Welcome to Making Leadership Work on ThinkTech. I'm your host today, Kariman Lee. Our show is called Recognition for Justices, and we're going to talk to Justice Sabrina McKenna, who just received an international award. She's been a role model to many over the years. It is also credit to Hawaii when our own justices and judges receive awards of this caliber. If you want to ask a question or participate in this discussion, you can tweet us at thinktech.hi or call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Our guest for the show is Associate Justice Sabrina McKenna of the Hawaii Supreme Court. She has been on the court since 2011, and before that served in the state's Family Court, District Court, and Circuit Courts. She has also been a litigator, corporate counsel, and law professor at UH's Richardson School of Law where she also graduated. Justice McKenna was a recent recipient of the Association of Corporation Council Foundation Global Women in Law and Leadership Award. We will discuss Justice McKenna's major contributions in the legal profession that led to this award and what it means in the legal and judicial communities. Welcome to this show, Justice McKenna. It's Sabrina. Thank you so much for having me. We're so glad to have you. Well, you've been such a role model as we mentioned for so many. But this particular award is very impressive because of its international scope. So first, I'd like you to maybe first, let's show a picture of your one of five justices on the Hawaii Supreme Court. Yes. And this is his current court. Can you identify for us the justices? Sure. The seated in the middle is our Chief Justice Mark Rectonwald. Seated to the left of him is the most senior Associate Justice Paula Nakayama. To the standing to the left is Justice Richard Pollock. And standing to the right is Justice Michael Wilson. Right. And Sabrina, I know you were the third woman justice ever appointed to our Hawaii Supreme Court. And how many years has the Supreme Court been in existence in Hawaii? Well, if you start with the kingdom, it would be 1841. But if you start with the state, it's 1959. The first woman was, of course, Justice Roto Lewis with statehood in 1959. Right. Well, it's very impressive. You've contributed so much both in terms of your legal contributions, but also the broader community contributions, which is some of the work that's being recognized today by this award. So tell us about the award, how it came about, and some of the background about how you identified it. Sure. Well, the Association of Corporate Councils is a global organization consisting of about 40,000 corporate counsel throughout the world. And this is the second year that they've given this award for women global law and leadership. And I'm not quite sure how they heard of me. I think it was through, because some of the speaking that I've done internationally, apparently somehow I came to their attention. And they said that they would like to include me as an awardee this year. And I was very honored to be considered, because it does recognize the good work that we do. All of us are doing here in Hawaii. Right. So corporate counsel means those who are attorneys working for businesses, corporations, is that correct? Right. In-house counsel. In-house counsel. In-house counsel, right? And you were actually working in-house counsel. Yes, I was, from 87 to 1990. I was in-house counsel to a Japan-based corporation, yes. OK, great. And so where was the award given to you? It was at the United Nations. They did it at the United Nations. And there were members, officials from the United Nations that were present. Over 250 people flew in, mainly from the United States, but throughout the world. And it was truly an honor to be able to receive that award. I think we have a picture of the award with Sabrina receiving it with the two other recipients. Can you tell us who these? Actually, to the left is Jennifer Chen. She's the director of the ACC Foundation. And in the middle is Kim Rivera. She is the general counsel to HP. Hawaii, who live in Packard, Inc., a global organization, a very impressive woman. There were so many impressive women there. And I was just really humbled and honored to be included. And there you are. And are you standing at the United Nations? It looks like you're on the— Yes, yes. This is like a lanai, right, exactly. And there's a dining facility inside where the interviews took place, right? Great. I know that what was said in your recognition was not only was the award given for your individual successes, which we've talked a little bit about, but about your work in breaking barriers for other women in diverse groups. So I know that you talked about that in your talk, your speech. Can you tell us a little bit about what you covered? Sure. Well, I talked about my work in terms of the international arena, but also locally and trying to encourage and assist women to achieve positions of leadership. And I've— Can you give me some examples? Sure. Well, just locally, I do try to encourage qualified women to apply for judgeships or to apply for a higher office within the judiciary. I think, just like I was mentored— Who was your mentor? How? You know, the main mentor I had clearly was Judge Bambi Heifel, who encouraged me to apply, who helped me through the application process. When she was appointed to circuit court, I was actually—that's the first judgeship I got was her position at district court, yeah. So she moved up to circuit court. She moved up to circuit and she helped me— Her vacancy— Right. She mentored me. Exactly.  And there's too many to mention, but I will mention Judge Marie Milks and Judge— Who was the first? The first woman at the district court, and then she got elevated to circuit court. Do you recall what year that was? You know, I don't know when she got to circuit. Was it like 1980? It was in the 80s. It was in the 80s. 1988, I think. But I think Judge Betty Vitusic was the head of family court. But for many years, when I started practicing law, it was just Judge Vitusic and Judge Marie Milks that were the only judges when I actually started practicing law. That's amazing. Right. And what year was that? I started in 1982. Okay. And you graduated from law school when you were just in 1982. Yes. Okay. Yes. When you're talking about speaking out when necessary, what were you referring to? Well, you know, I think it's really important for women to—sometimes we—and especially Asian women—tend not to be as assertive. And I think when you see an injustice or when you see something that needs to be said, it's important to speak out. You have to pick and choose your battles, of course. But when you see something that should be done or is—I do try to speak out in terms of encouraging, not just women to apply, but calling people on the fact that, hey, we don't have enough women in leadership. We're doing much better. We're doing much better. But you know, especially even in private practice, we still don't have enough women staying on to make partner at law firms. And anyway, I've tried to make it a point to speak out when I think it's appropriate to do so. Right. So not just in terms of career choices, but in terms of life issues, in terms of social issues. Whatever it is, exactly, whatever it is, you know, in terms of making the workplaces more conducive for women to feel welcomed. But also, you know, I actually—one of the things that I think has really struck me recently, and it was covered in the Atlantic, but it's the confidence gap. I think one of the reasons—and there are various reasons. But one of the factors is that we women ourselves don't have the confidence to apply. All the studies show that women will not apply for a position unless they're 100% qualified, whereas men will apply even if they only meet 50% of the minimum qualifications. And so that's one of the things, you know, I'm always telling women, apply for this jug chip.  And I say, you're eminently qualified. You are very qualified. Please let me, you know, help you—I'll be a reference if I can help you, you know? It just shows how important it is for, in this case, other women to support women who may have some hesitation, but to know that they have the backing of other women who have succeeded and who have supported them. Tell me, were you born with this confidence or this ability to speak up, or was it something you developed over? It was definitely something that I acquired over the years. Now I did have a mother who was a very strong woman, and as I was growing up, she told me, you know, you can do anything. And so I—that was really helpful. But still growing up in this world, and in Hawaii—well, I grew up in Japan, you know. Yes, I grew up in Japan and a little bit in the Philippines also.  And of course, you know, me, I have this added layer of being a member of the LGBT community, and I had to deal with that for so many years.  So I'm sure that was in Japan unusual. Right. It was unusual, so I was kind of like a foreigner in Japan, and in the American context, I'm a foreigner, yeah, I'm different, right? But in that sense, it's good because, you know, you—there's pros and cons to everything, right? So how do you define yourself? Because we have talked in the past about feminism. Yes. Yes, yes, I am a feminist. Yeah, a feminist, I believe, is a person who believes in equal rights and equal justice for all. Exactly. And not just for women. It's for men. You know, when I talk about Title IX and the importance of what Patsy Takimoto-mi did and the importance of Title IX, I also talk about the fact that it helped men, too. Men couldn't get into nursing school. You know, there was a district court bailiff who told me that when he came back from Vietnam, he couldn't get into court reporting school. He wanted to be a court reporter, but he was discriminated against because he was a man. And so— Right. That's wonderful. We didn't get a little bit into some of your background, because among your many accomplishments, you were one of the early beneficiaries of Title IX in Hawaii, right? Yes. Because you received a basketball scholarship to play basketball. I did. I did. I walked on to the team, and you know, from 74 to 78, I was— At your age? I didn't recruit anybody, so I was able to walk on. You know, back then, there was no high school girls' basketball in Hawaii. And so I played for U.S. military schools overseas, and so I was able to—I played, and so therefore made the team and got a scholarship. Great. So let's—we only have a few more seconds before we go to the break. Sure. Can we show a couple more pictures, Ray? This is where the mayor of Okinawa last November, I spoke at a televised symposium, first symposium in Okinawa on LGBT rights, but while there, I also spoke a lot about women's rights. Right, yes. And we can tell the audience how much work you do in the international arena, right? That's part of your—both your legal obligation—not obligations, but your professional interests. Yes. Yes, clearly, yes. And outreach as a justice in Hawaii extending yourself. So let's show one more picture, Ray, and then we'll go to break. This is with Justice Wilson and Dean Raj Kumar of the Jindal Global Law School, where I'm honored in Delhi. And last couple of years, I've been honored to visit that law school to speak a lot on women's rights, LGBT rights. And I know we've also done a lot with India on environmental issues and environmental part. Right, and environmental issues. And I speak at an environmental conference also. Wonderful. Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to take a short break. I'm with my special guest, Justice Sabrina McKenna, and we're talking about making leadership work in Hawaii and about her recent award from the ACC Foundation. So we'll be right back. Thank you. But grandmother, what big eyes you have? She said— What are you doing? Research says reading from birth accelerates our baby's brain development. Push! Push! Read aloud 15 minutes, every child, every parent, every day. Aloha and Richard Concepcion, the host of Hispanic Hawaii. You can watch my show every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. We will bring you entertainment, educational, and also we'll tell you what is happening right here within our community. Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Welcome back. This is Carol Montlee with my special guest, Associate Justice Sabrina McKenna. We were talking about not only her recent international award from the ACC Foundation, but also about her many work, much work that she does in the international community and we've already seen some pictures, images of her in India, in Japan. And so I think we have a few more images here that we can show. Okay, now this is a picture of you in— In our courtroom, in the downstairs historical courtroom speaking to a group of Japanese students. I do a lot of speaking to international audiences, especially from Japan because Japanese is my first language. I think this all—the award really started when I became a judge, there would be so many Japanese attorneys that would come to my courtroom. And then when Japan went through this judicial reform, they really wanted lay participation so they came to study different courts, but they ended up focusing on Hawaii. And so I was honored to be invited to Japan many times in national TV to speak about the jury system as well as judicial selection, lay participation. And of course, every chance I got, I also spoke about the fact that why am I the only woman on this panel? Was that the case? You were the only woman? I remember the first national symposium. I was the only woman. I said, where are the Japanese women? And well, I— Are there more now? Yes, I think there are more now. But still I think less than 20 percent of Japanese judges are women. And how about women in law schools? Are they fairly highly represented? I think they have a pretty good representation, but definitely not at our level. You know, our level, the United States is over 50 percent. But that's also title mine, right? Correct. That made all the difference. And it's over 50 percent. But only 27 percent of judges in the United States are women. We're a little bit higher. We're at 37 percent. In Hawaii. In Hawaii. And why do you think that is? I think that there's—okay. The reality is that all the statistics show that merit selection processes are better for diversity. And so many states have elected judges. Those states, it's not as good for women and minorities. So we have the most diverse state judiciary in the United States. That's good. Yes, we do. Right. And so we select our judges by the Judicial Selection Commission, whose members are appointed by the governor, the president of the Senate, the speaker of the House, the chief justice, and two members voted in by the bar, and only four are attorneys. Really? Okay. So that's proven to be, because I know when the Judicial Selection Commission was started, which was, I believe, 1978? Yes. The Judicial Convention? Right. And it actually came into effect, I believe, in 1980. Right. I implemented it in 1980. But it has made a big difference. Right. So over the 37 years, you've seen a change in the judiciary. Oh, exactly. I am a direct beneficiary of the Title IX, as well as the Constitutional Amendment. Okay. Definitely. That's great. Two more slides? A few more slides?  This was when I received the University of Hawaii Distinguished Alumnus Award back in 2009, when I was still at the Circuit Court, I was truly honored. And that was for your many accomplishments, not up to that point you weren't even on the Supreme Court. Yeah. Yes. And you were, of course, a graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law, which probably counts among us. I am a proud graduate of Richardson, yes. I am a Richardson lawyer, as we say. Right. Okay. And another image? This was after a keynote speech that I gave at Law Asia in Hong Kong last year. It was a family law forum, because I used to head family court. They asked me to give the keynote in Hong Kong. And so how big a group was that? Hundreds of attorneys from throughout Asia. Okay. So let's talk about, we just focused a little bit on Hawaii and Hawaii's progress in bringing more women judges, at least, to bringing it to our community, which is so important. Are we doing enough, though? What else could we be doing? What else could our community be doing, and what else could we as a country be doing? Yes. As a community, although we've made tremendous progress, recently, you've probably, I don't know if you've noticed, but there really haven't been as many women applicants, especially to the circuit court.  I've been, you know, I've spoken on panels when I've been asked, and they even had a meeting with a governor, which I actually attended a couple months ago. The governor does want more women to apply. He would love to appoint more women to the circuit court, but we need more qualified women to apply. Now, I know in the early days, when I first, it was a member of the bar, part of the problem was women didn't quite satisfy the qualifications because they hadn't been in practice the minimum, whether it's five years or 10 years. But that's not the problem anymore. That's not the issue anymore. So I, like I said, I think this goes back to the confidence gap, the confidence gap, right? The women are not applying, even though they're well qualified, they think that they have to have the most stellar qualifications possible, you know, to even consider applying. And so, I think it's incumbent on, and I'm no longer at the trial court, but I think that people that are in the litigation system, it would be really good for people there, attorneys and or judges, or court staff, to encourage promising women to apply for judges. So organizations like Hawaii Women Lawyers, what other organizations would be helpful? Any of the organizations, maybe the trial, the criminal defense bar organizations, the bar association. The bar association, yes. Federal bar association. Right. Exactly. But I think, you know, we're, I think there's been a lot of reach out to different people and how many openings are we talking about? Well we have, I think, I think there's like five circuit court openings right now. First circuit and third circuit. I think we have a family court opening, a district court opening, so it just keeps happening. And for the Supreme Court, there were a total of five justices. How about the appellate court? There are six judges on the Intermediate Court of Appeals and we're doing pretty well on the appellate court. It's, you know, two out of five at the Supreme Court, three out of six on the ICA. But it's really now the trial courts that we need to get more women applying. I know there was a recent article that appeared last week about how women make up a very small percentage of equity partners in law firm. Right. Exactly. Hawaii, you know, although 45% of associates are women, only 26% of partners in Hawaii are women according to the latest HSBA statistics. Right. And of those partners, and maybe we should explain to our audience, the difference between associate and partner and the difference between an equity partner and a partner. Right. Exactly. Equity partner are partners that actually get to share in the profits and not all the partners are equity partners. Right. So that's a big distinction. Absolutely. Right. Absolutely. The argument that's been put forth that women often want to have a more balanced life that might include time for whether it's bearing children, raising children, staying at home, working part-time, working out of the home, which might not be as conducive to the amount of work or energy that's required to become, in this case, an equity partner or a justice of a court. Well, I think that, you know, there may be some truth to that, but I think that that should transcend gender. The husbands should be equally involved. They should be just as hard for the men as it is for the women that are parents. And so it needs to be a shared burden. And how have you balanced it? Because I know you're the mother of three wonderful children. Three, three, three. Right. And how many dogs? Two dogs in the family.  How do you do this? I said, well, it's really helpful to have another woman helping you raise your children. And what about outside activities? Are you still involved in sports? And not organized sports at this point. And I do try to exercise regularly, you know, on my own, but I'm not involved in organized sports at this point. Yes. Are you still involved in the Eti Bowl? No, just as a cheerleader. Just as I just go to cheer. We should explain to our audience that. That table is the annual Richardson Flag Football Homecoming Game. It's the alumni, the women graduates against the law students, and it's been going on for many, many years. It's a wonderful tradition. It's a great tradition. That brings together, basically, as they say, town and gown, the law school, et al., university versus the graduates who are now judges and government lawyers. You know, it's a way for the women to engage in the kind of sports networking that the men have always engaged in. Whether it's involved. You know, I have hired people that have come to extern me with me through Eti Bowl, that I met through the Eti Bowl activities, and I've had, you know, law clerks that have been Eti Bowl participants. It's a wonderful tradition. Yes. And everybody who has been to the law school who has been associated with women lawyers look forward to it every year. Yes. It's a great event. Well, we're almost at the end of this interview. Okay. So I'd like to look into camera four, and if you have a few words of suggestions or recommendations or thoughts on how we can see more women in leadership, particularly in the judiciary, and, of course, your particular award and how that has encouraged you and maybe helped other women see where the opportunities are. I'm going to paraphrase the definition of leadership from Susan Kaputo who spoke here a couple years ago at the Hawaii Wahine Forum. Basically, she talks about leadership as being a leader of someone who uses what they have themselves. She calls it the greatness in oneself to achieve extraordinary outcomes by engaging in the greatness of others. In other words, a leader of someone, it doesn't have to be a title. It's someone that brings out the greatness and brings out the best in others to achieve goals. So I just want to encourage the women out there to go for it. When I was young, I never envisioned being in this type of position, and it's not just something that happened overnight, but it's been a step-by-step process. I still have my self-doubts as I go through life. Life is a process of introspection and learning. And so don't have the confidence in yourself to go ahead and do the best that you can, bring out the greatness in others to achieve extraordinary goals. So both for yourself, apply for positions, go out there, stretch yourself, go for it, and for women who may feel that they are in a different place, encourage those people so that we can achieve justice for all. Well, on that note, thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And that brings us to the end of our show. We've enjoyed bringing to you, making leadership work in Hawaii with my guest associate justice Sabrina McKenna of the Hawaii Supreme Court. We've been talking about recognition for justices and its credit to Hawaii when our judges receive awards of such high caliber. Thanks to our production engineer Ray Sangalong and our floor manager Rob McClane, and all the people who care and contribute to our Think Tech production. If you want to see our show, go to thinktechhawaii.com or youtube.com slash thinktechhawaii, where there will be a link to more shows just like this one. Thank you for watching and we'll see you next time. Aloha.


A well-known church in Pikefield drew attention this week when the signs on the building and in the parking lot were taken down. The signs outside Trinity Harvest Church now say Connection Church, which Pastor Richard Holm says better represents the church's mission. So, for the first 12 years of our existence, we've been Trinity Harvest Church and we're excited to share with the community that as of October 13th, we'll now be known as Connection Church. The seemingly drastic step of changing the name of the church is in parallel to how vital connection is. That connection for us is not just about elevated priority or a philosophy. Connection is so important, it has to be not just what we do but who we are. That it's the name that we walk in and the name that we're identified with is connection. And so taking this big step of saying this is not just what we want to see happen but it's who we want to be as a people is just the highest way and the biggest way to clarify this value of connection. Pastor Holm says most of what people have grown accustomed to at Trinity Harvest will remain the same. Service times are 9, 10, 30 and noon on Sunday and our service times are showing the same, our leaderships saying the same, who we are as a church, a facility, everything staying the same, our name is changing because it's an understanding with a greater degree of clarity of who we are and what we feel called to provide and facilitate in this region.


Intrigue, Mystery, Romance, Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Together in the sultry setting of Tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean. Bold Venture, Magic Names of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall bring you Bold Venture and a Tale of Mystery and Intrigue. Steve Carnival really brings out the jazzy in you, doesn't it, slave? Why not? Where else can a fellow rid himself of the cares and toils of the day? Where else can he wear a funny hat? Well, he could wear it on the top of his head like the other funny fellas. It doesn't matter, sailor, you're jealous because I fan-dangled around his brim. In Cuba, that's the thing to do at a fiesta. A hot dance. With a beanie? Three propellers makes a dairy. Sometimes I don't know about you, slave. Sometimes I can't figure you. I was saying I can't figure you out. I'll help you with your homework later. Right now I want to concentrate on... Yeah, just as I thought. There are six of them. Six dancing girls on that platform. How'd you ever work it out? Simple, I counted the legs and divided by two. Is there any other way? Some fellas I know had a column of figures from the top. Hey, look, sailor, the girls are throwing flowers at us fellas. Among other things. Now, watch this catch, sailor. Ah, what a snazzy shortstop we've lost to the world when I chose to see. So you made a shoestring catch of a paper camellia slate. I yawned. Performance toward me too, lady. Hand over the camellia shortstop.  You kidding, Buster? I call for a fair catch. Ah, we were all dazzled by it. Let's not let it go to our head, huh? The little blossom. Pin it on my lapel, flower boy.  This one's gotta impress ya. You impressed me. But not for long, huh, kid? Gosh, app dancers, fellows fighting over a paper flower. It's been a real fiesta slate. What do we do with a prone fellow? We just dance around him. Watch him don't trip over his chin. Come on, Quimby. Get in. Quick. I'm talking to you. I'm talking about your mind. I heard you. Making me meet you like this. The two of us together. Suppose the cops catch a fast wink of us together. Nothing had happened. The police had shaken us down. Make clucking sound. Shake their heads and tell us to keep moving. We're blocking traffic. Yeah. Go ahead. Keep telling. Look, Quimby, I set up the whole thing, didn't I? I said keep telling me. I had that clerk in the jewelry store believing I was really interested in that stone. I keep going in there for three weeks, every day. I couldn't make up my mind whether to buy it or not. I touched a dashboard with my nose. I bow, Mr. Packard. The clerk had the stone out yesterday. Then you came in and pulled a switch while I diverted him. So far, simple. Yeah. Real, real. With my record and the cops knowing by this time that you were casing the place, all they have to do is find us together. Find us with a stone. No stone, Quimby. I didn't get it. What? But I gave it to Velma. I put it in that paper comedia. I gave it to it. Then she tossed it to you. She tossed it. Guy named Slate caught it. Slate? Slate Shannon? I guess. Trouble, Mr. Packard, if it's Slate Shannon. He's different. Maybe not. Maybe not at all. Slate Shannon. A guy lives, dies, just a guy. He can be taken care of. You got all your loot, Slate? Yeah. The comedia from the dancing girl, the cane from the guy who couldn't guess my weight. And the Cupid doll from the girl whose weight you could and did. Yeah. Now I've got a Cupid doll I can call my own. You can put her alongside that picnic ham you won at Venice Pier five years ago. No, this Cupid is. They say, look, it's Pilar the peddler. Hi, Pilar. Slate, it's two o'clock in the morning and I'm tired. You can sell your old clothes to Pilar some other time. You kidding? Pilar is my beloved. She and that old horse are among the fondest memories of Felic and Cherish. Hey, tell Pilar. I'll go with it with my old friend. Whoa, whoa, well, Robin.  The beautiful senorita. Tasting the moonlight. Make him go home, Pilar. I'm worn out. I've got something for you, Pilar. A kiss for an old peddler perhaps to bring back as far away yesterday when Pilar did not drive a junk cart. Better than that, Pilar. A camellia for old Robin's hat. No, don't thank me, old Robin. It was nothing really. Hey, look at my Cupid. Come on, Slate. Bye, Pilar. Adios, senorita. Slate, my lover fellow. Get up, old Robin. On the leg. Ah, that Pilar. If I was only 40 years older. You may be by the time we get home. Please come on. Seller, tonight I've lived. I've danced in the streets, met an old love. Oh, you're just the Havana Flash. That's what you are. Hey, wait a minute, Seller. There's a guy cooking a finger at me from the doorway. You lost, friend? No, I am very much at home, senorita. It is you who are lost. And that gun is for showing me the way, huh? If you wish it. If you do not, I will settle for a paper camellia. The one that was went for me at the fiesta. My beloved Mia Alma meant it for me. Can I help it if you rock with it and butterfingers? We will not discuss my personality. The camellia, por favor. Sure. Sure, I've got it right here. You say something? I was wrong. You didn't say a thing. Slate, what happened?  What did he do to me and wanted a camellia? Hey, that's the second flower lover I've had to fight for a camellia. Now, don't get fat on it. There might be a third. Let's get out of here. King, did you get him? Yes, Mr. Slate. A whole dollar's worth. A whole bouquet. I'll wrap them. Thanks. Taylor, come here. What do you want? What are you looking so sheepish about? I bought you something. A bouquet of camellias. Here. Like them? Gee. And they're artificial, too. What girl wouldn't go out of her mind over a bunch of artificial flowers? I thought you'd like them. They're to make up for last night. I'll put them on my dresser. King, will you go into my room and empty the water out of the vase? I wouldn't want these blossoms together. I will, Lady Sailor. But it is not where the red gift is. Look, King, if she doesn't want them, Slate Shannon.  Care to come over to my place and pull petals? Why not? I got nothing to keep me here. I'm glad. The Castileo apartment's 4B. Ask for me, for Velma. You can't miss me. I'll be all that's there. Going someplace else, Slate? I'll be back. Some guy trying to sell me insurance. Tell her you're only interested in the short-term policy. Ah, dear. Buenos dias, Slate Shannon. Hello. Your name, Velma? Uh-huh. Come on in. You like my place? Comfy. Then why don't you get that way? All right. One of these days, I'm going to get myself a sofa. What for? You can use mine anytime you want. Here. I'll slide the hazard gun to your feet. You feel like talking? Not especially. I could just sit here like this and fall asleep. I'll rock you to sleep, if you want. Velma, we reached the stage in our great romance when a guy's forced to ask a question. I hate to louse up this deathless love of ours, but if I just let it go, like this, you'll think I'm a... I don't know what. Maybe a cat, even, and you wouldn't want... Look, Slate, I... You know why I wanted to see you. No, no, I don't. Go ahead, break it to me. Well, you caught a paper camellia at the carnival. Ah. Oh, you like the way I shag flies, huh? I want that camellia. Are you kidding? Do you have it with you? You're sure you're not kidding? If you don't have it, I'll go back to your place with you and get it.  That's it. Yeah. I want to look good for you. I want to put it in my curly hair. Look, baby, it's not your hair that's curly. It's your head. A fond farewell to you. All right. Get out of here.  You don't know what you just bought yourself. Gee, and I... I thought I'd get out of here with at least that hasic. Well, that's the way it's got to be. So long, Velma. Hi, Mr. Slate. Hello, King. Where's Sailor? In her room, making herself the loveliest for you. The way a good girl should. Mind if I ask you something, Mr. Slate? Sure, go right ahead. Where have you been? Um, horseback riding. Must have been a tall blonde horse, Mr. Slate. Left some hair on your lapel. Where did you... Slate, come here. Something's happened. Why? What's the matter? Look, I'm my dresser. I'm looking. You mean my picture in the frame? Why don't you dust it with me? Why don't you dust it once in a while? I'm talking about camellias, the ones you gave me. I put them right here on my dresser. Oh, where are they? I'm trying to tell you, they're gone. Someone came in through that window and took them while I was out. A camellia heist? This is something new in the annals of crimes. I mean, all of Havana's gone berserk over paper flowers. What would anyone want with artificial flowers? That suddenly worries me, too. Because I've heard there are times when they're used at cheap funerals. Our stars, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and the second act of our story. When a girl throws flowers, it's time to duck, unless you're a darling of lady luck. I offer this advice, I offer it for free. It comes to you gratis courtesy of me. Two men get clobbered so far to date for a paper camellia by Mr. Slate. As if it's worth it, I'll tell you that the flower now reposes on a horse's hat. And that's just where it's gonna stay. Have you ever thought about it, Mr. Slate, that maybe there's something sinister about that paper camellia? Something strange, as if it were touched by dark kisses, as if some fingers of evil. King, have you ever considered a saying the role of Hamlet, the unhappy prince? I was just wondering why somebody stole those flowers out of the sailor's room. A gentleman is ringing for service at the desk, Mr. Slate. Yeah. Sorry, Mr. No More Rooms were full up. Mr. Slate, we got 16 rooms. 17. Mr. Greeley ran out on us this morning, leaving us a suitcase full of interlocking, no more than necessary, bricks. I don't like that guy's looks. Besides, he's wearing a chameleon as lapel, and I've had enough chameleons for one day. Let me handle this. Your name is Shannon, isn't it? That's right. I can't help who recommended you, friend. No rooms. We're not taking any reservations. That's fine. I'd like to see a lad make a living, so I'll make this real short. I was gonna ask you to. You got a chameleon that looks like this only in paper? Why? Because then you'd win first prize. One thousand bucks. Because I did what? Hey, don't I know you? The light was bad last night at the fiesta, but I could... That's right. You slugged me. So I just now forgot it, and I just now set a grand for the chameleon. You got it? The last chameleon I had was stolen out of this lady's room. Even for a thousand, you say that. Because that's the way it was. If it wasn't, get somebody to shed a tear over you. So long, Shannon. What's the matter, killer? You run out of bullets? My boyfriend, Velma.  Why'd you kill him? Ricardo wouldn't double-cross you? Yeah, I remember. His dying words were how he wouldn't double-cross me. What'll yours be, Velma, dear? He tried to tell you. He didn't steal that chameleon from Shannon's girl. The poor guy. All he was trying to do was make the time of day with me. And you told him, Ricardo, bring me a jewel. Bring me a ruby. It'll light up the sky for us.    The ruby, Velma. Give it to me. I haven't got it! I haven't got it! I threw it away. The night of the street dance. I threw it to you. You forgot I was there.  I'm sorry, dear. You're grieving for the dead. That's what makes you forgetful, huh? Is it my fault that Shannon caught it? Is it my fault we can't get it away from him? A sweet unspoiled girly girl like you and you can't take a paper flower from a man? I tried. Ricardo tried. You tried. How come you flipped it, killer? And I made it so two and two for you, dear. Plant the ruby in the flower, I said. Toss it to me while dancing.  How simple it was. Well, you changed all that, killer. The boy lying on the floor says you changed it. Get the ruby, Valma, dear. Or for you and the boy I'll arrange a two-body grave. Look at these pictures, senor Shannon. Senorita. No, he's not the one, Inspector LaSalle. Well, let me see, Slade. I said he wasn't the one. Well, you have to look at a picture for it. Because I like to look at pictures. No, that's not the man who offered a thousand dollars. Here, look at this photograph. This man will probably not... Well, that's him. Let's see. That's him all right, Inspector. What you say is very interesting. Because this is a man who has no record on the blutter of the police. How did he get his picture in the pile with these thugs? This is a man whose name is Fred Packard. He is not a hundred percent thief. He is a suspected thief. A thief of what? Of a ruby of inestimable worth. This, we think. This, we do not know. Now, permit me, Senior Shannon. Here is another picture. Have you seen this man ever? Uh... No, I don't think so. Senorita? No, I haven't. Why? This is a man named Quimby. We suspect he was in complicity with Senior Packard in the theft of the ruby. Again, we have no proof. I've got some advice for you, Inspector. And this advice is... Pick up this guy, Quimby. That is already done. He languishes on an open charge in an empty cell. We give him questions, however, receive no answers. Keep at it, LaSalle. I think I can deliver this whole thing to you, Ruby and all. Come on, Sailor. Come on, he says. Come on, where? To knock on a door. To get back some junk. Junk from place else. Pillar the peddler is closed for business. Open up, Pillar. It's Slate and Sailor. Let's watch that billing, huh, kid? Sailor and Slate, Pillar. That is my very godmother's. Come into the junk pile of Pillar.  Wouldn't patronize any other junk dealer. You have come to give me more souvenirs for El Dobbin, huh? Take something away, Pillar. We want the Camelia I pinned to your horse's hat. The Camelia gave it to the viejo, the old man Cortés. Who? Cortés, the junk man. All day, he competes with me. At night, he courts me. Plays all bottles under my window. Last night, he was so beautiful, I threw him the paper Camelia. And where do we find this beautiful man? In his little tin shack on Calier Rosa. Ah, you should hear how he plays those bottles.  Look, Slate, through the window. The old man's asleep. The grin on his face and the Camelia on his... I told you that Pillar is a wonderful woman. Here, Salah, I'll hoist you in. What? We don't want to wake the old man out of a dream he may never have again. Come on, I'll hoist you through the window. Just take the flower out of his ear and kiss him good night. Okay. How do you... got the flowers, Slate? Did you kiss him? Yeah. You know, he kissed back. Why, that sly old junk man. Come on, Salah. Get back to the jeep. When did you put a photoelectric cell on the jeep door, Slate? Don't worry. You're pretty head. How door's open, dear. Just get in. You and Shannon. All right, flower lover. You have trouble starting. I'll use this gun as a choke. Get going, Shannon. Well, this is a pretty boat you got, Shannon. The bold venture, huh? Pretty name. Yeah. I don't think I've got enough gas to get you to Key West, Packard. You have. It's been taken care of. You're on the boat, both of you. Mr. Packard. What do you want?  Just take my word for it. It was in the chameleon. It has a perfect star and weighs 35 carats, and it's flawless. Okay, Shannon, stouter up. You just about have this all figured, haven't you, Shannon? Sure. The cops are scratching at your back. Me, too. What? Don't turn around, Shannon. You make a good shield. Velma, what do you want? What are you doing on this boat?  You didn't think you were going to run out on me, did you? It's late. Who's that girl breathing on the back of your neck? Velma? Sailor? Sailor? Velma. Hi, Velma.  Does it show to you, too, Fred? Look, I was going to send for you once I got to Key West. Sure, sure you were. What are you going to do now that you'll never get to Key West? Velma, don't be crazy. Listen to me. Fred, he won't get away on me. I'll take that gun, Velma. He'll get away. He'll swim. Give it to me. Here, Sailor Coverer. Let him go, Slate. The cops will pick him up. Maybe, maybe not. He's headed for that breakwater. If he makes it, maybe nobody will pick him up. Keep your eyes on my shoes. That Velma's a tricky one. Package it. You won't make it. I'll make it. There's an undertow at that breakwater. Okay, Package. Back to the boat, Package. You're crazy. I said back. We're both grown. Let's go under and see. How do you feel, Package? Just get me aboard. I saved your life. Aren't you going to say thanks? No? All of us in, Sailor. Hold tight, Slate. I'll drag you home. Bless you. Stop saying that. I've got a cold swimming around that cold ocean. Here, I made you something. Drink it. What is it? It's good for fellas with a cold. Go ahead, drink it. Drink it all down. All right. What was that? A fish broth. A fish broth? A little haddock. A pinch of rock card. Dash of swordfish. Why'd you get a remedy like that? I invented it. Fish never catch cold, and they live in the ocean. Genius. Didn't you like that remedy? Try this one. Cut it out, Sailor. I've got a cold. Cut it out. Did you like that? Nice, huh? Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. No, I've got a cold, too. What have we got to worry about? Cubbyistly. And so our two stars, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall have brought to a close our latest bold venture story. Special music was composed and conducted by David Rose. May we invite you to listen again next week at this time for another exciting adventure starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall together in bold venture.


Hello and welcome to News Clicks International Roundup. We are going to discuss what has become a major issue for Boeing as their 737 MAX 8s have been grounded. Initially, there is only a certain set of countries, in fact, all the countries except the United States. As of now, even the United States after President Trump issued some directives has grounded the 737 MAX 8s. Lagu, what actually happened in this flight seems to be very similar to the Lion's Air flight which had crashed a couple of months back, three, four months or five months back. Does this indicate the 737 MAX 8s now are going to see problems? They have about 5,000 already on order. Do you think this is a major, shall we say, crash of also Boeing as a consequence? It will have serious consequences in the short to medium term definitely because it is evident now that there is a design flaw in the 737 MAX which we are going to discuss. Because it is a design flaw, unless it is properly rectified, checked, certified, which is a process which is not going to be less than 6 to 8 months, I would say, at a minimum if you are going to get proper certification and the certification will be done by different regulatory agencies in the US, in Europe, in other countries. Some countries will automatically, once the FAA certifies, they will certify. Some countries will do it independently. It is going to be a painful process for Boeing. So this FAA, Federal Aviation Authority has not really covered itself with glory because all others grounded it. It still allowed the 737 MAX 8s to fly. In fact, we had a senior figure in CNN studio who said, I am quite willing to fly, but I would not buy a ticket for my three-year-old granddaughter. Now it doesn't seem to show too much confidence, shall we say, in the Federal Aviation Authority as well? In fact, the FAA for several years now has actually been taking advisories from the manufacturers, from Boeing and basing their own certification on the self-certification by Boeing, which is obviously not a healthy practice. For a regulatory agency. For a regulatory agency, and that too for a regulatory agency as powerful and we thought strong as the FAA, that they would take their own steps to ascertain airworthiness of different designs and then only issue certification. A recent study has shown that FAA has accepted self-certification by Boeing for as much as 80% of aircraft features. That's an astoundingly large figure. Back to the actual issues. If we look at the lion's-air flight path, which is, you can see that after a certain point, you see instead of a steep climb, which is how the takeoff should have taken place, you see flattening. And this seems to be because the pilot and the flight control systems are fighting each other. Now, this has been argued because of certain basic features of the Boeing 737 Max 8 version, which wasn't there in their planes earlier. This is something which has been introduced. Do you think that is actually perhaps the cause of what happened to the lion's-air flight as well as the Ethiopian Airlines flight? See, the lion's-air is absolutely certain. We already know all the facts about the lion's-air flight. There is still a little uncertainty about the Ethiopian airline until all the data comes in. Black boxes, analog boxes. Plus the various other real-time data from the engine and from the aircraft, which are being constantly monitored. It'll take a little time for that to come in, but once that come in, I think we will see the pattern being more or less the same. What this clearly shows is that the aircraft is not being allowed to climb at its normal rate of climb. The sensor, which gives a signal saying, look, you're climbing too high and this may lead to a stall. And then forces the aircraft nose down. So what you can see here is from the figure on top, you've got a rate of climb which the sensor perceives is too steep and thinks the aircraft is going to stall. And you can see from the bottom figure there that it then adjusts the trim to reduce the climb and brings the nose down. So effectively the nose drops automatically because of this augmentation, what they've called as a maneuvering characteristic augmentation system or the MCAS. This is adjusting the nose to actually drop if it thinks that this climb is too steep. But there's an additional factor is it's one thing if the plane automatically adjusts the MCAS gives a signal saying lower the nose based on an actual reading of a too high rate of climb. But what seems to have happened in lion air and most probably in the Ethiopian airline as well is that there is a faulty indication of the rate of climb. That the sensor for the rate of climb was faulty and in addition it seems there's only a single sensor for the MCAS each MCAS and only a single sensor. So whereas the aircraft is climbing at a normal rate of climb, the sensor gives an erroneous message to MCAS saying this is too high and lowers the nose. So then what happens is because of all these problems that we've encountered the pilot is not sure what is happening. He sees the aircraft nose being lowered he then tries to raise it again. The system MCAS automatically lowers the nose so there's a fight going on between the pilot. Two things it seems the lion air had about 12 such attempts to lower and raise the nose. The pilot trying to raise it while the MCAS was trying to lower it. So that seems to be what is there. The second part of it is and I think this is a very important issue that it seems the MCAS operates even when the autopilot is off. So under manual conditions also the MCAS will dip the nose and therefore it has to be separately switched off not switched off directly if you switch off the autopilot. Precisely and that's where what we were talking about comes in where the pilot is actually fighting with MCAS because MCAS is taking some steps. The pilot wants to correct that and there's a wrestling match between them. And then the nose goes into a downward position. It enters a steep dive from which the pilot is not able to recover. Now looking at this issue the problem seems to have been the MCAS system that people have pointed out two problems to the MCAS system. One is of course that if there's a faulty sensor it is a single sensor that the MCAS behaves badly and there is the pilots then have to switch it off manually. Now this is the other part the switching off this system manually the pilots were not really it seems either trained for it nor is it a standard step in the operating procedure. What happens is if it behaves the pilots in their very experience though they can switch off the electrical trim but it wasn't as any of the books neither was a part of any of the directions guidance. That's the most unfortunate part of this. This is not in the manual. They are training programs for pilots supposed to have been conducted. One doesn't know how effective these training programs are. Who is it being conducted by? Suppose an American airline does do a fair amount of training. Does that also apply to Ethiopia or to Lyon? There is a bigger issue. Apparently Boeing had said that this MAX variant of the 737s is very similar to earlier flights earlier 737s therefore the pilots did not need extensive training and therefore this particular modification which they had made was something that should have been what the pilots were trained for they were not trained and in fact this was one of the major reasons while the airlines were more willing to accept Boeing 737s MAX versions because they felt it was a very easy switch over while there was a major change which had been made which in both these cases were perhaps crucial that's right and Boeing has issued an advisory after the Lyon air crash but then an advisory is a separate bit of document it's not there as part of the manual so unless the pilot is very conscious he may not especially in conditions of sudden malfunction or panic inside the cockpit he may not refer to the advisory he will look at the manual manual and see nothing there that's one second thing is we frequently hear references to the seniority of the pilots involved that in the Ethiopian air case for example that he had flown more than 8,000 hours but if he had flown 8,000 hours on other models of aircraft and maybe a few hundred hours on the MAX it doesn't necessarily train him to respond to these kinds of emergency situations I have been also a lot of reference to an Indian pilot which is the Lyon air case Ethiopian pilots not the third world pilots being not so equipped if this was a American pilot it would have been different the argument is the American pilots have a much larger ecosystem they talk to each other irrespective of the advisories at all they know what to do in case of an accident accident like this so that's the one case but the bigger issue still remains why was the MCS system introduced at all and if you look at the aircraft what used to be there earlier in 737 and what is there in the 737 MAX variant we see the clear difference and you can see the MAX 737 at the top and you can see the earlier variant at the bottom and you can see the positioning of the engine that this what has been argued is bigger engines needed it to be moved upwards and also had to be tilted a little so that changed the flight characteristic and because it was a different flight characteristic it was felt that the pilots may actually stall the aircraft with the steep angle of attack and therefore the need to put the MCS the real issue is that you are making the aircraft aerodynamically more unstable and you are compensating with control system modification now this is a fundamental issue should this have been done for a passenger airlines that would not it have been better to have actually redesign the fuselage and the airframe in order to accommodate these changes rather than this as a retrofit I would think so we know that the CFN engine the LEAP engine which has been introduced in the 737 MAX as well as in the A320 Nios has tried to bring about a 15 percent improvement in fuel economy and this has been done apart from other modifications in the engine essentially by increasing the size of the intake fan which increases the diameter of the engine which means clearly some re-engineering has to be done in the nacelle the shell which holds the engine which houses the engine how it is positioned on the wing etc and it seems fairly clear now that airbus seems to have managed this transition better than Boeing has Boeing it is known has given a tilt to the engine and has raised the engine nose upwards because the clearance between this larger fan and the surface of the runway was not as much as it should have been so they have tried to compensate by changing this Boeing had a higher that seems and this seems to have compelled pilots who felt that it was because of the size of and the larger weight of this engine the aircraft had a tendency to for its nose to go down and the pilot therefore would compensate by raising the nose up which may have triggered this stall warning MCAS yeah but because Boeing automated this MCAS response overriding the pilot it brings about the situation where the pilot and the aircraft are battling each other so three sets of separate issues one is a faulty sensor a signal sensor being used for the MCAS the MCAS itself trying to correct for what was a instability introduced by a larger engine and the third thing not telling the pilots all of this leaving him an ignorance about the how the MCAS was operating how it was operating even when they were in manual and if there was a faulty MCAS then they should switch it off what is called switch off the electrical trip it's not a normal procedure operate the cut out now that's not a normal procedure it's not a switch that you do so all of these three things actually combined in this particular case and really to be a part of anything is not informing the operator i.e. the pilot is the key problem and added to this is of course the fact that an aircraft is at at its most vulnerable during takeoff and it is during takeoff that the angle of attack becomes a major issue in the aircraft because that's when the nose is tilted up once it has reached cruise altitude it's flying along merrily it's precisely at this point that this vulnerability gets exposed the pilot gets into a confusion about what's happening and that's the most dangerous stalling of the aircraft during takeoff is the most dangerous part of the flight that that's what you're really saying you know this is also the commercial part of it the reason Boeing was doing it because you're feeling the pinch of Airbus 320 taking over a segment of their market and they did not have an aircraft really which could go head to head with A320 and therefore this change short changing shall we say the airlines or passengers whatever you say it by a quick quick and dirty shall we say retrofit fix or what if you want to call it which does not really look at the fundamental issue but tries to retrofit something onto the aircraft which was it wasn't designed for additionally Pennywise and pound foolish on the part of Boeing because Boeing's for saving a few a few months of design time and in this race with Airbus they have lost a lot more time money and reputation in what's essentially our two horse race in the aviation business actually with this the so-called 5000 orders how much now deliveries will be asked for is an open question and that means that we really are seeing a huge blow to Boeing because this segment seems to be the most popular segment in terms of aircraft and airlines usage the only thing saving Boeing at this stage I think is the fact that the Airbus new has had its own share of problems with engine functioning cutouts in the compressor stages etc but we can discuss that some other time they seem to have recovered from it in most theaters across the world but Boeing is now in serious trouble because all their aircraft have been grounded which has never happened with Airbus and also though you know if you see it that two aircraft crashed in fairly quick succession and that sort of puts a different complexion to the whole thing and I think the reputation is also because information sharing and all of this didn't happen at the right time thank you very much Raghu for being with us thank you for watching news click do keep watching our episodes this on this and other issues


Welcome to the second part of seeing if we can incorporate some of our painting and specifically watercolor into slow stitching and by We I Me Me. So in a previous video, I'll talk about this file in a minute, which I'll link in the description below, I experimented with seeing if I could watercolor on this piece of canvas. I used a Daniel Smith product called Watercolor Ground, which is basically like a gesso for watercolor to prep the fabric and then did my painting and in the video I show you exactly what I did and how I did it. Now the watercolor ground while I'm going to assume without going and checking up on it and if I'm incorrect, I'll put some text here that the watercolor ground while maybe in some instances is intended on canvas. I'm pretty sure it's not intended to be flexible, at least not over a long period of time. So before we do anything else to prevent the painting from cracking and from fading and try to keep it as light fast as possible, we're going to do two things. So I've already sprayed it with two coats of an archival sealer, which I use for watercolor paintings specifically and I'll put the brand in the video description. And then we're going to take this little piece of chipboard, which is cut to about the same size as the painting, and I'm going to use a glue stick and we're going to just glue it to the back of the painting. I'm going to try to get it on the back anyways, hopefully I can sort of get it back there. There's a little bit of thread everywhere. I'm going to just use the glue stick to hopefully sort of, yeah, at least temporarily just so it doesn't slide around. Certainly when I'm doing slow stitching, I would pin it, but we're not going to even try to pin through chipboard. That's not going to happen. But now when I get it stitched down, there's a piece of hard chipboard back there that will prevent the fabric and the painting from flexing. So now to go with the painting, I pulled out a variety of scraps of different kinds of fabrics. I had some fabric sample from Spoonflower, which is a website that I have some of my own fabric designs on, which I will link in the description below. And you can order fabric samples from them to get an idea of the different types of fabric they have. You can get your artwork or someone else's printed on. And I have had an old, old, old fabric sample pack. Some of the fabric types they don't even have anymore. So I took it up, I found it in my desk and I took it apart. I picked out three of these I thought would go for. Some other just cotton scraps. This is a piece of silk sari ribbon as is this bigger green one and this little one.  This is half of a zipper that I used the other half for, I don't know, a project somewhere. And this is going to be our base. This is a piece of felted wool. So I am going to show you a speed through of how I lay out and select the different base pieces of fabric that are going to go around our painting and how I get them pinned together. And then once I get that done, I'll be back and I'll talk you through stitching, doing the base layer of stitching everything down. All right, let's get started. I'll be right back. Get to this point and it's time to baste all of these background layers of fabrics on, which is what we're going to do. And sometimes I get to this point and I just baste them all. I do the stitches over everything at once.  I think this time we're going to sew the painting down and then we're going to sew everything else down as it is. I do have some size 10 crochet thread here in a needle. I'm not sure it's quite enough to go around, but I'm going to use here what's already threaded in this needle. It's kind of a thick, heavy duty thread. And I think what parts of the stitches may still show will look nice, give a nice texture to the canvas that's here. So I try to pin this in a way that I can do this to stitch it down. And I try to grab a couple of small wonder clips. These are I think by Dritz. You can find them in your Sewing Notions Department at any fabric store. I'll put a link in the description below. And when you're laying out your fabrics before we start this stitching part, I want those of you who've never done this before and never done any kind of fabric collage before, just if you've done mixed media collage and paper collage, think of it or painting. Think of it as that. So you're combining your colors and your mark making, maybe your stencils, your pens, your writing in different layers on your art journal pages, your other artwork you hang on the wall. Fabric collage is no different.  And part of that is the stitches, part of it is the fabrics and assemble them in a way until you find something pleasing in this layer, rearrange them and pin them before you stitch anything down until you find an arrangement that you like. Then we'll start the stitching. Now don't let the stitching intimidate you either because we're just going to use a straight running stitch. Nothing complicated. So I've got a fairly long large eyed needle here with this thicker heavy duty thread on it. And I can feel where that chipboard is underneath. So I'm going to make sure I'm not trying to stitch through the chipboard, but I'm going to be kind of near it. I'm going to come up through the bottom of the back. And then I'm going to go in about a quarter of an inch, I will come back up again about a quarter of an inch away and then in, we're going to do that all the way around the little painting and then I'll be back. Different colors of thread. This is silk, vintage silk buttonhole twist. I'm not even sure they make silk buttonhole twist anymore, but any thick sewing thread will do. You don't need anything fancy. You can also use embroidery floss. I'm using what I have. I'm going to use that same needle I was using just because this is a bigger, thicker large-eyed needle. So it will handle working with the buttonhole twist, but also it can handle going through this canvas, which is kind of thick. I'm going to start with this brownish colored one. And I just use a single strand, put a knot in the end. And for this brownish one, I think I want to sew down these pieces of fabric and the plaid. So I think what I'm going to do is move some pins. So I'm going to move this pin here and this pin here. That way I can do this and stitch that down. For this, I'm going to just sew it where it is without lifting anything. And when I sew the silk down, I'll go around that. I want to get this plaid fabric stitched down with the green to be on top. You'll see what I mean in a minute. So we're going to where's our clips? So it is helpful sometimes to sort of clip like this. So things don't flop around on you when you're trying to stitch. We're still going to use running stitch, pick a direction. You could go sideways, you could go in circles. I generally like to go vertical or horizontal. I think for this, I'm going to go vertical. So I'm going to start in one corner and come up from the back. Since I'm right handed, I'm going to I'm going to do this. So then when it's flat on the table, I'm going to just poke the needle through till I can feel the table and then come up keeping my stitches again about a quarter of an inch or less as big or small as you're comfortable with. The whole idea of slow stitching is it's supposed to be a slow, hand stitched meditative process. So I usually have music on in the background and I'm just stitching and letting go of all those things that are stressing me and just stitching away. I do turn the piece a lot. I don't try to line up all of my stitches. I don't try to have them be the same length. I don't try to have my rows be even if they are they are. But I like it to look sort of primitive. Can you see that right there? So I'm going to sew the two squares down and then I'm going to sew these three pieces down, then I'm going to do the green. I'm going to speed forward through the process. You'll see what I'm doing. I'll be right back because I'm going to take the sound out. But my table is so squeaky. Or my chair. No, it's my table. Anyway, thread pieces done. And you'll notice that I'm saving these extra like long pieces of thread. I don't throw these away or dispose of them until I'm sure I'm completely done with the piece. And even then I these are decently long pieces of thread and I use them to do things like so. The words onto my positive affirmation doll or a little other small projects, maybe on another stitching project. I need just a little piece of brown or beige thread. And so I take my needle keeper. And I have a little bit of fabric thread in the back, so they just go in there. All right, so now we're going to switch to the teal-y color and we're going to stitch all these other ones down again. We are just doing a running stitch, nothing fancy. OK, so I'm going to do that. And I'll be right back. I'm going to show you what I do about all the wrinkling of the fabric. You can see it kind of there you go from the back. There's a reason that I like to I prefer to work on a felted wool background. It's easily flattened. I really am not. I do sometimes use an embroidery hoop, but more often than not, I don't. I prefer not to. And with this one with the chipboard in there, I'm not sure how you'd really fit this in a hoop anyway. And I, as you can see, like to run right to the edge. So again, not really hoop friendly. But I'm going to move you around a little bit. Here, I'm going to show you how I fix the wrinkling. I do it at all stages, beginning, middle and end and hang on one side. So I'm at my ironing board and that'll give you a clue. So generally, I don't have a painting on my work. So we're going to assume this is going to turn out all right. But I guess we'll find out in a minute. What I will tell you is because there's a painting on the front side, maybe because some of the bits or pieces that I've sewn on to the front after things have been done and completed are maybe not heat proof. I would usually work from the back. Also, though, I like to, as you can see in this piece that I did, add seed beads. So once you do that, it's hard to do what we're going to do from the front side. Plus like on this one, I have some ribbon embroidery that I didn't want to mess up. And on this one, too, there's a lot of seed beads and different kinds of things on here. So usually I do it from the back and usually I would trim this excess wool off. But I'm actually, as we're working on this, I'm thinking I might want to hang this on a piece of driftwood or something. And I might want to pocket up here. So at the moment, we're going to leave this because I don't think this part of it is complete. What we're going to do is turn it to the back side and I've got a hot steam iron. Now, on this one, mostly, we just need to do the edges because that center part is pretty flat with that piece of chipboard there. But just because it's wool, I can give it a good steam and a good iron. And look at that. It takes all the wrinkling out. It didn't hurt the painting. It didn't hurt the painting at all. And on the front side, I can carefully go, but I'm not going to touch the painting. And I can just flatten out the fabric and get all the wrinkles out from hand manipulating it. And now we are good and ready for the next step. So to answer your question, can you add a watercolor painting to your slow stitching? Yes, sir, you can. This is just one way where you're adding an actual painting.  I have done that with some sort of doodle embellishments that I've created that I've printed on fabric. I'll include a picture here. I'll also include a picture here of this one that is created from a piece of my artwork and I have a picture of that piece of art in this side by side. So there's a lot of different ways you could do this. This is just one way. I'm having a lot of fun with this. It's not turning out how I thought, but I think it might be even better. In the next video, we will start adding embellishments to it because we're nowhere near done. I hope this doesn't whole process doesn't intimidate you. And I hope it gives you you give it a try or maybe it sparks some creative thoughts and ideas in you. For me, it's just another form of collage. And this is definitely truly mixed media because you're combining painting and stitching and we're going to be doing beadwork and embroidery. So it's very cool. That's it for today. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. Check out the video description for any relevant links and resources. If I can find them, I'll link them in the video description. If you have any questions, comments or concerns or additional resources for slow stitching that you're looking for, please leave something in the comments. And I will be sure to get back to you. Did I say like, share and subscribe? I might have. Also, check out the video description for ways to support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups, not just on my video on all of your creative favorites videos. All of us, for the most part, have a way to support the free content, whether it's an Etsy shop or PayPal, tip jar, Amazon affiliate link, Patreon or something else. And there's even YouTube membership. So check out their video description. If you can't find a way to support the free content, ask them because maybe they just haven't advertised it. We all would definitely appreciate that. It takes a lot of time, money and effort to create the free content. And yeah, it's nice to be appreciated. Anyway, that's it for right now. Watch for the third part in this little series where we start to add the embellishments and that's it for right now.  And don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye, guys.


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Your Highness, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Bakhtum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai. Your Highnesses, Co-Chairs of the Summit for the Global Agenda, Your Excellency, Sultan Said Nasser al-Mansuri, Minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates, Your Excellency, Sami Al-Kamzi, Director General, Department of Economic Development, Government of Dubai. Excellencies, dear members of the Global Agenda Council, dear friends, welcome to the Summit 2014 on the Global Agenda. And I have to say, coming into this room, I felt already the vibrancy and the enthusiasm which brings us together. Your Highness, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Makhtum, I first would like to thank you. You and the government, the entire organizing committee, as well as the people of Dubai and the United Arab Emirates for your gracious hospitality and partnership. This Global Agenda meeting, and I would call it a true summit on the future, is organized in cooperation with the governments of Dubai and the United Arab Emirates. I would also like particularly to thank you, Your Excellency Mohammed Abdullah Gargavi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs of the Federal Government of the United Arab Emirates, who is such a strong partner and friend. Your Highness, we always have been inspired by your leadership. Since many years, I have the pleasure and honor to know you. A leadership which is based on true long-term vision and future orientation. Your dynamic leadership is widely respected globally and more than ever is so crucial for the future of this region. The seventh annual summit on the Global Agenda has, as it seemed, shaping the transformations of the world. We are here and we represent the largest brainstorming and brain trust in the world. More than 1,000 experts, more than 1,000 participants from over 80 countries convening around 86 different global challenges and issues. And this year, we have integrated into this summit some innovations. First, we are focusing on transformation maps, which means we do not just want to have a discussion. We want to capture the wisdom of all of you here in the room using the newest technological capabilities. We also will meet together with representatives of our host government in future circles to make sure that what we are discussing here is also for the benefit of Dubai and the United Arab Emirates. And my colleague Espen Aide will afterwards recognize some of you with the Global Agenda Council vision awards, which are given in recognition of excellence for innovation and collaboration. Dear friends, what makes us different? We want to have, when we look at the future, a strategic and holistic approach. We also are innovative by combining our meeting here with the ongoing interaction process via digital means. So we are here not just for a conference or for a meeting. We are here for engaging into an ongoing working process. We all know that the new global context seems to be one of fragility, turbulence, and volatility. And I just recommend to you to read the Global Agenda Outlook and you see there are so many fundamental issues and challenges which we have to face. But let's not forget, we do not face only challenges. The new world offers many new opportunities for advancing human progress and development to the next higher level. But what it needs, it needs deep transformation. And key to this transformation is the spirit which you all represent here in the room. It is not rejecting innovation and praising innovation. Since innovation is very often disruptive, it is so important to develop a long-term vision which helps us overcome the negative effects of disruption and to concentrate on the positive elements. We lack in this world leadership and trust. We all know it because we are too much absorbed in crisis management. What we are doing here is to help to avoid in the future to lose so much energy in crisis management. In this context, we can look at our host for setting a strong example. Johannes, last month you announced the launch of the National Innovation Strategy with the goal of making the country one of the most innovative in the world. And I quote you, innovation today is driven by effective institutions, strong policies, specialized skills, and an economy where all sectors work together to discover new ways of conducting business. Johannes, this goal could be absolutely translated into an imperative what we should do in the next days but on a global level. Shaping the future, that's what we are here for. And our deliberations, our work will have an impact. It will not have only an impact in Davos at our annual meeting. It will not have only an impact influencing so big issues and work streams at the World Economic Forum. And I just would like to mention infrastructure, the future of the internet, environment and climate change, a new framework for the global financial system, but this meeting should impact our thinking to make us more future-oriented. Let me conclude by saying this global future summit should carry the spirit which is so well represented here in this country as well in this audience, a spirit with a strong global mission based on our motto entrepreneurship in the global public interest, based on a global vision which is open and collaborative, strategic and systemic, inclusive and diverse. And finally, we all want to embrace a global spirit which includes a deep global commitment of responsibility. Ladies and gentlemen, I have now the pleasure to give the floor to your excellency, Sultan Said Nasser Alman Souri, Minister of Economy of United Arab Emirates. Thank you, Professor Klaus. I think you mentioned a very important point concerning the positiveness of this place. I would like to add just one more point. You cannot be really feeling so positive. When it comes to so many issues and one of the most important issue is the positiveness and the positive energy you feel when you are around Sheikh Mohammed. Such a wonderful feeling, Your Highness. We are really, very happy for your support, for your continuous support of this kind of a summit. But let me first thank His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Maktoum, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai for being here with us. I would like also to thank His Highness Sheikh Hamdan, the Crown Prince of Dubai for also being with us here. Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum and my colleague, His Excellency Samuel Daniel Gamzey, Director General of the Department of Economic Department in the Government of Dubai. And he is also the Co-Chair of the summit on the Global Agenda. Your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Government of the United Arab Emirates, it is my honor to welcome you to the 2014 summit on the Global Agenda. We are so pleased and proud that the World Economic Forum is hosting the event for the 7th consecutive year in the OE, as this reflects our long, fruitful relationship. We are very proud of hosting this prestigious event in the OE, as it represents an ideal platform to achieve our leadership vision, represented in His Highness, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the President of the OE, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Maktoum, the OE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, to open new horizons for cooperation between countries, peoples, and cultures, also to continue providing practical solutions to the political, economic, and social challenges facing the world today. The summit brings together more than 1,000 global thought leaders who meet in the OE annually to discuss the most pressing challenges that humanity faces. The discussions in Dubai serve as a backdrop for preparing an action strategy for positive change at the World Economic Forum annual meeting, which will be held in Davos cluster next year. This is the early part of 2015. Her Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, the summit on the global agenda comes at a crucial time when political volatility continues to rage in certain parts of the world. Extremism have raised its head in new forms, and genocide and refugee crisis has grown to become major concern severely affecting a number of countries. The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa constitute a great public health risk to the entire world, whereas related to unemployment, food security, immigration, and poverty persist around the world. Climate change, energy crisis, and scarcity of resources are no more just looming threats but grim realities. Of course, there are challenges in the area of global financial system too. The recessionary impact lingered in some regions as overcoming recession will represent a major challenge for many governments and also regions. While in the Middle East has been affected by these challenges, the region is also a focal point of positive attention, mainly due to the growth and development activities in the Gulf region. The UAE particularly has been at the forefront of several initiative and recent times in areas such as international aid, future of governments, and infrastructure developments. The UAE also brainstorms for a better world. Sharing the success of the UAE in creating a growth environment will be invaluable in finding effective solution to crisis situation and also in redefining the world development agenda. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, for us as a federal country, we represent stability and sustainable development. The UAE is also constantly working as a catalyst for positive change in the world. Of course, the UAE in general, we have been able to really develop a number of agendas, and of course, we have been able to address a number of issues challenging the UAE. But I would like to conclude one thing, and that is the UAE will always continue to be a beacon of hope and generosity for the rest of the world. I want to thank you for being here and I wish you success. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Minister Almansoori. Dubai is certainly an ideal place, as you mentioned, reflecting stability which we need in the world, reflecting hospitality. But I should also add reflecting the multicultural, multi or diverse audience which we have here in the room. So thank you for your hospitality. My call now on your excellency, Sami Al-Kamzey, Director-Channel of the Department of Economic Development of the Government of Dubai. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. I will go to deliver my speech in Arabic, so please if you want to use the translation devices, please do. Sahab is to move. Your Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Vice-President, Prime Minister, Ruler of Dubai, Your Highness's Minister of Economy, Sultan Saeed Al-Mansoori, Co-Chair of the Summit and the Global Agenda, Professor Klaus Chav, the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Your Excellencies, Honorable Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. It's a great honor to welcome you all in this summit which gathers all the intellectuals of the world. We are hosting the Summit on the Global Agenda in UAE, especially in Dubai, which focuses on the importance of international cooperation and promotes innovation. The Summit on the Global Agenda is a great platform for these global agenda councils which has been hosted previously and this is the biggest summit on the Global Agenda that's being hosted since 2008. This is a big achievement for us in the UAE. We are all keen and confident that our pioneer achievement that cover the social aspect and that has been really a source of inspiration and model for all the thinkers and experts who are here with us today in this global summit. And under the leadership of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai has adopted the Sustainable Development Road and it has put it as the main goal for achieving growth. Dubai with its solid economy, strong infrastructure and concentrating on a knowledge-based economy and the competency of its human resources constitutes or can constitute a big pillar for the achievement and looking into our daily work, we can see that we have positive indicators about our economy and the growth in our economy in the different sectors such as trade, transportation and services. Dubai has been able today to find this positive correlation between the different people based on the continuous efforts deployed by our leadership in order to have interaction among the different people living in Dubai. Dubai is really hosting today more than 200 nationalities who are living and coexisting together, living in cohesion and peace. And in the light and the diversity of its economy, Dubai has added the Islamic economy based on a comprehensive and integrated system including Islamic finance, marketing the halal food products, family tourism destination and the Islamic art and design center. And as a multi-cultural society, Dubai is hosting Expo 2020, which once again is reinforcing the importance of the entrepreneurship and international foreign investment where the investors can invest in Dubai as has been the case in the last two decades. Hosting Expo 2020 will be an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to contribute in the development of this region, Dubai through Dubai Tourism 2020. And through the work of our leadership, we will be able to increase the number of tourists to 20 million by 2020 and to increase the contribution of the tourism sector in the local economy in Dubai to 300 billion dirhams. And also Dubai is adopting innovation. The vision of Dubai aims at integrating technology in the daily life of the people to improve their life. And I would like to highlight here that Dubai government has put a new legislation between the companies, the dealers and also the government. In this regard also, Dubai has launched the smart government or the e-government which has made Dubai the smartest city and this is through implementing the initiative of a thousand smart services that will provide the sustainable services and not to forget improving the living standards in Dubai for its people. And in the brainstorming of Dubai for a better world initiative, Dubai has exerted all efforts to have Dubai the best example of the federal emirate that has sustainable development and stability where we aim in contributing in having positive changes in this region and worldwide. Undoubtedly hosting this summit on the global agenda 2014 in Dubai is a clear message for the whole world that we are committed to face all the global challenges at the time where we are looking forward to continue our work in building a new innovative partnership. I would like to welcome you once again in this summit and I wish you best of luck and a good stay in Dubai and thank you. Thank you, your excellency. I'm convinced that at the end of this summit you will have 1,000 good ambassadors going out in the world to make promotion for the World Expo here in Dubai in 2020. And congratulations for having won this distinction to be the host of the Expo. My call now on my colleague Espen Aide, member of the managing board of the World Economic Forum, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense of Norway. Your Highness, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, friends, good afternoon. We are very proud of all our councils and in order to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of the global agenda councils and to further support their work, we have for the first time decided to establish a Global Agenda Council Vision Award. We are pleased to present the inaugural awards now to a select number of councils that have achieved exceptional impact during the past 2012 to 2014 term. The criteria we chose in order to select the winners was to look for breakthrough and forward-looking ideas to councils that focused on a major challenge related to the global, regional, industry agendas, ideas that displace vision, pragmatism and leadership, and that also clearly defines an execution plan with time-bound milestones and which has the potential to leverage the forum's multi-stakeholder communities. We decided also to divide the categories into two. So we have one set, two awards in the category, a breakthrough individual council idea and two awards in the category, a high-impact collaborative cross-council idea. And for the latter, this is very much an inspiration to one of the major themes of this year's summit that in addition to strengthen the council work, we also want to strengthen the work across council and find some good examples to do so. And I'm happy now to announce the winners in the first category, a breakthrough individual council idea. And the winner is the Global Agenda Council on the Intellectual Property System. This council worked on a number of projects to improve access to the benefits of international property system to the bottom of the pyramid. The council's main work was around the pro bono assistance, IP assistance project which was recently launched in Colombia. It also created state-of-the-art educational modules around IP and facilitated dialogue around the advantages and drawbacks of IP regulation. And I would now like to invite David Capos, partner in Crabba, Swayne and more to receive the award on behalf of his council. Please come up to the lecture. The second winner in this category, a breakthrough individual council idea, is the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government. The council advanced the understanding of how technology is transforming government and the nature of politics. The Future of Government smart toolbox and the scenarios on the Future of Government provides an analysis on how technology is impacting the demands placed on governments to deliver more with less, as well as affecting government's ability to meet expectations. I would like to invite Professor Jane Fountain, Director National Centre for Digital Government, University of Massachusetts, to receive the award on behalf of the council. Then I will move to the second category, a high-impact collaborative cross-council idea. And there will be two winners and the two winners are two pairs of councils connecting from what might seem different starting points into one collaborative idea with concrete implications and consequences for policy. The first winner is the pair, the Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals and the Global Agenda Council on Youth and Employment. These two councils launched a landmark 10 youth initiative. They created an innovative methodology of mentorship and apprenticeship models that on the one hand will help the unemployed youth acquire hard and soft skills that will be a big boost in their career development and on the other hand to provide companies with an efficient and affordable tool to find and retain the talent they need to succeed in their operations. So I will now announce the two winners and I ask them then jointly to come on stage. I would like to invite Sue B. Bagnan, the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court and Down Chair in Societal Progress in INSEAD and Jamie McOliffe, President and Chief Executive Officer of Education for Employment to receive the award on behalf of the two councils. Please come to the podium. Last but not least, the final prize, still in the category, a high-impact collaborative cross-council idea, goes to the Global Agenda Council on Africa and the Global Agenda Council on New Models of Travel and Tourism. These two councils raised awareness of the importance of travel and tourism for economic growth and job creation and developed critical solutions for the sector's development. The councils managed to elevate the issue of travel facilitation and highlighted the clear link between travel facilitation, growth and job creation. I would again like to invite the two council representatives to come here together. I'd like to invite Kathleen Matthews, Executive Vice President and Chief Global Communications and Public Affairs Officers at Marriott International and Archer Keng Lekke, Director of McKinsey and Company to jointly receive the award on behalf of their two councils. Please come to the podium. Now I imagine that all of you who are in councils are wondering how you can win the prize next time. And in order to give some insights, we have invited the GAC Vision devotees to be with us in a special session open to everybody this afternoon at 18.15 till 1930, here at the Plenary Hall before the dinners. And I invite everybody to be present and we'll have a discussion with the devotees about what they did, how they developed innovative ideas, how they developed this collaborative approach. In a second I will conclude, but I'd just like to underline that I would like everybody to be seated or standing until the dignitaries have left the room. And by those, and by saying that, I also wish you all a successful summit and I would like you all to your first council meetings, which starts at exactly 14.15 in the designated council area. Thank you and all the best for these days' work.