Hello, everyone. I'm here with Lauren Hubbard running to represent the 22nd Congressional District of California. This is a district that was formally represented, and I use the word represented loosely here by Devin Nunes. It's now an open seat, and Lauren is here to fill that seat and actually represent the people in the district. Lauren, thank you so much for coming on the program. Thanks for having me. Happy to be here. Really excited to be here. Happy to have you. So I've got so many questions to ask you. First and foremost, what made you want to run for Congress specifically this year? Because I think that a lot of us are anticipating a loss of the Democratic Party of the House. So assuming you're elected, you are likely facing the prospect of divided government, which means that it will be a little bit difficult for you to accomplish anything. What made you choose this moment in time? For me, running for Congress was not something that I really actually even wanted to do. As my wife will tell you, we are very happy just being existing in our current life of going to work, raising our kids, and planning for those family vacations and things like that. We're happy to just be that. But I think what is really telling about it at running for Congress is, I don't have to. I really don't want to, but I need to. Something to be said that if I don't do it, I really don't know. We put a lot of faith in our elected officials right now to get things done. And they seem to want to screw us at every turn. So for me, what brings me into this race is, you know, I was born and raised here in the Central Valley, which is where the district is. I was born to a single mother and I had lots of unofficial aunt and uncles. And so I really know the importance that community plays to the success of our future. And so for me as an activist in my professional work, I'm an operations manager at the regional water quality control board. So I'm focused on environmental justice. I'm the racial equity chair at the water board. So those things are very community based. And I bring that into this into this congressional race. So I really am running because the challenges that we are facing and the people in this district can tell you are ones that are not political talking points that we actually have real lives. And there is a concern to put it mildly that the people in Washington have no idea what the hell they're doing. Yeah, absolutely. And when people who are running for Congress make it very clear that they don't want to run for Congress, I immediately trust them like a thousand percent more. Because who would want to run for Congress? I mean, the institution itself is essentially incapable of governing. So wanting to be a part of that mess is it seems very unpleasant to me. And so the fact that you acknowledge that is actually really nice, because it's the people who I think, anyways, want to run for Congress. So you got to look out for the people who talk about, well, you know, I've always wanted to be a member of Congress since I was a child. That's extremely strange. And, you know, if you're running, this is a serious answer. It's a total tech presenter. Absolutely. I mean, you should want to run because you see problems that aren't being addressed. And that's why you're running. And that's why I think it's so it's so perfect. Talk to us about your platform. What is it that you support? There's basically an infinite amount of issues that need to be addressed. But what are you going to kind of primarily focus on if you're elected? With my experiences here, you know, I have worked at the Department of Social Services here at Fresno, really on the ground level of getting to know our benefits programs. So those social security programs like food stamps and Medi-Cal, and then the number of people who are dependent on those programs and how we can really make some fundamental changes to those programs to increase the accessibility of those programs so that we don't have people starving in our community. You know, one of the things about Fresno that is really kind of disappointing is in California, which is, you know, the most populous state in our country, Fresno is number one for poverty. And one of every three and a half residents of Fresno is living in poverty. So what brings me to this race and what I really am focused on are speaking to my experiences in fixing the environment and expanding these snap benefits, expanding access to health care through Medicaid expansion. And then lowering the age for Medicare. These are things that we can do that will make real fundamental differences in people's lives. And there are things that are really personal to me. I lost my mother in my junior year of college to a situation where she had health insurance, but her deductible was so high that, hey, you might have health insurance, but if you can't come up with funds to pay a $10,000 deductible, you know, you're not really using that health insurance. If your health insurance doesn't cover your prescription medication, you're not getting those prescriptions. And that's because the situation that my mom found herself in, and she ultimately made the choice to, you know, put money towards other bills like rent and paying back student loans and things like that. And it was a decision that ultimately costs her her life. And so I'm just standing up and saying, hey, where are our priorities in this country where we can talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. One day and forget all the things that he talked about with poverty and militarism and materialism being the root cause of evil in this country. Yeah, there's so many things about the United States that make us a national or international rather embarrassment. I mean, the fact that we're the richest country on the planet and people in this country, thousands per year are dying simply because they don't have health care or maybe they do have health insurance, but they can't afford the deductible. As you stated, it's something that a lot of us don't necessarily talk about too much, but we should. It's really frustrating. So for me, I am somebody who's become a lot more cynical. I don't really have a lot of hope. One thing that I wanted to ask you about is you are seemingly optimistic, which I find good and commendable. I'm cynical and that's bad. But in your Twitter profile, the first thing that you put is proud Democrat.  So if there's ever a progressive presidential candidate who's running as a Democrat, I kind of have to be registered to vote for them.  Is it a sense of, you know, this has always been my party? Is it a sense of I think that I can still save the Democratic Party? What makes you proud to be a Democrat? Because I have the opposite feeling. You know, for me, I kind of fell into the that cynicism trap and I kind of take away the lessons from my mom of always looking at the glass half full. I haven't always been a Democrat though. I am originally this area is is conservative at its heart. And so I grew up being a Republican, actually, and having those Republican ideas about freedom and opportunity and security. And growing up actually really embarrassing fact about me, my first, the very first election I could vote in, I actually voted for Rudy Giuliani in the Republican 2008. That was a long time ago. You can get a pass for that. But for me, you know, it's with with time has come a little bit of perspective. And those things that I once thought the Republican Party stood for as far as freedom, security and opportunity for all are really not those brands that they actually support. When we talk about freedom, the freedom for people to marry who they love, the freedom to choose if a woman decides with and with whom she has a child. Those aren't freedoms that they support. When we talk about opportunity, you know, opportunities to have quality education as far as a publicly funded university system, having publicly funded vocational training, those things give people opportunity. That's not something that the Republican Party supports. And then security. Sure, they talk about defense.  Well, this is just a big corporate grab when I look at the defense budget. But when we talk about security, we're talking about, how about protecting the little guy? How about fighting for for labor unions, who are organizing so that their employees have a better life? How about balancing the playing field so that corporations aren't aren't coming into an area like they are in my district coming into an area lowering the price of goods because they can take that loss until the mom and pop shops close. So for me, the Republican Party is a non starter. I was one of those folks that was really disenfranchised with their disillusioned with the Democratic Party in 2016. And I've had to come to not a come to Jesus moment, but a realization that for me, as a black man in this country, I don't have the I don't have the luxury of waiting for a progressive platform or progressive party to come along and actually have the institution to be able to win election so that we can see progress made. I'm one of those folks that I this is the the group that I'm running with. I'm going to pull them along with me kind of a kind of a take on the Democratic Party. But I totally understand that the the take of folks that are like, you know what, these are the parties are the problem in our in our government. I just happened to think that the Democratic Party is one that is closer in line with my political alignment. And I'm not ready to give up on the me at I was close. I was close. I wouldn't I register no party preference in 2016. That's part of it. I did too. Yeah, I did too. I had to change it back to in 2020 to vote for Bernie. Unfortunately, you know, I asked this because I think it's interesting the way that we view the Democratic Party, I think that it gives us insight into the way that you would govern. And for a lot of people, they make this choice, which is rational, you know, it's the Republican Party is so insane at this point, frankly, that they are, like you said, it's a non starter. But some of the reasons why you're disappointed with the Republican Party, such as military budgets, for example, Democrats also increase the military budget. So it's nice to know that you know, this is kind of you're not accepting the Democratic Party as is, you do want to change the Democratic Party. For me, my perspective is that I always feel like, you know, I don't have a choice. The two party system in the United States is kind of the illusion of choice. You have both parties who are completely beholden to corporate donors. One of them is just late stage capitalist and the other is late stage capitalist and also crazy quite literally, I think I mean, there are members of the Republican Party who should not be in power at all like Marjorie Green. I think it scares me to think that that individual has power. So yeah, it's, you know, it's, it's an imperfect system. But I absolutely understand candidates running under the Democratic Party, because if you run third party, our institutions quite literally disenfranchise third party candidates. So it's kind of either you run up the Democrats and have a chance, or you don't run with them. And you have no chance. Out of curiosity, what specifically would you change about the Democratic Party if you had a magic wand and you were in control? I mean, you're just if you were elected, you'd be just one member of the House. But if you if you could change everything, if you were a benevolent dictator, what would you change immediately about the Democratic Party? One of the things that we're trying to do here in California, specifically for the California Democratic Party is not taking fossil fuel money. Just be very open and transparent where our money and funding comes from. Because on the other side, we are going to we are getting attacked about, you know, money all the time that George Soros is going and funding Antifa parties. And apparently, George Soros has all this money to fund Antifa. He's funded me too, apparently. Right. As I say, as a captain in the California Antifa squad. I pay check at George.  You know, that may be talked forever about the Koch brothers for the last 10, 15 years about how crazy they they're, you know, they're funding of the Tea Party and the Tea Party got spun out of hand. And now we have the QAnon folks. But I think being very specific and upfront about where our money comes from, the second thing I would love to do. And this is kind of has bumped into my race here a little bit now that I'm it's been announced that as elder statesman, if you will, Jim Costa, who is currently representing California 16th congressional district, which is a neighboring district of this one, will be running in this district is that there is this this party line.  And just instead of presenting, it's really funny to me because Democrats, when we're talking about Republicans, you know, we always want to say, hey, you know, they don't engage with us on principles and on ideas and how we can have that back and forth and that dialogue about ideas and opinions, and that will move the country forward. But at the same time within our own party, you know, we're not having those engagements with each other. And that's really is kind of the needle that I'm trying to thread is if you are a moderate Democrat, you have to have a realization that that left wing, that populism, that is where the future of the party lies. Right. Okay, the younger people, they are more motivated. They are the ones that are knocking on doors. They're the ones that are making phone banking calls. I've tried to get a whole lot of others, older folks that hop on board to do stuff and they're like, well, how about I give you a donation, which is fine. I love, I mean, I'll take money, of course. But those are the most force, the younger folks are the ones that are engaged. You as a moderate Democrat are not going to win any more elections by just saying, these progressives, don't they know, they need us and not the other way around. It's a two way street here. You need us. We need you. I'm willing to take a candidate who has a lot of, I don't want to say question marks, but I'm willing to take a candidate who like a Cori lamb, who's like, we have some progressive positions, but is like, you know, in that moderate streak over someone like a Hillary Clinton. I think that needs to be the other way around, too, is moderate Democrats need to look at people in certain races and say, hey, you know what, this guy has all the folks, the grassroots folks, the organizations are behind them, the young people are behind them. Let's follow in line with this guy and let's have that conversation as a party. See, I kind of feel I have a different approach to this, and you can you can tell me your thoughts on this. I feel like the moderate and the left wing of the party, they're incompatible, and that's because the conflict isn't necessarily one of ideology. I mean, on the left, we have, you know, we're very strong, we adhere to our core principles and progressive values, but I don't actually think that's the case with the moderates. I think the moderates don't actually have any core philosophy. I think that it's all, they're beholden to their corporate donors, and that's almost exclusively what drives their behavior. So when you have these competing interests, I don't think you can ever really find that alignment. And what that ends up, what ends up happening is what we're seeing, where you have one wing of the party just trying to push the other side out. And I always hear Democrats talk about how this is a big tent party, but oftentimes I think that the party is too big and it's so big that they allow Republicans in, but that tent isn't necessarily inclusive of left-wing voices. So, you know, when you talk about issues with the Democratic Party, I do agree about the money issue and the funding, but I think that one critique that I have of Democrats who discuss the issue of money in politics is that if you just allow for more transparency, that doesn't necessarily solve the problem of corruption in American politics. Because a lot of us know about the fact that Joe Manchin is an oil baron, a modern day coal baron, taking $500,000 per year. Kirsten Sinema, you know, she ran on prescription drug costs being lower. She took so much money from the pharmaceutical industry, I think north of a million, and now she's against that. So it's such a corrupting influence that I don't think transparency is enough. I think you have to just eliminate it from the party, but the Democratic Party will never do that. So my question to you is how do we do this? How do we reconcile these irreconcilable differences between the moderates who are corrupt, in my opinion, and the leftists who are just trying, but they don't have the institutional power? All they have is grassroots support. But as we've seen in the past, you know, like in 2016, how you were disappointed, the Democratic Party establishment, they have the institutional tools needed to crush that. So how do you, how do you reconcile that? And this is a huge question. So I understand that it's, you know, there's no one right or wrong answer to this, but how do you reconcile that? Right. And I think that's like, you know, the thing that I've tried to grapple with, and the needle that I've tried to thread is that like, as a progressive, I know, well, I won't say I know I'm right, but there's a lot of issues that we are on the right side of history on. And as a litmus test, you know, that's, that's fine. I'm willing to, to have that, you know, be in place. It's that time and time again, we lose. And I'm so tired of losing that I want, I want to win just one race on those principles to show that we can do it, that we have that, that election ability, that electability to win elections based on, on our values alone. At the end of the day, I think that, you know, we live in a country where Citizens United is the law of the land. And at the end of the day, I understand it takes money to win elections. I get it, but damn, if I don't like, hate losing every time. Yeah. And you know, that's the thing. Just going to be like, oh, we died, but we were right. And I just know you're right. It's the core issue for leftist candidates because the conundrum is, you know, we're the principled ones, you know, the candidates who I talked to, they take zero corporate dollars. But simultaneously, everyone acknowledges that without a lot of money you lose. I mean, a lot of these races are nine times out of 10, they're determined basically by who raises the most amounts of money. So it's difficult. Let me ask you this. It's kind of a hypothetical situation.  But let's say a benevolent billionaire comes along and he says, listen, Lauren, I really like your platform. And I think that what you're doing is, is fantastic. I'm going to give you, I'll form, have you form a super PAC and then, you know, maybe I will donate two million dollars to that super PAC. What do you do in that instance? Do you reject that money specifically because it comes from a billionaire and it's hard to shake that? I mean, we're all human beings, right? It's, it's hard to pass policies and vote on policies that might tax billionaires more if you take that money. Maybe you're more sympathetic to them, even a little bit. And maybe you don't acknowledge this, but perhaps subconsciously, or do you reject it and remain principled knowing that your chances of getting elected will be a lot, a lot worse. What do you do in that instance? Because this is a real question that I think a lot of people have to ask themselves, you know, before going to Congress. Yeah. And it's actually kind of a situation that I'm currently in where I have, I have contacts with people who are CEOs of mega corporations, media corporations. And I have not asked them for money for that specific reason. We've talked about the race and how things are going, but I've not made that, that reach out there.  And I I have it for the reason that you just said, it's very hard to balance. It's really hard to take money from someone and then say, hey, I'm going to raise your taxes. Although I do think that's like kind of the on the on the flip side, it's kind of the message that we, how we talk to white working class voters the same way is like, oh, what's wrong with you? Don't you know that Democrats are this party is working to improve your economic outlook and they consistently vote against their own economic interest time and time again. And it's because they value something else, whether it's, you know, white supremacy or I'm just floating that. Could be a contributing factor. But on the flip side, you know, for us, I'm talking to folks don't do my donor call time every day, talking to folks that make I mean, they're not millionaires, but they're some of them are and some of them are really wealthy and they're giving me money, contributing to our campaign because their values lie with something other than money. And so I think in every situation, especially in the situation that we're talking about, where a person is like Michael B. Jordan, he was like, hey, Lauren, hey, man, I love what you do. And I'm going to say, Michael B, but maybe don't give me to me like that, but put me in your next movie and let me hold a campaign sign. But I think it everything depends on the source. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree with that because I mean, if you have a celebrity maxing out, giving you $2,700, I think that's a lot that's so different compared to the CEO of some media conglomerate who is donating a million dollars to a super PAC. You know, this is all untraceable money. This is all money that over time will corrupt. I think that a lot of politicians, they are running and initially they are progressive, like Nancy Pelosi, for example. A lot of people don't know. She supported single payer when she was first elected to Congress. And now she's raised more than a billion dollars in political contributions over her career. And she is one of the most corrupt politicians in America. So I think that people, they run for Congress and they think, you know what, I'm I'm I'm not going to be like other people. I'll take this money, but that doesn't mean I'm going to, you know, betray my principles. But with time, you know, being in D.C. so long, I mean, AOC talks about how you have all these sources in your ear influences try to drag you in one way and then another way. And it's almost overwhelming. And I think that with time, it's just the human response to succumb to that, because it's easier. You're tired of people in Congress, you know, for as many vacations as they take, you know, when they are there actually legislating, it can be really difficult. You have to read a lot of bills, at least if you care. I mean, we all know that people like Louis Gomer, they're not reading anything. But, you know, it's a lot of work if you care, right? So I think it is important. I I'm glad that there's more of an emphasis, emphasis on money in politics, especially given this day and age, where it's, you know, we have billionaires, for example, like Michael Bloomberg, who try to buy their way to the White House and he didn't, you know, make it, thankfully. I mean, we didn't get someone that much better. But I mean, he didn't make it. But just the fact that that's possible in our system kind of shows how far we've fallen as a country, how much we've commodified elections and why that's such a bad thing. So real quick, before we go, can you tell us basically a little bit about the dynamics of this race, how many people are running in this primary? How many people on the Republican side have entered? What does it look like in terms of competition? Because I know that sometimes these races can get really crowded, especially if they are for high profile seats. I mean, Devin Nunes's seat, everyone kind of knows about that. So is there a lot of people in this race? We're currently running in a special election that has north of six candidates in it. OK, OK, with myself, there's three Democratic candidates running myself. And there's another candidate for this seat. He's basically been running for Congress for three years. Oh, he ran against Nunes in 2020, lost and immediately said, hey, I'm going to run again. And I could understand if it was a situation where he was like, you know, razor thin margins where he was really close. But he was I think he lost by eight and a half points. And the person before him lost by five. To me, he wasn't a strong candidate, which is why I decided to run in this race. The other person in this race is Eric Garcia. He is a also a Democrat. Don't know a lot about him. I think I've never met him in any of the events that we go through through the whether it's through the local party or any of the other organizations that are working in our district. So I can't tell you anything about him. I will talk about Elizabeth Heng, though. She is a Republican who is running. She ran in 2018 against Jim Costa and lost. She was going to challenge Padilla for his US Senate seat here in California and subsequently decided she was going to run. Instead, she's another one of those people that is.  So she was it's kind of known here in the area for running basically an AOC attack ad at our triple a baseball stadium during games and that's her like claim to fame. Is she one of those Republicans who like will print out a bill and then shoot it? Like is she doing that with the Green New Deal? Yeah, yeah, like the ridiculous most. Off the wall, computer generated explosions and everything else. Love it. Love it. The other the other other gentlemen is County Board of Supervisor currently Nathan Magsing is his name and he is trying to walk the line of being Trump. But not we're seeing that. We're seeing that balancing act by a lot of Republicans as of late, which is interesting. Like a glin, yonkin kind of. Yeah, yeah, talk, but, you know, not not mentioned Trump by name, but talk about his policies and I'll do the same thing. But yeah, that's interesting. Tell me about because, you know, it's kind of interesting to know what's going on. I mean, this is a GOP leaning district. But in terms of the Democratic Party primary, how would you say you're different than the other candidates? And there's a lot of people jumping in. So I'm sure it's kind of difficult to keep up. But just broadly speaking, like, why are you different than the rest of them? Why do you think that people should vote for you over the other candidates in your opinion? Well, so the thing is, the district has kind of really changed with redistricting, where we were a plus five Republican Advantage Registration Advantage District to now being a plus seven Democratic Registration Advantage District. So the district itself is very Democratic. And one of the things I think is the misconception is a lot of the folks that they added through redistricting just because they're registered Democrat doesn't mean they're going to show up and vote there. They're very much low income people of color, the traditional people that would be prime for the Democratic Party to pick off. But we've had candidates that don't speak to their issues. And so I think what's different about me is the same thing that we talked about about the millionaire. And would you take that money like my mother, who's not here to fight for herself? That's something that's that's varied in me and that I'm not going to lose. And so for me, the issue it becomes talking about the things that people are concerned with, because they're the same things I'm concerned with. My wife is a registered nurse. We've been living two years in a pandemic and the situation where she doesn't have PPE going into work or right now they're trying to do contact tracing and she's got 180 something cases. Our community hospital here has seven hundred employees that are out because they've tested positive. Wow. Wow. That's that's ridiculous. So with the situation that we have on the ground here, not only with COVID, but in the situation that I talked about with with with poverty and everything else, those things are not being talked about by any of the other candidates. You know, we get a lot of these they call them platitudes where it's like, yeah, I support people having access to health care. That's that's such a bad code where, yeah, I have access to health. Everybody, almost people have access to health care now. Doesn't mean that they can be that they're getting the care that they need. We're talking about preventative care. I'm talking about my grandma being able to go to the doctor before she gets diabetes. You know, that's the kind of things that we're talking about. You know, as a person, I got student loans. I understand one of the things I advocated for on social media is, OK, I get that, you know, Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin, they're bumps on a log, they're not going to do anything. Let's look at the executive action that body could take. If you're really talking about improving the lives of Americans, what's an executive action that you can take? Yeah, do you know the sort of stimulus that having student loans? We've been they've been, you know, on pause for this long. Just out of I mean, yeah, yeah, it's it's a simple solution that's so popular that would make them so popular, make Biden specifically more popular. It's it's it's frustrating to know that that's not what the struggle is doing.  Then we're about, you know, forgiving $50,000 in student debt. And not it was this this this person and we're really going to see if we could just look like you're doing something. That's the most frustrating thing as a candidate. And I'm just waiting for somebody to tell me what does the Democratic Party stand for? I know what this person who's a Democrat stands for. I know what this person who's a Democrat stands for. What is the Democratic Party stand for? If you don't want to lose a house in 2022, give us something to run on. Because right now I'm the only person talking about these issues that affect everyday people. And I've met with a lot of citizens because we didn't get bill back better, because the bipartisan infrastructure bill was. A corporate slash one, there's some stuff in it that helps.  And these are the things that I would love to see happen and that I'm going to work for. And at the same time we're watching stuff on the on the news every night. Democrats tried again to pass voting rights. Things that you would think would be so fundamental and we can't get it done. So as a as a leader of the party, I would love for Joe Biden to stand up and say, OK, you know what? We're going to do this stuff without these people. This is what I can do by executive action. If you give me a full majority, a greater majority, look at how much more we will get done. Look like you're doing something. So much of this is stuff that I've learned from Trump. He was really good at looking like he was doing. Yeah, you know, his daily schedule. He worked for maybe, you know, three hours of the day. He had a call that had some executive time. Had a lot of box news, a marathon every day. Yeah, I've heard similar things about how, you know, back in 2020, a lot of the candidates running then were really trying to win when it was like an uphill battle, because once, you know, Bernie had dropped out, all of the enthusiasm had kind of been deflated. And then it was just, OK, Joe Biden isn't Trump. And that's something. But it's kind of hard to get people excited about that. And you're kind of describing the same characteristic, which is it's frustrating. So here's what I want to do. I want to give you the opportunity to kind of plug your campaign. Let us know how we can help you get elected. Do you need any donations? Do you need volunteers? And is there anything we can do to send like your wife a care package? Because, oh, my God, being a nurse during a pandemic, I don't know how she's doing it. The fact that she's still doing it in the third wave now. Send her all of our love because I just I'm not mentally strong enough to do it. So she is she's got to be heroic. So so let us know if we can help you, though. Yeah, we totally appreciate every every dollar that we get goes straight into outreach. So if you want to be able to to help us reach voters in this district, I'm one of those people I'm working full time while I'm doing this, too. And so I'm not taking a salary from my campaign like some of the other candidates we are putting on every dollar that we get into into our campaign. So if you want to go and make a contribution to our campaign, you can do so at LH, the number four C.com or go to www.laurenhubbard.com. And on our website, you can check out our platform for progress, all the things that we're talking about to really move the country forward. Because we do be that much. That's our whole campaign is based on we deserve better. How about making some investments in us? And especially after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday this week, where people were talking about, oh, Dr. King, this and Dr. King, that and and forget that he talked about a country that invests more in its military than the social investments and its citizens does not need to exist. And so that's the basis of our platform. We invest in America, invest in us. We deserve it. We deserve better. And then if you want to reach out to my wife at Hubbard family on Instagram, because we have two kids, one of them's here now making all kinds of noise. You want to say hi to people? She's in the background running around. Five and two and one of them's here now. She's our campaign mascot. Oh, hi. And so my wife has been fantastic. She is taking the kids. She's doing this. She's going to events with me. She's got all this stuff going on with covid. She's got your hands full. A family campaign. Yeah, you all have your hands full. I mean, how could you not vote for someone who is bringing on an adorable child like this? That's adorable. Hi. Well, thank you so much, Lauren. It's been a pleasure. We'll be following your campaign closely and good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me.


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Anyone have any questions in the back? Well as mentioned I'm an emergency physician, which means I do shift work And I generally work in small primarily worked in smaller areas So in the middle of the night come two three in the morning often my emergency department will be dead Nobody there, and I was sort of looking online And I came across this page in Wikipedia that was really quite bad And then I noticed I could fix it and I sort of got hooked At that point and you know, it's a I've found that it's a great way to get involved with academics Even if you're out in the middle of nowhere So that that's the draw to me, you know, we have an academic community There's a core group of physicians on Wikipedia who are interested in you know going over the academic research and interested in writing academic articles So I have a community there of academics when I'm you know 4,000 kilometers from UBC or whatever it is Yes You know the we're hoping people are learning more about Wikipedia as time comes time goes on, you know Wikipedia is not a suitable source to you know to reference in academic papers It's a starting point It's where you get an overview of the topic, you know, we at Wikipedia wouldn't reference ourselves You know you need to reference, you know, you need to reference the published peer-reviewed literature so You know People who've gotten into trouble are the ones who have used Wikipedia inappropriately, you know You have the odd journalist who you know find something on Wikipedia Copy and paste it uses it verbatim doesn't follow up as academics as journalists You have an obligation to verify your sources and the people who've gotten into trouble are the ones who haven't verified their sources So, you know with respect to efforts we've done to address this, you know, we're trying to get academics on board You know, we realize that there's issues with the quality of Wikipedia You know there are a number of safeguards that maintain that quality, but we're still a small group of volunteers We need greater involvement of the of the global academic community to make Wikipedia the source we wish it to be So, you know The the primary thing that brings people into trouble is they show up and they add their own personal opinion Without providing references to reliable sources and that will get what you've added quickly reverted and possibly a little Note on your talk page, you know advising to use References from that point on the other thing that commonly gets people into trouble is, you know, they work for a charity They say hey Wikipedia gets a ton of views I'm gonna add links to my charity to every page that's even tangentially related on Wikipedia Those people quickly find themselves blocked or banned from Wikipedia, you know We're not here to be a list of external links to other people's webpages Yes, there's all these great charities out there, but Wikipedia isn't a compilation of Charities so those sorts of things will get people into trouble and then of course obvious conflict of interest Such as when you know pharmaceutical companies come and they remove negative comments about their pharmaceuticals that are well referenced That will get you into trouble as well


Biden, West, has done everything to make Ukraine ready for counter-offensive. Western countries have done their utmost to prepare Ukraine for its counter-offensive, so Washington is optimistic. US President Joe Biden said at a press conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Let me begin by answering the question. First of all, the Ukrainians should speak to the military operations. I won't do that from here. We've done everything we could collectively, much individually in the United States, to make them ready. The support is going to continue. The US president said when asked by a reporter whether military assistance to Kiev would be continued in light of the counter-offensive launched by Ukraine. Biden added that in the evolving situation, we are very optimistic in talks with the Ukrainians. The US president emphasized that the US and its allies intend to provide assistance to Kiev in ensuring long-term security. We're advancing this goal by providing them support Ukraine needs now on the battlefield and helping them strengthen their military over the long term. Biden added, the Russian Defense Ministry reported earlier that since June the 4th, Ukrainian forces have been making unsuccessful attempts to advance suffering losses in manpower and hardware.


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hey what's up you guys welcome back to my channel if you're new here hi hello i'm lydia and today after a request on instagram if you're not following me on instagram it's link there i asked on instagram what you wanted to see and this was the first one an update so i turned 26 in a week and a few days on the 4th of december so that's happening i turned 26 i didn't think i was going to make it to 20 but i'm turning 26 i'm still at uning well i don't know i've been a bit depressed recently i wasn't going to do the break-off but that didn't help at all my anxiety has been ridiculous i've got a knee brace on in the minute if you want to see me putting that on head over to my instagram again in instagram's where i post stories i'll insert that little footage of me putting on my knee brace right now so yeah uh it took me two attempts to get it on right so it wouldn't fall down anyway the knee brace when i go when i'm going out because it only fits over leggings so my pyjamas are too wide on tuesday this week i took a mental health day meaning i didn't go into uni and i stayed i slept all through the morning till one meaning i missed lunch which is about right i was hungry as well having no money and being hungry is the worst thing i've got 85 pound on my account the minute that's got to go out on sunday 85 pound that had lasted me until my next loan my next pit payment i don't know i'm rambling because i don't have a whole lot to update on i text my care coordinator to find out when we're next meeting and he didn't answer me so i still don't know when i think i've got a feeling this next week but i don't know he didn't fucking answer me i've been listening to vinyl evanescent it's a live one but i love it in terms of my medication the only real changes my connoisseur payment night got stopped and i would keep waking up in the middle of the night but i guess i can deal with that i still wanted to fall back asleep so what am i complaining about i've just been a bit up and down i spoke to my mom the other day well yesterday and i was talking to her about my medication so is that me and my mom definitely get on better now that i've moved out but yeah everything's stable and i'm over the breakup which has been the biggest thing going on in my life i've got two dead lions one on the 5th of december one on the 8th of december i also start busy on the 8th of december so hopefully we'll get some progress going with my knee and i'm on a fluffy hoodie but i'm i'm okay and that's what i want you guys to know if you want to support the channel my patreon is linked up there on the icard and in the description down below if you want to make a one-time donation or just want to send me some money to help me out i'll link my paypal up there and is it in the script from down below if you want to buy me a birthday gift i will link my birthday wishlist please note you don't have to get me anything you don't have to donate you don't have to do any of this it's just if you want to i've also lost my glasses again but yeah if you are a new subscriber during the family request videos anyone got any video they want me to make leave in the comments down below and i will see you guys in my next video peace


Okay, so I'm Nikolas, I was born say 200 kilometers to the east of here in Cologne, Cologne, in a different country, and in that country I was trained as a mathematician. And five years ago I came to Tilbridge to join the Department of econometrics in the war as a teacher and as a researcher. And, well, as a teacher I've mostly been involved in the econometrics programs like the moment the master in quantitative finance, actuarial science, also the econometrics and mathematical economics master. Well, a lot of what I'm teaching is, I would say in the broad sense applied mathematics sometimes very, very applied mathematics and I strongly believe in teaching mathematics by storytelling. But it's not. Okay, here's the beautiful theory, because the problem with that is you only see the beauty after you've understood it plus maybe I'm never going to see it. Instead, I like to tell stories okay someone has a problem, so they're supposed to sell a very complicated derivative financial derivative, or they're supposed to make the financial system safer or they have to assess a certain risk, risk that certain company goes bankrupt, risk that a disease breaks out, you could also tell stories like that. Yeah, and I usually tell these stories, so there's this person, and it's their job to solve this problem, and then they come to you maybe and say okay here please econometrician help me. And then I'm a strong believer also in staring at problems until they start to look easy. So I do, I believe that most things are actually easy once you've properly understood. Yes, I mean there may be exceptions like the solar system, maybe or cricket, but most things are actually easy. If you look at them for long enough and then it's my job as a teacher and as a researcher both to stare at stuff until has started to make it easy and then to explain to people why it's also easy. And of course also to tell these tricks to people so that they can also stare at stuff and make it easy. Yeah well, and my teachings mostly in financial mathematics I would say in a broad sense. The topics somehow were much more popular when I was a student like 15 years ago and then came the financial crisis and people said oh it didn't work. The models were all wrong let's stop studying this let's give up. And I started to become really interested because somehow just because they are all these unsolved problems and just because we don't properly understand how to deal with all these risks doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of research to be done and there's a lot of stuff that you still need to understand better and yeah also there are still these jobs right because it's not like the banks stop doing business after the financial crisis so there's still a lot to learn and to understand and I guess this is what I stand for as a teacher. Thanks for listening.


Good afternoon, everyone My name is Tom compass I'm the director of the Crawford School of Public Policy, and it's my pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon To this special special event this special lecture Before we begin, let me take a moment to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land that we meet on and Pay respect to their elders past and present I'm going to introduce the acting vice chancellor in a minute to introduce our special special guest speaker Before I do that, let me just take a minute to personally thank your excellency for coming here today back to ANU Gordon if I might Gordon was a student in what was called the National Center for Development Studies back in 2000 2001 which has now become the Crawford School of Public Policy. So I am Unabashedly proud to call you one of my alumni So very happy to have you here Very straightforward format after after the The address by his excellency is offered to answer a few questions If that's okay Good, and then there's a special alumni reception afterwards in the heavily bull center. So to get started, please let me introduce the Acting vice chancellor and the deputy vice chancellor research of research professor Margaret Harding. Thank you Thank you Tom Your excellency Madam Lilo distinguished guests Ladies and gentlemen It's really an enormous pleasure to be here today and have the opportunity to Welcome a very esteemed and your alumnus back to speak to her and meet with you today here I'm an ANU as many of you will be aware. We often Talk of the leadership positions that many graduates move to After they leave here, we value and really admire and Look to the contributions of our alumni all over the world And you are great ambassadors for the quality of the education and the experience We give you here at the ANU here And it's really an enormous pleasure to see the great contribution of so many of our alumni in the world at large to their home nations and Professor Sorry Prime Minister Lilo, of course could hardly be you know a better example of the type of Alumnus that we are proud of and we showcase representing the Australian National University Tom has already alluded to some of his history and association with the ANU But after graduating in 2000 with a master of development and administration From what is now the Crawford School of Economics and Government Mr. Lilo was elected to the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands in 2001 Dedicated to strengthening his country's economy Mr. Lilo had a paper published through the ANU Asia Pacific Press that was entitled Hard Times Ahead issues and reform in Solomon Islands Public Finance Which was presented at the Pacific updates on Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu in June 2000 In the 10 years following that time he has served in a number of key roles Including the Minister for Finance, Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs Minister for Environment and Conservation and Prior to his election as Prime Minister last year he served again as the Minister for Finance and Treasury It's an honour to have him return to the University today To discuss the future of the Solomon Islands economy and please join me in welcoming the Honourable Gordon Lilo Thank you acting wise, Sanchela For those remarks, I'd like to join Professor Tom Compass also to Acknowledge and recognise the indigenous owners of this land And in particular for Giving a space for the National Australian National University to be built on this land Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen First allow me to say how delighted I am to Visit parts of this beautiful country in the last three days At the invitation of the Australian government It has been a busy schedule, but I'm delighted that the Australian National University is also part of this visit Air New is not new to me And it is indeed a privilege to come back to my alma mater I still have some fond memories of this place But this afternoon as the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands It is an honor To address such a distinguished audience in such an esteemed institution as you know The Air New has over the years ably educated many students in the Asia Pacific region Who have gone on to play important roles in their countries And the region at large And it is a privilege to be part of that expanding group of people To continue to save public policy and thinking in the region It is therefore only appropriate That I take this opportunity to say how appreciative I am of this esteemed institution But for this afternoon's address I wish to talk a little bit about my country, Solomon Islands And highlight some of the challenges that we face And the attempt to address this as we move forward in the future Some of these challenges are common Even universal But from my observation the solutions that are grounded in Local context and our detail are more sustainable And a suitable title for my paper then is Common Challenges, Unique Solution Ladies and gentlemen, first let me paint a picture of Solomon Islands to give context to my talk Solomon Islands gained political independence from Great Britain in 1978 Some 34 years ago And when the state was formally established The stage was however already crowded with clans tribes, language groupings And other constituents Many of these are semi-autonomous groups exercising their own rules and authority Over their territories and constituents And since then the state has attempted to exert positive control over these groups which make success The imaging country became what the late prime minister of Solomon Islands Solomon Mamaloni described As a nation conceived but never born This remains a fundamental character of Solomon Islands at independence As it is today and will be in the foreseeable future But in the 1990s The term arc of instability entered the political discourse Referring essentially to weak states That are unable to control their affairs And that are at risk of terrorist influence or penetration And although the terminology describing the situation may have changed The fundamental reality remains Mamalonis in the notion described by late Mamaloni as the unborn state In the above situation state-based democracy national consciousness national solidarity And even political direction become difficult to achieve The second the Solomon Islands economic base remains Narrow today Just as Charles Woodford observed in 1893 before the islands were declared British are protected Mr. Woodford told them that plantations would form the mainstay of the economy And consequently plantations were developed Indeed today the Solomon Islands Supports one of the biggest plantation estates in the region The estates were formerly owned by liveable brothers But have now been sold to the Russell Islands Plantation Estate Limited And in the late 1980s and early 1990s The economy turned to logging for its economic base Mr. Woodford would have been quite surprised Logging became popular because of easy access to cash often brought in by Asian loggers The low capital outlay And a quick return on investment If you can describe lobing as an investment made it a lucrative choice Not only for the entrepreneurs But their local promoters and partners Succeeding governments have attempted to devise if I into agriculture mining fisheries And manufacturing But to this day logging is still a major contributor to the country's export earnings Ladies and gentlemen, I mention one more aspect of the Solomon Islands as a background And that is the misfit between the introduced Westminster system of government administration And those that existed in Solomon Islands Contestation exists between formal institutions And informal institutions And between the power structures of these institutions Professor Corrine Care described this as akin to Fitting a square peg into a hole or a round hole I paint that background Not to justify any failures or shortcomings on the part of any institution But to understand The reasons for our challenges to date More importantly Such realities will continue to be relevant as we define And craft public policy in response to current challenges In 1998 As many of you know Solomon Islands descended into a social unrest In what is now commonly called The ethnic tension Thanks to Prime Minister Howard And the Pacific Island Forum then In 2003 The regional assistance mission to Solomon Islands of Ramsey For short was assembled Sent to Solomon Islands and as they say The rest was history But since Ramsey's intervention Law and order had returned And the country was being rebuilt Next year 2013 Ramsey will market stand Anniversary But more importantly The intervention force will be drastically scaled down Bearing in mind that although institutional capacity Had been restored The context in 2003 Remains somewhat the same In terms of the economic challenges The Ramsey transition Must be managed responsibly To ensure sustainability Of peace Issues such as Euron employment Absence of economic infrastructure And institutional leadership remain Significant challenges That must inform Transitions into That must form transition Into the post Ramsey period And the government's view Which has been consistently expressed Is that Transition must be task bound And not time bound This is important to ensure sustainability Of peace for Solomon Islands And the region Ladies and gentlemen macroeconomic And even fiscal management Continues to be a challenge in Solomon Islands This is not a noble observation Many observe this And many attempts of public And institutional reforms Are carried out to varying Degrees of success But the chronic problem lies In weak institutions, processes And personnel The mechanism for determining, monitoring And assessing the use of public funds And resources still remain weak And to add more difficulty Many of the people tasked to operate These processes lay capacity Worse still They too are often tempted to operate The system for their own ends However, through fiscal policy management Since 2010 The buffer zone for foreign reserves Have improved, reducing risk That are due to financial fluctuation Affecting the international price Of export commodities The government, with the help of Ramsey Has increased capacity In financial management and monitoring This tighter control over spending As well as improvement In revenue connection Will be responsible for some revenue growth Into 2012 Improved macroeconomic And fiscal management Since 2003 Has also provided the impetus To expand the economic base Currently, several onshore Processing fish plants Have been established And some more are in the pipeline Agricultural development And small-scale manufacturing Are also making some progress Mining also presents And currently, the only operating mine At Goldreach continues to generate revenue But the government is looking at the prospect Of developing a large nickel mine On the islands of Isabel and Chosal Hopefully sooner Than later But recently the courts have cleared the way For the government to make progress In the grant of the mining rights To the developer And in that regard It may be worth mentioning that in June This year, the Solomon Islands Became a member Of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative or the EITI This is an international framework For reporting mining revenues And it is a positive step In developing good operational And management structures for the industry Based on international best practice We have learned Many lessons from mining countries That have made mistakes And Solomon Islands must begin the new industry With very high international standards Let me now touch a little bit On mobilizing of customary land assets For development The government, since independence Have talked about mobilizing customary land For development Yet land remain locked under customary tenure And since May 2012 The government Through the customary land policy Management unit Has consulted with traditional land owners To open up their land for development The owners of large tracts Of land deemed suitable for agriculture Tourism of other developments Are asked to record their land details Under the land recording act We have identified areas in Malayta Gordo Canal in the western province For This initiative And I'm pleased to say That responses to this program have been positive And it is hoped that in the later Half of the year For active land recording programs Will commence in the selected provinces Following this Investors can be invited to Assess the feasibility of these land blocks For their investment But the weak leadership of customary land Owner groups need to be strengthened To ensure that They speak with one voice This it is hoped will create Certainty and predictability For the investor That is in Germany it is also fair to say That political parties in the Solomon Islands Are only active during general election periods After that they remain dominant Again till the next election Weak political parties led to what has been Termed locally as grasshopping Which denotes crossing the floor Of parliaments by parliamentarians Without regard to political ideology In response to that the government Has funded national consultations To examine structures and processes Of improving political stability And integrity Provincial consultations in the provinces Had been made And a national convention Had taken place in July this year Which brought together eminent leaders From the region and the leaders of the country The report and recommendations are now Before cabinet And soon a decision will be made On the implementation of some of these recommendations It is hoped that this measures Will create the institutional environment For political stability and integrity With regards to Improving the electoral process Some progress has also been made Towards a new water registration For 2014 general election Recruitment and training of personnel Establishment of provincial operation Offices, water registration Centres and equipping them Have now begun after the recent By elections for our two Constituencies this month And the new water registration Is expected to be completed In 2013 in preparation For the 2014 general election There are also some minor Legislative amendments That are being prepared Which will improve the electoral process Ladies and gentlemen What is also observed In the seeming disconnect between Government at the central government And at the provincial or constituency Is a matter of worry and concern to us And to date Public funding through the current system Has not been experienced Or witnessed at the community Or village level This reinforces the notion That the government is a foreign institution And to add present the government Is considering a structure which connects The central government directly With the constituency The concept that we are working on Is the constituency development authority Which we believe Will empower And mandate Local communities To be able to implement Community development And Enter into meaningful development Within the constituencies This is also intended to encourage The spirit of enterprise at the constituency level The experience in the last three decades A system of government Closer and meaningful to the local community Is designed Finally, ladies and gentlemen I believe there is some work to be done Towards improving aid coordination In this in years International and regional Arrangements had been signed To ensure aid effectiveness In our case We have launched what we call The national development strategy 2011 to 2020 The development assistance from partners Will be based on the priorities At line in this strategy Development We believe the development assistance In Solomon must align itself With the national development strategy To achieve the national goals As outlined in that document Ladies and gentlemen In conclusion, I will say this That the Solomon Islands Continued to face many challenges But despite this We continue to deal with the issues And create a viable future For tomorrow's generation Some of the challenges are common to all And for regional We believe that We can depend on the bilateral And multilateral efforts So that we can inform Have a well-informed Solutions That are based on the local context And the detail of which We can work through With our local communities Once again Allow me to thank The Australian National University For giving me this opportunity To share with you some of the challenges That Solomon Islands face And also our vision and plans To move forward into the future I also wanted to Thank the Government of Australia For organizing this official visit And making it possible for me To make this ledger here Distinguished guest that is in general Men, I thank you all for listening Yes, sir So as agreed, the Prime Minister Is happy to take some questions From the audience for about 15 or so 20 minutes Yes Prime Minister, John Blacks from the ANU here Thank you for an excellent presentation Ramsey has In years What's changed that you now feel confident That you can do without it Well, I think we have been able To Build A good, you know, positive Train and engagement Within our own, you know, society For instance, you know We would say that Law and order is an important Aspect In building up a stable society It would see that Over the past 10 years Since the engagement of Ramsey We have been able to see a good development Of Our society moving together More integrated And one event that I think Would attest to that is the recent Festival of Pacific Arts I could not go any other Period beyond that than the Festival of Pacific Arts In which we have Minimal resources exerted In this force There is basically no military on the street But that we have been able to have Locals Running the street Ensuring that we don't have Any other Sorry to say, the Ning-Nong around the street You know, to cause disturbances And I must say that, you know, we have been able To have a trouble-free festival You wouldn't be able to have that Some 10 years ago We didn't post the conflict You would still have to have Some slight incidents Of social disturbance We didn't have one at all Except that There was a little boy who was so hungry Went to the stall and said, look Can I have that food? But they didn't respond to him So he decided to have himself But that was for him from a little boy For a very good purpose He was so hungry He said, you know, there is A good integration of the society Satish Yes, I don't have the right numbers With me But obviously The projection so far Is that by 2015 Logging would decline It would decline But for the moment It has been About 60, 70 percent Of the whole capacity Of the economy The taxable capacity of the economy Has been generated out of logging And we are so Mindful about that I made a point About moving into mining Which is You go to find a way to transition The economy There is no other better way To do it than this But at the same time We need to get into More sustainable development Like tourism Encouraging more development Into the fishery sector You will find That one of the first Country that has taken Strong action in ensuring That we get maximum Benefits out of the Tuna industry Under this vessel day scheme We have actually stopped The operation Last year Put out on tender The vessel day Provision for the country And had been able to Fetch a good price for it In fact Out of my memory But I think it was something Around 5000 And we have been going around The world telling them This is the best ocean resource management Strategy that we can do To make sure that This came out of The parties to the narrow agreement My real worry is that There are some members of the parties To the narrow agreement that are not Taking tough and serious action In pursuing the vessel day scheme It's a simple economic concept On ensuring that Here is the resources That we have But because of the International law of the sea You cannot You don't have the exclusive Rights to price the tuna But we can do it through this Vessel day scheme arrangement Which I myself technically I slipped out of my mind how it works But there is a formula That it is based on But it works very well What it means is that We have ended up with this scheme That has enabled us to be able to Take control of the pricing of that Vessel day scheme Which for the last 40 years For the last 40 years We have paid little regard to it Neglectly did It should be the main driver for Economic growth for the Pacific Island countries There's never Instead we have concentrated on other issues And have ended up Missing the very sector that is generating Growth throughout Asia and Europe And so I was a bit worried about What it means for us to drop the Vessel day scheme And if we are going to do that We basically Just have to end it up Pulling back the fate of the Small economies in the Pacific Island I would like to see you again I would like to see you in the Informalization Federalism stands Related to what you were saying about Mining and the move Towards In relation to Avoiding some of The problems That you spoke about You deal with the Political or the Decentralization issue At the moment We are now into about Fifth draft of our federal Constitution Fifth draft But Some people say Some negative Think about that As far as we are concerned We have never negotiated a Constitution in the past We basically went and took A ready-made Constitution So perhaps it's a good time for us To get engaged Get the country and the people In the whole process of Making their own Constitution Making their own Constitution We are now up to We have established The The Constitutional Congress Drums have been Seculated And To all the provinces We are yet to get a feedback from All the provinces And we would call On The experts now The Constitutional law And other Relevant experts To look into How it will shape out How it will shape out And the whole format of The drafting But What it means is that It still remains An issue Of absolute Priority to the country Where People still have a popular view That We should move Into A federal Setting of Government Which is state government And A federal parliament But at the same time We Want to ensure that Making the machinery to work Must be Feasible For the country And I don't want to Go through Saying what would be the outcome Of the Constitutional Congress Because there is a body that has to be respected But as it stands right now There are key indicators That we need to point to And one is that The popular view To move into state government system That still stands And secondly Whether or not That system would be Feasible for the country And that we will not go down the path That it will affect The economy And the unity of the country So that's where We are at the moment on that On the mining thing Yes, I mean In terms of proximity Logically, we would be looking at Papua New Guinea And that's exactly What we are doing right now Talking to Papua New Guinea We have learned That Papua New Guinea, for instance Have moved into establishing a sovereign fund Where Resources Windfall resources From the mining sector Can be Invested for future Generation To help And sustain future Operation of the economy And that is exactly the mode of Fiscal operation that we are doing right now We have changed from A Basically cleaning up the basket system Of budgeting to We have worked out A fiscal buffer in our budget Where this is where we begin To Pick resources out And put into the budget annually So in our budget system We Have arrived at a strategy That the French engine of this year We have agreed that we will Make sure that We should have at least about 180 million as a buffer To Keep the fiscal position of the Government floating into the future Next year it will Increase incrementally I mean the whole Rational behind this is that You've got to invest into Into the future and there are Unforeseeable situation That can happen into the future That if it happens where will you Where will you tap into To help support delivery of services Into the community And so that principle We have seen it working And I am confident that We can have that As a way to Have that Reflected in the way that we are managing Procedure out of our mining sector Australia and New Zealand are also Important to the region. They are What I call is the Important connectivity to the International Arena We have The small economies in the Pacific That You can't just go directly into The international arena. You will get seen In the international arena. So you need that buffer To be able to Build your capacity In dealing with issues of Trade for instance Or investment Assessing What comes along with investment flows And capital flows From the international market into The small countries in the Pacific. Australia and New Zealand plays That very important role. There are Some leaders that think otherwise About that purely from the political Angle. I don't see it in That way. Coming to the sub-original Of The MSG Some of the MSG Other countries that In a way the only countries that Have got good capacity To be able to generate good Investment and economic growth Because of the abundance of the Natural resources that they have There are other states in the Pacific that are Basically welfare states But The MSG is not just a It is a political grouping It is a grouping that Says a common They say a common Issues with them In terms of The resources, the culture And so forth. I believe that If the MSG can be Strengthened in that way They have the potential to provide A good prospect For Economic opportunities to other Countries in the region. That's how I see MSG. A lot of people see MSG as a way To diminish the powers Of the foreign countries And in a way to stage A contest on Australia And New Zealand. I don't think so. You will see that increasingly MSG have been able to Meet The issues of Cultural heritage Resource management Skill workers movement These are all economic issues They are non-political. It's all about Building a strong economic base Which Obviously it can be done Through the bigger forum It can be done through the bigger Forum. But I think it Can be better managed Through that regional arrangement The university I would like to ask you a question About the support of your government Exactly what the reasoning is for And what the implications are For your relationship with USP? Will the USP campus Which has been promised for a long time Is it going to come Or will there be a close relationship Between the new university and USP? Why at this stage Is it important to have a National University? As you know that the biggest Or the second biggest country Feeding the USP, Solomon Islands I can understand why A lot of people Are Quite worried about Solomon Islands Establishing their own National University I think we need to see from The angle of an education system Must be absolutely complete You cannot have A country that has a half Done education system If you have a population You must feed it right to the end That is exactly what Solomon Islands is trying to do We have a good base In feeding up to the primary Elementary education And that we cannot Continue to have a system where We have to trim off people to fall off And then build up in all these Unemployed groups Better tessary Education path I think you need to see it from That very simple fact USP I believe Can become a higher An advanced or post-graduate You know education institution In the Pacific region It's capable of doing that It's capable of doing that They've already started doing that They've expanded their infrastructure They have got themselves into The training program And I think the emphasis In that regard Would better prepare More Post-graduate And advanced training Scholars out of the Pacific region Into the international market So in a way I don't see it as a way Of threatening the existence of It will feed better Candidates for higher Education training At a post-graduate level And If we do it properly You know through like for instance What we are doing, Fiji is doing it Samoa is doing it In the Solomon's we are doing it I'm sure that we can have a better Prospect of feeding the post-graduate Market To be Married out by USP But Look at it in a way That There's a country of Half a million people 600,000 We believe that we are around 600,000 We didn't quite make our senses Well recently But We had to look at a country That we need to build a strong Social Socially connected Society Then the education system must be completed We can't live with an incomplete Education system Simple as that Well I believe so Because as you know that the only country In the Pacific that I've actually enacted A protected areas legislation In Solomon's There is a strong commitment to show That we are serious about A conservation program That Are well attached to the local community And It's good that we have live and learn I think I've met you before But I would encourage you To work more closely with the community In building a strong Community network In doing this conservation program Because that's What has actually failed in the past That we tend to Throw a design Program of conservation to the Communities And have not connected it to them Taking control of the ownership In the way that they will manage them Yeah that's fine It will be quite a lot I mean Right now You are looking at a mining That is You know if we Get to settle some of the issues that we have With With the local communities We should be able to hit at least about 130,000 ounces You know export capacity But at the moment we are just Barely hitting about 80,000 Ounces But even at that level It is still a very feasible one And one that We can look at in terms of Holding a gap Or filling in that gap That will be left If there's going to be a decline in logging Over the next three years Up to 2014-2015 But At the same time We have the nickel mining On Isabel and Choichel There will be 10 times bigger than the gold Mining Now the worrying thing is really Managing the resources that will flow out of it We have Bought ourselves on a program To try to deal with the community Not buy them off But engage them Put more infrastructure Connecting them to the market Build a more social structure And governance at the community level So that they can take charge of their Responsibility to manage The The mining development Social management issues So to speak But As you know that There are challenges That always associated with this And some Domestically Can be generated Others are externally Generated And most of the time They Land there Their agenda And this is one other thing that We are trying to get it right now Is to deal with the environmental issues So that We can deal with it In a more Effective way By engaging all other parties And even Getting the communities themselves And the Better Transparent Solution Arrangement Rather than a small problem A bigger solution A machine to deal with In the end we disrupt everything So that's the kind of approach that we are taking Thank you One more question And They are very much in the heart of the MSG Agenda You cannot remove West Papua The MSG agenda We will treat them Just as it's important as The member countries themselves We have done that So Cautiously in the case of And we believe that We will find a way to engage With other Interested parties to be able to advance The cause of West Papua And I know that there are Some very glaring reports that have come out About the human rights issues in West Papua These are realities that we need to Deal with But I believe that the better connections That we have with Australia And I am pleased that For instance in this case Where a prime minister from the Melanesian spirit group has been given The honour to be a guest We will provide an opportunity for a one To one discussion With the leaders of Australia And New Zealand So that we can take At least a minimal step In addressing some of these human rights Issues In the field like yours We will all want Everything to be done But in the field that I am in We have to Put them through some screening And that's exactly what I have to do But it is still very much In the heart of Melanesian On the Chinese Influencing to the region I think they have a space in the region We should not unnecessarily Raise our alarm about the presence Of Chinese in the region They have been around They will be around They have shown what they are capable of Doing in terms of resolving problems That are facing countries And that's exactly What Saravanan is doing right now We are opening up on trade And investment with China Painful to the other Chinese That we are dealing with But we are massaging them well Because that is what It requires to be done Don't ask me what that massaging means I know How Complicated it is to Get such an explanation In this kind of an audience like this But That's how far we can deal with it Thank you


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Thank you everybody for joining us on this happy Thursday before the April Fool's Day on Friday. We appreciate you being able to take your time out to join us. So today we're going to talk with me today we have my gorgeous with. We're going to talk about our board of director training that we have coming up on April 30. It's an all day Saturday. It includes a deliver a lunch delivered to you via bite squad. But it's really going to be a full day of learning. And even if you've already been to it once it's really good to do it again. And I've heard it commented many times from other people that have attended at multiple times that they still pick up things that they didn't pick up on previous. So, Mike you've been to our board of director training what what did you. How did you feel about it. Oh yeah I definitely agree. You know I've attended several of them now. And each time you do pick up something. Maybe you missed the first time maybe you were busy doing something when the topic came up or it wasn't presented the same way. And then, oh yeah hey that's important and whether it's about the HRS changes or whether it's about insurance as soon as Savio always has things about insurance and they seem to keep changing all the time. Or, you know, and the other attorney and then Jane to she always has good points to bring up especially about legislation. And that's always changing so that's good for board members whether you're a brand new board member, or, you know, you've been on for a long time, like me, it's still good to go to that training. Yeah, it was we're going to include it in it is for some of the people that can't attend our regular board be a regular webinar or seminars that we used to call them. Especially our law update if they can't attend the end it attend it. We're going to be doing. There's one section on the new laws.  So now they've kind of been narrowed down so she's going to go through that. And then Jane. She's going to also give some time allowed for them for the life safety evaluation, because there are some changes happening there at the city level as well. Some big changes, you know, so it would be a good opportunity for everybody to get caught up on some of the new issues surrounding the life safety evaluation. Because it's the workbook training.  Any board member can register either online at HawaiiCouncil.org, or they can call their managing agent or property manager, or their admin, the admin person within their managing agent company and have them register, and then they will process the payment. And as long as you are a board member, the cost of that registration fee is paid for out of the maintenance fee out of the condo association, because it does allow for board members to use association funds to educate themselves. And we really highly recommend that board members educate themselves on all the laws, the current and some possible new ones that are up and coming, even the new ones that have already passed waiting to be signed into law.  Well, just the overall thing, including, you know, your fiduciary responsibility as a board member, which is always a something that board members need to be reminded about and the fact that you're there, not for yourself, but for your association. I'm working there for the whole associations benefits so that, you know, things are maintained properly and fees are as such and I always remember this from Sue Savio, she says, I've been on several boards and even ones where people didn't want to raise, but I told them why we didn't want to raise them even if it was just a couple dollars because things keep changing and you got to have that money there if things break or fall apart or just need normal wear and tear and like repaving or whatever it might be roofs, painting, etc. I'm a strong supporter of incrementally raising your maintenance fees because you don't want to burden any homeowner with a special assessment as much as possible you try to avoid that. For me, I'd rather pay a five or $10 increase every month every year, versus a five or $10,000 special assessment. That's a big chunk of change to come out of your pocket, you know. One of the things I learned about that was, you know, even though I'm not in a high rise, when they brought up the fact that there were a couple of condos, because, you know, some of those things don't break for 30 years but when they do. So people weren't putting things away in reserves and all of a sudden they came up with a piping situation that was going to cost them lots of I can't remember the cost was but it was going to be a hefty special assessment just get it fixed. Yeah, you would think pipes last forever but they really don't. I've seen the inside of some of them when I go, oh, I've been drinking water out of that. Yeah, besides physical shared duty we're really going to talk a bit about also your conflicts of interest which is a really big issue. So you have the new share duty conflicts of interest, and I as getting a lot of the emails from a CCA. I get a lot of people talking about retaliation retaliatory tactics. The big thing that's going on and we really need to put a stop to it because, you know, it's really getting out of control on the part of the board.  Yeah, nobody should have to live with retaliatory taxes or the fear of retaliatory tactics, especially if they speak up or say something that that's just, you know, they shouldn't have to live under that kind of a condition. Yeah, I wasn't directly involved with it but I just heard about a couple that were having a problem like that being retaliatory tactics. And now they're looking for an attorney to see who can help them out with that so that's the type of there comes lawsuits there goes, you know, and they're unnecessary. Yes, yes. It's unnecessary.  Yes, not any different than car insurance and you file a claim drives your insurance up, you know, it. So people really need to sit down and listen and let the other person be heard, give them that opportunity to be heard be rational. I really encourage everybody to go to Hawaii Council. We, we prefer everybody to register themselves because one of the issues we've been having now that we're on these webinars for the past few years is email typos. So, sometimes the managing agent might do a typo and I'm putting it in, I might do a typo. So really encouraging everybody, all the board members to register themselves online, as much as possible to avoid those typos. Because if you have a typo in your email, you're not going to get the join link. And I want to remind everybody to that the, when we get closer to the week of the event. I send out like about well it's set up and go to a webinar they I set up five email reminders with the link. So they kind of get it five times. And I don't do any, we don't do any technical reply to emails on that day because there's a lot of things going on in that morning that I don't have the time to reply to emails. Yeah, I know I saw you in action on a couple of those other board trainings because there are a lot of things going on. And I'm going to give you a few kudos for getting those lunches out because I couldn't believe it.  So that's everybody has said it's a good lunch. I mean I've used it, not for just White Council but for some other things for work and everybody raves about the lunch. It's not much stuck with the same things because it's, it's a good, you know, good way some people like me and some people want the vegetarians or they want only salad. So it's kind of a decent selection bite squad is is very efficient. Yes. They're really good. They've really got it down pat. So. And that's nice because then people eat then they seem to pay more attention to the stuff even in the afternoon. And it's just a lot easier to have the lunch provided because then people aren't going to have to figure out what they're going to get how they're going to get their lunch or, you know, and then they come back late, you know, so it's just easier. Just like we're in at the Holocaust, and while I mentioned the Holocaust, I've been checking in with them to see what happened up again. They take their order strictly from the military. Right. The military has not allowed them to open up the catering department yet. So I kind of keep every once in a while I just go open up yet, you know, they're like no, you know, so I mean I would really love to get back to in person. Yeah, that would be good. I know some people like, you know, this form because they don't have to move they can stay where they're at and watch it but it's great to have in person time to because then you have a chance to speak to other board members and even the speakers when you get a chance to. That makes it really good. That's why I like the in person part. Yeah, even though this is very convenient. I know I just like how we're going to how we're going to do it you know and slowly, I mean it's going to probably be another year before everybody's probably reverse to more in person but I kind of think it's going to be a hybrid going forward. I do too. And it would be kind of nice, you know, some people want to only be, but then I think the hybrid are going to be good for the people that cannot attend in person because of work or whatever other issues. You know, so I think the hybrid model is going to be really really beneficial. And we'll be able to reach a broader audience that way as well. And I've seen that happen a couple other boards that I'm on, because they said, Oh, hey, we're getting ready to go back in person. And over half of the people said, Hey, can we just keep it hybrid. I like doing it on a zoom. Whatever platform are they using. I can't wait till we get back into in person I'm going to kind of missing people's faces, you know, now that's true too. You know, so I think what I might be doing is because if I usually open the go to webinar platform I usually start it kind of early, like an hour ahead. So I might, and I'll probably just leave it for people that an open mic. Yeah, before we start people have a dialogue back and forth with each other, you know, they can network that way as well via webinar. And even after the webinar we can leave it open for people to have discussions as well. Well I hope the military changes mind soon because I know they've loosened up at their other locations on what their requirements are but yeah, probably take some a while to get around to the hotels and things. I'm sure the catering people can't wait to get back to their positions. Oh yeah, they've been moved around into other positions in the hotel, but I'm sure they can't. They really want to get back to it. Because I don't even know if they're doing all the other like, didn't they used to do who the walls and stuff like that out there. Yes, they did. Yeah. And that was a good location because people had parking and get there and that was good. Yeah, decent parking. So again to recap, you know our board of director training is on Saturday April, April 29. Right. Yeah. April 30 April 30, Saturday April 30. Oh yeah, you're right April 30. So we're just going to start at 9am lunch will start to get delivered via bite squad about around starting at around 1111 30. So we encourage I encourage people not to use their phones to get on to the webinar, because the bite squad people might be calling you because either they're lost, or they need to get into the building.  So I said, just keep it. I don't know what to do with it. Just keep it. You know, we just have to kind of deal with it at the time. But everybody should be cognizant that bite squad and they call from an auto area I think it's a 619 or 614 area code, because they're in Minnesota the corporate officer in Minnesota. So all the guys have a company phone. So it's a phone call. Yeah. It's a California. Yeah, I think something like that. It's a six one something number. But they're after something really weird because when I get delivery, my doorbell rings, and I don't have a doorbell. It's a weird thing that they do and I'm thinking where I don't have a doorbell what what I'm hearing. So that's what happens when you go through bite squad. They have something that it sounds exactly like a doorbell, and it just blows my mind the first time I'm like, I don't have a doorbell. Okay, so it's going to be a full day where you're going to have be able to have questions questions and answers. That's going to be opened up. We really need everybody to register by our deadline date. I believe it's the 15th, because we need a week to get your workbooks mailed out. And we want to allow a week because they go priority mail, but one year, it took like a week to 10 days to get to some people. Yeah, so we want to make sure even though it's priority mail, we really want to make sure that everybody gets their booklets on time. And there's going to be some other handouts that we're going to have. We're going to probably recap some other trainings that we've done in the past. One of the other frequently violated one is 125 a the communication outside of a board meeting right decisions and stuff like that. So that's another frequently violated one that keeps coming up. And it's really nice when people they've attended in the past they go, can you send me that thing again about the, but not talking you know and so I'm just emailing it back to them and they're like yeah yeah I remember that. You know so it at least we know we're kind of getting through to everybody. And some of the information that in that 125 a was done by in conjunction with DCCA the condo specialist. So I'll put it together as well. They had a lot of input on that. So, that's important. Yeah, yeah. So, again, we really want all the board members to try to even a property manager, you know, or your site managers, resident manager should attend that training. It is well worth the time.  Right. Our resident manager has attended at least once because he was relatively new he wanted to know and he picked up a lot of information by attending. Yeah, I know someone they said they just hired a new resident manager she says 20 something. And I'm like well I hope he attends because you know that's going to be his intro to to a career. You know, your top general managers like that her cool and one after lane they all started down at the bottom, you know, and work their way up and it's their it's their career so livelihood. Yeah, that's true. So, okay Mike, thank you so much for filling in with me today on this topic. And it's, it's something that I'm really like a little passionate about on the training and the education for people. So, I hope we see a lot of people at this training. We usually get a we usually get a lot like about 200. We've been averaging about 200 every year so that's really good. But we know there's 100 condos out there. And you guys got to realize 40% of the population live in condos. So we should have a lot more people in attendance at these events. You're right. That is important. It is. Okay, can we pull up the slide one more time as we get ready to sign off. Okay, great. Okay everybody we hope to see your registrations coming in soon. And your registrations fees help to help us to further along education activities that Hawaii console also does. We do a lot more education items. Yeah. All right. Thank you everybody for joining us. Thank you Mike especially you for joining me today. And having a discussion on this topic. And I will see you again soon. That's for sure. Thank you everybody. Thank you so much for watching think tech Hawaii. 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In Pike County alone, we have about 600 students that have been identified this year as being homeless. To be classified as a homeless student in Pike County is not the stereotypical Hollywood homeless. Hollywood has created a mindset for people that homeless are people living on the street. If you look at McKinney-Vento Hall, the government defines a student as being homeless as a student who does not live with their parent or their guardian. They are couchsurfing. They live in substandard housing. They live in a shelter. They live in a motel. They live in their cars. Now if you are sharing housing with someone and that is not your home, then we classify those students as being homeless. Yes, they have a roof over their head. They do. That is not their home. Whomever they're living with could tell them, today, look, we just can't do this anymore, you're going to have to go. Where are they going to go? That's the thing.