TfHus Update Hi folks, Basel Chapman here for the 11 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Market Update This is the last trading day of March Monday we'll be able to look at those March candles, those April candles starting Because March will be done and that's going to be really important in the meantime You can see a long-legged doji, not quite a doji at this particular point If we drop about 80 points or so, it'll be kind of a doji candle there We're looking at the S&P which is also up quite nicely, dials up 178, 30, 2038 S&P, if I can get that right there, there it is The S&P is trading at, there we go S&P is up 25 at 4,076 in leg D The dials are only leg C, there should be a pullback to make a peak C And then a leg D and that's your target in the travel way, bicycle to buy mode Then you have to assess to see can other things happen from that particular point Looking at the QQQ, look here's the daily chart on the left The middle one's just not updating, so the one on the left is very nice In leg C, so the QQQs also need to make a peak, oh sorry The S&P's already gone to a leg D, but the Q's only at C So this is a pullback and then a D going into earliest We can make a peak D is Wednesday, IWM Russell 2000 trading nicely up 273,177,91 Gold contract is pulling back just a little bit yet It's kind of stuck in a range between I'd say 2005 and 1950, 1948 says it's starting to move down So we're watching that closely, the dollar, the dollar's just kind of stuck up 15 texas, 102.33 Now this is very interesting, I didn't have a chance to do my shortened program I could only do half an hour, TLT right now is up 100 At 105.41, up 61, so yields are pulling back just a little bit I think yields are just stuck in a range, I didn't even get to crude oil Crude oil is in leg B to the upside Oh I never did natural gas, I wanted to do natural gas Natural gas is up 0.08 on the continuous contract at 218 This is a very important moment because the on balance volume is turning up But that flat stochastic at 7.10 says a lot of work needs to be done To get that to 15%, so we're watching that closely But in the meantime I'm going to say to you, have a wonderful weekend I will see you on Monday, stay tuned for great programming And let's hope it's a beautiful weekend here in the Boston area See you on Monday, thanks for being here


You're tuned into the COVID-19 community report here on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, California. I'm Autumn LaBea Renaud and today is Tuesday, July 14th. I have been on the air four months today with this show. We're sharing local news and resources focusing on what's impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. My guests today are Jenny Tan, who is the Public Information Officer for Yolo County, and Emily Henderson, Artistic Director for ACME Theater Company, and we'll get to our first interview shortly. Beginning with this episode, I'm consciously incorporating something I've been kind of haphazardly doing and that's using the short second interview to highlight and lift up a local arts and culture organization or individual. This is a sector that's been forced to largely shut down during COVID and we'll take a look at their interesting pivots and pursuits. Today a bit of KDRT news. We have welcome back to the airwaves Gary Chu with Third Streaming, Praise Time with Preacher, and Sound So Sweet with Wayne Hagen, all of which you can hear live later today. And don't forget to cap off your Tuesday evening with Dawn Shore on Jazz After Dark at 8 p.m. On Thursdays, Silver Nine Volt Heart with DJ Rodriguez and Live Track Switch and Mucannon are both live again. On Fridays, Peter Pastore is back on the air with listening lyrics live at four and on Sunday mornings DJ Dirk rides again with Twang Thang. Also check out recent interviews from Bill Buchanan on Davisville including his segment on Crime and Spy Jazz with Derek Bang and hats off to the other producers who've been doing this from home since the early days of the pandemic. And finally a couple of new things, new teen programmer Rohan is live Fridays at five with Time Out Radio and Doctors on Cannabis is new Thursdays at 4.30. And I would like to highlight the work that Allison B is doing on May Rocky Radio. Pairing up with Dima Tamimi who is both a community advocate and a non-profit leader, Allison is passing the mic to local black and indigenous people of color. Featured this week is Anush Trajorian whom I've interviewed about the Apoyolo Project coordinated through YOLO Interfaith Immigration Network. May Rocky Radio airs just after this show so please check it out. And you can learn more about your favorite shows and see a full schedule at KDRT.org. You can in fact find all things K-Dirt there including ways to support this community station. And folks we can't do this work without community support so thanks for checking that out and supporting as you can. Alright if you have been downtown lately you may have noticed some big changes. For one this past weekend members of Davis Phoenix Coalition brought the community together to chalk a large Black Lives Matter mural on 2nd Street. And 2nd Street has kind of quickly become the nexus of change in the downtown. I'm not sure how new state public health orders are going to affect that but working with the city, the Downtown Business Association is spearheading the Open Air Davis initiative which permits many businesses to modify or expand their service capacity by offering the use of space on sidewalks, parking spaces and even streets. Open Air Davis consists of two major street conversions as well as dozens of locations that are popping up organically and that's just kind of where business owners are putting their focus on outdoor seating and accommodations because I think the handwriting is on the wall with this. Inside is bad, outside is good. Some businesses are building new patios, some are setting up additional seating and others are simply doing a refresh on existing outdoor areas. The initiative began recently with the closure of G Street between 2nd and 3rd. An expansion of the program this last week included the closure of 2nd Street between E and F and this is close to vehicular traffic and the public is invited to experience these open spaces every Friday morning through Sunday night through the end of the summer. You can go to downtowndavisdowntown.com for more info and we are going to take a moment for music. Oh, we are going to take our first call. All right, when the pandemic started and I started this radio program, I asked Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor to connect me with someone in public health and that led me to Ms. Jenny Tan who serves as the public information officer for the county and who's been incredibly helpful over the past four months of doing this show. So I'm very pleased to welcome her as my guest today. Hi there Jenny. Hi, how are you? I'm doing okay. How are you? You've had a busy few days, few months. It feels like it's been nonstop for the last five months and every day there's something new that pops up and you know, you got to get work on that. Right, right. And we're going to talk about a lot of that today but I think many people maybe have gotten to know you a little bit from your daily live videos on the county's Facebook page and I'll tell you from doing this show. It's just a really weird thing to read off death's statistics, right? It is hard. So how did you end up doing the daily video? How did that come about? So at the beginning I would probably say like end of March, Patrick Blackbox is our county administrator. He really felt that we needed to be a little bit more transparent about the information we were providing. And so he was like, you know, some of the other counties, they do like this daily video. What do you think about doing something like that? And I said, sure, I think that'd be a great idea, however, who's going to do it? And they said, well, you and I said, okay. So that's kind of how it got started and you know, we were kind of worried at the beginning, well, would we have enough content to have something to talk about every day? And I have to tell you, there is always something to talk about and you know, we are about to hit, I think, 75 episodes next week. So it's really amazing that we have been able to do it for so long and we have an audience that kind of tunes in every day and there's lots of conversations that kind of happen around the daily briefings every day. And so we're really appreciative to our audience and to the residents for tuning in and really finding the information that we talk about helpful. Great. Yeah, I know I was worried about having enough content for this show at the beginning too. And it really hasn't been a problem. So I asked you to come on the show because a big part of your job is really taking complex public health directives and boiling them down into easily understood nuggets. For example, last week, you and I had some back and forth on email. It was announced we were at capacity for staffed ICU beds in Yolo County, but by the time I reached out to you, that situation had already begun to shift. So if you would, let's start there. What is the situation with hospital capacity in Yolo County? So last week when we got on to the state's county monitoring list, we had no capacity. We had exceeded two of the metrics that the state had in their county monitoring list. One was for elevated disease transmission, the second was for hospital capacity. And so by the time that we got on the list, we had 0% and that was what the state had mentioned. However, as soon as we were already dipping into that metric that we were going to exceed, we were working with the hospitals, the hospitals themselves were trying to get additional capacity. And so I think by the end of that day, even though we had sent out that press release earlier, the work was already being done to improve that. And so I think by the end of that day or early the next morning, the hospitals had opened up another wing. There were more beds that were available, so we were already on top of that. And we do have hospital capacity now. We have ICU beds. I think something that kind of gets lost is that ICU beds are not only for COVID-19 patients. They're also for regular people who are coming in for emergencies or may need the bed for other medical issues. And so we need to have more than what is available for our COVID patients. So the hospitals have done an amazing job and we do have some available. So people shouldn't be worried about needing to go to the hospital if they have an emergency. But so many things happen behind the scenes that I think a lot of people don't know about or don't realize, but we are definitely working to ensure that, at least with our hospitals, other capacity. Sure. And there are two in the county, correct? We have Sutter and Davis and we have Dignity Health in Woodland. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We are still on the states county data monitoring list and we've been there since July 8th and that refers to the uptick in the number of cases. So what are we theorizing is driving that uptick right now? Is it people gathering? Do we know? The uptick could be due to a couple of different reasons. One that we've seen in just through our contact tracing efforts is from gatherings. So whether that's social gatherings or family gatherings, there have definitely been an uptick and people are spreading COVID that way. Another is through religious services, we've seen some cases kind of come up from there from employer or from work. So people are also picking it there. What it essentially boils down to is that people are probably not social distancing as well as they should be. People may not be wearing face coverings as well as they should be.  So we've definitely seen an uptick kind of across the board, across sectors and across different kinds of gatherings. And so our messaging has kind of evolved a little bit over time over the last four months, but people do still need to social distance or physical distance by at least six feet, wear the face covering, even if they are hanging out with family or at least with people outside of their household. And then if they don't need to go out to really stay at home as much as possible. Yeah. So the day after California officials revealed that the number of deaths related to coronavirus in the state had passed 7,000 and that was, that was the day before yesterday. Then yesterday, Governor Newsom said that there had been 8,358 new cases reported in the state in just 24 hours. So as we, as you know, many businesses that had reopened are required to close again. Some of those are being closed statewide and some additional ones are impacting counties that are on the state's watch list. So I'm hoping we can kind of quickly go through those so that everyone is on the same page. What is on that list? What's closing down or has closed down? So as of yesterday, based on the state of California's announcement and the office of data health order, those counties that are on the watch list, which Yolo County is on, will have to close effective immediately gyms and fitness centers, personal care services, which includes nail salons, skincare, cosmetology, electrolysis, body waxing, body art tattoo and piercing shop. It also includes hair salons and barber shops, places of worship, offices for non-essential sectors, and indoor malls. I do want to say that those industries will need to be closed unless they can somehow be modified to operate either outside or have pickup service or pickup of whatever that may be. So for places of worship, for example, outdoor services or outdoor drive-through services would still be okay. It's just that indoor part that would need to be closed. So that was in effect yesterday. Okay. Do you think it's conceivable we might be looking at a full return to shelter-in-place orders? That's perhaps an unfair question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. You know, every day is very different. We don't know what the governor or the state of California is going to say, and we're kind of on the edge of our seats, just like the rest of the public. Do I think it will go back? I think depending on the numbers, if we continue to see this rise in increases, if the public continues to kind of not social distance or not wear a face covering, that the governor is going to keep rolling back on things that are already open. So he's already rolled back on, I think, 10, 12 different items so far. So we're almost to the point where it was in shelter-in-place. So I'm hoping not, but is it possible? Absolutely. What day of the week is that, right? I know. Yeah. What's going on today? All right. Well, let's talk about masks a little bit. And specifically, just before the show, I was talking with a friend about those posts we see on Nextdoor about people complaining about businesses that are not enforcing. And today there was a post about a Davis business that was telling customers that masks are their optional, basically. So we don't want people calling 911 for these sorts of things. And I'm not sure what's changed since the last time I talked to someone about this. What's the best way to report that info into whom? And I'm saying things may have changed, because since the last time I asked that question, contact tracing has been deployed throughout the county. So I want to talk about that a little bit too. So who do we report to? And then we'll talk about contact tracing. So we actually have a portal or a link that people can actually turn in stories of kindness, submit questions, and also report issues. So if you go to our Roadmap to Recovery page, which has all of our new additions to the health order and any kind of new actions that have been taken locally in your closures, at the very bottom of the page there's going to be this blue button. It's kind of teal in color. It says Shelter in Place Feedback Portal. If you click there, it'll take you to sort of like a survey where you can input in what your concern is. If there's a restaurant or a business that you feel is not complying, it is anonymous. And then you can input that information, and then it gets sent to Yellow County staff that we have monitoring that portal every day. And then we will send it on to the appropriate division or department, whether that might be code enforcement or our environmental health staff that work with the restaurants, that information will be turned in and we'll be able to work on it. Okay, that's great to know about because folks complaining on Nextdoor is not particularly effective. I'm just going to say that. And it is really good to know that there's an easy way to do that. All right, we have just a couple minutes left, and I do want to talk about contact tracing. So if you think you've been exposed to the virus, imagine there's a process. What should you do? So if someone thinks they have been exposed, we definitely recommend that they get tested. We have many free local testing sites available. We have our OptumServe site in West Sacramento, which is by appointment only. Our Ellica Health Center site in West Sacramento is for those that don't have insurance or those that have MediCal. We also have a few clinics that we're hosting, I think, this week in different areas. You can also get tested through your healthcare provider. There's a lot of different options for people who want to get tested. Once you get your test results back, or even if you don't get your test results back, but you feel sick or you think you might have been exposed to someone but are asymptomatic or are not showing symptoms, then we do recommend that you quarantine or isolate yourself, especially if you have family in the home or maybe you're caring for someone who's at high risk and you just don't want to, you know, maybe get them infected. Then we definitely recommend that they isolate and quarantine themselves. There is a number that people can call where they can reach out to our public health staff. If you go on to our Roadmap to Recovery page, there is a button for Business Toolkit. You can go on there and then there's an exposure toolkit flyer that has a number on there that you can call, and someone will reply to you once they get your message and then they'll tell you what other things you may need to do. If you get tested and you are positive, our public health team will call you and this is really important. Please don't hang up on them, or if you get a voicemail, please call them back because that contact tracing part that Steph is really important in letting us know how far something has spread and also to help contact maybe people that you have been in touch with to let them know because maybe they have someone that they're also caring for or maybe a high-risk category. And so it is really important to answer the questions and to be a part of that process. I did want to mention really quickly that they're having some contact tracing scams out there. So it is important to know that our contact tracing staff from Yolo County will never ask you about your immigration status, will never ask you for your bank account information or for money or for your social security number. So if anybody called asking for those things, they are most likely a scam and you should not respond to those questions. Amazing what people will try to take advantage of in a time of crisis, isn't it? Yes. Yeah. All right. Let's mention that for all the info you've given, all those buttons to push and numbers to call, if you go to YoloCounty.org and I've announced this pretty much every show, all the COVID-19 information is right there at the top of the page on the right-hand side, the roadmap to recovery, and the dashboards for the statistics which are updated daily, I believe, correct? Yes. Yeah. Thank you, Tan. Thank you so much for joining us and for all the work you do to get good and timely information out to everyone. We were relying on you and we appreciate you. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you for having me. All right. Take care. We'll take a moment for music before we get to our next caller. Okay. My next guest is the longtime artistic director for the innovative and youth-led ACME Theater Company here in Davis, California. Welcome, Emily Henderson. Thank you so much for having me. Good to hear your voice. How you doing? Oh, it's a roller coaster, but doing well. Well, ACME is pretty well-known in these parts, but I mentioned it to a couple of people who said ACME Theater, what's that? So tell us what it is. So ACME is celebrating its 40th anniversary this season. It's a youth-led theater company. We have 12 young people who are elected each year to serve as the leaders and they train their youth replacements and it gets passed down year after year. Now, in a normal year, I'm a longtime ACME supporter and a tender, and in a normal year, you would have kicked off a vibrant summer season with theater in the park on Memorial Day weekend. Really missed it this year, just, you know. So tell us how you've pivoted during this time and what you're doing this summer instead. I know you have a lot coming up. Yeah, so we decided to move entirely into an online Zoom theater world because we wanted to have the ability to be inclusive to everybody regardless of what was going on in their particular household and what the COVID-19 situation evolved into over the course of the summer. So we usually do in the summer a big production where everybody gets cast and we wanted to keep that aspect, but instead of doing one big show, we're doing a show a week because trying to do a Zoom call with 40 people, we all know, is pretty miserable. So we've got a production every Saturday and we have, you know, six, 10, 12, 15 students who work starting on Monday on that show culminating on Saturday. So are the shows being done? I mean, I have to tune in now, obviously, but are the shows being done kind of in a live read style or are they memorizing lines over the course of a week? It varies from actor to actor on how much memorization they are able to do. So we're calling them Zoom reading. Each performance has technical elements. So we have lighting, sound, costumes, props that are all pulled together and then some of the students are reading and some of the students are more off-book. So walk us through what's on tap for the rest of the summer. I know Dear Harvey is the first one coming up but then there are a couple more after that. Right. So this Saturday, we've got our two family friendly shows. So this Saturday is The Boy Who Cried Dragon, which is a comedic retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. And then we've got this really beautiful coming-of-age adventure story that's called This Girl Laughed, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing. So that's this Saturday, July 18th, 1 to 2 and 1 to 7. Then next weekend, we're doing a summertime ghost story. It's called The K of G and it takes place a hot, sticky summer in Ohio with a group of teenagers dealing with a loss of their friends. And then we'll wrap it up on August 1st with Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman, which is an adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a bunch of Greek mythology about people or places that are in transformation. So are these free? Are you asking for donations? What's the scoop? They are free. We do ask, everyone has to register to be an audience member.  And, yeah, we're partnering with different nonprofits every week that we want to support. It's a hard time. We want to support other folks in our community. So we have a donate button for Acme and then we have a donate button for the nonprofit partner of the week and we encourage people to give as they are able. Great. And are you also offering workshops? I remember summers long ago dragging at least one of my kids to Acme camps over at, they were taught over at Cesar Chavez Elementary. So what do you have going on in the workshop realm this summer? Yeah. So we have day-long workshops this week. There's one this afternoon for age 11 to 13-year-olds starting at one o'clock. It's probably too late for people to squeeze that in today. And then on this Thursday, we have another workshop for ages 7 to 11. And these workshops are in preparation for the show that's coming this weekend. So students will get to work with the Acme actors and get a little sneak preview, see some of the costumes and props and get a chance to read some of the scenes that then they can come and see performed on Saturday. You are someone who has worked with youth in this way for a very long time. I guess I want to do a little check-in. How are the Acme youth doing? I mean, they're weathering this incredible experience here and their experience of it is going to be different than an adult's, for example. They still have to contend with, will school be starting? Will it not? What am I doing in my life, et cetera? How are the Acme kids doing? Yeah. It's a hard time. I think everybody is doing the best they can, but definitely struggling. Throughout the spring, we started doing a weekly Zoom cabaret where people would get a theme and they would have 24 hours to create a poem or music or any kind of creative expression. And so I felt like that was a really helpful kind of weekly check-in to see kind of where people are at and like listening to people's poems about, you know, how long the days feel now and how hard it can be to not see your friends and people were calling. I didn't know when I saw my best friend on Fifth Period that Friday that that would be the last time I would see her and I haven't seen her in months. It's hard on all of us, but I think particularly for young people, time moves at a different pace. We all feel like we've been here for centuries. I know. But I think for them, it really has on some level. Yeah, that social enrichment is extra important at their age. All right, well, sending out good thoughts to all of you. I promise to tune in for some of the summer offerings on Zoom and thank you for, you know, keeping it going. Thank you, Autumn, for keeping us all connected with your radio show. All right, take good care, Emily. Bye. That was Emily Henderson of Acme Theatre Company, AcmeTheatre.net We're here with an RE and they are fabulous, so you can check that out if you are so inspired. We're getting down to the end of the time. I want to give one last thing that the Yolo County Library is going strong with Pickup Service and they're expanding their hours. So go to YoloCountyLibrary.org and you can get all the information there about what you can access even as the library is still basically shut down. We thank them for their service. Thanks for tuning in. From the KDRT Studio, I'm Autumn Labé-Renault and this has been the COVID-19 Community Report.


I'm Joshua Cooper and welcome to Cooper Union and what's happening with human rights around our world on Think Tech Live, broadcasting from our downtown studio in Honolulu, Hawaii and Moana, New York. Today, we're looking at the doomsday clock ticking towards existential end of humanity, 90 seconds before midnight, closest ever. But a human rights-based approach to avoid an apocalypse. Today I'm joined by former commanders and current campaigners and we're excited to look at what we can discuss to avoid this existential threat. Aloha and today we're looking at the doomsday clock and I'd like to welcome first Alan Ware, Director of Basel Peace Office. Alan, as a global coordinator of parliamentarians for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, why is the doomsday clock so important and what should we do about making sure it doesn't get any closer? Joshua, thank you so much for having this really important show and this is a really important announcement from the bulletin of autonomous scientists that the hands of the doomsday clock are 10 seconds closer to midnight than the same time last year. This comes from a scientific approach. So these are scientists, they're analyzing the situation, the risks to humanity and in particular, the risks from a possible nuclear war and climate change and also the unraveling of multilateralism, the rise of nationalism, which is creating more conflicts and putting us in peril. So it's very important to have the scientific basis from then we can look at what are some policies that are important to work on. And a key thing with this announcement, every year they do this and they do it on the anniversary of the very first resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, which put forward the objective of the elimination of, they call them atomic weapons back then, atomic weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction. So the bulletin of atomic scientists does that to basically say, look, we have a huge problem, it's a global issue. We can work with our own governments, our parliamentarians, our mayors in our own countries, but we also have to work internationally and the United Nations is the best forum to do that. And we can talk later in the program about the various ways we can take forward these objectives of say preventing nuclear war and protecting the world from climate change and other existential threats through key United Nations forums and processes. Alan, thank you so much for that historical lesson but also holistic perspective about peace, sharing that the purpose of the UN, of course, was to end the scourge of war and how far we have not gone yet. Robert, it's an honor to have you because you're probably one of the rare people that had such a responsibility, as we say in Hawaii, a kuleana on your shoulders during your career regarding nuclear weapons. Can you share with us insight into what you were dealing with and why you're now campaigning for nuclear abolition? Well, hello, Joshua. Thank you very much for inviting me on the program. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm particularly so in company with Makayla and Yvan, young activists because it's youth that's gonna carry this movement forward. I'm quite old. I was at sea in the Cold War. I joined the submarines in 1962 and I was at sea a second in command of HMS repulse, a Polaris missile firing the submarine in 1972. The second in command is command qualified in case the captain goes sick. And in the two years I was on board, in fact, I had to take command because he was sick with a condition onto several occasions. So I was both in command and second in command and therefore in the chain for launching weapons. At the time in 72, of course, was quite high to the Cold War. Being a young officer, you did what you were told and you believed what you were told. And we were told that actually, nuclear weapons kept the peace. But my captain and I, before we went on patrol and faced with the likely possibility that we would have to launch weapons, did discuss, would we launch weapons? And we said that if we knew that our country was under attack, which is what we told we were defending against and threatening so it didn't happen. But if we knew that we were under attack, we probably would launch. I have to say quite a few commande officers said probably because until push comes to shove, you don't know actually whether you will carry out what is essentially a revenge attack. The one thing we were sure of though was we would not fire first. If we had an order to launch, we thought nobody had launched at us, we would stop, think and consider whether we really would launch a nuclear war based on intelligence. Intelligence is always fallible. So that was my condition in 1972 to 74 and for the rest of my time in the service, I guess that mentally continued to be my approach. In retirement with more time and facing a bit of a financial crisis in the UK, at about the time we were buying the next class of submarine when budgets were tight, I decided to investigate whether we could afford to carry on with the deterrent. Now the war was down and the Cold War had finished because I thought, well, do we need it? And the next is started off as a financial thing, cost benefit, but it slowly, I got deeper and deeper into the ethics of nuclear war and deterrence, the theory of deterrence read more widely and educated myself. And the first thing I realized was that when we'd been told that we would never fire first in 72, that was not true. There was a secret plan that we would, if necessary, according to the government, but they didn't tell us. And once you've lost a bit of confidence, the war very quickly falls down, as did the Berlin war. And I moved quite quickly to understanding that not everything I'd been told was correct and not everything I hadn't been told everything. Four years later, I decided for myself that there was only one thing to do and that was to get rid of nuclear weapons. And we didn't seem to be making any great attempt to do so. There was no plan, no pathway and no motivation. So I undertook to try within the Navy to educate naval officers as to the fact, education, education, education. And I found out that a lot of the Navy didn't know the fact. And from that position, I kept on campaigning to try and make as much noise as I can and tell people the truth. And that's where I am today. Well, we thank you for sharing about that harrowing task during that time, but also your personal transformation to decide that peace is the only way to go forward. We now move toward youth to work with youth fusion. Mikhail, I'm very excited to hear about your perspective when you hear about this doomsday clock clicking ever closer to catastrophe. And in fact, 2023, it's the closest ever since the bolt of atomic scientists began measuring the metaphorical timepiece. What's the first thought that comes to your mind as we move from 100 seconds to 90 seconds? Hi, everyone, and thank you so much for that question. I think it's very crucial and one that I think we all have on our minds, and I especially in times of a climate catastrophe and also the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And I think the first thing that comes to my mind when I saw that news as a young person who's lived through all of this in the past year is that I'm not surprised at what's been happening and the results of the doomsday clock. I was expecting it sometimes a little bit to be worse because I think as a young person in some regard, our hope is kind of lost. And that's why I think that it's so important to keep putting our energies collectively into projects such as the ones that Youth Fusion have been spearheading and really raise these issues with youth and to make a network and a community of people to lean on each other and give each other hope that we can make a difference. Because I think that that's kind of the only thing that we can cling onto right now because there's so many knock-on effects that this whole war has created. Economically, Europe is really in a mess. It's a very tough time for young people to find work and we're all feeling it. And that's why Youth Fusion is really, it's standing out as this worldwide networking platform for individuals to really band together and say no to nuclear weapons. Because I think that's what's really holding this war hostage right now. It's a complete unfair playing field and there's really with nuclear weapons at the disposal of great powers who are in a deadlock right now. And I think that's why we need to come with other solutions like the solutions of human security, common security. And I think that young people really have that mentality and that's why Youth Fusion and our goal is to inform, educate, connect and engage young people. So they are actually equipped with the tools and the knowledge to be confident to actually go out there and put out some form of resistance. So for example, we do that mostly through educating. And I think that that's why Mr. Forsythe was very much reaffirming our education efforts. So that was very heartwarming to hear that you agree with that. And we've also had various projects relating to our network. So we very much value that because I think people, young people especially are our power but not only young people. We also very much value intergenerational dialogue because young people cannot stand alone in this issue. We need all the people and people of all walks of life to really come together because nuclear disarmament on its own, it's not a standalone issue. It impacts so many other areas of our security, our sustainability and youth fusion really works to work across the network. So for example, we work a lot with the climate movement because nuclear disarmament and climate are very, very deeply linked. They're both the two biggest factors in the doomsday clock and very existential matters. We also work with people within the feminist movement. Nuclear disarmament has feminist roots and we really try to tap into different pockets of sort of the social, economic and political causes to say, hey, nuclear weapons impact you because so many people are very much detached from what nuclear weapons do and what their impacts are. So that's why we're really trying to make it as relevant to young people and to older people as much as possible and just say, hey, this issue really impacts us all. And I think that's why the doomsday clock is so important to raise issues. And really, it has been effective at kind of pinning nuclear weapons and the climate crisis together to say, hey, these are actually two of our biggest existential threats. And that's why youth fusion really, really works to promote that. And I think Ivan will talk a little bit more about some of his personal projects because they're very, very inspiring. Mahalo, Mikaela and very sobering reflection from youth to that sense of hope and potential despair if we don't take direct action immediately, but also really amazing deep sip of wisdom from the well that you share about how we have to connect all the dots, the feminist foreign policy perspective, but also going deeper really, it's a decolonization and a decarbonization where you know that, yes, indigenous people would have never tested nuclear weapons or detonate them on their sacred lands from their perspective of living in harmony with the land and being part of nature. And moving to Ivan, Ivan, can you share your perspectives when you heard about the doomsday clock being so close? Well, today I think young people are faced with this challenge. We are constantly wondering, how do we reach out to policymakers when they seem so estranged from us, especially when it comes to disarmament issues or how can we advance disarmament policies such as no first use, for example, that we want to see implemented in our future? And I think, well, we are faring pretty well. Today we are surrounded by an abundance of youth networks that engage the public in discussing the weaknesses and strength of the, let's say, the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. We have the UN Youth for Disarmament Initiative. What I'm particularly alarmed by in the light of the doomsday clock announcement is that we as international community in general, we tend to shy away from creating common collaboration spaces with those we tend to portray as wicked or threatening, such as Russia, Iran, China. And the disarmament network we are trying to build is thus incomplete. And for this reason, I think Youth Fusion and other international youth led organizations are working towards challenging the conventional, you know, West East Drift and proposed a novel interpretation of the famous, let's say Russian American diplomatic hotline that in the 21st century goes well beyond that cooperation between the two giant superpowers and involves, you know, a greater deal of actors, young people, civil society organizations. And that set on positive that youth organizations contribution to building this nuclear weapons free world in cooperation with senior experts and well fellow campaigners like Mikaela just noted is essential to move the dial on the doomsday clock. And one of my personal projects is the youth hotline campaign that we're kind of developing right now. It's aimed to bring together young people who share the belief that disarmament efforts taken by Russia and the United States are critical to reading the world of nuclear weapons. We wanna foster this continuous knowledge exchange and bridge the trust gap between the two nations specifically concerning nuclear disarmament by creating an online platform where both the Russians and Americans would be able to engage in a direct informal dialogue. And I think this is what we need and I think this is what we're having right now. And I'm very grateful for you for organizing this amazing talk. Thank you. Well, the clock is ticking and the doomsday clock moved from 100 seconds to 90 seconds, measuring that theoretical point of annihilation. And the loss of 10 seconds, they say is due mainly to the war in Ukraine and the veiled threats of nuclear warfare as well as the existential threat though of climate change facing everyone on Earth but also even pandemics as well. Alan, can you show how you're connecting all these issues? I know you're recently at the Universal Periodic Review working group in Geneva but we know you do many other activities around the planet. So a key thing I'll follow up on from Evan on this is connecting across divides is so important. Whether that's at the international level, there's a divide between, for example, the Russian narrative surrounding the reasons for the invasion of Ukraine and the West narrative and the Ukraine narrative. And often the leaders are just talking past each other. I've been to like an OSCE of parliamentary assembly before the invasion and seen the Russians getting up and shouting at the Ukrainians and the Ukrainians shouting at the Russians and people were just taking sides and it didn't get anywhere. We have to respect that we will have differences of opinion with others but we have to bridge across that and try and engage with people whether that's the international level or whether it's within countries. There has been a division with the inside countries also and people not engaging with each other and just holding negative images and then just dissuicing other people have different things. So this hotline idea I think works at many different levels. It's really important and it goes along with the idea of what the United Nations was set up to do which was to establish security on a common security basis. This is the idea that security is not based just by defending yourself with weapons and threatening those who might disagree with you but considering that everybody has security concerns or issues. So what we needed was try and resolve conflicts. And so we do that through a number of mechanisms and many of them are established by the United Nations but they're also established through the OSCE the organization of security and cooperation in Europe through the Helsinki Accords. These include things like negotiation, mediation, good diplomacy, arbitration, adjudication which is like using courts international court of justice using international law and laying down legal principles so that you have a basis for moving ahead in agreement. This is laid out as I said in the United Nations and the United Nations has many ways civil society can come in and work with like-minded governments in the many different forms to advance these common security ideas. We can do it in the UN General Assembly where we can like adopt resolutions for example and initiate processes. We can do it in the International Court of Justice where we can help resolve conflicts using the law rather than using force or we can do it through the Human Rights Council where Joshua and I were just a couple of weeks ago because these issues are human rights issues. We have a right to life. We have a right to help the environment. We have a right to a sustainable future. These are all laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights instruments. And in the Human Rights Council and in the other human rights bodies, we as civil society can go in there and we can say, look, these governments, they're up to review they're not implementing these rights. Here are our recommendations and we have dialogue and we're heard. And we did this in an event in Geneva at the Human Rights Council on the side and follow up the Doomsday Clock announcement just last week. And we have really good engagement of governments, experts in that process. So I encourage people to think, look at the possibilities particularly through the United Nations to be able to take these ideas forward and engage. Thank you. For that holistic perspective, talking about the United Nations International Regime especially with human rights but also the OSCE and the four baskets looking at Helsinki are absolutely crucial. We know the Doomsday Clock points out that we're living in an unprecedented danger. Robert, can you share with us some ways that we can actually move that dial back a bit and show that we can actually save humanity as well as our own only planet Earth? Yes, the line I've taken is I don't think there's a switch you can turn and everybody suddenly gets rid of their nuclear weapons. I think in the real world we have to take steps and people just won't walk away from it straight away. So the first thing I think is to educate them that actually the biggest danger of nuclear weapons probably comes from inadvertent use or use through misunderstanding or just straight accidents. I mean in Hawaii from where your program is going not too long ago there was the alarm that went off and had the beta trigger happy, missile commander who decided he on his own initiative he'd fired would have had a nuclear war. Most people are not aware of the 14 or 15 serious incidents that have occurred which were really nuclear near misses. So that's one way of educating them. The second thing I try and do is to persuade people as a first step. Nobody really wants to fire a nuclear weapon deliberately as a first strike. People all talk about it being defensive a second strike weapon. So let's do away with first strike. No first use policy that President Biden said he endorsed but doesn't carry it forward but to generate support from that among a large number of people and to keep on pressing the matter. It's all about pressure and talk. I think the third thing is to keep pointing out the TPNW, the treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons compliments the new non-proliferation treaty doesn't replace it. It actually gives strength to article six of the NPT it's not in competition, it's what we're trying to do. And mainly just to keep on talking, educating putting the facts on the table. I've got two sons who are in the media business and when I said to them how do you get the message across and they say, Dad, you just keep on throwing stones into the pond and the ripples will travel and you never know how far just keep on throwing the stones. Well, Robert, we're glad you have a really good arm and we appreciate you for reminding us in Hawaii about that morning. I remember standing up after walking my dogs at Diamond Head, Leahi and looking over the Pacific and then people all of a sudden freaking out and trying to put their kids underneath manholes and we know there is no way to survive but that was just a moment, a 15 minute glimpse of what catastrophe we could face. We also thank you for bringing up the TPNW and the NPT. We have the tools and maybe Mikhaila you can share with us some of the actions that you're taking to remind people the same way Robert has, he talked about almost a dozen near circumstances like the Hawaii one and really nuclear is forever. It is life, so maybe you can share what the youth are doing to make sure that you never have to experience this in your lifetime. For sure, I think that that's a youth fusion specialty so to speak. I think that it's for us, we work on a very grassroots activism level. Of course, we also have some dealings from the top down level whenever we get the opportunity but my advice is to everyone, especially young people, everybody can be an activist. Everybody can take small actions. For example, with the climate movement, you can recycle, you can make social media posts and with nuclear disarmament, there are so many networks and organizations that'll take you in with open arms. Youth for TPNW, youth fusion, the youth in the UK, the CND youth has a very strong faction going on. Just do some research and you can even reach out to some of us at Youth Fusion, we can guide you in the right direction. There's so many things that you can do and just to share with you, when I started out three years ago, it was in the nuclear disarmament field, I was clueless, I didn't know much but I quickly learned and you can too.  Your voices will ripple as Robert said. Very true, we just need to be informed, be involved and to make a difference. Ivan, can you share a bit more about how you're making a difference and what youth can do? Right, I absolutely agree with Michaela's words that everyone's voice and everyone's action matters and I think what I'm particularly doing with Youth Fusion and Ask Secretariat at Abolition 2000 is literally putting everyone together joining the organizations, joining the movements, joining the campaigns, reposting, tweeting, reading. It is as essential as taking part in a huge event. What some of my peers and friends forget and I've had this conversation many times with them that well, a lot of my friends tend to believe that track, the second track diplomacy doesn't work. The back channel diplomacy is really not as efficient. Well, I've seen this play out very differently and I think it is the human connection that really helps change the perspective, the attitude of our governments, of our leaders, of our society and this is what I'm particularly interested in doing is understanding the people in the first place, their perspectives, connecting with them and then influencing them because we learn through each other and this is how our world works and I'm very happy to be part of the youth community for a disarmament and work with Mikayla and other beautiful people. It is, it's a beautiful trouble that we're making for a better tomorrow and it brings up the point that Alan was looking at last week is some of the governments called it sharp edges, that you have nuclear disarmament, that you have climate crisis, and that you have human rights and what we're really looking at is sort of shattering those silos. Alan, could you share in the future what vision we have so that we never have to think of this doomsday clock getting even closer, but more importantly, a future where everyone wants to wake up to a better way and shows what's possible with peace? Yeah, thanks Joshua. And one simple action that we have got which makes these connections is the appeal called protect people and the planet, appeal for a nuclear weapons free world. It starts off with the measure which Rob mentioned we need to prevent a nuclear war and call for no first use policies to be adopted. That's a call one, call two, we need a vision for a nuclear weapons free world. So that's the call at least by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the United Nations. And call three is let's shift the resources that are going into nuclear weapons, a hundred billion dollars a year, shift those into protecting the climate, into public health, into peace, into sustainable development, shift those resources, that makes the connection showing disarmament can help human rights and development. And that appeal is on our website unfoldzero.org and anyone can sign. And then if you do, we take that appeal into meetings in the United Nations.  And what Ivan was saying is you create personal relationship with these people. You're not coming in as like an adversary, even though you might be disagreeing with their policies, you're coming in to share with them, open up talk and say, how can we work together for a nuclear weapons free world? This is something we need to do with those who rely on nuclear weapons at the moment. It's something we have to do also with those who still rely on fossil fuels. We can't treat them as enemies. We have to help people in the transition to a nuclear free and a fossil fuel free world. Thank you so much, Alan. And that really does bring us to the end, but we want to thank everyone for sharing about the students day clock. More importantly, for all of the actions that you're taking to make sure that we move towards peace as a human right, that we make sure that we have a clean, sustainable environment, and more importantly, a future that's free. And we thank you, Alan, as well as Robert for reinforcing that how you came at it from a financial aspect of how we could do better, but also understand the fundamental freedoms of the way that the world can be. Thank you both as well, Mikhail and Ivan, for dedicating your lives to a better world so that you and future generations also won't have to live in the world that we live in today, only 90 seconds away from Tuesday. Mahalo. 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for Lieutenant Governor here on ThinkTech. I'm Jay Fidel. The nice lady in the other window is Louise Ng. She's an attorney with Denton. She had been doing community service as well as practicing law since 1912. Thank you for joining us, Louise. She's the moderator of the program, the program that we call, there it is, Who's Running for Lieutenant Governor, evaluating the major candidate. Louise, thank you for doing that, for being the moderator, and thank you for coming on the show today, so we could explain it in advance. It's very nice of you. Let's talk about who the major candidates are, who you're going to be talking with. Well, Jay, I'm very excited because I want to learn more about the Lieutenant Governor candidates, and so you can correct me if I leave anybody out, but we have, first of all, Keith Amemiah, and we have Ikaika Anderson, Sherry McNamara, Manor McNamara, and... Sylvia Luke. Sylvia Luke, of course. Yes. Yeah, so this is going to be interesting, and I guess you'll take them in alphabetical order, but you can decide exactly how you're going to do that and let them, you know, expound for a little while, and then you're going to ask them some questions in order to, you know, find out what they're really made of, so to speak, and why people should vote for them. So I guess the question is, you know, there's a lot of programs out there now on TV, on radio, in Civil Bee, there's programs streaming all over the place. Louise, why is this one different? Why is this one the one that people should look at? Why is this one going to give them a better handle on thing? Well, Jay, first of all, I don't think I've had heard of a program yet where all four of them have graciously agreed to appear, so that's one thing. We're going to have all four of them in the same virtual room, and we also have, do we have an hour and a half? We're going to have, I think, a substantial time to give them at least a couple minutes, two or three minutes to answer questions, both on general issues, as well as some more personal issues, personalized issues, and then if we have some time, perhaps give them a chance to ask each other some rapid-fire questions. Yeah, really explore. Well, that's the thing. You're a lawyer, a litigator, and litigators have a different view of asking questions, don't they? I mean, for one thing, you have a professional expertise, by definition, of forming a question that is clear and answerable. Secondly, as a litigator, you have an understanding of whether you are getting an answer or not, and the ability to ask it again. I remember when I was a litigator years ago, I would ask the same question again, and I would say, let me rephrase that for you, and then I would ask exactly the same question again. But as a litigator, you're going to know whether you're getting an answer that addresses the question. So I think it's very valuable to have you as the moderator and you as a community member and so forth. But let me ask you this. I mean, why is the Lieutenant-Governor important? We often see the Lieutenant-Governor as somebody who's marginalized in the press, who doesn't speak very much, who is on a leash of some kind by the Governor. Why is it important that we evaluate the major candidates for Lieutenant-Governor this year? Well, I think that the challenge for the Lieutenant-Governor is that the office is not very well defined. But that also means a candidate or the person who wins the spot can make of the office what they want, of course, within the bounds of working with the Governor and the law. But we've seen that, for instance, with Lieutenant-Governor Green, who has played quite a prominent role in public health and COVID prevention and response. And of course, if there's anything that happens with the Governor or the Governor is out of town, the Lieutenant-Governor becomes a successor. So it is an important role and it is also a way for us to get to know the person who has won and how they are using the office to best effect and to help the public good. Yeah, the other thing, which seems to me very visible on the national level, is that the Lieutenant-Governor succeeds the Governor. If the Governor is unable and willing, you know, is not able to perform the duties of Governor, then by law the Lieutenant-Governor slips in there. And so he could be or she could be the Governor any day during that term. So we're electing somebody who very, very possibly could be the stand-in. Indeed. So we want someone with leadership skills and, you know, a good overview of community and what the community needs and the ability to execute as well. So that's what we'll be exploring. And finally, and this also comes from an observation of the national process, is that when you get to the next term, and we have that here, now, where the Lieutenant-Governor is running for Governor and has the advantage of being a kind of semi-incumbent as the Lieutenant-Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor could very easily get to be our next Governor in the next election. I haven't made a study statistically. I'll have often that's happened, but I know it's happened very often, and it's happened very often on the national team. So when we talk to somebody who's running for, you know, Lieutenant-Governor, we're also talking to somebody who could very easily run for Governor next time around. That's very true. So this will be our chance to make an educated decision when we get to the polls, either by mail or, well, on August 13th. I think maybe our primary is all by mail this year. In any event, I think the ballots go out in late July and we should pay attention to them. Yeah. So, you know, all the candidates, the major candidates anyway, they're all running on the Democratic ticket. And I can't even tell you who's running on any other ticket. There are others. But the likelihood is that the one candidate who stands out on the Democratic ticket in the primary in August will be the Lieutenant-Governor going forward, right? That's what it's looking like, Jay. And those are the candidates that we are hearing most about these days. Yeah. So how do you plan to handle this? I know you're ready to go down the track with them to ask them, you know, about themselves and to ask them about policy positions and platform positions. And how do you look at it? How are you going to handle it? Well, it's, you know, we're still working on that. But I think my our overview is that, you know, we'll ask, I'll ask some a general question first, a question for all of them to address and, you know, or maybe several questions like that, maybe give them about two minutes each to address the common questions. And then, of course, if there's a chance within that, we'll do some follow up. And then also, the next phase would be to ask some more personalized questions about their particular platform or issues or qualifications. And that would take up most of the time. And then we're hoping to have some need some minutes available to ask to allow them to ask each other questions, whether that not sure how, you know, we're still working through how that's going to work. Does everybody get to ask one question for one candidate or, you know, all four on a very quick basis, we're still working that through. And then finally, I believe that through the chat function, we'll have a chance to see if the audience has any questions that we can get through quickly and pose live to the candidates. Yeah, so this is not just a situation. I mean, to go back to the point about distinguishing this program from any others. This is not just the situation where they get to and tell you what their platform position is, tell you what their brochure says. This is not a brochure kind of presentation. This is an engagement and an opportunity for ThinkTech for you to ask them questions.  And I think that's very important. And there are a lot of areas out there where we need to hear from them about that, whether they include these areas on their brochures or not. Can you think of some of the ones that we are considering? Yes. What comes to mind, what comes to top of mind are issues like housing, homelessness, responding to climate change. Those are top of mind, Jay, but maybe you can remind me of what some of the other education perhaps is one of them. What else have we thrown around? I think you've covered the major ones. There are others, of course, but it strikes me that if you talk to the person in the street and you say, how do you think Hawaii is doing? Most people are not going to give you a really good answer. An answer that says Hawaii is doing great. There are a lot of concerns about how state government is working in the legislature. We've seen corruption this semester, this session, I think of everything in academic terms. And there are issues, certainly in the police department, which is theoretically a city function, but nevertheless, it's of great interest and it's a metric by which people judge government in general. I mean, confidence in government, is that a low ebb? Not only nationally, and certainly that's another conversation, but statewide. And so we want to hear, I think, from them on exactly what they want to do to rebuild confidence in state government. And it may not be on the list of specific tasks that have traditionally been undertaken by Lieutenant Governors, but we still want to hear them talk about it. We want to hear them talk as if they were going to be the governor. And what are they going to do about that? So this will be interesting in that sense. And I guess I could ask you this. I mean, this seems to me to be a formative year, even an inflection, historical inflection. Now, we know from watching television every day, any day and cable especially, that there's all kinds of inflection things happening nationally. But that kind of leaks over, doesn't it, to state government? Because to the extent that people are more aware, more concerned about, you know, in national government, and for that matter, international events these days, like in Ukraine, they are that kind of also affects your way of thinking about state government, about the confidence that the electorate has in state government and the expectations that people have about state government. Because if state government doesn't work right, we're all going to suffer.  We really haven't done much about climate change, sorry. And unless we do something about climate change, we are going to get court shot. There was an article in the paper yesterday about a storm that is forming, you know, east of Hawaii that may affect us and it may be more extreme because of climate change. Are we ready? And what do these candidates think about that? What are they going to do about that? You know, it's not only what happens if they get to be governor. They're going to see the governor. They're going to talk to the governor. They're going to say, governor, how about doing something about climate change? Don't you think that would be a good idea for our administration? That's what I'm talking about. Indeed. And we also hope that the winner will be able to work productively with the governor and make it a partnership where together they can affect change. Because as you say, Jay, especially as we see things going on nationally and sometimes things go on too slowly nationally if people disagree, I think that state and local governments and how those work are becoming have become much more important. You know, we're seeing that on the whole issue of reproductive issues and how it's the state laws that are going to really directly affect the people here. And you know, with COVID response, even though hopefully we're looking back mostly and assessing what happened, public health is going to be another important issue. How did we respond? How could we do it better the next time? You know, it'll be interesting to hear what they have to say on those issues as well. Yeah, COVID's not over. You know, whatever steps we took, it's not over. In fact, we were in a surge now.  But the reality is we have more work to do on COVID. It's still an issue. And we need to hear from these candidates, I think, about what they would do, what they plan to do. And the other, you know, you mentioned a couple of things I think it's worth mentioning is that there are national issues that the state needs to weigh in on, take action on. Two of them you mentioned is the Roe v. Wade and abortion, you know, finding legislation that will enhance Hawaii's position as a leader in that area. It has been a leader since she was, I think the 70s, right after Roe v. Wade. And also gun control. Likewise, you know, we need to take steps to avoid what the Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court might otherwise do. These are issues which are national issues, but which right thinking people in the states could and would and should want to take action on to preserve our leadership. Do you think? Indeed. Yes. Yes. Because as we've said, you know, it's the people's direct lives have affected directly with what the laws of the state and the county are. So you mentioned a minute ago, Louise, that it's important for the lieutenant governor to get along with the governor. And that has not always been the case. We can sit here and identify which administrations, which has not always been the case, but we won't suffice to say that the lieutenant governor has to get along. In fact, as I said, enhance the work of the governor, make suggestions, be a consensus, you know, argue the points if necessary, come up with, you know, agreed statements of policy and agreed initiatives to suggest to the legislature. And that goes to another point I think we should mention, and that is how well is this individual going to work with the legislation? Some of our candidates have long-term relations. Helia Lu, for example, long-term relations in the legislature, you know, been involved, seen the process from the inside for decades, actually. Some not. So, but don't you think that that is something we need to hear about? How are they going to make working relationships? Yeah, I think that's an important point, Jay, and one we don't often think about. But ideally, if the lieutenant governor and governor are working together, they can hopefully work together on, you know, working productively with the legislature as well. The lieutenant governor can be of assistance, we hope, in enhancing relationships with the legislature or continuing conversations that perhaps the governor, you know, doesn't have time to get into, but the lieutenant governor can fulfill that role. Yeah, and the administration has a bully pulpit. I mean, just for example, there was an article there two ago about the chairs of the various committees in the legislature and how powerful they are and everything they do, the members of those committees follow like lemmings. Sorry, I said that. But then there's this thing about I vote in favor of the bill quote with reservations. There was a piece about that. And it struck me that that's a you know, that's something sort of like a gut and replace that was reformed a couple years ago. And that that should also be reformed along with, you know, what is this with reservations. Come on, man, vote for it or vote against it. Let's hear it. And the same thing. There's been discussion about the way the conference committees work, and how, you know, it's really not as transparent as it might be. So we're talking about the possibility next session of reform in the legislature. And you need, you need the administration to lead the charge on those sort of things. It's so much more effective when they take a position and advance an initiative. So that is something maybe we should hear from these people also. That's a good point, Jay. And I think that is one of the topics that we have brainstormed on. So actually, with the help of the think tech crew, I think we've got a good range of issues and questions and your discussion of them, I think also helps point out how important they are. Yeah, you'll never get to all of them, Louise. I'm sorry. There are more that you possibly could have time. Yes. But even a smattering of them will take this to a level, maybe that other discussions, other media, other forums, or is it for I, for other forums will not cover. And so, you know, that is special, and it is also special that you will allow them to ask each other questions and the audience in this webinar format will have the chance to ask questions also. So, you know, it'll be amazing if you get to all of the issues that we have considered. But you will get to some. And I think in the course of that discussion, with all of those questions and responses, we will get to meet them. We will get to understand them. I hope we come away after that hour and a half with a better sense of who the candidates are and what they stand for, and also how they, you know, how we all interrelate and react. Yeah, you know, state government is more important than we think. State government, you know, governs the counties, for example, preempts the counties on so many things. So, if you're looking to the counties, you know, state government has some control over that. But also, I mean, all these things that we want to achieve, you know, the diversification of our economy, clean energy, transportation, the role of tourism and the diversification through things that are not necessarily tourism, the incentives. Incentives are really an important thing. And the lieutenant governor should understand and should compare notes with the governor about all these incentives. Some people just don't like incentives. They don't give my money away, sort of thing, you know. If you have extra money, give it to me. That's short-sighted in the sense that we have to direct the economy. We have to direct the way the state works. And now is the time. So, where do you think we are right now as a state? And where do you want to inquire about, you know, moving us in a direction that will avoid backwater, moving us in a direction that will avoid the brain drain and the doctor drain and all the drains we have. That's all in play, isn't it? It certainly is. And of course, we're coming to a point, well, we have always been to a point of being economically challenged. But as we face issues of inflation and rising interest rates and affordability, rising costs, my goodness, you know, just going to a store or a restaurant, you can see how the costs have affected businesses and consumers. So, you know, this is a critical point. How are we going to keep our economy and our people able to afford living here and have, you know, have a good choice of housing and jobs and the like and be safe?  Certainly, we're all concerned. We're all impacted by the rising crime. And how can that be addressed as well? Tourism is also, you know, we're at a point where the state wants to rethink tourism. I think there are a lot of things that people want to rethink now that we've had the challenge of a pandemic and the way it's changed our lives. How do we emerge from that better and allowing people to live better and to survive here? More than survive, to thrive. To thrive, yeah. Well, I think that's really right on and that we want to hear from these candidates about that. We don't want them to be wallflowers. We want them to be actively involved in these issues. But something you said made me think of this, you know, yes, we know there are issues and problems, which we know there are risks. We know there are, I want to call it threats and declines in the way our state works, the way our lives work in the state. But there's something else to, you have to, you have to project where all of this is going. I mean, for example, you said that crime is increasing. We have to project that. It's not a matter of solving today's problems. It's a matter of solving, of figuring out what those problems are going to look like in not just four years of five or six, but more, 10 years. What's that going to look like? And what can we do now to, you know, to solve it in advance? We have to be impression. We have to look to another time. And the candidate that I would like is the candidate that looks ahead and tells me what we need to do now and why it's relevant to the future. This is so important. And I think, I hope, I know that you're going to be asking them to weigh in on not only current issues, current problems, but how these are going to evolve and what we need to do now. You know, Hawaii has had a lot of trouble planning, you know, making plans. So the plans that you can elicit from these candidates will be very important to evaluate them, don't you think? Yeah, that's indeed true, because it's really, you know, a lot of the social ills we're facing now or will be in the future are things that we need to start now to address. And a lot of that, a big part of that is education and making sure people do get a good education and have the opportunity don't fall through the cracks. So that's a very good point that we need to, and our candidates need to be able to look to the future and see how we can design things now to make the future better. Yeah, and at the end of the day, they're going to have a chance to actually emote. Maybe that sounds more like a movie, but maybe it is a movie. You know, this is streaming, and it's streaming just as I can see your face clearly now. I can see and examine how you feel while you are speaking to me and vice versa. In streaming in our webinar, we will be able to have close ups on all their faces as they speak to us. We'll be able to examine their sincerity, their ardor, their passion, what have you as they speak to us. So this is a real good opportunity for people to get to know them as if you were sitting in the same room. That's the magic of streaming and it's better than other media. And the ability for the audience to pose questions to civil questions, of course, but to pose questions and hopefully we'll have a chance to get to many of them if not all of them. Yeah, okay, I think this is going to be very interesting. Again, Louise, thank you so much for doing this. Thank you for coming out with me this morning to talk about it. I look forward. This is only in a few days on July 1st and it's at 10 o'clock in the morning on Think Tech Hawaii. It's a webinar and if anybody wants to sign up and we urge them to do that, just go to our website, ThinkTechHawaii.com and right on the top it has registered for who's running for Lieutenant Governor, who are the major candidates we have to evaluate. And if you click that button, you'll be taken to a registration page. Once you're taken to a registration page, it will remind you in advance that you should come and sign in on July 1st and it will give you a survey after it and it will generally ask you, it will generally remind you that there will be a video of everything that is said a few days later on our YouTube website. That's a great part. It's the recording if you can't make the 10 to 1130 time frame. That's really good too. So thank you to ThinkTech for your work in raising community awareness. Well, we've been working on webinars for quite a while as you well know. Oh my goodness. From the beginning we've seen this, huh? You've been moderated in a number of our webinars and very well and this will be at least as good and maybe better because this is important and important for the public, important for the future of the state. So I look forward. No pressure. No pressure. I know it'll be, it'll be great. It'll be friendly but it'll also be very evocative and educational. So what is your, what is your last thoughts to people about what this is and why they should attend? Well, the, you know, the importance of voting is critical and having an educated vote knowing what you're voting for, not just the personality is important too because we're going to be living with the winner of this election for four years, if not more. Yeah. And what you said now is really, really resonates with me. That is this kind of conversation, this kind of forum, this kind of discussion, this kind of mix up on issues. This hopefully will increase turnout and it's so important that we turn out, when I say we, I mean the whole country but I also mean Hawaii. Indeed. So you're, you're doing, you're doing public service on a number of levels here, Louise. And thank you again so much for that. Louise Ng, a partner of Dentons, which is a international law firm, arguably the largest law firm in the world and we have her here with us. We are so excited about that. And she's been doing public service and these webinar programs for a long time. So we'll see her again at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 1st. Thank you, Louise. Thank you. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechawaii.com. Mahalo.


may find yourself denying the possibility that you're autistic just because you don't want to face it, you might find yourself quite angry at yourself for not picking up, your parents for not picking up, the school for not picking up, the people in your life for treating you badly when you're different. It could be a lot of anger there, it could be bargaining, be thinking okay well maybe I'm just a different person, I'm not autistic and you could be thinking about all the different ways that you could try and explain your behaviour which isn't autism. You can go through depression, you can feel sad about things, like your world has collapsed and the things that you've experienced in life had been pretty grand injustices done upon yourself. That can fill you with a lot of depression and make you feel really sad about the state of the medical system that they just didn't pick up on you, that they didn't catch you and get you at a point in your life where you could have integrated this part of yourself into your identity.


This retrospective study compared the outcomes of 44 ABO incompatible, ABOI, live kidney transplant patients with 44 matched ABO compatible, ABOC, live kidney transplant patients. The ABOI group had higher rates of post-transplant bleeding, which required more blood transfusions than the ABOC group. Additionally, the ABOI group had lower levels of fibrinogen, platelets, prothrombin time, and hemoglobin before surgery, suggesting that their bleeding tendency may have been due to impaired hemostasis. Despite this, the overall survival rate, patient survival rate, and graft survival rate were similar between the two groups. This article was authored by Hamza Nasseray Binani, Zair Abdul Rahman, Asma Alaw, and others.