Hello, Jerome. We're the team leads of the NF test group for the RF Core Hackathon. My name is Nikola Van Newkerke. I'm a bioinformatician at the Center for Medical Genetics in Ghent, and my other co-team leads are Satish. You can maybe introduce yourself. Hello, everyone. My name is Satish Peri. I'm a developer advocated member. And welcome to the NF test subgroup. Okay, so the NF test subgroup, and this group will be working on integrating NF test into modules and pipelines in NF Core. So what is NF test? NF test is actually a testing framework created for Nexrow itself. You can look up the website if you want more information. You can always ask one of us or someone else in the hackathon to introduce you to NF test if you want. It's really simple framework to work with. You can look at our project board to see what needs to be done. Of course, the project board is not complete. You can always add your own issues and own cards to it to tell us what you have done. You can also join the Slack channel to ask questions, to tell us what you've done, to just do some goofy stuff with us. It doesn't matter. Okay, next slide. And so for the project board, you have to claim a card. You can assign yourself to that card or just create a card, assign yourself to it. And then you can follow the steps like starting to do it. It's been done. So you need to review it. And it's been done and reviewed. So we know for each card, what the step of the process is at that point. And don't hesitate to ask as many questions if you have any. Yeah. So getting started with NF test in NF core, we started this migration or integration of NF test into NF core at the previous hackathon summit at the summit. So we recommend starting with generating or integrating NF test for NF core modules. A lot have been already been migrated to NF test. Some of the examples of ASQC, BWA, but do check out the module repo. If the module has a test folder in it, that means it already has NF test integrated into it. So those are all good examples. So try adding NF test to any NF core modules that are missing NF test. And also we recommend reviewing fetch NGS, which is currently the best practice implementation of NF test usage in NF core. This pipeline has NF tests for modules, sub workflows, workflows, functions. So it's currently the best practice implementation for NF test. Also, after you have reviewed fetch NGS, consider adding NF tests for sub workflow modules and workflows in the RNA seek pipeline. Some work is already ongoing. So it would be great if many of you could join and help finish adding all the tests for the RNA seek pipeline. Some useful links for you to get started. So we have detailed docs and moving or migrating existing pie test in modules to NF test. And also we have just general NF test docs in NF core. Now NF core tools also come with NF test integrated in it. So if you're either creating a new module, it already comes with the NF test template. And also do check out the NF test official docs. They're really very thorough. And more importantly, just let's pay it up. If you're new to NF test reaches out on the Slack channel, we'll be reviewing a lot of PRs. So that's also a good way to learn about NF test. So you can put in the Slack channel that you want to be a review buddy for PRs and we can review the PRs together. So thank you for your participation and happy hacking.


It's been a year since the coup attempt in Brazil by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, what have been the consequences of that attempt to subvert democracy. France has its youngest prime minister in Gabriel Attal. What is President Emmanuel Macron trying to do ahead of the European parliamentary elections? This is a really debrief. These are your stories for the day. And before we go any further, if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button. A year ago, supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attempted a coup by storming key institutions in the capital, Brasilia. The coup attempt was a clear result of Bolsonaro and key figures in his camp consistently casting doubt on the electoral process which had led to the victory of President Lula. The January 8 coup attempt posed vital questions to Brazil's democracy and institutions and its impact continues to this day. We go to Zoe Alexander to understand what happened on that day, who was responsible and what consequences have they faced. Zoe, thank you so much for joining us. So maybe could you first take our viewers through the incidents of January 8, 2022, what really happened, who were the sectors involved at that point of time, and what has been the investigation so far, what have been the conclusions of these probes? Well, yes. Monday, January 8 marked one year since the attempted coup that took place in Brasilia a week after Luís Inácio Lula da Silva had been sworn into office as president. This coup was driven by far-right forces in Brazil who believed that the military should intervene and overturn the elections and declare Jared Bolsonaro as the winner. This narrative that the elections had been fraudulent and that the electronic voting system was fraudulent had been a narrative that Jared Bolsonaro and his supporters had been building for years. It didn't come just the days leading up to January 8. It's something that they had been really manufacturing for several years and which intensified, of course, in the 2022 campaign, which Jared Bolsonaro, of course, ended up losing. But all of his platform and his speeches would always talk about how the voting system needed to be reformed. And so, again, on January 8, a mob of over 2,000 people invades Brasilia, having come by bus. Hundreds had also been camped out outside the military base, and they essentially stormed the palace of the three powers where the Congress, Supreme Court, and the presidential palace is located. They stormed these buildings, breaching the security line, and start destroying essentially everything in their site. This means files, archives, works of art. We ran a piece last year by Ting Chaka, a tricontinental researcher who discussed all of the different elements, the artistic elements that had been destroyed by this mob, many pieces of art, works of art that were cultural patrimony of Brazil. They essentially destroyed basically everything in site, urinating, committing despicable acts of vandalism in an attempt, again, to bring this message that the elections have been fraudulent, that Lula is criminal, and that the military, again, has to intervene. This created a shockwave in Brazilian society. The images that were broadcast, of course, across Brazil, but internationally, very reminiscent, of course, of January 6, the capital storming, which happened in the United States, but really, again, created a very strong response within Brazil and across the region. We had all of the regional leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean condemning this act of violence and this attempt to Brazilian democracy. Again, the elections which had taken place, which had already been certified, which had already been observed and all these other elements, and really trying to kind of enact their will through violent means. And so, the response from Brazilian society and from Brazilian political leaders was also very strong. We saw that many, many different political leaders, the governors of the majority of the states in Brazil had a unified response, standing with Lula condemning the attack on democracy.  But the episode left a lot of questions and made many people extremely skeptical of how exactly did this happen and how did it get that far. There's many, many different elements which over the course of the last year, many different researchers and people have been investigating as much in terms of the financing of these actions, who paid for the buses. It was found out that many big business sectors, such as agribusiness, such as the Royal Caucus, participated in financing these, the traditional sectors of power which are in the parliament as well of the far right. A lot of involvement, of course, in the Bolsonaro family and the Bolsonaro groupings that were activated during the elections. Many highlighted as well that what happened on January 8th, again, had been building. So we saw in September, the massive rallies that happened in several Brazilian cities called for a Bolsonaro during the electoral period to demand once again the military intervention, once Lula wins the elections. These same Bolsonaro supporters formed these different highway blockades and camps outside the military bases, not only in Brasilia, but in cities across Brazil. And so for many people, they say, well, it was, this is the natural conclusion. This is what they were threatening to do. They were constantly calling for an intervention. And so really how were security forces so unprepared. And there there's been a lot of investigation and a lot of debate about what happened there. Part of it is due to the fact that the military was actively impeding the police to respond to the situation. The military wouldn't let the police, for example, go and arrest people. They made them wait, I think half a day or an entire day to even be able to go into the camp where many people were staying. The response of the government of the federal district where Brazil is located, not dispatching enough people and actively kind of trying to inhibit the response to these protests. So there was direct involvement by people with positions of power, by different authorities. And these have all been being contended with over the last year and different, of course, there were also thousands that were arrested, that were processed and tried. People charged with the subversion of democracy and the democratic rule of law and of disturbing the peace. And so there have been a number of different legal processes to actually get to the bottom of who is responsible and what role did they play in facilitating these riots and this attempted coup. Bolsonaro himself, of course, is also facing consequences. He is someone who, again, not only motivated and agitated and really took a central role in organizing people to take part in the series of protests leading up to this, but also in the act itself. He has been declared ineligible on multiple reasons. One of them, of course, has to do with the protest that he organized or the rally that he organized in September, which was seen as a violation of electoral law. He also had held a meeting with ambassadors from different countries to put forward this allegation that the electoral system is fraudulent and that any elections that would take place with this system would be fraudulent. And this is, again, it's laying the basis for what is later to be this attempted coup. So one year out from this day, from January 8th, people are still, I think, reeling in the sense of contending with the growth of far-right sentiments in the country, the growth of a figure like Bolsonaro, but also, I think, looking towards the response of the Lula government in terms of punishing those responsible in terms of investigating and getting to the bottom of who financed, who coordinated and trying to, and the fact that his administration has really tried to send the message that any subversion of the democratic system in Brazil will be met with strongly. And I think that this has been something that's central. There's been a demand from social movements saying no amnesty for those who commit coups. So it sparked a debate which continues till today and that the impacts are still felt. Right. And also, how social movements commemorated this first anniversary, so to speak, I mean, a very important moment for these movements to highlight the importance of democracy to push back against what happened last year. So across the country, in cities across the country, we saw mass mobilizations in defense of democracy take place, you know, movements, trade unions, left parties that continue to see the importance of defending democracy, of saying no amnesty for those who commit coups, calling for deeper investigations into, for example, the role that the military played. However, understanding that the current Lula government has many constraints on it, because Lula is part of a broad coalition. He's trying to have a friendly and a favorable relationship with the military. But of course, it's very difficult given how much the military has colluded with the far right, with Jared Bolsonaro. We know that under the government of Jared Bolsonaro, there's a record number of military personnel that actually held positions in his government. This means that they, of course, really liked him and were acting in favor of him, not the entire military establishment, but large sectors of the military definitely considered that Bolsonaro was a favorable force when he was president. And so people were out on the streets again in Sao Paulo and Brasilia, in different cities to continue this struggle in defense of democracy. I think people recognize the fact that when Lula won the elections, he didn't win in a landslide. Despite everything that Bolsonaro did, despite the fact that he completely mismanaged the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that hundreds and thousands of people died in Brazil because of his mismanagement, because he blocked the arrival of vaccines in the country, because so many different things that he did while president impacting, for example, the deep inequality making poverty worse, increasing the number of homeless people just due to the slashing of the social and economic programs in the country. Even then, Lula still just barely won those elections, very, very close elections that were decided in the second round. So people understand that Lula did win, but that the work is not over and that defending democracy is a constant process and that it involves people understanding what it means to have someone like Bolsonaro in office, defending the programs of a progressive government like Lula, and continuing to demand further democratization of society, engagement of people, understanding that this political alienation and social alienation in the country and really across the world is at an all-time high. And so how do movement contend with this? How does this defense of democracy, of institutions really cut and fight back against this moment in history where people are feeling more and more isolated, more alienated by these systems? So a very, very interesting anniversary, also a moment for people to remember the achievements of Lula's government until now. His primary goal as president was to really address the pressing concern of hunger in the country. We know that under Jack Bolsonaro and because the policies of Michel Temer, Brazil returned to the UN hunger map. This was seen as a massive defeat, especially because Lula was responsible for taking Brazil off the hunger map. So this has been one of his primary concerns addressing inequality, addressing hunger, addressing homelessness, and many other elements of the socioeconomic condition of the Brazilian people that severely deteriorated under the successive far-right governments. So important anniversary, a lot of symbolic weight to it, but also real political weight and real an important moment for Brazilian society. Thank you so much Zoe for that update. France is a new prime minister, 34-year-old Gabriel Atal. The new head of government has very little experience and his appointment seems like a desperate measure by President Emmanuel Macron to shore up support ahead of the European parliamentary elections. Faced with deep popular resentment and an increase in support for challengers on the left and right, Macron's space for maneuvering seems increasingly limited. What is he trying to do? We go to Anish for the details. Anish, thank you so much for joining us. So a new prime minister for France, someone who would be kind to say is very limited experience for the position, a very young prime minister of course. What really is Emmanuel Macron trying with this move which is quite unprecedented maybe? Well, obviously it is coming as a desperate attempt to actually shore up whatever little support that he muster in the upcoming European Parliament elections. And it clearly shows because opinion polls have shown that Macron has really lost support, especially after his presidential re-election last year, sorry, in 2022. And that has really eroded a big part of his legitimacy. And it was very much evident with the parliament elections that also was held simultaneously along with the presidential election, where he lost, where his party, his alliance lost the majority. And that in itself has created a situation where the president is essentially running a government that doesn't have a majority in the parliament. And that is very basically an attempt to show that there is a new face to his government, to his party perhaps. But there is a limitation because it's pretty much the old wine new bottle situation that we're seeing here. And we do not see much difference from him and Macron. And in many ways, Macron is not somebody who is somebody who's inspiring confidence among the voters either. The reason, one of the reasons why the National Rally Le Pen's party is becoming so huge and gaining that much majority is because of the kind of the complete lack of confidence that Macron has created and generated within the public. Right. Anish Krut, also maybe take us in some more detail to some of these aspects about, especially his lack of popularity, what is causing it in the sense of, how has he sort of, why has he failed to take the French public along with him, especially when the right wing's agenda seems so divisive? What is the reason for Macross failure? Well, one of the primary reasons would be how he has been an apologetic neoliberal in many ways. He has pretty much done one of the most damages to a lot and attempted to do most damage to the French welfare state system and many ways like attacks on pension, attacks on workers' rights. And that has really, really affected how his government is perceived. Despite, and they have obviously always tried to cater to the more right-wing set, like a talent himself or somebody who is, who's only, you know, named to fame is basically the fact that he banned hijab in schools. And that is the only thing that he's known for in his, you know, barely 20 months in the, as a minister. And that clearly shows what kind of government you're looking at. Macron is definitely one of those who do not, who is actually dealing with a failing economy. The cost of living crisis is huge. And that has really, really affected the, you know, the working classes in France. Disparities have grown bigger. Like it is one of the worst cases of income inequality we are seeing right now in West Europe. And that in itself has created situations where the government had to deal with multiple, essentially uprising of working class people. And whether or not they aligned with the left or the right, there was very clearly a demographic that participated in these massive, you know, uprising and protest movements that went on for months. And there was nothing more than, you know, violence and crackdowns that the French government needed out to them rather than compromises or at least, you know, hearing out their demands. So in all of these cases, definitely there has been a situation where the French politics has become more and more polarized. No longer there is any confidence in this apolitical brand of politics that Macron is always known for. And that is the reason why he came to power in many ways. That has gone, the brand is no longer viable. Pretty much nobody sees anything of worth in it. And that is clearly showing is the fact that both the left and the right are growing and emerging as you know, viable contenders for power at this point, despite, you know, the differences that we might see in the left, even with the opinion polls right now for the European parliament elections, you can actually see if the left combined has more confidence in the French public and among French voters than Macron's party. And that clearly shows how, you know, polarized and more ideologically polarized, the French society is becoming increasingly along class lines in many ways as well. And that is reflecting in, you know, the fact that party like Macron's will not have much to offer because they do not, they try to appease everybody and pretty much nobody in the process as well. Right. Thank you so much for that. And that's all we have in this episode of Daily Debrief. We'll be back with a fresh episode tomorrow. In the meanwhile, do visit our website. People's Dispatch.org. Follow us on all the social media platforms. And if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit the subscribe button.


So today we were talking about habits and specifically five habits that can completely change your life. Let's get into it. Alright guys, welcome to the MD Journey channel, completely dedicated, helping students succeed on their journey with less stress. My name is Lakshman, internal medicine physician and resident in training and I've been making helpful videos and tips and studying and productivity for people just like you. So if you enjoy the message, make sure you hit the like button to support the channel in the video as well as the subscribe button, putting out two videos just like this one. So make sure you hit that notification bell as well to know when a video goes live. Today I wanted to talk about five effective habits that I've taken on as a student in college and in medical school that have completely kind of helped me level up as an individual and have played a huge role in my personal growth. And if you stay tuned to the end, you'll learn one of my favorite techniques to get more done in a short amount of time. Let's get into it. Now one of my favorite habits that I took on especially as a medical student was waking up 30 minutes to an hour earlier each day. And I know there's some of you are watching like somebody else that's recommending to wake up earlier. I get it. I promise you, you know, it's not always easy, but simply finding whatever your wake up time is and asking yourself if you can wake up just 30 minutes early. So if you wake up normally at 730 or 9am, ask yourself whether you can make it 7 or, you know, 830 respectively. Simply finding that extra 30 minutes can do a lot for your life. They find that individuals who wake up earlier tend to be less stressed, actually be more energized, more productive, and happier and fulfilled in their life. That's not surprising. If you think about the fact that having an extra half hour to an hour in your day, one allows you to kind of ease into your day without the stresses of waking up and suddenly having to feel like you need to go to your first activity, whether that be school or work. And in addition, you can use this extra time to get started on the first thing on your to-do list or work on a personal project. Personal example for me is I would use that 30 minutes to an hour to get my workout done in the day. That way it was just kind of done with and out of the way or to work on personal projects like working on blog posts and videos for the day, which I otherwise wouldn't have time to do as a busy med student. And if you think you don't have what it takes to become a morning person, I'll link down a blog post where in medical school for about three weeks, 20 days, I forced myself to wake up at 430 each day just to see what's happened. So if you want to see the results I was getting during those periods in medical school, go ahead and check out the link. Now, the second habit that's really made a huge difference for me as a student, especially in medical school was learning how to speed lesson. Now, many of you may have already heard the concept of speed reading, which is essentially using how our brains and our eyes read something naturally and using that to our advantage to get through a book faster. But as you're going higher and higher in your education, whether that's in college or in med school, the material still becomes excessive and you have to find a better way to process it. So one of the first things that I was doing in medical school was I was training my brain to listen to things at two, three and even four acts, the natural speed. And then I know after hearing that many of you guys are asking, you know, how are you able to do that? Are you even able to remember what you hear? And while it's understandable, you have to remember that our brains listen much faster than we read. So while you may read at 150 words per minute, you actually can listen upwards to 300 plus words per minute. And then when extra training, you can definitely get your speed even higher and higher. I'll link down below both a video and a blog post explaining the different techniques and methods that I use to really train my brain to make, you know, two, two and a half to three acts same natural and still be able to process a lot of information. But as you can imagine, if you can listen to something at three acts, you can cut down a 16 minute lecture into 20 minutes and somehow be able to get to three hours of lecture within an hour and give yourself an extra two hours to spend doing other things such as reviewing for the class or for the upcoming exam. Speed listening has definitely helped me save a lot of time, but it's also helped me become more effective on doing things to help my personal growth. This includes things like listening to audiobooks or just listening to a podcast episode where if you're able to listen to it at two and three acts, you can easily finish a few books a week versus a few books a month or a year. And if you're interested in learning how to read more books and how to read them faster, I'll link down below a video that I made that showing how I'm on pace to reading 100 books in 2020. Now habit number three, we are finally going to start talking about food because food is both a good and bad thing.  But instead, one of the habits that I've adapted is to eat smaller meals. I love this concept that's discussed by both researchers as well as dieticians known as the rush hour. Phenomenally, this idea that if you take on the typical eating schedule, a breakfast, lunch, and dinner, each of those moments you're giving yourself huge amounts of food and energy, but your body also has to divert a lot of energy elsewhere to go into your digestive system and actually break it down. So if you've ever experienced that two to 3 p.m. afternoon slump, it may simply be that the food that you ate at lunchtime is still being processed and some of that energy that you otherwise would have to stay mentally sharp is now being used to actually break down that food. So to overcome the rush hour phenomenon, I basically split my meals over the day versus just three meals like many of us will do. So instead of having a lunch at 12, I may split that serving into two and have one at 12 and then have another one at 3 p.m. This way I can keep a natural course of energy and stay mentally sharp. Now I have three more habits to share with you guys and as I mentioned, number five is one of my favorites to get more done. Before we get to it, make sure if you haven't done so already, you find that like button, go ahead and hit it and support both the video as well as this channel. And while we're at it, go ahead and comment down below one of your favorite habits that you feel has made the biggest change in your life. And one of the biggest things that I teach on this channel for students who become overwhelmed, especially in medical school, where they feel like their old life, things that they enjoy to do is no longer, you know, able to fit in with a busy medical school schedule. So instead, one of the things I recommend on the channel is to go ahead and find the things that are most important to you, whether that's working out or the people that you love interacting with and make sure that they're scheduled into your time before you're studying and other obligations kind of take a hold.  So for me, I knew that I wanted to make sure that my fitness was at least stable, if not improving day by day, week to week. So as I mentioned earlier, one of the things I did in medical school was I made working out the first task that I did every single day. And this didn't matter if I had an upcoming test or a boarding exam, I made sure that my exercise was part of my daily routine. And even if that workout was just 15 minutes instead of the hour that you normally spend, the ability to go through the workout and finish allows you to have two things. One, you feel a sensation of momentum.  So you get an instant win. And number two is you start to actually see progress, whether that means you're getting faster or you're getting stronger depending on the exercise that you choose. Working out daily not only helped me in a physical sense, but the idea of staying progress kept me motivated to do other things like study and make sure that I was also a solid student. And now let's get into habit number five, which I mentioned is one of my favorites to improve your productivity. And this is focusing on simplifying every single task. Now this habit came initially about a semester into medical school where I was studying on average eight to 10 hours a day. If that sounds crazy, it's because it is. And I asked myself, how can you make this four to five hours? And really what that taught me is I had to evaluate every single step that I was doing in my studying and every single step I was doing in every other kind of task that I wasn't short. And so if I wanted to make my workouts faster or I wanted to read a book faster or if I wanted to make a video faster for you guys, I would basically list out all the steps and cross out the things that either weren't necessary or could be done faster. Now the simple habit of evaluating a common task like working out or studying every month to every three months allows me to do a few things. One, I can start identifying things I'm doing just because I think I have to, but realize in hindsight, it's not giving me much benefit. So if there's an element of your studying routine or studying system, you may realize you may be doing it because you think it has benefits. And when you think about your last exam, you probably notice that your grade probably wouldn't have changed much if you didn't or didn't use that resource or that technique. And so this habit of simplifying everything in my life allows me to be more productive as well as fulfilled and I don't feel like the things that are ineffective or useless are part of my life as much as I used to. So definitely give this a shot if you feel like you're kind of low on time, stressed out, maybe one of the first things you need to do is ask yourself if you really need to do everything you're currently working on and getting finally into habit number six. This is huge, especially if you wanna feel more fulfilled in your life is limiting work right before bed. So especially if you're a student, it's very normal to go straight from studying to crashing and then waking up and repeating the whole process. But if you wanna feel like you are not a student 24 seven or not involved in your work or your business, one of the things that I would recommend and one of the things that I do is I give myself a cutoff time when I'm done with all work and then usually I have an extra hour, hour and a half to unwind whether that's watch TV or read or just lay in bed and think and brainstorm or it may simply be spending time on social media but it's a time where you don't feel like you're obligated to work or be in the mold of a student or an employee. But that guys wraps up of the six healthy habits that have changed my life for the better. Hopefully you guys can adapt some if you haven't so already to help you on yours. Let me know again in the comment section what habits you're already taking on. Maybe use some of the similar ones that I do that mentioned in this video or maybe use something completely opposite I love to kind of know your perspective as well. And before you leave, make sure you go ahead and don't forget to hit that like button as well as subscribe button. If you wanna join the community then make sure to also remember to hit that notification bell so we're putting out two videos just like this one on a weekly basis.  Hopefully I've been allowed to you on yours. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


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An important part of writing a literature review is synthesis. But what is synthesis? Well, synthesis is kind of like a puzzle. It requires you to put together different pieces of research from multiple sources to form a new picture. Depending on how you organize the pieces, the story you tell will look a little different. The process of synthesis goes farther than just summarizing sources or even comparing and contrasting multiple sources and beyond even mere critiques of sources. When synthesizing, you are not just direct quoting other authors without using your own voice. It requires you critically analyze the literature by determining major themes, strengths, weaknesses, and critical gaps. Ultimately, you engage in synthesis to make your own point and add to the conversation. As you read article after article for your literature review, you should start to see the conversation surrounding your topic. Ask yourself, what are some of the common themes or subtopics that keep appearing in the articles I'm reading? Make note of these conversations or main ideas because this will help you organize your lit review. Instead of organizing your lit review source by source, like in an annotated bibliography, synthesis requires you to organize idea by idea. What is the conversation surrounding the main idea? To really know that conversation, you need to have looked at it from multiple perspectives or sources. You need to evaluate each source and then ask yourself, how does each source relate to my research question? Jot down those thoughts as you go. The sources you choose to include, your analysis, and how you organize them in a meaningful way make your literature review unique. This means you're developing your own understanding of the literature and explicitly stating what it means to your research. A helpful tool you can use to engage in synthesis is a research matrix which helps you begin to organize by idea and then add your own thoughts as you read articles. If you need help with your literature review, ask a librarian.


Now, we are going to talk about the cells organelles, different types of organelles present inside the cell. What are organelles? Organelles are subcellular structures. For example, the mitochondria as we have seen in the previous diagram, the ribosomes which makes proteins, the lysosomes, vacuoles, so on, we look at them one by one. First of all the nucleus, nucleus is very important part of the cell. It has the heredity of the genetic material in the form of chromosomes. Nucleus is present usually for example in animal cells in the center, but in plant cells the nucleus is not present in the center because particularly the mature plant cells have a very large vacuole present in the center. Due to that nucleus is moved towards a side. So in plant cells nucleus is present towards the site, towards the site and in animal cells mostly it is present inside the center. Nucleus, the structure of the nucleus if we talk about it, it have a nuclear membrane, it have nucleoplasm and it have a small structure called nucleolus and in the nucleoplasm it have the chromatin material, the heredity material, the DNA, deoxyne ribonucleic acid. Now look at the diagram of the nucleus. If you look at the diagram you can see an external membrane. This membrane is called the nuclear membrane. After the nuclear membrane a fluid is present that is called the nucleoplasm. Nucleoplasm of the nucleus plasm the fluid. This nucleoplasm have chromatin material inside. You can see a darkly stained body in inside which is called nucleolus. This is a site where ribosomal RNA is produced. If you observe the nuclear membrane you will find out that there are pores present on the nuclear membrane. These are called nuclear pores. As we know that the nucleus have to exchange materials with the cytoplasm of the cell. These pores are for that transport of materials. For example, if the messenger RNA is produced inside the nucleus it have to be transported out. It will go out through the nuclear pores. Now we talk about the next organelle the ribosome. Ribosomes as you can see in the diagram these are the organelles which makes proteins. These consist of two subunits one large one small. These can read the messenger RNA which is made by the DNA the heredity material and they make proteins after reading this particular material. They are present in the cytoplasm free or attached to the endoplasmic reticular. There are large number of ribosomes present inside the cell. Few cells which are metabolically more active they may have more ribosomes. Few cells which are metabolically less active they may have less number of ribosomes. And the eukaryotic ribosomes are slightly larger than the prokaryotic ones. Next comes the mitochondria. Mitochondria are the organelles which are called the power house of the cell. It produces energy required by the cell in the form of ATP. ATP is a molecule adenosine tri phosphate which have high energy bonding in its side. When it breaks it releases lots of energy in the chemical forms that cells can use for performing their different functions. Mitochondria are double membrane organelles they have a double membrane on their surface. The outer membrane is comparatively simple membrane, a straight membrane and the inner membrane is highly folded. Its folds are called Christie. These membranes are filled with a fluid called the matrix. In this matrix they have enzymes, mitochondria have their own DNA and they perform their many of the functions with the help of their matrix and their inner membrane. The outer membrane is less specific, the inner membrane is more specific and highly organized. Here in the diagram you can see a mitochondrion. Mitochondria is plural, mitochondrion is singular. In the diagram you can see the outer membrane less folded, straight, the inner membrane actually not folded, straight. The inner membrane highly folded have Christie in a matrix inside. On the left you can see an image picture taken through the electron microscope. In this picture you can see a mitochondria in a grayish color. The next organelles these are found only in plants, plastids. Plastids are another type of organelles which produces energy and they produces also carbohydrates. They have another property that they produces carbohydrates. These are also double membrane bound. They also have an outer membrane just like mitochondria which is straight or smooth and an inner membrane which consists of highly folded and organized structures called thylakoids. Plastids are present only in plants. They have specific pigments which can absorb sunlight and produce energy for them in form of ATP and they also can convert inorganic carbon into the organic carbon that is they convert carbon dioxide by series of reactions into the carbohydrates and these are the carbohydrates which are source of stored energy for all living organisms on earth. These plastids are of three types chloroplast, chromoplast and leucoplast. Chloroplasts are green in color, they have a green pigment and these are the organelles which are responsible for the energy production and the carbohydrate production in the plants. We call them photosynthesis in the Kelvin cycle. They produce photosynthesis, they do photosynthesis and they produces energy and carbohydrates. The chromoplasts are other types of plastids which are present in the flowers and the fruits. We observe different beautiful colors of flowers and fruits. These colors are due to the presence of the chromoplasts. Chromoplasts may be yellow, may be red, may be say more darker in color or in different shades. There are third types of plastids called leucoplasts. These are present usually in the roots and in the tubers. These plastids store different types of materials for the plants. For example, protein, leucoplasts have their types. For example, there are proteanoplasts that saves protein. There are other plastids which saves starch like amyloplasts and the others. They also have a double membrane and external is a smooth one, internal is a folded one. Then comes the next organelle, the endoplasmic reticulum. I would say endoplasmic, present inside the plasma, reticulum and network. These are a network of interconnected channels. These are present in various parts of cells, particularly surrounding the nucleus. The endoplasmic reticulum is of two types, rough endoplasmic reticulum and the smooth endoplasmic reticulum. The rough endoplasmic reticulum is called rough because on its surface ribosomes are attached and they appear as granules. So it gives a granulated appearance, we call it rough endoplasmic reticulum. Other is called smooth, don't have a ribosomes attached to its surface. You can observe these in a diagram. In this diagram, you can see on one side of the nucleus, there are rough endoplasmic reticula present. On the right, you can see the same thing in an electron microscope image. What is the function of the endoplasmic reticula? Basically ribosomes makes proteins. These proteins enter inside the endoplasmic reticulum. Inside these reticulum, there are lot many types of enzymes and these enzymes modify these proteins and convert them into their final shapes. So endoplasmic reticulum has very important role in the modifications of proteins from their basic structure into their final structure. And this role is very important because if one protein, even one protein is not formed correctly, the result will be loss of its function and loss of function may result towards various diseases. Now we talk about the next Golgi apparatus. Also sometimes called Golgi complex. Golgi apparatus, we call it Golgi apparatus because it was discovered by the Camillo Golgi scientist. This is also called the post office of the cell. When proteins are produced, they are modified by endoplasmic reticular enzymes. Then they go outside towards the Golgi complex, the Golgi apparatus. The purpose of the Golgi apparatus is to pack these proteins and send them to the appropriate place where they are required. Some proteins are secreted outside. Golgi complex pack them into small vesicles. We can say fluid with packs, which are called secretory vesicles. Some other proteins are packed for sending towards inside of the cell. So Golgi apparatus is the post office of the cell. As in the diagram you can see it consists of various flet and disks and these disks as the diagram shows is releasing different types of vesicle towards various parts of cells. As you can see few vesicles are going down, few are going up. It means they are going in different directions as required by the cell. This is associated with endoplasmic reticulum because it have to get the materials, the proteins prepared by endoplasmic reticulum or maybe lipids produced by other type of endoplasmic reticulum, the smooth one and then pack them and send them different parts of the cell or maybe outside. Next is called centrioles. These are the next organelles. These are present inside the cell near to the nucleus, they are hollow and cylindrical bodies. Two are present near to the nucleus collectively called centromere. Their function is during cell division, when cell divides these centrioles move towards the sides of the nucleus and make the spindle fibers. These are present in animal cells, then comes the vacuoles. Vacuoles are also fluid filled single membrane bound organelles. These are present in different forms for example the food vacuoles or the contractile vacuole and their major function is storage of different types of materials. For example, some proteins, sometimes cell is producing some waste material and they have to preserve that waste material for some time and then remove it towards outside. The food vacuoles particularly in the unicellular organisms like amoeba, when they get a food material they invaginate it and convert it into a vacuole. Then this food is digested. So vacuoles are also very important in the cells. In animal cells there are many small vacuoles, in plant cells there is in particularly mature plant cells there is a single large vacuole which is produced by joining of various small vacuoles. Another organelles that are called lysosomes. Lysosomes are membrane fluid filled sacs. They have different types of enzymes inside. They are called the organelles for garbage disposal. Whenever anything is produced in the cell it have to be broken down. When it is broken down it have to be placed in some time in a particular organelle usually vacuoles do so. Lysosomes have enzymes. They fuse with the vacuoles which have those waste materials and pour their enzymes inside those vacuoles and those enzymes break down those waste materials and convert them into less harmful products for the cell and then they are released out. So lysosomes are the disposal system of cell. Their function is to dispose of various materials which are harmful for the cell. These material may include the bacteria or viruses which invaded the cell and need to be digested.


Gregor, you have something to say about social media content creation and how a lot of people get discouraged about social media because they create content and they don't feel like they're getting enough traction. They don't feel like they're getting enough likes or comments and things like that. And I, yeah, I wanted you to share what you were sharing before we started. Before we recorded it, it popped into my head this idea that I've heard you say on a number of occasions the idea of content as king and distribution as queen, but the whole, which is beautiful, and then the whole framework of the three stages of content that you model and teach, the way that it's transformed my life and has prompt and has inspired me to be engaged and enthusiastic about regular content creation is actually, the word or the phrasing came in that is that self-realization is ace. If there's a king and a queen, we've got to have an ace too. Content is king, distribution is queen, and self-realization is ace. I love that. And the idea for me is you had shared about someone earlier in the meeting today that somebody was asking a question regarding that they were feeling discouraged because they weren't getting a lot of market feedback. They weren't getting a lot of likes and they were questioning whether content creation and social media sharing was for them in terms of their business or not. And inside of me, I thought, well, it sounds like there's an underlying belief that it's all about or that the primary metric is the market feedback. And inside of me, what keeps me inspired is, I'm learning. I'm writing and I'm learning. I'm videoing and I'm posting and I'm learning. And it happens that if I trust that and do that with enthusiasm, but prioritizing the idea of my own self-realization being ace, then I'm that much more inspired to be engaged with the king, the content creation. I'm that much more inspired to share the distribution, the queen, but really without attachment because either way, I'm winning. I'm winning because I'm learning and refining my own insights and ability to articulate what has worked for me and that I believe will serve my clients. So good. I love this so much. I want to bring one more idea in here, which is the old quote from Frederick Buebner. Your calling is where your great talents meets the world's deep hunger, or where your great gifts meets the world's deep hunger. And so this Venn diagram of you're sharing your gifts, you're practicing creativity, fitness, finding out what your voice is and the self-realization you're talking about. And on the other hand, the market response or the market receiving of your gifts is on this side. And that Venn diagram, that sliver in the middle where it's like, ooh, my authentic sharing is healing somebody, is helping somebody, is bringing light and blessing to somebody, to other people, to a lot of people perhaps in that sliver is where we find our calling. And so like, how can you find your calling unless you are creating authentically and sharing it as widely as possible, find that sliver of, oh my gosh, the alignment, the synergy between what I feel so passionate about and what they, the market, the people I'm reaching, feel so healed by, so transformed by. You won't know that unless you're putting it out there as to as many people as possible. So thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing this up. I will quote you from now on, content is king, distribution is queen, but self-realization is ace. And may I add one more piece? Is that what you were just saying, what brought me to you in the first place was the phrase that had occurred to me when I was put off by some of the marketing I was seeing and it occurred to me marketing as ministry and I plugged it into Google and you came up and I've never looked back in terms of, oh George is my guy, he's speaking the same language. With marketing as ministry, the first one we're ministering to is ourselves. And then from the self ministry, so for me, stage one content creation is starts with ministering to myself and then is extended through my own experience of what has been healing and empowering and all the things that you said. As that comes through me and I document that publicly, I will implicitly find my ideal audience that intersection in the Venn diagram because it will speak and minister to those people that it does. And those people who it doesn't, that's fine too, but my priority is my own attunement to what's lighting me up. Yeah, oh man, I love this. Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing this up, Gregory. And for the person who asked the question that prompted this. Gregory, you mentioned stage one content, so I just want to mention those who don't know what that is, there is a video called the three stages of content creation that I made that explains that. You might want to look that up next. But thanks so much for watching. Thanks, Gregory, for your service.


What would it look like if you were standing on the wrong side of history? What would it look like to be on the wrong side of history? If there were a mass atrocity taking place presently, which history will end up judging harshly in the future, and you were supporting the wrong side of it, what signs might you expect to see that that's the case? Well, I imagine you'd probably be seeing terrible news about what's happening coming out every day that under normal circumstances would cause you to cry out in horror. But then you'd be getting a bunch of words and stories from your side explaining why those self-evidently terrible things are not actually what they appear to be. If you found out thousands of children were being violently killed by your side in this mass atrocity, for example, you'd normally view that information as self-evidently terrible by itself. But then a bunch of narrative framing would come in explaining to you why that information isn't damning for your side. Blame for the deaths of those children would be placed on other parties. If your side was undeniably responsible for their deaths, their deaths would be framed as accidental tragedies, which are the unavoidable consequence of military action and are still indirectly attributable to the actions of the other side. You'd see the raw data of what's happening and then an overlay of narrative would be rolled out on top of what you're seeing to alter your perception of that data. And every time the unaltered data will make your side look bad, while the data filtered through the narrative overlay would make your side look much better. Over and over again, you'd see this take place. Information, which at a glance makes it look like you're on the wrong side of history, then a deluge of narratives helping you to understand that your eyes deceived you at first, actually, and you're on the right side of history after all. Day after day after day, this would happen. New terrible information that would normally make you feel bad about your position, followed by narrative framing, which makes you feel better about your position. We may be sure we could expect to see this because we live in a civilization that is dominated by narrative control. Powerful manipulators figured out a long time ago that because human consciousness is dominated by mental stories, if you can control the stories in their heads, you can control the humans. They do this via propaganda and spin, with the wealthiest and most powerful people having the ability to exert the most control over the dominant narratives in our society. In a sense, this leaves us living in two worlds, the real world and the narrative world. The world of unfiltered sensory input controlled by no one, and the world of easily manipulated mental stories controlled by the rich and powerful. Maturity is waking up out of the narrative world and learning to perceive reality as it's actually happening. Because the powerful are continuously working to insert narratives about the world into our minds and manipulate our stories about what's happening, it's a safe assumption that if something terrible was being done by powerful people and we were on the wrong side of it, we'd be experiencing a continuous feed of narratives, readjusting our perception and understanding of the thing that is happening. This would ensure that we remain supportive of the agendas of those powerful people, even if it leaves us on the wrong side of history. Anyway, that's just something to keep in mind in case you see anything like that happening in the future. Or who knows, maybe even in the present.


Welcome to Kondo Insider on Hawaii, Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host attorney Nalan. Joining me today is our guest, Loree Maguire, partner at Porter Maguire Keakona Law Firm. She currently chairs the Legislative Action Committee of the Condominium Associations Institute, Hawaii Chapter. Today, we're fortunate to have Loree join us for discussion of the legislative bills that have or are about to become law in Hawaii in 2023 legislative session, which will impact condominium associations in Hawaii and also plant community associations. Aloha, Loree. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you, Nala, for having me. I appreciate it. I heard the Legislative Action Committee is being really busy this session and now that, like, Dust has settled a little bit and tell us a bit about where we are as far as the timeline, the legislature. Okay, well, the governor has until June 26th to veto the bills. And, you know, thereafter, we will know exactly which bills are going to be signed by him or which will be allowed just to come into law. I see. But we do have one, you know, act that has already been passed already this year, right? And it is kind of unique because it was passed with the 2-thirds, you know, way to overrate it. So can you help shed us some light on that? Sure, yes. That was actually pretty exciting. This is Senate Bill 921. And the purpose of the bill is to amend chapter 514b, 141c. And it involves the statute of repose. And it allows condominiums a reasonable opportunity to assert legal claims once the period for developer control has terminated. You know, previously, associations had only 10 years. There was a 10-year statute of limitations in order to bring a claim against a developer for construction defect. Well, as a result of Senate Bill 921, now associations have, pardon me, two years from the termination of developer control to bring their claims. And as you know, this bill was actually vetoed by the governor. It's my understanding it was the first bill he ever vetoed. And then both the Senate and the House were able to override that veto, which was a wonderful thing, I think for condominium associations. So for our, you know, like a non-attorney audience out there, can you help us, you know, explain a little bit about the difference between statute of limitation and statute of repose? Okay, the statute of repose actually extinguishes a right of action after a period of time has elapsed. A statute of limitations is a limitation brought on certain types of actions so that for example, let's say a breach of contract action, that has a six year statute of limitations. So from the time a party has breached a contract, the other party who is damaged by that breach has only six years to bring a claim against the party who breached the contract. So that's the statute of limitations. I see, so let's use the example, I mean, the typical construction de facto lawsuit for those, especially for those new condominiums, right? So homeowners will have claims against developer and general contractors, all the subs. But, you know, usually you won't discover about this problem until sometime after you leave there for certain period of time. So previously this 10 year statute of repose would cut off your rights if you don't take timely action. But with this new law, that means that kind of medium associations, homeowners now have more right against developers or contractors who caused construction defects in their project. Is that correct? Yeah, because you cannot bring an action so long as the developer remains in control. You have to wait for developer control to terminate. And so what has happened in the past, at least in certain circumstances is, the developer control has gone beyond 10 years. And therefore, if there were any construction defects, then those owners could not bring claims against that developer because the 10 year statute of limitations had expired. Thank you. Let's move on. Now I think the next session, we're gonna cover all these bills that are pending governor's action. You know, as Larry just explained, they were enrolled, they passed in the house and the Senate and they were enrolled to the governor. So the governor has until June 29th to consider whether to veto or to sign. And then of course, there's a process. Either the governor signs it becomes the law or if within timeframe the governor does not veto, they could also become law without the governor's signature. And then there's the veto and then there's also possibility Senate and the House could choose to override, which is rare as we just discussed. So these are bills that could or likely to become law in this session, which will have impact on the legal compliance for your condominium projects and plan community projects. So let's cover the first one, which is HB1509. What is this bill about? Okay, well, this bill actually establishes two task forces. And the first task force is established, or rather establishes a planned community association oversight task force. And they will be looking basically at chapter 514B which governs condominiums. Well, planned community associations are governed by chapter 421J. And just to give you an idea of the problems, 421J contains less than or approximately 25 different statutes as where the condominium chapter contains well over a hundred different statutes that cover just the gamut of issues and areas, right? And so what this task force is going to do is look at all of the condominium law to see if they can extend that law to apply to planned community associations to provide these planned community associations with more tools, if you will, to work with, to give them more authority, more power, more assets, if you will, in order to implement the various issues that condominiums have access to, or asses rather. So I guess for our audience, these condominium associations are basically created by statute, but usually for a planned community association, that's really based on the declaration CCNR, which is a restrictive covenants running with the land. There are a little bit different for planned community associations, if they incorporate to become a nonprofit corporation, then of course they can also utilize the nonprofit statute for their governance. So overall, but there's also concern about the reason why the state had the resources to sort of help or overseeing these condominiums actions is also because every condo unit will pay into these funds through the biannual registration, right? So does that mean, you know, if they do want to set up a new agency to oversee planned community associations, then the state will also start charging planned community association homeowners in order to have the funds to, you know, carry all this additional duty? Possibly yes, that's definitely being discussed. That is one of the things that they're talking about. So for example, condominiums, one of the things that the second task force that's being implemented is charged with doing is looking at condominium associations and all of those issues, right? And they also will be looking at the various dispute prevention issues that are involved in condominiums, such as mediation, binding arbitration, non-binding arbitration, efforts to settle cases before they actually get into court. Right now, planned community associations have access to some of that, but not near as much as condominium associations as to where condos have access to the education trust fund, the condo education trust fund, right? And that funds various mediations and other items. It's also going to now fund these task forces as well. So, you know, these task forces are doing these studies, they have to issue an interim report to the legislature 20 days before the 2024 session begins and then a final report to the legislature 20 days before the 2025 legislative session ends. So I anticipate that most likely the 2025 session may include new laws that gradually start to bring provisions that you can now find in 514B governing condominiums into the planned community association chapter 421J. I see. So we'll find out in the next legislative year, I guess. So let's move on to the next one, SB729. And this one is regarding condominium board leadership 20. And what is this about? Yes. Well, this actually expands the powers and the duties of the real estate commission because they've now been assigned by the legislature to develop a curriculum for leadership training or various members of boards of directors. So for example, this particular training is going to include things they need to know about HRS 514B, that's the chapter that governs condominiums. It will include standard provisions of the various governing documents, as well as the fiduciary duties of board members as stated in 414D, which is the non-profit statute. And for example, all board members have a fiduciary duty to act in good faith, right? They are also supposed to act in a manner that's consistent with the director's duty of loyalty to the association. They're supposed to act in a manner where the director reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the association. So the concern that was conveyed to the legislature by various constituents was that boards were not as informed as they should be about the law and about the governing documents and their fiduciary duties. So the legislature entered into a compromise because others were against this, because the concern is if board members are required to obtain an education about certain things, the concern is maybe more board members or rather more owners won't apply for the board. They won't seek to get appointed to the board. So they're looking into it to see if they can develop additional resources for these board members. That being said, currently, if you go on the website for the Real Estate Commission, you will find lots of educational tools for board members. Yes, and we actually had a session with the kind of medium education specialist earlier this year. I think we covered a lot of the resources, including the trendy like short video that meets everybody's attention span these days. Yes, exactly. Right, exactly. Yes. Okay, so let's move on to the next one, SB 855. And this one is a very important new law. It's regarding the condominium budgets, reserves, and especially regarding the Honolulu County's fire safety compliance rules, right? Can you help explain further about this one? Sure. This bill was actually promoted by Senator Fugunaga. She was the one championing this bill. And it actually amends by 14B 148 concerning budgets and reserve requirements. And it mandates that condominium associations now shall provide a summary of the required information in its budget. And it authorizes a condominium associations reserve study to forecast a loan or a special assessment to fund the new life safety requirements. So now reserves have to contain funding for these life safety requirements now required by the city and county of Honolulu, right? And so we're talking about potential sprinkler installations or if you've had this life safety evaluation, you know that there are certain condominiums that are in lieu of installing sprinklers, making other changes to their buildings to make them safer. So for example, I know a number of them are putting in new fire alarm systems. I mean, there's about I think 17 different components that have to do with this system. I do know though that before Senator Pukinaga came back to the legislature, she was on the city council and she was able to get this put on hold for now because of the outcry from condominium owners that they just could not afford these changes at this time. So this is being implemented to allow associations to have these requirements and fund for these requirements, but they can also forecast a loan for the, to fund these and also a special assessment for that purpose. So definitely more transparency and disclosures required for potential buyers who want to buy into a certain kind of project, right? That's a good news for those buyers for sure. And as we just mentioned, the initial law was passed the fire safety law in Honolulu was passed in 2018. And I think with the initial compliance cut off deadline, that's kind of unrealistic with so many buildings, they weren't prepared financially for such a huge expensive projects. And I think that compliance deadline keeps getting postponed, given all these outcries made by the government I think right now under the ordinance 22-02, the current timeframe that's given to the associations is like 13 years from May 3rd of 2018. So basically before May 3rd of 2031, right? There are not that many years left. And with this bill, basically it gives the alarm to all these associations. They really need to start saving towards the end of the year. They really need to start saving towards that if their project is subject to this rule, this law, right? Otherwise they won't be able to comply. Right, right. Well, and another thing that this rule has in it, or rather this statute has in it, is that now if associations are not funding a particular capital improvement requirement, they have to state that now in their reserves, in their budget and their reserve study. So, and they have to state why it's been omitted. So for example, in the past, associations weren't including funding for their pipe replacements, right? And that's because they were thought to last 50 years as opposed to 20 versus 30 years, right? So now that has to be included. That information, if it's not included, you've got to state what's not included and why it's not included. So that's very important because I think a lot of associations in the past have not included critical components. And also, I think clarifies that, because they do have the requirement that associations reserve study now needs to be done by like an independent professional. And they clarify that associations managing agent who has the ability to do it is able to do it. And that's not a conflict of interest. That's a good thing to clarify. Yes, that's a, you bring up a good point because I noticed this session, last session they amended this bill too and there were requirements. So they came back this session and tweaked it and now they have a definition for this independent reserve study preparer. And it means any organization, company or individual with a reserve study certification from an industry organization. Previously, they talked about this independent reserve study preparer but nobody knew what that meant because there was no definition for it. And reserve study, I'm sorry to cut off, like so reserve study specialist, that's a designation usually done by community associations institute like the TREAD organization, right? Yes, I see, absolutely. Yeah, so now it brings to the last one we're going to cover in this category because associations as are also employers you need to comply with employment law as well. This one is of data on employment law which is SB1057. And what is this one about, Larry? All right, well, the purpose of SB1057 is to reduce pay inequalities. And this particular bill requires certain job listings to include now an hourly rate or a salary range. The idea is to get the information out there so that you're not going to have people applying for jobs that don't pay what they're looking for. And in that way, it also promotes transparency. Everybody can see everything, including the current employees. They can see what the employer is now offering to the new employees and that way they can go to the employer and seek a raise if they feel they're qualified since they're paying this new person who hasn't done the job yet, a set fee. Assuming that amount is higher than that particular employee is making. So it equalizes the field, so to speak. It also prohibits an employer from discriminating between employees because of any protected class, protected category established under the law by paying wages to employees in an establishment at a rate that less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to other employees in the establishment for substantially similar work. So there again, they are leveling the playing field making sure that persons in a protected class are now covered and can get the same pay as anyone else doing that same job with the same qualifications. I see, but there are some exceptions, right? Not every position is subject to this new requirement. Right, yes, that's true. Hang on a second, let me look here. So I know that for example, if you're an employer and you have 50 or more employees, or I'm sorry, 50 or less employees, it does not apply to you. If you are a public employer and your employees utilize a collective bargaining agreement, it also does not apply to you. And also, if you are an employer and you are promoting someone within your company, let's say, or lateral moves within the company, it also doesn't apply to that situation. Yeah, so you just covered those protected categories from employer's discriminatory practices. I mean, there's one that's kind of unique is the arrest and court record, right? But I think the condo statute does have a special ride for a condominium higher end, like association employee background check that is in HRS 514B 133.  So the association is allowed to conduct a background check before they make a decision to hire someone. And that's not illegal, that's totally fine, right? Yes, definitely.  So, yes, they need to know the background. Yeah, we have about five minutes left and we're gonna cover a little bit about, you know, some resolutions passed in the legislature this year. So before we start, we want our audience to have a little bit of understanding about what is a resolution and what's the difference from a bill?  I know a bill is going to become law. A resolution is, I'm looking at it as an urging. The legislature is urging that, it's like a policy and they're urging that the parties abide by this particular policy. So, you know, for example, one of the resolutions I think we were talking about was Senate Concurrent Resolution 48, for example. And the purpose of that particular resolution and the intent of it is to request that the insurance division conduct a study analyzing whether the implementation of a captive insurance system in this state that is modeled after Massachusetts captive insurance system may provide an alternative to traditional condominium property insurance. At a time when insurance in the state of Hawaii, the rates for condominium insurance is just skyrocketing. So, you know, the people have been crying out to the legislature and the legislature is listening and looking for alternatives because unfortunately we've had a number of insurers that have left the state and so our availability is decreasing quickly. Yeah, and also I think as part of this resolution the legislature actually mentioned part of the reason is caused because of the fire safety compliance rule as in place. I expected a consequence on the pricing tag. Anyway, we also have two, like a sort of a very similar resolutions passed. It's all regarding, you know, educations of the condominium boards and they're really emphasizing more education on like several, you know, issues. A code in both, you know, the HR 106 and also concurrent resolution at CR 124. And what are these six, you know, areas that the legislature want the DCCA to develop, you know, or educate the condominium unit owners and board directors about? Sure, both of these resolutions are basically, they say the exact same thing. They're concurrent resolutions. And the first one is they want, they want associations to be educated, concerning. And when I say associations, I'm talking about both owners and board members on effective condominium governance practices, including the importance of maintaining open and frequent communication. In the legislature, you'll often hear people testifying about they, you know, they can't communicate with the board. The board won't give them an opportunity to talk at the board meetings, et cetera. So the legislature is concerned about the ability to communicate and they want to improve the communication back and forth between the owners and the board. Another area is the purpose of the governing documents and how they guide condominium management. You know, if everybody would read the governing documents, it would simplify matters because owners would know what they can and cannot do. Board members would know what they can and cannot do as well. And, you know, both groups need to know this information. Another was the obligations of unit owners and board members. That also is found in the governing documents. The interplay between regular assessments, reserves, capital improvements and special assessments, as well as any other matters related to the effective administration of the association. And then lastly, the dispute resolution process. They want owners and board members to be familiar with that process and including the mechanics of both mediation and arbitration because as you know, owners are utilizing both of those processes more and more as opposed to filing a complaint and going in court, you know, before a judge. It's very costly and mediation certainly for condominiums is much cheaper because in many instances, it's subsidized by the condominium education trust fund. Yes, thank you so much, Larry. I think we've covered all and our time is almost up but I understand there is actually a webinar put together by your organization, Community Associations Institute Legislative Action Committee. Can you, this is your time to advertise for this event if we're on yesterday. Yes, yes, lack the Legislative Action Committee for CAI. It will be putting on a seminar on July 27th, 2023. It will be a webinar and we will have this information going out, I believe it's already gone out, but it's in the process, we're putting it all together now but we will be talking about all the new laws that have passed and by then, we will know which laws have passed and which laws haven't passed. And, you know, we'll also talk about the laws that keep coming up over and over and over again and we'll be talking about. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please click the like and subscribe button on YouTube. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Check out our website, thinktechawaii.com. Mahalo.


We're good. All right. Tony aka PC Unix has a question for us. It says I have randomly been finding my battery nearly depleted when I log in. But when I check activity monitor energy, nothing is currently acting up. A friend alerted me to the applications in the last 12 hours from the view menu. I never noticed that. Maybe he says I can find the culprit the next time this happens. That might tell you it might not. It's not the most complete list. Let's put it that way. There is a command that I learned about when I went through this a couple of months ago in the there's a command called PM set that does a lot on the Mac with power manager. And you can pull a log from PM set. And then you can parse that log for wake requests. Because if you've got a sleeping Mac that wakes up or that is depleted or has lost lots of battery when you wake it up, I guarantee you that's not the first time it woke up since you put it to sleep last. It's been waking itself up, which Macs will do and are not supposed to do every minute, they're supposed to do every hour and change. My guess is that you've got something waking up your Mac throughout the night to do some task, whatever that task may be, and wake requests with a capital W and a capital R is what you want to search for. So there's a command. I'm not going to try and spell it out in the show here, but I will put it in the show notes that lets you parse that log and only show you wake request events. And those wake request events will also come with process names. That should help with the searching. So go to macgeekyab.com, look up show 917, and you will see the command there that you just paste that into the terminal, and it will tell you what has happened. You might see days worth of this stuff. So make sure you sort of focus on the time period that matters, but you'll get there. Yeah.