Okay, very good morning to you. It is Thursday 6th of February and just having an update then for what's going on in markets at the moment and if you were looking at the Positions from yesterday and an equity markets in particular then definitely a continuation from where we left off on the close on Wall Street in Asia Adding to that the S&P and NASDAQ 100 closing at a record high so I have seen Sam He's been parading around the office with his 30,000 thou hat We're only about 560 points away from that at the moment So that does seem a sense of inevitability about hitting that point in time as you can see to me here's the the graphic of the the S&P 500 so that initial coronavirus outbreak fear that they Kind of the market had to grapple with for the last week and a half or so completely taken back As we have been discussing throughout a lot of our briefings Although the situation numbers as we'll look at in a second are still going up at the moment still seemingly seen as a contained Situation I did actually see some of the mortality rates Outside of Wuhan or the area of Hubei and the mortality rate is about zero point one six percent As long as those numbers like that remain at those lower levels I think the market will continue to kind of brush it aside to some degree and then you've had good Econite data coming out the US Trump is loving life again because he's now the impeachment trial has finished and so Yeah markets on the the front foot again this morning So the DAX playing a little bit catch-up they reopened up about a hundred and seven points this morning US index futures have just added on to the gains and there's a few other positive signs from China being to look into kind of issue an olive branch by reciprocating US tariff decreases on Valentine's Day of all days and that scene then There's another potential positive catalyst for markets.  We're at now record territory.  I've mentioned, you know We're looking now for any further catalysts and certainly there could be some to come there's not so much in the way of Major US data today, but obviously non-farm payrolls just around the corner now that's coming out in tomorrow's Sessions, so just have a quick look at the other charts W2I crude also following suit with some of the renewed risk appetite the MSCI index of world stocks So a combination of all geographic regions has now been up for four straight days Asian Indices including Japan Hong Kong and South Korea up more than 2% overnight and so again this kind of bounce back from particularly when we reopened on Chinese mainland markets on Monday It just continues to be to be clawed back in that region So elsewhere the US 10 year as you would imagine a little lower than about five and a half ticks gold Bucking the trend slightly. It's had a slight uptick over the last couple of hours But basically flat on the session and in the currency space. We've just had a little bit of volatility in the euro It's very fleeting momentarily. I think Perhaps people getting a little bit excited by some of the initial comments here from Christine Lagarde The first comment that came out that actually bumped it up higher just a couple minutes ago Was she said low rates and low inflation the environment has reduced the scope for policy easing And that is a quite clear hawkish comment However, now the other comments come out the eurozone economy continues to require support from monetary policy And some other more level kind of comments to just nip that little hawkish initial comment in the bud So a little bit of a blip higher, but then has reversed course just now But she's continuing to speak so I'll monitor the comments as I'm delivering this briefing otherwise Let's get into stuck into some other headlines and this was the the Chinese headlines that I was looking at China to halve tariffs on 75 billion Dollars worth of US goods from February 14th the reduction timed With to or to coincide with phase one moves by the US So again that idea that these are reciprocal in that sense to satisfy part of the interim trade deal So this is seen by markets as a bit of an added reasoning for why we we saw the lift Going through the Asian session from overnight in terms of those numbers Where do we reside at the moment is? Total confirmed case is now to just over 28,000 total desk 565 total recovered now Just over 1200. I just got a question here actually on the chat So how bad do the virus numbers need to get before it causes serious negative reaction in US and European stocks? Okay? I would say It's more about the Well, there's two ways of looking at this One I would say one at the moment the market is kind of looking at coronavirus and and kind of almost dismissing it Hence the reason why we're seeing the type of asset class movement We have at the moment But it's kind of two things that I'd be monitoring quite closely for one And this is something that JP Morgan said in a research note yesterday. They said any reacceleration in coronavirus cases and the thing that they're looking at here as a result of factories Reopening don't forget in Wuhan. That's a major Manufacturing city in mainland China a lot of car auto manufacturing for example.  You've probably seen the images. There's just no one the streets have deserted But at some point then that city has to reopen if it doesn't think of the risk then well That's a major Manufacturing center of China for its exports and so there's going to be a consequence on the Chinese economy And if that happens to a more severe degree than what markets are expecting There's a gross slowdown that can reverberate across the global economy. So there's there's dual risks here for China they reopen the factory too soon and then you see Recontamination from the human to human transmission as people get to move around again by reopening facilities or you wait too long and that has a increased compounding effect on the economic slowdown from being on a complete lockdown as a as a quite a large geographic area, so that's Detail risk if you like at the moment markets not looking at that, but that could quickly come into sharper focus should the Lockdown go into an extended protracted phase or once they return to work Do we start to see it and a re-acceleration? Into almost exponential growth again of the total confirmed cases and subsequently the number of deaths at that point The other second point then is about monitoring of these numbers Outside of mainland China at the moment. They're incredibly small. You know, I think if you look at the numbers, I mean, it's pretty much 99% of all cases are in China and of that nearly all of them are in Hubei as the area of the deaths almost 549 of the 565 come from that one single area where the apparent origination in the city of Wuhan so Unless those outside areas also start to move higher of which to be honest have been very slow Then again, I don't see that as a risk as far as markets are concerned So yeah, Ian, I hope that answers your question A couple of things for sure, you know, I'm not looking at this as in The the coronavirus is now a non-issue leave it behind I think yeah, you've got to look at you can look at that in terms of the intraday shorter term environment But there's still our risks and there's still things to look out for Another key thing that moved the markets. Obviously yesterday was this talk about a vaccine I've done a little bit more reading around that and My overall interpretation is that, you know markets got awfully excited About a snap headline on Chinese TV talking about a research team and the Chinese University had kind of cracked a Similar drug that can be used as a vaccine, but from what I've read earlier this morning Any type of vaccine to come to market to be used in reality Would be months away Generally speaking then experimental drugs take much longer And I think the average time frame in China for that type of situation Even in a fast-track process is about 640 days So you're looking at two years to bring a vaccine to market in the best case That's that's almost halved in terms of in the US. It's about 400 low 400 day time frame for Europe and so that the idea or notion that they've just Cracked the code so to speak and they can roll it out. I think is wishful thinking so The key thing here I think from an intraday trading point of view You saw how sensitive markets were to that news in circulation yesterday and two things I want you to take away from that one is where the news comes from So you can see if you're a new trader the clear difference in the way markets react to a Bloomberg headline Comparative to a headline from an alternate source that takes a bit of time to gain traction And then markets start to kind of build up into a move rather than a major Financial news wire of snapping a headline and that initial knee jerk reaction you get So there's a difference in the way of which the dissemination of news plays out into the actual market price And then secondly looking out for then confirmation of the major authorities and what do they have to say? Remember the World Health Organization came out pretty much shortly after and said look This isn't this isn't the case. There is no vaccine as far as they're concerned from an official basis So whenever you do get that kind of rumor mongering almost and it does move markets Always think one step ahead then if you're in that trade then great If you if you are quite aggressive and you followed that momentum order flow going through the market But I would suggest being quite Proactive in management of that trade because inevitably you get a response official rebuttal which often then Can reverse the move? So there's ways it means to manage that kind of headline training environment Michael. Thank you So it's a statistic just to finish off this discussion here on the virus the SARS vaccine took about 20 months 2020 so again in fitting with the rough kind of time frames that we were just discussing So the idea I think of a magic silver bullet to come and save the world from Coronavirus I think is a little bit far off in terms of the practicality of that All right move on other headlines because I want Sam to come on and do his his technical rap The Senate acquits Trump. I don't think I need to talk about this very much This is completely as expected. This hasn't had any ramification Don't don't be fooled by the fact that the markets are seeing this as a as a net positive. He was never Not going to be acquitted. We've discussed this many times over the last few months Rather than this looking at it that way. I prefer to look at it more as what does this mean for? His popularity. It's almost vindication, you know for Donald Trump I don't know if you've looked at his tweets, but I'm sure you're gonna hear a lot more of his tweets coming up He's obviously absolutely laying into Mitt Romney who was the one Republican who stood against the president and convicted him of one of the charges of the two that were on the table But overall I think You know, this was a disaster from the Democrat Democrats. I just don't know why they even bothered for me it's almost that kind of That mantra of you know, if you strike me down you only make me stronger Any Star Wars fans will get the reference the idea of being here that this just makes him more appealing I think it makes it even more believable that he can spin the witch hunt narrative And get away with it. And so now he's almost bulletproof. You've tried you failed miserably I think it's just pretty tragic on behalf of the opposing party and that's not me being Talking up Trump. I just think that they've shocked themselves in the foot there Because it was never going to happen in the first place. So Yeah, completely as expected. They're not gonna talk about it anymore The story that I do think is a little bit more interesting as this one that's talking about OPEC plus now They've gone into an unprecedented third day of Their technical meetings now. These are technical meetings. This is supposed to be basically catch up You know, all these all ministers catch up They talk about their adherence to the quotas as part of the the supply-cut agreement But look, I mean, this is the oil chart that we've looked at. I've just kept it the way it was yesterday But oil prices have now bounced from roughly a 40 low $49 mark And we're up to this morning 51 73 So we continue to bounce a decent amount in crude oil now. We've talked about the How key this area is As a pivotal point and the reason why then as a trigger OPEC are feeling that they need to start ramping up the verbal intervention but you know, one of my takes from this and you know, perhaps I'm just thinking about it too much, but I Think part of the strategy here from OPEC is I don't think they're serious in reducing output This is this is this seems quite clear if actually read the source reports. There's a lot of Disagreement between the two major powers that be which is Saudi Arabia and Russia Saudi quite willing to step in and deepen the supply cuts Russia not yet and without those two agreeing Nothing's gonna happen because Russia obviously is a bigger oil producer than Saudi Arabia One doesn't agree. Well, then any cuts are for nothing now here I actually think by extending this into a third day What they're trying to do is if you step out of the oil market have a rethink about what's happening right now You know, the market is responding in a very positive fashion It's continuing to price out risks in the short term of the coronavirus US economic data has been phenomenal from ISM Manufacturing non manufacturing factory orders ADP was really strong You know, all of those things are good for demand So if demand was knocked by a loss of consumption from China being the biggest importer Prices have come back down. I think the strategy here for OPEC pluses will look let's just extend this meeting Let's appear to the market like we're thinking of doing something all the time all of these external factors are playing positive for price and if we Continue to say we're talking People will be very reticent to be sat in a short position just in case the tail risk we pulled the trigger and cut supply and so price is naturally are gonna bounce and You know with all those things coming together. I think it's a pretty prudent play if they do this Oil prices have stabilized and if they can see off this week and coronavirus continues to kind of Deescalate almost as an issue I think they've got away with it and they've got away with it without firing any bullets that what I mean by that is using actual physical reduction of supply of crude oil which is a kind of a last resort if you see what I mean You do not want to give the market at every time it challenges you by bumping the price down You cut because what will happen is the price will keep coming down unless you cut cut cut cut cut And then you're gonna be back in a corner and nowhere else to go then but deliver every single time You do not want to be at the beck and call of the market You know, it's exactly the same kind of strategies that central banks would do the way that they communicate is what these oil ministers will Be thinking I'm absolutely sure of it So yeah, that's my kind of take with the oil side of things So perhaps then those key levels are gonna hold out to see off the week Particularly if that payroll data comes out strong and the market holds up here in the equity space I don't see any reason why for the moment then We should push back down lower in the crude market at least for the moment final headlines We did have German factory orders this morning. They actually came in at minus 2.1% and actually that was considerably weaker than expected and you can see here German factory orders are down the most in a decade in the month of December now You know Euro if you looked at it this morning when this data came out The data came out 7 a.m. This morning. It didn't really blink. I think a lot of that is well If you look on 2018 2019 performance, yes statistically speaking, this is the worst German factory orders in a long time However, it doesn't really detract from the general contraction of that area of their economy So it's not massively surprising But we had that little bump up from Christine Lagarde's a short while ago You know this this certainly might put a cap on any of that Acceleration in the euro and at the moment I still remain fairly bearish on the euro dollar pair just given how the positive fundamentals are stacking up at the moment for the dollar and So, you know if you're looking at the divergence of fundamentals here Not to say the market has seen an immediate reaction to German factory orders But they are weak and it does ratify the current stance of the biggest economy in Europe is Is in a state of weakness right now and on the flip side America apparently is on fire right now as far as the latest data is concerned now that Divergence gives a nice fundamental directional bias for for the euro and trend-wise that has been heading Lower as well for some time Final things earnings. There's a couple of major French companies reporting some of the biggest in fact of their Of the index in a catcoron and some other earnings to be aware of so total their opening price They were up about 2.4 percent Sinoffia were up about 2.2 percent So total beating estimates on rising oil and gas output Sinoffi sees profit rising in 2020 So positive earnings as well in Europe to boot and these aren't small firms Sinoffian total are two of the biggest companies in Europe You've also had Arsalaam et al Dutch listed up about 10 percent unit credit in Italy up 5 percent So there's a couple of other things to be aware of here as well Okay, quick final look and if I give Sam the nod to come over now Because I'll be done in about 60 seconds You've got this morning in terms of data, it's pretty quiet in the US though Nothing really major coming out from a data perspective again non farms is tomorrow So perhaps the market starts to fade Into the latter part of the the US session and the typical kind of Friday morning quiet period ahead of the job data But speakers wise is a few things Lagarde has been speaking You've got de Gwendoz her kind of second in command also speaking a bit later. I believe separate events the EU trade commissioner Paul Hogan speaking at 10. That's obviously Mild interest just given now that negotiations are underway between Obviously Britain and Europe. I'm not expecting really anything concrete to come out here But nonetheless, he is an important person to monitor going forward over the coming months And then feds cap plan later on this afternoon any fixed-income traders you have supply coming out from the Tresor and to sorrow So Spanish and French supply quite a lot coming to market this morning for any boom traders All right, that is it from me hand you over to Sam. Wish you a good day ahead so much guys Yeah, hi guys. Happy Thursday. We're all doing well. Have good evenings So a quick look over where I guess there's only one place to start and let me just find the mouse Which I've seen to have lost now I've got it SP Dow Jones Nasdaq all finishing higher higher higher Let's have a quick look at the old daily chart to just put things into perspective. Why are you selling this market? It just does not want to come down trading 3350 at the moment and Believable really when we look at it. So if we go in on with this is going to continue Well, you want to be looking to buy some dips. Yes, we had a decent push higher We came back into near those lows That you'll be seeing me wearing this very very soon. You can get these from all online retailers The Dow 30,000 hat, you know what that's coming on soon Well, maybe maybe by next week, maybe well if we have a couple days like we did recently But let's have a look at potential opportunities to get in again, you know yesterday The the nasdaq came down quite aggressively Which I was going to bring into picture and gave that opportunity on those loads of the day incredible really And it was that low that ignited the others to to all go as well So keep an eye because you know the way these you know markets can connect is they they just need that Further push to to go on and it can drift in the European session So the nasdaq on that high you can see we just touch that again You're also starting to develop a bit of a trend line from the lows of yesterday If that is to break through then it could be that we just come down a bit Before that final push, but I like the idea of around the the pivot for the nasdaq I don't even think you know, it's against the realms that we can get there Before a push higher at the Dow Jones. I would like it a bit lower as well Looking at those previous highs for opportunities to get in. It's just whether we can have that that to That retracement to go from it. It might be that into the the US session We just have what we had yesterday and that once those highs break You can see here lovely trade in the Dow whether you wanted to get in Aggressively on the break of it or you wanted the classic. It's pretty one directional since then The S&P very similar breaking the high coming back. Yes, you're offside for a touch But in reality this whole move started once We get to get the trend Once we broke through those highs and where was the low of the evening you guessed it right back on that trend line So it's lovely opportunities. Yes, they when it's broken through so Yes, there could be a course a down day and there could be further developments for this Coronavirus, but we're on all-time highs And I think it's just one of those ones where people have almost forgotten about it And we are looking to look for long small people are going into it So just be careful when when going short be vigilant to take profits as when the euro It's interesting. You know, we were just talking before We started the briefing this morning about that pivot. That's a good place to get sure it didn't quite get there, but I Think it you know a tick or two and we're now back down to Down to the lows And of course you've got quite a lot of support here If we were to break through though, it could get relatively ugly and I know there's the Different levels that people are talking about loads of September October i.e. 2019 here as well So the daily closes are going to be key if you're a euro ball Do you like it enough? I think you probably want to see it's a bullish price action around these lows before looking to get in a break of that trend just be aware of certainly on the futures anyway the low than November and then Down to these August lows as well It's could get ugly if that goes and the pounds yesterday fair play to the bulls They're defending that trend line like and that area support like their life depends on it Just doesn't want to close below incredible level support here But same thing if you're gonna get some dollar strength and of course we're at highs at the moment or near enough This market has to push lower as well. And then you could see the opportunity to 128 Could could come through just have a quick look into a day just at the pound, which is just Just Well, it's choppy around those lows decision time. I think the the pound will come if Later later today, perhaps we are getting squeezed from the bottom So just keep an eye on that trend line if that goes if that area goes and fine look for that short From a maybe a line in the sand bullish perspective above the pivot is key yesterday's lows You've got some decent price action there from Tuesday Then yesterday evening the pivot one above 130 22 a little relief rally towards 130 50 is not out the question So those zones that I be keeping an eye obviously longer term for the pound there as well But this trend line near the near enough below the day The pivot and then up at 130 56 would be my levels to focus on their gold It's coming back a bit You know fair play to the gold bulls We broke a key trend line and I wonder if the the bears are just waiting for that to come back into play here You can see I'll just move out my camera just now I've got it on but you can see it's going back here to the low the 14th the 21st and then a Couple of days ago that break led to a nice move lower But do we just need to come back to a better area for this overall short to come back into play? And especially if stocks continue to push on maybe this is the you know nice little opportunity You've got that retest of the trend line You've got yesterday's highs as potential place and then the low around here other key levels that if you do like the short I think Patience but that isn't The worst idea in the world. So a quick look at maybe some fibs It's going that high of that move You got the 38 to around 1561. Yeah, I think it's short around there It's not a bad little trade to have interestingly though just on a more shorter term view than that We have broken through this nice trend which was respected all through yesterday And then hence that decent push that you've had here speaking of trend line breaks Over the last few days, of course oil has been continuing it's drift lower We had a the trend channel that broke it got quite ugly there, but just having a look Is it from here You can see that push through late last night in in oil You're just coming back to an area where it could retest and the gold oil balls I should say we'll be looking to defend that trend line because we do get back underneath it You know, it could be Look the queue to get short again back to those lows, which I know some people do believe are still gonna come into play Also, just get this trend line on I would say from yesterday's low for oil and If you're looking for a safer opportunity, maybe the short on the break of that Could be the one to be looking for European stocks this morning and stocks in general pushing to their highs It's finding a bit of resistance Which from an opportunity to go long Later on in the day are not too worried about it's just trying to pick those those points But yesterday what we saw I know it's late into the session when all these highs broke and even here in the backs breaks through comes back and You're not offside at all. So patience For sure is is a virtue in these markets and even if it does keep pushing Just believe that there will be that opportunity to get back in again as usual any questions Please do let us know euro currently on that low of the day testing it for the Well on the hourly chart 30 minute chart third fourth time really key level the pound Decision time's got to happen soon oil as well The balls are one of the fen literally where we're trading now gold potential good shorts higher up stocks If we can get a drift love to buy the dip or The classic on that as well, please do let me know. Hope you'll have a good trading date and I'll catch you all Let's go


Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us this evening for our annual meeting here at Amherst media. Tonight, we have several things going on at our annual meeting because it is remote. For those of you who are members, things have changed just a bit, so it will be partly live and partly recorded. Again, we're so glad that you are here supporting Amherst media. I am Demetria Shabazz and I am the outgoing president for this fine organization that I have had the honor of serving for several years. I will remain on the board, but after tomorrow we'll have a new president. So thank you again for members and community joining us as well as board members tonight. First, we will have my address to you all as members of the board and as members of Amherst media producers as well. Basically, it will be an address about what has occurred over this year which has been very eventful and a lot we have to celebrate.  And then we will have a year in review video that I hope you will enjoy. And then we'll have Jim Leskalt, our executive director, he will give his report for the year as well. Then I will have the honor of introducing our Gene Hagerty Award mentor, Gene Hagerty Award honor read Elsie Thetterman, who is a wonderful supporter to this organization and just it's an honor to have her be a part of our group. Then Elsie will share her remarks, and then you'll come back to me and we'll close out this wonderful evening.  Thank you. Welcome to Amherst Media's annual meeting for 2020. What can you say about a year like 2020 that challenged us all every step of the way? We are still here, however, as individuals, as a community, and as a media education center. Although much of our in studio work was cut short due to the pandemic, 2020 proved to be eventful and has laid the groundwork for a process that began over seven years ago now. The construction of our new building at Gray and Main Streets. 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At the end of the past fiscal year, which ended on June 30th of this year, we had a total of $96,557 in our checking and savings accounts with a total current assets of $558,816 and total liabilities of $171,614 for a total net equity of $387,202. We also currently have a balance in our capital account of $245,069. In fiscal year 2020, despite our new expenses due to the pandemic and new building costs and lower Comcast revenues, we had a surplus of $25,347. This was remarkable considering that Comcast payments went down during the last fiscal year by 6.3% or $15,763. However, by tightening our PELP and additional production revenue, we're able to still end the year in the black. I'm also happy to say we nearly met our membership revenue income projection by meeting 97.8% of our annual membership dues goals. I will not be able to serve you next year as treasurer due to the limits of the bylaws. I just wanted to say it's been an honor to be a part of this board and an officer for the 12 of the last 13 years. I wish to thank everyone who have helped me over that time to meet my obligations and duties and hope I'll get the opportunity to serve as an officer again for Amherst Media sometime in the near future. Thank you very much. Can a short video do justice to the full spectrum of action for change by the people? No, it cannot. What we can do is show some of the diverse, creative and inclusive ways our extensive community is utilizing Amherst Media's technologies, platforms and venues to invite critical dialogues by and for communities of color and other marginalized and oppressed peoples on their self-identified issues of national as well as local importance. This isn't a new role for Amherst Media. We have been producing and distributing issue-driven content for the past 45 years. 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The Amherst Historic Society show History Bites is a weekly lunchtime lecture series and it continued to explore dramatic issues with Michael Hoberman speaking about Jews and Puritans in colonial New England and scars of slavery presented by Bruce Laurie. Dr. Joseph Wonka's program Creating a Human Rights Future explored the issue of healthy masculinity with Dr. Anthony Hill. Our glass producer Tulip Choudhury in her segment Darkness of Narcotics explored the damages incurred by individuals through drug dependency. Holistic Happenings, a show hosted by Denise Denine focuses on different modalities of holistic health care. In one segment, Denine interviewed Caitlin Laban about Facia Stretch Therapy. 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Every year, one of our most gratifying events, which takes place at our annual meeting, is the selection of the Gene Haggerty Award recipient, honored for their commitment to community engagement. Last year's event was filled with love and admiration for Pat Ononibaku, who is an inspiration for all in the community. Local issues continue to be on display, whether with the introduction of the newly formed group Amherst Neighbors, or coverage of the Fair Housing Forum, or highlighting our public schools with the Superintendent's Program window into Amherst Regional Public Schools. The Amherst Winterfest on the town commons displayed lit lanterns and provided music of celebration. Amherst High School's hockey games were videotaped so the community could follow their successful season. Senior Moment Host David Rebson spoke with longtime politician Stan Rosenberg. Rosenberg's own program, Byline, continued to bring local politics to the forefront, like helping to explain the upcoming referendum on ranked choice voting. With the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amherst media was faced like so many other businesses, with the hard decision of whether to close our facility or remain open. The dedicated staff decided their role of providing critical hyper-local communication regarding town closings, including schools, and where to find health information is, was and will be essential work. The Amherst government meetings were recorded and made available online and on cable channels. Our producers continued to find virtual ways to reach their audiences, bringing their knowledge, concerns, information and joy, especially with and through the arts. Amherst media staff provided the production expertise and venue for Memorial Day observation, as well as high school graduation and the Juneteenth celebration. The events that have transpired since the killing of George Floyd, the latest in a long list, as well as the pandemic death toll which unevenly ravages communities of color, coupled with 40 million unemployed workers, leads us all to ask, when will we start building the new and fully inclusive institutions and systems that truly respect and serve all of the residents of this country equally? When? Our mission remains consistent, to provide a venue for the voices of those with limited or no access to media, and to provide an opportunity to have their voices heard and amplified. We are here to provide opportunities for civic engagement through the open and free expression of opinions, perspectives and creativity for all people. We will remain a venue that exemplifies the values and meanings of the First Amendment for all. Good evening. I'm Jim Lesko, the Executive Director of Amherst Media, and I want to thank you for joining us tonight. We find ourselves in an altered universe, one that each day requires us to adjust our daily habits and social lives. It has been and continues to be a challenge for us all. What comes of this is whether we become better people, ones willing to hear each other and assist each other when it is obvious, and even more so when it is not so obvious. What do we really need as individuals to create an equal and just society? Amherst Media is in that same boat, adapting, reconfiguring and striving to make this a better society, a better town in which to work and live. We do not rest upon our laurels after 45 years of providing the opportunities for anyone to be trained in the latest technologies and broadcasting, providing venue for people to speak their minds and voice their opinions, documenting the people and events that make up your local history. With Governor Baker's shutdown of the state in March, the staff of Amherst Media stepped up and saw their role as providers of critical, essential services, providing the community hyper-local public health communication during a pandemic. We immediately closed our facility to our members in the community at large, incorporating CDC-recommended COVID-19 protocols for the staff. Jeff Mastriani, Director of Media and Technology, reconfigured our studio control room so as to be able to convert the town's streamed meetings and get them up as live cable meetings. By our quick actions we were able to provide coverage for all the government meetings and announcements, not missing a single meeting. As or even more importantly, we provided residents without broadband the opportunity to receive the critical and time-sensitive information coming from the local town officials regarding school and town hall closings, as well as critical health information from the town's health department via our cable channels. Our producers of studio shows adapted to hosting their shows via Zoom from their front yards to their living rooms, continuing to reach their respective audiences. It was during this disruptive summer that we decided to produce a new initiative, a news program. Monumental efforts were undertaken by our few but dedicated interns in conjunction with staff launching the Amherst Weekly Report, AWR, on July 24th, airing new segments each Friday since at 6pm. The show hopes to recap important local news as well as pursue deeper dialogues with those making the news and are responding to it. AWR will be seeking viewpoints and reactions to what is happening locally. We see this news program as one that fits very well into our overall mission of helping to engage the Amherst community in civic dialogue, interaction and transparency. This year's Gene Haggerty Award winner, Dr. Elsie Fetterman, exudes the very meaning of community engagement and interaction. Elsie showed up at local historic district meetings, along with many others, to speak on our behalf and champion our right to build a new facility on Main and Gray Streets, when letter writing didn't get a response, she showed up at the officials offices for face-to-face meetings, ones not in their appointment books. It was an honor to have obtained Elsie's trust and finally allowing Amherst media to produce the documentary for the Temple Beth Israel Preservation Society. It was also personally gratifying to interview the children of Holocaust survivors and help to create a video that tells their families amazing stories. We will host an event in the very near future that will give you the opportunity to see this very inspiring story and hear from experts on the Holocaust as well as some of the video participants. I hope you will join us in viewing the video that speaks to the now through the historical lens of the past. While we are all concerned about the immediate future and whether we will experience a second wave here in the valley, we cannot say. But we will predict this. Amherst media with your help and financial support will build a new facility in the year 2021. It will be built upon the legacy of many for the next rising generation of community activists, leaders, and media makers. The ideals embraced by the originators of community acts of television and Amherst mass still hold true today. Blu Karekker, coordinator at the CCATV, our original name, had this to say in 1976, quote, Our main purpose was to reach individuals and organizations how to use video to communicate with. It was a means for those denied control in the social system, such as third world people, young and old, women and the poor to change those images that corporate broadcast TV creates. Extensive coverage and discussion by anyone concerning local issues and events was a step towards a more democratic decision-making process, end of quote. It was a strong public conviction in 1976 and it continues to be of utmost importance today in 2020. As stated by renowned journalist Gwynn Eiffel, quote, We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation, end of quote. Please join Amherst Media in building the Future Community Center for Civic Training and Dialogue, a center for the next generation of activists, leaders, and media makers. They deserve it and we need them. Thank you and please remain safe. We are honored to have you here to celebrate the work that we do, but we also celebrate those in the community that are as dedicated to education and the welfare of others as we are. Tonight, we honor Dr. Elsie Fetterman by presenting her with the Gene Haggerty Award for Community Service. Created in 2009 and tribute to the late Gene Haggerty, who was a beloved producer and board member, who had dedicated her life to community betterment and advocacy for those without a voice. Each year, the board of directors recognizes an individual or organization that believes in and demonstrates the importance of community engagement to obtain social change. As a founding board member of Temple Beth Israel Preservation Society of Danielson, Connecticut, and a former administrator with the Cooperative Extension Program at UMass, Elsie Fetterman has worked tirelessly to uplift and educate others. At 93 years of age, her service demonstrates that no matter how young or old, that we must all do our part to make the world a better place. Through her work with the Preservation Society, Fetterman wrote two grants to the daughters of the American Revolution, one to help restore the temple in Danielson and the other to fund a documentary. The second grant provided seed money for a video project produced by Emerson Media documenting the surviving members of the Danielson Temple, a house built by hope, a story of compassion, resilience, and religious freedom. Tells a story of Jewish, Christian solidarity in post World War II. The story of the temple is a message of hope and resilience during one of the world's darkest moments, says her son and co-author of the DAR grant, Dr. David Fetterman. Since 2014, when the first grant was written jump-starting the project, Fetterman's momentum and her vision has grown. This year, the Mass Humanities awarded Emerson Media and Elsie $11,250 grant to continue building a curriculum guide developed by Simon Lutz, who heads the Social Studies Department at Amherst Pellum Regional High School and teaches a special Holocaust elective unit for seniors. We at Amherst Media are grateful to Elsie's commitment to work worth doing. We welcome you all to celebrate and honor Elsie's decades-long service to our community through the presentation of the 45th Gene Haggerty Award. Thank you, Dee. First of all, I want to express my thanks and appreciation to Amherst Media Board of Directors for selecting me as this year's Haggerty Award. I would like to repeat my son David's comment about the documentary. It is a message of hope and resilience during one of the world's darkest moments. That was in 1950. I am personally feeling that right now in 2020 that it's also one of the world's darkest moments for me. Just a couple of examples from the documentary, which gives a message of hope and resilience. A member of the Baptist Church in Danielson, Connecticut loaned a Holocaust survivor $500 to complete the purchase of a dairy farm. $500 was a lot of money in 1950. It's a lot now too, but it was a lot more then. A Christian dairy farmer wanted to make a donation to build a synagogue in Danielson, Connecticut, now that we had Holocaust survivors enough to do it. However, he didn't have any cash, so he auctioned off one of his calves so that he could make a donation. Thanks to the Mass Humanities Council, we are now developing a curriculum guide to accompany the documentary to be shown to schools in Massachusetts. We will also have two humanities scholars to interact with the students after they have seen the documentary. Amherst Media has a capability of distributing this documentary to 2200 sister brother cable stations in the United States. I did not think I deserved an award for this work. When I was with the University of Massachusetts Cooper extension, we worked with the Mass Transitional Office and we were successful in providing education to welfare mothers so they could be licensed family day care providers. Besides income, they gave them competency and self-confidence. We were able to receive donations from the insurance company for smoke detectors and the alarm systems. We had received authorization from the state office of children and youth to use the local parks since they didn't have space. I always felt that if I saw a job that needed to be done, I would just try to tackle that job. How can you not be moved by Elsie's words and just really enthused by her energy? So glad and so honored that Elsie is our Gene Haggerty Award winner for this year. It is so well deserved. Thank you for joining us tonight. I wish to thank our board members. Our board members are a dedicated group of folks who were very committed and devoted to this organization. I want to thank my executive committee, Vera DeWonamy Cage, who's our vice president, Ed Severance, who is our treasurer, Patrice Wilson, who is our secretary, our board members, Jacqueline Faizon, Anika Lopes, Artie McCullum, Dan Torres, Pat DeAngelis, and Ben Harrington. Thank you for all of the work you do and continue to do on behalf of this organization and the town. Thank you to our members who have supported us throughout the years. I just want to close out tonight by wishing you all a better 2021, but thank you for helping us get through 2020. And this night, consider becoming a member to Amherst Media and consider donating to keep us running for another 45 years. I wish you all a good evening and a great year and thank you again for your support of this organization. Good night.


Hey welcome to my lunch hour stand, Energyman here for another great show where we get to talk about my favorite subject which is hydrogen. So nice background today. We'll be talking more about that when we get into our guest. I would like to start off talking about some equipment I got briefed on this week called Simple Fuel and it's a hydrogen station and Missouri can bring up the pictures. It's a hydrogen station basically that makes hydrogen and dispenses it. So you can see it's really kind of an elegant looking thing. It's it's actually from France and they're an international company that just one of the gentlemen I believe he was from Newvera helped start Newvera is now helping this company called McPhee with this portable hydrogen station which is really slick looking. Anyway it's not only a dispenser it's actually a standalone hydrogen station so you connect water up to it and an electrical probably a 240 volt connection and it can make this particular model can make 10 kilograms a day of hydrogen and store it and dispense it. I think it stores it at probably 5,000 psi and if you have a 10,000 psi vehicle I think it runs a compressor so it's not a quick fill like some of the regular hydrogen dispensers at a station. It's actually going to take probably 10 or 15 minutes to fill a vehicle if it's going to go up to 10,000 psi but it is a standalone station. They're looking at for something like this around 170 to $200,000 so it's not a homeowner's model but it is something that could get a small community that's just starting off in hydrogen vehicles get them going into hydrogen and if we can throw up the second shot it shows how you can incorporate it into a gas station because most people don't realize this but you can actually put hydrogen dispensers right into regular petroleum refueling stations and this one is designed to fit right there on the island between the other dispensers the other gasoline and diesel dispensers and again this thing makes the hydrogen right on site and dispenses it right there just excuse me just drive up put your credit card in and you're off and running so that's just a little update on what's out there and I'm going to try and get the folks from McVita to come on the show maybe I can Skype them in on one of my shows but today we have Mr. Claude Colbertson from the American Hydrogen Association in Phoenix, Arizona one of my favorite places to go visit when I'm on the mainland and he's here to just kind of update us on what's going on with American Hydrogen Association and we'll talk a little bit about Roy McAllister and the work he's doing out there and the things that that the American Hydrogen Association does to kind of promote hydrogen not just in Phoenix and around the Arizona area but worldwide so Claude thanks for being on the show with me today I appreciate it great to be here well I guess you get over here once a year whether you like it or not because your wife's from here right right you get to come visit Hawaii but what got you into hydrogen and working with Roy McAllister over there in Arizona well years ago I was talking to a young man who was in solar and he was in charge of the Arizona solar association library and we were talking and I said what what I really want to do is I would like to build a hydrogen powered car and he says oh well you need to talk to Roy McAllister and I said oh who's that and so he gave me the information and the next day I called up Roy and I told him that I was interested in hydrogen and then I had a little welding shop and he said oh come on over and visit it so I went over and I've been a member of the American Hydrogen Association ever since and and did you build your car no I'm still working on it I'm still working I have a little car it's a old Carmen Gia and I bought it with this with the idea of converting it to run on hydrogen and I've had it a lot of years and it's still running on gasoline but we're getting closer okay and we haven't given up and persistence I guess is one of the secrets so what's your what's your design gonna be like on that on the car is it like are you gonna just have the fuel cell charging the battery and have the battery run the car no no how are you gonna do it no what we're one of our focuses and my main focus is running is making a fuel a liquid fuel that can be stored at room temperature that's basically a net hydrogen fuel made from hydrogen and CO2 and and nitrogen and called metrol and so so an internal combustion yes and modified to run on this metrol fuel yes and if I understand right because I have been talking to Roy the metrol is a liquid fuel that you can actually sequester the carbon as and the hydrogen goes right into the internal combustion engine well that's that's kind of how it works okay but you can give me the details right that and and I'm a mechanic I'm not a chemist and Roy he gives me the jobs to do and you know sketches or sometimes drawings and what do you want built and and and you fabricated I try to manufacture what it is he needs for doing the experiments but basically the fuel be stored in a regular gas tank and then pump through a reactor that's heated by waste heat from the engine and converts the liquid fuel to a gaseous fuel that is a combination of hydrogen and and CO mostly and then when it burns all the carbon that is burned is just what you put into the fuel I mean so you're not creating you're making it from carbon oxide and nitrogen out of the air right so your carbon neutral right and and of course we have to have hydrogen to create the fuel initially you know to put with the with the CO2 and the and the nitrogen and and so however you can get the hydrogen whether it's electrolysis or you know steam methane right okay and and that's one of our main goals is to take a lot or to be able to take methane from sewage and garbage and whatever and take the carbon out of it and utilize the carbon as a resource and then have that get the hydrogen basically for free and combine that with the other gas so so that's you would sequester the carbon making the liquid fuel you'd take the methane and get the carbon out of it and make the liquid fuel with nitrogen carbon oxide and the hydrogen you've gotten from the methane yeah okay yeah so you got a liquid fuel you can store it in a liquid tank right in your car just and it would probably be about same energy density roughly as liquid fuel so yeah same roughly the same mileage and I'm I'm I'm making decent assumptions right okay pretty close so and and the fact that we take that liquid fuel and we add a lot of heat energy to it from the engine boosts the energy density and makes it more okay more efficient so so a lot of internal combustion engines that they try and put hydrogen in they can't cram enough hydrogen in there to really make it work so you're saying as it comes out of the liquid state through this heat exchanger basically it's hot enough that it's also still under pressure and you're pushing it into the cylinder under pressure well yeah it'll be it won't necessarily won't it will be cooled somewhat but then it will be under considerable pressure and injected directly into the cylinder okay with the engine not throttled and the injection and the ignition after top dead center so it makes it really efficient okay you don't lose that it's been quite a bit of time talking to Roy about this very witness Roy McAllister we're talking about by the way is a PhD he's a chemical engineer holds at least a half a million patents and I don't know how many he holds but it's a lot and and so he's he's worked with American Hydrogen actually he's the founder of the American Hydrogen Association and he's working on this metrol concept because the theory being that we have so many internal combustion engine cars on the road that by the time we get fuel cell cars to replace the internal combustion engines it's going to be years and years and decades and decades before we make any real headway but with all the internal combustion engine cars on the road if he can do a modification and convert the vehicles to run off this metrol you can start cleaning up the greenhouse gases much earlier because the conversion is relatively simple like Claude says you basically can keep the liquid fuel tank in fact according to Roy you can actually run off both fuels you just have to have a computer changing the timing back to your old timing for the old fuel and the lake you said top dead center for the new fuel and then you need to modify how it's injected into the engine so in a diesel engine you'd actually change the glow plug out for an injector igniter and then in internal in the gasoline engine you would take the spark plug out and change it with an injector igniter so what happens is if you have fuel injection on your regular car and you're running with gasoline and you convert it and you're going to run off gasoline you'd use the same fuel injector and the igniter to ignite the gasoline but if you want to switch to this metrol fuel it would be a switch in the cockpit in the compartment and you'd switch to the metrol and then it would be injecting the hydrogen through the same spark plug igniter that's in this in the cylinder exactly and then there's also the part of right now what Claude was talking about an unthrottle carburetor when you when you have a gas engine you basically control the amount of oxygen that goes in whether you accelerate or decelerate your pumping fuel in there but you're also controlling the oxygen in this one you can try you try and get as much oxygen in the cylinder as you can it's on it's unthrottle and you control the acceleration by how much hydrogen you push in right and so it's it's a little different concept and you also are injecting the hydrogen at top dead center not below right so you're not compressing a gas air mix you're compressing an air mix and then hydrogen goes in at the last second right before you ignite and it gives you that oomph that you need that other internal combustion engines don't give you right how's that that's great topics yeah so that's what the guys at the American Hydrogen Association do for fun and hopefully their fun will turn into something great for the environment and and all of us that are that are you know thinking about getting into hydrogen on our vehicles so what are some of the other things that the hydrogen association does that to try and make people aware of of what what hydrogen well we're interested we're in and all forms of sustainable energy and energy conservation and clean water and clean air and actually you know helping one of the projects that we're involved in and I'm not so much involved in it but is this micro dwell project and where figure out how to make dwellings for people give give get people off the streets and into dwellings where they can be safe and comfortable and do it with the so sustaining energy right and and using you know forms of solar for for energy and for energy storage by using electrolyzers and so on to generate your own hydrogen and so it's a it's a project that we are working on with other organizations that that's their primary focus is is helping people with their habitat and so and we've got it's it's kind of neat we have some members that are architects and and builders and so on and they all get together and they get their ideas out there and one of these days we're going to be able to put together a little community of people that you know a place for people what one of the main focuses is people that are the kids that are are aging out of foster care and don't have any place to go and and they don't have any any backup any family to turn to anybody to help out no support system and yeah well why they they really suffer we have a homeless issue here oh yeah I need to take care of as I'm sure you've noticed driving around with your wife but that may be a great solution yeah so when we come back from a break we'll we'll talk a little bit about what that looks like you know what it looks like for this mini dwelling and we'll be back in a minute aloha my name is Carl Campania and I am the host of think tech Hawaii's movers shakers and reformers the politics in Hawaii series join us each week as we have guest after guest talking about the policy and the politics of our state of our islands and of what really matters to each of us so please join us each week and engage in that conversation mahala hello and aloha my name is raya salter and I am your host for power of Hawaii where Hawaii comes together to talk about a clean and renewable energy future I'm so excited to be here with you to talk about some of the most important energy issues of our day and most importantly who can we bring together energy engineers artists musicians accountants advocates young people who can we bring together to talk about how we can make this path together by walking and reach a hundred percent renewable energy please join me Tuesdays at 1 p.m. for power up Hawaii hey welcome back to my lunch hour stand energy man here with Claude Colbertson from American Hydrogen Association and they do their work out of Phoenix Arizona actually around Mesa Arizona which is I guess the was at the east side of Phoenix yeah yeah Phoenix is so big you can't just drive through it in a couple minutes it takes like an hour to get through the middle of Phoenix so so you've been working with a lot of folks including Arizona State University and who what's the school there that the Julie Ann Wrigley School of Sustainability okay and they they helped work on this project where he built a trailer and well no that that was another small organization called it's a program that is started I guess they're in Phoenix called micro dwell and all people build different their different ideas of what a micro dwell should look like and and generally they're like 600 square feet or smaller less and they're paid their dwellings that you could build you know out in the forest or something you know where you want to be energy independent and you just want to go out there and well those dwellings are getting real popular not just for to resolve homeless or or you know those kind of situations but it the new generation of young folks that are starting families and stuff there they're not ready to have kids right away and they realize they're gonna change jobs every few years so they decide they're gonna buy one of these little micro homes or tiny homes that's only a couple hundred square feet on wheels and then they move to where the first job is and they do their job there for five years and they know they're gonna travel several hundred miles to another city and go to their next job and instead of buying a house they invest in this tiny home and it gives them the ability to a keep control of their credit they're not in a big mortgage right off the bat and be have a nice little house that's all their own that they can make the way they want and then they just rent some property on somebody's farm to a little garden outside or something and and it's all sustainable it's all you can put some solar panels up and a generator if you need it and some batteries and you know maybe a UPS or some kind of power control system right so that's basically what you you guys started many years ago but it's now just catching on so you're ahead of your time but let's take a little tour right behind you in the background there and then Zuri can consider this is let me see what is as part of the electrical panel and looks like the incoming hydrogen from outside there's a storage tank outside there so you look in the bottom you see a water separator and and as the thing comes to the left you see a stainless steel tube that drops down and goes across so there's actually a water heater that runs off hydrogen and right and then a fuel cell system that that provides electricity for the house and also runs your stove your electric stove and or any of the other utilities that require electricity in the house so as you back up there's a hydrogen tank under the sink there looks like and and this little house it's pretty bare bones it's just this this is actually a photo of the inside of the dwelling just to give an example of of how the system works and it lets the wiring and everything show so that people can see how simple the setup is to actually have your own solar panel on the roof and lighting and appliances hooked up in your house and you can actually can actually you could live in there so what are what are some of the things you talk about when you show this to folks on the inside well the there's the the tankless water heater which is an outside isn't hanging on the outside or no it's right there on the wall okay is that right above the sink yeah okay and and and it runs off hydrogen yeah okay and the ideally the the solar panels out there would would power the electrolyzer which would generate the hydrogen in actuality where we're not able to do that because we don't have a way to pressurize okay the hydrogen but the solar panels run the LED lighting and they run the there's a little cooktop in there too if I'm not mistaken yeah but that's also hydrogen and hydrogen gas or yeah okay so you can yeah a lot of people don't realize you can actually cook with hydrogen too as a gas so it can be just like your propane or natural gas and then you can also make electricity from the hydrogen running it through a fuel cell right so you can do both right we have and we've had in the past some chefs that were very interested in using hydrogen and this one chef put on our this really nice dinner at at the mansion club and but what they love about the hydrogen is it adds no flavors to the food to the food it has no you know isn't any odors right when hydrogen burns it's actually 6000 degrees steam and it's but it's so clean I mean that's all it is it's just hot water very directional to it just heats up right it's really easy to control yes yes there's a very little radiant heat it's it's all convection and conduction and so we have to real pale blue flame if there's a lot of smog in the air or you know other contaminants then you get some color in your flame but for the most parties it's a very pale blue flame okay and very clean let's look at the outside of the trailer too this is this actually a little trailer that they that they haul around with them so you see on the roof they have some solar on the side they have some solar and they can actually tow it around and then take it the little stairs fold up flip up there and what literally on the other side of the I took the picture of the inside just on the opposite wall of the the solar panels there so the background that you're seeing today is just on the other side of that solar panel and like Claude says the only thing missing is electrolyzer and and those things are actually pretty small too you could you could put one outside in a fairly small area to make your your hydrogen I will tell you though that you probably need a little bit more PV to make a to make enough hydrogen on a daily basis than what this little model gives you but it proves the concept that you can make hydrogen from sunlight and from water and then run a little house off of it so that's what that's what they do and that's a good example of how to initiate people because most of the time until people see it they don't really understand it right and this is a really great example of how to to get it out in public and let students talk about what they know about hydrogen and demonstrate what you can do right and you know that the technology is there it just needs to be improved and tweaked and and you get people interested in it and you get the you know particularly young people interested in improved ways to build electrolyzers and build all the ways that you can utilize photovoltaic and use heat from solar and and what we need to do is is promote all these different avenues of sustainability particularly in using solar and and see which ones come to the top which ones are successful great one of the things that helped me understand a lot was DVD that I got from Roy McAllister and we can throw that one up on the screen Zuri called chemistry and manufacture of hydrogen and it's an adaptation from a text but it's basically Roy McAllister talking about some of the technologies and how to actually safely manufacture hydrogen different ways and the history of it because people tend to think of hydrogen as high-tech new technology but in reality it's from back in the 1800s and even the fuel cell which is a new piece was early 1900s at the latest I mean it was it goes back into the 18 long time yeah so the technology is high-tech but it's not necessarily new tech and so that that's a great a great intro it's really easy to understand mr. McAllister is a very soft-spoken very articulate gentleman and it's great to listen to him explain the chemistry and the science behind all this technology and it's really easy to get to in fact there's a there's a great place to order it from www knowledge publications calm it's a you can you can order this DVD and several other good publications from that website to help you understand how to how to work with hydrogen so another great thing with that the hydrogen association does they put on a newsletter from time to time right and there are some great quotes I gotta put my glasses on this one I just got literally just got the mail today but there's two quotes that I think are great one for the political season the opposite of progress is Congress and that's a Mark Twain quote so whether if you just like good quotes this hydrogen association is that is great the other one is if I had if I'd asked people what they wanted they would have asked for faster horses and that was Henry Ford so you know they're they look at the very practical application of hydrogen and and how people are kind of adverse to accepting new technology or you know you ask them what they want they want more of what they already have they don't want to look at what's new but some of the other great articles in this this thing is they talk about the mission of the association a field trip they took to one of the ethanol plants they list some of the hydrogen events coming up give you some more publications that they reviewed that they like they talk about high-pressure tubing and fitting for hydrogen which is primarily swedgelock which is the commercial name for the fittings that are used in most of our art plumbing and some of the technologies that they're compatible with swedgelock but they have to use and you have to learn to use safely when you're dealing with high-pressure hydrogen and then of course if you want to become a member of the American Hydrogen Association you can contact them I think Zuri can you throw up that there you go the HDB clean air org and become a member of the American Hydrogen Association and help them spread the word and also get a hold of some of the great materials that they have to learn from so what are what some wisdom words of wisdom you can let us part with a lot from from the hydrogen work that you've been doing when we're gonna see that Carmen Gia rolling I man I want to I want to have that on the road and take it around you know bring it to Hawaii whatever and and you know every year I think well this is the year it's gonna happen I'm gonna have it on the road but we're working out all the little bugs and getting there but the main thing is you know we got to quit putting carbon in the atmosphere I agree we've got to make good use of the carbon and we got to generate hydrogen by whatever means you know there's lots of different ways to do it and but but if we can make renewable fuels from our sewage and garbage we got you know we those are resources that will that we generally don't consider resources we call them problems but but there's a lot of energy there if we just make use of it okay


I'm with the one and only Kurum, kurubutu mbim pakani kuna nini, ni about nini, to expect nini. Nice, nice, nice. So, um pakani maze ni an in-depth look on the soldiers that are protecting us. Mazo na jwa siwa gatu na una ma soldiers ni kama, ni kasi wa atu. Security forces ni ni kaeni uko gazelu ni kupiguna baridi kwa boda nini. But what people don't know is that these are actual human beings with lives just like the rest of us. So, to na delve into their lives, to one maze maisha ina kwa gaji. Maisha are the people they've left behind ina kwa gaji. So, it's a very interesting look on just the day-to-day life of a soldier. All right. So, sata ni nili kwa nyanze na hi, titi nti ili kwa juzi tu. Natulun ili kwa success, ili kwa sold out, mukuru ili kuna fila juki umeka fombele. Oh, best feeling ever, man. Onaji, it's one thing to plan for something. It's another kwa na maze kikam to fruition maze ina kwa bungela success. Man, that was the best night of this year. Kijanali. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Onaji, suongia 2 nambas, 2000 people. Maze kuna wasi tato. Oh, my God. Ah, no, so me achakila kitu yao. Wome kam tu kuna ili kazi tu me kotukifanya for months. It's the best feeling in my life ever. Na yako abeli ni lini. So, tentatively sai tu na mulika 19th August. Yondia the tentative date, but ni subject to confirmation. So, hopefully everything in the sour. Tu ingi etu fanya mambu etu. Okay. Sindo. Tukimali zia zamwisho-wisho. Mkrutu mauna historiya. Creatives wanae za taxi wa 15%. What do you have to say about that? Ah, no, yo, yo. It's a lot of crap, man. Yo, checki. Government na need kugetvi to write bana. It's not about overtaxing the people. Just increase the number of the people being taxed. Una yo 16% wanae za taxingia VAT na nini. Na ihi, netwaja isi ma payi wasi wana katwa. Kuna wasi weingi sana wanae nwana an. Lakin nihawo tohangi tax. So, mi as a government you should find ways of making sure that everyone who earns pays the tax. But do not tax the small number of people that you already have, do not overtax them. It's demotivating. So wei angaliya wile ui omombogo utamu empawa, apatepesa fiti, umkata takski dogo. Mutua piki-piki, ato e takski dogo. Sii yoko organization, ato e, sii sii, wasa 50 million tuki taksi wa 5% nii beta kuli kukutakswa 12 fukumi 30%. Sindio, eh, so I think the government is approaching this thing wrong. Don't over-tax the small number of people you have, tafta wile utashika wa sei weingine weingine wa toi-tax. Ato nima mili yone, apa injena wa toi-tax, ah, wana ni bojo. Jyogo nara kaya mwisha sasa ya, ebunia mbi ununai the future of the film industry kikaj. Oh man, it's a good time to be alive as a filmmaker. Tuna tokamaze from operations flannies at Hollywood Zenyazik was not to say dear. The generation that was before us did little to nothing. To build this industry. Mazi mebi desisi to eke blood, sweat, and tears diwa say wa jwe, it's an industry that exists. Unas ke gata wa sani wa kise maoni wa sani, the next, the follow-up question ni, apart from usani wuna fanyagani. Saba bu maze we have done a pathetic job ya kusho wa say that this thing is actually business. Mimi na mtu mwenia kona factory atunatofa uti. Eye maze, so say at least watu wami anzaku yelewa, we are hammering it down on them. That sira is eku produce, na tukisha produce, the list you can do for us ni u come to support, bus and it's working. Ah, it is for sure, you can see, you can see. Kabisa, man. Thank you so much for the jukinbiesas. Asantin de nyan me shkuru sana, wacha jukinbio meeting.