Thank you for tuning in. It's said in the Tibetan worldview that it takes crazy kind courage to be born on this planet in a human form because there's so much so little certainty except for as I said taxes and debt. It is very easy to be fearful and anxious and takes courage to smile at fear and even to make use of it. Today again I have such a person with me. She is in traditional shamanic cultures known as a dreamer. Someone who imagine and provide vision for a better future. She is in fact a futurist. Her working title for her PhD thesis at UH Manila is futures of our genetic biocommens, synthetic biology and biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Ms Yee is a wee bit of a renaissance woman combining her brainiac qualities with being a noted artist in acclaimed business woman. The project design coached to the form of Midyar Fellows and last and for sure not least a mother of two beautiful children. Thank you Ms. Yee for joining us today. Thank you so much for having me. Okay by Aubrey. Yes. Okay so after I read your three three page resume all the things you read. Academic resume is longer than most. Right and I had to look up so many things to know what you had written about. I said to myself I want to ask her what does she do with all her free time. Yeah all that free time I wish there was. This is when you strangled me. Yes exactly. Okay let's jump right in. Sure. What is a futurist and I'm kind of curious just explain that but also do you see in pictures or do you think in conceptual how does that work upstairs upstairs between those two years. Gosh I don't know if yeah maybe in pictures I have to think about that a little bit more probably conceptually. Uh-huh. But a futurist really is someone who thinks about the futures and we always say futures within s because the idea is that there are like limitless possibilities of alternative futures and also prefer futures. So it's really the study of the future. You know we all take a history class at some point in our life or many points in our life we don't study the future as rigorously as we study the past and I think futurists believe that that's a mistake that we can learn a lot by studying the future and actually be able to create the futures that we want more readily if we're actually focused on them.  I've always been into science fiction for sure but it was sort of a series of events I was running my business Pacific Home at the time and just had a gnawing feeling in my gut I'd been doing the business for a while really learned a ton but just wasn't feeling fulfilled. Right. Wanted to do something more that was giving back and sort of helping to shape what I saw as a lot of issues that are affecting our planet. So I started thinking I'd go back to school because I've always loved school looked at UH enrolled as an unclassified graduate student and started just checking out classes took a few different courses that were interesting stumbled upon this class called politics of the future and I was like what is that that's bizarre looked at the syllabus and half the books were ones that either I'd read or really wanted to read and just all the ideas sounded pretty amazing so I went to the class and within even before the class started just the pre-reading for the first day of class Jim Dator had a what wasn't even a book it's just a short piece that he wrote called I think it's called the 10 qualities that a futurist needs something like that but it's basically just very briefly you know the ability to think about a lot of different things the ability to think creatively an open mind all these different qualities of the futurist that just really spoke to me so what I found in in the future studies center was activism meets intellectualism and that really spoke to me because I didn't want to just be in the ivory tower right I want to actually do something you want your some hands you want some dirty fingernails so yeah so and and the hopefulness of futures is that we have the capacity to shift to shift and ultimately create preferred futures so that also spoke to me because as you said I'm a dreamer I'm definitely an idealist struggling these days but really yes that's the problem I don't know I can't imagine okay it's 1778 yeah I want to say it's Sir James Kurt Starship Enterprise it's actually Sir James Cook uh-huh horizon Hawaiian islands oh it's uh at that time they said there's somewhere between 150,000 to estimates up to a million Hawaiians living here sustainably obviously in the most isolated islands on the planet they had a system of land sharing called and somehow they had made this thing work that kind of division of from upper valleys all the way to the ocean and everybody's sharing in between a sustainable life that still gave them time to surf doesn't that sound great now we're close to the same level of population and it said that our food stores would last us exactly six days if we're lucky I think six days if we're lucky okay but so speak to us a little bit about sustainability in Hawaii and what you see coming down the pike yeah I think what's your dreams what's your hopes yeah hopes are that we become more self-sustaining and more less consumptive in general my big hope is that we move away from extractive industries I think that's a huge issue is that we we think of things in terms of single use so how do we extract use it once and then throw it away and that's just not going to last we live on the most isolated islands on the planet so importing everything is not sustainable either and we've reached a point where we import almost everything so I've been thinking about that issue for quite some time and food security that's why I got involved with Kanu Hawaii the organization that I've been involved with for a while is just thinking about those things how do we create more resilient communities right that can withstand the shocks of uncertainty that we know are coming we don't know what they're going to look like but we know they're coming so what are we doing to create a fabric that's going to hold us together rather than terrace apart you know you put out a little video you have some fun stuff on if you search your name and one of them I told you I kind of was kidding with you that it kind of had a mad max feel to it I mean there's some dire kind of predictions or outcomes that weren't very comfortable to look at I want you to talk a little bit about that and again both hopes and fears on that one sure yeah so it's funny we um in the future studies sort of the minoa futures method there's lots of different methods but uh the one that's been pioneered by the minoa school at UH it's four different archetypes of the future one of which is collapse and for whatever reason I've always been very like drawn to collapse which seems strange but I think what draws me to it is well for one thing it feels somewhat imminent in certain ways things are unraveling whether they fully collapse or not is a question but there is definitely change of foot you know the guy that did germs guns and steel yeah yeah guns and steel Jared diamond diamond he did the one on collapse and why society's collapse remember reading that one for sure yeah so go ahead so but the other pieces the other side of collapse is a new beginning right so if you have something that falls apart there's a vacuum created which means that there's space to create something anew so I actually see hope in that so while the collapse is frightening and there's some fear around like what that would be like and what it would look like what I'm interested in is how do we start to create the things that would fill the vacuum in the void because if we're not actively constructing those potentialities then when the space is there something will fill it and it might not be the most positive thing give some concrete examples here in Hawaii for example if we were to stop having ships come and bring food what would fill that vacuum how would we you know how are we going to create a resilient economy around food security and those sorts of energy do you see people with vision approaching these kind of questions definitely yeah definitely I think in Hawaii there's a whole Hawaii sustainability forum and there's a lot of farms what they're doing out there right amazing what they're doing out there totally fun stuff really incredible so those kind of visionary people that we really have I think in abundance is a huge blessing and a lot of that goes back to what you were saying about sort of ancient Hawaiian or you know traditional Hawaiian ways of land management and producing food and finding ways to bring those into the 21st century and really put productive and positive ways because I feel like those systems build community rather than divide us because of the way they're constructed the way the way that you grow food say like motto farms and what they've done with their internship program you're not just growing food you're growing kids and you're growing community so there's multiple levels that it's it's working on versus say an industrial agricultural system which is really just about profit and being efficient so there's there's not there's something missing there that I think we really need to rethink as we think about rebuilding different structures in society back in the day I don't want to say what the day was well it was 1972 there was a book that was circulating it wasn't a real comfortable book limits to grow right yes a club of Rome yes and as a hippie back in those not that I would have joined that club stretch of the imagination but back in the day there was some really hard hard facts circulating particularly about peak oil consumption food consumption food food sustainability etc etc there's different miles have been projected on that some saying that it was not so not so accurate because certain things came along one being the computer kind of kind of nobody saw that I'm really coming yeah fracking for instance we didn't see this coming there's certain things that but really the question is is the glass half full in your world or is the glass half empty in your world but talk about gosh I would say the glass is always half full but I'm definitely struggling lately with I think just the trends I'm seeing in terms of the political divisiveness and sort of the rush towards greater environmental destruction that's happening in this particular moment is just disheartening in terms of its lack of compassion and lack of empathy for not only the human world but also the non-human other so that that's a struggle for me lately that I don't think I felt as much or as keenly until you know about the last year you know that that shifts into something I'm very much looking forward to speaking about which is values it seems that if you value the next color TV or back in the day and I was in here at the new car etc etc that you aren't going to have a sustainable long-term change in growth until you have a change of value yeah so for instance you have the brilliance of the king of butan saying I don't measure gross national product I measure gross national happiness so let's go into what is success and what is happiness what do you what do you see that's going to cause a shift because if I what I'm saying if you don't have a value shift yeah you're not going to be able to do this out of a should and could and would even right now we've got a pretty profound information system coming down that we've heated up our globe Chicago didn't Chicago didn't have any snow last year I mean this isn't they're about to have a blizzard in March right you think this is funny but here it is so you you may be a climate change denier I don't know if that works out no but some people may be some people maybe but but nonetheless until you value something different until society says wait a minute this next purchase really is not going to make me happy you still have what you call what you call it where you just take extractive extractive economies yeah so let's talk about values yeah it's interesting I'm thinking about happiness lately and what I what I feel um what I've noticed is that we've really lost any sort of discussion of ethics so especially like in schools we moved so far especially in America we said okay separation of church and state we're not going to teach religion in schools but we don't teach anything about ethics so there's no unless you're getting it from some other place in your life there's nothing that connects you to the fact of what we have in common as humans so all we're focused on is our differences what's our different culture how do we look different how do we dress different how do we push you on this one what what do you call an ethical education because I mean you know you go back to Confucius and said it was a pillar of any educated person yeah you can even trace that to Rome they're saying I don't think we have that anymore and what do you say so with a secular education but we don't okay so if you look at all the religious traditions they have certain things in common you know sort of compassion care for the others something beyond yourself do a bunch of others you know those sorts of bedrocks of sort of an ethical way of living and seeing beyond yourself that are pretty consistent no matter what background you come from but we don't teach any of that elucidate them again kindness kindness compassion empathy empathy yeah um doing that to others I think that's empathy too what else would there be I mean it's you know sort of but but really a vision of the world that's other than me and mine and me mine and what do I get out of this right yeah service I think is yeah an ethic that what's community yeah exactly what makes you happy yeah so there's absolutely exploring happiness totally yeah I just I just got turned on to this new movement that I hadn't heard about that um it's a whole group of people who are creating a secular version of church so it's community gatherings yeah yeah yeah I have in California I actually got sent over it's all over the place really really fun lot of you're watching Think Tech Hawaii citizen journalism for Hawaii finding the intersection of our sense of place and our place in the world right here at home great content for Hawaii from Think Tech Aloha Kako I'm Marcia Joyner inviting you to navigate the journey with us we are here every Wednesday morning at 11 a.m and we really want you to be with us where we look at the options and choices of end of life care Aloha Aloha my name is Richard Emory host of condo insider more than a third of Hawaii's population live in some form of association and our show is all about educating board members and owners about their responsibilities and obligations and providing solutions for a great association you can watch me live on Thursdays 3 p.m to 4 p.m each week Aloha thank you again all right we were just talking about values ethics small small kind stuff small kind stuff yeah so values so yeah I do think there needs to be a shift in values from valuing objects to valuing relationships yeah valuing people valuing you know connection all of those but we're talking about education no longer seeing that as part of their curriculum no longer seeing this is an important thing so people grow up with that means that the main influence is going to be consumerism and buying stuff consumption and happiness comes from bigger car bigger house I mean stuff that really once you get privileged in life you look back but there's a couple my mind goes in a couple places on that one one is is that your your boss mr. Midyar I mean he did a beautiful thing brought the Dalai Lama here the Dalai Lama said this has been saying that empathy has to be taught in every school it's the only chance we have and then I'm thinking oh empathetic civilization by Redkin about the development about empathy actually develops the culture etc etc so kind of going in a lot of different directions but now we do have three or four schools teaching the Dalai Lama's empathy classes yeah one of them in our kailua town oh I didn't know that which school is that the high school oh awesome yeah so I've seen more of it definitely which is great but I do think that's something that we sort of lost along the way so I've just been thinking about that a bit in terms of values and ethics and how do we find ways to see our commonalities because we spend so much time thinking about our differences and I think that's really sort of ripping apart the fabric of of our country at this point wow and then I'm thinking back of living abroad I've had the privilege and delight of living abroad and the first time in a world that lived in the third world country was 20 20 years old and I was a little bit escaping the country in terms of the political climate at that time was extraordinary uncomfortable I didn't know what was gonna come down we had a guy named Richard next yeah something might be a lot of things that were very mixed up in me as a human being sure but coming to the chase of this question I realized at that point there was no telling a poor Moroccan young lad that he didn't want a Honda that really wasn't going to happen nor that he didn't want a flat screen TV yeah so there was this kind of thing like wow okay how do you actually do that and I went back to America which as soon as you set foot on this country I'm just oh lucky live yeah lucky live America lucky live Hawaii yeah but these kind of different things kind of came together I mean right now we the average American probably there's a sense of entitlement I'm just afraid that you don't mean to be critical I love my country I love this experiment but we're using two times as much energy as a Japanese we're using 16 times or something like that as an Indian and 370 times more energy than the average Ethiopian we're using six times more water on average than anybody else in the world I'm not saying guilt but I'm also saying there's a bit of there's a bit of a density about our country we don't really realize totally how how extreme our energy and privilege is in this country yeah so what is again we're back to values what do you see changing there gosh I mean I wish it would change faster to be honest I think there's pockets of people who are definitely shifting you know and you so the way I try to stay up about it all is to focus on the pockets of people who are shifting because there really is still so much of a trend in the other direction and the level of entitlements and sense that we can just close off our borders and like you know wall ourselves in and that's going to make everything okay without realizing we're so interconnected that like we wouldn't even have all the material things we have without the interconnection but we want only those parts and we don't want any of the fallout so I just I can understand that everybody wants a job of course and everybody wants a good life I can understand that but I remember now we we come from that period where the first picture of the entire globe was put in front of us this beautiful ornament this extraordinary spaceship sitting there in space and I what I didn't see a boundary on the whole place you couldn't know when you were in Canada or the United States you couldn't know when you were in Mexico we've created that over okay so we created all these things and said this is me this is mindless protected this kind of a silly thing and now of course we don't have like pollution I don't know doesn't stop at boundaries yeah global warming doesn't stop at boundaries so we're being forced to look bigger than nationalistic and now we have this I hope I don't backlash I don't want to be too strong of a word but something about this yeah it's fear around like fear mind it's sort of a sense of um I've got to protect what I've got because other people are going to take it from me go on and I just I in my perfect world we'd have a collaborative form of governance like what if we thought of every country and we're like okay we know we're different and that's great like the difference is actually a beautiful thing so like what are we each good at passionate about as like identities like our culture and then how do we help each other rather than competing like what if we thought about the world that way you know if we think about the world in the competitive terms of I've got it our country has to make sure we get what we need for our people America first instead of thinking about it is like what what can we offer and what can we get back how can we have a reciprocal relationship but we've built all of our structures again upon the extractive economy that's based on making sure that you take whatever you need to get what you can for yourself yeah and whatever the fallout is for the other nation that's their problem to deal with I always told myself I said my job is to teach you how to be happy not promise you selfishness work I would really got it doesn't work you don't get happy that way my friend yeah it's definitely not half as fun as you get happy by helping but let's go on to that because that's it there's almost a spiral dynamics Stephen that's work is the nemes or whatever it calls them or he actually goes from tribal cultures up to more sophisticated cultures meaning that you start to learn about just what you spoke of that actually sharing is the way to go on this thing and thinking holistically is the way to go it doesn't put very many people at I think it's turquoise is the top thing but do you see that kind of trend of cultures getting more empathetic more kind I don't see that trend no unfortunately I see like I said I see pockets so it doesn't mean that it's not happening but I think and you see certain industries or certain yeah corporations doing that but I think even thinking along the lines of it being a nation is maybe part of the problem because I think the nation state as we know it is is again a structure that's collapsing it's one that we're holding on to really tightly this idea of borders and nation state but it's only been around for a few hundred years like there's a very good chance that the whole idea of the nation state could be gone in the near future you know I mean it's not to say that that's always going to be a static sort of entity in way of organizing ourselves on the planet right right again I'm thinking of in contrast and touching back into the ethical now we're seeing mindfulness in schools I mean actually teaching people how to be present teaching people how to be present they teach that in my son's preschool it's awesome they're quite sitting and yoga and yeah I've taught that myself at school it's fantastic but there's this whole thing I think it's Steven Pickner Harvard Harvard pro saying that actually also if you look back on 40 years never have there been more people fed never have there been more people enjoying an extraordinary life on the on the planet yeah less crime less war less all kinds of things so there's also this thing of looking at the human trend and going whoa you know 200 years ago literally yeah 300 years ago there's no many places you could not have walked as a woman shouldn't couldn't have walked yeah definitely I forget that kind of stuff you what about the optimism of this thing that we're actually smart enough yeah I mean that's what I hope for you know now that we're able to use technology and be empathetic about how we create our society you know I mean that's the key we have to think beyond ourselves you know I have to put a plug in if if you have an 11 well spent minutes go look up empathetic civilization by rake in the little cartoon one it really is such a have you seen that one no I haven't empathetic civilization what an upbeat kind of vision where yeah okay so we need those visions I think for sure again we have to think of preferred futures if we ever want to get there yeah now you work for a pretty interesting individual pretty interesting man pretty interesting couple and they're doing fabulous work here in Hawaii absolutely all around the world stupendous you're gonna love it it's great it's gonna be huge all around the world beautiful yeah totally maybe a bit complicated yeah okay so you're with the Amid your fellows just talk about that yeah go ahead what are you doing there oh gosh it's such an amazing experiment so really the idea um the whole theory behind the Amid your fellows program is that if we were to get some of the best and brightest emerging leaders in Hawaii and empower them with as much learning as possible and a support network that's you know activated and collaborative that they'll do amazing things so there's really no other agenda than that whatever they choose to do is what they choose to do with it but it's um it's a pretty beautiful way of thinking about things so you're trying to cultivate new leaders yeah to support leaders that are you know people are already proven to be some leaders in some way um and one of our main criteria is again that they're leaders that think beyond themselves so they're not just in it you know to ride their own rung on the ladder but to actually help Hawaii for the future oh beautiful you know your bosses have the delight of actually giving a billion dollars I know it's amazing pretty incredible yeah and what a huge weight too at the same time to think about and so that's where the systems thinking um work that I do with the fellows came in was this yeah so it was basically you know looking at when you're giving out all this money are you really affecting change right so really thinking deeply and that's what's so amazing about the Amid your leaders is they take the time to think deeply it's what we're doing actually helping so it's not just about handing out the checks and hoping for the best yeah they're really done a lot of deep thought and that brought them to the systems thinking practice which is really just a way of trying to understand complex social systems and how you create transformational change and the communication itself forms a certain kind of outcome certain way of organizing communication serves a certain outcome definitely the guy at the top who rants and raves serves a certain kind of outcome in a government etc versus a guy who's collaborative and says listen this is going to be a messy deal but we have to hear from every month yes exactly it's going to be messier but it's important but it's important okay uh you have a magic wand you can cure one disease oh i have no idea one disease yeah one dis ease probably cancer cancer okay you're gonna go pick one kind of cancer no no no you can go with cancer you can go with cancer we've both been touched by that in our lives personally this last week right right okay so cancer would be yours yeah all right lucky live Hawaii favorite Hawaiian word my favorite Hawaiian word Juliana go ahead go for it um responsibility a sense of connectedness so it's that you're you part of your beingness on the planet is your gift of giving back you know i probably haven't touched on your after school kids program and you started with brady yeah i haven't touched on kanu the yeah head honcho with that is there you want to add yeah i'm on the board of kanu and i've helped to start after school all stars so yeah i mean kanua hawaii is is sort of going through a new renaissance right now too we have a new executive director kionika aloha who is awesome and really again trying to see like what this organization was started as a social movement by james koshiba and some 40 other amazing individuals in about 2004 and the vision then was like how do we get people to come together and start to build community that's what i really liked about the organization when i joined it so we're we're looking at how to do that again in new ways um and then after school all stars has been an incredible gift to see how that just the spark of an idea could become something that's now serving you know thousands of kids across the state and after school programs run by don dunbar she was amazing so thank you so much for coming aboard coming out and spending some time now usually sign off here i say hey be kind be courageous do some good and mostly have some fun that's the wrap for plan of the courageous this week aloha thank you so much for tuning in


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. More evidence has emerged pointing to the fact that the Syrian government did not carry out a chemical gas attack in Douma in April 2018. WikiLeaks has published the contents of an email written by a member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons or OPCW, who was part of the fact-finding team that investigated the alleged incident. The final OPCW report that came out in March this year said that chlorine had been most likely used in the incident. However, this leaked email says that the report was doctored by top OPCW management and much of its contents had been redacted, which significantly altered what the team had actually found. This email is not the first piece of evidence that has come out that challenges the narrative being pushed by Western powers about the supposed chemical attack. Two whistleblowers have also come forward with testimony and evidence with details on how the results of the OPCW investigations were doctored. A few days after the alleged incident, US, UK and France carried out airstrikes on Syria. The three countries justified these airstrikes by claiming that the Syrian army had carried out the chemical attack. They were relying completely on the claims of the rebels. The mainstream media too had reported this version far and wide, even though the OPCW had not even reached the site to investigate by then. Now when more and more evidence is emerging of OPCW manipulating the investigation results, which therefore means that there was no basis for carrying out airstrikes, the mainstream media has been silent. Let's look at what all was redacted and altered in the final OPCW report. The email says that misrepresentation is achieved in the report by selective omission. Additionally, the crucial facts that have remained in the redacted version have morphed into quite different to what was originally drafted. When the team arrived in Dubai to investigate, which was two weeks after the alleged incident due to the clashes that were going on, they found that much of the physical evidence was no longer available. Rebels had alleged that 49 people had died and up to 650 were affected by the weaponized gas that was released. But even the bodies of the deceased were not available for the team to inspect. Further, the rebels had claimed that gas cylinders had been dropped from an aircraft. This is what implicated the Syrian army as the Syrian government had complete air superiority. But on investigating the site where the cylinders were found, the OPCW team found it highly unlikely that the cylinders had been dropped from the air at all. All but one member of the team concluded that there is a high possibility that the cylinders were placed in those locations manually. This was also reported in the team's engineering assessment report, which was not published. The report was leaked in May this year and it said, the dimensions, characteristics and appearances of the cylinders and the surrounding scene of the incidents were inconsistent with what would have been expected in the case of either cylinder having been delivered from an aircraft and that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft. The other major contentious aspect of the report is its emphasis on the presence of chlorinated chemicals in the area. This statement in the report was reported as the presence of the lethal gas by media. The second whistleblower recently addressed an all-day briefing in Brussels, which had people from several countries in attendance, including from disarmament, international law, military operations, medicine and intelligence. He said that the team took samples for analysis of the quantity of chlorine present in the allegedly attacked area, but the results of the analysis were never given to the team. They remained with the management. When this inspector got sight of the results, he found that they were in fact much lower than what would be expected in a normal environment. This inspector had in his report concluded on the basis of analyzing biological samples from alleged victims who had gone to Turkey from Duma that this attack was a non-chemical related event. He wrote in his report that the signs and symptoms of victims were not consistent with poisoning from chlorine. None of this was mentioned anywhere in the redacted report. The report deviated from the format and did not even mention the concentration values of chlorine found anywhere. After the alleged incident, a video of victims being treated in the hospital in Duma was shown by news networks across the world. In that too, the symptoms seen were not consistent with what witnesses had reported seeing that day. A detailed discussion on this was also omitted from the redacted OPCW report. The report in fact does not include any witness statement the fact finding mission took. The inspector wrote to the top brass of the OPCW furious about the changes that had been made to the report. This included the director general at the time, Ahmad Uzumku, a Turkish diplomat and also Robert Fairweather, a British career diplomat who is the chief of the cabinet and is considered to hold the most power in OPCW over day-to-day issues. This did not result into anything and the report was published in its manipulated form. But the inspector soon realized who was behind this manipulation. Jonathan Steele, the first journalist to interview the second whistleblower reported that on July 4th, there was another intervention. Fairweather, the chief of the cabinet, invited several members of the drafting team to his office. There they found three U.S. officials who were cursorily introduced without making clear which U.S. agencies they represented. The Americans told them emphatically that the Syrian regime had conducted a gas attack and that the two cylinders found on the roof and upper floor of the building contained 170 kilograms of chlorine. The inspector's left Fairweather's office feeling that the invitation to the Americans to address them was unacceptable pressure and a violation of the OPCW's declared principles of independence and impartiality. So under U.S. pressure, the OPCW ignored the findings of its own inspectors and published manipulator reports falsely accusing the Syrian government of a chemical attack. The Syrian government has said that it is unsurprised by these revelations. Imad Mustafa, the Syrian ambassador to China and a former envoy to the United States, said that the information revealed in this email is not new to us. The Syrian government has already been told by previous investigating teams that the reports were significantly editorialized and twisted to convey a predetermined indictment against the Syrian government while all evidences were pointing to the armed groups and their white helmet stage directors. He further said the OPCW has completely ruined its reputation as an honest arbiter. Any investigation conducted by its inspectors will end up in the trash bin of its secretariat, while a report on the outcome of its findings would have been already prepared even before the start of their investigations. The two whistleblowers had requested permission to address the attendees of the Anvil OPCW forum, which is going on at HAG. While it does not seem like they have been allowed, the current OPCW Director General Fernando Arias defended the report saying that he stands by the independent professional conclusion of the investigation.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can print these two patterns in C programming. Before starting, you can note my information. You can follow or subscribe my youtube channel through this link that is youtube.com slash sanjaygupta underscore tech school. You can download my android app that is tech image which is available on google play. Now to print this first pattern. First I am writing the code to print starting 5 rows 5 4 3 2 and 1. Then I will be printing remaining 5 rows and then I will convert that code for printing this pattern. So here I have written print up scanner to read number of rows. So if number of rows will be 5 then this pattern will be printed if number of 6 sorry if number of rows will be 6 then total 12 rows will be printed here. Now I am implementing the code. I am starting i loop from n and condition is i greater than equals to 1 and i minus minus. This first loop is responsible for rows. Inside this loop I am using another loop that is j equals to 1 j less than equals to i and j plus plus. This loop is dependent upon i and it will print asterisk on console and this loop is for columns. After completion of this loop slash n will be displayed. So this way starting 5 rows will be displayed on console with this code. I am executing this code. You can see the output. Starting 5 rows are displayed here. You can compare it with this. Now I have to print remaining 5 rows. So for that purpose I just have to copy this code and I am pasting it here. Now I am changing it starting it from 1 condition is i less than equals to 1 and then i plus plus. So first loop is repeating from n to 1 and the second combination of loop is repeating from 1 to n. Now I am executing this code. You can see the output.  Here you can see this single asterisk is displayed 2 times but in this pattern it is available one time. So now I just have to convert this pattern into this pattern by removing this single asterisk sign. So for this I am starting this loop from 2. So it will not print a single star because it is printed with this above combination. So it is starting from 2. So now single asterisk will be displayed only once. You can see the output. Single star is printing one time only. Second printing of single asterisk is removed from here because second combination of loop is starting from 2. So you can see this pattern is printed on console. So friends with this code or with this C program I have displayed both the patterns on console. I hope you have understood how you can print both the patterns with the help of nested loop in C programming. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can follow my YouTube channel through this link that is youtube.com. Thank you for watching this video.


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A very natural question to ask is, is it really necessary to check both directions when you have a potential inverse function? Do you have to really check f composed of g and g composed with f? Well, the answer to this question is really yes and no. And let me kind of explain the caveat here. So potentially, if you have two functions f and g, right? If you compose f with g and g with f, the order of operations does depend on the functions, right? We've seen many examples where f composed with g is not the same thing as g composed with f. So just on the surface, we would expect these things in general to be different. So you'd wanna check both to see that they are in fact the same function. They're both equal to x in this situation, right? That's what we're looking for. But again, if it's an inverse function on one side, it seems like it's gonna work on the other sides. What could possibly go wrong here? And so consider the following two functions. Consider f of x equals x squared and g of x equals the square root of x. It's very, we're very tempted to say that these are inverse functions for the following reason. If we do f composed with g, right, of x, this would mean we take the square root of x and we're gonna square it. And when you square the square root of x, you're gonna get back an x again, all right? And so it's like, well, okay, that looks like the identity function. But when you go the other way around, g composed with f of x, in that situation, you're gonna take the square root of x squared. People are very tempted to say that this is equal to x, but that's actually not true. This is equal to the absolute value of x. A simple counter example that is if you take the square root of two squared, you get the square root of four, which is two. On the other hand, if you take the square root of negative two squared, you're gonna get the square root of four, which is likewise two. The problem is when you take the square root after the square, you're forgetting that the number could have been negative. And so this isn't exactly an inverse relationship. The issue that is the culprit we can blame here is that the function f of x equals x squared is not a one-to-one function. And that's actually what's going on here. That's the problem. x squared is not a one-to-one function because with the numbers two and negative two, if you square two, you get four. If you square negative two, you get four. And so there's two different x-coordinates that have the same y-coordinate. And so the way we define inverse functions, we've only defined inverse functions for one-to-one functions. So x squared itself doesn't actually have us inverse because it's not one-to-one. But at the same time, we do still see this relationship that when you compose, if you do the square root and followed by the square, you get x. So it's like we're really close to having an inverse. Someone might call this like a pseudo-inverse. And it turns out x squared can have an inverse if we tweak it. The issue has to do with its domain. If you think of the standard function y equals x squared, its graph looks like the following. You get something like this, right? And the graph might look like this. We've seen this before. And the issue is it's not one-to-one because it fails the horizontal line test. But this is if we take the entire function, the entire domain of real numbers, right? What if we were to just kind of, kind of we took away half of the graph? What if we take the function f of x equals x squared where x is greater than or equal to zero? What if we restrict the domain? In this situation, you'll now see that the graph passes the horizontal line test. This is in fact now a one-to-one function. And as such, it has an inverse function. The inverse would then in fact be, f inverse is gonna be the square root of x. And the thing, and you can see this illustrated in the graph above here. In yellow, you see the half of the parabola right here. And in green, you see the square root function. You'll notice that these are mirror images of each other. We'll talk about this actually in the next video. If you restrict the domain of the parabola x square to be one-to-one, in that context, it's when it's one-to-one, it has an inverse function. That inverse function is the square root of x. And so the problem we saw earlier when we composed the square root with the square and got back x, that's because we have to shrink our domain. The reason we got the absolute value here is for the whole domain, for the whole real numbers, the whole real line there, negative zero and positives, this would be the absolute value. But if you restrict just the positive numbers, right? If x is positive, the absolute value of x is no different than x itself. So restricted to positive numbers, that is the identity. And so to answer the questions, do you have to check both directions? The answer is really no, when the functions are one-to-one. If the two functions in play are one-to-one functions, then if you check one direction and it works, you have this inverse function property. If you flip the directions, it's gonna work there as well. You can guarantee that's gonna happen. But only if the functions are one-to-one. But of course, if the functions are not one-to-one, then they can't have an inverse function. So you can automatically say, no, they're not inverse functions.  And so I hope that's a really long-winded answer to the question, but there's some subtleties going on here. It's very important the function be one-to-one. Otherwise, its inverse relationship doesn't give us a function. And to guarantee they compose to be the identity, we need the functions to be one-to-one. Otherwise, it might not work in one of the directions.


Mr. President, Mrs. Kirchleger, Ministers Lanz and Fisher. Honored guests, I said this morning, and I would like to say again how happy and proud that Nancy and I are to welcome you to the United States for the first state visit by an Austrian president. I consider your visit a celebration of our common bonds and our common purpose. Before I say anything else, Mr. President, I want you to know that one of the best loved of all Austrian Americans is with us tonight, Baroness von Trapp. The Baroness and her family fled Austria shortly before the outbreak of World War II, and their story has become known to millions in the wonderful play and film The Sound of Music. Since arriving in the United States, the Baroness has come to stand for Austrian integrity, wit and charm, and perhaps more than any single other American she's contributed to the deep friendship that our two nations enjoy. So Baroness, on behalf of the American people, I thank you. Mr. President, as a neutral country between East and West, Austria has played a constructive role in international and human relations and earned the respect of all nations. During World War II, thousands of people like the von Trapp's were forced to flee Austria. But today, your nation offers asylum to those who are fleeing tyranny and human suffering. Austria is a shining example of compassion and courage. Our countries, united not by military alliance, but by shared beliefs, have a common conviction that there are basic values which transcend every system of government. Among these are the dignity of man, liberty and justice and the cornerstone of all of our values and unshakable belief in God. Mr. President, we have deep respect for your neutrality. We are proud to guarantee your sovereignty and we take great comfort in the knowledge that Austria is a steadfast member of the community of Western democracies. Given your history and geography, Austria is vitally interested in the state of East-West relations. From the beginning of my tenure in office, Mr. President, I have emphasized that in our dealings with the Soviet Union, we should be guided by realism, proceed from a position of strength and be ready at all times to engage in efforts to reach equitable and verifiable agreements. Your country's very existence as a free and independent nation proves what patient persistent negotiations with the Soviets can produce. We welcome the wisdom of your counsel and rest assured that we will continue this policy in the hope that it will yield the results for which the world yearns. This morning, I spoke about creating a new tie between our peoples. In the past year, Vice President Bush's visit to Vienna, the reopening of our consulate in Salzburg and the appointment of Helene von Dam to be our ambassador to Austria, have shown our commitment to build stronger and more vital links between our governments and our peoples. But the bonds of true friendship can never be too many or too strong. And we will create still more through your exchanges, youth exchanges, I should say, and enhanced cooperation in scientific and technological research. Mr. President, we're grateful for your visit. The people of America look forward to hosting you and your party across our country. Your visit is a celebration of something real, tangible and enduring, the friendship between the people of Austria and the people of the United States. At one point in the sound of music, the character who plays Baron von Trapp sings a song about the Adelice. An Austrian flower. And before the song ends, the lyrics become a prayer for Austria itself. It is a prayer Americans join in. Blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow and bless your homeland forever. Ladies and gentlemen, would you please join me in a toast to the President of Austria and Mrs. Kirchleger and to the friendship and freedom that our two peoples enjoy. President, Mrs. Reckon, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed a great privilege, Mr. President, to be your guest today here in Servaithaus. And believe me, it is a moving evening for all Austrians present here. A moving evening by the words you addressed to us and by the music you offered to us. I would like to thank you most sincerely for this gracious and warm hospitality you are extending to us. And for all the friendship we felt here in Washington and in the United States. I express this thanks also in the name of my wife and on behalf of the members of the Austrian government in my company as well as in the name of the other Austrian guests today. And I am joining you to express my real pleasure said Baron Trapp is here with us. In Austria too, you have a wonderful reputation, you know it, I hope. It's true and I may repeat what I said this morning. I am profoundly appreciative, Mr. President. That you have invited me to pay this official visit to the United States for me and for all of Austria. This is a truly historic event. It is indeed the first official visit of an Austrian head of state to the United States since relations between Vienna and Washington were established formally 146 and informally 200 years ago. This should not lead to wrong conclusions. The relations between our two countries have been always very good, considering the fundamentally different structures of our countries until 1918. It was on the model of U.S. Supreme Court, for instance, as established under your constitution that the Austrian Empire in 1869 established its own Reichsgericht. And again in 1919, Austria was the first country in Europe to adopt on the example of the United States the principle of full judicial review. But it was during World War II, and especially in the period after the war, the hearts of the Austrian people went out to America. When the image of the United States in my country was forged by the Marshall Plan, which played such a decisive part in the rebuilding of Austria, and with which it has remained linked ever since. Only recently, we celebrated in Vienna the 35th anniversary of the signing of the agreements on American Temporary Assistance to Austria and on Economic Cooperation. And we will never forget this event. In those years, the trust between Austria and the United States was strengthened by 10 years of tough negotiations over the Austrian State Treaty. And the strong commitment of the Austrian people to democratic ideals. The conclusion of the State Treaty and the recovery of Austria's full freedom in 1955 have led to a long-lasting period of excellent relations which has continued to this day. In the late 30s, freedom and democratic life and America's willingness to offer asylum to political and racial refugees attracted many of Austria's best sons and daughters who have found a new home in your great country, but have also helped as pioneers to build it up. Most Americans will be surprised to learn that as a middle of this century, only four countries had supplied more distinguished Americans listed in who is who in America since the small country of ours, Austria. It may indeed be unexpected that a land-looked country of Central Europe speaking a different language from set of America, you see it in my speaking, as small as the state of Maine and less populous since the city of New York should have been one of the major contributors to American life and culture. But to us it is additional proof of our community of interest. Mr. President, you exercise your high office at the time of global political tension and crisis, many of which are also vital importance to my country. Austria as a permanently neutral country makes every effort to contribute to the maintenance of world peace by promoting understanding in such a political area in which history has placed us and by trying to secure friendly relations with all our neighbors. We are trying to remain an element in Europe's stability and security to be a heaven for refugees as well as a clear voice in support of human rights. As a small country, we have vested and indeed a vital interest in upholding the rule of law in world politics and the principle of universality in international organizations. In all these respects, the world can continue to count on us in the future. Our two countries are and will remain closely linked through the mutual adherence to the fundamental values of democratic Western pluralism to which the Austrian people has dedicated itself in all elections since 1945. In my view, this is the best basis for a mutual interest in a long-lasting friendship. Our common pledge for an increased support to use exchange programs will additionally promote mutual understanding and help to deepen our relations also in the next generation. As an expression of this hope and as a token of our heartfelt friendship, I would like to extend to you, Mr. President and Mrs. Regan, a cordial invitation to pay a visit to Austria, be it officially or unofficially, whatever is more convenient to you with repeated cordial thanks for your hospitality and with my sincere good wishes for the prosperity of the United States and the American people. I invite you all to join me in a toast to the President of the United Nations of America and Mrs. Regan. Everyone was saying more. I thought they were giving us a sign that that was it. Well, it's wonderful, it's marvelous. Torme and Nero. Peter Nero, I'm just delighted that you could play for our good Austrian friends because tonight they have heard a keyboard, an American keyboard legend.  In your case, I don't mind saying I'm a very narrow-minded president in a career spanning more than 30 years. Do I have it right that you've recorded over 30 hit records? And tonight, we're all mighty glad that you could bring your splendid talent to this grand old home. And Mel Torme, there isn't a song you don't know or a music hall you haven't performed in. You started in Vaudeville when you were six years old and you had written a top hit by the time you were 14. Now, four decades later, you're better than ever. Nancy and I have heard that your performance at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl are always sold out and that's why you were invited here to the White House. We figured that was the only way we could get in to hear you. But Mel and Peter, I know I speak for everyone here when I say thank you, thank the gentlemen with you that headed at this enjoyment and thank you for a most wonderful evening of entertainment. Vice President, thank you so much. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Thank you. Nice to see you.


I'm so proud of myself because I got here early and I've been watching Slime's videos for more years now So I actually got a PR packet We're like this is not it because it did not look like the pictures we saw Baywatch is actually out on the dollar theaters Good morning guys, it is July 7th And it's a Friday not that that really changes much because I don't even know what day it is usually in the summer But today is an exciting day because it's the day I break my Jet lag or at least that's what I'm telling myself Usually I sleep till like noon when I went to the West Coast. It was like three hours back I've been feeling like poop lately And I don't know if you guys can tell but I feel like I haven't really uploaded that much It's summer so I should be uploading like a lot more often than I am But I'm just feeling so lazy and like tired and groggy all the time So I just don't feel like the motivation really to Edit the vlogs like I have so many vlogs Filmed and stuff, but I just need to edit them now It's just obviously easier to film than like take the time to edit because editing takes a while and especially since I Stepped up my vlogging game. I don't want to put out a shitty vlog I don't want it all to be good. So that requires a lot more time I'm gonna try to get back on my grind and crank out all those videos that I need to be Editing so I might make this a one-day vlog or I might make it like a weekend in my life because I actually have plans this weekend Which is really exciting. I feel like I have not been doing anything this whole summer It will except for like the traveling thing that was fun, but other than that like in Roswell I was like what am I doing with my summer? I actually just got too crazy love, which is like a new Breakfast waffle coffee shop type thing. I don't even know I've never eaten there But I've gone in there once to like study and it is so Beautiful if you guys are in the area girl. It is so aesthetically pleasing. I love it so much I'm supposed to be meeting someone here at 9 a.m.  It's my friend Jill's birthday today So we're going to the same sushi restaurant Ryan took me to and I'm like I'm fine with that girl That was sushi was like so good, but I'm going to go inside So we're at crazy love right now and is literally the cutest place ever like when I'm telling you That's cute. I am serious about it, but Introduce yourself So I got home a couple hours ago and I started editing a video that needed to be up so long ago Like maybe May or June. I literally had it filmed for so long, but I'm finally getting to edit it now I am with Ryan and we're gonna go swimming in my pool I feel like I don't use my pool enough Also, I thought my dad bought this like new floatie and I can't find it anywhere because when he had the party He like literally put everything everywhere. So now I can't find it and he's not home. So I'm sad Today's payday after the top coffee my check nice Should be like a gram Yeah, bullshit Happy birthday Joe I Put balloons all around her room and I guess he helped you right and help right Hey guys, so it is a couple hours later and I realized that I really stuck at vlogging today But I am getting ready for my friend's birthday dinner It is Jill's birthday and we decorated her room and just like put balloons everywhere So that was really fun, but now it is time to get ready and go to dinner Like I said, we're going to the same sushi place that Ryan took me to it's called oku and it's in Atlanta And it's really really good and it has a really cool view Of like the skyline and stuff like that So tonight I think I'm just gonna straighten my hair Because I haven't done it in a while So I kind of want to just you know see I was also just thinking sometimes I don't really love my hair straightened because it just looks so long It looks like too long like like hippie hair or something But when I curl it I actually like it and I think it's too short when it's curled So that's why I'm kind of like too scared to cut it like even just a trim Because I know it's gonna be even shorter when I curl it and I usually curl it or wear it natural Also, if you guys remember I did say that I was going to break my jet lag today I got up at like 8 a.m. And I'm still going it is currently like Like six or five or something like that I just made some green tea and I think when I was making it I like read on the package that it was like caffeine free and I was like seriously, oh well So I actually got a PR package from loxaton. I think that's how you pronounce it Loxaton, I literally just looked it up on YouTube, but I don't have that accent for it Anyways, I want to share with you guys what they gave me First of all, this is like already been in use because any face cream I just like gravitate towards because my skin is so dry and like you always need a really good base to do your makeup So if it's really really dry, then you need to moisturize like a couple hours before you put on makeup and make sure it's not Like gonna like flake off your makeup type thing So actually I tried this out already my face feels so moisturized like it just feels really really good not dry at all This is the shea comforting cream and it actually doesn't really have like a scent It's like, you know, like regular lotion scent, which is nice because if it has a scent then it Could be a little bit more harmful for your skin. So like I said, this is the brand loxaton And okay, so this one is a hand cream Let's open this one up because these like I always see these and like Sephora or like stores Like you always see them in like malls and stuff like that my hands are like actually really dry And I need to start using hand cream. I don't know if this would help it But like my q-colds I always pick at them So maybe this could help and this is like a big hand cream like they don't mess around Next up, which I'm so excited to try like I need to use it now because I don't have a bath tub in my sorority house Where I'm living next year. This is the lat. Oh my god I don't have the accent for this basically. It's just like a bubble bath product type thing So it's lavender essential oil. Oh my god, that's straight up lavender.  It looks like it could be lemon or something like that, but I Could be oh almond oil. Oh my god. I I'm like actually obsessed with the scent of almond oil That smells really really good I'm really excited to try this out because I'm the type of person that like is so lazy to put on moisturizer after the shower So this product says that it's like moisturizing in the shower okey-dokey, so I'm gonna get started on my makeup and Watch a couple of vlogs while I'm at it, of course. Hey guys, it is July 10th, and we are about to go to Chipotle and Ryan forgot his coupons. He had a buy one get one free. He forgot it I didn't really want to turn back so Arrived at Dancing Goats But we went to the wrong one I guess we just didn't know that there was like a couple of them We are gonna go to the cooler one because the cooler one is at pond sitting market Of course because everything that's near ponds is like really cool So like I was saying we got to the Dancing Goats like where where was that in mid-park you said Decatur it's close to Atlanta But it just like we're like this is not it because it did not look like the pictures We saw because the pictures we saw were really really cool And I'm gonna show you guys when we get to this one But you know you just if you're gonna drive all the way to Atlanta you might as well go to the actual Dancing Goats When I got there it looked pretty small at first I was like, okay, maybe it's like bigger inside But then we got inside and it was like just like not like what we saw in the pictures So hopefully this one has like a lot more seating So we arrived at Ponds City Market and Ryan found this art store on the way to Dancing Goats And they have this like really cool art gallery inside of the art store We finally found it we're sweating so we've been here for almost two hours now and it's getting kind of cold I'm excited to like walk on the outline after this and walk around to the stores and stuff in Ponds City Market There's a support here, too, but I know I shouldn't be going in there because Shouldn't make that decision. Here is your super heavy purse He's strong you strong hours in that coffee shop two paragraphs away from finishing a chapter Yeah, he was like just to let you guys know we're closing in two minutes and I was like wow Thanks, dude for the big heads up like two minutes.   I feel honored to be parked next to it It's super windy, so it's about to rain a bit. I've decided I need this avocado book in my life Like there's so many cool avocado rush piece Fun fact, it's not if you break building right there What's it called? Make America Plaza. I thought you called it the pencil building. I thought that was what it sounds cool No, I caught this a bit. Oh, I feel like I've logged like Ponds City Market a lot But if you guys don't know or haven't seen those vlogs Ponds City like the belt line area Like this is like a walking trail and it has such cool like art like these cool walls back here And then they have like tiny door house things and it's really cool You can have it under the tunnel over there So this is really cool Like it says flash photography encourage because these are like reflectors So when you put on your flash, it like lights up I'll insert some pictures right on the screen right now because it's really really cool Bye bye belt line.  It was kind of heartbreaking, honestly But it's okay because he's gonna watch it again with me. So we just got out of the movie and Baywatch was so so good Ryan like warned me before we went in there that I was gonna be really really cheesy But it was it kind of was cheesy, but it was funny cheesy like I like that kind of cheesy, you know Yeah But I think like CGI stuff is so funny and like cool I don't know. I'm like the bloopers like the green screen and like I love watching that kind of stuff definitely 10 out of 10 recommend that movie. It's 1156 So I'm going to end the vlog here and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye guys