Well, thank you very much. It's a real pleasure to be here at a sustainable conference trying to make the state of the world better. And certainly our Climate Action Summit in San Francisco was a remarkable event. In the face of the abdication of Washington, we have the dedication of California and the Climate Action Summit, which brought together over 4,000 mayors, CEOs, governors, provincial leaders from all over the world, all the continents representing billions of people committed to the proposition that we can transform our economy, our culture, our way of life. The city is the word we often hear, but it masks the complexity and the difficulty of living a sustainable life. With 7.3 billion people on the planet, with more than a billion automobiles, with more than 94 billion gallons of gasoline burned every day, we have a challenge. We are not on a sustainable path. The state of the world in many respects is getting better for many people, but it is also getting worse for many people. Species are being extinguished, habitat is being destroyed, and we live in the shadow of nuclear annihilation at every moment. We're not talking about that today, but if we're talking about a better state of the world, we can never forget the fact that Russia has 7,000 nuclear weapons, more than a thousand of which can be set off in a matter of an hour, an hour and a half. America has the same. So both countries have weapons focused at each other, and both countries are committed to building even more flexible and usable weapons, real insanity. So I want to juxtapose sustainability with insanity. And we have eight other countries who are trying to emulate the superpowers. India and Pakistan, China is far behind, but they will catch up very quickly, and then we have the other nuclear powers. That's one problem, and it illustrates the dilemma of this wonderful thing called technology. If you look, if you graph it, and think of a graph with the curve of technological power, it's going up with a very steep curve. Now graph the development of wisdom, restraint and insight. That's flat. The curve of power is up, the curve of insight, wisdom and restraint is flat, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger, and that's where we live. That's where we are. You want to be sustainable? You've got to close that gap. We have to either curb our power or we have to develop our wisdom and exercise it. Now when it comes to climate change, it's not 14,000 nuclear warheads, it's a billion automobiles, it's power plants, it's houses, it's waste, it's stuff, it's plastic circulating all over the ocean. So turning that around is very possible. Yes, we have the knowledge, we have the information, but do we have the will? Do we have the imagination?  Well, I beg to disagree. It's the ecology.  But the economy lives inside the ecology. The atmosphere above the soil below is not indestructible. It is subject to assault. And the most powerful assault in, I don't know how many, you'd have to go back to volcanic eruptions, meteor is landing on the planet. We are generating lots of impact. And so with all that power, now the leaders of the world have got to pull together, collaborate, honestly address where are we? Where are we headed? And can we get to a direction, a set of understandings that lead to a set of agreements? We're not there yet. In terms of the Paris Agreement, many countries are stalling, are pulling back. Poland, which is the next stop on the conference of the parties, a real risk that it will be a setback, not in advance as we try to realize the lofty goals of Paris. All the countries of the world all came together and said, we're going to live within nature, within the ecology, and we will shape our economy accordingly. We heard today from President Trump all about sovereignty.  Climate change affects everybody. Big, small, rich, poor, Chinese, American, Russian, Europe, we're all in it together. We're in it together as one people. As President Kennedy said at the American University in 1963, we all breathe the same air. We all want the same thing for our grandchildren. And then he said, America will stop nuclear testing, and we will meet with the Russians to agree on a treaty to ban atmospheric testing. That was lofty rhetoric. It was a powerful example, and we're right there today. Only it's not about atmospheric testing. It's about nuclear proliferation. It's about a trillion dollars in weaponry that the rich countries of the world are indulging in. All the while, we have a billion people in serious poverty. We have an economy directed toward unsustainability. So great, we're here. We want to improve the state of the world. But wow, it's tough. It's hard. So all hands on deck. Let's not be complacent. Let's not say we're great. We are faced with daunting challenges with great powers. Can we wrestle those powers to the ground? Can we seize with our insight and our wisdom the power that mankind has created? That is our challenge. That's the state of the world. Let's make it better. Thank you. Wow. That was a powerful appeal, huh? Really, I think this Garner was really appealing also to a bit of common sense, but one gets a feeling that common sense isn't always that common these days. Let's use the last minutes here to sum up these two days. And we have Fekke Subbas Mahair, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board of Royal DSM, Ned Lenz. He also has seen Brukavit Tigabu, Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director for Viscid's Workshop. We met both of you during the summit in different roles. So Fekke, let's start with you. Powerful voice from the business sector. What is your main experience during this summit and takeaways? Thank you, Boghe, and thank you for being here at this summit. I think very important and compliments, first of all, to the World Economic Forum organizing this summit here during the UNGA, here during the New York Climate Week, and somewhat effort getting all the people together and making a further step. And that during your birthday, if I'm well informed. So short applause for Boghe. So I appreciate your tremendous commitment, also from you personally. I think what we do here is we convene power. We come here together with the private sector, the public sector, NGO, scientists, et cetera, and that is all to the credits of the web, that's all to the credits of all of you. How I perceived it from the private sector strongly, purpose, sustainability, addressing those things is not the thing of giving back. It is a thing of responsibility. It builds further on what the governor said, those who have a lot of power, those who have a lot of impact, those who are obliged to have a strong feeling of responsibility, that responsibility has to go together. And I think that is what you see here, and how I experienced it. We work all here for the next generation. We work all here for think care that our children will also live happily, and if I look to the SDGs that I was involved in, especially in the last couple of days, everything which has to do with climate, how can we put a price on carbon, everything which has to do with addressing climate stronger from the business community to financial disclosure on what climate-related matters, all the things of setting targets and reducing emissions further, even asking the public sector to enforce that strong on us, or on food, on food, our food systems in the South, so-called, and in the West are broken. They are not good. And we ask ourselves, why are there indices, why are there a COP and a clear plan for climate, but not a clear plan by countries and businesses to make the food systems who are broken good again. And we discussed those things, and I think, I can give several examples, but I think we made tremendous progress on those things. In an era, I need to say also that on climate and on food, there's a lot to be done because we are not everywhere fully on track, and that was the hard reality also during those days, that we are not on track with all those things. But I personally believe there is not any challenge, there's not any global challenge which is too big for us to address as long as we work together, and that's what we tried to do here. Wow. Thank you. You've been such a champion, first on the millennium development goals, no on the sustainable development goals, and the GIS first, and then the SDGIS, and also on climate, you're also on the price of carbon. For your company, of course, you're chairman and CEO, but I was wondering, is there like full support of you taking this kind of global leadership, and have you seen a change there in the board? Is there no more understanding also for like a CEO taking this kind of leadership? And I guess that you attract, although a lot of young people may be based on this kind of enthusiasm. I appreciate your question very much. When I became CEO almost 12 years, 11 years ago, people said, what do you want to do to improve the world to make money? And I said, I will do both, and people knew me, and this is my narrative. And the financial community, but also my board, and also my people said, so what is it now, making money or improving the world? I said, I want to do both. No, no, no, but what is it now? I said, both. Okay, good. Then it's improving the world so we can forget your stock. I said, no, no, no, no, no. And I worked hard in the last 11 years to prove that that is not true. We tripled our share price financially. We did well, et cetera. So today I get the narrative of my board, of all the people, even of investors, like, okay, those two things can go together. And my response is, good, be here in this summit in 10 years from now. Those two things have to go, must go, will go together. And those companies who let those things not going together, I believe the millennials won't work for them. Millennials won't buy their products. They will miss the price on carbon. It will hit the bottom line. They missed the license to operate, and they were under two problems. So we went in a journey the last 10 years, but also the 10 years I had, I think. Wow. I can already see here there's a lot of people that wants to work for you, huh? They're quite talented, some of them. How are your two days been here? You, yesterday you were here as one of the social entrepreneur awardees, and... Yeah. So it's been, to be honest, a bit overwhelming at the same time, exciting. Because we heard so many problems. The world is facing huge problems from environment to not having the right education that prepare our children for the future to the big gap between gender, pay, and all that. But at the same time, I also learned so many good, well-tasted models that if we are actually ready for change and can take action, there are many proven models. And that's very exciting to me. So for me, I have three takeaways that I gathered in the last two days, and which is one, public-private partnership. And this is a very critical thing every country should apply. And the next one is incorporating local voice and believing in local solution. We can't really sit in the main city and design things. We have to go down to the ground and include local voice. And the third one is emerging technology with education. I feel like there are so many amazing technologies and innovations, but they're not integrated with education and I think bringing those together, especially for countries like us and emerging economies that will give us that leapfrogging to the future. So I feel like these three takeaways came strong to me. Thank you. Akim Stanner, administrator of UNDP, United Nations Development Program. And before the head of UNEP, United Nations Environmental Program, I think you come here with a lot of experience on sustainability, development, and environment. But if you look and the SDGs are very ambitious, do you feel that we have established a roadmap that will bring us towards meeting the SDGs currently? Do we have things in place to really achieve them as we did with the MDGs, but they were more narrow? No, we have like universal sustainable development goals, covering everything from climate to poverty eradication, to taking care of the oceans and biodiversity. Well, Bogu, thank you first of all for having me join you. I've been trying to get into Feig as a company for many years, so obviously there are some talents that don't get employed by him. So I chose the United Nations instead, right, Feig, and now... There's always a chance, sir. Now, I say this out of the deepest respect because we have been friends and really comrades in arms for a decade.  Shades of yellow and green. But to answer your question, Bogu, I think coming from that other whole just now, what strikes me and often does when I step out of that, that when leaders come to the United Nations and we ourselves, when we look at the world, we have a tendency to describe the world in terms of challenges and risks and things that are going wrong. And therefore, you know, that proverbial, the glass is half empty. And then you step into a world of technology, of entrepreneurship, of opportunity, financial markets, and the world is full of, you know, startups and opportunities and success stories. So just a simple example of your own life story, Feig. I mean, how one can disprove the sort of intuitive prejudice that sometimes is there. And what is striking to me is that, you know, both realities are true. But what is actually happening, that's where the SDGs come in, is that we are entering to an age where actually it's not a glass half full or half empty, it's an entirely different glass that we're confronting, just to use a slightly limping analogy. And the reason why I say this is that the SDGs are a framework to try and understand how we handle complexity. The century where with singular solutions you could solve an entire sort of developmental or economic pathway for a nation question is largely gone. And much of what is being discussed in that hall next door right now is about how things that are happening beyond our national jurisdiction might actually impact on what happens in our own communities and countries. Whether it is, you know, pandemics, whether it is migrants, whether it's economic and financial insecurity, wars, I could go on. And I think people are often tempted to look at the SDGs as some sort of magic formula. No, they are the most intelligent way of trying to create a framework that allows us all to look at the future and understand quite how complex the challenge of acting will be. And here comes an additional element that I think is increasingly entering into our horizons, and that is the transformative nature of technology. We are living through a period of time where we are still unable to even comprehend quite what is going to happen by 2030, digital economy, automation, AI. And we are talking about dimensions of change that are difficult to comprehend. Nobody really knows right now exactly how they will unfold. They may turn out to be the great nirvana, or they may turn out to be the great divider. But in the UNDP context, or in the United Nations context, looking at global development, what is also fascinating is that for the first time in history, that impact of technology will have a degree of simultaneity. It will happen everywhere at the same time. It doesn't matter whether you are the United States of America, you have the highest per GDP capita, a capita per GDP, or whether you are Rwanda or you are Somalia. You are embedded in a global world where this technology shift is going to create curves of this dimension. And into that, the SDGs are indeed at the moment our best bet to be able to work with one another in managing these extraordinary opportunities and challenges. Do you think that 4IR, with everything from artificial intelligence to blockchain, precision medicine and all this, do you think these are also a key to leapfrog and solve some of the monumental challenges that we are faced with? Totally.  And it allows us to do things that we wouldn't have dreamt of being able to do sitting somewhere in Central Park or in the middle of, I don't know, the Sahel region. So technology is a great jumping board and allows us to leapfrog. But let's think for a moment. What's happening to us right now in the political sphere is that a lot of people have leapfrogged, and then there is the other half, the other 10%, the other 90% who are left behind. And this notion of inequality, I think, is one that has to be understood alongside the opportunity of technology. I attended yesterday the Broadband Commission. I mean, we have passed the 50-50 moment, actually connecting people in the world 50%, which is extraordinary. I mean, we should really be, you know, playing drums and celebrating the success. But meanwhile, the 50% are charging ahead. There are 50% who haven't even got access to Broadband, never mind in Africa, three quarters of the population, access to electricity. And here comes AI, here comes automation. Before we know it, we have a great dividing moment that we have to manage. And I think whether it's consultancy companies, whether it's the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Development Program, the Secretary General's, you know, task force on digital finance, we all have to learn to start working far more closely together because it's the only way we can come to even begin to understand what is not 100 years from now, even 15 years from now. And that will define, I think, our capacity to not just function as a global economy, but actually function as a global community of maybe 9 billion people. No, I think this is very relevant. And you know with the C4IR Center that the World Economic Forum has set up in San Francisco. For example, oceans is an important and integrated part of this. I think some of the ocean problems is so interlinked where we can also have these technologies supporting in solving some of those issues. Fekia, I saw you were eager to comment. Yeah, thanks for that. I would totally agree with my good friend, Achim, of obviously both. On the global challenges we have and the huge amount of opportunities we have, entrepreneurship technologies. But I would like to add an angle. Globalization brought prosperity for billions of people in the world. Technologies and new green technologies brings prosperity for billions in the world. But if you work in the center of the United States in a coal mine, maybe then you perceive not the prosperity that globalization and new technologies brought for yourself. And for me, the answer is not to put a fence around those people and protect them. For me, the answer would be to transition also with them to the new era. And that means that we, I totally agree with Achim, but I add the angle that we need to make globalization. That we need to make the opportunities of new technologies more inclusive for all. And if we do not do that, we get political tensions and political distinction in a way that we don't like that. I'm not talking about the US or the US only. I'm talking about Europe and other countries as well, where we see the same. So this transition for me has to go together with inclusiveness for all. Thank you. Burkdavit in Ethiopia where you operate, you reach I think 5 million children every week. And that wouldn't have been possible without modern technology. How do you see technology can influence education and giving children opportunities in the future? Because I think you can reach children also in remote areas that you could just dream about reaching with high quality education in a different way. Yeah, I mean, it's obvious that we benefit from technology, but just on the point just raised, when we are catching up with television and radio, if the world is handling AI and different high technology, then we still are doing that catch up that will never actually catch up. So the question is, how do we think about this world becoming a one home? So that we have that deep empathy for each other that we share those resource and more mindful way, because if we are just saying, yes, technology is helpful, but again, leaving most of the people in the world behind. I don't see it being that helpful. So I think it comes down to again, humanity, connection and empathy so that we actually build a more sustainable world. Akim, we are coming to a close. We are supposed to be on Swiss time here, so we are now 10 minutes almost over time. But I would like to just look at this in a little bit of a historic context. Akim, you had at the IUCN, then you were with UNAP and now you are with the UNDP. UNDP has a big role when it comes to the STGs. When you go to bed and reflect, I guess, on the STGs, because I think you, I know you feel very passionate about this. What are the main challenges now to make the STGs really take off? With the MDGs, we really saw a lot of momentum being created. These are more, it's more complex because they're universal. But are we on the way to really, are we moving in the right direction? Or are we just sugarcoating this? Because when the CO2 emissions should have gone down, they're going up. So there are some indicators that are not moving in the right direction. Are you optimistic about it? And are we really willing to take the necessary steps to make this happen? Well, let me just say, I think we have every reason to be fascinated by how quickly something that was negotiated by 193 countries. I just remember this, never mind a local council or the board of a company. We actually managed in two years to negotiate 17 sustainable development goals that brought a degree of integration between the economic, the social and the environmental that we have never had before. And we agreed that they must be universal because what happens in America matters as much to the future of China or to Ethiopia or to Brazil as what happens in Germany or in South Africa. And I think that is an extraordinary statement. I don't think it's an accident. It happened in 2015, yes. We are now in 2018 and a lot of things have happened. But leaders understood at that moment that we needed a different paradigm under which the way we work together to address these issues would be better understood. And I think the SDGs are not something that the person in the street will come up to you and recite the 17 goals. This is not my yardstick, but it is empowering. And I often use the analogy that you need an operating system on which you can run your apps. The SDGs are the operating system. They are the stuff that the engineers put together. But go to Medellin where the mayor will tell you that he actually uses the SDGs to get local people involved in doing things that have never been done before in his town. So in that sense, I think I am fascinated by how quickly they're moving, how they're also attractive to the private sector and the financial sector. I think many companies initially are just really pleased to see that they can relate what they do to one or two or more of the goals. The most sophisticated ones, and particularly the financial market players, are increasingly using the SDGs as a way of looking and understanding future markets. And I think that is the interesting unifying element of it. I personally, and if my bosses were here, they would really kick me in the shin. I'm less worried about the reporting on the indicators and targets to the general assembly. I think the SDGs are a tool. They're a powerful platform, an operating system that we need to learn to use. I end by saying I'm losing a little bit of my optimism, not because I think it can't be done. I'm just worried that we're running out of time. And time is our biggest enemy right now. And time is what we're losing. And we're seeing it right here again in New York. And it's tragic because it's actually an opportunity lost to act what you can act and to believe in the ability to act together before you begin to fight each other because the other side didn't act. That's actually the prospect that we are staring at when we listen to these general assembly debates. And I think this is where the private sector is critical right now and has to step up. And my respect to all of those, like Fike and others, who actually take responsibility to say, look, we are part of that public dialogue. And we can't let political opportunism and short termism define what are, in the sense of last resort options that we are actually dealing with right now. So optimism with a slight element of panic. Thank you. Thank you to a great panel. Also use this opportunity to thank my colleagues. For all the hard work you put into making this sustainable development impact summit happening, especially to Dominique, Terri Herr, Lee, that is in charge of the programming. I feel, of course, I'm not objective, but I feel we had two amazing, very practical days. And we brought private sector together with governments and civil society. And it has been an accelerator. It has been 100 different projects being launched. It's very practical. And we come a bit closer to meet the sustainable development goals. And it has been so successful that we, I'm also happy to announce that we will meet the same place next year for two days to continue having this impact. And also we will continue to collaborate, hopefully, with Conrad Hilton Foundation. And their support has been so important for us. So thank you to panel. Thank you to all the distinguished participants. Thank you to my colleagues that have worked 24-7 to make this happen. So thank you. Thank you.


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Okay, I'm Marcia's joiner and we are navigating the journey and you know that you've been with us that our navigating the journey is about you respecting your wishes and desires of how you want to choose to live your life from beginning to end. Well today we are going to talk about measles.  So today we're going to talk to Ken Farm who is a chair and neighborhood board 15 Kalihi Palama about he's been leading the charge to get everybody vaccinated. So Ken, hi. Hi Marcia, how are you? I like the shirt. Thank you. I like your shirt. It looks great. Tell us about how you got started with this push to get everybody vaccinated everybody in the schools in Hawaii. Well you know I mean I can't take as in terms of personal you know as not necessarily responsibility but ownership over that I'm just adding to what was already there. You know one of the things that I try to do and focus on is if there's going to be a public policy that we're going to have to make decisions upon I think it's very important that we see what the scholarship says in terms of the academic literature and studies before to really have an understanding and cultivate that knowledge based upon what we want to make our decisions based upon and sometimes you know emotional in sway can sometimes have an effect on people where they you know they're biased toward one way or another but you know if we let the academic literature speak for itself what the experts have said and what research has so far determined that we can see that vaccinations are is a very safe mechanism toward making sure that there are things that you mentioned before when you were a kid that were pervasive and wide spreading are no longer a part of this population and that is one of those things that I think is very important that we need to you know bring back again there's some people who really feel strongly that vaccinations are bad and that you know they should it's a matter of personal choice as opposed to public policy and protecting the community so I think that that's a very distinguishing mark with that there's places like in New York and California where they've taken the I believe it was the county council took very strong actions toward making sure that populations got vaccinated even though it was something that was you know regarding their religious belief system it but the larger point was protecting the entire population and I know that's very controversial for a lot of people but that is where we're at right now well speaking of religious preference I understand that certain religions don't believe in vaccination however it's been proven that they're safe that they're not going to hurt the child but do your does your religion have a right to impose your religion on my child that is if your child does not get vaccinated and all of the other children do and then you bring in the measles well at what point is your responsibility and the other kids in the class and I guess I'm stumbling on this but there there comes a time when we have to look at the rights of all of the children and not just one you know marcia I think one of the important parts too is we have to obviously separate you know what is you know being done at the public school level and public charter schools are supposed to private schools you know even places like Kamehameha schools has made sure that the students you know that they have under their care are vaccinated and they have very high rates of vaccination in comparison to other types of private schools and charter schools that are not within those realms of the public school realm for the public schools I'm sorry as private schools however in the public schools that is something where we have a law which dictates that before a student can go to public school that they must be vaccinated obviously there's people who you know because of allergies because of some of the a abuse cut it's an ovean type of thing that is used as part of the vaccinations that they're unable to because they're allergic to eggs that's a very small part of the population in comparison to those who it would just more matter of our religious viewpoints or we'd rather not and the more that we have those types of cases the more we lose what's called herd immunity and that's where people because we have so many people who are vaccinated the others who aren't able to be vaccinated are protected the more that that number is decreased the greater the chances are that the persons who aren't vaccinated because of those allergies are susceptible to you know what the vaccinations are protecting from but I'd also like to add Marsha that when it comes to vaccinations you know nothing is ever or just anything even in medical it's nothing that is ever just an absolute proven or it's always going to be 100% safe there's always a a danger with anything for example if someone's having a surgery there is a danger that there'll be some complications however you know we all have to do that I mean when it comes to walking on the street for example there's there's a risk of walking on the street there's a risk of driving in a car and we weigh those risks in terms of the out you know the outcomes of which we're looking for and in this case you know with parents a parents you know would hopefully want to do what's best for their kids obviously there's some risks that's involved with vaccinations but that is the what could happen if you don't vaccinate is far worse and furthermore there is less of a chance of things happening if you vaccinate than the alternative well in those big cities where we read about the measles epidemic outbreak we've been fortunate considering that the state has only tested 30 state 30 schools out of the hundreds of schools we have so we've been really fortunate however with the transit population the number of tourists that come every day how do we know that one of them you know unintentional of course one of them has measles how do we know that we're protected or do we know yeah I think that's a very valid point Marsha about asking you know how do we know I don't think we can really know for sure and I think that question could be addressed at the Department of Health but I think the other part too is what can we do to protect our population here if we have a transit population that's going from Hawaii or you know as part of tourism or just traveling through to the other parts of the continent that's very different we can protect our population here and we can do so just like what we did with the TB vaccinations of before there were trucks that were going to schools and just and vaccinating students and staff I believe that was if you go to I believe it was Lonnie Keelah Health Center they still have the TB control center it's over there you can see the pictures of the old fans that said Department of Health and they made sure that people were vaccinated to protect them from there but again it's it's the education is there for it and I think that there needs to be more of an outreach to show people you know like with anything there's always a danger however there's a greater danger of not having your kids vaccinated as well as themselves to let the alternatives could now when uh who pays for the vaccination if this this law says you have to do it who pays for the vaccination if I take my grandchild great grand now to be vaccinated do I pay for it does my insurance pay for it how does what happens and then when especially when the state demands that you do this who pays for that well I think it you know every person it depends so for example I would suggest that that question be deferred to the Department of Health they have the TB control branch because I believe that's one of the things that need to be have excuse me before a person goes into public school or even working with students so there is a website I think that I know the law says they have to the law says you have to accept for medical for religious reasons but um again since it's mandated my question is do we as taxpayers pay for that or does every parent pay for that's that's my question since it is mandated Marsha I think like it's like seatbelts it's like it's like seatbelts you know the resistance to seatbelts and to helmets and yet it's proven that they save lives so are we at the same place now with with measles you know Marsha do the answer your first question um it as mentioned before it would depend on the coverage of the individual halves in their insurance if somebody for example has quests I think that that might be covered in comparison to someone who has like a a PPO or something like that where there might be a co-pay however that question is better addressed talking to you know the person if they're working I think that would be an HR question that they could ask but also you know referring to the Department of Health that information is readily available if you go on to just Google Department of Health Hawaii and vaccinations I think it will take you to the TB control branch or one of those that can answer that question because everyone's circumstances are different do you know how it got started that some people are afraid of vaccination do you do you have any clue how that got started especially since it had all been but wiped out and now it's back do you know have any clue as to how this fear of vaccination started do you have any idea about that so one of the best examples we have was actually a English doctor that wrote a a study that was in what's called the Lancet Lancet is one of the most pronounced and well known in the medical industry and sciences that if you had a journal that was published there then it's you know you've made a name for yourself however this study that was there linked it to autism and it kind of went from there I'm sure there were other things but that was one of the most predominant ones the name of that doctor escapes me I believe his name was Andrew I could be wrong about that but there was a study that was conducted and it had to be from then it had to be retracted but the the narrative was out there and people took that and you know there was a term in research called confirmation bias so they agreed amongst themselves and now we're having this issue with that and other things where people are seeing that you know this is a way of making money for the pharmaceutical industry I believe that it is making money for them but I think it's making money to them by the tune about two to three percent in comparison to everything else that they're doing so you know getting back to the point about vaccinations and why it's important is because like you say with the transit population and we have students just like it had in New York you had one student that was there and because that student wasn't vaccinated affected over 500 persons and students would you now back to this autism thing was it ever proven that it didn't cause autism what's you know we know in terms of the methodology of the study that I'm aware of that you know first off you cannot infer a causality on a correlation so to say that it was a correlation there is a strong relationship however it was the way the study was done and what was left in what was left out and to my knowledge as it has been shown that that study from that doctor was retracted from the Lancet so so does that infer that that the vaccination did not cause autism is that am I doing for like I said I think I think what you're trying to do is you're trying to make a causal remark where you're saying that it either it caused it or it didn't cause it all we can do is have you know the data suggests this and a strong relationship or not or not having a strong relationship we also have to look at how the study was conducted so I think that's what the Lancet did in in regards to that individual that doctor who is as far as I also understand is no longer a doctor in Britain I believe that license was revoked so I think we are getting into the weeds about this but I can give you other information as part of that I'm just wondering if it was disproved because there's so many children that have autism and is it because we are the science has gotten so advanced that they're understanding autism better now than they used to and it the children are surviving much better they're doing all of these things so my question I guess is is was it ever disproved was it ever taken away that no autism is something totally different that's I guess that's what I'm asking I think that the other studies that have been therefore conducted has shown that there is little relationship in fact there was less of the relationship from before was as was suggested by the doctor who published in the Lancet said there was a strong relationship between autism and vaccinations however studies that have been conducted now has shown that there is no relationship between or a very small relationship in between again we cannot make causal remarks on a correlation study so that's just how research is we can't say it proves this or it doesn't prove that we can say there's a strong relationship the data suggests this they're you know based upon the data that was taken but we can never make a causal causal type of remark I'm just wondering if I how I would feel if one of my children or grandchildren had autism I'm thank god all of mine are are healthy but I'm just wondering how I would feel with this question mark did this really have something to do with this child being autistic or is there something else I that's where I'm coming from what is there's possibility that autism is called by something else other than vaccinations and does that mean all vaccinations or just chicken thoughts so there's various types of vaccinations marsha marsha so I think you know it's just what I'm trying to do here is just get the outreach that there is information out there that comes from the Department of Health I know that Dr. Park has done a very good job of trying to get that out and also you know this isn't something that's just for someone to just kind of figure out on their own there are resources that you can ask that are good incredible I would recommend people going to the Department of Health website under vaccines and to go from themselves I know that there are sometimes they try to put on presentations and I think that they're going to put more of an outreach because of the fact that there is this strong movement toward not having vaccinated their parents not having their kids vaccinated but what does that actually mean from the policy standpoint so like we were mentioning about herd immunity and really talking about things like that but you said that before you said that before herd immunity what is herd immunity so what herd immunity is is where you have the larger population that is vaccinated to cover if you will for those other individuals who are not able to become vaccinated so those are those individuals who have you know eggs they're allergic to eggs or any of the other types of um types of ingredients that are used in vaccinations so because of that herd immunity or those people who are vaccinated around them it protects those individuals the lore of the population that is being vaccinated the greater the chance that a herd immunity goes away I can't recall the percentage of what is needed and required for the population to have for it to be effective in terms of herd immunity and again I would defer back to the Department of Health because they have some really good information and as a parent if some of you're concerned with I would advise you to go to the Department of Health website and talk to somebody from there and if so there is Dr. Park and I'm sure that they'll be willing to give a presentation either a neighborhood board or other types of community activity or issue that goes on so there's a larger amount of people that can ask those questions and really have it addressed from a scientific standpoint well when we talked about the herd immunity and you mentioned one student in New York well you think of the millions of people in New York and one person shows up and now they've got an epidemic so okay go ahead so what happened when New York was there was a school there was a a school I believe was a Hasidic Jews that were against vaccination so the entire student body that was there were not vaccinated so when the student had contracted I believe it was measles then it just went across the entire school because of the fact that every person in the school was not vaccinated and then it was okay so they didn't they were not they did not have the herd no they did not have the herd immunization no they did not they did not because of that it just it spread out to the entire school so right so I mean imagine you know as you know if there maybe for example I believe the student traveled I believe it was to Israel or some other place that and then came back home and these other students who didn't have vaccinations because it was against their I guess religious creed or so and that's the kind of questions that we're going to have to ask especially when it comes on a policy side is does that outweigh protecting the population and in this case you know in New York and as well as other places in California they've said that no we're going to impose heavy fines on individuals who choose not to it is a touchy subject this isn't something that people are going to like saying but you know we look at public policy public policies for everyone and if we can find ways to protect the population then we must move toward that and as long and also too is we have the body of evidence to suggest strong evidence to suggest that yes vaccinations though they do have a very small case of things that could possibly happen it therefore outweighs other types of things that can happen such as measles mumps and rubella so you know it is therefore encouraged that you do become vaccinated well yes and I guess we should be blessed that here in Hawaii we have the herd immunization and so feeling fairly protected given the 10,000 new visitors that arrive every day and if you said it only took one then I guess we need to feel fairly comfortable I think you I think you can feel comfortable we shouldn't be complacent and I think that's something you know when it you know there's for example you mentioned the sample about the different schools right and so there were only 30 schools that were and I you know that in terms of the sample size but areas like Kauai for example there are large cases of non-vaccination of the students that are going to public charter schools and private schools and those could become areas and vectors board of people having you know contracting measles or whatnot so those are the kind of questions we have Kauai so Kauai is the Kauai is one of the uh I hate to say the word purveyors but one of the largest populations that do not have vaccinations and it could be because of some of the people there it could be the mindset but that again that's why we have to have that information out there and really have that outreach as to why Marsha I think you mentioned before too that you know that people would become vaccinated and I think there's another part of it where people forgot what it was like before vaccinations or the things that were contracted before one of the things that come to mind is polio and you know one of the I've talked to the older individuals where they're when they had their kids before the worst thing that they thought about was oh my goodness their kids gonna have polio you know polio and oh yeah you know we still have people who are in iron lungs we don't have that anymore as far as my understanding is but there's still people who live in iron lungs and that's because they contracted polio and part of the reason they contracted polios because they couldn't they didn't have the vaccinations and um yeah as a child uh that was before the polio vaccination but oh my gosh uh the president FDR had polio and it was a constant reminder of what polio could be and there were all kinds of stories that you don't go swimming and you don't do this and you don't do that because they didn't know where polio came from so uh today when we have Dr. Jonas won a peace prize for his discovery of the vaccine so now that we have all of this data and we have all of this and we have been in America almost totally free when I was a child everybody had open cough they didn't call it open cough now it's uh they give it a different pretty name but I can remember oh my gosh the children's suffering so with this cough it was and it was pink when it came up and it was years before I would do pepto-bismol because I had this memory of these children and open cough so we have come so far in protecting our population it it troubles me to think that we are regressing and hopefully that your um advocacy will make a difference will keep us protected let me put it that way well I mean you know it's it's advocacy but it's it's not in terms of a full-time thing this is something that I think we just you know I strongly believe in because for example you're mentioning a place like Kalihi a very transient population and you know there's a program for example for hepatitis and getting the vaccine for that that is a statewide program that the state does in order to especially with different populations coming from areas in the pacific that has not had the vaccine and become protected by that so measures like that are very good about protecting the population that we have furthermore it's you know in terms of the science the science has therefore declared that this is something that is safe it is safe in anything there's always going to be a possibility for a complication but for the most part this is a safe way of protecting a person as an individual their family because nature always isn't is not always nice to humans and as mentioned before there are many things before for example small pox small pox did a number on a population prior before and then there was I believe there's a UN directive that basically didn't matter who you are what you were they were going to vaccinate every single person on the earth and I believe that they did they did so with everyone that they could and for the most part aside from you know some laboratories small pox has been eradicated but I can just imagine what it would be like if we would have had the narrative now about how things are unsafe and the nature of things like small pox going through a population so again it's good to have good information out there it's good to know information that can be trusted I encourage people to go to the Department of Health website and also if you you know there's a number they can call as well you find out the real facts there's also some flyers there again it's not something where everything is going to be a hundred percent safe there's even when it comes to other types of convocation for example if you take a medication there's side effects and that affects a certain amount of the population so again you ask yourself the question is it something that you know with a possible cost outweigh the benefits of something like this but have the information first yeah now what can we do as ordinary people to assist you in your drive your adversaries to get this message out so that people aren't afraid because that's fear is terrible so how do we get rid of the fear so their parents are comfortable with having the children vaccinated how do we what do we do you know fear is a is a terrible motivator yet it is a motivator one of the things that I think that we should do is we should have more of those outreach from the Department of Health of the communities and the reason I say that is because people will go online and they will read something they'll google something and thought that they've conducted their research and that's why I say is you know it's it's important to go to these types of things like the Department of Health and ask those questions because from there that is you know are and in terms of our state that is where you know everything that matter you know that comes under the framework of health and safety it falls under the Department of Health especially when it comes to people's health as mentioned before so I think that that is a very a good way of doing it another way of looking at it too is if somebody's telling you something don't always believe it if it just it came from Google things can be changed so again it's where you get your information from and don't be afraid to ask questions and you know even if a person has friends who are not you know too keen on vaccinating find out the information for yourself but also seek out good uh sources of information when when making this so yeah so you're the number one source you're saying well we could start with the health department is that is that what you're saying I think it would start with the health department because that's where a lot of the you know that's where it comes from in terms of vaccinations so again there's Dr. Park who is a strong advocate for vaccinations far before I was that looks at this and also there is you know the research for which they use to determine their positions on and especially in and what you said your neighborhood Kalihi Palama where you have youngsters children from everywhere all the islands in the Pacific from Asia the mainland with all of these different places I would think that that would be a primary in in the early schools early years in school because there's children from every background is there a is there resistance in your neighborhood or is this just Hawaii with the resistance so for my neighborhood I am not too familiar that there's a lot of resistance I know that there's other there's pockets of resistance in areas on the northern party islands I believe in in the northern portion when it comes to other areas on the north shore as well as in the Kailua area and a few other places in between I don't want to just go out and pick those out but I do feel that this is something that we have to but again Marsha person needs to go to the Department of Health and and to make those determinations well Ken you're always such a wealth of information my goodness I am so proud of and so pleased that you are willing to talk about these things so we I think we have to go and you will come back and we'll talk some more sure oh great thank you so much for being with us today and we look forward to seeing you again thank you very much Marsha thank you and we'll see you next time I love you


Our study demonstrated that activation of AMPK signaling pathway ameliorates diabetic nephropathy by modifying serum albumin, uric acid, total protein, and creatinine levels and attenuating kidney damage. In addition, we found that dorsomorphin, an AMPK inhibitor, reverses the beneficial effects of AMPK on diabetic nephropathy. These findings suggest that AMPK signaling pathway may represent a potential therapeutic target for diabetic nephropathy. This article was authored by Amin Hazenband, Hossain Amimikoi, Samani Jahanabadi, and others.


Item Number – SCP-517 Object Class – Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-517 is to be kept secured within containment locker 511-64 and Site-66, facing away from the doorway. A thick sheet is to be draped over the item at all times. Testing is currently prohibited, as the nature of the manifestation invariably causes a low-level containment breach. If SCP-517-1 is triggered, personnel are instructed to report to their immediate superior to enact protocol 517-1. As of incident 517-1997M, SCP-517 is to be kept in a dedicated cell at all times. An opaque black sheet is to be kept bound around the object at all times. As of 2002, no more testing is to be conducted on SCP-517 without Site Director's approval. Description – SCP-517 is a fortune-telling machine. Item stands approximately 2 meters tall, containing a mechanical puppet and an electric candle within a glass and wooden case. Examination is shown in an internal layout consistent with similar machines. On the top panels, the words Grandmother Predictions are painted on built-in signage. The puppet within is in the shape of an elderly woman with a white blouse and a blue shawl. Item's power cord has been severed approximately 15 centimeters from its base. It appears to have been inexperently separated from its original power source. No reaction occurs if a coin is inserted into the slot. The item will energize automatically once an hour if an individual, hereafter, the target, enters its field of vision. The puppet will turn to face directly at the target, dispense a fortune card from the slot on its front, and cease function. Process is fully mechanical, and item does not show signs of awareness. See a dendym for a transcript for examples of fortunes. The individual who activated SCP-517 will become the target of an entity or number of entities who will attack at 1.43 am local time the following morning. The entity or entities, hereby SCP-517-1, appear as a varying number of long multi-jointed arms between 10 and 3 dozen, initially appearing from a single area. Arms seem to be completely corporeal, and can apparently extend indefinitely. Entity will immediately rush towards an attempt to grab and capture the target or targets. If the hunt is made sufficiently challenging, additional arms will begin to constantly generate in close proximity to the victim, in order to facilitate an easier capture. Chosen areas are usually low, cramped, dark areas, such as basements or closets, and will not shift during a given assault. In all instances, targets have been captured, rapidly dragged into SCP-517-1's chosen area, and savagely beaten, until sunrise. Entity has been documented reaching from the ventilation system of an office building, drawing a target into a dropped ceiling, pulling a target under a bed, and drawing a target through a sewage grate. Any attempts to intrude on this event will result in human aggressors being drawn into the assault. The remains of victims are reduced to… To date, there have been no survivors. If more than one individual activates the item in the span of one day, all will become targets of the following night's assault. SCP-517-1 will appear from multiple areas while hunting multiple targets. However, due to the resultant chaos during the test, 517-34C, in which this was discovered, all measures are to be taken to avoid multiple activations. Remote viewing of the unexpected points of origin of SCP-517-1 during testing revealed arms extending from points around corners, and otherwise off-camera, eventually crowding out the video feed. Pragmented, unidentified human DNA has appeared in the areas utilized by SCP-517-1. Ultimate origins are still currently unknown. Incident 517-1997-M SCP-INVOLVED SCP-517 Personnel Involved Dr. Augusto Mail Deceased Site-23 Security Date 08-25-1997 Location Storage Site-23 On 08-25-1997, at approximately 1,356 hours, the late Dr. Mail was targeted by SCP-517, while supervising the object's transport to a new storage locker. Security and Site Director were alerted, and a defensive strategy was devised. At 2,330 hours, Dr. Mail was loaded into a Foundation UH-60 Blackhawk. Five security personnel assigned his bodyguards. Helicopter was situated on Helipad-38, located on the roof of the then-empty Cafeteria 1. Non-essential security personnel from Sectors 1, 3, and 4 were armed with blades and stun-batons, and select personnel were granted flame weapons and concussion explosives. Squads were directed to strategic points around Cafeteria 1's main and second floors, and instructed to destroy any instances of SCP-517-1 that appear. As this was the first concerted effort intended to overcome SCP-517-1, all measures were taken. As Cafeteria 1 was not constructed with a proper basement, it was expected that SCP-517-1 would manifest in one of the surrounding buildings. All SCP objects that posed a threat, if released by SCP-517-1, were moved to another area of the site. SCP-59's enclosure is located away from Cafeteria 1, and as such, was deemed safe. Log of events 2357 hours Dr. Mail and Guards board aerial transport 0105 hours Nighttime illumination augmented by additional floodlights 0136 hours Ground squads assigned to interior of Cafeteria 1 in place 0141 hours Ground squads assigned to exterior of Cafeteria 1 in place 0103 hours Weapon check called 0110 hours Dr. Mail expresses an intense feeling of suspense, becomes mildly agitated, attributed to knowledge of SCP object and subsequent paranoia 0120 hours Last call for restroom breaks 0130 hours Site locked down All doors and windows capable of being sealed are locked 0143 hours Approximately 18 SCP-517-1 limbs sighted to the east of Cafeteria 1, generated somewhere in storage center for B, approximately 40 meters away, immediately destroyed by concentrated weapons fire. 0147 hours More SCP-517-1 sighted in the same area, additional arms generated to replace those destroyed by weapons fire. Several seemed tasked to collect pieces left behind, no hostility towards squads reported. 0155 hours Further instances of SCP-517-1 sighted to the northeast of Cafeteria 1, generating from within several foundation assigned vehicles, parked between Cafeteria 1 and storage center for B. Ground squad engages, utilizing flame weapons. 0210 hours Assault continues upon SCP-517-1. Number of arms greatly increase, between 80 and 100 are estimated to generate at a steady pace from various points to the northeast. Fire damaged or destroyed limbs were tracked out of sight, pieces left behind collected by entity. No hostility reported directly towards foundation teams. 0224 hours Squads report some difficulty keeping up with the rate of replacement. Explosive weapons authorized against origin points. No hostility reported directly towards foundation teams. 0239 hours Dr. Mail and Ariel squad go airborne. 0241 hours Arms generate from the walls within Cafeteria 1, ground floor. Later examination reveals the arms had formed irregular holes in the drywall, consistent with blunt force. Ground floor squad engages, utilizing close quarters weaponry. No hostility reported directly towards foundation teams. 0249 hours SCP-517-1 appears within Cafeteria 1 ventilation system. Roof squad engages, ground-based instances of SCP-517-1 are noted to continue reaching in the direction of Cafeteria 1, even while Dr. Mail has gone airborne within the evacuation vehicle. 200 estimated to have appeared. 0304 hours SCP-517-1 appears on the roof of Cafeteria 1, generating from kitchen exhaust ports. Damage done to structural mesh. Entity engaged. 0311 hours SCP-517-1 observed to remove the locked fire escape door on the north side of Cafeteria 1. Said instances generated within Cafeteria 1's ventilation systems. 0322 hours 4 SCP-517-1 limbs, generating from the exhaust system of Cafeteria 1, reach helicopter. Roof crew alerted, limbs culled. 0331 hours Dr. Mail becomes hysteric, demands that the pilot flee. Helicopter begins moving to the southeast. 0333 hours SCP-517-1 generate upon helicopter, seemingly from the base of the tail. Begin attacking the doors. 0334 hours Left side rear window shattered. Onboard squad engaged with bladed weapons. 0335 hours Dr. Mail acquired by SCP-517-1, drawn through window, passed towards waiting arms. Subsequently moved through the air towards Cafeteria 1. 0335 hours SCP-517-1 limb caught in helicopter's tail rotor. Pilot forced to attempt an emergency landing. Agent Trac severely wounded. 0336 hours Squads report a marked increase in hostility by SCP-517-1. Entity begins replacing arms at a greatly increased rate. Number of limbs estimated at a steady 150. 0337 hours Dr. Mail drawn through Cafeteria 1's kitchen ventilation system. 0337 hours Dr. Mail reappears in kitchen. Agent Matheson attempts to sever 517-1 limbs. Subsequently captured and pulled towards fire exit with Dr. Mail. 0337 hours Agent Germain, Agent Trefler and Agent Sale captured. Defense squads ordered to stand down. 0339 hours Dr. Mail, Agent Matheson, Germain, Tefler and Sale drawn into storage building 4B through access door. Outside limbs retract, disappear. 0344 hours Agent Ted attempts to damage storage building 4B with combat grenades. Aggressively drawn into building by exceedingly rapid limbs. 0345 hours Command contacted. Mission failed. 0701 hours Dawn 0710 hours Collective remains of Dr. Mail and Agent Matheson, Germain, Tefler, Sale and Ted rediscovered.  I'm sorry, but fair is fair. 01994 You try to be good. You should try harder. 01994 01994 Some people don't know how to be kind. You'll know soon enough, won't you? 01997 People who do terrible things deserve terrible things.  Some things are unforgivable, aren't they? 02002 Do you think they've forgotten? Lesson complete. 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Hello there, it's Sandy Allnok, and I have a really special project today. I don't have all of the tutorial for you or anything, and I don't even know how to explain it because it's the first time I've tried anything this epic for my niece's wedding, but this was my gift for her and I thought you'd like to see a few snippets of how I created it. My niece and her fiancee love the Redwoods. They are just your total wonderful hippie kids and they have this beautiful photograph that they took for their engagement pictures. They went out to the Redwoods and I just wanted to paint them and I wanted to see if I could do it. I don't usually do people. People are not my thing, although after this I'm kind of thinking I'd like to practice more. These were kind of overworked in the faces because I didn't know what I was doing. So I did a lot of layering and they came out a little bit muddy, but I was still happy with it because it looked like them and that is not usually something I'm able to do. I did practice just the faces first and you can see what's under my hand was one of the first practices and I just painted big black marks over it because, oh my gosh, I don't know how to mix skin tones. Please don't ask me what these skin tones were. I layered like, I don't know, 20 times. They would be too pink and then they would be too yellow. And after I got the whole background in, I had to go back and rework the faces again because they had just become very pink compared to all that green. So yeah, it was crazy and I will try to be doing some more study so I can teach you a bit about portraiture. But for the time being, I was just pleased that I got this to work and I got it to come out at all because it's not my shtick. By the time this video was going live, they are already married, hopefully for a good week by this date and I am hoping that it was a beautiful wedding. I'm sure it was and I'm sure that, you know, seeing all the family was great. You know, I wish I had stories, but I don't because I am recording this a couple weeks before I have left because I had to get this framed as well. And it's a large painting. It's half a sheet, which is not even a size I normally paint. I just, I'm not a person who paints this big, but it felt like the redwoods were so epic. I couldn't do a small painting. It was going to have to be a big one. And for their portrait for their wedding, I thought that would be kind of nice. I don't know if they're going to, you know, say, hey, we now want a portrait from like the actual ceremony, like in the dress and in the tux. And I, you know, we'll see. I hope they don't ask because this was really hard. But, you know, if they ask, I will probably entertain it because I love them and very proud of them and the excited for the life they've made for themselves. I just am so thrilled, so, so thrilled. My first niece to get married to have two nieces. So Julie here's looking at you kid. So I don't know if she's even going to watch this, but nonetheless, I will not pressure her because I did not get married either.  So here I'm using masking fluid. Finally got the people done and I didn't feel much of it as you can tell. I have a little bit more I'll share on social media because I was so fretting over the painting of like that shirt was crazy. And the faces obviously her jacket with all kinds of things hanging off of it was nuts. Like it was beautiful. It was gorgeous in the picture, but boy was it was just a really challenging thing. But I, I like a good challenge. So this was that for sure. The masking fluid I decided to use because I didn't know how I was going to handle this big of a background. It's very difficult to do that and not end up with having edges dry before you're ready to go before you're, you know, moving on to the next section. So I decided to start at the top. And move my way down at the bottom actually turned upside down and my table is at an angle about a, I guess, 3540% grade. So that this would carry the paint downward on the paper. And I was looking for a way to kind of just do this whole strip and then start the next strip but keep the edges wet. And I also wanted to drop wet color into the color that's already here. So I had to constantly watch the edge. So I was watching that bottom of the lightest green section and making sure that that never dried. And then once I got it all the way down, I had to make sure that the left edge never dried. Because as soon as you get that, then I'm going to have a big streak right through the painting. And my whole vision for it was just to have this very soft bokeh background with some leaves in the foreground. And I just wanted it to be very simple because they're very complex. Their outfits are complex and all the hair and the faces and everything. And I wanted them to be the thing that was important. I didn't want you to get lost in the background by having a lot of other stuff in it. The photograph had tree trunks and trees laying down and just all kinds of details in there, very fuzzy. And I was debating whether to even try doing some of that. But I opted for just like throwing greens in like we'll just have a bunch of different greens. I'll paint some of these areas that are masked off. I'll repaint those after I get this part done and have a whole bunch of different greens and that's as good as it gets. So I had to make some compromises in the way I approach this. So here I got down to the bottom or actually the top and was just going to keep an eyeball on that whole left edge that left edge could not dry. If it dried, I'd be in trouble. So I also had a spray bottle handy just in case I saw anything starting to dry starting to form an edge so that nothing would would farm that hard edge in the middle of this. That would be nothing more tragic than getting this far in a painting and not being able to like stop some giant edge that would show up in the middle of the painting. That would be terrible. But the masking fluid helped a lot to just keep all of this green away from their faces. Now this is not my normal style using masking fluid like this to, you know, kind of get a background in here. Because normally I paint right through whatever the thing is, and I would like to and one of the reasons I don't do portraits is that I would like to be able to do that. That's kind of my style. I want to be able to do that with portraits and right now I don't know how to do that. I just was clueless. So I had to settle for doing this thing where they look a little bit like stickers on this green background. And, you know, hopefully they won't feel that way. I felt a little bit that way myself just because I had this really crisp edge around them. And I did do a lot of little detail work trying to clean some of that up to make their hair kind of a few few strands of it moving out into the green so that it didn't look like it was just like a big old cut out sticker. But for the bokeh I used baby wipes to pull out the dots while it was wet. You have to do that while it's wet and of course this is so soaking wet from trying to move it across the paper. It was easy to do. And some of them didn't come out particularly great. Some of them came out of the lumpy because my water was real uneven by the time I got all this painting done. So after it was completely dry, I went in with a baby wipe and just started going over some of those bokeh dots that didn't form very nicely. It kind of looked a little wonky and that worked really nicely. Now I suppose you could probably do that without going through the step of lifting them while the paint is still wet. But one of the things I noticed that this did do was my baby wipe was moving color into those areas. So once I started removing all that, I didn't get multicolors of green like I did when I lifted it out of the green paint in the first place while it was wet. So I think that's still the better way to go. Now for all these areas that I had all the masking fluid on, like I said, I didn't like all those kind of areas that looked like white stickers. So down here in the bottom I wanted all these ferns to just kind of disappear. I wanted them to be very soft and have a few hard edges in them, but I didn't want bright white highlights because I wanted the white to be on the two people. And I wanted everything else to kind of fade into the background. So I painted right over top of it all and while it was wet just dropped in more color. But the masking fluid had given me a few hard edges underneath and it created those light spaces. Now I suppose I could have done that just by painting through it, but I didn't know what I was doing at the time. So I just I marked off some areas, but I think it actually did really help to create a section that looks kind of like little fussy greens at the bottom. And then at the top edge of the fernery, and if that's a word or not, but the fern area, I just painted a few strands and few fronds, I guess they are of ferns coming up from the top. And then once I dried it, I can go back in and had just a few hard edges, not very many, but a couple here and there. I didn't want anything to really compete with the bright and groom because they were the most important things. Everything else had to start going away. And that included the leaves because the leaves were also white since I had masked them out. So I painted them with a pale yellow green and then dried all that. And then I was able to put in dark green for one side of them and I kept them very graphical rather than trying to make them realistic. And if you've taken my branching out class, it's a watercolor class where we do a lot of leaf work. And you'll recognize some of this, except this is how you would do it when you've got a background, as opposed to in the class where we just painted different kinds of leaves as foreground elements. But this is kind of combining it so that all of those white areas that I had left with the masking fluid turned into positive leaves painted with this negative background behind it. So it's just a combination of a lot of different techniques to create this. I wanted to soften these leaves somewhat. I didn't want it to look like, you know, we had everything in the front and then this really soft background and nothing in between. So I used a very transparent kind of washed out sort of green to paint just some, not a ton, but some more leafy, small type of branches in behind these other ones that are in the foreground. That gave a little bit more fussy detail, but making the color so soft and transparent, it kind of disappears in there and doesn't fight with the main subject, which is the two people. But it adds that kind of detail anyway, something interesting to look at. And then of course the last thing, since they are the Redwoods kids, they live in that area, I decided I would have a few branches, and there were just a couple sticking into the picture that they had taken for their engagement. And then I decided to add some of those Redwood branches sticking into the picture I added more than were there, and just painted the yellow green into the white areas so I didn't have any white again, and painted a dark heavy green at the bottom of it. And then I kept kind of taking turns dropping water into it, pulling some of that green over top of the white so that, or that yellow green just so it didn't look like it was snowing out there, I had to break it up enough to not have that effect. But here's the finish it's really hard to photograph and to film because it's so huge. So you can see it's kind of leaning on my desk. I did have all those little dots so it's like a little magical forest that the masking fluid allowed me to have so I was pretty thrilled with this. And hopefully you learned something, even if it was to not paint anything half sheet large because it's hard. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. I will see you guys again next week.


What is data leakage? So let's say that we have a data set here that is time dependent. That means every sample is collected at a specific instance in time. This is the earliest sample and this here is the latest sample. Let's say that we want to perform some cross validation where we train on these two chunks and we'll test on this latter chunk. This has no data leakage as this is exactly how we would use the data in the real world. Now in this case however for cross validation we are testing on some data but the model has actually been trained on data that would have happened in a future state. This is not representative of how we would train a model in the real world and so this is bad. As we might get a mean squared error that is low during cross validation but is actually going to be a much worse model in production. Hence data leakage needs to be combated.


Malone was the largely rural county's second emergency responder killed over the past week, following the death of a medical technician in a roadside accident. In nearby Alabama, the suspect, who was not immediately identified, led police on a chase out of the county. The suspect was killed by police as the pursuit ended, Mixon said.


I didn't hear you come in. Horace told me you'd be stopping by and want to see a train run. So I figured we'd run the reefer Express train 100. Call it the polar bear. Anyway, train 100 here is sitting in Salem staging, Salem's a temporary staging yard. It got moved to this location in January. Before that it was over on the other side of the aisle. When we put the next mile of main line in it had to move. When we moved it we added a track too. It used to be five tracks and that wasn't enough but six tracks seems to be a lot better. The reefer express is headed for Bear Creek and that's just the beginnings of Bear Creek there. Eventually Bear Creek is going to come down here and take over all this space. Bear Creek is going to be a big honkin yard. The reefer express is entering Bear Creek right now. Bear Creek is still very early in construction. There's a lot more track that's going to go in here. The reefer express is going to take the main line, go past the diner which is waiting for the passenger express train 14 to pick it up. All this area in here is going to become a sea of track. I have an empty car yard here, drill track, clean out track. Over here we're going to have some industries. The reefers are headed for the east end of the yard. Our engines are going through Winston Junction. Winston Junction is where the Siske branch line ties into the main. Sometimes I call this area of the layup plywood hinge. Once the backdrop goes in you won't be able to see the sky in the background or the buildings that are over in Mill Bend. The backdrop will be just beyond where the reefers are going. So this curve will have a creek on the inside of it. The track in the foreground is the Siske branch line. This part of the layout is the newest construction. It went into service in January. The main line here is crossing over the Siske branch line. The Siske line drops down and go into the staging area that's up here and it's underneath the main line. The main line winds its way up the hill and it'll come out an oak hill. The scenery here, I'm going to have a hill up here. The reason that hill is coming up here is I got the yard throat for the Siske staging area underneath and I wanted to be able to get at these turnouts. So I figured if I put a hill up here then there's more room underneath to see what the turnouts are doing. Well we're coming up on the part of the layout that's got scenery. This scenery went in several years ago and it's been there waiting for me to do more but I kind of got distracted with building more layout. There's an awful lot of construction that went into this peninsula. This area is Upper Bear Creek. The grade here is about oh 2.2 percent I think coming up, coming up the hill. We're about to cross the Upper Bear Creek bridge here which is a scenic highlight on the layout. Now the reefer express is the hottest train on the railroad when we're running an op session so everything else is supposed to get out of its way. So after crossing this bridge the train's going to be pulling into oak hill. That's the gravel quarry there. Someday I've actually got to put a crusher in that quarry but for now just some piles of gravel are standing in. The oak hill turn switches the industries up here which is a little tricky because it's not supposed to use the main line when they're doing run-arounds instead there's a y-track. The oak hill turn has to use the y-track for doing run-around moves which makes switching a little more difficult. We're passing the log loading area. The logs here get picked up and taken down the mill band where they're given to the sawmill there and we're just about just about out of oak hill now. We're heading into the 2.8 percent downgrade leading to mill band. Reefer express is in Roberts Creek now. You look at the trains in Roberts Creek through a series of dewport. No scenery to speak of here is just roughed in but someday this ought to look really nice. Although I've been having second thoughts about these landforms here these just seem maybe too aggressive for me so I think I'm probably going to tear those out and put in a different set of cliffs that aren't quite so steep. There's quite a view here of the train coming down through these S curves. After coming through tunnel 2 the train heads out on the last canyon bridge. Eventually there'll be a micro-engineering deck girder bridge here. Tunnel 3 is one of the first places where I did major rock carving. They came out fairly well I thought. After coming through tunnel 3 the train crosses Canyon Creek another area where the scenery isn't quite finished and heads for Baines Valley. There's a nice wood trestle across Baines Valley. After crossing the Baines Valley bridge the polar bear heads for Deschutes Junction. Deschutes Junction is where the Deschutes branch joins with the main. Just beyond Deschutes Junction is the town of Mill Bend. Looks like Gaston and Mannets are playing checkers again. Those guys are always at some place on the layout. The polar bear crosses 6th Street and enters Mill Bend. Goes past the warehouse and past the cold storage just beyond the warehouse. As soon as we cross Highway 97 here we're going to be entering South Jackson. South Jackson and Mill Bend are sort of like oh well right next to each other. We're bringing the reefer express into South Jackson yard on the main track. South Jackson is the only real operating yard on the layout but when Bear Creek is finished South Jackson will become a secondary yard. They'll serve the junction traffic at Deschutes Junction. All the traffic coming up down the Chutes branch will get merged onto the main line here. This is the second version of this yard. The first version I built out of a bunch of stuff from my scrap box left overs from my previous layout and it was at the wrong elevation for here. It went the wrong way coming off here but it let me get operating right away. So when I built the helix and put the peninsula in the old South Jackson had to go and so this new one showed up here. Well our reefer express is almost a tow junction. This is tow junction here. Tow junction is spelled T-O-H which stands for top of helix. There's two tracks that come up the helix and three ways to get out of it and the junction connects them all so we can go any which way we want to. Looks like there's going to be a meet on the helix. The helix is two laps of double track. The inner track is 40 inches and the outer track is 43 inches. We always run the uphill trains on the outer track because the grade there is gentler. The inner track gets the downhill trains because the grade is steeper. Up hill grade is about oh 1.4 and a half percent and the outer grade is 1.4 percent and the inner grade is about 1.6 percent. All of this is going to be hidden underneath scenery so you're not going to be able to see these ugly tortoises sticking up here. It's going to be a hill here. The hill will be a view block to hide the access hole. They'll be in the middle of the helix. It'll be a creek that runs out and around and comes back over here. After negotiating both laps on the helix, our train comes out at the bottom onto the staging lead. There's two tracks here. One splits over to the B side which is for the trains who are going to be going up the hill. The other one that we're on is going to the A side staging which is the entry side of staging. We're going to pull into track two on the A side staging. The longest track in the A side can hold a train that's about 60 cars long but most of the tracks aren't that long. The A side staging has got nine tracks to it. Over on the other side of the peninsula is the B side staging. That has ten tracks in it. Trains always go through staging this way on the A side and that way on the B side. That lets us fleet trains up and down the helix for efficiency. Well we're just about ready to tie up here and I think we're done. The train's in Pocatello and well thank you for coming. Hope you enjoyed the trip.