Alright, you are still watching Waze. Now, typically celebrated with church services, Easter Monday is a Christian holiday that marks the day after Jesus Christ rose from the dead according to the Christian faith. Now, many people also use this day to be with friends and families and may participate in traditional activities such as decorating Easter eggs or having a special Easter meal. I'm not sure about this egg matter because I read about the history of the egg. But how did you celebrate Easter Monday? Well, I went to my church where I started from Baptiste Church and it was just so surreal to see everyone in advancing age. It's funny how time flies and then when there's so much time in between and then you reconnect, it's like, wow, a lot has happened. It was really, really beautiful today. Just seeing everyone and living well, advancing in age. But yes, it was good. It was spent in church. Four hours of service. It's been a while. It's been a while. I was going to go there. I said, how we never go there. Like, any service went down past one hour, 13 minutes. I'm sorry, it's not for me. You know, because I mean, this traditional church is right. When you go to church, like, you can't just do chap-chap. I mean, I can't go for the new generational pastor that now developed a formula because it doesn't make four hours, five hours doing what? In the presence of the Lord. Hallelujah. Alright, so let me start with Jennifer. What did you find for us on the news? Okay, so Black Mela records sexual intercourse with ladies and sales news. So this story broke out. That was last week. Yeah, but I think they just decided to file a report officially here. So there was a lady who was calling out a guy who used to work in Nessu, but then he currently works in another company and she's saying that she found out that she was dating him at the time. But then what she noticed was that whenever she was having sexual intercourse with him, there was this laptop that was open, but it was blank. So if you're not suspecting, you would not know that anything was happening. But what he does is that he secretly takes pictures and makes videos of that entire activity and then he sells it to people. And there were lots of proof, because I saw this on Twitter, there were lots of proof of telegram groups that were open where people were actually asking, where men were asking for these news and they were actually paying for it. And a lot of witnesses, women who were coming out and sending messages of how he harassed them, he stalked them and so many other things have been happening. So they're still trying to catch him right now. Careful. Horrible things are happening. Can't imagine having people's private experience being published for the public without your permission. Why is that possible though? Well, if he's a tech... So they'll send the laptop to go to sleep, like sleep mode, but the camera is on. Those that are tech-savvy know how. I'm sure there is a way they maneuver something like that. Because I think one thing was, what she said was, when she ended things with him and he was trying to blackmail her, he started sending pictures. So I think someone received a nude picture of herself and she was like, I never took this picture myself. I never sent it to you. So how do you have it? So unsuspectingly, you just be in the room with him and then he does things like this and he has done several... He did cameras for you. Yeah, he did cameras like several women. Several women. Be careful you date you. That's all I can say. Tell me about your story. Okay, mine is still on the story that we're part of what we're discussing this evening. It's about the full list that UK has. UK stops recruiting healthcare workers from Nigeria and 53 other countries. So the red list of countries out, a lot of countries. We have Bangladesh, we have Nigeria, we have Kina Faso. We have over 53 countries who have currently been banned from being recruited, doctors, nurses and all. And the UK government says that it is due to the code of revised code of practice. Having revised their code of practice and due to conversations going on that it's unfair, some countries are losing in the area of healthcare and social welfare so that they had to revise it and they had to stop including Nigerians from being recruited. And their most country... Most recruiters, employers of labour, also need to... They need to look at the list to know which countries have been banned so that you don't recruit from such countries. But I'm sure we'll still... I was even just going to touch on it briefly to say that I saw a video on social media where a woman, I think she's a nurse who was accusing Nigerians of being part of why they were added to this list. So recruiters normally would give certain kinds of forms or something and that thing is free. So what Nigerians now started doing was they would go and sell that the recommendation letter or something to people for thousands of pounds. Because again, you know the desperate situation of people wanting to leave the country and all of that. So I think again, that was smoked out and that's part of why they would not just give you the full list. But she's in the UK and she says she knows a lot of people who come for her. But truth is they also did some findings and investigation and they found out that people were selling those recruiters. It's not so it is us doing that. That was what she was just saying that when would Nigerians learn to stop doing things right? So my story is actually very troubling. I'm trying to hold myself but maybe let me call for the video first. You watch the video then I'll come back. First here, then I think finally here also. And sir, my tongue. I've been trying to hold myself.  He apologized saying that normally he plays around and you know, that he knows that the family they will feel hurt. This boy was actually the one who asked to come give him a hug. The boy hugged him, it would have finished there. He asked for a peck on his cheek, it should have finished there. The next thing he stuck out, he asked for a kiss on his lip. He still did not stop there.  You know what, we're going to discuss this matter tomorrow. But I want to say that you see, pedophilia is not something that people should joke with. And it comes in different, you know, revered, whatever. I have sons, you know, there are just so many things that were wrong for me in that video. He could visibly see this young boy really uncomfortable. But again, because he was interfacing with someone that is revered. He couldn't say no. So that's why I'm saying that I will shelve the conversation for tomorrow. Because I really want to understand if you were a parent, what would you do? And you know, how parents are raising their children. Because again, some children will be bold enough to tell that man, no, sorry I can't do that. But the boy could not, you know, he had to oblige him. And people were around laughing. How is that even funny? You're not my father.  You're not related to me in any way. But we'll take a break. Let's discuss medical issues today. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Stay with us.


welcome back to my channel ladies and in today's video i'm just going to be giving you guys a quick pamper routine yes you see it on the screen this is a quick simple bath that i usually take during the week probably once a week um just after a long week either it's going to be on a sunday or mid week depending on how i feel from work but what you're going to need some bubble baths some sea salt and some rose petals very simple a couple of candles maybe you guys have plants and stuff um get you some bubble bath that actually lathers up really really good so you can just really feel like you're in that zen bath and just pour some in not too much you don't want it to overflow i'll link the one that i do have i actually really like it and i'm gonna be using some sea salt sorry Himalayan sea salt also so this is going to be like a sea salt bath and um this one actually has rose buds already in it which is really really great so just adding that on top of the rose petals is going to be an amazing feeling but i wouldn't recommend you guys being mindful of how much salt you're putting in there because this is a very powerful bath and it kind of like sucks everything out of you you will feel tired not tired but you will feel like really relaxed after to where you would fall asleep so i usually take like a cup like not a cup size a top size and which is probably equivalent to a hand full and just sprinkle some in not too much like i said you don't want to be super drained when you get out um i just kind of sprinkle that in the water along with the bubble bath like i said not too much bubble bath because you don't want it to overwhelm the tub and your rose petals and stuff but enough to where you feel good so there are my rose petals i did get a multi color pack and i'm actually really really glad because i didn't want to get red and it wanted to feel like valentine's day so i got a multi color pack and i'm absolutely loving it because it brought so much color and so much light to the bathroom into my bath so i'm just going to sprinkle some into the tub on the water on top of the bubbles and stuff and let the water just run and just sprinkle it on the sides and stuff you guys can put it wherever you would like to put it put as much as you want i did only get one pack and it came with quite a lot and i just kind of sprinkled it all over i wanted to get in and i wanted it to be on my arms just like just i wanted to be surrounded by it so these colors to me are very very feminine and just sexy there's a mix of yellows and whites and pink there is a little bit of red in here not much but i do love these colors so i would definitely be buying these again and probably two packs so i can have more of it and just kind of put it around put as much as you would like to put around and however wherever you want to put it you can just sprinkle it everywhere guys sprinkle it wherever you want to sprinkle it so that's just me just placing it all over and i'm going to actually end up putting some on the floor too in front of the tub because i wanted to walk on the rose petals getting into the tub i just wanted that feeling and you guys should definitely try it out so like i said you can get more than one box pack of um rose petals and just sprinkle them everywhere sprinkle them everywhere just sprinkle them wherever you like put as much as you want whatever makes you feel good you want to pour more yourself in the tub then do that whatever makes you feel good but i definitely recommend getting a multi-color pack it just feels great it just feels luxurious so that's me again just sprinkling them on the floor and i did bring some snacks in the bath and i brought some fruit and i bought some water in there that's just key lime water usually after my salt bath i'm very like not really dehydrated but i'm very thirsty and i'm hungry so i would recommend bringing something to drink in there preferably water preferably water uh and you know you can put some fruit in there if you would like and bring some snacks with you nothing too much not a whole feast of food but you know put something that will you know quench your little thirst and your hunger so yes that's it that just brought that little bit of stuff in there and again both of my rose petals and that's like a nice view of what i have there like i said guys this is very very simple i want to say everything i already had in my house already so it's very cheap i do take a shower before i get into the tub so i let the water run while i'm in the shower and that is because with the salt bath you actually want to let it sit on you after so here is i'm just lighting up a couple more candles that i had in there don't judge my candle because it looks a little hurt but um i have so many candles um and just light them up and what you guys also can do is sprinkle some more rose petals around there also put them wherever you like you want to just feel like you're walking into a beautiful bed of roses and then ladies turn the lights low turn the lights low it doesn't have to be pitch black in there but just turn the lights low so it's dim i also have a diffuser up in here running and i believe i put peppermint peppermint drops in here essential oils and it smells amazing in here ladies try this out i'm telling you try it out it's very cheap the rose petals are probably three dollars i believe and when i took them out honestly they were they were not even like soaking wet so i kept them and maybe i can use them one more time other than that then nothing nothing more than one more time but here it is ladies just a simple zen bath and i hope you let us like it try it out let me know what you guys think what would you guys do um in your bath and thank you for tuning in if you stay till the end oh that's me guys getting in the tub and know you guys cannot see you cannot see but this is it me in the tub very simple i would recommend getting a nice caddy i really like this one you can put your books and stuff here i do read a lot so i put books and stuff in here when i'm in here and there's my my water with my key lines and cheers ladies cheers cheers cheers try it out let me know what you guys think thank you for tuning in again and if you guys stay till the end of this video i would really appreciate it if you thumbs up if you comment cocoa we see you and subscribe subscribe if you like what i have to offer on this channel and i will see you guys in the next one take care and have a good one bye


The subject of our presentation today is the Arctic region cooperation or confrontation. The Arctic region has raised its profile, one could say, over the last 10 years especially. On the one side because of global warming and global warming and the prospects that the sea route across the north of the European continent or the Eurasian continent might be freed and you might have an ordinary sea route leading from East Asia to the Atlantic. On the other hand there has been an amount of exploitation of natural resources in the area especially oil and gas which perhaps to some extent was dependent on the price of oil being as maybe $120 a barrel which is not the case today. The cooperation such as it is in the area is regulated by the Arctic Council composed of Russia, United States, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway and there are other groups also. There was a kind of stunt carried out by the Russians in 2007 which involved the placing of a titanium flag under the ice cap of the Arctic Ocean more or less at the North Pole which has set heads wagging and speculation rife as to what it imports by way of extension of the shelf of Russia. There is also of course a wider interest in the northern sea route on the part of China and Japan when you look at the Chinese plans for a silk road one belt one road I think it's quite understandable that the Japanese might be very interested in an alternative via the northern sea route. So all these things have made the area of great interest and great speculation in recent years which is why we're very happy to have Matti Antonin the on the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland to speak to us. Mr. Antonin's career has been connected with Russia for many years. He served as ambassador to Russia from 2008 to 2012. Before that worked as director for Russia and later as deputy director general of the division for Russia Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He's not a however completely one sided he's also served in Washington DC and with the permanent mission of Finland to the UN in Geneva and he told me before we began that some 30 years ago he studied politics at Trinity College Dublin. So I think nobody better qualified could be invited to speak to us on this very interesting subject. Okay thank you and really really nice to be here in Dublin after so so many years. I said earlier I have a little personal history with this country having studied in Trinity College for one year as an exchange student and also having worked three summers in various places of this country doing voluntary work in Galway, Mayo, north of Danuk and then also in the south and in Kilkenny. So I have some understanding of this country but that's over a very long duration. I know that this country has been celebrating its in a way 100 years of the East rising which then led six years later to the independence independently public. Next year Finland will be celebrating its 100 years of being an independent republic independence for which we have been paying a rather high price later on when our eastern neighbor wanted to bring back us to the orbit which they didn't succeed but they managed to create a rather working relationship with them then later on. Something which is also uniting us is that we have had a functioning democracy here almost 100 years and in Finland 100 years because many of the European countries they had to live without democracy at least few years when those countries were occupied by different forces but Finland has been democracy with regular elections 110 years already the Russian period we had a parliament where the women women got the vote and tried to be elected in 1907 first time in Europe. But this is not the topic I was supposed to speak about Arctic region. When you think about the region of the world I think there's of course Antarctica which is even less talked about but I think it's a good competitor will be the Arctic region. Not so much in the headlines it is very remote from most places there are very few people less than four million depending on the definition but Arctic there's very little economic activity as a whole and no major transport links go through that area and what is positive also that there's no major conflicts in the area. The just approved global strategy for the European Union for an a security policy covers Arctic in two sentences so I think that tells about the about the area quite a lot but what makes Arctic interesting at the moment and in the coming decades that all those things I enumerated are going to change and there's a very one big driver for this change and that's the global warming caused by the climate change and this will mean that much of the Arctic sea will be open for navigation. Justine I want to show you one picture because I don't usually like to show powerpoint presentations but sometimes one picture is useful. This is the medium ice for yesterday or the day before 81 2010 the ice was this big now the white is the ice this is the third smallest amount of ice you have in the north 2012 there is even less so I mean this is the big change and it's real there's no doubt about it and you know this is kind of about the change which could happen because it's a real change and very likely to continue so let that not be there because maybe I can use it for a some later when I show where what the places I'm talking about but this means that the hydrocarbon and mineral resources will be more available and this will also open up transport routes between Asia Europe mainly and this will also change the livelihoods of the people because the nature and the climate will change it's already changing just imagine when you build something on permafrost it's like rock when that rock melts away it will be very different world as said earlier you know the definition what's arctic is a bit fluffy you know usually we talk about the area which is inside the polar circle then there are you know other definitions the permafrost area the treeless area in the north but anyway what even you know taking into account the different definitions it's a big area only the arctic ocean the big blue thing there is size of Russia a bit smaller but anyway I mean if you want the ballpark figure it's about the size of Russia covered by ice the whole winter and then covered by is so little in summer and in the whole region less than the population of Ireland when we talk about the cooperation which was referred to earlier in the region it all started in 91 when Finland invited the the environmental environmental ministers of the old all the eight arctic countries Canada Denmark Iceland Norway Soviet Union Sweden and United States to Rovaniemi and that started the process mainly concentrated on the environmental side environmental protection and that led to then uh 2096 to the establishment of arctic council in Otsava 20 years ago but still much of the work of the arctic council is being done in the working group which were founded in in Rovaniemi 91 but what is interesting with this organization which is an intergovernmental organization that also the indigenous people are present there as participants permanent permanent participants and in addition there are 12 observers the European Union member countries have been pushing very much to get the European Union as an observer so far with no success but we continue that work but when we're kind of looking at this region in in many ways uh from natural geographic point of view it looks very much the same but there are actually three very distinct development models in the region if I start with the kind of what is closest to us and what is smallest by by kind of area here in north of north of Scandinavia we have a very different model than they have in north America and Russia we think that there are very few people there but per square kilometer we have much more people per square kilometer in northern Scandinavia than in other areas we have democratic traditions we have a infrastructure there rail roads roads airports things you can reach those areas and there is quite a lot of economy there but the share of indigenous people is rather limited in whole of Finland I think we have the Sami people it's about 10 000 people of them half live in the north half live scattered in in other parts of the country uh then we have the north american model mainly in canada alaska very low population density density very little economic activity mainly the the only economic activity in the region is the oil in alaska and the kind of substantial and very poor infrastructure hardly existing and very high proportion of indigenous indigenous population in nunabut is almost three fourths in northwest territory half in in yukon around one one quarter and then you have the russian model and the russia russia is by far the biggest power in the Arctic you have a lot of several pockets of economic activity which were developed in the soviet time and the soviet model did not really take economics into account because by if you take the natural conditions it's very challenging environment as in north america but when you don't have to take economics into account you can do things you can build norilsk which is producing a copper nickel palladium and platinum you have a whole city in the tundra more than 100 000 people you know the the north american model would not allow that to happen because you know in market economy that kind of things do not happen the environmental cost of these enterprises norilsk is the second most polluted place in in in russia the biggest source of stationary non-transport pollution in the country and russia is also present more militarily in the region than the others and there is a very clear explanation for that because if you think murmansk that's the only port where the russian navy can get more or less directly to the atlantic ocean if you think the boldixi or the black sea you know you have the turkish straits you have the danish straits they are much more restricted the number of indigenous people in russian north and the russian model it's more it's bigger than in in in scandinavia but their share is much smaller than in north america and the economic situation of those people is not very good because in a way they are very much part outside those economical pockets which are creating the wealth in the north but so this is the kind of picture some some similarities but in a way three very different models of development of the region uh i've been dealing with russia and i i start with that because as i said you know it's the most important player and relatively the russian Arctic is much more important to russia than the Arctic of north america or the Arctic of finland sweden and norway why because russia is a major producer of oil and gas as we all know 90 percent of russian gas comes from jamal on enetia 90 percent russian gas 20 percent of oil's gas production comes from the russian Arctic and a huge deficit there as well uh half of russia's oil comes from hunting marcia which is south of jamal on enetia in the middle of western Siberia so when a country when a country's exports are consisting of oil and gas 65 70 percent and when the budget income they cover 40 percent of the budget income you can understand that this Arctic is important for that country uh the names of the region come from the indigenous people living there nenets in the north and hunt the amansi in the south they're kind of small fenogreek tribes which have been living there but their share of the population at the moment is very small something if if jamal on enetia is the biggest gas producing region in the world it's also the region with the highest number of reindeer in the world so kind of if you can talk about dual economy that's a dual economy you have reindeer and then you have a super modern production of gas in the massive scale but this is kind of challenging strategy when when the country is so dependent on oil and gas i think this year's most interesting lecture i've heard was took place in london uh earlier this year during the ebrd annual meeting when i had the opportunity to listen to uh sir nicholas stern which is a really well known climate economist and i think he put it in a very concrete and good way that if we take these two per two centigrade limits seriously that the global climate would not heat up more than two per two degrees 70 percent of worlds known coal gas and oil reserves have to stay where they are okay and then we have a country which is so dependent on oil and gas and i think the big question coming out of uh me serves nicholas's presentation is that who who's 30 percent will be sold to the markets before you know this 70 percent has to stay because you know it's purely arithmetics that you know there's a x number of a tons coal there and if you let that to the to the air you know if you burn everything you're clearly by far over this two two degrees centigrade uh so this is a big challenge for russia and it's somewhat kind of related to their arctic strategy at the moment there is very little uh transport of this this is the so-called north east passage and this is the north west passage going through the canadian arctic alarm this north east passage cuts the journey between jocohama and Rotterdam by one third between Shanghai and Rotterdam by 25 percent we can all understand what it means if that would be navigable for a long period much shorter distance between the major training partners and what is happening now is that uh russia is building the first ever big lng facility here on oak bay which is on the kind of steel covered by ice according to the americans and it will mean that they will be transporting that gas to the Asian markets summertime using the north east passage first time ever this sea route is being used for massive amount of export of hydrocarbons it's not yet there people have not noticed it but because much of the equipment is being manufactured in finland we know that it's going to take place it's going to be a reality and in a way it will be it will be a kind of changing many things in the region of course in a way it's safe to transport lng because that's not an environmental hazard the same way you are transporting oil because you know it's methane and the worst thing which might happen is the methane kind of evaporates in the air but it doesn't pollute the sea but it will change the whole map of worlds kind of thinking about the north and there will be a couple other oil then related terminals which will be built in the in the neighborhood of this this port and there are also these mineral deposits in in norils which is here is uh viennese big river comes here and it's near the mouth of viennese there's norils which is the probably the world's kind of richest deposit of of minerals because it's still very profitable to exploit that even if you have the whole city to manage and to pay for uh something which is concerned to us is that the russians have similar kind of not very clean production facilities in our neighborhood in in uh in uh colap and insular the situation has improved during the years but there's a long way to go before they are reaching the Nordic environmental standards and you can see that from the surroundings of these of these plants it's on a moonscape something we have to remember is that russia's history is full of these mega projects my question to to my Finnish uh young colleagues is that what is the biggest ever mega projects of this kind and it's the city of san petersberg it's a bog in the end of gulf of finland the most inhospitable horrible place to build the city of five million inhabitants but peter the great said it's going to be here and i forbid building any stone buildings anywhere else in russia than here and he brought the workforce and he built the city and now it's there and it won't move away but the place was not a very good one you have such olympics the railroad and the road connection to the mountains cost 100 million euros a kilometer five billion euros we can't we can't afford that kind of things but fresher can and that's the way the country has been developed during the you know history but you know it's useful to remember that it's not something for the present fresher it has been the tradition but somebody in in kremlin law san petersberg decided let's let's build a railroad to to pacific and then it continues but of course with that kind of management system you cannot handle many of these things so there's going to limit the amount of of these projects which can be done at the same time but when we kind of jump to the other side of the Atlantic to north america this type of a kind of action is not possible you have to take money into account and if you think of the north american kind of economic history both alaska and northern part of canada they were part of these gold gold rushes around 100 years ago that was the kind of the first time we heard about alaska and and uconn for example then i think the next stage was about 70 years later when alaska and oil was developed and the pipeline was built during the last decade with the with the boom in the in the commodity markets we had few small projects which were mature enough to be realized like one on the baffin island here and there is an island mine in the middle of the northern part of baffin island which was you know developed during the last decade and now is up and running but nothing major new happened there in that part of the world there's one big project going on in northern alaska to produce gas and then ship it to the south make it into lng and ship that to the markets in in asia but it's most likely that it will be realized it will take at least 10 years so north america with these commodity prices will look quite quite silent compared to the russian north one challenge now two challenges which they have i was in canada a week last june and if i had pinpointed two things important for the country how to develop infrastructure which is really lacking no railroad no roads no electricity networks very few ports very few airports at least big ones the number one question and the number two question how to provide meaningful employment for the indigenous people in those conditions and taking it into account at the supermarket economy nothing not the easy thing to do maybe a few words about norway because norway used to be a country as poor as finland 100 years ago if there are four countries in europe which lost i mean the if you count the countries which lost most people in in immigration number one was ireland number two was scotland number three was norway and number five was number four was sweden i mean those countries were not so wealthy 100 plus years ago it wanted to remember anyway it's an oil country again but the different kind of oil prices in russia and their oil production is shifting from the north sea to the barren sea and they have managed to negotiate with russia a new border treaty which allows this to happen because when there's a clear border in the sea between the parties you can sell licenses and the companies can operate there and in the last licensing ground in spite of the low oil prices all the licenses were taken and there will be a lot of exploration activity in the norwegian north on the russian side of the border the eu and us sanctions they have had their impact because you know arctic oil exploration is one of the sectors which have been restricted and the role of the foreign companies has been major in those projects because russia has very little own experience in producing oil and gas in the arctic arctic offshore arctic onshore they are very big but arctic offshore is something new they have actually only one prilas lomnie field which has been operated by by gas from neft for a while but it took more than 10 15 years to build and they are huge already known hydrocarbon reserves like the huge stockman field which is in the middle of the barren sea if you think of kind of compared that the finished gas consumption a year it would fulfill finished gas consumption for 700 years so it's big but it's going to be there because there are no technological solutions which would be kind of economical enough to make make that a profitable so many things might be staying in the ground in the north if we take this mixturns 70 percent seriously as said here earlier this shrinking ice has made this area also interesting for those parties which are not coming from the region china south korea and japan especially because for them if they can get so much faster to the european markets it's good economically and ecologically as i said it's at the moment many theory after this big lng facility and the regular traffic will see how real it is the conditions are very tough even in summer we need much better and much more reliable whether an ice forecast in the region we need navigational aids we need search and rescue if something happens you can just imagine if a big cruise liner you know something happens in the cruise liner and you have 2000 people stranded somewhere there it will be a major catastrophe we can we can kind of tell our own story because in 1994 a major ferry ship sank in gulf of finland and it brought down 800 900 people and it happened in gulf of finland which is not big it's not kind of big ocean but the conditions can be really tough and as a whole we need much more research in order to make the better use of natural resources possible and also the understanding the impact of the climate change because in the arctic region we are talking about adaptation the world's climate will not be saved there the world's climate will be saved in china in in india in the united states in europe where the emissions are north will be just they have to adapt because the climate change is about it's it's kind of estimated to be twice as fast in the north that's than on the average so if you are talking about two per two centigrade average warm heating globally it means four to five degrees in the north and that's that's that's really a lot then it was also mentioned that of course because you know the opening up of the opportunities there's new attempts to claim sovereignty over larger parts of the of the ocean and as mentioned the best publicized stunt was the placing of these of this russian flag at the north pole using a small submarine something something finished in this story was that the submarine was built in finland in 1980s we got the permission from the americans to to deliver that kind of ship to the soviets because the americans did not believe that we could make it when we made it and sold it they were not so happy about it but you know that was a that was a done deal they actually two of them and they played an important role when when filming titanic because they can go really deep and they are not many of them in the world because again that was not the market economy you could pay anything for that kind of thing and develop that kind of thing with no no costs thought about and so probably was a good good deal for this company as well but that russia is not only country claiming territory there both danmark and russia and russia and canada have over overlapping claims around the north pole not big but clearly overlapping claims danmark thinks that this belongs to them canada thinks this belongs to them and russia thinks this belongs to them but luckily it's very far in the north and using that area for any economic activity in the coming years even with the climate change is very unlikely most likely it will be covered by ice for next 20 years anyway all your own and what is positive is that all the countries coastal countries have agreed to the un convention on the law of the sea and to the orderly settlement of any possible overlapping claims so sounds much better than in many other parts of the world where this orderly settlement is not really very orderly. Norway has got this recommendation from the UN body responsible for this convention danmark russia and canada are still waiting for their responses they have submitted their their cases and they are now waiting for the recommendations and then on basis of these recommendations the countries have the delimit their exclusive economic zones and and then agree with others because the same place cannot be in in two exclusive zones but i don't think that is very likely i don't think it's very likely that this will lead to major territorial issues between the parties a few words about the military side of the of the region because it tends to be a kind of fashionable theme to talk about you know raising military tension all over the world including the Arctic the EU strategy i mentioned at the beginning says that sets as a goal that the Arctic region region should remain a low tension area so i think they implied that it's it is a low tension area and it should remain the Arctic cooperation which we are handling in the side of the uh in the in the Arctic Council we are not talking about politics we try to concentrate on the on the research on the environmental questions on sustainable development region but this growing tension in Europe between the United States European Union and Russia has not led so far to any problems in the functioning of these bodies working in the north interesting interestingly enough last year in August and in October we found it together in the framework of the Arctic Council Coast Guard Arctic Coast Guard Forum where the Russian FSB is the Coast Guard for Russia so why this because we have two binding agreements concerning search and rescue and oil spills fighting oil spills and without the work of the Coast Guard this is meaningless you need the Coast Guard to work on these matters otherwise these problems cannot be solved and in a way as i said it's good that we have been able to continue this cooperation because it's needed as said earlier Russia has by far the largest military presence in the area but the military buildup has not been so massive as people think and as at least if you compare to the to the presence of Soviet military we are still far from that some new installments have been built and some old bases have been bought back to life but generally we are very far from the cold war time cold war times also the other countries have increased their interest on on the military side or at least start stopped decline in the region but we are not really talking about the major investments i think more kind of the we can we can state that the countries have stopped cutting the military capabilities in the north and of course these other forces are not comparable to the Russian capabilities but as i said you know the Russian interest in the region is by far bigger because it's the heart of their economic strength maybe at the end few few words about Finland we will be taking over the chair of the Arctic Council from the United States and will be in our hands for two two years 2017 2019 spring we will we will be continuing the work started by the Americans environment sustainable development and research continue to be continue to be in focus there will be some new additions we are at the moment discussing with other parties of the council what should be the priorities the next two years why it's important region for us because our industries are much involved Arctic business is not a mega business but for Finland is probably relatively more important than for any other EU country because we are a major provider of technology for all those things you need in the north for example those lng carriers transporting the gas all the propeller systems are made in Finland and all the engines are made in Finland and they have been designed in Finland and they've been built in in north in in south korea our research community is heavily involved in both climates ice and meteorological work in the Arctic we want to know how people could work there because with increased economic activity there will be more people working there and we want to secure their safety and well-being when they are working in these tough conditions because tough conditions they will be even if it's going to be less ice in the region and paradoxically the less ice there is in the region the more capabilities and competencies you need to work in these conditions because that will lead to increased activity so in a way people have to know more about ice and those very difficult conditions we are rather confident that this positive kind of cooperative mood will prevail in the north and in spite of the tensions in other parts of the Europe we don't see a major prospect for confrontation in this region so thank you very much and I'm more than ready to answer for questions


Hey, welcome to 8% club man, we got a special dude, a special freaking guest today. What's going on? Mr. Charlie Cina, Exposing Clothes, he's been in our office for the last three days. Helping us with our message to market, our branding, throwing a big event, talking about some of the million dollar moves and secrets that he's going to be delivering at Nissan Stadium with the likes of Grant Cardona and Ray Lewis. Charlie, because today's all about why is sales training so stinking valuable? Isn't it true, Charlie, that you, for the last seven years, you've been working specifically with companies and coaching companies using virtual training platforms? Yep, absolutely. Yeah, so for the past seven years, I've been representing a company by Lightspeed BT and I've had the pleasure of not only working with a lot of direct sales companies as well as sales trainers, speakers and authors taking their content online and scalably training the masses.  Dude, who doesn't want to do that, right? Who doesn't want to drive more revenue, man? I love hearing that. I love it better when he says it. What is it about sales training that is lacking in a majority of industries where sales and driving revenue is the purpose? What is it about, why is that part of the world not, with Lightspeed BT, it's helping it evolve? No question. It seems like there's just not enough of it. Yeah, so at the end of the day, everything is practice, everything is role playing, everything is repetition. And we have a lot of subject matter experts at Lightspeed, one of which is a gentleman by the name of Tim Grover. Tim Grover actually trained a lot of the basketball greats, helped them get their rings, and I think, don't quote me, Tim's got like six or seven NBA champion rings. Michael Jordan. Yep. Kobe Bryant. Dwayne Wayne. Oh, you know him. Come on. Yeah, so at the end of the day, in speaking with Tim personally and hearing him speak, he said to me, Charlie, it's basics. They all go in every day and practice the basics. And again, it's great for me to come in here for two days and work with your team and kind of get them to do the whole mind shift and see that light bulb go on. But now, helping you create a virtual training platform that's going to help you scale your team long term, where they can go in from a laptop, a desktop, or a mobile device, is huge. And I know that even with what you're doing right now with your 8% Nation Conference, like when people buy a Premier ticket and or they buy a VIP ticket, you are actually giving them a whole training sequence. So they're going to be at the event. Yes. Right? There's going to be a lot of speakers like Grant Cardone, like Tim Story, like coach Bert, that are all likes BVT clients, by the way. But at the end of the day, those people are going to be able to plug in after the fact. But what you're including in your ticket is your training specific to the insurance industry, right? Exactly. How to prospect in your industry. How to work the phone. I mean, one of the courses you're giving away is a $1,000 course when they buy a Premier ticket or VIP ticket, right? 33 training videos, insurance sales course, appointment setting, training videos. We've also got a digital marketing guide to help those agents that are like, dude, I want to be great at digitally producing leads and marketing. That comes with it. Mastering insurance, tele-sales package. All of these are $1,000 a piece typically that we sell on our website every day. The Premier ticket is a $19,000 total value. Everything included. We're just giving them a ticket just because we want them to be there. So you want to get the people in the seats and really what you're doing, and I give you kudos, man, is you're bringing a whole community together of final expense, P&C guys, commercial guys, Medicare, people that are in the financial side of the business. So point I'm trying to impress upon everybody. What he's doing is very unique because, and I'm making my point, he's getting you to his event, exposing you to a lot of these speakers and trainers that are outstanding, and in addition to, he's actually giving you a follow-up course that when you leave, you and your team can plug into online. And I believe if you give the Premier ticket, you're actually putting people in a very select private coaching group where you're going to privately coach them after the event. True. I mean, dude, who does that? True. Access to VIP lounge, access to the VIP party on Friday night where good-looking dudes like Charlie Cheen are going to be hanging out, walking around, networking, and you just, I mean, the nuggets you're going to pick up, the people you're going to meet is incredible. Access backstage to Premier to get some pictures with some speakers and stuff. I mean, that's, who does that at events? Like, that's, I said, I'm going to throw up the growth con. I couldn't do that. You know, I wouldn't allow that. Well, that's the other thing, right? I mean, I went to Grant's first event, 2,200 people. Went to the second event, 9,100 people, 10X. Now it's going to be in a stadium. Well, guess what? You're bringing in Grant. And I know, I know the type of commitment that you made to bring in Grant. Well, this is going to be, you know, a conference of 1,000 plus people, I mean, still relatively small in the Grant's scheme of things, right? It's the first one. A little intimate fun event. Yeah. But people are going to have access to hear Grant speak up close and personal, potentially even Rob Albow, shake hands, get him to ask some questions. So, you know, just with that alone, Tim's story is going to be there. I've known Tim for six years, brought him in. He's on the Lightspeed platform. You know, he's become a personal friend. Tim and I have traveled to different events together. He's going to be there. He's unreal. He's awesome, man. And to be there and to be able to shake hands, so, you know, I've been in this circle for lack of a term or this arena for seven years. I've gotten to shake hands, get to know, be friend, acquire as clients a lot of the top speakers and trainers. I can't even count in seven years how many conferences or events that I've been to. But I want to impress upon everyone, if you're in the insurance business in any way, shape or form, like this whole conference that I've been fortunate enough to be involved with is going to cover every single aspect of your business, right? The whole mantra of the conference is learn the mindset, the mission and the moves to produce millions of dollars and be in the 8%. Yeah. So again, you got Ray Lewis coming in there focusing on your mindset, right? Coach Burke is going to teach you a mindset and teach you the moves to make. You know, Tim's story is going to give you the motivation and inspiration to get up in the morning when you don't feel like getting up in the morning or you don't feel like picking up the phone to make the next move. You know, Grant speaks for himself. The guy's been around the block. He's a money machine. He knows how to generate revenue. I've watched him since the time I've known Grant where he had six people in his office and now I think he's got over 100 people that are marketing on the phone, traveling. He's got affiliates, so they know how to do it. Its boots on the ground know how to do it. So I'm very excited for the event. If you're in the insurance arena, I don't care what you're selling, P&C, final expense, commercial, you need to be at that event. And again, if you bought the ticket and only took the online training, I mean, it's insane the value that you're giving people. Really, that's what the neat thing that I always think about. Like when I went to 10X, I go to events, I go to conferences. What I want to get out of a conference is, am I going to meet some people that can positively impact my business and drive more revenue? The other thing is, am I going to learn tangible nuggets that I can bring home, implement into my business and my brand, and scale up and do more, make more money? Most people don't realize it.  And we've four to five X our income since the last event we went to. Sure. Because of the people we met. No question. And the specific strategies that we learned and heard, and a lot of the same stuff is coming to this event, which is why we wanted to put this together.  Personally for me, when I get up there and speak, I believe that sales and marketing and promotion is properly presenting what you have to offer. And the first thing that you're going to present is certainly you. You are your brand. So I want to teach your audience how to present themselves in a way where they become unforgettable at the first point of contact, how do they position themselves in their space where they become the only logical choice? And then how do you profit by taking all the different products or services or networks or affiliate relationships that you have? And how do we repackage and really leverage those relationships to drive revenue? So there's going to be an incredible lineup. I know that from being in your business, your team here is absolutely incredible. They're pretty awesome. It's Danny, right? Danny's the man behind the scenes. Dylan. Oh, see that? I forgot his name. Danny, Dylan, listen, I appreciate him nonetheless. Come on and say hi to everybody. Come on. Don't be bashful. See, this is the guy. This is one of the guys behind the scenes that makes it happen. Oh, I've been looking here and we're here. The best video editor on the planet. I'll put him up against any video editor that you have in any company. These editors doesn't matter.  Listen, Dylan, Danny, D, at the end of the day, the guy knows what he's doing. Other than I don't know which camera that I should be looking at. This is true. But yeah, I'm excited about the event. I think it's going to be awesome. And here's one thing I want to give you kudos for. This guy's 28 years old. You started in the business when you were 19. True. Right? You were in college? College? Wasn't basketball? Eight months. How much did you make? $361.13. So whether you're 19, 20, 21, 22, 32, 42, 52, there's a lot of guys out there that I personally know in the industry that never hit 117 grand. He's going to tell you what he did and show you the way on how to do it. Needless to say, his operation here is incredible, beautiful studio. And in addition to all of that, how many companies do you have? Four. We have four different companies. So I know you've got SecureAge Agent Mentor. SecureAge of Mentor, the Star Insurance Agency, Secure Tell-A-Sells, and most recently, as of June, YoungDude has a crazy idea, 8% Nation Insurance Wealth Conference. Right on, man. I mean kudos to you. It's not about a buddy. He's getting it done. He's got a lot to bring to the industry and really is doing this conference to build community, which I think is huge. And there's going to be a lot of players, new people in the business, and really 20, 30 year, 40 year veterans that are coming to share their knowledge. If you get a chance, I got to spend about 48 hours, almost 46 hours with you now.  I'm talking to you right there at 8% Nation. You get a chance to just spend a little time with him. Find this dude. Shake his hand and ask him a question. I know I shouldn't say all 1,000 people should do that. This dude's got a heart that's so big he would make time for everybody.  He's not 300 years old, but dude, it feels like it with all the wealth of knowledge and experience.  You get a chance to listen to him, talk about exposing and closing. He's got our sales team, closing stuff we've never closed before. He's amazing and he's going to be at this event, man. I mean, he's just one of the top talents that's going to be there, too. That's going to be very exciting. I mean, incredible. And I had the pleasure, by the way, to meet your wonderful wife. Thank you, buddy. She's as pretty on the inside as the outside, very smart, and really, I think you'd be lost without her, man. She's an ace. She does it all. She just brought us Starbucks. I mean, she's got us lunch.  I mean, she does it all. Amazing. Really, if anyone's out there and they're coming, definitely bring your wife. For sure. For sure. Without question. Yeah. As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, anybody that buys a ticket, you should do something for the wives and encourage them to be their wives because they need to hear her story. Because what I'm finding in this industry is there's a lot of people within the insurance industry where they're family businesses. The wife's there to support the husband. She's running the back end. She's really the glue to the operation. And there's a lot of father and sons in the business. So I mean, I don't know what offer you could make. I hope I'm not talking out of school. No. You mentioned Charlie. You mentioned the show. We'll give you half off of the spouse ticket. Yeah. I think that's unbelievable if you do that because I'm realizing and being in this operation, a lot of family businesses, a lot of generational wealth being created, and it's the husband, the wife, sometimes the son or daughter in the business. And I think if you're looking to build community, that's an incredible offer that was very nice to you. Thanks, bud. You met my parents? Yeah. My mom and dad worked together. It's kind of a similar situation. Mom does a lot of the behind the scenes stuff. My dad's the one meeting with clients. And so it's neat. I've always grew up in that atmosphere. My wife is in it now, and I know there's a lot of agencies out there where the wife is helping the husband. Like you talked about all the return on investments that your wife brings to you. What an awesome, nice woman. I mean, you got a chance to meet her. Well listen, so there's no misunderstandings because this is life. This is true. I'm the head of the household. No doubt. But she's the neck, if you know what I mean. I like that. I've never seen that. I like that. That's good, man. That's a fact. That is awesome. Happy wife, happy life. This is true. If you're sitting out thinking, dude, I don't know, man. I got to travel. I got to drive. I was able to make specific decisions in my life that I can go back to that moment and say, that was an experience. That was a moment that really elevated me, changed my life. You talk about getting educated so that you can elevate and then dominate. Once I started to educate myself, get to these events, get to trainings, be a part of virtual training, start to train our team, role play, you talk about repetition. That's one of the biggest things that companies miss is that daily role playing aspect. No question.  You have to go to live events. You have to shake hands. You have to interact and meet people, establish new friendships, and then you have to go back and implement. We all get lost. We all drift. We all get busy. You get off the daily patterns that made you successful or had you on a road for success. The whole virtual training concept, being able to log in, being able to take a course from your phone, your tablet, or you're going to walk into a meeting. I know you guys do a lot of in-home meetings where you're not going to door, you're going in, you're doing a 30, 45-minute presentation. Imagine if you're just grabbing your cell phone, you're logging into a VT platform, and boom, you're being trained on that particular area to which you need help before you walk in, all the knowledge is top of mind, all that repetition that you had prior. You've watched it six, seven, eight, nine, ten times, and now you're logging and loading, closing deals. As an agent in the field, you know what I always wish existed back then is I would leave a home and someone would say, hey dude, I'm 19, I don't want to handle this stuff. They'll be like, hey dude, I want to think about it. Where do I go now?  That's why virtual training, daily training. You talk about getting up at 5 a.m. and training for an hour every single day. I do. I'm not talking about training around a marathon. I'm talking about training your mind, your heart, and all the knowledge to be able to continue to be better. An hour every day at 5 a.m.,  Yeah, I do. I get up at 5. I train for an hour, hour and a half. You know, I'm either reading, watching, writing, or doing something to practice my craft. I don't want to be on the struggle bus, bro. I want to get off the struggle bus. So if you're on the struggle bus right now and you're going, Cody, I don't have $247 for a general admission ticket. Or Cody, I don't have $547 for a VIP ticket, let alone $1047 for a premium ticket. True. Well then that means you're on the struggle bus. And Cody is inviting you to the conference to give you the mindset, the mission, and the moves to potentially make millions of dollars and get off the struggle bus. Forever. Wouldn't that be nice if we were putting something together at NFL Stadium with some greats from our industry to talk about getting people off the struggle bus? Well then here's the other thing too, like 8% Nation, the 8% Club. I didn't know this when I met you, but you said 92% of people that get into the insurance business, whatever capacity, life, PNC, whatever it is, fail. True. Right? Which is why you're doing the conference and why you named it the 8% Nation Insurance Wealth Conference, right? 100%. So 8% actually make the majority of the money and sustain and it's a $1.2 plus, plus, plus trillion dollar industry. It's crazy to think about it. It really is. It's nuts. It's mind-blowing the amount of interest agents that fail and we're going to give, we're going to, we're going to, every, every keynote that's given at this 8% Nation Wealth Conference will directly be targeted at making sure that you're a part of the 8% and that you're not a 92% or felon. And here's the real key. There's going to be a guy speaking there that maybe a lot of you don't know who he is or you've heard of him or you've never heard of him, excuse me, but you're going to know who he is after he speaks and that's a guy by the name of Vince Spompinato. True. Right? I mean, I know Vince, Vince is a client and Vince started essentially with nothing. True. And I know he had 200 agents. I just know he opened up a second or third office in Dallas and now he's got, you know, a couple, two, three, 400 agents now, right? And he's going to be sharing what he's done and how he got from one agent to hundreds of agents in multiple offices selling nationwide and the guy is an absolute ace. And here's the thing. It's not hot air. He's done it. Completely. And he's going to give you the how-to of how to hit the ground, make the moves, and make the money. 100%. Charlie Cina, 8% club every Friday at 2.  But I want you to do one thing for me. If there's an agent out there that's on the struggle bus, they're struggling. They are currently close, so close to being a part of the 92% that fell. If you could speak to them right there in that camera for one second and give them a little, little, little motivation, a little helpful life, business advice. What would you say to that person sitting there right now? Well, I can't give them motivation. And let me tell you why, because I have learned in my 52 years of life and experience that you can't motivate people. People have to be inspired. So if you're not inspired by a 28-year-old guy that's literally laying it all out there to bring the insurance community together in Nashville, Tennessee, right? I don't know what's going to inspire you. If you're not inspired by a 28-year-old guy that's laying it all out there to bring you to Nashville, Tennessee and bringing in a guy like Grant Cardone, that's a commitment. That's a serious financial commitment just to get Grant booked or find Grant has an opening to come in and speak, number one, let alone the financial commitment. Tim Story, Coach Berg, Vince Bampinato, Ray Lewis, Call of Famer, like if that doesn't inspire you to make a move, I don't know what will. The other thing is, is if you can't afford the $247 to come to the event, then you need to find the $247 to come to the event, get off the struggle bus and learn the mindset, mission and moves where the people at that event will teach you how to take your business to the next level. Dude, I love it, man. He's inspiring me and he'll be at 8% Nation Wood Insurance Wealth Conference. Charlie, thank you for being on the show. Thank you, brother. It's been a pleasure. We will see you in Nashville and we will see you in Nashville as well. Have an awesome weekend. Thanks for being a part of 8% Club every Friday at 2. We'll see you on Monday.


Jordan has a question. Is it possible to insert a link to one file that is in another team? Can the link be made as a tab? Yes, it can. All right. Thank you for watching. Yeah, that's it. I think the main thing is you can insert links but then it's having the permission to the file for the individual. You've just got to make sure that when you do a link, you then go change the permissions and that's the link that you use. So you've got to change the permissions first and foremost. Once you've got the link to that file with the right people because it embeds effectively their name and coding in as to who they are, and then you put that over into the other team. You can add it as a tab, you can put it into chat, you can whatever it is you want to do, you can send a via email. It's just got to have the right people with the right permissions ultimately. Yeah. So something else to think of, if there's the potential of multiple links, you don't want a lengthy tab scenario. So then think about creating a page and adding those links to that page. Yeah. It depends on how you're using it. Yeah. Right. There's a ton of files. So there's a ton of files, create a folder, put them. I mean, I don't necessarily love doing this, but you can go to SharePoint, you can go into Advanced Permissions, you can break the inherited permissions, but make sure that you know that that folder is your broken inherited folder. Here's an example of exactly that. And you're shaking your head, no, Stacy, but this is the scenario. So when I got into SharePoint, one of my main things I was doing out in the industry was building project management organizations, PMOs for companies. I would go in, clean up their hot mess of project management, project management, and structure all that, give them rigor around their project activities. That's where I discovered SharePoint and it's very earliest, the 2003 era. But that concept in Teams works beautifully, of going and having that, yes, a broken permissions, it's not the Teams related, but you can create a PMO SharePoint site that maybe has all of your templates and have that as maybe even designed as part of your provisioning process to automatically in any project related teams that are created to include a tab that points back to that shared PMO folder with all the templates. So that scenario, and I've done that for a couple organizations, that works well in that scenario. I'm fine with document libraries and lists when breaking permissions, okay? You don't go any lower, period. Not to a specific file? Correct, never at a file area because then you're just adding extra administration for the admins. You're asking for issues when you get audited.  So you're gonna fail an audit. So document library, furthest you should go break permissions ever. I'm just laying it out, done, right there. So this is another one of those Jordan is like, you can, the question is, should you? Should you? Yeah, I always say that if you are going to, you literally have just one folder and that folder is the only folder that's actually it's broken inheritance. And then anything that's in, you know that it's based on the individual within there and you contain it and you know that that's the folder that's in because if they do it to the file level and I tell them all the time, you go down and you break that file and that file and that file you'll never know which one in the team that someone has access to or not has access to becomes a nightmare. Except with third party tools that are able to track that, but out of the box, it's painful, yeah. So people tell me all the time, like, they're like, but I have certain documents that only these people need to see. And I'm like, well, then create that document library called confidential or execs only or whatever and move that content there. Don't break it within the masses. If they, if in that whole entire document library, they're only accessing two documents, that is not conducive to what you're trying to do. You're just asking for trouble, asking for it. All I'm saying is, I agree with everything you've said, but there are third party tools that allow you to track all that. No, it's still like, and even they'll tell you don't do it. Like, but there are tools that can give you a view very quickly of give me a view in this tenant of every document with broken non-standard permissions and who has access and all the details around that. Like, you can do that. But the problem is with it though, Christian, the manager doesn't actually know or the individual when they start inside an organization. They never know which one it is that they're supposed to have access to and which document. The help desk is supposed to know what to do?  I just, like I said, you can do it, but you shouldn't do it yet. Yeah. We can go on for hours about this, but yeah. I know, exactly. But ultimately, back to the original question. Yes, just create the link with the right people, extending, giving them permissions and then post that link into your, wherever it is that you need it to go. I love when people add a tab. Yeah, I love when people add the tab and they don't extend the permissions and then, well, it's there. I can open it. I can put it there. Nobody else can open it. Yeah, you can get to it, yeah. But yeah, get a little bit else to be able to get to it, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's it. I love these conversations.


Welcome to my first vlogmas video. We are starting vlogmas out in Georgia. I'm still here from Thanksgiving break I booked my flight home for December 4th, and I'm kind of just ready to get back into the routine Honestly start working out again. If you guys don't know, I'm like doing orange theory right now I'm just feeling a little chunky from the holidays So I'm just ready to get back to work and grind it out. I gotta tell you guys something I skipped the whole first day of vlogmas and I actually did some fun stuff yesterday I just like was not in mood to vlog. I honestly was thinking about not doing vlogmas because I've been so freaking stressed these past like This past month I would say I am a freelance videographer and photographer and an influencer So I do my own brand stuff and then I do my Sonali production stuff Which by the way, if you guys aren't following my Sonali productions Instagram Go ahead and follow it the graphic will be right here You can just search that name and follow me and give me some love But yeah, I've been really stressed honestly I honestly just thought I was gonna have a break from vlogging between like Thanksgiving my birthday all that and then vlogmas and I guess that just didn't happen So I've been super overwhelmed But honestly, I really love vlogging and I love like pushing myself to upload almost daily I know it's not gonna happen. I'm just gonna be honest But I'm gonna like group some days together like day one and day two day three and day four You know kind of that sort of situation just so I won't be that overwhelmed But I do love the holidays So I really wanted to do this and like I said just challenge myself and see if I can do it Because I think I've done it the past three years and I will link those playlists down below so you can like binge them I don't know how cringy I was back in the day, but probably really cringy. It's funny cuz last year I was in college. I went to UCF. I just graduated in May And when I was doing vlogmas in college, I remember thinking oh my gosh vlogmas It's gonna be so much easier when I get out of college and I get my own place or whatever Or like stay at home or just anything other than being in college at the same time as doing vlogmas But now that I'm actually getting paid for like working and stuff obviously I have to prioritize all that over my YouTube channel, so That's where it's getting like a little bit overwhelming if you guys are new to my channel I was raised in Georgia, Russell Georgia, and then I went to school in Orlando at UCF and now me and my boyfriend live in Austin, Texas And it is so fun over there But the thing is that I feel like now that I'm out of college I don't have anything to really vlog because all I do is like sit on my computer all day without makeup and just Edit so I'm not sure what this vlogmas is really gonna consist of but We're gonna try it out and we're gonna see let me know what you guys want to see this vlogmas Let me know if you guys have any ideas challenges like Q&A's anything like that comment down below because I'm really gonna need y'all's help to Push through this vlogmas. So yeah, just send me positive vibes in the comments And by the way, please subscribe right now I want you guys to be getting all my notifications. So turn on your post notifications if you haven't already I was looking at my analytics today I was trying to like learn a little bit more about YouTube analytics because my views have been really really bad lately and I just want to you know, make sure I'm like optimizing everything that I can I don't know how often this changes But one point in time. I saw that People who are watching my video that are not subscribed to me were like 75 percent So the other percentage was subscribed to me But 75 percent of you are watching my videos and you're not subscribed.  Thank you. Thank you Thank you from the bottom of my heart and whoever comments on my videos Those mean like the most to me because you're taking the time out of your day to not only watch my videos But also comment and like interact with me. So that is the end of my vlogmas rant I'm sorry about that, but I just wanted to get that out of the way I am currently at my mom's house and today we are actually gonna put up the Christmas tree So I thought I would just do a vlogmas intro of that. Usually I try to make something in After Effects And do like a little motion graphic intro But this year since we are putting up the tree today and I haven't done my intro I was like, let's just do like a little montage intro I feel like those are super cute and way easier than a motion graphics intro. So that is what we're gonna do today Did you come all the way from down there? Okay So we just take it take pieces Yeah, I feel like Okay, I strained I strained the lights on the Christmas tree Taking a little food break fish curry. Oh, sorry. I finished stranding the tree. Is that what you say stranding it? Stringing it. Yeah And now it is time for ornaments. I actually just finished up my vlogmas intro So y'all would have already seen it by now, but it turned out pretty good last minute intro go Go us. It was team effort. We vlogmas day three. It's actually day four. We vlogmas day four for me and each Sophie Guess what your new name is? My mom called her snow fee by accident. I think it's so cute. Do you want those samosas or no? I'm starving. What since you work so hard on them Thanks, quite a big chipotle lunch. I saw that in the trash. I was kind of jealous Yeah, double rice, double meat. I was starving and I was looking at the chipotle bag like damn He really did that. I know that's true. We are at Barton Creek Mall and I'm about to pick up my new Mac book I'm so freaking excited. It doesn't feel real. My other Mac is still Backing up. It literally still says six hours. So I don't think I'll get to play with it today I'm sad, but hopefully overnight I can do it stuff and tomorrow it'll be ready to play with it. Let's go get it


Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. I'm Michelle Grover, Twillio's Chief Information Officer. We are lucky to have with us today, Audrey Tong, Taiwan's first ever digital minister. During this session, we'll talk about innovation and digital communications, free software, how Taiwan leverages these tools to facilitate collaboration and transparency between the government and its citizens. We will also highlight how Audrey used open data to hack the COVID-19 pandemic early on, and it allowed the Taiwanese citizens to have access to PPE. And with that, I'd like to welcome Audrey. Hi, Audrey. Hello. Good local time, everyone. Thank you. I want to ask you a few questions. So I wanted to start with one. Can you walk us through the story of how you became Taiwan's first digital minister? Certainly. Back in 2014, we occupied the parliament for three weeks. As you can see here at the time, I was helping the cable power and radio team to make sure that in the occupied Congress, not only we had live video feed, but also transcripts, translations and things like that. We even set up a kind of transparent wall outside of the occupied parliament. So half a million people on the street, many more online, can participate in what's happening in that occupied. So why would they would occupy the parliament? Because at the time, the students were protesting that we were being handed this cross-strait service and trade agreement with Beijing with no substantial deliberation. So the idea is that because the MPs were on strike, so we took their office to do their work for them, or so the legitimacy theory goes. And after three weeks of thoroughly nonviolent occupying the parliamentarian areas, we actually managed to converge instead of consensus for the months, not one less. And they got accepted by the head of the parliament. And so the politics in Taiwan really changed because these demonstrations don't protest anymore. It's a demo. A demo starts with sufficient ICT technology. People can listen at scale. And so at the end of that year, all the mayors that supported open government gets elected and all the mayor that didn't, well, didn't. I was then hired as a young reverse mentor. That is to say people under 35 years old advising the minister of the future direction of the country. And then I worked with minister Jacqueline Tsai at the moment with the, you know, maybe Uber case, the Airbnb case, Bitcoin, online liquor sales, things like that, making sure that the digital economy and regulations, the REC tech and the REC tech can evolve with the civic technologies. So I work as kind of like an understudy for a year and a half. And then when Dr. Tsai when became our president, I get promoted, I guess from an intern to a full minister. That is amazing. Another question. So in your 2020 has just been a life-altering year for many around the world in a number of different ways. How do you see your role as digital minister of Taiwan? How do you see the impact on communications between the Taiwan needs government and its people? Yeah, definitely. I think in Taiwan, we managed to fight off the pandemic with no lockdowns and also the infodemic with no takedowns. And these twin emics are really the pillars of the social innovation and where it shines. We have this interesting idea called humor over rumor that makes sure that this scientific knowledge, for example, this is the Spokes dog. Spokes dog of our ministry of health and welfare. In each ministry, we have communication offices. Usually we have offices that talk to the media, to the parliamentarians, but we also have participation offices that talk to essentially hashtags. And then these hashtag offices use everything from cute dog and cats and other internet memes to make sure that people feel engaged whenever there is an anxiety, a conspiracy theory, the shares and travels and outrage. We push out a meme after at most two hours that travels on cuteness and on humor and has a higher R value than the conspiracy theory. So physical distancing, if you're outdoor, you know, keep the two Shiba Inus away from each other. If you're indoor, keep three Shiba Inus.  Remember to wear your masks. But why do you wear your masks? Because it protects you from your own and washed hands, so on and so forth. So the idea of humor over rumor really builds a very quick iteration cycle. And those humor are actually crowdsourced. Everybody can call this toll free number one night to two and share whatever they think is a better meme to amplify to the whole society in the next day's live streamed conference from the Central Epidemic Mods Center. For example, back in April, there was a young boy that called saying, hey, I don't want to go to school anymore because you're rationing masks. And all I get is pink medical masks. And I don't get to pick the color. And I'm afraid that my classmates may laugh at me for wearing pink as a boy. And the very next day, everybody in the CCC's conference, including our Minister Chen Shizhong wore pink medical masks. And so suddenly the boy become the most hip boy because only he has the color that the heroes wear. And the minister even said that pink powder is my favorite childhood hero or something like that. And so this basically shows a trust from the government to the citizens when it comes to the three pillars of radical social innovation that is fast, that is fair and is fun. One is engaging too, right?  I can only imagine how super happy that little boy was that day. He was very, very popular, I'm sure, for that day. What are some of the aspects of digital innovation that have helped transform Taiwan's communication strategy? Yeah, aside from the cute talk and the humor of a rumor, I think it's also important to have a legal definition of this information. Because this information and speech freedom, of course, in Taiwan are a hotly debated topic. And according to the Human Rights Watch Group Civicus Monitor, Taiwan is the only country in Asia that has a completely open in terms of the freedom of the press, of speech and so on of assembly, compared to any other Asian country, along with New Zealand if you count the Pacific. And so in this environment, we cannot do an administrative takedown. It's not imaginable, but yet there are, of course, deliberate attempts to influence, for example, elections, public health and things like that. So we have a legal definition of this information that says this information is defined as intentional untruth that harms the public welfare. That is to say it doesn't need to be disinformation if it just harms the image of the ministry because there's just good journalism. But if it harms the public, then it falls outside the freedom of speech and therefore could be prosecuted. I will use one example. There was a time back in April where people rushed to buy tissue papers. And why do they do that? Because we're ramping up the mass production from 2 million a day to 20 million a day. And people can see very clearly from the Civic Technologies dashboards. And there are rumors that, and I quote, all the materials that's going to be made into medical masks originally came from the tissue paper factories. So we'll run out of tissue paper soon, rush out and buy, unquote. And that, of course, travels down outrage, maybe have the R-value of three and people share it. But after only a couple hours, our premier, Su Zhencheng, as you can see here, pushes out this fantastic meme. So this is a wordplay and this is packaged literally as a tissue paper box where you see a tissue paper here. You see the backside of our premier, his bottom wiggling it a little bit. And a large font that says each of us only have one pair of buttocks. It's a wordplay because button twine in Bandarine sounds the same as to stockpile twine.  And then a table that says tissue paper came from South American materials while medical paper came from domestic materials. So everybody who laughed at that was, it's literally impossible to feel outrage about the conspiracy theory because these are mutually exclusive pathways in their mind. And this maybe has a R-value of seven, like on average, each person share to seven other people every hour. And so after just a couple of days, the conspiracy theory died down. And of course, the prosecution of the people who intentionally share it at the beginning, not the people who share, but the people who fabricate this. It's done because they were tissue paper resellers go figure. And so that is one counter disinformation strategy deployed in place. That is absolutely great. We need to borrow some of these here. I'm just going to put that out there. Can you tell us a bit about how you utilize software to to communicate the availability of PPE during the ongoing COVID outbreak and how you think that other countries and companies can leverage similar technologies as well? Definitely. In Taiwan, when we're distributing the PPEs in the pharmacies, of course the pharmacists are professional, they're trusted by the community and so on. But a big problem is that people maybe have to go to four different pharmacies before they encounter one. They still have the PPEs in stock because they're rationing. There's a limited quota every day. And so there is a very interesting innovation, not done by the government, but by the civic technologies. The name is Howard Wu from Kainan City. He drew a map where people can voluntarily report how many masks are there in each store. And then we see this. This is excellent. The media loves it. The only problem is that he owed Google 20k US dollars in map API usage fees after just a couple of days. So he had to take it down. But to his rescue is the civic tech community called GovZero or GZeroV. This community, which I'm a part of, systemically take all the government website like join the GOV. The TW, which is a participation portal and make better alternative versions. The call to action is called fork the government. Important pronunciation, fork the government. And so the idea is that you change your O to a zero. And if you replace the O to a zero, then you get into the shadow government that is always open source, always more engaging and have a amplified collective intelligence of the civic technologies. And so Howard Wu asks on GovZero, can anyone help us to get the real time PPE availability and also reduce the Google API costs. And of course people from open street map community and so on contributed to his work. But also I take a look at his work and talk to our premier. And the premier solution said, of course, we need to trust citizens with open data. And so we published every 30 seconds that becomes open API, not just open data of each and every pharmacy's availability. So for example, nowadays, you can take your national health insurance card, the NHI card to any pharmacy and collect nine medical months per two weeks if you're an adult or 10 if you are a child. And the person queuing after you will be able actually to just refresh their phone. And see that this actually comes from 58 to 49 right after your purchase. And so that's a participatory accountability that builds trust from citizen to citizens instead of asking citizens to blindly trust the state. This makes the state transparent to the citizen, not the other way around. And we have more than 100 different tools that even people with seeing difficulty or colorblindness and so on can talk to chatbots and voice assistant because it's all open data. And this gets adapted by the Korean civic technologist. I just met a few of them a week ago. Some of them were just 14 years old and so on. They don't speak Mandarin and Fijian County from Thailand. And Haru doesn't speak Korean, but they both speak JavaScript. So that's not a big problem. And so they asked their government to publish under our own API, the open API standard. And then the first map that worked in Korea was actually from Thailand City. And so this is a great international collaboration based on the idea of radically trusting the citizens. That's amazing. In the next 10 years, how do you predict that software and digital innovation will impact global communications and society as a whole actually? Yeah. This is a great question. So I'd like to show you my office. This is literally my office. So this is the social innovation lab in Taipei. At heart of Taipei City, we tore down all the walls. It's literally a park. Anybody and their dog and their self-driving vehicles can travel to the place and talk about the digitization, the innovation, the governance and the inclusion of those emerging technologies. And the great thing about this place is that in Taiwan, we have broadband as a human right. So anywhere in Taiwan, even on the top of Taiwan, the Yusha Mount and almost 4,000 meters high, you have 10 megabits per second. In just 15 US dollars per month, unlimited data connection. And if you don't, it's my fault personally. And so anywhere in Taiwan, you can connect to the social innovation lab and participate in my office hours. And everything is radically transparent on the record. And I actually seek out the places least connected to Taipei, our capital city, like the rural, indigenous, with cultural translators and so on, and participate in their town halls. But I'm the only one that travels, that facilitates. But I connect back to the lab with 12 different ministries, section chiefs or a hire, so that they see before their own eyes the stories of people, their struggles, their innovations and so on. And this is called our social innovation tours. Now, with the pandemic, it seems that we, this is not limited to Taiwan anymore. Everywhere, even very senior officials, previously, you know, not very believing or trusting the video conferencing, suddenly discovered that it's as easy as opening up your browser.  And so because of this, we managed to help this kind of video conference, for example, a few days before the World Health Assembly was 14 different economies and to talk about, for example, the humor over rumor playbook, the Taiwan model and things like that. And we get to meet with quite senior officials, medical officers and things like that, totally transcending the boundaries of nations. And because of that, I think this will help us a lot because then we can talk about climate change, about the disinformation crisis, quantum cryptography and things like that. All the worldwide issues using this feeling of international solidarity that we have built during the coronavirus. So I'm very optimistic. That's great. It's interesting that even as difficult as communication is, in some ways it's even better and a little more open. I think that's an interesting kind of side effect of how things got into it for us. Definitely. Definitely. And last I want to ask, so with all the things going on in the world these days, what are you hopeful for? Sure. So for me, I think the pandemic serves as a great wake-up call so that for people, the linear growth of GDP and so on kind of takes back us a little bit. But we can further develop the measurements of progress. The progress doesn't have to be linear. It could be actually the business and the society innovating together to achieve the global sustainable goals. And global sustainability seems to be something like a kind of linear development things where you take care of the basics and the developing world and on the developed world. Maybe you worry about open government and things like that, but rather we see digital now instead of just as information and communication innovation in the industry, we see it as partnership for the common goals that can unite the forces of the economic, the societal as well as the environmental forces together. Because this is what was required to counter the pandemic and we have this idea of cross-sector collaboration for a long time. But this is the first time that all over the world people see it on the same urgency scale. In climate change on smaller islands is more urgent. On larger continent is less urgent. Of course, that's the nature of things. But for a pandemic, every epicenter is just two months away from every other epicenter. So this shared urgency timetable enables us to build new infrastructures, sharing access, sharing research, sharing the communication infrastructure that enhance availability of reliable data across sectors that encourage effective partnership across jurisdictions, as well as sharing open innovation, making sure that people when we innovate something locally, we do not keep it to ourselves, but spread it with what we call the Taiwan model and in websites like Taiwan can help that us. That was great. Thank you so much, Audrey, for talking to us today. And I just want to close out with how great it was to talk to you because it also is a reminder that even in times that are difficult, we can learn things. So what I'm also hopeful for is the fact that people are able to communicate better. And just you're right, the idea that everything doesn't have to be business related. It can be for the greater good of each other and that we can share those things with each other. And guess what? We could have done this all along, but sometimes we need a little push out call. So thank you again for taking the time to talk to us. I really appreciate it. Thank you and live long and prosper. Thank you.