My name is Captain Aaron Waller. I'm with Headquarters and Headquarters Company 2nd of the 503rd out of Vincenza, Italy. During the airborne operation I provided a jump master support and later on when we transition into platoon and squad objectives I'll be overseeing the platoon lanes. Operation Topside is a battalion airborne operation into Monte Romano training area focusing on seizing the airhead line, expanding the lodge and seizing follow-on objectives and then later on we will transition into platoon and squad tactical exercises. What's unique about this exercise is that we've never trained in Monte Romano before since I've been in the unit. It's been several years since the brigade has come down here. So what's unique about this is we're executing an airborne operation into a drop zone that we haven't used in a while. We're really kind of seeing what training areas Italy has for us to offer outside of the ones that we normally go to. The purpose of this exercise is for the brigade to demonstrate its ability to outload a battalion out of Aviano Air Base and project power into a non-contiguous area of operations and then within that training area allow us to get some additional squad tactical exercises in as well. Airborne operations are very important because they allow the United States to project power rapidly over great distance, allowing us to, within a short notice, put boots on the ground in another nation. I think Monte Romano training area has a lot of great potential. The unit hasn't been down here in several years so it's a really great opportunity for us to come down here, see what the area has to offer and what we can capitalize on in terms of further training objectives.


Let me see you just talk to each other for a minute here. This is the happiest occasion I think for all of us here. Today I'm signing into law legislation that comes to grips with a problem that I think should touch every American's heart. During the last three decades, when tens of thousands of our airmen, soldiers, Marines, and sailors went to Southeast Asian Korea to prevent aggression and protect the vital interests of our country, a number of Amer Asian children were born. When the fathers returned to the United States far too often, innocent children were left without parent or without a country. Through no fault of their own, these children have frequently lived in the most wretched of circumstances and often have been ostracized in the lands of their birth. Today it gives me great pleasure to sign Centerville 1698, a major step toward facing up to the moral responsibility that we can't ignore. This good and humane law, and it is that, recognizes the rightful claim of Amer Asian children to American citizenship and permits their entry into our country after arrangements have been made for their care with the families or with private organizations. The sponsors of the legislation, Senator Jeremiah Denton, Congressman Stuart McKinney, deserve a special word of thanks for their efforts to reunite these children with those who will love and care for them. And also, my thanks to Father Alfred Keane, who worked so hard for this bill and really indeed brought it to the government's attention. Now, he isn't here but his sister Judy is here and with her Julie and Scott Tripp, with the adopted children of her sister, and we also have Eddie Che and Jeannie Che who are students at Gonzaga University and Spokane. I'll bet they found out already that that's where Bing Crosby went to school. Americans have always opened their hearts to those coming from distant lands to make a new life here, to live in freedom and to improve their lot. In this case I think we should go a step further. Instead of saying welcome to these children, we should say welcome home. And now I'm going to sign this bill and make it official. And I do so again with those pens that only write one word. Make sure that it's the only place where it is. It's all legal. I can't take any questions here on that. Let me just say what I said over there. I think we had a very fruitful and successful meeting. Did you make a progress, sir? Oh, pardon me. Oh, I hit you right in the face. That's all right, she won't wash that side of her face. Will. Thank you. How do you know? This is Buchanan. It's white. Dr. Mrs. Hunter. Hello. How do you do? Well, Mr. President, good to see you again. Great day for us. You have a man in your face. As we sit down at your desk, can you get around to the desk? Okay, right next. Are you all right? Fine. Thank you. Are we going to have a facsimile signing? No, it's already been signed. Can't unsign it. We're going to try to keep you working. They represent you with this copy of the interagency agreement that has been made between our agency, the Small Business Administration, and Steve's agency over here, the Housing and Urban Development Agency, which recognizes your new federalism program and involving the federal, state, and local funds along with the private sector in producing new jobs, new opportunities over the next four years. Well, I thank you very much. This is good news. I'm delighted that HUD and Small Business Administration have formed this exciting project with only one of our governors, one of whom is here, a kid bond of Missouri. I understand that this program can create thousands and thousands of jobs and leverage billions of dollars, several billions of dollars of investment capital into small business where most of the new jobs that we need will be created in this country. Bill Verity, the chairman of the task force on the private sector initiative, has been looking into the area of how the federal government can work in connection with the private sector, and I know that he supports this effort a hundred percent. In fact, Jay Moorhead, he runs the White House office on the private sector initiative, and Bill Verity are going to report soon to the cabinet on how the federal departments, the agencies, can become more creative in leveraging public sector funds to the private sector. I also hope that the initiatives will stimulate states and local governments to find new and innovative ways to finance the new and the businesses and business itself without looking to the federal government, those existing businesses. And now I have another pearl, real pearl of good news for all of you in the country's economic recovery. Lower interest rates are the key to recovery, key to jobs, the hope of all across America. And the chemical bank today has lowered the prime rate to 11.5 percent, the lowest level in 25 months. Just before our administration took over the prime rate, as you know, 21.5, and if you don't know that, you haven't been listening to me, that's the highest peak in more than a century. They've knocked down the punishing interest rates by nearly 50 percent for every family, whether their livelihood is in the farm or in home building, auto, steel, or retail. This is the kind of news that brings help, security, and opportunity. The prime rate comes down. Lower mortgage rates and loan rates for consumers are sure to find. So I thank you all for this and I think it's a fine step in the idea of federalism. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, thank you. Mr. President, thank you, sir. On behalf of the National Governors Association Committee on Community and Economic Development, which had asked your administration to proceed with a small business economic revitalization program, we appreciate very much the next step in new federalism. I can say that in our state of Missouri, as one of the states that will be participating in this pilot project with the National Development Council, we believe that we can use the resources that this will make available to help us in implementing new financing programs to provide jobs. This, of course, is our great need right now. The falling interest rate is probably the best news that we can have for jobs, but to know that we can work with Housing and Urban Development on their UDAG and their Community Development Block Grant programs and SBA on the 503 programs means that we can coordinate the resources available from the private sector through state agencies and available federal programs to get the most bang for our buck and get the most jobs. So we look forward to making it work in Missouri. I assure you we'll do our best, and I know the other 20 states participating will make their best efforts to create the jobs that this program promises. Kit, right now when somebody from Missouri says that they'll do their best, we've had an example of that just in the last few days. Well, we bring you best wishes and greetings. On behalf of Gussie Bush, owner of the Cardinals, Whitey Herzog, and the whole Whitey Ball team, they played excellent ball as did the Brewers, but Missouri was very proud of the St. Louis Cardinals. I'd call both managers after it was over. One was obviously happier than the other, but it was a great series. They both, Harvey Keene, had nothing to be ashamed of. The Brewers really gave the Cardinals fits. Ozzie Smith said this morning I saw him at the airport leading St. Louis, and he said at one point in the game, I thought we needed a bazooka to try to get a ball through the infield. The Brewers were stopping everything. You say you brought something? Yes, sir, if they'll allow us. I just don't mean to be seen greedy or something. I caught a glimpse of that. They said they could bring it over at the airport. I caught a glimpse of that over on the air. This is from Mr. Bush. Cardinal team and all of the Cardinal fans, they're not limited to Missouri. They're quite a few different states. We're very proud of our world champion. We know you're interested. Well, thank you very much. I'm very proud and happy to have this. Godly they're making the uniforms classroom when I was broadcasting. They look pretty good. The only problem is if you put it on, you'll have to try to steal home or at least a suicide squeeze. You have to play running baseball if you wear that jacket. I'll go for the squeeze. Stealing isn't something that goes with the job. You think Mr. President is in the election? Are you in a squeeze in this election? Yeah, but not steal. We're always good news. Are you disappointed that the Arab leaders...


All right, it's ready. Victoria, do you want that? It's a card. If you can hand it to me, please come to the stage. We've got three cards. Just this. All right. Does everybody start settling in? Are you having fun yet? Yeah. So I wanted to start out just thanking everybody for coming to what has been a really moving and incredible conference for me. It has been so wonderful meeting people, meeting people from across the country who feel as passionately about this issue as I do. You know, sometimes in San Francisco, especially I feel like I'm this great person hanging out with them out there. And it's nice to know that there's a big, broad community of people who believe in cities and who want them to function for everyone and who believe that it is going to take a lot of political work to get us there, who are going to engage in that political process with us. And on that note, I want to introduce one of my favorite people in local politics, Senator Scott Wiener. So one of the first things I did when I was kind of getting excited about this issue is I wrote an article, like an op-ed in our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. And I was like, well that's silly, like no one's going to care, but I did it, yay.   And he has done everything he can to empower this movement from day one. He was one of the first people who recognized the power that we were going to have to change the system and wanted to be the vanguard of this movement. And so I just want to say thank you so much, Scott Wiener, for everything you have done. So the first question, what's it like to have so many fans? Well, I apologize to your fans and sometimes you have detractors too. Although they're here protesting you, not me. Usually I'm the one they're protesting. So I have to say I am, I really love what the Yimbi movement is doing. Not just because it's empowering people and especially young people that get involved who maybe haven't been involved before.  When I first took office in 2011 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, it was pretty lonely being pro-housing in City Hall. You would have hearings on projects or on legislation and it was just all these people opposing and just being anti-housing and anti-development would be there and the only people who were really advocating for more housing were people in the planning department and the developers. And of course people, you know, the developers have a financial interest so people don't listen to that very much. And then over time, as the Yimbi movement grew, we would have a counterbalance. We would have people showing up and talking about what about my house and what about my future? What about I want to have a family? I want to be able to stay here in the Bay Area and have a life. And that is just a very, very, very powerful thing and it has completely shifted and balanced out the dynamic. We still have opposition and that's fine. It is a free country and people have a right to whatever view they want but we now have a much greater diversity of viewpoints represented so thank you. So a lot has been happening since we, and I take credit for this, since we moved you up to Sacramento. You know, I think there's a lot, a big appetite in a way that we had never seen before for doing real statewide change on these issues on saying that the problem is statewide and therefore the solution is going to be statewide. And I think you as a junior senator is how people refer to you disparagingly often. Refreshing. Refreshing. Have taken an incredible leadership role validating my choices.  It seems to me like someone brave and new blood was needed to really take the lead on these California-wide issues but what has been your experience since moving up to Sacramento? Sure and thank you. A lot of people in this room really did help get me to the Senate. When you have a friend of one who did follow the race it was a sort of crazy race and I won by 8,000 votes out of almost a half a million cast. So it was a very close race and so I'm really appreciative of all the support and housing was definitely a big issue in the race. There were several stark differences between me and my opponent so thank you. And getting up to Sacramento, one of the, there are many ways, many reasons why being in the legislature is so much better than being in Congress and God bless everyone in Congress who's fighting the good fight for us right now. But for the, there are reasons that you know but one of the reasons that you may not know is when you go to Congress it takes like forever to be able to get this and you're already necessary to do anything. It can take 10, 15, 20 years. The great thing about the California legislature is you can hit the ground running on day one. You don't want to be arrogant about it. I still have a lot to learn and I am very respectful of the people who have been doing this longer. But you really have the space if you choose to take it up to be aggressive. And so on housing I decided early on and I wanted to be very aggressive on state housing policy because really in the end the state is the only entity that has the power to hold local communities accountable for doing what they need to do. And I don't like to demonize local government because people in local government overwhelming their people who just care about their communities and they're trying to do the right thing but they often, they don't have the space to do it because there's so much opposition and it's really hard to be a local elected office if you're trying to make a positive change around housing. And so the state can provide some of that support and some of that coverage. I've had a number of city council members around the state who have approached me over the last six months and said, you know what, I can't say this publicly but thank you for doing a streamlining bill because it's so hard for us to push back when we get all of this resistance to development. But this will just be a nice gesture we'll work on it for the next 10 years and hopefully go out and get something done. And what I realized pretty quickly and I was pleasantly surprised was that the amount of pro-house will see that it's gotten to a breaking point. And so we have bipartisan support. I have some very conservative Republicans and some very, very lefty Democrats who are supporting it. I also just want to give a lot of credit to the leadership of both houses. The president of the Senate, Senator Kevin De Leon, who represents part of Los Angeles, from the minute I went to see him when we started this and talked to him about it, he didn't even blink. He immediately said, this is a great idea.  He got it immediately and has been just a staunch supporter from the very beginning. And the speaker of the Assembly, Anthony Rendon, has also just been a staunch supporter. And so without the support of the legislative leadership, it would have been really hard to move the bill. So it's been good to be able to get a quick start. Really awesome to hear that there's a lot of hope. I think that some of us who've been in the trenches feel, you know, often pretty embattled in this issue and you were out there putting your neck out, you know, earlier than many of us. And one thing that I want to ask, I think, is what keeps you motivated? What keeps you saying, I want to keep banging my head up against this wall? Obviously success is always fun, but I'm wondering, you know, when you have the days when things, when you feel like, you know, the law of legislation that you're trying to put forward, and some walls, what are things that keep you going? Sure. I mean, for me, it's pretty personal. So I've lived in San Francisco. I am a district for 20 years.  And what I've seen over the years is that it's become progressively harder for people to do that. And, you know, for me, I was lucky. I came, I got a rent control department, and then seven years later, in 2004, I was able to buy a very small 500 square foot condo in the Castro, and so I feel like I'm lucky. I will never, in a unit in the Castro, be bigger than the unit I'm going to be in this unit until I die. Probably I can't afford anything else. I could not afford to come into my own neighborhood today, and I'm not poor. And so when I see around me, in my own community, the number of, for example, LGBT seniors who are being pushed out, who are people come up to me on the street and say, my landlord is painting my building, and I'm terrified that that means I'm going to be a victim, that we've gotten to the point where tenants are scared when they see their landlord doing something that should make you happy, painting the building. And, you know, the number of people I know in my community who they have a kid, and maybe they have a second kid, and they can't make do in a one-bedroom apartment anymore, and there's nowhere for them to go that they can possibly afford it, so they leave. Sometimes I come over to the East Bay, putting gentrification pressures in Oakland, and hence some of the protests that we see, sometimes they leave the state entirely. And so for me, it just breaks my heart when people who are so committed to San Francisco, to the Bay Area, to California, just can't make a go of it because of bad housing policy for the last 50 years, and so I'm committed to changing that. I think so, California... California, I think we've had the benefit of things being the worst here, in a strange way, you know, it gives us the leadership opportunity, I guess, to turn it around, and I'm wondering what advice we've got people from as far away as London here, and I'm wondering what advice do you have, especially maybe for other people, elected officials who are looking to take a leadership, what advice would you learn that you think would be helpful for people? Sure, well, I think for leaders, people who are in elected office or who may aspire to be in elected office, you have to be prepared to just be abused. And it's not just around housing, around any kind of like when you're talking about fundamental change, you know, you're going to rile people up, so I, you know, for my six years in the Board of Supervisors and now in the Senate, particularly when I was in the local office and I was, you know, they tried, they were in the Mission District in San Francisco with a terrible problem with this place and that neighborhood particularly of our Latino community. Frankly, it's been going on for, you know, about 50 years. I've read articles in the 70s about mass protests and the mission because Latino families are being displaced, but it's accelerated over time, and it's a problem and it's bad. And, you know, we all want it to stop and do what we can to help. But there were some people who, in my view, had a misguided idea that the solution was to put a moratorium on housing in the Mission. They went to the Board of Supervisors and they went to the ballot. Unfortunately, we were able to defeat that measure. And I was one of the most vocal opponents of it and I felt like even though it would have been easier to keep my head down and just not support and not say anything, I felt like it was really important to have vocal political leadership to say this is not the right approach. It's just going to make it even worse. I, you know, I got protests in my house.  That's why I was happy when they protested me today. You know, PTSD eventually. And you just have to have super thick skin because the people who are protesting are raising, you know, these folks outside, they're raising real issues, right? These are real issues about people being pushed out and it's on us to try to really get the message out that the solution is to have more housing.  That kind of tight organization really matters. And building out an organization where year after year after year you continue is really hard. It requires enormous energy. It requires succession planning because we all have shelf life. And then, you know, we move on to other things. And so just keeping that momentum and having a strong organization really matters a lot. So are you hiring? Not at the moment, but I did. I hired one of my legislators. I thought maybe she would be here today, but she deserves a break. Andy Fryman, who I hired, she was one of the original EMBs. And I hired her as a legislator. She does all of my housing and transportation work, including SB 35, which is like a labor of love for her. She's just done tremendous work, but we'll be hiring some. So a lot of the ways in which EMBs engage with this is in campaigns. And campaign work is some of the most brutal work that I think elected officials do and that activists do. And I'm wondering, you know, when you're picking kind of, I think that you got pegged as like the smart nerd. You have to be a square video. Anybody else is really good. You know, you have fully leaned into your identity as a policy walk. And I don't see that very common at all. And I'm wondering, you know, is that more of a personal choice that you've made? Is that, you know, how do you recommend, I think we're trying to go towards science-oriented legislation in the future, and that's a national trend. I'm wondering sort of how you see yourself as part of, where I see you as part of that movement, and I want you to validate that I see that. You know, I, my, and I was really bad at science, by the way, but I trust other people. My view of elected office and succeeding in elected public life is just being who you are and not trying to be something else. And if you think about who are the people that you like the most, whether in politics or in entertainment or in sports, I bet you if you put a list together, it's a lot of people who, it feels like they're authentic. You know, some of the, you know, I love Katie Curry. One of the reasons I love her is I feel like she's just who she is. And she doesn't, you know, and I find that in sports too.   And I've tried to be that way in politics. I know that I am, I'm not the life of the party. I'm not the most fascinating, you know, I'm always, you know, in person, in the room. I'm not, I'm sort of a little introverted by nature.  And so for me, it's always been just being who I am and that is a little bit nerdy.  I, a few years ago, announced three years ago now that I take a medication called PrEP, which is a one-stale pill that almost eliminates the risk of HIV. And at the time, people were telling me, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. You're revealing too much, but I did it because there was a lot of stigma around HIV prevention. And so I thought it would be important to, you know, to try to raise the conversation. And it worked pretty well. And so I've tried to always in all aspects to sort of be who I am, be very transparent. And I think voters like that. I think they like sort of feeling like they know who you are and what you're about. So I'm going to pivot a little bit back to housing because that's what we love. I often run into this conversation, and I know you do too, of housing is a fundamental and it touches every part of our lives and every part of government, that you think you're having a conversation about housing, and then you're having a conversation about transit, and then you're having a conversation about schools, and you're having a conversation about access to services. And, you know, it is so fundamental to our lives that it is very easy to be sidelined into saying we can't solve X until we solve Y. And I have seen you really hit that head-on and say we're going to solve X and we're going to solve Y. And I'm wondering, you know, in those conversations, how do you keep things on track in a sort of solution-based policy? Yeah, I think in talking about housing, it is really important to show the linkages to other things because, as you say, housing is foundational to everything. So we're all trying to try to get more resources into public education to try to make sure that we're doing right by the next generation in stopping the chronic underfunding of public education in California. But you can have the best schools in the world, and if a kid is living with his family couchsurfing or living in a car or in a homeless shelter or overcrowded with 10 people in a one-bedroom apartment, that kid, I can guarantee you, is not going to reach his or her full education potential. They're going to come to school tired and maybe hungry. And so there's that linkage. We try to, you know, one thing that I try to say over and over again is that you cannot be, you cannot say that you are an environmentalist unless you are pro-housing.  Environmentalists must be fighting for housing because we know that if we're just pushing people into long commutes in the sprawl, that is terrible for the environment. 40% of greenhouse gas emissions in California come from the transportation sector, and we have to get that down. And the way you get it down in significant part is letting people take trans to work, walk to work, bike to work, or if they're driving, have a much shorter drive. You know, we talk about economic development, and I have been really frisky 35 and working hard to build business community support for the bill, and we've had some success because, you know, the lack of housing is a huge threat to our economy. If employers don't think their workers are going to be able to find housing somewhat close to work, they're not going to come here or they're not going to grow here or already seeing evidence of California companies who are choosing to grow elsewhere is precisely because of housing. And so it links to so many different challenges that we face, and we have to keep getting that message out. It's not just about housing. It's about housing as a foundation for everything else. So on that note, you know, housing touches everything. Who do you see as the sort of core coalition? We've talked a lot about coalition building at the conference and building allies. What do you think are maybe undertapped resources for us? So I think there's a lot of potential. So we have the affordable housing nonprofit developers who, people who are building housing for low-income people in particular. I think historically they've sometimes just done their own thing, advocated for their own, but I think they've realized more and more that the obstruction of housing, they're just completely tied. They know that they're tied in to that. And I want to recognize Sam Boss from Mission Housing who's here and who's been just a tremendous supporter of pro-housing policies and has taken a lot of heed for it. So thank you, Sam. And so really working with the affordable housing nonprofit and the development world is important and I think it's a very powerful coalition. They're a powerful voice for what we're trying to do, but it's broader than that. You know, some of our strongest supporters of SB35 in addition to the affordable housing developers are the California Apartment Association, the California Association of Realtors. I have disagreements with both groups. I support rent control. You know, we don't always agree, but in terms of needing more housing, they are strong supporters of that. Having that voice, you know, when we talk to more moderate Democrats or even Republicans and they hear that the Apartment Association and the Realtors are supporting it, they might have been skeptical at first, but then they come on board. And I think we have to, you know, what I mentioned before about environmentalism, there are plenty of people in the environmental movement who get it about voters and the Natural Resources Defense Council on board with SB35 even though it is a sequel exemption. We're taking projects out of sequel entirely and we worked with them on some more substantive environmental protections and they've endorsed the bill. And so we shouldn't write anyone off and assume that different groups are going to support. And we even got labor on board. There's a lot of negotiations and we had to make some compromises on the bill. But we were able to build, I think, a pretty diverse coalition and I think we need to build on that for future efforts. So I'm wondering also, there's people here from everywhere. What do you think is next for the new movement? You know, you've been here kind of since the beginning. What do you think is the next challenge for us or opportunity? Where do you see us going? Well, I want to see just more and more of the, whatever you call it, chapter or whatever the term would be, grow around California and in other cities. And so it's become more and more developed in the Bay Area. But I love that there's more happening in LA and, you know, in Orange County and we need it like everywhere in San Diego and then other cities around the country just keep growing the numbers because that's what really matters and getting involved in electoral politics. And there are a lot of people who don't like getting involved in electoral politics, but ultimately when you will, you know, if you can choose candidates for city council or the state legislature or for governor or whatever the case may be and get behind these people, particularly in local office where it doesn't, you know, a modest effort can have big dividends in local office and you can get people elected. We've seen some city councils in Silicon Valley and the South Bay and the peninsula like Palo Alto amounted to you. The councils that were very hostile to housing that are now pro-housing majorities. And so you can flip city councils. And so I think being involved in electoral politics matters. Well, I will second that. So this has been really wonderful. And I'm wondering, you know, last words that you have, we have talked about kind of everything in this movement. I mean, I see us as touching on environmentalism, on social justice, on renters rights. There's so many things that pull together the people in this room together.  You know, what I will say is this has to be a long-term movement. I was just talking to some of the folks from LA before about the fact that when we look at trying to get communities today to meet their housing goals, which this state establishes for them, and there's something called the regional housing needs assessment, which I'm sure you're all familiar with, you're in California arena. You know, it's great. We're trying to get people to comply. But there's a backlog. There's a deficit from years and decades on the building. And, you know, as an elected official, the reason, and it's starting to change up, the reason why historically a lot of elected officials have avoided housing as a signature issue is because, unlike some other issues, it takes a long time to solve it. Everyone who made the Affordable Care Act happened. You know, as big as that was, within a few years, there were already tangible benefits, as millions of people went on to health insurance. So even that massive, you know, within your tenure in office, you can deliver results. You can, you know, for even transit infrastructure, you can deliver results. Housing, you know, even if we do everything we're going to do, it's going to take a long time to dig ourselves out of this hole. And as an elected official, that's hard to say, I'm going to do all this work and get beaten up and spend political capital for work that may not bear any visible fruits until after I'm out of office. And that's why you have a lot of elected officials that sort of shy away from a lot of downside and not as much upside. And that's why this has to be a long-term fight. Because if we just, you know, do this, you know, if the YIMBY movement does all this energy and great work for, you know, five, six, seven, eight years and then sort of peters out a little bit as people move on to other things and you haven't done succession planning and kept recruiting the next generation, it's going to, you know, I don't want to say it's all for naught, it's not for naught. You've already made a big difference, but it's not going to meet its potential. If we can make this a movement, like other great movements in this country, we have an environmental movement, we have a civil rights movement, we have had a movement to support children, you know, a movement to support the humane treatment of animals, movements that have sustained themselves for decades, if we can create a housing, a pro-housing movement that sustains itself for decades, we will absolutely make profound change in California and in places across the country. So that's what it's about, long-term sustainability, building a long-term pro-housing movement. Thank you. We're going to take some questions from the audience. I'm going to try and find people, so, yes. Thanks. So what I'm going to ask you is, how much do you think people like the ones outside protesting are mistaken and how much do you think they're opposed? Like, can you analyze and describe for us what you think about the opposing forces and what motivates them, a degree in which some can be reached and some can't and how to reach that, how to interact with that? Well, so... That'll be told in the closer. Okay. So the opponents, they are correct in identifying the problem in terms of escalating housing costs and evictions and displacement. I completely agree with them in identifying that problem. And we all want the same end result to let people stay in their housing, let people thrive. Where I disagree with them, and I think they are mistaken, is that shutting down development will somehow achieve that goal when we know that it will just make that goal even harder to achieve. I think that, and the people outside, I don't know them. I know a lot of the San Francisco protesters. I don't know the Oakland folks as well. I think that there is a real mix. I think that there are people that can't be reached and who you can have that conversation with. There are some people who, the ideology of development is the enemy is so deep that you will never reach them. And the unfortunate thing is, and it's less about the protesters and more about people who, the broader population who might be tempted to listen to that message of new development is what's causing the problem. And those are the people we have to, not necessarily the people on the bullhorn, but the people who are following them on social media and seeing the protests and just getting that messaging out. The unfortunate thing is, there are some very, very, I think, malicious people, and I will not name any names, but some of the San Franciscoans know how I'm talking about, who put out, they're sort of the enablers, whereas they put out theories that are just false, like the theory that supply and demand just simply doesn't apply to housing. The theory that building more housing makes housing more expensive. They'll say that. We've been, I think, shaming them about that they say it less, but they have some, you know, just plaques who will put out papers writing that, that building more housing will make housing more expensive. And, again, not that I don't want to buy into like a simplistic view of supply and demand. Housing, you know, is a unique thing. It's not just like going to the dry cleaner, but the idea that, you know, building more housing makes housing more expensive, and if we just shut down, reduce the amount of housing that we create, then housing will be more affordable. It's a ridiculous argument, but there are people who make that argument, make it in a very sophisticated way and sound really sophisticated, and then it manipulates people and for people who, for people who they see the new development and they don't like it for a variety of reasons. Some people, it's because, oh my God, it makes my neighborhood look different or it brings more traffic in or it blocks my view or there's less sunlight reaching the street and so they don't like it. Other people who say that I hate that new development because wealthier people are living there and I don't want them in my neighborhood. It changes the fabric of who's in my neighborhood. So people have sort of reactions to development which are all, you know, they're entitled to their view, but then what happens is you have these quacks who come in and give them the sheen of this, like, academic, you know, in addition to the fact that you don't like it, it's going to make housing more expensive so it's counterproductive, and they sort of manipulate people into sort of confirming what their internal bias is and that's what is a real, to me, that has to be countered in a very, very forceful way. Okay. Hi, Senator. I'm Alex down in Silicon Valley. Can you help us get into the heads of more so elected officials but potentially developers if you're more comfortable with that? What are elected officials and developers thinking about our kind of ideas? What are the messages that resonate with them in negotiations on your bill or other conversations you're having with them? What are the lessons you're learning from those that you could impart on us? Well, I think that for developers there's a variety and a lot of different kinds of developers and there are developers who are very sort of good government policy oriented. There are some developers that are less so and so we have a mix of experiences. So, you know, there are some, there are developers who their whole business model is sort of single family home building further and further and further out but there are developers who are very committed to building dense and bill housing and really, you know, they understand the policy and they're committed to that. I mean, understanding that, you know, private sector developers that they need to make money and they have to answer their investors so no one has a halo around their head but there, it's a mix and there are, when we work on legislation we talk to a lot of different people from across the spectrum but there are some developers who, they just, you know, they may not agree like on SB35, I have developers who don't agree with every aspect of the bill but they have really valuable input and they can tell you, hey, this is not the way you're structuring this isn't going to work for X, Y, or Z reasons or this will work and so having that expertise helps as long as you view it in the context of other voices as well and so I think that the development community again, at least certain voices within the development community can be a very valuable resource and, you know, in terms of helping us achieve our goals in terms of elected officials it's such a mix because there are elected officials who are passionate about housing there are elected officials who are just, their politics in my view are good they tend to be much more sensitive to the more oppositional voices and then there are a lot of elected officials who are either housing is just not a focus for them, maybe because their community is just less impacted or it's just not what their passion is their passion is education or some other very important issues it's not criticism of them and that significant swath of elected officials are I think really important because if you could just persuade them say listen, we're not asking you to make this your life's work you can continue to work for children's health or for, you know, whatever issue you know, it really gets you up in the morning but at least go the right way and those are the, in my view that elected officials need to focus on just making sure people are educated even if it's not an issue that is the focus of why they ran Do we do about cities like Berkeley that seem to take all of their intellectual prowess and political savvy important to getting out of state law as fast as y'all can create? Council? I think fundamentally in the state there's a lot we can do and we are doing things like in addition to SB35 Senator Nancy Skinner I will go to Niagara from Southern California have bills to strengthen the Housing Accountability Act we have some other good bills as well trying to close some of the loopholes but it is still it is challenging for the state to sometimes enforce on the local community that becomes a political thing in and of itself so in addition to having strong state laws we have to have the local political pressure electing good people to office making sure that there is visibility and transparency accountability of these local decisions when the Berkeley City Council was proposing to downzone the city there was they backed down on that at least for now I think there are always other ways but there was a public outcry and I sent in a letter Senator Skinner sent in a letter there were a lot of people who showed up and it had at least some impact I'm not saying the place is over when Brisbane decided that for the Baylands project and for those not in the area Brisbane is a small really beautiful town directly south of San Francisco and they have this big swath of land right between their developed area and San Francisco called the Baylands that a developer once put I think 3,500 years on it and they announced that they prefer to have pure commercial and office and no housing there but there was a real outcry a major major regional outcry about them they were going to criticize not just by San Francisco because we would be absorbing have to absorb all that housing but by voices in San Teo County who were saying absolutely not so now they come back to the drawing board and there will be housing we can make sure that it's a larger amount so I think that that kind of public pressure and transparency really is important you have to play the key role in all of these fights just sort of flushing all of that to the surface and making sure that communities aren't able to do this under the radar which is how they've done it for years Hey Scott first of all I want to say I love the fact that you're making sure that communities build housing that's zoning compliant that's great but what are we doing to address exclusionary zoning that's inherently racist that favors high income communities because a lot of these local organizations be it META or whatever they're noticing that development is disproportionately put in their neighborhoods and there's a reason there's no development like Ingleside or Berkeley House what are we doing at the state level to make sure that we can continue this modern form of redlining which unfairly targets low income communities Hey everybody clap that's a really important point and I always view it as in terms of what hinders housing the three major issues so the three legs of this tool one is the process that even if they there is so much of zone housing capacity that simply doesn't get built because of the process and that's why the ST35 and the Housing Accountability Act are trying to address the second is the issue of fees and I'm not an opponent of fees in development of supportive inclusion or in housing and other exactions but at some point it gets to a level and it could be unintentional or it could be intentional where it makes housing infeasible and so we're I think that's something that a lot of us should take a look at making sure that we have you know rational approach to fees and then the third of the most fundamental is zoning and it's the hardest it's the hardest because that has always been just exclusive local control and people can zone however they want especially communities that are zoned for single-family homes we know even in San Francisco the neighborhoods that are zoned if we have neighborhoods in San Francisco that are zoned not just for single-family homes a lot of that but for detached single-family homes in San Francisco in our tiny little 7x7 densely populated city and the people who live in those communities will they will fight unbelievably hard to protect our zoning and again not criticizing they will say this is why I moved to this neighborhood and how dare you try to change a character in my neighborhood but we do have to address the zoning issue particularly I've been very I took a lot of heed from being public about how there are so many BART stations and CalTrain stations surrounded by single-family homes that should never happen that should be threatened and so that is something that is definitely on the radar I don't pretend to have you know the solution that we're going to be able to get through but I you know if the voters choose to keep me I'll be in the state center for 12 years and I have other allies and I know that it's an issue on our radar about how do we start over time impacting exclusionary zoning because you are 100% right it is exclusionary it has huge impacts on low income communities and communities of color let's get some ladies I know I'm a lady but alright I'm going to pick a mayor or somebody else nope you're a man too sorry you gave me a moment my name is Madeline Hyde I was wondering have historic districts come up all the way to California legislature all this year from Oregon and that was our big fight this year we lost part of it well so we have we've taken historic resources all in California through CEQA and we historic resources are protected by CEQA and they've been defined very very broadly if it's 50 years old or more then it is a potential historic resource that has to be analyzed and there are some 50 year old hand handed approach but by historic structures I'm a supporter of protecting historic structures but let's not just assume it just because something is of a certain age that it should have the same level of protection and we have so there's that and that's a CEQA issue SB35 takes a whole bunch of buildings out of CEQA although we do have demolition controls in SB35 and it's here now we're in controlled housing in particular so in terms of historic districts I know San Francisco best we have historic districts it's not there hasn't been an explosion of historic districts we have some in our planning department that try to talk about potential historic districts and so you have a potential historic resource in a potential historic district and so it makes things a lot more challenging so that is that's something that we're trying to grapple with but it's really hard because people get you know it's a hard issue politically but we've had some real horror stories about our historic preservation people in the planning department taking just absurd positions about what is protected as historic when it's just not we just have a more thoughtful approach because it gives historic preservation a bad name when you start saying that this is we had examples of just really outrageous situations and I also know a handful of buildings being used as a new tool by improvements if they don't get the down-zoning then they go to the natural please do how much do you think that that already will help with CEQA reform versus what other CEQA reforms might be helpful to enable more housing production for people who don't know level of service is about when you do sort of traffic analysis around CEQA in terms of the traffic impacts of new development historically it's been about a number of vehicles going through a particular intersection as opposed to the number of people going through an intersection and so for example when a bus goes through an intersection there might be 75 people on the bus but that will be treated the same as one car going through which might have only one person so level of service or eliminating level of service was designed to really focus on the number of people moving through not the number of vehicles and it really once it's fully implemented and it's not yet it's been slow but once it's implemented I think it'll be helpful in reducing the ability of people to use traffic studies to oppose new development so we just need to make sure that our approach to transportation analysis is supportive of new housing and not undermining new housing so the question was what do we need to do beyond that are there more steps that you would want to be seeing and see reform beyond that I mean I want to talk to my dad I don't live here but we're happy to have that conversation so I want everyone to give our amazing State Center Scott Wiener who wants, we're going to do it this way we're gathering here oh my god Scott can you do the photo cause you're tall enough how does this work so everyone is on this side move to this side far away so so get in as tight as you can like sitting so that you can see everybody's faces and then a whole bunch in the back now scooping in all people please please for more than all sort of people moving to the back for a hunch should we nail on the ground and you can if you want to scoop it at the end of the line as well so so and then lunch is just ready


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You should jump. Here. Ayy! I wanted to do this ever since I was younger. Yeah! We've kinda lost our individuality. It's okay, just blend it out. Just blend out. You're gonna splosh it. Oh my gosh, I don't even know what I'm doing here. Oh my gosh, I don't even know what I'm doing. Mayday, may.  I'm scared. Take two. That's way too long. Watch the hair. Girl, you're making me dark. I need to put my white chips on. Are you kidding me? No, it's been a fortune almost. Sneak attack. Not the cutie. Yeah, I picked out his outfit. You should go in the cupboard and get me my perfume, please.  Wait, where's it? Here? At the bottom. Someone's a little stressed out before their wedding day. Yes! People are getting emotional here. I don't know how to feel, but we'll play up by ear. Hey guys, so we're currently on the way to Madison's grad. The school literally did nothing for them. So they had to plan their own thing. So they're doing the pre-party or pre-grad at her friend's house. So they're all going to be there popping some champagne, taking pictures, and then they're going to the party bus to a different location. So we're just going to her friend's house right now to take pictures with her and everything. We are 12 minutes away. We're running so late. We were supposed to be there at three, and it's literally 3.30 right now, so it's fine, whatever. When you get ready, it's just so stressful, and you're just bound to be late. It's just a thing that happens. It's really out of your control. Well, it kind of is in your control. It just happens. Especially on grad, you need everything to be perfect. Therefore, you take a walk. Anyways, she looks beautiful. But yeah, this is what I'm wearing. I just got a little green dress on with, I think I showed this in the previous vlog, with these black heels. Yeah, it's such a beautiful day for their grad. It's so perfect. Hey, guys. What is up? It's currently 120, and we just got to the lake. It was actually kind of like a far little mini road trip. It was like an hour away, but it's so pretty here, and it's going to be 31 today. So Julia's here. Joel's here. We're just going to be tanning and enjoying the summer. This is kind of like the summer kickoff, because summer officially started yesterday. So Julia is just in the washroom right now. We got some snacks for the day, some sandwiches, some chips, and snacks. We got a speaker. We're all prepared for this little venture. So we're probably going to stay here until like 5 o'clock, I'm guessing, or 4 o'clock, and then go eat dinner at home. And tonight's also bachelor at night, so Juliana's going to join us, because she's working today, so she couldn't come. But yeah, summer's finally kicking off, so we're so excited. So pumped. If you guys are in the area, I'm at Cultus Lake for reference. If you guys are curious. Later this week, it says it's going to be 37 degrees Celsius, which is like so hot for here, like it never gets that hot. I don't remember the last time I got that hot, so it's kind of cool, but yeah. I'm going to do a little bit of her pick. Zoom around so you guys can see. Here. Hey. You should jump. It's so much better to jump, because it's like so cold, that if you would have jumped in, it would have been like fine, but going in slowly. Yeah, but I don't know if I want to jump in. It's going to hurt. No. It's going to be uncomfortable. Hello, you guys. What is up? So it's currently 1.42, and I was just like working in the morning, had some breakfast, made a coffee, and it is such a beautiful day. I need to show you guys the weather forecast for the rest of the week. It's absolutely amazing. I'm so, so, so happy. I'm just going to block my location, but you can see like I'll show you still. Okay, I have no idea if this is focusing, but it's basically going to get up to 38 degrees Celsius, which I don't even remember the last time I got that hot here. Even from summers ago, I don't think it's ever been that hot here for so long. So 38 degrees Celsius is, it's 100 degrees Fahrenheit, which is absolutely crazy hot. At least for here, because I know there's other places that it's like gets super, super hot, like way over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. But for here, that's like really hot. So we're just not really used to the heat like that. So it's kind of nice. So definitely going to be a lot of beach days coming up in the interior of BC. If the weather gets too hot and dry, we do get a lot of forest fires. Usually starting in August though, but I hope that the rain, like it's good that it's raining one day because that will help moisten things up. But anyways, so I don't really have many plans for today. I just texted my friends if they wanted to do something tonight after work. So we'll see. So I sent it for a background acting agency and I don't want to be an actress or anything like that's not my goal here. I just kind of want to do it to earn extra money this summer. Not that I necessarily need it, but apparently they'll only call you like once every few weeks. So going there for a full day, making like a big sum of money would be kind of nice if I can get in and just do it for the summer because it's super nice weather. So why not? And I've always wanted to do this ever since I was younger, but I just haven't had the means for transportation. So now that I have my own car, it's like super easy. I can go whenever I want. So me and Madison signed up for it. So we're going to do it together and we have a Zoom meeting at two o'clock for that. So that's going to be interesting. I'll like kind of film the meeting and put in some parts of it if you guys are interested in doing background acting.   And yeah, it's really that easy. And then you just sign up like you don't need any professional pictures. I just literally put a selfie of myself. So yeah, it's going to be really interesting. Yeah, so since I'm planning on traveling soon, I just thought that might as well do everything that I can to save up the most amount of money before I go. So yeah, I'll definitely keep you guys updated on how that goes and the whole process of it because I'm really new to this. So don't go in the description asking me a whole bunch of questions because I have no idea yet like this is going to be a learning curve for me. But I'll update you guys as I go. But yeah, so Madison should be home soon. She's on the way home from the mall and then we're going to do the meeting. It's in less than 15 minutes. So she better roll up soon. She should have been home already. There's lots and lots of opportunity here in BC. Now commercials is a bit more serious. And when I say serious, I just mean that you do have to usually audition for commercials. Commercials you can make anywhere from $1,500 to $10,000. We like to represent our performers in as many realms as possible because it helps us get to know you, book you better based on what you're good at, comfortable doing and where you'd like to go in your career. Hey guys, what is up? It's currently like almost 12 o'clock. The game starts in a couple minutes. Portugal is playing. We're in our little attire. They better run. They better freaking win. I'm manifesting it. This isn't okay. No, this isn't okay. I can't. Diet is probably shitting diet. We gotta keep watching this. Oh, Jesus. Oh, elbow. Hey guys, what is up? It is currently 4.30, I think about. We just watched the Portugal game. I had another meeting and then I just filmed the video. So I've been pretty go, go, go. Portugal tied 2-2. So they're moving on to the next round, which is exciting. And then the casting call went really, really well. So now we're signed up with like an agency, which is really cool. So yeah, I'll update you guys if I get any calls or anything for castings because I'm really excited just to do it like as a side hassle to make a little bit of extra money. And I can also bring you guys along, which would be really, really cool. And yeah, I just filmed a video that's already up. It's posting this week. So by the time you're watching this vlog, it's already up. I just want to clean right now because the kitchen is kind of a mess. Everything is a mess and I just want to clean right now. So I'm just going to change out of my cute top and go on a cleaning rampage. Not like it's anything interesting, but I'm going to go clean. You guys, I was just reading for like half an hour and it is just so amazingly beautiful. Outside, I'm actually getting really hot. So I'm going to go back inside to the air conditioning because it's almost like beaming on my leg and I was getting so hot. But I was just reading this amazing book and enjoying the outside, the birds chirping and I'm just feeling so grateful. It is such a beautiful day and I live in such a beautiful place and I'm just so thankful for everything. I read this line in this book that I'm going to share with you guys really quickly before I go inside. Okay, so I'm going to read you this little paragraph from the book. Two people can walk out of the same movie. One person clinging to the wall is bloodshot and devastated, leaving a trail of tissues, more moved by the film than any other film in the history of cinema.  One movie, two different experiences. Why? Because it's not about the movie, it's about the moviegoers.  So recently I made a video about how not to care about people, what people think about you and I think that just goes really hand in hand and that just really spoke to me because it's so true. Like you're never going to please anyone no matter what, so it's completely pointless to even care about what anybody thinks because you're not going to have the opportunity to please everyone and why would you even try? It's so pointless. That just really stuck with me and I'm just like, damn. Oh, look at the way that the sun is shining on the deck right now. It's just so beautiful. Hey guys, it's currently 8.45 and 8.41 because that's four minutes in. 8.41. We're just on the way to the grocery store nearby. And Subway because I'm home. She just got off work and she was kind of disappointed that no one made anything because we just had leftovers for dinner and there was none left for her. So we're going to Subway. She's going to get a sandwich or something. Also, if you guys are needless and you go to Subway, let me know like what you get because I don't know if they have any vegan options. Like I'm not getting anything right now but just for future reference. It would be nice to know. Subway hits different. I thought I would let everybody know that Subway hits. Like Subway is so good. Like you can't make a sandwich like that at home. Like you can. I don't appreciate Subway the way she does. Subway is so good. I like it but I don't love it. And my order is so good. Cocoa combo toasted with on the Italian urban cheese and I literally get everything on it. I like Subway like I'll have it but it usually doesn't really sound that appetizing to me to be completely honest. Like Subway is kind of on the bottom of my list usually and that is like while eating meat like even their meat sandwiches but yes we're going to go pick her up a sandwich and then we're going to go just to the grocery store because we want to get popcorn because she's finally off of school and she's not going back. Sorry mom. Unless I like have like actually something that I want to go back for. Well I meant more like high school wise because I don't know what you want to do with your future yet but. And I'm going to add. Also I just want to put it out there that there's so much pressure after you graduate high school there's so much pressure to go to university but don't give in to the pressure like if you don't know what you want to do if you don't want to go if you want to go travel for a bit before you go to school school does not have to be your number one priority. It doesn't define your life. No let's just say that. Yeah like it doesn't have to be your number one priority if you want it to be your number one priority then that's amazing for you if you have it all planned out that's great but that's not the case for every person.  Like I don't know what I want to like you're deciding career for the rest of your life like. Yeah exactly. I'm not going to like just decide that I'm only like only 18 and people are like oh just go and like take courses that interest to you like if you don't know what to do I'm not, they're like just do general studies uh no but it's like if you don't feel called to do it like if you don't feel called to go to school then you don't have to go like don't listen to what other people are saying about how you have to return to it you have to decide you have to do courses you don't have to do anything do your life do what you feel called to do do what you feel it's right for you in the moment so if you don't want to go to school if it's not right for you to go to school right after you graduate it's not right for you to go to school ever then that's completely fine like society deems it as like they deem it as if you don't go to school you're going to make failure in life and you're going to be living on the streets but that's not the case it's like that is not it's what you do with your time it's what you do with it's what motivates you that's going to make you successful in the end regardless of a degree regardless of anything else like of course it can help to go to school for certain careers and whatever going to school does not define your success you do that you define your success in life and success meaning all aspects what you're going to be happy doing what you're going to be most financially stable doing good thing mom and dad are okay with that because like my parents when I first graduated they were like school school school you have to go even though I didn't want to but she's lucky because I kind of carved that path out for you you're welcome I was the first child to drop out I love this bracket anyways we're going to save on because we want to get popcorn and then whatever we see and like along the way maybe some other snacks because we want to watch a movie tonight because I've been eating like shit even though it's not even possible yeah I've been kind of swirling on popcorn talk through snacks 100% highly recommend trying stale popcorn you pop a bag of popcorn and you leave it like for a day a couple of days out just open so good stale popcorn is the best I don't agree but try it try it if you ask I look like a highlighter and I have a look that's my old hoodie it's like size extra extra I thrifted it now I have like a sauce on my face okay but why do I look do you want to get this oh I understand be really inside your cat's mind that's so cute the flavor is blue euphoria that's my favorite one I'll try it I've never tried euvamate before but I kind of want to try it and they're on sale so okay guys Madison just went into subway she's getting her sandwich so I thought that I would sit down and we'll taste the euvamate I'm probably watching that we'll taste it together I got the blue yeah okay let's taste it I'm kind of scared cheers I kind of just taste like not so sweet iced tea it has 28 grams of sugar in it and it doesn't taste like it has 28 grams of sugar in it it tastes like it has like 5 grams of sugar in it so I'm guessing this is kind of similar to kombucha is my guess just because it has oh it has elderberries organic brood okay this actually kind of seems good for you oh it said shake gently before opening it's good it's different it kind of just tastes like a less sweetened version of iced tea feet blueberries but it has elderberries in it which and I know elderberries are really good for like your immune system my mom would make elderberry tea no my mom would make elderberry syrup to boost our immunity at the beginning of covid I remember that so I know that's good for you and everything's organic in it look at this 9 out of 10 it's actually really good but anyways as I've seen before or as we were saying before in high school soon or if you guys graduated this year I know there's like a lot of pressure of what school you're going to and people really like base your status or your smartness on what school you're going to go to is it a top rated school they base pretty much all of who you are on what school you're going to you're going to school I just want to be here to tell you that if you don't feel like going to school don't do it it's not worth it what's worth it is you being happy and you following your intuition beating you on the right path in life it's at inner feet inner gut feeling like I just read in the book I was reading today that birds when they're flying and trying to find their group of other birds I don't forget what the term is called but when they're migrating they use their intuition to find the other birds which is crazy because a lot of animals use their intuition and us as humans we're like nope like we're just going to go with what society says and what society deems as correct we've kind of lost our individuality like after you graduate high school it's like a given like people are asking me where you're going to college I've never had one person ask me are you going to school or not they've asked me what school are you going to like that's what I got asked when I graduated no one even gave me an option of if you're not going to school and of course that's an option everybody is different and everybody is going to be happy doing different things so do what makes you happy if going to school is not going to make you happy or if you don't know right now then it's okay to take a gap year it's okay to take time off after being in school for 12 years plus of your life like think about it you've never had a break from school because we've been going since we were in kindergarten to grade 12 that's your whole life pretty much you've never remembered anything else so if you need time to take a break then take a break it's totally okay and we got to normalize that taking a break we're not going to school at all it doesn't mean you're less smart than anybody who is going to school just means that you're meant for different things at the moment or you're meant for different things in your life path yeah I can't stress that enough oh I'm furious why? we didn't have Coco combo oh no what did you get? salami let's go Toyota let's go so over


They know they know they allowed this wow You know what the schedule is okay, it's just a flying between first of all, this is a love-based movement So we we are love face towards obviously the animals towards the workers towards the drivers towards everyone here So it's the first time that we're going to be stopping truck No one will exchange hugs for tissues Here we are at the front of another slaughterhouse in Zurich, Switzerland We have about a hundred activists here nearly 50% of them. This is their first vigil amazing, but today should be a very important day for these activists and A very sad day for these animals So the reason there's so many activists here for the vigil and it's so early is because a lot of them have work So they're coming here before work to bear witness and be a part of this, which is really amazing when you think about it Pull the windows down. Can we pull the shields down? There's cows in here. I Think there's cows in here, but the calves Yeah, they're really young A few months old, I think maybe my darling. Oh my god They're really young a few months old, I think The poor babies. Okay, I'm gonna get down now Who hasn't seen Who hasn't seen you want to see they could be a couple of months old, maybe They're in there Coughs it's a very bizarre Disturbing thing to raise someone show them love Feed them and care for them Then drop them off at this place here So they can be butchered and you can eat their remains. So it's such deep conditioning Hello darling It's fought they're fogging up the um lens because they're so cold and yeah, we go Hey baby Darling Every single one of these I go to I just I always feel the same level of disbelief that in the truck those animals have no real idea What they're about to walk into over there blood Struggle Knife in the throat bullet in the head. Well, I just can't get over it. Can you see anyone in there?  I don't really know what's gonna happen to them.    I mean the pigs are struggling and really desperate cows are more gentle majestic slower moving animals easier to target human beings take advantage of that. It's really Unfair and this is your first time to bear witness Okay, well, how do you feel now to feel? Well Kind of emotional and vulnerable. Yeah emotional when you see the animals go back in there. Does it make you feel like? Disbelief yeah unnecessary suffering. I'm just I'm so surprised No matter how many slaughterhouses I go to I just am Absolutely stunned and amazed at how This is actually legal and Normalized and Defended by a large group of society large percentage of society. It's the normal job Butchering slaves. Do you think this will motivate you as an activist? Oh, yeah, I think it changes us in a Profound way gives us Strength to speak for them Because we realize that we're not the victims they are the victims and we have to be strong for them And we're their only hope sort of thing This is the dictionary definition of a Holocaust It says a lot about a society as To how we treat the most innocent vulnerable Defenseless they can't defend themselves basically animals can't these animals cannot defend themselves Human beings are you know capitalizing on their vulnerability One truck goes in Another one comes out empty Apparently they're a service so like you drop your animals off here to be slaughtered Yeah, he's just buying his flesh wholesale to deliver to stores and restaurants Probably still warm like I still feel the same now as I did at my first vigil He doesn't get any easier if anything it actually gets harder The more vigils you do Yeah, it gets harder because It's still happening a year later You know Yeah, when you first see it you're like I'm gonna do something to stop this and then you start, you know working hard and Then a year later. There's still 20 trucks coming in on one slaughterhouse in one side of the earth You know filled with animals and Then you go to the other side of the earth. It's another slaughterhouse with 20 trucks full of animals, you know Millions of chickens being slaughtered at one slaughterhouse every year You know, it's just never ending So that's that's why it gets harder Well, you just keep going because you have to I mean even if there was no chance of stopping it you would still keep going But yeah, we have an unwavering belief that this will this will end Vegans come here to bear witness for the first time and they are never the same afterwards They never look at animals the same they never look at flesh the same I think even vegans can be disconnected from the victims and what's the reality of it, but also like these industries rely on secrecy they rely on Covering the faces and personalities of the individuals in the trucks You take a vegan here They're an activist for the rest of their life. A lot of them are moved but He doesn't want to stop It's gone a little bit fast There's someone in the back there. He just went a little bit too fast up that bump Imagine turning human beings into sausages and driving them around in the truck dropping them off into restaurants like children or something You know, well, I don't think there's any moral difference. I honestly think it's morally on par with mincing up children alive and or Shooting children in the head and killing them and turning them into steak The only difference is species not sentience and you know inherent value more sentience There's less sentience in some humans.    You know, they're they're not burgers. They're not bits of meat They're scared curious wondering where they're going There's just exactly like dogs in every way There's the set for the way they look just you can just see in their eyes how young they are And they're going in there like Captive bolt pistol in the skull It's such an injustice. It's such an injustice on every level People are so disconnected from the sentient life that struggled for Their last breath in a slaughterhouse so they can have their burger murder man You don't want to feel helpless That is not good for the animals So, yeah Murdering humans murdering animals. I don't see the moral Difference if anyone wants to debate me on the moral difference we can talk about that, but I don't see a moral difference


Metal hydrogen carbonates decompose to give the metal oxide, water, and carbon dioxide. We're going to heat some sodium hydrogen carbonate, and as the sodium hydrogen carbonate decomposes, the carbon dioxide will be bubbled through some lime water. The lime water turning cloudy will be an indication of the formation of carbon dioxide. When carbon dioxide bubbles through lime water, which is a solution of calcium hydroxide, carbon dioxide forms carbonic acid, which reacts with the calcium hydroxide to form calcium carbonate. The calcium carbonate is not very water soluble and settles to the bottom of the test tube. The water vapor that's produced will condense at the top of the test tube, and we will test for the presence of the water using some cobalt blue paper.


Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio to say Mr David Wen who is the chairman of the focus group on digital fiat currency and he's also from the DFC Institute David welcome to the studio Welcome and good afternoon. Now, I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about the focus group This is the final meeting of the focus group. I wanted to ask you Do you think that the objectives of the focus group of him have been met? Yeah, it gives me a great pleasure to be to held the final meeting of the focus group at the headquarter of ITU and it's great to be speaking about this event and The focus group was established two years ago at the time. I think most people know about Crypto currency and a few people know about digital fiat currency and I think the timing for the focus group is perfect and last year especially IMF and the Bank of Interest Settlement did a survey 78% of the central bank are studying the digital fiat currency central bank digital currency and I think the work from IMF from Bank of Canada from Half a dozen central bank around the world in the working group with a focus group proves that We have created a great Information for the central banks as well as ITU members to share for those who are not in the know What exactly is digital fiat currency? The money that we use today is also called the legal tender and What digital fiat currency is is in the way digitizing that legal tender so that's why central bank is very much involved and it's Digital cash in the in the in the way that that's what how most people will define digital fiat currency And and why are central banks considering issuing digital fiat currency as opposed to regular currency? Yes, I think the You know everything is being digitized the music letters and everything so the money the paper money Becoming digital is just a matter of time. However, how it should be digitized Well function should be this I is the work of this focus group and I think with Members like the central bank the IMF the Bank of Internet Settlement And all the central banks especially expert in this area I think we have come together the most relevant information in terms of what the future of the currency is going to be What about the technology behind the central bank digital currency? What are the key technologies? That's a very good question The reason we study this with ITU actually was because dr. Choseb Lee was saying that Many changes form because of communication technology revolution the invention of letter the invention of writing the Telegraph and that's how ITU come about and of course mobile phone. So the technology for digital fiat currency comes in multiple layers phone is clearly one of those and the communication network and Of course people have heard about the blockchain distributed ledger and hardware security all of this play a part and we have a working group on reference architecture and That basically consolidated all the technology aspects of what goes into making a digital fiat currency solution Finally coming back to the focus group. What are going to be the key outputs of the focus group? the focus group has three working groups and the first one is Compliance league a regular regulatory compliance and the economic impact the second one is Architecture and the third one is security. So we have created the relevant use cases by the different central banks and Organizations that are actually experimenting with digital fiat currency and those outputs are really relevant Underground Deployment or pilots and I think this is just a beginning because we are gathering requirements use cases and we are planning to Establish a future of a currency lab where most of the member will participate so that all the solutions can be compared and Evaluated and then provided to central banks around the world so that they don't have to Chase, you know all kinds of solutions event this so we want to make this a clearing house for the technology For digital fiat currency. Well, they went. Thank you very much for joining us today, and we hope to catch up with you again Some stage in the future. Thank you very much


My research looks at why some people tend to be more resilient than others. So resilience can be sort of as the ability to show better outcomes than what you would expect given the adversity that someone experienced. And adversity is something we unfortunately experience a lot at a time. You've got those big impactful adverse events like the bushfires that we had. But there's also day-to-day adversities like if you've become a parent or a carer for someone or you're going through a stressful time at work. And some people seem to be able to cope with those adversities better than others and show better outcomes compared to others. So my research looks at why that is. When I found out that I won the first prize, I was incredibly surprised because I think I was last in line to present and I had seen all of these other presenters and I was so impressed by the quality of their presentations and by the work they did. I really felt like these people are going to change the world through their research. And then to find out that I had won the first prize, that was really incredible because it showed that people in the public also really liked my presentation style and also probably the type of research that I did. With the prize money, I was able to run a study that I had kind of intended on running already. I wanted to but I didn't have the money to fund it. And so with this prize money I was finally able to run the study and it consisted of running a large study in older adults who were facing the adversity of becoming more dependent because they had faced some issues with their health and so they became more dependent on at-home care. So obviously that's an adversity that they're going through and I was interested in finding out given that adversity who responded better to that kind of situation relative to others. So who showed more resilience than others. I think these events are important for early career researchers for just a variety of reasons. One is of course if you are so lucky to win some prize money it helps you conduct the research that you really want to pursue and from what we've seen last year there's so many very good ideas out there about the research and so it helps people pursue those ideas. So that's one but then even if you don't go home at a prize there's so many benefits to this kind of event. There's mingling with other people in the faculty. I met several people there who are also interested in resilience but are interested in or have expertise and some of these other puzzle pieces that can contribute to resilience. For example genetics and we ended up putting in grants together and then also just the experience of having to talk about your research in a way that doesn't get bogged down in the detail about the experiments that you do but talks about the excitement of that research area and the possible implications of that research area. That's very different to what we're used to or how we're used to talking about our research and it was a really good exercise. I would like to thank the donors for making this event possible. So obviously the monetary prize that comes with this event is hugely beneficial in order to help people pursue their research but then all the other associated benefits of an event like this in terms of connecting with people in different research areas, connecting with people in the community, talking about your research in this really exciting way and then being able to help your students talk about research in that way as well.