So that's kind of the general idea of the proof. Now let's put it together in a rigorous proof. So let's restate the given and prove information in terms of our diagram. So we're given one and two are congruent. In other words, alternate interior angles are congruent, and our job is to prove that m and n are parallel. Angles one and angle two are congruent, and we know that's true because it's given information. That's the hypothesis of the conditional statement. Also we know that what were they angles one and three? Yeah, angles one and three are vertical angles. So we'll want to mention that fact and then state that vertical angles are always congruent. So angles one and two, that's a typo, not angles one and two. Angles one and three are vertical angles, which means angles one and three are congruent. Angles one and three are vertical angles, and therefore vertical angles are congruent. Now one and two are congruent, as shown in the blue. One and three are congruent, as shown in the green. So the blues and the greens can come together. If one is two and one is three, then two and three are congruent. So angle two is congruent to angle three. So two and three are congruent by the transitive property, right? We can bring together the blue and the green, and if two and three are congruent, two and three are corresponding angles, and corresponding congruent angles always make parallel lines. So that last box we can fill in would be that m and n are parallel. And why is that true? It's true because if we have corresponding angles that are congruent, then the lines are parallel.


Welcome back to Plus TV Africa, time for us to take you back to what happened today in history. Now in 2015, talking about October the 29th, China ends one child policy. Now one child policy is that policy that I have, you know, over time, we think that maybe at some point we need to adopt looking at, you know, the state at which we are actually going with population growth. So today we actually had a time where that policy was actually earned by China. China had scrapped its one child policy allowing couples to have two children for the first time since that draconian family planning rules were introduced some time. I mean, it was about three decades ago and the announcement followed the four day Communist Party summit somewhere in China where top leaders debated financial reforms and how to maintain growth at the time of heightened concerns about the economy. So yes, China actually adopted this policy at the time, you know, to control the population explosion, if you like to say. You also have the fact that the change of the policy, as I had rightly mentioned, is intended to balance population development and address the challenges of an aging population. Now some celebrated the moves as a positive step towards greater personal freedom in China and others did not. So because of nearly 30 or 36 years that he existed because he started from 1979 to about 2015, about half of the parents in China faced instead a two-child limit. So if you're getting married for the first time as a couple or if you're a couple or you have a family, then it's expected that you would only have just a child. But after on this particular day, that particular law was crapped. It allowed people to have at least, you know, two children. Okay. Now China also provided a nominal reward to families with one child, which is actually a very good one. And the one child policy had been challenged for violating human right to determine the size of one's own proper family. I don't know, I totally understand that even if we get to adopt this policy, I'm thinking that a lot of people will not want us. Because we live in a society where we constantly say, oh, children are gifts from God and yes, children are gifts from God. But I'm thinking that we need to begin to also pay attention, especially at this point in time. I look at families who have like five kids and I constantly ask myself, how are they faring? How do they keep up with the bills? How do you get to pay school fees? How do you get to, you know, pay rent and just survive all through? Without having government, you know, instituting this policy as a means of control, I'm thinking that as individuals, it's important that we pay attention. You know, we should be logical about raising kids and having children. So you have lean resources. It's okay to say, well, let's just have one or two. So we're able to cater for them and take care of their needs properly. Well, this is what happened some time ago today in history. China on this particular day scrapped that one child policy and then allowed the people to have at least two after a very long time. That's the much we can actually take at this point in time. We're going to step on the brakes now. When we return, we will be talking about the Anambra elections that is slated for the 6th of November. And of course, our guests will be joining us on the discourse of Honobu Okutaria, who is a public affairs analyst. Please take a round.


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U2 Man by Owl Rehab fragrance review. Hey what's up guys it's Josh here today I want to do a little review on this U2 Man by Owl Rehab. Now I first heard of Owl Rehab with Owl Rehab silver which was supposed to copy silver amount water. Since then I've tried a few clones and haven't really dabbled with that one. One of my subscribers suggested this one to me and I was unable to find the spray. I think this normally comes in spray but I got two roll-ons. Super super cheap very very affordable and this fragrance is supposed to copy Gucci Rush which apparently came out in 2000. Personally I don't have that much experience with Gucci Rush I had never smelled it. I have heard little bits of it in the fragrance community here and there but never anything that made me really want to get it or anything really overly talked about with this one but enter U2 Man. So I remember I was looking up on fragrance notes unable to find normal fragrance notes for this one. I went ahead and looked up Gucci Rush's notes so let's go over Gucci Rush's notes. Cypress, lavender, sandalwood, cedar, juniper, white musk, and patchouli. To me guys this is actually somewhat of a familiar style fragrance. A fragrance that kind of goes right down the middle but at the same time it does little bits. It pulls on little strings that makes it kind of unique in its own way. I could see why somebody would like Gucci Rush after trying this. So the pros is that it's unique but at the same time ever being unique it is somewhat of a right down the middle style scent. To me I get a little bit of sweetness but it's not over all kind of sweet. It's just put together like a very classic fragrance like a very likable classic fragrance right down the middle but it doesn't really directly remind me of anything which I appreciate that but at the same time it really doesn't pull on too many other strings. When you're looking at the notes I definitely smell a little bit of musk a little bit of classic stuff like lavender and patchouli maybe a little cypress in there. The cypress kind of gives I'll think a little bit of a unique zest of freshness. It's very very affordable I've got to say the longer that this sits the better it smells in my opinion. So that's kind of like the pros of U2man the cons. I don't have too too many it's just like in the opening there's this kind of harsh style smell.  I've never smelled this off-putting vibe in anything else and right away I just really didn't like this off-putting vibe at all. It's kind of like it's hard for me to recommend this to anyone. As the time went on it slowly smelled better and about an hour hour and a half into it that initial roughness was gone and you were just left with a typical likable scent right down the middle scent but a scent that I haven't smelled a lot of other places and when you cut out that initial thing that I don't like that's hop notes whatever that is I can't really describe it synthetic not good but once that's gone it's actually a really really enjoyable scent that I could wear a lot. So I see I think why people would like Gucci Rush because of the dry down this one I really really do enjoy it. I wrote up some ratings for this one this one fragrance kind of ends up being right down the middle due to its pros and cons so I'm going to give this smell a 7.5 I would say if I was just only smelled like the dry down maybe I'd give an 8 maybe an 8.5 but I'll say an 8 because it is likable I haven't smelled it anywhere or I haven't smelled things that smelled just like this so I do appreciate that but that initial opening blast is kind of not for me personally it kind of have to put it as 7.5 right down the middle likability again I'm gonna have to put this as 7.5 I think cutting out the middle I might have put this as a firm 8.5 in likability because it just is likable it smells like a classic fragrance that smells good that you haven't smelled before that's great but then I don't know how likable the opening would be I think the opening is very unlikable for that I'm gonna have to give it a solid 7.5 right down the middle I know you're gonna hate me for this one but longevity and projection what do I think it's going to be a 7.5 just because it's not a beast mode but it's not really bad like any fragrance that lasts maybe like an hour I have to put it like a 6 or so this one I kept smelling it for longer than I would expect and again I would much rather try the spray of this one unfortunately I have the roll on so I think it's just a little bit differently it might maybe it has more oils in there but I would just prefer a spray for this this lasted actually a pretty decent amount of time because that opening initial blast you kind of smell for maybe 45 minutes but I would say the longevity and projection as you might get up to two hours with this one maybe an hour and a half two hours I'll say about that and then you could smell it for a decent amount of time afterwards again nothing that makes me think it's weak but nothing that makes me think it's strong so I'm going a 7.5 so anyways guys I'd give this a 7.5 right down the middle it actually does make me want to try the original spray version just because I do enjoy this and I think it would be closer to what I would expect in normal fragrances I don't really use too much roll-ons personally have you tried the original Gucci Rush was it a great fragrance I'll be very interested to see down below have you tried this you too man have you tried any other fragrances by our rehab I'll be very interested to see down below we're on the road 25,000 subscribers and I couldn't do that and for guys to help you guys are the best I'm having a great day out here hopefully having a great day at home see you all in the next video peace


Okay, we're back. We're live. I'm Jay Fiedel. This is Think Tech and it's a given Wednesday, and it's energy in America At three o'clock Hawaii time, but we're talking to Washington or is it New York? Just Jeff Kissel of e-brake joins us today to discuss the a Keystone pipeline and we're talking about President Trump's action in restoring Restarting the Keystone initiative welcome to the show Jeff Thanks, Jay. It's it's wonderful to be with you. I'm just somewhere east of Burbank, so well Let's leave it at that. Okay. All right, fine. So, um, you know it was it was headlines this morning we like to be current and President Trump has restarted not only Keystone, but the the Dakota pipeline Can you tell us what happened from the energy energy? Yes, you know think tank point of view Well, this is one of the promises that President Trump made during his campaign that he's he's following through on and What he has decided to do is allow the State Department to revisit the decision that the Obama administration made and the Obama administration as you may recall Decided against permitting the Keystone pipeline to move through That pipeline brings crude oil from Alberta, Canada all the way down to the United States Texas Gulf Coast and it's a lot more important for Hawaii than people realize Right now and I'll be glad to go into the details Well, let's let's talk about the you know the implications of the immediate players first So the first thing is that the government has clearly changed its policy And on the way to the show I was listening to an NPR story about how how the Trump administration is changing the Department of Justice And there's a lot of concern about the Civil Rights Act matter because he's hired Political appointees that is not not appointees it has to be consented to by the Senate but appointees that are embedded in the Department of Justice who are going to change policy on enforcement of the Civil Rights Act and so that's hot news now So I think what we see now four days after the inauguration is he's taking a lot of action in a lot of places and Making a lot of changes. I suppose most of them are consistent with what he was saying before so this is a change on energy and What we have here is a change that has going to have ripple effect in many directions The first the first effect is I guess what what has happened here is Let's see we have a new we have a new energy or at least he's he will be a new once he's confirmed We have Rick Perry going to be the new you know director of energy and He's going to he's going to be consistent with this policy of allowing keystone and for that matter the Dakota pipeline to go forward So that's easy the government has changed. What about Canada? How does this affect Canada? How does it affect? Gee, I guess it has affect the United States well it affects United States in a lot of different ways and I want to talk about the Canadian crude in terms of what it really is It's a a crude oil that allows the refineries that have been operating in the Texas Gulf and in Louisiana To operate a lot more efficiently and produce a lot more product The United States is one of the biggest energy Exporters in the world even though it's illegal to export crude. It is not X illegal to export product So we're going to see a lot more United States oil products exported to Europe South America and more importantly to the Pacific Where they will help hold down the cost of energy in Hawaii? At least until we can put in a renewable energy strategy what's the point chef of of Not being permitted to export crude, but being permitted to export product What's the policy reason for making that distinction well Jay? You're not old enough to remember the 1970s and and we had a very difficult time with the Arab oil embargo as a country and especially in Hawaii and and during those times they passed a lot of legislation and one of the laws that was passed and in fact it predated the oil embargo because Came in with crude oil was price control Was that we we decided that as a matter of public policy? We would not allow the crude oil to be exported from the United States We wanted to encourage the development of refinery capacity in the United States. So we allowed Refined products to be exported That's really the genesis of it mm-hmm, okay. Well, I mean arguably I suppose You could you make a buck on refining and then exporting and that may not subject to the market of commodities And of course, you know those the second world war was fresh in everyone's memory and one of the reasons We were able to prevail in the second world war was because we had a Lot of our own crude production and we produced the refined products that that allowed us as as President Roosevelt's advisor said to float to victory on a sea of oil Really that did happen. So this is coming from Alberta Alberta has a lot of oil huge oil industry But you know in the case of natural gas, which we're not talking about natural gas talking about oil right now Natural gas had the promise of lasting for a long time and being cheap for a long time in this case You know, are we are we subject to a limitation on the quantity? Is this going to be subject to the whole analysis of peak oil? And I guess You know how important is the pipeline in delivering that and how much money would be spend on it and is it worth it? Well, let's talk about those in three sections. Okay constant of peak oil is gone Oil is really available in almost any quantity. We want it. It's a matter of the cost to produce it The unconventional oil that's been discovered over the last ten years Is being exploited only one or two percent of its total resource? so 98% of the unconventional oil that we know about is still in the ground and At at $50 a barrel. It's barely Break even to produce it at a hundred dollars a barrel They make a lot of money at $500 a barrel you can imagine how much of that oil could be produced So the idea of a limited oil supply Is really an idea that kind of died a number of years ago Now that doesn't mean we should be using more oil All it means is that we have to look at it in different terms instead of looking at it as a supply issue We've got to look at it as a cost issue as an environmental issue as a quality life issue Those are very very important things equally important to how much oil there is absolutely Okay, fair enough now forgetting Hawaii for a minute just looking at the country in general Is is oil a bridge fuel for the country in general shouldn't the country in general be moving to non fossil fuels? Aren't we concerned about the environment and global warming? America is moving away from fossil fuels and they're the market is moving America away from fossil fuels They're doing it in a number of ways the most important one is that there is a public awareness that That fuels that produce excessive greenhouse gas are not good So when they make purchasing decisions They're aware of just like they're aware of of how humanely the tuna is captured and whether it's dolphin free And whether they are aware of whether they're walking into a green building and whether procter and gamble or coca-cola Will build their next factory as an energy efficient environmentally friendly factory so they can put that on their label Those those that public is developing that awareness and that's a really positive thing The other thing that's happened of course is that the public knows That oil can rise to a hundred and twenty or a hundred and forty dollars a barrel and beyond So they're they're still conserving it Although my my friends and neighbors who are buying larger and larger cars now that gasoline is cheap are not But the airlines certainly are good examples and they're very good citizens these days But you know what what do you say to the argument that if we if we didn't have a big supply of oil We would be forced to spend our money and our you know our effort on on building renewables If we have an easy supply of oil Then we're less motivated to move to renewables I mean that nationally That's actually not the case if you look at the statistics and that's what our organization does we look at these statistics We see that we are investing more and more in renewables and less in traditional conventional fuels and it's because we're meeting public demand the Tesla Motor Car Company the People who are building now five manufacturers of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles The people who are building energy efficient water heaters air conditioners heat pumps and appliances They're they're all moving away from oil even though Oil is relatively inexpensive oil is cheaper than it in real terms oil is cheaper than it has been in almost 50 years What is it right now? Oil is around $50 a barrel a little bit old So it's hanging in there for the past six months anyway oil went up to forty four dollars a barrel in 1974 Today would be almost $200 a barrel Yeah, so I remember those days when when people had to make choices between buying food of food and heating their homes May come again who knows So going back to you know the people who are involved, you know the sort of the spokes in the wheel the people who feel the ripple effect What about the oil companies? You know, what does keystone mean to the oil companies and I include Exxon with due regard for Rex Tillerson The oil companies benefit by having keystone and for that matter the Dakota pipeline Rex is going to make the decision on the keystone pipeline, of course Right secretary of state, of course. Oh, I mean, that's that that is that's going to happen and You know we have to be aware of that the oil companies today are Not near the same organizations. They were 25 or or even 10 years ago Most of the oil companies have divested themselves of their oil refineries and their distribution systems they're producing crude oil and natural gas and It's that's a financial decision that they have made because the capital in the oil industry is Is actually diminishing as the price of oil declines Lesson and incentive to put capital into it those same oil companies for an example BP are Investing very heavily in renewables and energy efficiency products and and a whole host of other things that are related to their industry Including technology. Yeah, good for them. That's smart You're gonna move you're gonna move with the changing changing time one more question before we go to our break Jeff And that is this so this morning With the stroke of a pen effectively The president reversed the Obama decision on a keystone and I guess I'm like at the quota pipeline and now Now it's gonna be it's gonna happen But it's still in development and the development company hasn't finished building the pipeline I guess it'll take some time And my question to you is how long will it take to finish the whole thing? And you know all the construction contemplated it crosses the country north to south And how long will it be before we actually see some oil flow through that pipeline of those pipelines? And how long will it be before it has an effect on things on prices on supply? Whatever? Most of the pipeline is already installed It won't take long for them to install the remainder of the pipeline But it's already having an impact on the market because people Anticipate the future in their purchasing decisions and pay so the Texas Gulf refineries are Investing in upgrading their hardware so they can take advantage of that crude oil And they can blend it with the crude oil that they get locally and make the the products That are so important to this economy is as we move forward So how what would you say is it is it weeks is it months is it years before it'll actually you know spill out the other side It's a few years And you know because I don't know how long it will take the State Department to actually make the decision I don't know whether there'll be court challenges. You know, there are a lot of things that can go on Once the State Department makes its decision and You've got to allow for that to occur. Yeah, and you can bet the environmentalists are going to be hot on this issue and The Indian tribes involved they'll be hot on this issue and anybody supports the environmentalists You know who feels you know strongly about climate change for that matter Or supports the Indian tribes going to be hot on this issue So I think your suggestion of the possibility of litigation is Well, that's a fair chance that'll happen. Don't you think I think there's a financial chance you're going to see public protest I think you're going to see litigation and I think you will see attempts after the decision is made to To change that decision. Yeah, I'm I'm not I'm not smart enough to tell you what the outcome of That activity will be but it's it's clear that that If you look at the demonstrations that are occurring today in the country That people are in the mood to become more activist than than they were years ago So yeah, so interesting we in the Chinese sense we live in interesting times Let's take one minute break Jeff Kissel as Jeff Kissel of E-Pring energy policy and In what was in Washington in New York? I never I never got that straight We are we're in Washington DC, but I'm sitting in New York City right now, okay? 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I'm the host for moving Hawaii forward And the show is dedicated to transportation and traffic issues in Oahu We are all frustrated by sitting in our cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic And this show is dedicated to talking to with folks that not only we can define the problem But we hopefully can come to the table with some solutions So I invite you to join me every Tuesday at 12 noon and let's move Hawaii forward Okay, we're back for a live this instinct text on a given Wednesday afternoon It's a three o'clock rock and we do as we do very often Energy in America and today we're doing with with Jeff Kissel who is with e-prink in Washington, DC But he joins us by Skype from New York So Jeff you had plenty of experience and time in grade and time as the CEO of Hawaii gas to study the Hawaii market And to figure out the ripple effects of these changes in energy supply on Hawaii So we spoke we spoke about you know the the oil industry We spoke about you know the protest groups the environmental groups we we spoke about the country in general But we really haven't drilled down on what what what this means for Hawaii? Let's assume for this discussion that protest or not keystone is open Let's assume for this discussion that they finished the pipeline and it actually supplies Canadian oil Alberta oil Into the United States. How does this affect Hawaii and when I have I? Have a different way of describing this because I think it's I need to lay a little bit of foundation and I Hope I don't put people to sleep doing go for it Hawaii has decided to pursue a renewable energy strategy Whether that is 50% or 100% doesn't matter Hawaii is directionally moving toward using more renewables in the future not less In doing that it has decided not to take any intermediate steps But to move from oil which is largely responsible for Hawaii's supplying Hawaii's energy needs to renewables Well, if you move from one thing to another you have to get there and Unless you're going to use some other means to get there like magic You're stuck with oil being the bridge to Hawaii's renewable energy future Can I dwell on that for a minute with you? What why why do we need a bridge? I mean, why can't we just Hunker down right now that the 2017 legislature does what it has to do in terms of tax credits and incentives That it moves the economics around so that we the people have no choice But to get off fossil fuel and go to clean energy right now on an accelerated accelerated basis. Why can't we do that? Do you remember 9-11 when the hotels emptied? Yes, and nobody flew on any airplanes Okay Or the economic collapse of the first part of the 21st century That is essentially what you're looking at if if we shut off the oil economically not physically And and what would happen would be airplane tickets would go back to a thousand dollars a seat for economy class Electricity would go from the current hundred and twenty five hundred and thirty dollars a month That everyone is that the average household is currently paying to five hundred dollars a month that many of us used to pay Because when you when you convert the price of a barrel of oil to the energy cost in a kilowatt of electricity or in Terms of a revenue passenger mile on an airplane It's horrific, and I did the math for you Jay just so that you could get a feel for it Today At $52 of barrel if you were to buy that same barrel Which we all do in terms of kilowatt hours of electricity The real cost that we're paying is six hundred and fifty dollars How do you get to that barrel of electricity is is costing about six hundred and fifty dollars? I don't I don't know whether you can see my slides, but basically There are one thousand six hundred and twenty eight kilowatt hours of energy In a forty two gallon barrel of oil Mm-hmm, if you pay fifty two dollars for that barrel raw That's fine, but we can't when we buy it through the power lines. We pay forty cents a kilowatt hour You multiply forty cents times one thousand six hundred and twenty eight, and you get six hundred and fifty dollars of barrel So if we were to raise the cost, you know Let's just say the state of Hawaii decided that public policy required that we we grossly increased the price of oil Let's say the state of Hawaii wanted to bring that price back up to 2007 eight nine levels make it a hundred and fifty dollars That means you're going to be paying almost $2,000 of barrel for the electricity that you buy from the neighborhood power company Today the average cost of Solar electric per barrel in the United States on an equivalent basis is less than two hundred dollars So people would be driven when people would then be driven to solar right right away, wouldn't they? Yes, but Unfortunately, the state of Hawaii has managed to kill off Residential solar and I can't tell you why they've done it But I can tell you that from installing a megawatt a month on top of people's rooftops They've gone to practically nothing So for Hawaii to to move to a renewable energy strategy. It's putting more and more oil In the way right now what I hear you saying is that when you're talking about Sort of the ship of the economic state so to speak you can't make Disruptive changes and disruptive changes, you know, they can be nice theoretically But when you get down to the ground the way people live and how their pocketbooks work Disruptive changes are very painful and therefore what I hear you saying is therefore a bridge Would make it less painful would allow us to stretch it over time Regardless of how you do this You're stuck with oil until it's done and that's that's what's happened now. Hawaii has managed to Slow itself down dramatically by killing off the residential solar industry It's just put a huge roadblock in its own way and Hawaii is already a very very high-cost environment The just to give you three quick examples the cost of the rail transit in Hawaii for the 18 miles is Nearly six times the cost of that same transit Built in Los Angeles Dallas and a number of metropolitan areas cost of the worker Doing work in Pearl Harbor is the highest cost for that kind of work in any shipyard in the United States When you when you look at that and combine that with the other costs that our Citizens have to incur if you were to to layer on Oil taxes at higher energy costs What you're doing is your slowing development. You're not speeding up that bridge to the future She the goalposts now. Yeah. Well, that would be a great concern So looking at it from that point of view We only have two or three minutes left here looking at it from that point of view What what should happen here? I guess I guess your view of it is that whatever the other considerations are around keystone for Hawaii on an economic basis what I hear you saying is we we could we could use oil at a cheaper price We could use a greater supply. We could use a domestic supply instead of from the Middle East And that keystone helps do all of that therefore what I hear you saying is Keystone is something that we should support despite, you know, the fact that a lot of people are really off fossil fuel in the state They don't want any part of it But the fact as you have explained it is that like it or not we need it You know, you you need it because without inexpensive oil Solar wind and the other forms of renewable energy Get further pushed further and further off into the distance and as a result There's more vulnerability to the economy if oil prices go up in the interim because oil is all we've got right now for 87% of the energy requirement in the state of Hawaii and that you can't change that Without investment if you're paying money for high-priced oil That money is not available to invest in efficient Reasonably priced renewables. Yeah, and we have a million cars on the road and They're all most you know short of except for 5,000 of them. They're all fossil fuel cars We have our utility system is pretty much all Driven on fossil fuels, so that would be disruptive at the least but let me ask you You know what what is your advice then on how we reach? Our energy goals, which we talk about a lot and the energy policy forum of which I am a member Talks about a lot. How do we reach those goals and factor all these considerations in and not lose the hold of time a Lot of time or big point Jeff get distracted because the risk of a bridge fuel You should get married to it and then you can't get away from it This would be really bad for us because then we'd be losing the initiative We have spent so much time and energy. No pun intended on developing and still are how do we handle this? What's your advice? The answer the answer is investment and you've got to create an environment where Investment is favorable. You can't have a five-hour gridlock because you had a water main failure and And and expect an economy to function. That's that's a symptom of a far greater problem It's lack of investment and and if you put roadblocks in your way You basically Make investment less and less viable Oil is the Hawaii bridge to the future. You know, our our Institute is not advocating it We're stating fact Okay Jeff it's great to talk to you I sure enjoy it and feels like you're right across the table from me I hope I get to see you, you know personally soon wish you well for 2017 Hope we can do more shows like this and and cover these subjects as they go forward because there will be more news I guarantee it for you Jeff kisser with Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you. Thank you Jeff. Aloha Jeff