He's been in high pursuit of you.  He is so good. And I believe that 2022 is gonna be even better for you. Amen. I believe that there are some things though that the enemy has been using or is about to use to have you stop growing in him, to put you at a halt. But today I believe the word of the Lord wants to come and break some lies, to take off some things and leave some things behind in 2021 for you not to carry it anymore into 2022. So I'm gonna pray and I want you just to join me and just believe that Holy Spirit is going to do his work in your heart today. Amen. Father, I just thank you that you are here in this place and we feel your presence. I pray to Holy Spirit that you do your work, melt hearts. Lord that you heal hearts, that you bring deliverance and breakthrough salvation and healing and testimonies. Lord, we thank you for your goodness. I thank you God that you're going to touch the hearts of your children today in the mighty name of Jesus. And everybody said, amen, amen. My message that as I was preparing for today, I came up with the title, leave it behind. Because I truly believe that as you're going to walk in the next few days into 2022, it's gonna come into a new level. I want to be optimistic and believe that God has something great in store for you because that is how God works, amen. He wants us to go from glory to glory, amen. Not to stay stagnant or go lower or lower. That's not how God works. And I believe that there's three things that I felt in my heart to share with you today for you to leave behind so you don't get left behind, amen. So that we don't watch everybody else go and we're circling around the mountain one more time. I know it's very cliche to say, wasn't that year so fast? But isn't it true? I know it's cliche. I know everyone says it all the time, but I don't know if it's age or what, but the older you get, the faster life goes. Am I right? Come on. But I want to just touch a little bit because I truly believe that the Lord is wanting to equip his soldiers in this place today. He's edifying us. He's getting us ready for what is to come. And I think that there's a couple of things that the enemy has been using to stunt our growth or have put it to a halt. And I want to address them today.  In Luke 17, verse one, there is a scripture that says to, to us, Luke 17, verse one, it is impossible that no offenses should come. You know what I love about this verse? That it makes us all equal in this very moment. That it's impossible that no offenses should come. What it's telling us that it happens to everyone.  It happens to all of us. All of us get offended. And the scripture says so. So what's great to know is that all of us get affected by offense. And what's going on right now that I think is quite, I believe all of us could agree, that the spirit of offense has really been loosed in our nation right now. Am I right? That it's very difficult that as if, breathing is offensive at this point. It's getting serious. But truly it is a spirit that is operating. Because the thing is that offense almost seems like, oh, it's my right because my feelings got hurt and may it be so, it may be that you were offended. But see, the thing is with the enemy, he never works with just offense. He always works to destroy, to kill and to steal. He's not ending there. He wants you to go from offense to bitterness and he wants to rob your soul from anything that's going to be prosperous. And the way to do that is to offend you. Come on. So it happens to everyone, but the impact is not the same. Our response towards an offense determines our future. It truly does.  Maybe it came from your home, from your father, from a teacher, from a pastor or a leader, whatever you wanna call it. Somehow it's buried inside and you can't even recall. But I want you to know that because we've held it so long, bitterness, it starts to seep in into other areas of our life. You cannot be offended and pretend you're not. Not for too long. It begins to show in all areas of our life. Not just that relationship offense, but it then begins to have a ripple effect onto every other relationship. On your children, on your best friends, on your parents, on other people, people will begin to start getting offended by your offense. It doesn't stop. But our response towards an offense determines our future. But I like how John Bavir said this in his book, Bait of Satan. By the way, I highly recommend reading that book, Bait of Satan by John Bavir. It will highly impact you if that is something that you're dealing with. It goes on a deeper level. If you stay free from offense, you will stay in God's will. If you become offended, you'll be taken captive by the enemy to fulfill his own purpose and will. And you're probably wondering how on earth that when I get offended, I tap in to working in Satan's will. How does that work? Because you become a mouthpiece for Satan. As soon as you get offended, you cannot help but talk about it. See, the thing is, is that there's, everyone gets offended, but the impact is not the same because a person that gets impacted by it either harbors it or deals with it. We are one or the other. And the thing about it is that two of those people that harbor it or deal with it will talk about it. They'll either talk to the right people or talk to everyone about that person that affected you. Either way, you're talking. But it's about how you deal with it. So offense leads to bitterness and bitterness poisons the pure in heart. Offense darkens our understanding. The thing about offense is that it darkens our understanding of the situation. We are no longer able to see clearly. And that is the hardest truth to swallow. Because as if the offense is a magnet itself, you start to see, oh, he or she did it again to me. Did you hear that? Did you see that? Oh, they did it on purpose. But the thing about offense, it's so personal, right? Because we take it personally. But what's crazy or the irony to it is that it's hardly ever personal. Hardly ever that that other person that has offended you just has issues of their selves. And they're just trying to be humans and trying to learn how to deal with it. That husband that you're offended with, that wife that you're offended with, they are just trying to understand themselves. But through the process, unfortunately, we get offended. Am I right? But I truly believe that the Lord wants to deal with that bitterness inside of our souls because what it's doing is it's robbing us from growth. It is robbing us from a relationship with the Lord and it's robbing us from our relationships in our life to be prosperous. I wanna give an example, an illustration. Years ago, I started coming to this church about 14, 15 years old. And I have to share this because it's so funny, but it was extremely impactful in my life. I was in Larissa's life group and she was my mentor, my leader still is till this day. But at that time, she said something, I mind you again, I'm 15 years old, and she said something about me in front of everybody. I was so offended. I was like, how could she say that? I was insulted. She said something I can't even remember exactly what she said, but I sure remember how it made me feel. I was so hurt. I was so offended. And as soon as I left that home group, I started as if a theatrical movie was going on in my head. And all of these thoughts and ideas started coming and every encounter I would have, another thought came into my head. Does anybody ever experience that, right? Oh, we have a good entertaining thing right here in this box. And what started to happen, I started to harbor offense and I started to feel really hurt. And I wanted to walk away from that friendship and mentorship because I was so hurt by her, by this one insult or whatever I thought in my head. So, but because she was gold to me and still is, I was like, you know, I'm just gonna bring it up to her. I'm not a very confrontational person, so it took a lot out of me. So I brought it up to her.  And she looked at me stunned.  She's like, I didn't even mean that. This is what I meant. And I was so puzzled because I thought I was right. But because I thought she did wrong, but the thing is I saw wrong. Take that in for just a second. I was this close of losing an incredible relationship because I got offended in my own perspective. How many of us feel that right now? Have maybe lost relationships, connections, have stopped certain things because of an offense that happened in our own minds. Of an expectation they didn't even know about. Let's be real. Has that happened to us? An expectation that they didn't even know you had. It's not really fair, is it? But here's the thing. How do we overcome this offense because it happens all the time? It is impossible that you will not go without offense. How can we protect our hearts as it says in Proverbs 4.23, to guard your heart above all things for it flows the issues of life? How do we protect this so that when other people may say something or do something that it doesn't affect our growth or affect our hearts. I like to use this reference. Please understand my reference here. It says, get some fact checkers.  No, get some people that will be like, you sound a little bit victim. You sound a little bit petty. I don't think that's what they meant. Pray instead of constantly gossiping or vomiting it out. Have someone that will be real with you. See, I have a husband. I love him for it, but I hate him for it at the same time because he's my place where I can talk things out. All the woman said, amen. Okay, so, but here's one of the things is that with all of that dealing, I have to be accountable, but he's like, babe, that's really petty. I'm like, okay, thanks. Fine, I'll go pray about it. And I'm better. Or he's like, yeah, I can see that. I understand that, but let it go. And he does those things all the time. So things do come up for everybody. No one is invincible at this point when it comes to offense, okay? Let's be real. But what you do with it is what matters. So I have a fact checker, which is my husband. Pray for someone to be real with you as well. That's one thing is accountability. Have accountability to our minds and to the words you say and who you say it to.  You become the mouthpiece for Satan. It's very hard to swallow, but it is absolutely truth. Be very careful because not everyone is as mature of a believer as you are. So when you say that about this leader, they're going to question them coming to this church. And when they question coming to this church or that church or this, they're gonna start thinking that every Christian is a hypocrite. You don't understand how you become a mouthpiece for Satan and it affects their growth for God. It is very dangerous.  And that is what God wants you to do is to get over it, let it go so you can be free. Amen? You have to be hard on yourself with this area because this is guarding your heart. We cannot be in a playground with Satan. We cannot play in his playground. We have to destroy his tactics. We have to destroy how he works. And this is his code. We have to uncode it, amen?  Pray for them instead. Because I assure you 95% they didn't mean it. The Ephesians 4, 29, 31. And this is how I want to transition to the next point. You can't get closer to Holy Spirit with bitterness, but you can with forgiveness. Our aim is Holy Spirit.  Something's happening. It's because you're harboring that bitterness. He's like, you can't get to me with that. You must let it go. I remember reading Dr. Yungi Cho about fourth dimension and he said, if you want actually your prayers to be answered and if you want to get closer to the Lord, you must be pure in heart. Those that have the pure in heart will see the face of God. It's hard to see him when all we see is brokenness and bitterness, amen? It's hard to get a breakthrough when we are constantly breaking things with our own mouths, amen? Ephesians 4, 29, 31.  But what is good for necessary edification that it may impart grace to the hearers? And verse 30. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you are sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away with all malice and be kind to one another, tend to hearted for giving one another, even as God and Christ forgave you. Come on. To overcome offense is to be accountable with your mouth, to be accountable to the people around you and be accountable to the word of God. That's how you get out. Because when lies seep into our minds, the truth comes through, amen? The word of God and the people around you is to keep you accountable to where you're at, amen? Come on. The next thing that for us to let go so we can dive into 2022 with God's promises is our wrongful pursuit. See, we are about on the time of resolutions. Those that have gym memberships, you're about to get so many people in there, you'll have to fight for that treadmill because it is 2022 and that's what happens, right? We have our goals on getting out of debt, all the financial goals, all the relationship goals, all the diet goals, and you know what, it all has its place, amen? We need those goals. We need to keep pursuing, we need to be ambitious, but here's the problem, is when God is no longer in the picture, amen? We begin our pursuit for everything else, but Jesus. Matthew 633 says, but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added onto you. It seems simple, but we don't do it. We have to talk and be asking ourselves these questions. Our goals are God and God is no longer the goal. If you're writing down on your list and you have all of these goals and ambitions and God doesn't even make to list in your mind, you have a problem. You became a lover of self over a lover of Christ. Look, we need to love ourselves. It has, again, its place. As you can see, the second point, it's all about putting God in the right place and that's putting Him back on the throne and that's putting Him back number one as where He belongs, amen? And then everything else shall be added onto you. Such a truth, but it's so hard to do. So when you're going into your next goal, take God with you. He is your senior partner, Holy Spirit is.  And that is where we ask ourselves, is Jesus the way for our lives, or is He in the way? Is He constantly in the way? Is church and praying and fasting just another thing for us to do, or is it what we are coming to do? The thing that we're aiming for. So all of these lists and goals and the wrong pursues is starting to take away our love and our passion for God where we become lukewarm. See, we are after deliverance, but we need to be more for the deliverer. We are after our healing, but we need more, our healer. We are after the person that's going to be a Jehovah Jireh, but we're more after Him than what He can provide, amen? So as we're sitting here and the many people are about to receive their freedom, this is just the beginning of you getting closer to the Lord because He's the goal. How do we get to the goal? Is where you start making hard choices by fasting when you don't want to fast. You can join us on the 21 day fast that we're about to do as a church in January. Everyone said amen. Or three days or seven days or whatever the Lord guides you to do with your body of sacrifice. It could be even social media. My gosh, that's consuming your mind. Maybe you just need to be off of it for a whole month so that instead of scrolling through the social media, you can start flipping the pages in the Word of God, amen? Maybe transition that. Make some personal goals. I will fast with the church. I will go and pray on the morning prayers that when the church opens, sorry. When the church opens, I will join and come to prayer. Maybe I can't do it every day, but I'll come once in a week. Make those personal goals where you're like, God, I don't really desire you right now, but I'll make steps to desire you. And just watch you will start to happen where you say, I will pursue, he says that as you draw onto me, I will draw onto you. I assure you the desire will follow after that one day fasting, that one time you're bringing the Bible, reading the Bible instead of social media. Make those goals. Get yourself connected to a home group. Surround yourself with people that actually love God or on fire, that can help you, push you to being where you want to be, even if you don't feel like it. Come on, no one feels like going to the gym, but you make that membership happen. You go there, maybe a friend will come with you, whatever it takes to get you there. Come on, making those practical small steps to get there. Join us this January. Let's go big on 2022 with a big hit to the enemy's kingdom, amen? Together, fasting and praying and making those small goals for ourselves. The next thing that I wanted to talk about which kind of aims as I was talking about home group is number three, let's leave behind doing life alone. See, God didn't design this life of ours to do it alone. In Genesis 2.18, the Lord God said, it is not good for the man to be alone. He made it very clear that in the very beginning of the word of God, he wanted to make one clear to all of us, it is not good for you to be alone. This life was not designed for you to do it by yourself. All of us, humbly speaking, need help. And that's hard to swallow. That that business to be successful, you need partnership. For you to make it to what you're doing takes partnership, takes a team to do what this all you see, the dream team is the camera, the lights, the action, the worship team, it takes all of us, a community to do and achieve certain things. But here's the incredible thing. For you to draw out your potential, people help you with that. Mentorship, leaders, home groups, community helps you with that. How can we get there? I wanna tell you before we can get there on how to do that is I have a really incredible analogy that I learned a few years back. I went to South Africa with my husband a few years ago and we went on this like small safari thing and the guide, we came across zebras and he shared a very interesting fact about zebras. And they have two strategies, the zebra herd has two strategies against the predator, which is the lion. The first strategy that they have against the predator, the lion, is by they run together as they herd. Always together, running. Because see they have an incredible print on them and that print that as they come together creates an optical illusion for the lion. They see no beginning and they see no end. It becomes such a haze of a lion that they don't see a prey no longer.  But when you isolate yourself, it's so much easier to get to you, come on. Now the second strategy of the zebras, which I found phenomenal, is that if one zebra is wounded, hurt, even if the predator actually started hurting that, what the herd of zebras do is they go to that wounded zebra and they begin to run in a full circle around the wounded zebra over and over, running, running, running, until the predator leaves. So that circle of herd of zebras protects the wounded one. I wanna ask you, where is your circle that will protect you when you're wounded? Because we all get wounded, amen. We all get hurt. We all get offended. We all withdraw from the goal. But we gotta have that circle of people that will protect us when we're wounded, to help you out. And that is our community here. That is your home group. People that God has given to you, the enemy uses for you to get offended so that you can lose them. It's all in His plan. But I encourage you, it's for you to make that step and join a home group, for you to get connected, for you to maybe restart that relationship or to start a new one. But we cannot do it alone. Don't get so COVID isolated that we do life completely alone. God wants us to do it together, amen, to build the kingdom of God together. I encourage each and every one of you to join in the sense of volunteering. Sometimes that helps for you to be around people by volunteering, ushering, being greeters, being on the welcome team, doing all of those things for you to get ignited, for you to get connected to other believers. And it becomes a family instead of just coming to a church service where you see this is not just a church service, but it's a family unit, amen. And we're building the kingdom of God. So I encourage each and every one of us is that the enemy is after our yes. He is after you, that if he can't get you to sin, he's going to try to weaken your yes to him. So that means that for you to get offended, for your eyes to get distracted by your own pursuits instead of pursuing him, he wants you to, by the way, to pursue those things that you're after, your desires. He just wants to join in. He just wants to be your partner and help you out, but that he is constantly the first, amen. And he doesn't want you to do this life alone. He wants us to be in a place of community so that you're accountable, so that you can grow and that you can expose your potential that you have in Jesus' name, amen. How many of you are ready for 2022? Letting go those offenses, amen. Pursuing God, amen. Hey, thanks for watching this video. If you enjoyed this content and this was a blessing to you, would you help us and hit thumbs up so that it could help more people to discover this video? It cost you nothing, but it can go a long way to help with the algorithm. As well as if you're not subscribed to our channel, hit subscribe, click on the bell so that you can be reminded each time that we upload videos. Thank you so much for being a part of this community. If you're interested in learning more about hungry Jen, our internship, our conferences, our deliverance, and so many other things, go to hungryjen.com for more information. And as always, remember, better is not good enough, the best is yet to come.


That's great, but remember that symmetry is an illusion. Less than 1% of the world population is symmetrical. There is beauty in asymmetry.


Before we dive into this video, I want to remind you that we're giving away a Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Switch OLED Edition, we're also giving away a Collector's Edition of the game, and a pin from PAX East. Enter to side down to the link in the pinned comment or the description. Oh, beyond all of this, we also have a special 100,000 subscriber t-shirt that we commissioned an artist to create, so I'm really excited about that. It's going to be available only this week and next week. Same with our Tears of the Kingdom t-shirts and stuff as well. Link down in the description to purchase any of that. Alright guys, let's get into this video and we're talking about part 3 of the Ask the Developer for Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, the interview that Nintendo did with Aji Alnuma and more. Aji Alnuma, I know guys, I'm really bad at pronouncing the names, so I'm apologizing ahead of time that I'm going to butcher all of these names during the interview. Alright, so a world connected, always to the sky. I now understand the challenges and circumstances behind the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom's development. You said that the setting is the same as that of the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. However, now that you can explore the skies above Hyrule, does this mean that the world has expanded considerably? Let's make this a little bigger for you guys, shall we? Shall we, right?  Let's even go one more, there we go. Alright, Fubi Yashi, Fuji by Yashi, I don't know, guys, I'm sorry. Yes, there are skies and caves to explore now. There are also areas we weren't able to create in the previous title for multiple reasons. Dota response. Actually, the previous title, Breath of the Wild was originally developed for Wii U. So there were restrictions in development. There were a lot of ideas we wanted to implement during its development, but we made clear decisions on what we wouldn't do in that game. For example, we decided it wouldn't involve flying. Then Aonuma-san kept saying, if flying is out of the question, I want to dig underground. And we'd respond, oh no, please don't make us develop that too. Laughs. Aonuma, it was just my natural response when playing the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Like man, I want to dig a hole right there. Everyone laughs. Dota. For Tears of the Kingdom, we began by compiling and implementing ideas we couldn't in the previous title. We wouldn't have been able to do so, but we had to make a completely new world. So developing in the same setting as the previous game was significant in this sense as well. Takizawa says the entrances to cliffside caves might be a good example. Dota. In the previous title, cliffs could only be climbed up and the cliff sides were bare. Takizawa responds, I think that players who find a cliffside cave in this game might start wondering, is there one in the cliffs over there too? When a place or even one that's already familiar is augmented with something of worth, you begin to see the world in a different light. Even as the game's developers, we started seeing the landscape in a different way while working on the game. I believe the way players explore Hyrule will change too. Next question. I see. It's a legend as though the characteristic for one to hint to lead to another, causing a chain reaction for players to view different places in new ways. How about the skies then? Fujibayashi says, although the walls in the last game gave height, I thought the gameplay was largely two dimensional. This time we added verticality. In other words, gameplay that utilizes height. We developed a three dimensional world under the premise that you'd be able to travel from the surface to the skies seamlessly. Link also has a new action called Dive and a new outfit for the skies. Thinking about how to get to the floating islands seems fun. Fujibayashi responds, the actions you take to get there and the exploration of the sky islands themselves are both a lot of fun. The new actions and sky area were such novelties to us that we added one sky island after another to test out the different gameplay elements. Then one day, the designer scolded us. They said we made the skies messy by adding too many islands. Takizawa responds, it was pretty cluttered. They all laugh. Aonuma, when we placed the islands to scale in the skies, I was surprised to see just how small they were when looking up at them from the ground. Dota responds, as with the previous title, we ensured that everything connected seamlessly. Things like houses were built to scale and even if you enter a house there's no map transition. From the windows you can see the outside exactly the way you did before entering the house. Everything looks just as it should, but when we created the skies to scale on a seamless map and added features like floating stepping stones, they appeared too small from the ground and only looked like loose specks of trash. Laughs. In the end, the designers did a great job of adjusting their appearance. Wakai, connecting the ground and the sky seamlessly also presented difficulties from a sound perspective. Dota. Yes, the sound staff often pressed the programmers to clarify where the dividing line between the surface and the sky was. Wakai responds, sound transitions are done seamlessly as well, but the background music in particular needed to change according to the situation. Because of this, we need to place a transition trigger to indicate where the music should switch. Dota responds, I never needed to consider where the sky begins before so I had to think about it. Laughs. Everyone laughs. Wakai responds, also it was difficult to find a fitting sound for the sky. Takizawa responds, I guess it's because the sky is a scene we've only ever witnessed from inside an airplane, right? Wakai. Exactly. I knew what flying in the sky sounded like, but the request was for the island in the sky. Laughs. Aonuma. After all, no one had ever been to an island in the sky. So we've only discussed the skies, but the title has its dungeons too, right? Yes, baby. Confirmation of dungeons? Fuji Bayashi? Yes. We haven't talked about the dungeons yet, they've changed from the previous game. For example, there is a dungeon that connects directly from Hyrule's surface. If you dive from the sky straight into the dungeon, you'll trigger an event. We think this will be a new experience that wasn't possible in the previous game. We've made dungeons unique to their respective environments, so we think you'll be able to enjoy the wide variety of regional characteristics. Takizawa says, making a wide variety was pretty challenging. The four divine beasts were dungeons in the last game, and they shared similar designs. This time, the dungeons are huge, and each carry their own regional look and feel just like traditional Zelda games. We think they will provide a satisfying challenge for players, and they're certainly a challenge to develop. They laugh and then they let us know that part 4 and part 5 of this interview drop tomorrow. Guys, did you see that? Look, I know if you're someone who's paid attention to leaks, you might have already known this, but if you haven't, this is Nintendo's first official confirmation of dungeons existing in the game that are being regional dungeons, and really cool aspect, they tease one of the dungeons where if you dive in it from the sky, in particular, right here, you'll trigger an event. I don't know what the event is, but it's only if you dive into it straight from the sky. Gosh knows, any dungeon I find I might try to dive into it straight from the sky to figure out what the hell this event is. I am so happy that dungeons are back. Obviously, they reference the dungeons in Breath of the Wild, but these ones are more like traditional Zelda dungeons. This is the news we all wanted, why we're only getting it now so close to release instead of a week ago, two weeks ago, three weeks ago. I don't know, but thank you for this interview and confirming something without really doing a lot of spoilers. And look, dungeons are back, they're regional, they're themed of course, and yeah this is pretty cool. I'm, yes, now I know, some of you guys are going to be like, I already knew this man, I've been watching all the leaks, hey guys we don't talk about the leaks, so for us that have not been paying attention, that are only using official Nintendo information, this is brand new stuff, so I'm so excited about this, this is amazing, you guys are awesome. You know what, thank you so much Nintendo for this, we got parts four and five which are probably the final parts of the interview as tomorrow is the last day before launch.


Thank you very much for the invitation, because I always love the position that we can explain what we are doing in Brussels, knowing that it is quite complex but sometimes it is good to at least see a positive trend within all the difficulties which may have to become on television. And I know I talk to quite a knowledgeable public, so I also look forward to the many questions you might have. I'll try to concentrate on the positive trend. Now that there are a lot of complexities and problems to solve, but I just want to make sure we all see that positive trend and I will of course quite willing to also do any nasty questions on the problems that might be less optimistic. But I think there is a good reason to be positive, but my topic given to me was the comprehensive approach and the EU and US military role within the external election service and I'll focus on that. You had some very good speakers, so before me you will have one, just a bit later though, sort of a great manager in external election services, so nice to have him here as well. So I'll focus completely from the military point, but I will not only talk about the military, I will look at the external election service from the military perspective and then what is our role. To understand that perspective, I'd like to start with what is my role and I know David Licky, my predecessor was here some time ago. He might have explained as well. Though much changed since then. If I would explain what my role is, it's called the Director General EU Military Staff and the military staff you could see a bit like a kind of defence staff. In some countries when I arrived they present me as the chief of defence staff of the European Union. I like it, but it is not true. There are 27 chiefs of defence and I serve them. So basically in the EU the military committee, which at this highest level is all the jobs together, who decide in consensus and I serve them. Single nations already can ask me to prepare something for this discussion but they have to decide on those proposals in consensus. For those who know NATO, for me now the biggest difference between NATO and the EU is that for this first part, my counterpart, Jeremy Bournemont, who is the Director General of the NATO Military Staff, he has only one chief and that is the military committee, chaired by the chairman of the military committee. That part is the same. The second part is I have this other head that formally my roles now since the first of January is the High Representative Special Vice President of the Commission, Cathy Ashton. And why is this such an important difference that in many occasions I'm not writing any more documents directly for the military committee, which was the case before. But we decided to be comprehensive and we have all the instruments for crisis management, which we normally also would have within governments under one roof. So not only the military, also with the CPCC, the civilian planning and conduct capability on operations by civilian counterpart with police missions, civilian monitor missions, training missions for civilians, whatever, in the security sector reform arena. That was already something we developed two years ago. But with the Lisbon Treaty and the creation of the External Election Service and the mandate of the High Representative slash Vice President, she now basically is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense. We can't call her that way. We say, High Rep slash Vice President. But if you look what are her tasks and what does she have in her organization, she's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense. And she has the mandate to coordinate all external action of the EU. Now, you heard this before because I saw the briefing of General Syren. He told you and David O'Sullivan might tell you again from his perspective because it has a lot of management complexities. From my perspective, this is great. I've been working in coalitions of the Billing and NATO for a long time. We always, as military, we're the first to acknowledge we cannot solve this problem ourselves. And then we have a lot of other people telling us you cannot solve this problem yourself. As we told you, we need others to do that. That is how it went for a long time. But nobody wanted to be coordinated by NATO because it was basically only military with the political diplomatic power, of course, as well. But you all know diplomatic power is based on the instruments you have behind you. And at NATO, that is only military. So NATO, if they talk about comprehensive approach, they are always looking for others to be the civilian parts. And the civilians never want to be coordinated by NATO. And it's also not the other way around. And then you get situations like we have in Afghanistan. Before the comprehensive approach starts, it goes very slowly because you have so much discussion. In the EU, it's not the case. And I already have proof of it because we have several crises now since we started to work as external access service. And I'm absolutely positive about it. We have a crisis. We sit around the table and the chair by Kefi Eshten or Secretary General V. Mol, if she's out. And she's out a lot because she's minister of foreign affairs.  Hakan, Siren and I are the only military around the table. In total, there are 28 people around the table. And they all represent instruments. It can be the geographical desk which has under his authority all the EU delegations and business. So diplomatic powers there. We have my civilian colleague who can do police training, monitoring missions, et cetera. I came to come up with military options. But we also have development. 11 billion to spend on all kinds of programs around the world. We have ECHO. I'll just give you one for me. The most simple difference between NATO and the EU. How it works. And then for more context you will understand it works as well. We started to work, though not formally external exo-service yet. I was there. So the procedure we started work when we had a fraud in Pakistan last year. She called the whole table around her. We discussed it. I came with military possibilities. One of the most logical was we can deliver military transport to bring whatever needs to be brought to Pakistan. NATO did exactly the same. But at our table also commissioner Christina Georgieva sits and she says well for this kind of crisis we still have about a billion. I think I can decide now to use the 200 million of our budget because this is really a big disaster. Four days later we were flying to Pakistan with military planes. They delivered by member states. But that is how it works. I can only organize, plan and coordinate member states. The EU doesn't have capabilities of itself. By the way, NATO has some capabilities of itself but the bill has the capabilities of also member states. But at NATO's side in two weeks they could deliver planes but nobody was buying the goods. Informally we handed over goods bought by the commission and gave them to NATO and they brought it to Pakistan. Small example, I will give you one other example, Ivory Coast. Very important advice was that in the beginning of the year the civilian war was coming on. We offered military options like evacuation of EU citizens, support to get the refugees out. But most effective, at the end, were the civilian instruments, blocking visa for people to go around Bakbo to go to Europe. And I think the most effective one blocked his bank accounts so he couldn't pay his mercenaries anymore. And then at NATO the French were successful in getting him out but that's because more and more mercenaries came to fight for him. So this really is the strength of the EU and if we talk about comprehensive approach I'm very glad as a military though it is my first military job in the EU to be part of this because this will be the strength to solve many more prices in the future. And be free to ask any questions what are the problems for me to be quick enough related to all my civilian partners who have different position making cycles. But if I start to explain now I might talk to more in the beginning. Then I of course understand from an Irish perspective you look to NATO in a bit different way but I so often get the question why do we need to do military if you already have NATO. So I'm going to tell you to do you anyway. And for me it is essential that we continue to have NATO for common defence, security, high intensity security and defence they remain essential but also I can only organise military operations for the EU thanks to NATO not because of the 3rd and plus but because they make sure we are interoperable within the EU and with all the other third parties which often deliver to us as well. And we are not in the EU duplicating anything everything which is at a technical technical operational level military we not duplicate but we are developing a lot of concepts and doctrines focused on the cooperation between military and civilian because NATO doesn't have it so that's if I talk about policy development it's very much about how do military work together with all the civilian parties. So strength for me better the bottom line in crisis management and the strength of the EU is the comprehensive approach of the EU. Then the role of the military staff itself well it's the same as most defence staffs. I have a role for current operations and planning for new ones but only at the political level I have no capacity at all to do operational work. I do not have the staff to make conceptual operations operands and conduct operations we have to activate operational headquarters for that. Three options I have a headquarters that is empty with all the materials in my building we call it the operational center. I could do if we activated it would cost about 90 people in total. I could run small operations up to better group with support to the other group. For all other I have to activate the national headquarters like we do for Atalanta at the moment still and what we did for child in Paris where Patrick Nash was an excellent commander. The third option is the Berlin plus range which we have with NATO. In Bosnia Herzegovina we may use it the cheapest way to do our business because we duplicate nothing. We use the command and control of NATO but it will never happen again because the EU has the policy of inclusiveness all members should be able to take part. NATO does not allow one in and therefore we will always be blocked. And here is the weakness by the way of the military because we do not have that capacity but all those instruments in the EU we might civilian counterpart but also in the commission they can act much more quickly and not have to wait to activate an OHU which is a difficult political position on itself. Operations on one side I would say 80% of my time is more focused on the future capabilities. One of them is creation of new concepts how to work with civilians and the other approach to what capabilities do we need as a EU for the future and how do we get countries to work together so we get the capabilities we need. Let me first focus on NATO because it's such a high percentage of my time. You know several years ago we agreed upon a headline goal 2010 many of you know about it. It determines what is the level of ambition for the EU. We agreed on five scenarios going from the easy humanitarian assistance to the high level peacekeeping, big peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations. An ambition up to 60,000 in total. The sum of the different operations. We had the last time we went through the cycle of this is the ambition, this is what we need this is what countries have so this is the shortfall with the same process you will do at home if you have to define what is necessary. Well this was already quite long with the shortfall of 10 very critical shortfalls. We could have agreed on a new headline goal politically. Why? Because we never reached the headline we didn't even want to evaluate it and we know if you would try to define a new headline and we look at the world and the interests of the EU the ambition should go up. The reality is went down. And member states are even hesitated to tell me where they have cut or certainly where they will cut and they make the national decisions anyway. It's a painful process. I'd say if I could make visible and I now try to do with my staff just following the newspapers and Google to defence the ministries where they decide to cut and you will see to our common embarrassment that many of our countries of the member states have cut even in areas which are in the shortfall 10 priority. Also my country by the way but we can go around you will find it everywhere. So I'm afraid we're in a situation where if you look at what interests of the EU are the ambition should go up but the reality is went down. I make this remark also related to the speech of State Secretary Gates. We've got to make up our mind in Europe what it means that in the future the EU might not always come to a rescue in all those situations which I did before. And if the analysis is we might have crisis where EU interest might be involved we then have to make sure we get the capabilities to just protect our own interest as a EU. Difficult messages in time of financial crisis and budget and I fully understand that if the Social Security is cut and education is cut it's difficult to explain that the fence needs to go up and I accept it. And we only can have strong military if we have strong economy so our governments need to find the balance. At the same time I just want to mention this. Just because it's so closely I go back to operations I go and within my 20-25 minutes I have I've already mentioned them with some key remarks and then feel free to ask any questions about it if you want to know more. Althea in Bosnia-Hochemina our only first and most likely last person operation with an executive mission still to support the local authorities for a safe and secure environment they have been successful in it that more and more countries not see the use of it we already started with a non-executive mandate so we start to train the military and that is working fine. I guess somewhere at the end of the year we will get a decision on how to continue this mission. Then a very good example of a comprehensive approach though historically it started different in a different way in the Horn of Africa with piracy of course everybody in the sense of the symptom of the problem which is on land and we now see in the external action service that all those key players start to work together and we for the first time have a Horn of Africa strategy and we're now working on an action plan under this Horn of Africa strategy where we bring all instruments together to solve the problem of piracy but also the famine and also the insecurity on land in Somalia and also the lack of capacities at the security side of all our partners in the region and well Operation Atamanta is one part of it important for our shipping so important for our economy but also very important in support of the World Food Program World Food Program all their ships are escorted by us they feed 1.3 million people and it's going up because of the fact that 26 million is the estimate of World Food Program I mean that's a very good reason to come to piracy as well and second priority but still until now as high as World Food Program we escorted all Amazon shipping and Amazon of course is essential to get security on the ground in Somalia in support of the government in support, T.D.G. in all the region and the commission does projects in Somalia and ECHO is doing humanitarian support in Somalia and we try to have all those instruments together and this is one of the reasons for the first time I see this comprehensive approach and the military terms we often call it campaign planning we now call it the new action plan because campaign planning sounds too military but we use the technique of campaign planning to get all those instruments together very interesting and it will make us more successful Libya I'd like to mention because I didn't have much cover in the media the EU and we were part of a civil middle mechanism we took out 4,400 EU citizens with military means out of Libya when the crisis started and before the intervention was there all the total 7,500 EU citizens in Libya then we had a lot of refugees going to Egypt and Tunisia especially at the Tunisian border it became such a big problem that Tunisian authorities asked support of ECHO the European Human Services Organization and they asked us if we had an absolute aid and we only took several thousands of the 10 thousands of refugees out but it wasn't the beginning and I think still that was an important contribution as well and then we had the discussion who's going to do what and at the end the discussion was NATO's going to do the intervention after the crisis started and the embargo support the humanitarian assistance on request of ECHO I'd like to explain this has been a huge political game can you imagine where all the different countries came from in the beginning and the EU was the only organization who decided that military be it for humanitarian assistance and security to humanitarian assistance we were allowed and we were prepared to go into Libya and there were several scenarios prepared on request of ECHO one of them was around Israta when the fight was going on and we couldn't get enough civilian support at the end the good news is the humanitarian disaster never became so big that they had to ask our support from a professional point of view it's maybe a bit disappointing that from a humanitarian point of view of course that's good news we're now at the end I'd expect on very short notice to get decisions to stop with that operation due for Libya because ECHO is not likely to make a request anymore and the next phase is completely going to be civilian dominated from the EU side why? because MTC asks they may not even want foreign boots on the ground other than some experts so if you can expect some military support to the new Libyan authorities it will be only some experts to advise in certain areas I do not expect much more all the other operations or missions will be civilian by the way my staff largely supports the civilians or CIS but do that as invisible as possible we did so in Georgia for instance as well okay I can always speak much longer than necessary therefore my agency already told me it's now time so I'll not go into but I also did not plan to but I want to mention the topics which are currently key topics and the results are most likely also for you if you are in a policymaking or security defense under the policy presidency of course and that's the improvement of the command and control capacity SIV NIL in the EU the improvement of NATO the EU coordination Pooning and sharing as the buzzword to get more capabilities I forgot to give one message here you cannot pool and share if you not have it and the shortfall list is a long list most of them we not have it so if we think we can pool and share and fill all the gaps we are to honestly but I do seek a lot of possibilities to be more efficient with our money and then maybe we can use it in those other categories but the technical topic the improvement of the usability of the data groups is one topic that's going to be a very difficult one to get consensus on even under the policy presidency I leave it there just to have some remarks and then open to whatever question you might have


I need to show you guys something. This is one of those funny picnic areas in Texas that I've been talking about. But I gotta say, it came in handy last night. Because this is my parking spot. Check out that view. Pretty sick, huh? Everybody, this is Claire. Hi. How'd you sleep? Good. It was cold, and it was hot. Nice. And how'd you like this picnic area? It's pretty nice. Really pretty. Next to the park entrance, we have the Brontosaurus. These are both life-sized figurines. And then the Tyrannosaurus rex. And then we have in the middle, the Clarodactyl. Alright, so after a little hike across the river right here, a creek, we should say. Here's the area where the tracks are. We'll zoom right in on this little three-pronged track. This is all submerged underwater. So basically, a long time ago, this used to be some kind of soft mud. They made the tracks, and then some sediment filled in over it, and then that sediment eroded, revealing the preserved dinosaur tracks. If you come here, the map is a little misleading. We're trying to find another track, and we think this is it. We're just upstream from the last spot, just, I don't know, 100 yards or something like that. And I think these are more tracks. The strange thing is, they don't really label anywhere over here. Like, there's no sign that says these are the tracks, but we think they are. Not a rock. What is it? Alright, so we just fished something out of the river. What do we think this is? A seed? Let me touch it. It's kind of gross. That's weird. It's definitely some kind of seed or fruit. If anybody knows, we're in Central Texas. Comment in the video here. So we were just over there a second ago. Now we're on the other side of the riverbank. The same side is a parking lot, and this is the Ozark track site. A little hard to see, but all these little things are dinosaur tracks, right here, right there. So, yeah, pretty cool. They are covered with some sediment and some, I don't know, algae, if you want to call it that, little stuff. But yeah, these are legit dinosaur tracks. At a place called Bucky's. And she wasn't kidding. Look at all these pumps over here. My goodness. Yeah, hello, sir. I'd like $5 on pump number 523. Geez, Louise. So we're going to stop in here, and oh my gosh. The thing is literally a grocery store. It's not a mini-mart. It's a maxi-mart. Joke, look at how huge this place is. They have like a separate hot sauce barbecue sauce area. I don't even know what... Where did you take me? What? Where are we? We're at Bucky's. Oh my God, is that barbecue? Yeah. Inside the Bucky's we have the picnic barbecue area with tons of rubs and spices and sauces. Also inside the Bucky's. For all you coffee drinkers out there, I got a good tip for you. This cost me $1.29 to refill. I paid something like, I think, $2 at like a truck stop. A lot cheaper than stopping at a Starbucks. What's up on today's trip is a bodacious barbecue. They're sold out of pork, sausage and ribs. Oh, what? See, you know it's a good place if they're sold out of stuff. Yo, check out my brisket sandwich. This screams Texas right here all over it. I don't really know why there's onions on the side, but I just went with it. Got a little coleslaw. Not even a coleslaw person. Spicy barbecue sauce. Mild. Smiles? You happy? Yes. How is it? Good. Yeah? Alright, this thing is huge by the way. It's like basically just a meat sandwich. I've got all over my face. It's delicious. Best barbecue you ever had? Pretty good. So apparently these guys are number four in the state of Texas for a barbecue. I would say highly recommend it. You should definitely stop by.  So that's going to be tomorrow or the next day. It's pretty far. So we're going to look for another one of these amazing picnic areas. This is home tonight. This is in the city or town of Omaha. We are parking right over here. It looks like this is a proper truck parking area. I'm going to construct to my right and left. Tomorrow we're going to get back on the road. I just want to say thank you so much for watching. Feel free to hit that subscribe button. Tell your friends to watch the videos. Put the videos on a public computer and leave them on. You know what I'm saying. I'll see you guys on the road tomorrow.


Good morning, my name is Lauren Gégain. I am a bioinformatician at the bioinformatics platform Abyns of the Roscoff Marine Station in France, Britain. I will present our work on automated deployment of genome databases for marine ground algae using galaxy genome annotation. For 10 years, many genomes of macroalgae have been sequenced, like Honduras, Sakharina, Kladosifan. It is worth mentioning the favorite core project that aims to produce genome and transcriptome data for 40 ground algae and four sister species. A lot of data is generated. In addition to sequencing data, there are gene predictions, arguments, annotations. And to explore and use this data, it is necessary to be able to centralize, visualize, annotate, and share it. The GMOD tools can meet these needs. GMOD is a set of interconnected open source applications and databases to visualize, annotate, and manage generic data with the most popular on the right of the slide, including Galaxy. On the Abyns platform in Roscoff, we have chosen these tools. We used Shadow as a relational database to organize and store data. We tested triple to display analysis data for each gene. We used the genome browser Gebros, a web application, to visualize the reference genome and mapped genomic data, like predicted genes and transcripts, reads, and expression data. And its counterpart for collaborative manipulation, Apollo. The data for each organism was imported and stored in Shadow and was then processed for display in Gebros and Apollo, which requires some manual actions and configurations. In 2016, the Abyns platform hosted 11 genomes in Gebros and six genomes in Apollo, and a hundred of Picosiano bacteria genomes, and 40 Fairwood flower-prone algal genomes were expected. And the manual deployment of the tools became tedious. It was error-prone, time-consuming, and the cost of maintenance was quite high. So in 2019, we started a collaboration with the GeneWest and Vipa Bioinformatics platforms in Ren to use a new deployment environment from the Galaxy Genome Annotation Projects. GGA aims to provide tools, applications, infrastructure, and materials to help for genome visualization and annotation based on Galaxy and GMOD tools. GGA is an initiative from the Galaxy and the GMOD communities. Analysis tools for gene prediction, functional annotation, and visualization have been added to the IUC repository of Galaxy tools. GGA also provides a comprehensive and scalable environment of interconnected GMOD visualization tools. GMOD tools have been localized. Person libraries developed to make them work together with Galaxy tools to interact with GMOD applications. The GGA project also initiated the Galaxy flavor and some training materials to support prokaryote and eukaryote genome annotations. On the RIMS platform, we set up the GMOD visualization tools infrastructure to deploy for each algal species an integrated environment with shadow, chevros, and triple. This system brings important gains in speed and reproducibility of deployments. For the favorite core project, we have 57 genomes with the genome assembly, predicted genes and transcripts, functional annotations, and de novo transcriptome that we want to integrate into GGA environments. To facilitate the deployment and the administration of the TGS services for a bunch of genomes, Arthur, Lubas, and I have developed a set of tools allowing mass deployment of TGS services and automated data loading with Python using Galaxy bioblane API and Galaxy workflows. On top of that, we have developed a Django web portal to provide the community with the hub for accessing all the resources. Genome browsers, triple pages, blast interfaces built with second server, metadata and annotation statistics, links to external databases, and unknowable data sets. The next steps will be to support more types of data, to add links with genome-scaned tablet networks. An ongoing work is to cloudify the GGA tool suite and implement it in the European Open Science Cloud. We intend to deploy a similar web portal for web RG. And in the context of genome sequencing programs of a large and diverse number of spaces like ERGA, the automated deployment of such infrastructures could bring to scientific possessions a simplified solution for collaborative environments. I would like to thank all these people from the Hostcoff Marine Station, the BIPA and Genoese platforms, and the community. Finally, if you are interested, come see Arthur and I at lunchtime in the European time zone for our poster demonstration. I'm also announcing Roman and Tilda's poster demonstration on TGA in the cloud tomorrow. Thank you for your attention.


Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on June 10 announced 500 million Canadian dollar worth of military aid for Kiev and said Canada would take part in a multi-national effort to train Ukrainian fighter pilots. Trudeau also told a press conference in Kiev alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Canada was seizing a Russian-owned Antonov cargo aircraft that landed in Canada last year and starting the process of forfeiting the aircraft to Ukraine. Zelensky told reporters counteroffensive and defensive operations were taking place in Ukraine, but that he would not say what stage they were at. The Ukrainian president shrugged and raised his eyebrows dismissively when asked to respond after Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Kiev forces had certainly begun their much-vaunted counteroffensive. Zelensky said he would provide 500 million dollars in new funding for military assistance. You're fighting for your country and for values like democracy. In addition, today I'm announcing that Canada will be part of the multi-national efforts to train fighter pilots and to maintain and support Ukraine's fighter jet program leveraging Canadian expertise in these areas. We will also be contributing to the multi-national Leopard Tank Maintenance Initiative. We will provide an additional 288 AIM-7 missiles, which will support Ukraine in its efforts to defend Ukrainian skies, and from existing funds we will provide 10,000 rounds of 105-millimeter ammunition to the Ukraine security forces. Last spring, a Russian-owned Antonov-124 cargo aircraft landed at Pearson Airport in Toronto. As soon as it landed, we immediately grounded it. People in Toronto know this because they've seen it while driving past the airport as we've held it there for the entirety of the past year. So today, because of legislation we passed, we are now seizing this Russian-owned aircraft. And we're beginning the process to forfeit this asset to Ukraine to make sure it will never again be used by Russia to support them or their war. We've all seen the devastation caused by the collapse of the dam at the Kakova Hydroelectric Power Plant in Kerson region this week. This was a direct consequence of Russia's war, and it is devastating for thousands upon thousands of people. To help with the response today, I'm announcing $10 million in new funding, and will be redirecting $37.5 million of Canada's currently allocated humanitarian assistance for Ukraine to respond to this flood. Thank you, my friend, for all that you do. Thank you. Canada is one of the most active countries in the world, and it supports the need for the security of Ukraine and all of our Euro-Atlantic communities. And today, we've signed a joint declaration with Prime Minister of Canada with the support of Ukraine in NATO. Volodymyr, thank you so much for welcoming me and Chris. I believe that we will definitely feel it all.


West Publishing. It's truly a pioneer in putting the law online, and this has been his full-time avocation and vocation since the very early 90s. Justia is a very strong participant in law.gov. I think they've been to pretty much all the workshops at this point. Our next speaker after that is going to be Mike Walsh, who is the president and CEO of the US Legal Markets, Legal Solutions for Lexis-Nexis Group. Lexis-Nexis has also been a strong participant in the law.gov process. Their chief architect participated in our Cornell workshop. He was at the workshop at Google recently. Michelle Vovoma has been a strong participant in several of the workshops. And so it's good to see them participating as part of the conversation. And then finally, Ed Walters, the CEO of Fastcase. When we first began looking at the law at public.resource.org, one of the very first things we did is we went after appellate decisions because they were not available on the internet. And it was Ed Walters that sold us 50 years of circuit court decisions that we were able to put online, which made a dramatic difference in the accessibility of federal law at the appellate and Supreme Court level. So all three participants have been part of the law.gov process. And I've asked them to speak for 10 minutes each about their involvement in the process, what they see, what they want out of government, what they think should happen. So Tim, why don't we start with you? OK. Give this a little bit farther. So I think one of the core things for us at Justia, and I think with law.gov as well, is that it's not just getting the information out there just to get information up. We want to get it out there so people can see what the government's doing, can see how the government operates, and really start participating with the government, both on either new legislation that's taking place, which I think the government's done a pretty good job on. But also how past decisions have been made, or what rules were looked at to make decisions, especially in things like court cases, which is one of the segments of information that we're looking at getting online for free. I sort of break down what we do. We do a lot of aggregation of stuff. It's not our real revenue part of our business, but we are trying to build up a lot of free information, both here in the United States and abroad in Mexico, Central and South America as well. And there's a lot of different steps that we have to look at in terms of trying to get this information and putting up and, of course, sharing it with others. The first big thing that we always face is, is the information even available electronically?  And there's lots of things you'll find that aren't available. For example, the US Supreme Court briefs, you can't get online right now or get them all available. Every once in a while, the ABA will get some back in the day when Mike and I used to work at fine law. We hired someone to actually go down to the court and make copies of those when we put them online. They're no longer doing that now. But we'd like to see some of that information up. Things like the California Code. Rob's done a great job with the Oregon laws, but as he pointed out, he liked to do California as well, but California doesn't even have the headings on the section numbers of the California Code that you see online. Or they're missing certain sections, like the building codes just don't show up.  Although sometimes they'll tend to put that back up later. Different things like just getting the official text of the opinions of the Court of Appeals decisions. I mean, if we could just get the actual final texts of these sort of very high level decisions, that would be great. I mean, forget about the citations and all the page numbering. Just the final version of the text, which is again, something that we can't get right now, and which is, I think Ed spends quite a bit of time making sure it's right on Fast Case, for the Bar Associations as well as PLOL, his free resource that he has at Fast Case. And then some separate sort of secondary items, which will periodically show up, but things like the Congressional Research Service Reports, which the government pays for, puts online, and that like other government documents information that appear every once in a while, you have to wait for WikiLeaks to put up, and someone puts that up and then you can get them that way, but ideally the government would put that, put that information up itself. Great secondary materials of very high value research, which we're paying for as tax payers, the marginal cost of putting up electronic copy when it's already electronic version, zero. The second item I would say is the copyright item. Copyright and sort of different legal issues, licensing issues. One thing I think we faced, again, I'm going back with Rob Stoff in Oregon, is that some states are claiming copyright to their codes or their revised statutes, saying it's not the same as session laws and understand the difference there, but even if that copyright's not going to be enforced in a court, it still puts a sort of entry-level barrier of entry, because a lot of people are just afraid to go ahead and grab it or to challenge the state, like Carl did up in Oregon, so that's one issue, and that's really sort of a state-based type of thing. The second one is sort of licensing restrictions that are placed. A lot of states will have free information online, but they'll partner with a private publisher like Lexus, and you'll see the California cases will be up online since the 1850s, but there's really a licensing agreement for you to actually use them, and you're not allowed to republish them in different items like that, so that's sort of a secondary restriction that we face. Different items, which is slightly different is there's some private groups, such as building codes that are claiming copyright on codes that they're actually pushing the states to adopt or pushing different municipalities to adopt, and yet they're sort of trying to get this, it's certainly helpful to get these codes in place, but they're also doing it as a way to produce revenue. They know once they get it into a state and once they get it into a municipality, they also have a brand new revenue source of all the contractors and all the developers out there that need to get a hold of these codes. And then the sort of side issues, which just periodically pops up, are things like legal briefs or legal contracts. So legal briefs, you'll see some lawyers now claiming copyright on the briefs that they're filing with the courts, and again, it's sort of up in the air issue, and some of them were just actually upset that West and Lexus are selling these briefs, which is probably one of the things that's driving them on it, but there's also a question, who owns that copyright on those materials? Or just attachments to certain filings. For example, the first Superman comic is actually an attachment to a filing in a case in the federal district courts. So there's obviously a copyright in the Superman comic, or you could do the same thing, you could put the whole Harry Potter series, making an attachment, is it then part of legal proceeding or is there a copyright in it? And then things like contracts and like SEC documents, you'll often will see major contracts filed there, which some of the companies or corporations have claimed copyright on, even though it's part of an official government filing. And then sort of stepping back, so can we get it, can we get through the legal restrictions? Then we sort of come to the technical issues in terms of grabbing stuff, the XML bulk downloads, and that's really sort of a third type of issue. Probably the first one there to me is, can we actually crawl it and get it? There's, a lot of times it'll be up there, but it'll be very hard to crawl. For example, New York State Code, you won't get the New York State Code, they have a little JavaScript, it'll stop every once in a while, they'll lock out your IP address, look, we can figure out how to get it, that's not that hard to do. But it is an additional barrier of actually getting this, be nicer if they just put up a large XML file and say, hey, it's gonna be up there for free. I mean, granted, we're gonna get it, we're gonna put up as a big file, they could just do that ahead of time, there's no reason not to. Things like just getting the Pacer stuff, it'd be obviously nice if Pacer was consistent among the courts. It'd also be nice when the Pacer updates the individual court that they actually tell you they're updating it and that the documentation actually matches which is up there. So it's just trying to get some systems in place, which is much, much harder to do when you're running 98 different district courts and a bunch of bankruptcy courts and sort of standardizing on a core system for all the courts. And I think that, as Stephen mentioned, that we'd be much better off, well, I think they're both the courts and the people would be better off if they sort of pull the resources together and really tried to work on standardizing the overall Pacer system, the overall court filing system. But it is an issue. We spend at least one person a day a week just fixing Pacer scripts that have been changed by different courts. And we have to triple check the data because we can't trust the sort of what we're told that's coming in place. It doesn't always match up in order to bring it into our system. And I know we've had some issues with the recap where we put in bad information before because we weren't quite checking stuff enough, but we've obviously been spending a lot of time on putting those things in place. And then two, again, a sort of a separate item is obviously if we can get the documents down, can we get them in a nice format that we can sort of scan and get them nicely marked up and sort of clickable in a way so we can sort of click and sort of link between documents. That sort of always a nice thing. And then, given all that, I think one of the stuff, one of the items that we're really working on at Justia as well as with Stanford and the ABA and a bunch of other folks is trying to allow different third parties start annotating this. So whether it's students in classes or whether it's bloggers wanting to sort of use cases linked to them. And again, this I think is relatively important because you've got a lot of people that will produce a lot of really good secondary materials if they can have access to the primary materials. And I know a lot of people say, well, the primary materials are here, the secondary materials they could still use, but you see situations where this doesn't happen. And again, there was a blogger recently who had access to some cases and those cases were withdrawn from him from his use and he actually took down his whole blog. It was a relatively high-ranked blog by the ABA. So there are certain things where if we can actually work together to make these things available to people, they will build on top of it. And I think we see the engineering and sort of the tech folks here from, you know, GovPulse and Rob and the folks down in the government, there's a lot of people that will work hard on this, but we need to get just sort of that baseline set of materials so they can sort of use that and sort of make that part go. And the final thing I'll quickly mention is I do think there are certain privacy issues, especially when it comes to cases and briefs. And one thing is I don't think the courts can just push it on the lawyers because this has been mentioned a few times in these seminars. A lot of the people filing these briefs are individuals. They aren't lawyers and they're gonna put in their social security number and they're gonna put in their driver's license number and they don't know any better. And so just punishing lawyers and saying it's your issue is not gonna solve most of the situations. But more importantly, cases and lawsuits and briefs, they're really sort of stories and they're very much about people, about situations and you know, you'll see court cases, citing briefs, you know, assuming these facts are true, but then people think those facts are true but it's really just for a point of law. And I think if these things get indexed by Google especially, what you're finding is that a lot of people aren't even searching for legal materials or information, they're just searching someone's name. And the only thing that shows up for that person's name is this particular story, which may or may not be true as part of a lawsuit. And so that's something I think we need to think about going forward. I mean, you wanna do certain things and make it open for everybody. But there are other places where people don't have, 100 pages about them like Carl does, or a million pages on Google. So something mentioned, one more thing mentioned about Carl in a lawsuit, not a no big deal. But for a lot of these individuals, this is all that people know about them. This is it. So that's just something I think we need to think about going forward as a group.


By October of 2022, the Damage Assessment and Need Analysis, or DANA, was completed by its participants. DANA is a training program aimed at preparing disaster management staff, community leaders, and first responders to effectively assess destruction of a community post a natural disaster. By November 6th of 2022, the north of the island experienced a trough. Crash flooding and landslides caused extensive damage to public and private property. The participants we trained in DANA, which was the first set of training, two weeks after DANA ended, the trough happened in Corinth and Grosilew impacted, and these were the individuals that went out to do the damage assessment. And for us it was a proud moment because whilst you teach, whilst they were training you inform them that okay you will be called upon to assist in terms of disaster, most times that opportunity never comes or you never wanted to come because you really do not want a disaster to happen. But it was amazing to see the amount of persons who showed up the following day at our office who had just been trained, volunteering. The training was facilitated by Brigadier General Retired, Earl Arthur's. Arthur's himself expressed pride in his cohort of trainees. I saw at least about 50 of those people actively engaged, going out, doing the assessment, coming back to Nemo, and I recognized them and see them in the Nemo, and I asked him how is it going in the center, going well, I'm glad I did that training, and so I think that was a good practice for them with that trust, and I am confident that if something worse should happen, God forbid, that they will be able to manage it. Dana is one of many activities under the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project, or DVRP. This is Jacques Hingson Compton of the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project.