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Hi, Psych2Goers and welcome back to our channel. Thank you all so much for the love and support that you give us. Your ongoing support has helped us make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone. So let's continue. Have you ever had a perfect friendship turn sour? Were you guys the best of friends, but now you don't even talk at all? Friendships change over time. Some friendships strengthen and deepen, or they can fall apart and become toxic. If a friendship does become toxic, it can be because people change, personalities start to differ, and it can result in you and your friend not getting along as well as you used to. With that said, here are 7 signs your friendship has turned toxic. 1. You hesitate to share good news with them. Are you afraid or hesitant to share good news with your friend? Do you find that you'd rather keep the good news to yourself? One reason you could be holding back is because you notice that they seem jealous of you. Instead of being happy for you, your friend is envious that the same thing isn't happening to them too. Feelings of jealousy can crop up when they view your success as their failure, or your friend could be looking for ways to one-up you and choose to brag on themselves when you tell them your good news. This makes them feel that they look better than you. Neither of these things are good mindsets for a healthy friendship. 2. You aren't comfortable around them.  Are you uncomfortable speaking your mind? Your hesitance and fully expressing yourself is another sign of a toxic friendship. According to psychologist Susan Heitler and Sharon Livingston from Psychology Today, walking on eggshells around your friends is a sign that your relationship has changed for the worse. Your friend may be very critical, or explode on you if you say the wrong thing. They might get defensive when you disagree with them, and this leads to you being extra cautious with your words and behaviors around them. 3. Being around them stresses you out. Did you know that being in a toxic relationship can physically stress you out? Toxic friendships can actually do damage to your body, as well as your mind. According to Heitler and Livingston from Psychology Today, one of the many benefits of a good friendship is that it boosts your immune system, but a toxic one does the opposite. The stress and anxiety from dealing with a toxic friendship can cause headaches, physical weakness, and stomach aches. 4. Your self-esteem is declining.   In an article from Thrive Gullful, life coach Kelly Rudolph explains that toxic friends will start to lower your self-confidence.   5. You can't get a word in. Does your friend spend a lot of time talking about themselves and never really asks about you? According to an article from The Oprah Magazine, friendships with an imbalance in conversation can turn toxic because it makes you feel like you aren't being heard. It's important to have an equal balance in communication. Like when giving advice and asking for help. When there's an imbalance, you may feel like your needs are constantly downplayed in favor of your friend's needs when the conversation always has to lead back to them. 6. You feel drained. Do you have a friend who drains you more than they energize you? When you have a friend who's always in the middle of some drama or going through an emotional crisis, this can be draining on you. You may find yourself immediately consoling your friend, giving them advice and being put in a kind of therapist role as their friend. If you find yourself constantly being the shoulder to cry on, this can lead to you feeling overwhelmed and wiped out due to their high emotional needs. 7. You feel used. Does your friend only call you when they need something, like a ride or homework help? Does it sometimes feel like they're taking advantage of you? If a friend asks for help and you're willing to give it, that's totally fine. But if it's the only time your friend gets in contact with you, it shows that you're just using you.  Do you think you have any friends like this? Did we miss any other signs of toxicity between friends? Let us know in the comments. Please like and share this video if it helped you, and you think it could help someone else too. The studies and references used are listed in the description below. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button for more Psych2Go videos, and thank you for watching. We'll see you next time.


This standard hydrogen electrode SHE may behave as cathode or phenol, may behave as cathode or SHE, standard hydrogen electrode. So if you draw the diagram of this, we will have a hydrogen electrode, right? This is the diagram of standard hydrogen electrode. This is the inlet of hydrogen gas, H2 gas, right? And since it is a gas, so we have to provide the surface where the reaction takes place, right? And that is why we are using platinum there in this demonstration, right? So how do we represent that? This is a platinum wire and here we have the platinum sheet coated with a black color so that the adsorption of H2 gas will be more, right? So what happens is this H2 gas comes through here and it adsorbs on the surface, right? What is this like here? What is this like? H2-SCl. H2-SCl, we can take H2-SCl also, right? It is H2-SCl. What is the concentration of this? 1 molar. Why 1 molar? Because it is the standard. That is why it is 1 molar. For standard, it is defined temperature is tonight 8 Kelvin and concentration is unit concentration, 1 molar, right? And the concentration of HCl is what? 1 molar, right? So it is measured with 1 molar concentration or molar base? No, it is not like that. Concentration will always take 1 molar. Because we are trying to get 1 molar of H plus 1. No, 1, the acid that we are taking, the concentration of this is 1 molar. Concentration of acid should be 1 molar if it is standard. Now this is a platinum wire. What is this? It is a platinum sheet and this is the platinum wire. This kind of, you know, the setup is not required when you have a solid electrode, that zinc. What we do in case of zinc? We just dip the electrode, zinc electrode. But since it is a gas, so we have to provide the surface as well as the setup. Okay? Now this is the standard hydrogen electrode. Now suppose if you have to find it out for copper, so what we do? We take a copper electrode with copper oxide and we connect that with the boiling material. Whatever reflection we have, Tm of the cell that we can find it out, right? So that we are not going to discuss one by one. Just we will see one example of copper. Now for this one, since this can behave as cathode and anode both, so if it is behave as cathode, what is the reaction then? Reduction takes place, right? For 2H plus we get reduced into, right? And the E naught value of this is what? E naught of H plus to H2 is equals to what? Zero because we have assumed the standard hydrogen electrode at zero electrode potential, right? Our assumption is this, at 298 Kelvin and this is the assumption we have, okay? If it behaves as anode then the reaction. So anode reaction is what? H2 gas converts into 2H plus equals plus 2 electron. And hence its E naught value is what? E naught of H2 H plus will be zero again at the same condition 288 Kelvin and this is the assumption, okay? Now if we have to, you have to draw this diagram again, okay? I am doing this one. If we have to find out for copper, we will take copper electrode. This is the copper rod placed in that was Cu S O 4 solution, one moment of concentration. And this is connected with voltmeter and this will work. Now deflection in voltmeter gives you E naught of the cell, okay? Deflection in voltmeter gives you the EMF of the cell. Now the formula of E naught cell is what? E naught cell, what is the formula? E of? Capital minus. If I am taking production potential, so capital minus? Capital. Anode. Anode. So the reaction of cathode is getting reduced to Cu 2 plus converting into C and the anode reaction is E of H2 2. It is also production potential, you know? H plus 2 H2. Production potential we have, so it is production H plus 2 H2. When you write H2 2 H plus it is oxidation, right? But whatever it is, it will be zero. And this value is what? This is the rating in, in what? Voltmeter. Voltmeter. Voltmeter. Sir, this means salt will not be required. Salt will be required. Yes, salt will be required. This salt will not be considered. Salt will be required, it is understood. Without salt it will not work. But not. Right? Salt will not work. Right? So in our cell, whatever the rating you get here, in our cell is the value of that standard electrode potential, which is found to be what? Zero point? That is how we find out the reduction potential of all the electrodes. Suppose we, 2.7 is the value of this standard. Isn't it 2.7? 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25. other electrode and if we arrange them in ascending or descending order, if we arrange them in ascending or descending order, we will get a series which is known as electrochemical series so the electrochemical series actually you have to memorize it is given in the book that E naught value of h2 to h plus is 0 and this is in between right and here also we have some measure here also we have some measure the nature of this series you have to keep in mind values will be given in the questions you do not have to memorize the values ok. Lithium has highest negative reduction potential and chlorine has most positive reduction potential again this also you do not have to remember right but here as the most negative reduction potential we have most negative reduction potential and this one we have most positive reduction potential so maximum reduction potential we have here so it is a maximum tendency to get reduced right so as we go down from this h plus part we go down in this electrochemical series the tendency to get reduced will increase it means it is a better oxidizing agent right so first property here is more strong is reducing right if it is also as reduction potential increases its tendency to get reduced will be reduced what we have done so far zinc is minus 0.76 copper is 0.34 copper has higher rp so copper will get reduced and zinc will get oxidized right so more reduction potential means what more tendency to get reduced and more tendency to oxidizes it means more rp stronger oxidizing agent understood as the reduction potential increases as rp increases the tendency to get reduced will be more and hence it is a good oxidizing agent it is a good oxidizing agent right so as we go from bottom to top it will be a good reducing agent it will easily get oxidized and reduce others and this will be a good oxidizing that is what you have to give you the property of this electrochemical series values you do not have to memorize values will be given in the question okay now the next thing we have to discuss is NUST equation you know what is NUST equation derivation you have done derivation of NUST equation you have done yes or no


Good to have you all back for another episode of Think Tech Hawaii's Human-Humane Architecture that we are broadcasting live once again from the opposite ends of the world. And if you could get to the first slide and see us both, it's me and you're in Würzburg, Germany. And it's you, De Soto, back in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hi De Soto. Yes, yes. And it's very cold for you and it's very warm and humid for me. As our dresses show and are at least your fenestration behind you and talking fenestration. This show is a good example of what we hope it would inspire the audience to do. And when the show is over to have it been resonating in your mind and looking at things out there differently. And that's what we did because you got overly excited, which we do show at the quote on the top right about some more temperate fenestrations here. And that made you thinking about your past and elaborate on the picture at the top left, please. That's exciting. Well, the picture on the top left is an apartment building in San Francisco. The address is 2006 Washington Street and that is a building built in 1924.  My grandparents and my great-grandfather lived with my mother and her two siblings. In this building, which was it's very distinctive because it's pink and it's very easy to see. But what really struck my mind was I discovered when you sent me information after we had talked about small balconies and lawn eyes and our last show that this building, which looks somewhat European in its style, has what are called French balconies, which essentially aren't really a balcony. It's just doors that will open onto essentially just a railing and you can't really go out on it and do very much. Well, as soon as I saw that, I remember, yeah, this building, the mother building that my grandparents lived in, my mother lived in. When I visited it as a child, I was perplexed by these French balconies, which didn't seem to do anything because they were so small. And they're kind of a decorative element. They do allow you fuller access to the outside. They allow you more air circulation, but they do not allow you to go out and really live outdoors on alumni as we see people in Germany do and we should see more of here in the Hawaiian Islands on our high prices. So that was something that I learned and stirred memories for me after we did our previous show. And let's move on to the next because you just asked to maybe learn more from here for there. And this is another memory of a show we did way back at the very beginning that we called Bad Breathing. And that was about bad times of the Second World War, both at your place as in my place. And at this place here where I'm right now, it looked like this. And it's a little hard to tell probably, but it gets more clear when we go to the next slide, please. Because that's where it is all in pieces and bombed out. We're talking about the show about my father that he had his second birthday on the main train station in Dresden, which was all bombed, thanks to his mom's intuition that he had to go up there versus into a bunker where they were all killed. So Wordsburg was equally basically erased and bombed. And you did some historic research on that one, Brian. Yeah, and Wordsburg is a small city. It was bombed towards the end of the war and I believe April 1945 and within just a very short time, like less than a half hour, there were hundreds of bombers from Britain and they destroyed 80 to 90% of this historic city. And not too long after that the Americans were fighting on the ground and the Nazis destroyed the, they blew up the historic bridges to the city over the river as well. So it ended the war in absolute destruction, but as you are about to show us, it's come back. It took a very long time for that and I read that it also took until 1964 for the final rubble from World War II to be cleaned from this particular location. But before that, not to miss out why we got bombed, which gets us to the next slide, which is because we got a little bit too full of ourselves. And this is a photograph I took in a bookstore of a, which I should have bought the book, but shame on me, I quickly took that picture of a historic postcard. It basically shows the depiction of the Nazis and their specific letter type about glorifying that. And this is also encompassing your weekly German lesson, Brian. It's the beautiful city. That's what that that's what doesn't German, although you said that the way it's phrased is a little bit strange, particularly the way you say it today. But what they're doing is glorifying a typically German outlook, a typically German landscape, a typically German city because that was what the Nazis did. They were glorifying themselves as superior beings and German culture as being superior to everything else. And unfortunately, if you see the what amit to the city, it went from being glorious and beautiful to being ruins. Yeah. And thanks to you Americans and French and British and Russian. Next slide. We got their glorious glow back, but luckily in a peaceful way. But you see here, this is the core of the city. This is us here some few days ago. And you see in the distance, the historic buildings, facades back. You also see the Baroque basically in dialogue with a Gothic here. It's very interesting and compelling and give the next slide. We had the first snow. So these are more mid range pying mobile that we're going to tell you more in the next shows in front of where we're currently staying. And you've been asking the legitimate question what this picture and the previous one is implying has the entire historic city being basically being reconstructed. And the answer is no, only in some parts in some cases. This street front obviously reminds me also a little bit of the strange you were once pointing out to that they were making this Berlin movie in downtown. Hello, Lulu and making artificial snow. And there was more or less historic facades. The few ones there are still right. Right on Merchant Street, exactly. But move on to the next slide. Another large parts of the city look like that where the historic facades have not been reconstructed. They've been basically rebuilding or building them on the previous footprints, but in a more post war modernist, clean, purified style. But, you know, walking through and this is, you know, the snow hasn't been sticking around and melted away, but you can clearly see what the people are wearing there. This is now in the middle of winter temperatures close to the freezing point. And there's some strange something strange happening in the middle, right? Yeah, that relates to our topic of the Nile Luring. And so what are the next slides and we both you and I were saying that this obviously these are prefabricated or pre built metal structures being added to the facade of this building. They are two of our knives. And it's odd, as you said, that they're doing this in the middle of the day that they're doing this in the middle of winter when it's cold. And these are structures being added for the benefit of the people inside. Now, they don't have their floors yet. They are still just a metal framework. You said that probably they're going to have a wooden floor.  We don't have them very much here in Honolulu. But you said no, they are purely for people to use during the warm months to go outside. They're just being installed in front of windows. So I'm not sure if they're going to knock out part of the window and make a door so that people can actually open a door and go out there. Or if you're just going to go in and out through the windows because that does sometimes happen as well. But we not want to forget that we're still in the claws of COVID. So the nice are still the best place to be out. So they might actually be preparing for the winter being over and trying to spend as much time outdoors. And again, that's something, you know, we have plenty of buildings in Honolulu that don't have one eyes and they should have one eyes. So if they're doing this in the middle of winter, in the middle of the pandemic and temperate climate, why are we doing this more? Why don't we make this a mandate in Honolulu, you know, add more nice to your building, right? That's our message. Absolutely. And next slide.  So you clearly identified this is not in Würzburg anymore, right? No, because the license plates on the parked vehicles have the letter H. And so you told me that this is in Hanover. And Hanover was also bombed as was Würzburg as we saw earlier. So a lot of it has been rebuilt. And as you said to these are newer buildings. These are not old buildings. But the building we're interested in is the one on the left. And I think we want to go to the next slide to look at that because that's got a structure that's been added to the outside. And that is a three level sort of a prefab lani that's been added to the building. I wondered if this was just for the use of individual apartments or if those doors on the we can see in the facade are actually for a hallway so that they are common uses. We don't know for that for a fact, but that's just something I speculated about. And we can go to the next picture to look more closely at it and see that it's not as it's not as attractive as it might be. I guess you could say it's a little bit blah, but you can tell us. Yeah, and it's it's and that being said, functionally, it's an improvement for the building. But aesthetically, you're kind of wondering right and it's pretty much a prefabricated pre standard set that you can basically buy off a catalog or pushing a button these days and then you buy it and then you have a metal contractor basically putting it together. But as you like to call things that are functionally unnecessary ornamental these X bracing here are not necessary. They're just again for the looks. And so again, while we, you know, we improve buildings. This is called human humane architecture. So where's the human humane at it? We're kind of missing that a little bit. And hopefully we'll see this in the end when we go down the street and let's go the next slide because there's one building that has been pretty much you asked if this is historic and it is. This is a fine example of what we call and it's around the same time of your your grandmas San Francisco tower from the mid 20s. This might be a little later, but not much just pre war. And we call this brick expressionism, which is very popular. The more you come to the northern of Germany and it's it's a combination between very sort of ornated brick ornated the late brick and and and stucco salmon colored stucco infill. And when we go to the next slide, we look at the building from because it's a corner building. This is looking at the building from the corner into the other street. We're also seeing its historic fenestration and once again, what you just got yourself recently overly excited about you see these windows again at the very top that can flip in like an awning. And we were debating in this sort of energy efficiency paranoia that we Germans got ourselves into. They're actually questionable for the winter because you don't get a lot of air exchange through them because they open just a little bit. You would have to turn them the other way like a conventional door horizontally to get what they recommend in covert. For example, for schools, they say every two hours, you need to have 20 minutes of total air exchange. And you would never get that if you just open the window there a little bit. The more for the summer weather temperature of inside and outside isn't too much fluctuating. And that reminds us of where you are, right? That's the case all the time. The thing that I find astounding is and this is really a very basic simple thing that Germans have invented. And I presume this is found in a lot of other European buildings. These windows simply can do two things. They can either open at the top at an angle or they can open from the side like a door. It's incredibly useful. It's incredibly intuitive. And yet I don't think anybody in the United States installs these. Why not? Anyway, good point. I just I mean, it's still I find amazing to see. Yeah. And another similarity to the building of your grandmother is pretty much that it only had very few exemplary lanais and these kind of French balconies that kind of puzzles you, but otherwise didn't had much. So here we also saw both historically and then also from then the rebuilding of the 1950s. One didn't do many lanais at that time. That has changed this client or this owner of this building here became our client. And the task was as simple as to add lanais. He owns this building. He's a retired structural professor, professor of structures. And he thought his units would just rent out better with outdoor spaces as lanais. So that was the task and the approach we took is basically to not lick and stick them. In the way we saw in the previous more commercial enterprise, but in a more subtle way. And you can already see our intervention. But being the approach to make it subtle, they're hard to see, which was the intention. So let's look closer and go to the next slide and go to one more slide, which shows them more clearly. And how do these look to sell them? Well, these look very interesting to me. And you explain the entire structure, which we'll get to in the next few slides, but they are attractive. They clearly are not necessarily part of the original building, but they're not intrusive. And they are functional, but they also have a decorative attractive aspect to them. And what you can see is they kind of float because they've got a concrete base or a floor. But yet it is not resting directly upon the steel structure that supports it.  And you can explain more what the whole structure is, how it works, et cetera. Yeah, for that, let's go to the next slide, which is comprised of two images. And what you just described, you see clearly on the left. You can also see that they're anchored back to the building. So we had to drill a hole into the stereotomic facade and kind of bolt it in there. And on the right, you can see what you already assumed would happen. It will happen. And I will look for it and let you know where the Würzburg Lanai has just been having been craned in that you would take out the sill of a window and make it a basically shorter ceiling door to be able to get to the Lanai. And next slide is going to show us, again, the detail you just described. Also, we wanted to express the nature of the client being a structural guy. He's an expert. So by the choice of steel was intentional to make them, as you said, the least intrusive or even the least visible because with steel, you can design the most minimal way.  And that tells us that steel is a perfect conductor because it transfers the heat of your tongue directly into the sign hole and into the condensation there. So this means there's a large expansion quotient within steel that over the summer it basically expands. And then basically in the winter it shrinks back. And so we had to make these tubes, these vertical tube segmented. And it's hard to see, but you see a little seam. And that seam base is that one tube basically has an inner tube that's welded to it. That's basically going to have the other tube sit above it and been able to move without cracking or bending. And let's go to the next slide, which shows us these birds were an inspiration. I saw them in the Sonoran Desert Museum when I was interviewing there for my teaching position in the desert before I came to our tropics. And you don't have to feel pity because that bird was not losing one of its legs, but it actually intentionally decided that it works with one just as well as with two, what his buddy is doing on the left. And we thought, you know, let this lanai do the same and touch the earth lightly just with his one leg and then basically, you know, leaning on to not fall over for the lateral loads to the building. And go to the next slide. And again, why would we say that? This might be an opportunity for clients to enhance the rentability of their units in Hawaii. And it also obviously an opportunity for the emerging generation to take on small projects like that, that they can still have lots of fun with. But we're returning now from the north to the south back to Würzburg. And we're seeing the crane in action there in the distance. But I started to continue to walk and then turn back and look at something interesting right next to it, which let's get closer to that and check that out to show the next slide. Yeah, this is a very interesting structure. As you said, the bottom is not very substantial looking. It's just got a sort of a metal framework and mostly glass. But it's got attached to it on the facade that's on the left, a very large white structure. And let's go to the next picture and see what that looks like. And it's a giant breeze sole. And that is a type of shading device for the side of a building. And we've done shows about breeze sole, which make a lot of sense here in the tropics. And the picture in the upper right is the government building on Dillingham Boulevard, where you go to get your driver's license. But this one in Germany, I noticed that the vertical members are tilted at an angle. They're not just vertical, but I presume that that takes into account the position of the sun at the hottest time of year in Germany. And this structure, also like the one that we just looked at for the Lanheis, is canted out away from the facade of the building by just these small, look sort of insubstantial, but small horizontal pieces that keep it out there. So it's added in a kind of a delicate way. Yeah, and the delicacy reminds us of one of our finest pieces of breeze soles in Honolulu, which is hardwood's board of water supply, right? Very similar. He also angled the vertical fins in a similar way. And reminding us of things back home gets us to the next slide because there's our dear friend, Ron Lindgren, who's one of the biggest fans of our show. So we assume you're on here with us again and watching us high. Hopefully you're staying safe and sound back in Long Beach, California. And him being an expert in what he calls structural expressionism and then also planner integrated troughs into architecture. This must have been a fan of yours at the other end of the world in the 70s. And let's go to the next slide and check that out further. So here we are here are the bones, the beams being being bones sticking out. And there's planners. They're not they don't have green in there for whatever reason. And they also want to keep the birds out while we love your birds in the background and singing and often your dogs are not there today. And I don't know if you have some birds in there every once in a while. No, they're never matter. It's I don't know why that it's probably the pigeon poop. They're working out here in town. So let's go to the next slide because there's more to come. This is another building here in the area that seems to be from mid-century and this outer kind of frame seems original. But then what they inserted in their next slide is interesting because they've been thinking at the next slide up for that is actually these these vertical steel cable suspended from the from the upper frame concrete frame. And then you got these prefab concrete planks basically suspended from the cables, which is very interesting. Once again, they don't seem too much just like the previous ones to basically go out and use them as long as but they seem to have the function. For example, you can service your facade. You can wash your windows from them. And if this would be a Southern facade, they seem to be sufficiently deep so they can help to keep the building cool, which is something that we would like to have every building doing back in Honolulu because it's hot all the time. And that being said, let's go to the next slide and get us back home. And you're kind of having this curious suspicious look at the newest piece of you age. This is the life science building. It's now completed. And what is the look on your face tell us if you look at the top right image of which we pulled from the web, which is the just completed building. You just pointed out to me and this is all very true that the exterior elements of this building really are not functional. First of all, the horizontal fins or the horizontal eyebrows, as you said, that extend across the facade are not deep enough to cause any significant shading. Therefore, they don't really give any climate control. There's also this platform on the far right that's got these two skinny little V shaped supports holding it up and they don't really do. I mean, it doesn't really do anything either. That's an opaque wall. So it's not really providing any shade for that. Whereas when the building was under construction and it had the scaffolding around it, it had these much deeper structures on it, which really would have caused a lot more shading and been a lot more sensible. They would have been functional. So leaving the construction facade, I mean, the construction scaffolding there actually would have made more sense than what the final building has on it in terms of being functional and doing something and being helpful for the people inside. Yeah. So in the relentless attempt of first and foremost our dear colleague and Code Green host Howard Wigg of Tropicizing the Invasive IBC, the International Building Code, which is the law we have to build to, maybe we're talking to the DPP, the Department of Permanent Planning in suggesting basically these kind of scaffolding structures to fenestrate our tropical buildings. Because then again, it would keep the buildings cool and will also look cool, but it comes from its performance and it's not an added just for the looks ornament, right? And that could go as far and as crazy as what we show next, which is pulled from a design award that is by this online magazine and they had 4,300 submissions. And this is one of the winners and tell me about your reaction to it. Well, when I first saw this picture when you sent it to me, I assumed this was a building in Germany. And when I looked more closely at the parked vehicle, I realized, no, that's a Japanese license plate. This is a building in Japan. And I also assume, well, it's under construction. That's why it's got this scaffolding around it. No, that is a permanent part of the building and it's got incorporated into it all this greenery. So there are shrubs and there's a tree in there as well. This serves two functions, apparently. First of all, you can go outside on it and live on it and enjoy it outside. And second of all, it's also going to be for shading, particularly incorporating the greenery into it, the vegetation. And I also noticed that those metal poles are attached to each other in a way that suggests bamboo poles because bamboo is used as construction scaffolding in Asia and it's tied together, slashed together in the same way. So I'm assuming that that's a reference to how buildings would have been built traditionally using traditional materials in Japan and also China. We see that in China too. So this is a very kooky looking building, but it's got some functionality to it as well. So it isn't just there to be weird. It is there to do things. Yeah, and this just points out, if you would just say, you know, what's mandatory and to be mandated is you have to provide an exterior shading functionality of the building that would basically then give a multitude of interpretations, right? So the couple of angles we saw even here in temperate climate are all very different, but all serve the same purpose. And if they are then even inhabitable, then even better in the pandemic and the post-pandemic practices that we say we will continue and to increase our unique selling proposition of being the place when you can be outdoors all year. Yeah, right. With that, good suggestions, more to come. We're at the end of the show. So see you all back for next week's episode of Human Humane Architecture. Bye-bye. Bye.


Okay, so I'm very happy to be here today and on stage for the next five minutes and Because I don't have a lot of time. I'm going to jump directly into the answer and the answer is yes yes, and the question to that answer is can backstage deliver value beyond engineering teams across the organization to other people My name is Olivier Lycheti. I'm founder and CTO of Avalya Systems and one problem space that we explore with our clients is How can we better understand and explain what is happening in the black box of software development? And can we communicate the business value the business impact of technology There are two reasons why we decided to use backstage to work on this problem and This is because in the solution space backstage gives us two important capabilities The first one is the generic Data model that we can use to create a model of the entire software ecosystem The second capability is this very generic application development framework that we can use and so with these two capabilities We are equipped to implement a very different use cases for different people in the organization Instead of talking about developer portals We tend to speak about digital portals and in the projects that we do we focus a lot on content insights and stories and We create personalized experiences By selecting the type of information and the way the information is presented to the users Doing these projects. We have identified three teams that we find important and that we keep revisiting These teams are revisit the UX Embrace model extensions and be smart about content Revisit the UX I Think we can all agree that even if the UI of backstage is very logical is well structured It drives us to the design of portals that really feel like developer tools And if you consider non-technical people this can be Overwhelming if not scary I think we can also agree that the table view in the catalog is very effective to search for information But it's not very good to understand the overall structure of the ecosystem It's state and the relationships between the entities The good news is that in the end a backstage instance is a react application So with some work, it's possible to turn the UI inside out Instead of adding custom panels custom tabs into backstage We prefer to look at it the other way we look at a broader collaborative web application and We inject backstage user interface elements into that broader application This is a technique that we use to create a first experience with the portal that is more appealing for non-technical people Embrace model extensions I mentioned before that the system model is really one of the features that drew us to the backstage in the first place and At the same time if we read the documentation the documentation makes us cautious about Modifications extensions of the system model. Is it a good idea to change? entity kinds is it's a Good idea to define new relations. So we are aware of the trade-offs But because for us the modeling part is so important. We tend to favor them in addition to the taxonomies an important part is the Metadata that you can associate that you can lean to entities in the catalog and here I would like to make an analogy to a GIS The GIS gives you different perspectives on the world By allowing you to use different layers on the map and the idea is that Backstage can become the GIS of your software ecosystem Because the user interface of backstage is fully customizable It's possible to create these interactive data visualizations these interactive maps in This example we are looking at the organizational structure Where squads are groups? in tribes and When you have these interactive visualizations rendered into backstage You can annotate them to represent the state of the acquisition of the Ecosystem here. It's the happiness of the teams But you can do similar things with the quality of the systems or the business value generated in the domains Last but not least be smart about content Creating a digital portal is not trivial But we have really when you have released the first version of your portal you have only done one part of the job If the goal is to generate a stream of insights content and stories How are you going to keep this stream lively and relevant for the people who is going to do that work? And how much time is it going to take? There are of course different strategies that you need to to combine But one very interesting use case that we see is to combine software analytics with generative AI and One thing that we have done is to implement data pipelines where we combine these tools. I Don't have the time to go into a lot of details, but just to give you an idea It's possible to extract data from systems. For example issues captured in GitHub To give this data structure to charge EPT and to ask What are interesting questions that you could ask about this data set? To then ask charge EPT to write to the code That once executed can answer the question proposed by charge EPT and In the end to ask the charge EPT to write a story About the answers in a way that makes sense to an engineer a CTO or a CFO and Therefore creating this content that will be Understandable and make sense for the different personas. I Hope that this has Triggered your curiosity. I will be at the conference for the whole week And I would love to chat and show you a demo of these Portals. Thank you


Getting ready for a party or maybe the super bowl? Well here's a recipe for you that you might want to try. We're making jalapeno popper dip. Great for parties and it's easy to put together and it's really delicious. It'll be a crowd pleaser for sure or even a touchdown. I'm Rockin Robin and I'm going to show you how to do it right after my chef joke. Okay I'm going to start off here with chef joke number one and number two will be a little bit later. All right what do football players do when they get a little overheated? They go and get closer to some of the fans. So we're going to start off here by prepping up our 8x8 baking dish. I'm going to coat it with just a little bit of avocado oil. We're going to roast our jalapenos so that they're nice and flavorful and this helps take the raw edge off of them. So I'm going to lay these right on my gas stove here just on the element here so that they're elevated a bit and we're just going to place them on there, rotate them until they're completely black. Oh and make sure you turn on your fan because these can cause some pretty powerful fumes. Once these are pretty much all black we'll place them in a bowl and then we'll cover them with saran wrap so they can kind of steam for about 10 minutes. You want to make sure to get most all of the pepper charred that way it'll soften up and be more flavorful. Remember let that steam for a good 10 minutes. Next we're cooking up some bacon. Why? Because bacon makes everything taste just a bit better. Let the bacon cool a bit on some paper towels and drain and then we'll chop it into bite-sized pieces. While our peppers are steaming we're going to start with our cream cheese here that has been left out to soften and we're going to place that into a large mixing bowl. To that we're going to add some plain Greek yogurt. This is going to help make our recipe a little healthier by adding some probiotics. Now remember you can get the written recipe below the video in the description area. So I decided here at the last minute that my bowl wasn't quite large enough. Remember I told you to use a large bowl. Well use a large bowl so you have plenty of mixing room. Now I'm just going to mix the yogurt and the cream cheese ahead of time before I add anything else just to get it nice and smooth. The next three spices that I'm adding will be garlic powder, onion powder and ground cumin. Here's the garlic that'll be about a teaspoon, a half a teaspoon on the onion powder, and a quarter teaspoon on the ground cumin. We'll mix that up to combine it all. Okay it's been 10 minutes since the peppers have been steaming so it's time to take those out and we're going to rub them with paper towels to get all most of the black stuff off. Don't worry about getting it all off because it actually adds some nice flavor. Once you have most of the black stuff rubbed off you're going to want to trim off the ends of each pepper on the stem end. Then slice the pepper lengthwise to expose the seeds and the membranes. If you like it hot leave that stuff in. If you want it more mild then definitely scrape it out. Once you get the seeds out I like to cut strips with the peppers and then turn it and cut it the other direction so I have a nice little small dice. So I'll place the jalapenos into our dish along with some parmesan cheese. It's grated. I like to mix a little bit as I go and but you could always add all of your ingredients at one time if you wish. Next we'll be adding some medium cheddar cheese. You can use sharp if you like just depends on what you like. I like to grate my own just because I don't have the extra fillers in the cheese and the anti-caking ingredients. Sprinkle that bacon in there as well and then take your mixer and combine everything. Spoon the dip into your prepared baking dish. Spread it out evenly with a spatula. Now we're going to work on the topping. I'm using Aliyah's panko crumbs that are gluten-free but you can use any kind you want. To those we're going to add some melted butter and some parmesan cheese and then we'll just mix it up with a spoon and then I like to finish it off with some flat leaf parsley. Give this one last stir and then we'll sprinkle this over the jalapeno popper dip. Spread it out as you need to with the back of a spoon. We're going to place this into a 375 degree Fahrenheit oven for somewhere between 18 and 20 minutes. We want the topping to be nice and golden brown and the dip to be nice and bubbly. Okay here's our second joke of the day. I know you've been waiting. All right here we go. Why didn't the dog want to play football? Because he was a boxer. Here's our dip after I believe it was 18 minutes in the oven and you can see the nice golden brown crust we have there. Let me give this a little taste here. This is so creamy and delicious. I love the bacon in there. It gives it a nice flavor and those roasted jalapenos are wonderful and the topping has a great crunch. If you'd like to see another great party recipe try my crunchy crispy coconut shrimp with apricot sauce. You're going to love this. I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you did, let me know by smashing the like button. If you have a recipe request or a comment, I'd love to hear from you. Let me know down in the comments. Okay so we'll see you back here next week for another Rockin' Recipe.


Good afternoon everybody. I'm on the territory of the Squamish Muslim and Slewa-tooth people and Thanks for joining us We expected last night to be a very challenging evening and it certainly was I'd like to start off the top by thanking our well-land firefighters. We're on the front lines Throughout the night last night. They're on the front lines right now protecting people's homes Protecting our communities and protecting the people of British Columbia. Very grateful for that Very grateful for the British Columbians who are opening their homes to evacuees who are supporting neighbors providing space for them and And making sure that they're looked after your generosity is very much appreciated. We have seen heroic efforts I spoke with some local leadership today heard harrowing stories about About last night and I want to thank all the local officials who are assisting and leading emergency response efforts on the ground in their communities as well The current situation is is grim We have 35,000 people in the province. It's a fluid situation, but about 35,000 people. We're on evacuation order right now We have about 30,000 people who are on advisory that Within a matter of hours could receive notice that they are on evacuation order as well It is so important and I want to express my gratitude to people who heard our call yesterday Not to travel if you don't have to if you're planning on visiting the Okanagan area Visiting fire affected areas as a tourist going to a hotel The fact that you stayed home. We know it's challenging We know you had plans and we're grateful for your understanding and your willingness to stay off the roads We have an urgent need for more accommodation given the numbers of people who are being evacuated and who are under advisory The situation changes very quickly given the dry conditions and the winds as a result we will be issuing a new order under the The emergency authorities the government has And this is specific to ensuring that we have accommodation available for evacuees for emergency personnel so that they have places to stay as They respond to the front line and have to evacuate their own camps and for families for seniors for others who are fleeing Fire affected communities that they have a place to stay We need to ensure this accommodation is available specifically This order will restrict travel in fire affected areas When you are traveling for the purposes of staying in temporary accommodation like a hotel a motel provincial park public campground This order says stay off the roads for tourists related Non-essential travel to stay in temporary accommodation This order again is aimed at ensuring that we have the accommodation available for people who desperately need it Who are leaving their homes who may lose their homes? For the firefighters that are working on the front line for everybody Minister Ma will follow me to provide more details about this order But we shouldn't need an order. Please just stay out of these areas if you don't have to be there If you have friends or family that are planning on traveling make sure that they're aware of the incredible sensitivity At this time in fire affected communities. I would also like to share That a further development from yesterday People are in the province are certainly aware and grateful to the RCMP for ensuring that provincial resources are deployed to fire affected areas When people leave their homes behind their belongings behind when they flee the fire affected community, they're worried about Security they're worried about what happens when they're not there And in addition evacuation often needs the assistance of police were very grateful to the RCMP for the provincial resources. They've deployed Yesterday the solicitor general authorized use of emergency provisions under our agreement with the RCMP that enables additional Municipal RCMP resources to be deployed to fire affected areas to ensure that communities are safe That people's belongings are protected when they have to evacuate and to assist with evacuation processes Overall the Minister for Public Safety will continue to take the steps necessary Communities are safe that people are safe and protected And closing I'd just like to say and encourage people to stay alert For alerts you may be asked to leave on very short notice from communities. We have Conditions changed dramatically conditions changed dramatically conditions changed dramatically. We've had to leave home Those who have had to make difficult decisions provincial government is here with you I spoke with the Prime Minister this afternoon the federal government is working with us on the resources that we need provincially And local officials are working with us as well. We're all working together We have your back and we will support you and your families British Columbians will get through this together Thank you to everybody who's working right now to protect British Columbians and our thoughts are with all of the families all of The people who have had to leave their homes right now. We will support you with that. I'll turn it over to Minister Ma Thank you so much Premier Ubi Good afternoon everyone. My name is Bowen Ma, Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness Speaking to you today from the territories of the Musqueam, the Squamish and the Slavita Last night we declared a provincial state of emergency given severe and fast changing wildfire situation that we are currently facing This declaration gives the province extraordinary powers to keep people communities and first responders safe The situation is highly dynamic and the numbers are changing all of the time But as of now we are currently hovering at about 30,000 people on evacuation order and an additional 36,000 people on evacuation alert people Families firefighters and other frontline responders need a safe place to stay during this extremely challenging and difficult time And that is why as Premier Ubi has already described, we are introducing temporary restrictions in the Okanagan Under this order, we are restricting travel to several communities for anyone planning on staying in temporary accommodations This includes Kelowna, Kamloops, Oliver, Asoyus, Penticton and Vernon Let me be clear Temporary accommodation in the areas I have listed are no longer available for non-essential visits If you do not need to travel to these areas for essential reasons, we need you to change your plans This will ensure that accommodations like hotels and motels are available for evacuees and frontline responders in the Okanagan If you are currently in accommodations in these areas We are asking you to voluntarily check out early and free up those spaces for evacuees and responders I want to thank the hotel association and accommodation providers For their cooperation and collaboration with us already And I want to thank everyone who has already cancelled their plans to travel to the Okanagan. Your efforts are helping And I strongly urge everyone to avoid traveling anywhere in the southern part of me in the central interior and southeast For non-essential reasons including the Shoeswap and the Okanagan This decision was not made lightly, but it is necessary to ensure public safety This is a challenging time for everyone and my heart is with those who have had to leave their home and need And those who are getting prepared to leave if needed The province is continuing to assess the tools available to us Under the provincial state of emergency and we will not hesitate to take further action in order to keep people safe Over the past 24 hours We have been hearing stories of people offering their hearts and their homes to evacuees And this generosity and commitment to working together is a testament to the of the people of British Columbia We are all in this together and together we will get through this And before I turn it over to minister Ralston I want to extend once more my heartfelt gratitude and recognition to the immensely courageous individuals of the bc wildfire service Contractors local fire departments rcmp and all other emergency personnel Their unwavering dedication to public safety that's been exhibited not only over the last few days But throughout this entire wildfire season deserves our utmost admiration Thank you, and I'll now turn it over to minister Ralston Thanks very much minister ma and good afternoon. I'm bruce Ralston minister of forests I too am honored to be speaking to you from the judicial territory of the muskwim squamish and sleighward tooth peoples and sleighward tooth peoples Before I begin my brief comments. I want to acknowledge everyone throughout the province who is affected by the horrific wildfires impacting our The people whose homes and community fire I know the extent of the destruction is devastating and the losses are heavy Of course our top priority is always to protect people's lives and property But I also want to acknowledge the impacts To wild wild stock or livestock particularly in the crater creek area This is an uncertain time and our hearts and thoughts are with all of you But most importantly our people are with you as well Our crews and partners are doing everything they can to keep people safe Our experts at the bc wildfire service continue to watch the weather very closely We expect that today will be another challenging day, but we are prepared There are currently 380 wildfires burning across british colombia 15 of those are wildfires of note There are approximately 400 personnel directly engaged in wildfire responses across the province We are grateful to have international firefighters from australia, mexico, brazil and costa rica As well as incoming firefighters from mexico, ontario and eastern canada These folks are in addition to the thousands of local contractors already engaged in the firefighting effort I also want to express my sincere thanks to the many municipal fire departments from around british colombia Who have come to support our efforts? There are too many too many to name individually, but I want to express my gratitude on behalf of the province Again, I want to acknowledge that this has been a long and difficult wildfire season It is immensely stressful living day to day with smoke Or near a fire or being on an evacuation alert or order On behalf of all british colombians, thank you to firefighters first responders and emergency management teams who are working Through the night to prepare and respond to these challenges I want to assure british colombians that we are working hard to ensure communities are prepared And have the supports they need I mentioned this yesterday and I know that police have echoed the same concerns Drones are a significant hazard to our aircrews fighting fires Kelowna area rcmp have said this continues to be an issue unfortunately Now is not the time to be taking footage or photographs of active wildfires Not only is it irresponsible, but it is illegal to fly them in fire areas Likewise, this is not the time to be boating on lakes where air tankers are landing to use the lake to refill Keep boats away from areas where other planes and helicopters are operating Lastly, I want to thank all british colombians who remain diligent and aware in the midst of a very challenging wildfire situation Our thoughts are with all of you who've been affected We will support you through the worst of this And we'll continue to support you as we look forward towards recovery I'd now like to turn it over to cliff chaplain. Thank you cliff Thank you very much minister ralston minister ma and premier eb I'm honored to join today from the traditional territory of to come loops disequipment I'm at our provincial wildfire coordination center in camloops bc And I'm going to provide a run through of fires as I did yesterday with an associated slide deck Before I get into the fire rundown, which will be slightly briefer than yesterday as we have Adams lake complex and the mcdougal fire Information officers on the line who can take questions after the briefing today So I won't spend as much time as I did yesterday I also want to Offer my condolences and with the impacts of fires in particular yesterday in the shoe swap area the Adams lake area And I want to thank all the residents there who adhered to the evacuation orders the fire in that area yesterday was extremely aggressive As we had to make the decision to call the evacuation order and get everybody out safely I want to thank everybody for doing that in a kind and deliberate way To make sure that everyone could get to safety I also want to issue and offer my thanks to the thousands of responders who are Continually showing up day in and day night day in and every night to try to protect the communities in bc As minister ralston said we have seen a significant support effort from municipal fire departments from across bc And we continue to see more stepping up every day To support the shoe swap kalona and any other fire that we may see Also would like to thank first nation communities for your continued support of giving Crew resources and single resources to support incidents and your local eocs And that also goes to local governments and contracted resources We can't do it without you and we really appreciate the support as we continue to go through this challenging season I'm just going to pull up the brief slide deck to go through And I will just look for confirmation when It can be seen And I see a thumbs up. Thank you So we will continue to see extreme fire behavior In the southern half of the province We had over the last 48 hours We have seen some of the worst conditions that this province has ever faced As it pertains to wildfires on the land base and obviously we have seen the devastating impacts of that fire behavior Whether it be west kalona kalona the shoe swap and many other communities over the last 48 hours who have been Feeling the anxiety and stress of fires the picture you see here is of kukipi creek fire Which is in the coastal fire center and you can see just how aggressive that fire behavior is As this fire was taken yesterday in the early afternoon I'm just going to do a run through Starting at adams lake moving to mcdougal and then we'll talk about a few of the other fires here today I'll leave I'll try to leave the slides up so you can read Sort of the update of what's occurring as I just briefly speak to the map itself So what you see in the map is the adams lake complex Which has two fires which essentially are now one fire that have combined But we're still see it as two fires one on one is east adams lake Uh, and the other one is bush creek as you can see by the red dots on the map, which is Essentially the the growth from yesterday. You can see that this fire made a significant run Uh towards the shoe swap the northern end of the shoe swap as well as towards highway one Uh, serento and chase It did cross highway one, which we briefly closed, uh, or which we closed yesterday evening And we issued a large or we recommended a large scale evacuation order for multiple communities in the area This fire made a run yesterday in under 12 hours of over 20 kilometers That is a significant fire run for this province and it was extremely challenging Conditions to try to get people out and I'm thankful that we were able to do that We will continue to reassess on this fire our our incident management team has been out Making a reassessment with the growth from yesterday Uh, we will we have developed a new plan. We continue to have structure protection and aviation resources Working to protect structures in the area as we have seen there have been impacts There have been impacts to structures in the area of north shoe swap As well as in other areas of this fire Uh, sorry as I move on to mcdougal. I'll just quickly say, uh for the evacuation people who are on evacuation order Again, I just want to reiterate.  I am pleased to report. Uh, as of this morning There were no new confirmed structure losses on that fire Again, we have a significant municipal fire department workforce in combination with our bc wildfire service staff and incident management team running a unified command on this area Working together to protect the homes in those in in kalona as well as in west kalona And working to stop the spread of this wildfire You could see by the red dots that we did see growth in the last 24 hours However, as I stated and I want to state again because it was thanks to hard work from so many individuals on the ground We do not have any confirmed additional structure losses from last night And we did have to deal with wind, uh throughout the night So it was really thanks to the hard work of the people on the ground Uh, moving into the phraser canyon now This is the kukipi creek fire in the phraser canyon, uh as I stated yesterday This fire came out of the nahat latch valley into the phraser canyon Two nights ago, uh, we didn't see significant growth on this fire yesterday, which is a really good thing The highway remains closed and impacted. We are working with the rail companies On this fire to try to have allow intermittent rail traffic to continue with the supply chain when it is safe to do so This fire today has the potential to see some growth to the north And our our crews and our team that's in place there is working with the resources they can to try to secure The north edge of this fire But again, the conditions are extremely challenging in that canyon and and people who know that valley know that the winds are Usually quite a bit stronger in that valley than anywhere else in bc As we look at the bender complex, which is just north of the kukipi creek fire It's comprised of three fires. We did see significant growth on the downton lake fire near gun lake You can see in the upper map here the red dots Looking as if that fire has potentially doubled in size Extreme fire behavior observed on this fire in the last 24 hours and we expect today to see additional fire behavior I think the positive on this fire as well as the stein fire is that up until this point We have somewhat been able to manage keeping it out of the phraser valley or the phraser canyon Which obviously allows it not to be hit by those winds. I spoke about on the kukipi creek fire A new fire that wasn't on the wasn't on briefing yesterday is the upper park real creek fire This fire is estimated at just under 1100 hectares in size As you can see on the map and if you can't see it, I'll let you know This is okanagan falls is in your bottom right of the map and oliver is in your bottom left So it just gives you some orientation where this fire is We are seeing some success with heavy equipment and working on guards to try to box this fire in and hopefully have success with our suppression efforts and then crater creek Which is in the ashenola at the bottom or far south of the countless fire center and the border of the united states of america Significant fire behavior to the south on this fire yesterday afternoon and into the evening As you can see by the red dots on this map the fire has pushed into the united states Which we're working with our counterparts in The us to ensure that we have a coordinated response to both the canadian side and the us side of this very large fire As you can see this fire is now estimated at 37 000 hectares and we are anticipating that it will continue to grow So with that i'll i'll Throw it back to minister ma and we look forward to hearing your questions Thank you Thank you so much cliff. We are now available to take questions in addition to myself premier eb minister ralston and cliff staff Available to answer questions also include brendan ralph's director of regional operations with the ministry of emergency management and climate readiness nicole bonnet fire information officer for the mcdougal creek wildfire and force tower fire information officer for lower east adams lake wildfire Our reminder to media on the line, please press star one to enter the queue You're limited to one question and one follow-up and please come off mute and speak your phone So that we can hear you properly in the room first question on the phone is from richard zeussman global news Premier this will be for you or for minister ma How do you believe this order is to work here? Will there be Police going to hotels and checking if people are checking in what are the logistics here in terms of people that are already in hotels and what They are supposed to do in the situation And for cliff, I'm just trying to get a sense. I know you went through the regions the impact in the north shoe swap right now There are reports people are still stranded in dangerous areas What's being done to help them and how concerned are you about that situation? Thanks richard, uh, this uh, this order is specifically to discourage people to tell them don't do it Discourse people from traveling to the okanagan to stay in hotels motels campsites And the goal of it is to free up accommodation if you're already in a hotel The order does not affect you, but we're really encouraging people who are in hotels who are in motels To talk to the operator and to go home early When you check out early, you're freeing up a hotel room for someone that is fleeing a wildfire You're freeing up a hotel room for a firefighter that is battling Forest fires in the area Those rooms as they come available are being snapped up by Emergency services personnel from the province of bc to make them available for evacuees and for first responders So we need all the accommodation we can get The order itself is meant to really communicate very clearly This is not the time to be traveling to the okanagan for tourism This is not the time to be traveling for anything other than an essential purpose And and I think people understand that But the order is really meant to underline it And I'll turn it over to cliff for your second part of your question Thank you very much, richard. Uh, I just want to start by stressing and I stress this yesterday as well Uh, the conditions that we are experiencing in bc right now If you are placed on evacuation order, please leave, please leave in an orderly in an orderly manner If you're put on evacuation alert, please be ready to leave at a moment's notice and when that notice is given Please leave the area in in the way that you're directed to by your local government We have had some experiences in the last couple of days with uh people who have not adhered to evacuation orders I'm I'm pleading with those individuals and anyone else who may be put on evacuation order in the coming days Please listen to your local or first nation government's recommendations When they put an order in place and if you're put on alert, please prepare your your go bag and be ready to go And please check on on your neighbors when you're put on evacuation alert to ensure that they have the Necessary things to get out as well For specifics on the north shush walk, which as I stated, uh, did see quite a bit of impact last night From a structure perspective, I I will throw to forest tower who is our communications officer with our incident management team on the adam's lake complex Thanks, cliff. Yeah, so currently our incident management team the Operation section and all other sections are working in very close coordination With other local response agencies and local governments We're currently working on gaining access in two areas that are under order that did have better impact On these products angle mont road. So Right now there are people that have remained in those communities We again are stressing the critical importance of leaving when placed on an order We do try and ensure that there is enough time For people to leave before there is fire impact and after there is fire impact It puts a lot of undue stress and work needed for our local response individuals to Work with those individuals that choose to stay behind So we are working to gain access and and we'll make every effort both for people that are in community As well to get people back into their homes as soon as possible for those that did leave It's a large-scale response right now. And I do want to thank all the other support agencies It was a very harrowing night for structural fire departments search and rescue all others that were on site I hope this remains one of the most challenging nights and and they don't have to go through this again But we do have a number of days of more extreme fire behavior potential So I just really encourage people in this you swap area to pay attention to those orders as as they may come through as We go through this week Richard, do you have a follow-up? I know the main priority now are fighting these fires protecting infrastructure protecting life But we're also seeing obviously a huge amount of smoke in this area in Kelowna and across the province. Are there any concerns about health impacts for people in metro vancouver Southern vancouver island and so many other parts of bc Due to this intense smoke that we are feeling and and what is the advice to the public Dealing with us throughout Paris, Colombia Heavy smoke in the atmosphere in the air can have severe health impacts, particularly On people who are vulnerable If you are in an area that is experiencing heavy smoke The advice is to stay indoors and avoid outside outdoor activity avoid exercising outdoors If you are able to set up a HEPA filter in your home to Clean out the air that is definitely advisable. We're an n95 mask when you're walking outside We'll also work with communities to set up clean air spaces. So for instance Community centers or libraries with good hVAC systems We often work with communities to keep them open as cooling centers when it's very hot as warming centers when it's very cold We will also do that for smoke And and poor air quality as well. We do need people to check in on one another Particularly those who are vulnerable in your lives make sure that they're doing okay It can be there can be significant health impacts as a result of heavy smoke do take care It is a concern. Absolutely. And we're seeing it not just here in British Columbia, but What we've seen it all over the world where wildfire impacts have been have been heavy Our next question is from Keith Baldry global news Oh, hi there In terms of people traveling up there. We've picked up some good anecdotal information people but not just staying in hotels. It's actually driving up Sort of wildfire tourism going up to see the fires and parking and perhaps blocking roads and And routes and such are there any reports or concerns about that people actually traveling up there just to watch the fire activity We are asking everyone to stay clear of traveling to the central interior and southeast for non-essential reasons including the shoe shop and Kelowna and a non-essential reason absolutely includes Firesighting or I don't know if that's actually a real term. But basically going up there to watch the fires What we absolutely cannot have on our roads is people Blocking roads to take photographs getting out of their cars visiting communities where there's high wildfire activity getting in the In the way of crews We can't see boats on waters that are being used by firefighting equipment to skim water to fight fires We cannot see drones in the air where there's wild firefighting equipment happening Having drones in the air can ground our aircraft during absolutely critical moments of their firefighting Firefighting cycles it this cannot happen We need people to do the right thing and stay out of those areas and give fire crews the space they need To to fight those fires and respond to the hazards at hand. I don't know Mr. Wilson would you like to add or cliff if you have anything else to say about your experiences there This is certainly something that we have experienced in particular in the last 48 hours with the impacts to such populated areas in west Kelowna Kelowna and now the shoe shop And as you said minister ma it is with I think with all the gravity I can put behind it Please do not come into areas that are affected by wildfire We need that space. We need the airspace. We need the roadways That is how our first responders get around that is how we work to suppress the fires and how we work to try to protect people's homes a follow-up Yeah, two wrong question Is there a ballpark estimate how many people are actually ignoring evacuation orders? And what sanctions or penalties could they face if they if they do this under the emergency? declaration of emergency and also Different topic. Are there any reports of wildlife being displaced and moving into urban areas? Which may be potentially be a danger to themselves and to residents there because of the huge fires displaced in them I'll start off and probably offer it up to to cliff to to tack on there But I'll start with the second question Which is that we've actually already seen wildlife entering into urban areas not only for wildfire Because of wildfire impacts, but also because of drought We're seeing enormous Remember, we're still in a severe drought situation right across the province A lot of food sources that are naturally available to wildlife are not there and they're venturing deeper into urban areas In order to to look for food and absolutely wildfires will also have that impact of of moving wildlife around in terms of Once again on on ignoring evacuation orders We cannot stress strongly enough how critical it is to follow evacuation orders when they are issued We do not issue these orders lightly They are a matter of life and death not only for the people in those properties But also for the first responders who will often go back to try to implore people to leave the greatest consequence of ignoring an evacuation order Is the loss of life and it might not be the loss of life of the person Who lives in the residence? It could be the loss of life of a first responder who is trying to help them and who is trying to help Put out the fire and and keep the community safe Cliff if you have anything else dad welcome you minister ma and and I I think you nailed it with the the biggest consequence Um, I just I think I'll just restate what happened within the shoe swap. Uh, the Adams Lake complex fire yesterday With over a 20 kilometer run BC wildfire service and all the supporting agencies that are working with bc wildfire We had to pull back on that fire because of fire behavior and because of aggressive the aggressive nature of the growth We may not be able to come back if you're in an evacuation order And so as much as we will attempt to when the conditions allow it I I just think it's important to stress that we may not be able to Yesterday would have been one of those examples in parts of the shoe swap Parts of that Adams Lake complex. So again, I just stress please For everyone in bc if you are placed on order, please leave your residence That concludes the availability