My name is Mark Shklov. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. Today we will go across the sea to Singapore. And my crew are my guests. And I recently attended the 29th Annual Inter-Pacific Bar Association Annual Meeting with my guests. My guests are Hawaii Attorneys Shinpei Okie and Elbridge Z. Smith. Shinpei is an attorney with the law firm of Goodsville Anderson Quinn and Stifle, and Elbridge Z. Smith, or EZ as we like to call him, is an attorney with the law firm of Bronster Fujichaku Robbins. The Inter-Pacific Bar Association, or IPBA for short, is an international association of business and commercial lawyers who live or have a strong interest in the Asian Pacific region. And each year, the IPBA holds an annual meeting somewhere in the region. All three of us, myself and my two guests, attended this year's annual meeting in Singapore, and we want to share our experiences. However, before we start talking about the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and its annual meeting in Singapore, I'd like each of my guests to briefly tell a little bit about themselves, their legal practice, what you do as attorneys. Shinpei, you first. Mark, thank you for having us today. Yes, I'd like to share a little bit about myself. I have been practicing in Hawaii. By the way, first, I'm a Richardson log grad. I've been in Hawaii for a while now. I have been practicing for almost 10 years. I've been with Goodsville Anderson Quinn and Stifle for the past six of those years, and I primarily work in the transaction area where real estate, corporate transaction, mostly assisting Japanese companies and Japanese investors. Okay, and that's because of your background from Japan? That is because of my background. You're absolutely right. I speak and read Japanese fully. I was born and raised in Japan, so I take that to my advantage. Okay, easy. A little bit about you. Sure. I just actually started at Bronster Fujichaku Robin's last month. Before that, I worked at my dad's law firm, Smith-Himmelman. He is also Albridge Smith. He is also Albridge Smith. So we'll try to keep you apart by EZ and EW. Right. Otherwise, there's pretty much no way that you could tell us apart. So my background is mostly in employment law and now working at Bronster Fujichaku Robin's, getting experience in all different types of law. All right, and so that is the beginning of a new career for you in a way? It's the next step, sure. All right, so the three of us recently attended the Inter-Pacific Bar Association's annual meeting in Singapore. I'm an old timer. I've attended many. I attended the first IPBA annual meeting in Tokyo almost 30 years ago. Shimpei has attended a few meetings before, right, Shimpei? That's correct. EZ, was this your first? This is my first. Okay. Shimpei, what is the Inter-Pacific Bar Association? And you are mine. What is it to you? Inter-Pacific. Okay. Yes, it's an organization, my understanding. It's a group, from what I've seen, it's a group that is made of attorneys from many jurisdictions. Some from the United States, a lot from the Asian Pacific region, but it has grown to Asia, not Asia, to Europe and many other parts of the world. It's a very friendly organization, a very professional organization. It's an organization where you can learn, make friends, really learn about other jurisdictions as well as create referral sources, explain to the group what we do here in Hawaii. And Hawaii has always had a special place with the IPBA since several of the founding members, including Mark yourself, were Hawaii attorneys. And since, because of that, I think Hawaii is looked at as a very unique jurisdiction. Even 30 years later today, and we have, I think our, at least my personal experience, has been, has been very positive, being able to represent myself as an attorney from Hawaii. Okay, yeah. The Alan Fujimoto. Alan Fujimoto, yes. Jerry Sumida, were both involved, pretty much the beginning of IPBA, and both of them served as secretary generals. That's correct, yes. Of IPBA. So there is kind of a close connection with Hawaii and Hawaii lawyers. There is. With IPBA. And how did you first get involved with it? And as you mentioned, Alan Fujimoto is a partner at GoodSill. He has been involved from the beginning. He has, like you said, served as secretary general of the organization. He has been very active, very close to the organization. And when I joined GoodSill, I was fortunate enough to be in a position where I would essentially serve as the next in line and with the intent of maintaining a relationship with the organization and to be able to keep, as part of our business development efforts, to keep GoodSill as part of being the IPBA. So I attended my first conference three, two years ago with the New Zealand Auckland Conference, followed by Manila last year. And then I was fortunate enough to attend this year again in Singapore. Okay. And you look at it as business development, but I also hear personal relationships, also friendships, develop. Yes. I think that goes hand in hand. Business development is essentially making friends in my mind. So I have treated as, to a certain extent, one in the same. But IPBA has, again, because Hawaii has had a special place with the organization, it's not overwhelming for an Hawaii attorney. It's not as overwhelming as you think it is for a Hawaii lawyer from a small jurisdiction joining these international organizations with big shout-out attorneys from New York, London, Mumbai. But it's a very comfortable organization to be in, being from Hawaii. And that has really resulted in me being able to make friends with attendees. And by the third year, you recognize many of these people. It's not a massive organization that you can't find the same people every year. You meet the same people over and over again. So it really is an opportunity to make friends. Easy. Why did you go to your first IPBA? What was your experience? Did you like it? Was it what you expected or what did you expect? Sure. Well, the reason I went was because you invited me. And my prior practice was pretty specialized, kind of a niche. And I know that I'm fortunate enough to have you as a mentor of mine. And I appreciate you inviting me to expand my base of knowledge. And this sounded like a really good opportunity to meet a bunch of people who do a lot of different type of law that I'm not entirely familiar with. And I think that was probably the best experience for me, is to meet all of these different people who are everyone's so friendly and everyone's so helpful and everyone's so smart and all these different types of law that I wasn't familiar with. But that was my experience. And also Rex Fujichaku with your law firm has been involved with it and kind of may have had some influence also with you. I think he likes these organizations also. Sure, yeah. Rex is the president of the International Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association. So unfortunately, he wasn't able to make it to the conference. He hasn't let me forget the fact that I got to go and he didn't. But you know, we made it work. Okay, and the good thing, you met people that were friendly but these were international lawyers who handled substantial transactions but you felt at home. Absolutely. One of the main things that I took away from it was I said this entire area of law that I was not familiar with but the people at the conference are all so well versed in what they do that I didn't feel out of place. And they shared also, right? Absolutely. Okay, now, and when we went there, we had a kind of a Hawaiian introduction, right? That's our first slide. There's a couple slides that, what happened? Both of you can comment on this. So this was the Hawaii sort of free conference event that we tried to invite all of the Hawaii attorneys who were attending and also people who have very strong ties with Hawaii. I see Suresh on the right side there. Suresh was a Singapore lawyer. Right, and he was an honorary member of the international law section now. So it was just a little kind of al-Hana, I guess you could call it. Yeah, and we have also Richard Goldstein is a London-based lawyer next to me and Freddie Rupert, a France Paris-based lawyer, and Stephen Howard and then Suresh. And the reason that Richard and Freddie are there is because they're also honorary members. And what's been your experience with them? Well, it's been fantastic. Unfortunately, I missed this event because I flew in, I think, that midnight. Right. But yeah, the great thing about it is, for example, Freddie Rupert, you just mentioned, honorary member of the international law section, I've actually met him not through the IPBA, but from a different event with the HSBA, where we had a conference in Tokyo and he was interested and he just happened to attend, I met him there, but I have had the chance to see him every year since then at the IPBA. And he is very much interested in Hawaii. He actually has a bunch of Japan clients as well, but there's a connection there. And yeah, it's just important. You just get to meet these people with Hawaii connections. And we add them to our Ohana, our Hawaii Ohana, so that if we need somebody in Paris or London or in Singapore with Suresh, we can call on them. Right. And we got a connection. We're friends. And boom, the door is open. Right. And I think it goes back to Hawaii having a special place with the IPBA. I mean, we have, I don't think any other jurisdictions in the United States had a special reception for people from people related to that state. It was only Hawaii who did that. Yeah. That's right, a friendship gathering. Yeah. And then, okay, so what happens easy with the next step in, when you go to the conference, let's take a look at the next couple slides. What goes on? Okay. So this was, this looks like the Prime Minister of Singapore gave a speech on Thursday morning. He spoke for about what, almost an hour. It was really, really, it was really nice. It was very informative. There's a lot of really important world players that come to the event and were grateful that he made the time. So we have the Prime Minister of Singapore come and talk at our opening event. The Prime Minister Lee and talk and kind of welcome all the delegates, which gives you kind of a feeling about how the IPBA is viewed. All right? And, okay, so we have the introduction and then what happens? What goes on with respect to meetings and events at IPBA in Singapore specifically? For, once the conference starts kicks off with the big conference that you saw in the photo, we have special sessions, educational track sessions that goes on. So one would maybe, and there's various committees within the IPBA who organizes these sessions. And it could be from developing attorneys to international arbitration to international tax and all these different tracks. And we are free to attend any of these tracks that we are interested in. Just going, just going, attending, sitting and just listening to a group of very, very good attorneys talk about what they are very, very good at. Scholastic topics. Very, yes, exactly. And practice, things to practical ideas of practice. Yes, but there are some sessions that are very interactive with the group where we have case studies where we're a company of small groups and I actually attended one of those. You tackle a case study with attorneys from various jurisdictions, meaning they work with different laws. And a group of attorneys. Conflict of laws. Yes, exactly. We're talking about it and we're thinking and you realize no matter where you are, many attorneys face the same type of issues and we approach it in a very unique way, depending on where you're from. And all of the people come from various countries where English is not necessarily the primary language, but all of the presentations are in English. That's a very good point. Just continue to be impressed at how well they speak English, all these attorneys speak English. And there was one slide, I think the last slide we looked at, it looked like a bunch of lawyers. What was this? Oh, this one. Throughout the while we have the educational sessions, there's various receptions that also take place. This was from the new scholars reception. I think new members in scholars reception where the IPBA sponsors, it's basically a scholarship program where the IPBA provides funds for new emerging attorneys to attend the conference. So young lawyers who maybe couldn't afford to come on their own or have the funding are provided with an opportunity through the IPBA. Maybe they just started practice. Is that the idea? I believe so. And although we say young, some of these attorneys have a good five, six years under their belt and they really know what they're doing also. The one interesting thing was that when I attended the reception this year, I met an attorney from Mongolia who happened to be a LLM graduate from the Richardson School of Law. So there was a Hawaii connection there. I had no idea, but when I introduced myself as being from Mongolia, big surprise, we knew many people at Richardson. So that got the conversation going. So there's lots of connections and we're going to talk more about what happens after our break. So we will be right back after a short break. Aloha. Aloha. This is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About where every other week, Mondays at 3, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. It's a really interesting show. We welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows. You got a lot of them out there and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well. I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to come away inspired like I do. So I'll see you every other week here at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Aloha. Aloha. I'm Wendy Lo and I'm coming to you every other Tuesday at 2 o'clock live from Think Tech Hawaii. And on our show, we talk about taking your health back. And what does that mean? It means mind, body and soul. Anything you can do that makes your body healthier and happier is what we're going to be talking about. Whether it's spiritual health, mental health, fascia health, beautiful smile health, whatever it means. Let's take healthy back. Aloha. Aloha. We are back. I am Mark Shklov, the host of Law Across the Sea at Think Tech Hawaii with Shunpei Okie and Izzy Smith talking about the IPBA annual meeting in Seattle. The annual meeting in Singapore. Gentlemen, okay, what did each of you take away from the IPBA meeting in Singapore? What are your thoughts? Shunpei, we'll start with you. What I took away, I took away a lot of things. I made new friends, which was very important. I met a lot of new people for sure. I met old friends as well, caught up with them. I learned, and I always try to take away at least one educational component out of it as well. And I think it may be an issue that Hawaii law firms are facing too, but the generation gap between the older journeys and the younger journeys. Believe me, I feel it too. But apparently other jurisdictions are facing very, very similar issues with millennials being very different in mindset from the senior generation. And I was surprised to find out that it was not only Hawaii or the U.S. that faces this issue. It's with multiple jurisdiction. Do you find that they're being included in the IPBA? Do you feel it's inclusive of that group? It is, and I think the whole purpose of, I think that session was hosted by the new member of the Development Committee. So they try to include a lot of the thoughts and the requests of the younger journeys, not just with the conference, but with the organization as well. So that's interesting that it's kind of a worldwide phenomenon when I hear. It is, so I took that away from the conference. That being a very interesting point that I could take. I mean, of course it was Singapore. It's such a beautiful city. It was my first time there. I can't complain that the conference was there. Easy. How about you? What was your feelings? What did you take away? From the conference itself, the biggest takeaway was just, for me, was meeting a bunch of new people who are so smart and so well-versed in what they do. And feeling welcome, and especially because it's my first IPBA conference, I thought it was amazing. Shimpay is correct that Singapore is an amazing city. But even if it wasn't in Singapore, I think all the people that I met, all of the different breakout sessions that I got to attend and learn a little bit about, it was just a great experience. And next year, where is it going to be? Shanghai. All right. 2020. And then I think it's in Tokyo. After that. Yeah. Now, let's take a look at a few more slides that we lined up. This is a group of Hawaii lawyers. We're giving Stephen Howard a honorary membership also. That was kind of a surprise for him because he is not a member of the international law section of the Hawaii State Bar. Although he's a member of the Hawaii State Bar. That's right. So Rex Fujichaku was nice enough to suggest that we give him that presentation, which a group of us Hawaii lawyers did. We got together and kind of surprised him. Let's look at the next slide. Okay, so it's not all just study, is it? It's not all education. We have a little fun. What type of things did we have? Easy. What type of fun happened at these events? So there was the pre-conference get-together. That was the welcoming event. And then the next night we had our big gala dinner. And then the third night we had the movie costume party. Yeah. That was interesting. And even before the conference starts, they have a golf tournament. Right. And I think that Shinpei won it this year. Did you win this year? No. Unfortunately, I was even there. Well, next year. Yes, maybe next year if I play golf. All right. Okay. So it's not just study. And it is meeting people and it's having fun. And let's take a look at the next slide. What is this, Shinpei? This is a group photo. Although it's missing a couple of us. It's a Hawaii group photo. Anyone who has a relationship with Hawaii or from Hawaii were asked to be in the photo. And you can see just from this photo alone, there's quite a few of us. And I think even with this we're missing three or four members. So that's one photo that we try to take every year to show and to promote this event to the Hawaii bar. I see you both in the photo. Yes, we're. And I'm there with my wife.  Spouses are quite welcome. I mean, we are male and female attorneys. And they bring their spouses. It's not all male, especially with the millennials. There's a lot of female attorneys, young attorneys. And some of them brought their spouses also. Did your spouse enjoy this? That's Jill. She did, yeah. Jill enjoyed it a lot. Actually, her best connection that she made was at the Gala event on Thursday night. One of the attorneys that was sitting next to us, her name's Prita. I can't remember her last name. But she does a lot of contract law in the Indonesian area. And yeah, that was a really good connection. I have to email her. OK. Yeah, so you make these connections. And what does this say about Hawaii? What does this, how do we benefit Hawaii? I mean, I hear how it benefits each of you, OK? Professional development, personal relationships, enjoyment. How does it benefit Hawaii and the bar, the Hawaii bar? Shunpei, you get the first shot at this. Wow. I think in several ways it does get Hawaii on the world radar. Hawaii, I think we tend to think that Hawaii, being a smallish restriction, being the middle of the Pacific, could sometimes be a disadvantage. But I take it as an advantage. And when we attend conferences like this, especially in larger groups from influential firms, influential practice, influential background, it really helps Hawaii get on the radar. There are very professional, very knowledgeable people here that does real important work. And I think it's important. Any opportunity that we get to show that to the world, I think we should. And I think this is one opportunity. So we are a friendly state in the United States for Asia. That is well put. I guess that's the message you want to get across. Easy. What are your thoughts? I think just also the Aloha spirit.  But I've known Shunpei for a few years now. We've met at the Tokyo event. But I think in the community we get along and we try to promote legality. And I think that really shows when we have a group of us at an event like this where in force we kind of come out and say, hi, I'm Hawaii. Nice to meet you. And how can we be friends? A bunch of lawyers who some people think are always fighting, actually working together and having a good time together. Let's take a look at the next couple of slides. Okay, so I think... We never got to visit that building, but of course that building is iconic from the recent movie. Which was? Which was Crazy Rich Asians. And we all watched that movie and enjoyed it, right? We did. And so that was on a tour that we took post-conference. That's a shot just out the window in one of the post-conference tours that we took with Suresh. Let's take a look at the next photo. Okay, so we talked about having fun. And this is the last event, right, Izzy? Yeah, this was the farewell dinner event.  And that's Suresh. On the right. On the right in the Black Panther, yes. But noticed until he pulled off his hat. So don't take yourselves too seriously as part of it, I guess. We're all lawyers. We have a good time. We study hard. We make relationships. We enjoy being together. And that's kind of what the IPBA says to me. Does that make sense? Yes, it really does. And it does result in business, too. So win-win for all, I think. Okay, gentlemen. I appreciate you coming down and sharing your feelings and thoughts about the IPBA in Shanghai. And we'll continue to keep the bar advised of what happens in the IPBA. So, everybody, aloha. We will next year look at Shanghai and take a look at going there and including everybody who wants to within our Hawaii group. Aloha.


In this video, we'll look at how to work out the molecular formula of a compound if you know the empirical formula and the molar mass of the compound. Let me explain the key to the problem. To turn a molecular formula into an empirical one, you simplify the ratio of elements by dividing through by a common factor. For instance, to work out the empirical formula of hydrogen peroxide, we divided H2O2 through by 2 to give HO. This means that the molar mass of the empirical formula is half that of the true molar mass. Hence, if you divide the true molar mass, the molar mass of the molecular formula, by the molar mass of the empirical formula, you'll rediscover the factor that was used to simplify the molecular formula. So if you can find out the molar mass of the molecular formula and the molar mass of the empirical formula, then you can find out the simplifying factor. And that would then allow you to turn the empirical formula back into the molecular formula and discover what the compound was. Let's try an example. A compound is known to have the empirical formula CH2O. This is not helpful since there are many compounds with this empirical formula. Acetic acid, lactic acid and glucose are among them. However, its molar mass is determined to be 180.2 grams per mole. And it's molecular formula and hence its identity. Okay, so first write down what you know. We know that the empirical formula is CH2O, and we know that the molar mass of the molecular formula, the true formula, is 180.2 grams per mole. What we need to discover is what factor should we multiply the empirical formula by to get the molecular formula? Well, let's work out the molar mass of the empirical formula to start off with. It's 12.01 carbon plus 2 times 1.008, that's two hydrogens, plus 15.999 for the oxygen, which gives us 30.025 grams per mole. Now we'll take the true molar mass, 180.2, and divide it by the molar mass of the empirical formula, and this equals 6. That means that the molecular or true formula was divided through by 6 to give the empirical formula. So we reverse that process and we get that the true formula is C6H12O6, which is the formula for glucose. Now let's try a problem where we go all the way from percentage composition through to the molecular formula. A smelly compound with a molar mass of 88.11 grams per mole is purified. On elemental analysis it's found to contain 54.53 percent carbon, 9.15 percent hydrogen, and the balance oxygen. Determine its molecular formula and find out its name. So the way we're going to tackle this problem is first to determine the empirical formula from the mass percentage information, and then to use the true molar mass to determine the molecular formula. So we'll go back to our little rhyme. First we'll write out the percentages, calculating that oxygen must be 36.32 percent as we go. Next we convert those to masses and then to moles, which gives me a mole ratio of 4.54 moles of carbon to 9.08 moles of hydrogen to 2.27 moles of oxygen. Now we divide through by 2.27, which is the smallest of the three numbers, to simplify the ratio, and that gives us 2 to 4 to 1, which is a whole number ratio so it doesn't need any further work. So our empirical formula is C2H4O. Next we need the molar mass of that empirical formula. And that gives us 44.052 grams per mole. And now I divide the true molar mass by the empirical molar mass, 88.11 over 44.052, and that equals 2. So that means I need to multiply the empirical formula by 2. And that gives me a molecular formula of C4H8O2, which you'll find, if you hunt around, is the formula for butyric acid, which is found in rancid butter and parmesan cheese and charmingly vomit. Incidentally, as a metabolic product in the human gut, it's also been found to suppress colorectal cancer, so perhaps you should eat more parmesan cheese.


Asu is appealing to traditional rulers and relevant stakeholders to prevent a government at all levels to fulfill the outstanding issues of the 2009 agreement. The latest call was made by the chairman of the Agoura Zone of the Union, Professor Olufai Olu. It was while speaking with John Alistair in Aduaki, the state capital. Olu accused the federal government of taking deliberate actions to cripple the nation's educational system. And at the detriment of Nigerians, the Union urged the federal government to release the white paper of visitation panels sent to institutions in the country and make recommendations public. It is unfortunate that, up to now, the same government that promised to amplify the through the vocal interface of Dr. Chris Ingegar, has reneged on implementation. This does embarrassing to the Union that the FGN found difficulty keeping an agreement with the Union for over a decade, an action which has yet serious blow to our educational system and has made the country a loving stock among the community of nations. There are promotions of three or more years not yet effected monetarily, which to say the least is demotivating. It is tantalum to saying that the federal government is not interested in human capital development. Yet, they expect us to be happy on the job when we cannot pay our utility bills, hospital bills, or school fees of our children while their wars are schooling outside the country. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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Hey everyone, John at GitLab again strategic marketing I wanted to share a little bit about how you can get insights out of GitLab and and how your issues are tracking and being managed It's been a challenge a lot of people have asked me about and there's some really cool ways You can do that in GitLab And I want to show you at least one of the ways we're doing it in our team Looking at the status of work and the type of work. It's called GitLab insights Let me dive in and just show you exactly what it is and how to get to it GitLab insights is a part of analytics if you look at it in the under the project An analytics also exists at the group level as well But I'm gonna focus on the project level for the sake of our discussion quick discussion this morning So first off it's under insights if I click on insights it brings up the insights page And I'm gonna collapse the sidebar I don't want to look at that for the moment and you can see it's a series of charts and graphs we can have Bart stacked chart bar charts bar charts a whole host of different views I'll show you a line chart in a second. This is a view of different issues that I've did on an earlier video where We're looking at the status of work in a workflow from new requests to triage to assigned or backlog to when it's actually completed And in product marketing our team is managing a number of different kinds of work And and so we wanted to look at the kinds of issues that are coming in and so we're looking at just new issues coming in and how many issues the team is getting on a Monthly basis and you can decide divide this up monthly daily weekly Those kind of slices and then we divide the work further down. I'm gonna skip this these two here We divide the work into detailed and I like scope labels each of these are scoped labels One is work on the web work on collateral events Each of these scoped labels and if you learn want to look about scope labels scope labels basically mean you can have only One of this group of labels in an issue So if I change it if I add a different scoped label, the other one is removed So it's a only one of those labels So this gives us a way to divide up the work and to understand who's working on what different kinds of things We're working on based upon issues Well in order to summarize that we wanted to break it down into internal versus external We've created a rule we created a rule and we implemented that using the triage bot that says look everything It's web or collateral or events or AR or PR or sales is external We're working on things that are external and there are some things that we work on that are more internal of helping the team It's messaging its decks its research enablement. And so when we did that we were able to then to Assign some new scope labels and and the capitalization matters So I put the capital M there because I wanted to just make it different This is external versus internal other and now we can see the ratio of the work We're doing and we can also see it in a bar chart and this is the bar chart view of this And I thought well, that's awful interesting. What if I wanted to look at it from the perspective of What are the different kinds of things that we're doing focusing on external? So we looked at it a different view So this is the external and the other thing is you could toggle these on or off and see them or not But here is this this is a view of external initiatives and the distribution of things We were working on again really interesting and really helpful in leading and managing the team So the next thing you might say is well, that's great, but how do I set that up? Well, the first thing you do is you go search and get you go to the GitLab documentation on insights Insights is available as a feature and you can use this to look at and to slice and dice your data And as you go through it you can configure this it's configured in a YAML file And I'll show you ours that we're using in strategic marketing, but it's very straightforward to do Let's go take a quick look at that and we'll wrap up okay, it's in our repository under files and It is a file under the dot-git-lab folder and it is called insights.yaml and it is a structure where it simply is Defining the different things you want to look at so you see the Query with the different labels of what type of thing you're going to look at whether it's a merge request and its status Whether it's closed or open and then what are the subsets? What are the buckets you want to look at how frequently you want to group it? So this defines one chart real straightforward real simple this section up here It defines the sections of the chart that you want to show So all of it is defined in this in this YAML file saved and committed and then when you go ahead and run GitLab insights It reads the file and builds charts for you pretty awesome I'm real excited about how it helps us do our work and how we're working using it to get things done We're improving this all the time. It's a minimum viable change one step after other makes it better So if you're interested in learning more, here's a quick link that will take you to the documentation on GitLab insights If you're interested, I urge you and encourage you to go play a lot play with it and try it out but with that that's a wrap and have a great day and Please please contribute everyone can contribute if you want to give us feedback on something open a merge request Help us make GitLab better. We're all in this together trying to get the most out of GitLab and make it as good as we can Thanks very much and take care everyone


And bringing you stories from other parts of Africa, Tunisia's main political parties have accused the president of staging a coup after he sacked the Prime Minister and suspended parliament. But Qaïs Said, who also dismissed the defence minister, says he acted in accordance with the constitution. The move followed Sunday's violent mass protest over the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak and the economy, causing outgrowing from the international community for restraint the European Union, the Arab League. Russia and Qatar have all urged all political sides to avoid violence.


registries for individual for individuals that would have needs. I let work for the state of New Hampshire Department of Health and for the longest time I've been at there for 19 years I've often thought about, you know, having a registry and because we have a nuclear power plant on our coast. There's a requirement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to have, at least within the emergency planning zone EPZ those 22 odd towns, you know would would have to establish something. There's certainly a lot of discussion and some science base in the literature that that says, you know, having a registry is is very difficult to maintain people move people die and unless you have a process that ensures somebody's committed to updating that registry. You know that's part of the challenge. The other part is people put their name to a registry and they think, Oh, I don't need to do anything. I don't need to plan. Somebody's going to come and get me because my name's on a registry. And, you know, I, I've given that a lot of thought to and I guess it really depends on the culture and the, the establishment of that community. And if it's a small community chances are people already know who's who and the emergency management director emergency management agency police department fire department might know that individual EMS might know that individual because they frequently have to, you know, come come to their, their aid. I think there's also an initiative underway nationally to invest with the centers for independent living. I love this comment. I would add, I would advocate to work with your local silk. And so please continue it with the other discussion. So we're going to, thanks everybody. And you are now going to move in your world cafe on to the other tables. Thanks again. Hopefully that will happen. We'll move. Yeah, there may be a couple minutes of silence as we get that coordinated on our end but do not worry we are on it. Okay, Carol. Any last last bits on your important comment. Yeah, I would just say work with your independent living councils. Those are the ones that work with individuals with disabilities others with access and functional needs and your home based community. So if you need more information of the federal level has a whole discussion on the importance of utilizing them in this plan. Thank you. That's great. Thank you. Laura, how do we access this board. Oh, yeah, so there's a link in the chat but let me. I have the board from the previous one but not this one. Yeah, I think we're in the chat right now, Laura. Perfect. So. So it sounds like we have some new folks and maybe my first group is in the process of moving. Sabina is that right to have a mix. So we are, I think everyone, or at least most of us are all in this room right now and we are getting, we are getting organized and reshuffling everybody we're trying to do our best to have to minimize repetition. So it's going to take us a couple of minutes. Laura, since this room is recorded for the future recording on the, on the website. If there is some folks that would want to chime in right now, you know, feel free to continue the conversation since we don't really have to interrupt the conversation in this room actually. And, and Jolly, please. I was just, you know, this comment was raised I think during the storytelling but in terms of barriers. I think sometimes it's as simple as communication platforms. So between so proactive communication which is sort of a theme that we've touched on for much of today already but I think it's often overlooked. It's really from community to community with trust. And, you know, what kind of platforms can be most effective.  I think one thing that I've used in my work with communities that has been that has seemed to be effective and at least a conversation starter is mapping participatory mapping and identification of resources and, you know, there you can use multiple layers but I think as an official communication platform. I think it depends whether it's public facing or internal right. And I would love to hear other people's examples because we're we're working on this problem in several communities. So I would I would open this up to people to see to learn more about communication platforms that have been successful in communities. Great. And someone else have one that they can offer raise your hand or add it to the chat. I will say part of the apple shop story. I lived for a short time in that that ton of whitesburg Kentucky they have a community radio station. But it went down in the floods and so I think I'm going to start writing Mimi if you're on please please tell it for me. I think I'm purchased I think an RV to stand out like the radio station went down in the flood. And so purchased an RV to to bring that back online quickly knowing that that was rural communities that that communication piece was really important. I didn't do that but it did take a while to do it to get it back up. But also and somebody mentioned earlier well people have cell phones they can just, you know, connect by cell phones but we lost cell phone service and one of the things was a lot of people. There were some emergency, you know, texts that went out. But since people had lost cell phone service they didn't get those. And then they didn't have cell phone service for a good while after the flood. So, you know, emergency folks couldn't get to them didn't know, you know, even what what had happened. I suppose there would need to be multiple sort of parallel processes right and and before we were we were talking earlier in the morning about some of the speakers were talking about sort of these communities of practice and between academia and communities really building trust over time and having proactive conversations and participating in the community before disasters in order to build trust but I would even say to take some of those lessons within communities between government and residents and, you know, various sectors even within communities to be having those conversations proactively in order to build trust and alert people to different ways of communicating and accessing information in both direction and you know all directions really between government and residents and residents and right and in different directions, but to build that trust over time before disasters is essential. Really well said thank you. Spina should we continue in our general discussion or. Yeah, continue in your discussion we're trying to figure out how to best go about this. I'm interested in the kind of going off of that and we were talking about resilience hubs this morning, this idea of of trusted spaces and and more generally about what can we do and kind of blue sky days to prepare ourselves for flooding and the health impacts for flooding. In addition to the infrastructure that we need to do what else do we need to do on on a government, government inside or on on the, the trusted relationships, setting up communication systems and I welcome any suggestions for what we can be building the foundation well. I'll tell this, I so I mentioned this in our breakout session but I'll tell the story again I work at the New York City Health Department, and we have a program called be a buddy that works with now it's it's planning to work with older adult centers senior centers before it worked with community organizations, provided contracts and training and funding to create buddy systems. So, kind of wellness checks with vulnerable generally older adults, and, and it was, you know, we were doing the checks in on the good days to build to build a relationship. But then, when there was it was mostly for heatwaves but you could imagine it, generally for flooding as well that then it would activate the system would activate during during an emergency and check on check on their buddies, provide information and actually it was created before coven. And then when coven happened it really activated and expanded to be able to provide are you getting the food that you need can we can I drop off something for you are you do you know about do you have masks do you do you have you know the different resources that you need so it was this. It was, we were, I think lucky to have created a system that then could activate in an unforeseen event. And I'm curious if there are other ideas like that out there of systems to set in place now. I'm wondering Laura, if how, how much that's been replicated do you know of other cities and how many have replicated that program. We hear of a lot of interest in it I don't know. I see someone saying, Oh, will, will the buddy program be coming to the flow I we hear of a lot of interest in it. And, you know, our experiences that it took funding that our program had funding associated not sometimes a challenge. But you can also imagine creating, it's also just changed our messaging we try to say when we're giving advice about there's a heat you know the heat season coming up or the flooding, you know flooding is expected to remind people to check on their neighbors and give them the key pieces of information to check their neighbors, check on their neighbors about. This is the net Greer. I'm driving so I cannot cut my video on, but I wanted to say I think we need perspective planning. Like the lady who talked about the devastation and Puerto Rico where electrical infrastructure is down, where your cell towers are down, where your water is down your transportation is down. We need to have proactive means of survival for those times. So how do we prepare water that is adjustable during those times that we know is not adjustable. Do we have tablets, do we have a process. Do we have stockpiles of medical supplies talked about insulin being not available to individuals who did it. So our nation and our officials should have policies. I mean, even COVID calls such a problem, where there are stockpiles of response items that can be readily available. Instead of waiting for inefficient shipping of clean water, have a means of cleaning the water locally so it can be immediately consumed, have a ton of food that can be easily prepared so that we don't have starving children have. I just think we need a more proactive plan. Thank you, Annette. I open that to the group for discussion. Does anyone have a story, an experience that that shows a possible solution in that area. Annette, that's exactly how we started with our organization, Coalition of Nurses for Communities in Disaster. We started teaching the community how to prepare water, how to care for the other in different events of disaster. And that's that exactly was how we started. I mean, a group of volunteers who just we got together and decided to teach the communities how to do that, how to prepare water. And we have a program and there's a national program, the third program. I don't know if you know about it. It's a community emerging to response teams, and they have a good program that they have modules and they teach the communities on how to respond to, to different types of disasters, and probably that's a good start, because it creates teams and it creates it creates colleagues and all sorts of health from one another. Thanks Abigail. I have a message from the organizers, which is that we are ready to open the breakout rooms. You will be given the option of which one so you can select one you haven't been part of already. And the staff and committee members will be assigned. So, I hope you see that pop up on your screen and you can select a new breakout room to participate in. It's already been written. Look at what has already been written, and, and you can add. Add a note, you can also maybe put a star or a mark on one that you that you really agree with. So we'll do that for a minute and then, and then we'll discuss what we see here. Everybody doing okay getting through the Jamboard. Great. I see a check mark. I like it. So we're seeing some kind of physical barriers, like road closures that might stop ambulances for getting through or people from evacuating or getting to medical services. Access to electricity for charging phones that would also be for charging medical equipment. But then there's also some kind of social infrastructure or capacity kinds of issues, governance issues, everything from lack of health insurance, lack of trust in the healthcare system by marginalized populations. We talked about that a bit in the last session. Well, it's just getting lots of checks here. Those with mobility challenges, like wheelchairs visions are reluctant to evacuate because of safety concerns of where they end up or the full inability to evacuate lack of knowledge of community needs and who is most impacted during the event. Great. It's a lot of barriers. So now I think we're starting to make the shift. We have lots of barriers down starting to make a shift toward visions of solutions. So thinking about what what are ones that we can know what what are some of these challenges that that we can shift toward toward solutions. And I invite, you know, when you're looking at this barriers list, does anyone have a best practice that they know about or are they thinking about something that they that they think is an important piece of a solution to addressing either some of the infrastructure challenges or some of these other systemic challenges. Any volunteers. We can also talk, continue to talk about challenges so I think someone added a new one here. And I didn't I saw something being added but I didn't actually notice which one it was it. I didn't add a post it and wanted to raise it. This is Morgan Levison I did add a post it around the lack of knowledge of community needs. And so that that was one of the pieces that. So I'm from a health unit, which is just north of Toronto in Canada so slightly different situation in terms of some of the, the healthcare systems and processes that are in place up here but you know in terms of when our communities have some of these no flood risks or anything climate related in terms of climate emergencies. Some of the challenge are is just a lack of knowledge of what the community needs are at the time. So, you know, without having done planning before an event. It can be difficult to to know who within the community needs your help, especially when you're thinking about you know higher risk individuals such as those are socially isolated they you know sort of fall through the cracks and so if you don't have those those pieces there that can be difficult. Thank you. Yeah, we were also talking in the last session about the need to identify people but also to explain what that what that means most explaining you know they're often registries that people can add themselves to but recognizing that those registries then need to be used and and the people on the registries need to know. So what what to do in an emergency and so it's it's kind of understanding that landscape as you're talking about Morgan and then also creating the, the right kind of preparedness system to apply the planning. Yeah, any. Thanks. Sort of building off Morgan's comment and so I'm at the California Department of Public Health and sort of trying to think about how to conduct surveillance around health impacts. related to climate. And so I was curious if anyone, you know, is already conducting surveillance for flooding related health impacts and whether there are any best practices around gathering information about who has been impacted and what the community needs are, especially if they're not able to get to a hospital. You know we traditionally use things like emergency department business but that might not be a great data source. Thanks. Thanks any. Any responses to that. I'll say at the nearest to the health department. So one thing we did was that we had terrible flooding and hurricane Ida. And, and the biggest issue was basement flooding and 13 people died. Primarily in basements, maybe all of those were in basements and so our research team did a study of the of the mortality study and looked at the circumstances of death and that's been important. You know that was a small number. But it was important for them, we're looking at basement regulating basement apartments and so it helps us to understand the conditions, both of the apartments, but also of the lack of communication prior to the event and reaching the people that that were most at risk and so it's informing also our communication strategies. So, so that that's one small piece. We've been talking about doing similar surveillance for flooding as we do for heat. But, but you raise a good point that they're not always reaching, reaching the hospital system. Morgan says, we're in the same process of trying to identify surveillance practices and indicators so this is that that goes in our knowledge and the knowledge gaps here. I'll read Macy's Macy said, I added translation and interpretation of information really important during disasters. Resources are always stressed and finding quality translation interpretation of information can be difficult, especially translation and interpretation of resources are already lacking in an area. So, so maybe you're suggesting trying to pre plan for that create those materials beforehand. So how about if we shift to the, it's actually the slide this up on on the shared screen on the potential solutions. So we've got a couple that are already marked and I invite you to mark others to stronger linkages between healthcare system and home repair services that's interesting does anyone want to speak to that solution. It sounds to me like home repair services like repairing homes after flooding maybe providing funding or recommendations for flood for mold remediation. I'd be interested to know if that has been done in places and how that worked and how the funding worked for that how the referral services worked. It's a really interesting idea. What else is on here. Include disaster topics and all educational levels starting kindergarten for active communication locally tailored by the community integration of climate change considerations into healthcare policies practices and infrastructure development. You know, I think one thing that I see in this is also the need for providing templates or models for especially lower resource, but you know, generally municipalities or organizations to implement. I think, you know, we want to do all these things and a lot of times, we just don't have the person power to do these amidst all the other stresses and in a municipality and so, you know, I think, as part of these solutions, how can we ask our state governments or our federal government to provide some of these as models for us or how can we have foundations, you know, take some of this on as ways to provide something that that many of us could use. One thing about the question or the point about helping people connect with contractors. There's a lot of concern about people getting scammed, particularly older folks. So, you know, a better business bureau or some kind of vetting process that, you know, that does say these people are legit. Who can help you rebuild or whatever would be helpful I think. Is there anything like that or after the flooding in Tokyo or did you just experience the downside of not having it. Well, usually we have very few contractors very few plumbers carpenters, whatever but after the flood, you definitely saw you know their their trucks everywhere so you know I don't know if they were itinerant or just coming in from the cities but I know people there was some concern and and I did hear of a few cases where you know people got ripped off but yeah I don't I don't know of a resource. There are two good nonprofit home repair and home builder organizations in the region and they they really stepped up. And they've been great so it's good to find you know find those folks and you know help them to really raise funds and do more and you know maybe be part of that process. Yeah. Thank you. Again, this sounds like something that I. It's good to do in blue skies if we can. Be able to create those relationships support support local businesses create lists like that. So there was a note that I went through. Please feel free to to shift to another breakout session if you'd like. And we'll continue the discussion on solutions here is a common seems to be a common concern. Powering a broader force like that. Sure. It's tough to get an egg between funding availability and local priority settings. Yeah, that's great breaking down silos, centering equity isn't so. Yep. Emphasizing prevention is a really important one. Yeah, this underlying land use and economic drivers. It underlie a lot of the decisions that get made. Now creating right incentives. Avoiding priorities established by academics appreciate that one planning for the long term. Institutionalizing this kind of collaboration research. It's great to see these in one place. The need for policy change and development in all sectors. As we face this challenge. I like this, right? Sort of we're not isolating this. Yeah. Happing into communities and ways to respect their time. Makes a lot of sense. This is a great. This reads as a great. Collection and synthesis in some ways. Some of the conversations I was, I was part of. It's great to see these in one place. We're not isolating this to a single. This isn't a single department or a single. Sectors responsibility. This integration challenge. Yeah, balancing community and technical expertise. Navigating that. That line. Deeply analyzing bias root out racism. By design. I'm really digging into again. A different way, but kind of digging into these underlying drivers. Of the problems. Underline drivers of the inequities. Practice for disaster response relief. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. I like this emphasis on. Preparation ahead of time. This is great. We've got about one more minute for collecting these. If anyone has. Last thoughts, they want to make sure get captured in this. In this format. Of course, we've got our sticky notes. Got our recordings. Is any. The last. Central ones. Yeah. Including transitioning in new locations. Don't lose in social capital kind of keeping. Keeping options on the table. Moving real time experiences, real people and the willingness to change. Additional communication resources. Community community leaders. Yeah. That's great. We have to deal with real time changes as well. Sure. It's hard to, hard to perfectly predict, especially at this point, but we have to be flexible. Representation inclusion. Allyship storytelling, important data. Yeah. Really centering these experiences. Or research on individual and community resiliency. Yeah. Sort of. Really understanding what it is that. Tips the scales maybe one way or the other. Okay. Great. We're supposed to compensation for best practice. Yeah. Yes, that's great. Really investing it. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. These are great. I'm going to turn it over now. To Charles, who's going to take us into. Our last, our last piece here, but these are fabulous. Thank you everyone for participating and. And sharing these, these great, great ideas, great perspectives. Hey everyone, Charles Burgers with the national academies here. Thank you all so much for joining us today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Comments along with our saves. Meeting recording. For our, for our briefing next, we're going to go back to Venkat. Lakshmi. The, the co-chair of the planning committee to. Give us some concluding remarks. So. Venkat, please take it away when you're ready. Absolutely. Thank you, Charles. And thank you so very, very much to all of the participants. I think at one point. I'm going to go back to the Zoom call. So it's a, it's a testament to how important this topic is. And how interested people are in, in to contribute to learn and to move forward. So we covered a lot of ground today and the complex interactions between flooding, natural and built environment, the intersection with other social justice issues, policy, political will funding communication from ground up and back again. So I'll try to summarize a few things. I think the conversation was so nice with actually not my own comments, but also comments from most of the people in the chat. And so, so a couple of things that I have a few items, which I would like to read out and I'll share it with the, with the national academy staff so that it will be a part of the record. So one of the most important things we, I found out is that communication and connection with communities is very important. And we are trying to break down silos and bring together engineering, landscape planning, social science, social advocacy, community groups, empowering people with a shared solution. Basically the shared solution is more important than just empowering and, you know, not being equal partners. The second thing is London is a real risk and FEMA maps are FEMA maps. I mean, they have to be updated a hundred year flood today. It's not a hundred year flood next year, if you have another hundred year flood today, the statistics change. So, you know, we have to understand and communicate with federal agencies for updating these maps. And this is the job of civil engineers in conjunction with community groups. Now, one of the things which we also touched about is, you know, interventions and multiple touch points. So, so this is not a simple problem with one particular group. But if you look at this, this is a big bunch of industries, insurance industry, health, public health, clinics, zoning industry, and of course all the community groups. Now, surveillance is important. Interpretation is important. And all of the planning is great. But when you get to a disaster, reality is sometimes so much different. And, you know, getting that disaster supply chain to the disaster relief supply change to the people who are most vulnerable in case of a flood is very important. And various scenarios have to be, you know, planned in advance. One of the things, one of the comments made in these discussions was reinvesting in communities, you know, trying to figure out what really matters. And some of these investments have to be equitable, which is both the, I call it the hard stuff and the soft stuff. The hard stuff is actually building stuff. But the soft stuff is investing in developing excellence in workforce. And all of them cannot be done with the frame of five years or 10 years. We have to be looking at 20, 50, and 100 years, just like the people in climate science look at it. So I would finally try to thank our speakers and the panelists for sharing their expertise. I'd like to thank my fellow committee members. But most importantly, and this is something which I have to say over and over again because I'm so impressed with them, the National Academy staff. I mean, I want to thank Audrey, Charles, Sabina, Lalla, and Crystal. You guys are amazing. You know, you guys are the thing which holds the glue, which holds these logic together. So thank you so very, very much. So thanking them for making this happen today. And I want to thank you all in advance for going to come on Monday, the 18th and join for the second part of this workshop. And please continue to keep on populating the Jamboard and the solution slide after this webinar and integrate them into the discussion of the second day of the workshop, which is as important. And it's a real another star studded line of speakers for you. So thank you very much and have a wonderful evening. It's four o'clock.


I am very happy to be here with you today and to be able to say a few words of introduction. First of all, I would like to thank the First Nations who have frequented and occupied this territory during the millennia to welcome them on their traditional and treaty territory. As we welcome His Holiness this week, it is important to reflect on the significance of this moment for survivors, for Indigenous peoples, and indeed for all Canadians. Yesterday, on July 26, it was St Anne's Day. St Anne is an important figure for Catholics. She represents maternal love. She also represents the family. The family is our roots. It is what helps us to grow and discover the world. The family is the first thing that has been raised to children who have been sent to Indigenous peoples. When I visited the Kamloops, KSS, and Williams Lake, when I talk to survivors and families, I think of the children. And I also think of parents. As a dad, I can't imagine my kids being taken away. When my kids are crying, I can console them. When they're happy, I can share that feeling of joy with them, of accomplishment. But in residential schools, these children were alone and isolated in their pain and sorrow far from their families and communities, and even worse, stripped of their language, their culture, their identity. A profound loneliness, not only belonging to families and communities, but also their language, their culture, and their identity. Since the publication in 2015 of the final report of the Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis, ask the Pope to present excuses to survivors, their families, and their communities. The excuses for the role that the Catholic Roman Church as an institution has played in the wrong treatment on spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual children have suffered in the pensioners led by the Church. This week's event, a muscovite, wouldn't have been possible without the courage and perseverance of survivors who shared their painful memories and told their experiences directly to the Holy Spirit. Your Holiness, in our previous conversations, from the first time we spoke about this, you always offered your time genuinely seeking to understand, to do right, and to atone. This week, you recognized the abuses experienced at residential schools that resulted in cultural destruction, loss of life, and ongoing traumas lived by indigenous peoples in every region of the country. As your Holiness has said, begging, pardon, is not the end of the matter. It is a starting point, the first step. On Monday morning, I was sitting with survivors and I felt their reaction to your apology. Each will take from it what they need, but there's no doubt that you had an enormous impact. Survivors and their descendants need to be at the center of everything we do going forward. In April, Denis National Chief Gerald Antoine was at the Vatican and he compared the moment to the experience of walking through the snow and seeing fresh moose tracks. It was a feeling of hope. Today, I want to say let's all continue our work together to keep this hope alive. When I went to the Vatican five years ago, I was there to address the issue of pensioners and reconciliation with your Holiness. And I know that your presence here this week would not have been possible without your personal convictions and your integrity. Thank you for coming with the heart open. We all recognize that the pensioners' system has tried to assimilate the children of the Indigenous. Today, the Indigenous peoples continue to fight to defend and preserve their culture and their language. A traditional gathering that took place in Mascotches is a very good example. Reconciliation is our responsibility to all of us. It is our responsibility to see our differences not as an obstacle, but as an opportunity to learn, to better understand and to take action. Our Governor-General talks often about how reconciliation is not a single act, but a lifetime journey of healing. This journey is different for everyone. I spoke about Saint Anne being a symbol of maternal love and family, but Saint Anne is also a symbol of healing. Tomorrow, your Holiness will visit Saint Anne de Beaupris. Pilgrims have been traveling there for centuries to pray and to ask Saint Anne to help them heal. So in the spirit of healing, let us never give up. Canadians, institutions, let us continue our work together with Indigenous peoples until we reach a better future for everyone. Merci, thank you, gracias.