Hello, everybody. I'm Mufi Hadman. Welcome again to Think Tech Hawaii, another edition of Tourism 101, where we talk about issues affecting our number one industry in the state, tourism. Today, we're going to focus on a district, iconic, historic, and everyone has a favorite story about Chinatown because through the years, it's been a gathering place for many reasons, cultural reasons, religious reasons, commerce, all kinds of activities that take place in Chinatown. With this progress and development, there's also come a series of challenges. I want to have two individuals speak specifically to what they're doing to make Chinatown a better place to live, work, and play. One of them is Sean Hamamoto, who is the Executive Director of the Neighborhood Board Commission. He's done a bang-up job there in reaching all the different neighborhood boards, soliciting their participation and involvement. And the mayor has recently appointed him to be the liaison for the Chinatown community with the administration. Sean is a graduate of Punahou School and also has a college degree. He went to school on the mainland, came back home and finished up here. And he's had years of experience working in government. He was a former senior aide to Councilmember Rod Tam. And in the present administration, he heads the Neighborhood Board Commission. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Not to be all done, he's a Kamehameha School Kapalama High School graduate, Captain Mike Lambert. Captain Lambert got his degree in business administration, UH West O'ahu, and he's had a meteoric rise in the department from officer, sergeant, major, and now captain. And he's really recently been appointed to head up a new unit within HPD called the Community Outreach Unit, and a lot of it has to do in Chinatown. Thank you for being on the show, Captain. Let's start with you, Captain. Let's talk about some of the law enforcement challenges that have been part of the challenge of ensuring that Chinatown is a safe place for all of us. Yeah, so it's always been a challenge, it's particularly in Chinatown where it's always where do we find the balance between enforcement and outreach. So prior to Chief Ballard coming on board, there was only a very small pilot to kind of improve the way that we deal with social service related issues regarding the homeless, the mentally ill. Those are sometimes abused, and in a lot of cases, you know, they have all three type of issues, and really trying to explore different avenues besides incarceration, which is expensive and doesn't always have the type of results that we're looking for when we're dealing with our homeless. So it's really trying to explore and find other ways to perhaps better use taxpayer dollars and be a little more responsible in seeing the big picture and not just being so quick to put everybody in jail. What about the crime rate in Chinatown? Oftentimes, there's this competition between Waikiki and Chinatown, folks in Waikiki say, hey, we need more HPD officers in Waikiki and Chinatown folks who say, no, no, no, we need more in Chinatown. Can you address some of those challenges there? Yeah, so definitely, you know, Waikiki always tends to be given the mindset that it's always given more resources, and actually there's equal amount of resources in both areas. It's just that Chinatown, unfortunately, due to the prevalence of the homeless crisis that we're experiencing and the focus of it, it appears to be less safe than Waikiki. We do have a lot more, I guess, incidences that are highlighted within the Chinatown area, which can create fear within the community and create, you know, perhaps a feeling that the police aren't doing enough. But between Waikiki and Chinatown, very similar incidents occur, and it just comes down to, again, you know, again, how the news plays it and how people with the community takes it. So, Sean, you know, as someone who oversees the neighborhood board there, what are some of the issues that have come up in the Chinatown neighborhood board? So, you know, definitely congruent to what Officer Lambert has said, homelessness over the years has become more prevalent.  But, and as Officer Lambert had said before, homelessness wasn't such a big issue, but now it is. So, yes, it is important because it not only affects the residents of the area, but the many small businesses and our tourism industry as well. Yeah. So, I know when I was mayor, you know, and every mayor had a pet event or a favorite event, I should say in Chinatown. And certainly it was always impressed upon me and I recognize it quickly that, you know, you can't keep your eye off the ball. You can't take Chinatown for district, Chinatown district for granted. Talk about some of the challenges, the ongoing challenges that the city has in terms of doing the maintenance work in Chinatown or the cleanup that people, whether the neighborhood boards or the legislative talk about, you know, why isn't this being done? Why isn't that being done? Yeah, thank you, Mayor. So, yeah, sanitation has been an ongoing issue and of course this is in conjunction with the homeless. You know, way back when the city used to have better resources, I believe Mayor Harris back then had a clean team where they could regularly power wash streets and so forth. What had happened over the years is the areas of responsibility grew. So, more people wanted more and more service, but what happened is the resources either stayed the same or shrank because I know like some of their equipment got stolen. So, bottom line is the resources were unfortunately spread in. I think this is when the community steps up. You know, there's a lot of neighborhood security watches. There are volunteers in the community that have been willing to step up to take part in, you know, either doing citizen watches with HVD or even volunteering to help with the cleanups. So, it is a true community effort. Captain, can you talk about the community outreach unit? They say it's newly created. You talk about why it was put together and I know why they put you there because you're a creative guy and you love going out in the community, but what that entails? So, what the community outreach unit is, it's a group of officers that really have a big heart. Sometimes we've been referred to as outreach workers with firearms and kind of funny, you know, we're still police officers. I want everybody to remember that. But definitely, we have brought in the way that we look at problems and the way that we attack issues that affect the community. So, one of the biggest things we want to do is support diversion programs, diversion programs, meaning that instead of being so quick to put somebody in jail, we try to put them into mental health services. We try to put them into substance abuse treatment programs because the data shows that there's a lot better results for individuals that are put into services rather than jail. A lot of times they come out worse than they were when they went in and it's kind of a revolving door. So, we really want to try to leverage our community partners, which we have a lot of great, great community partners that support our initiative. They take our phone calls and we encounter individuals that could use mental health services or substance abuse or the simplest of housing services. And they go ahead and they take those phone calls for us. And again, instead of having to leverage jail, we go ahead and divert them to services. We're going to drill down a little more on that because of some new initiatives as a result of some funding that the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the Hawaii Lodging Tourism Association got together with the state to provide. Before we do that, Sean, I want to come back to you. And I want to talk about, you know, Chinatown is often seen from some folks who come here. Whoa, that's just Chinatown and that's just for the Chinese community. But there are other ethnic groups that gravitate to Chinatown. Talk about that. Yeah, absolutely in your correct, Mayor. If you look back historically at Chinatown, it was the entry point where all nationalities came through. For example, my great grandfather, when he first came to Oahu, the first place he lived was on River Street in Chinatown. So yes, although called Chinatown, it is a place for all nationalities. And you know, I remember when I was on the council, I had to work with to bring about helping about the arts at March Garage. And I'm happy to see that it's continuing to function and flourish. But the arts has always been a big part of Chinatown that brings people from all ethnic groups in all ages. Yes, the arts has been a has been a growing part. And actually, they have been one of the key groups that have, I guess, try to get this re imaging to Chinatown. Over a decade ago, I think you remember First Fridays started as an initiative. This was a community project that was meant to, I guess, give Chinatown a different image. The idea was to bring people down. And the idea was when you bring positive elements into a community, you automatically displace the more I guess criminal activities. And to a large extent, they were successful. First Fridays of every month, you would have professionals families come down to actually enjoy and walk around. And I can say Chinatown has definitely improved. We still have a ways to go. But you know, working that arts community was a big catalyst in improving the community. I love the fact that Hawaii theater continues to have a rebirth. Where, you know, I was growing up. That's where we went to the movies cost 35 cents back then.  Absolutely. Hawaii theater is for sure one of the anchors in the community. They've been not only providing great, you know, entertainment and venues for people to enjoy, but I can also say about Hawaii theater that they are active in participating with the community they engage. In fact, I want to commend them for a while they were holding their business public safety meetings and Hawaii theater would offer up their space to have meetings. So they've been great partners in the community. So we have, when we talk about some of the natural nice things that happened in Chinatown before, it used to be concerned about drugs and gambling and gangs. But I haven't seen as much, at least in the public media about that. So obviously something has changed in that regard. Or am I having a wrong impression? You're absolutely correct. You know, again, when I started off my career, I actually started in Chinatown and the issues act in were prostitution and gambling. And that's, you know, all day, all night, people would come into the sub and go ahead and report that type of illegal activity.  And I can definitely see where as a community member, if I lived or worked in that area, I'd be very frustrated with the current state of affairs there. But again, like everyone is saying is that we got to move in a positive direction. And it's not going to be overnight. Everybody has to realize that a direction has to be made by the city, by the police. And then we have to follow through with that regardless of what people with the kind of criticism we get for it. So, you know, Mayor Caldwell has been great. Chief Ballard has been great and supported. Really my ask for a lot of things to benefit not only Chinatown, but all of Honolulu. Chinatown has always been the focal point because of saturation. So we do start off a lot of our pilots in Chinatown. And then we try to get, again, best practices which we can utilize throughout the whole island. Having a very visible presence in Chinatown, as I remember we were debating, you know, having a physical presence there, which is now, you know, you have actually substation there. The same argument in Waikiki. You know, to me, it's always been a major deterrent to crime when folks know that, you know, there's a police presence, but not just officers patrolling, but there's actually a station that you can go to seek help immediately. It has to have helped. Right. So having a substation in the area definitely gives in officers a place to kind of launch from and work from. The issues with the visibility is just that we're dealing with a shortage right now. So for beats that would normally be filled, they go unfilled. And not because the officers don't want to work. We just don't have that type of employment numbers that we've had years prior. Chief Ballard has assigned some pretty smart majors to work on that. And we are slowly but surely filling the ranks again so that we can start to see more staff than not only in Chinatown, but in all neighborhoods. But I can tell you right now that Chinatown definitely needs the support. There's a lot of focus there. And initiatives like you guys are supporting definitely helps that process move along. Our guests today are Captain Mike Lambert and Sean Hamamoto, two individuals who are at the forefront in their efforts to make Chinatown a better place to live, work and raise our families. And it goes without saying, I think every mayor has regarded Chinatown as a special district. But the challenges change throughout the years. And now the second part of our show, we're going to focus on homelessness, which has really become a major issue in Chinatown as it has throughout the rest of Oahu. There's some creative solutions. And there's some individuals and organizations that have come together to make sure that we address this head on. We're going to take a little pause for the cause, a little break here, and then we'll be back with more from Think Tech Hawaii. There is a one on one where our focus today is on Chinatown. Hi guys, I'm your host Lillian Cumick from Lillian's Vegan World. I come to you live every second Friday from three p.m. And this is the show where I talk about the plant based lifestyle and veganism. So we go through recipes, some upcoming events, information about health regarding your health, and just some ideas on how you can have a better lifestyle, eat healthier and have fun at the same time. So do join me. I look forward to seeing you and Aloha. Aloha. I'm Marcia Joyner, inviting you to join us on Wednesdays at one o'clock for cannabis chronicles. The 10,000 year Odyssey where we take a look at cannabis as food, cannabis as medicine, cannabis and religion, cannabis and dear old Uncle Sam. So please join us to learn all about cannabis again Wednesdays at one o'clock. Welcome again everyone to Think Tech Hawaii. Today we're talking about Chinatown here on Tourism 101. Our guests are John Hamamoto, the executive director, the Neighborhood Board Commission and Captain Mike Lambert. John, the Neighborhood Board is one forum for people to come forward, share the manao, share their concerns, complain. What are some of the other organizations that you work with as a liaison of the mayor in the Chinatown area? Thank you, Mayor. And you know, that is the exact reason why the mayor assigned me to this is for the fact that there are so many different groups. So in addition to the Neighborhood Board, you have fantastic organizations like the Chinatown Improvement District, the Chinatown Business and Community Association, CBCA. You have the Arch District Experience and you have the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, United Chinese Society. And one good thing is while they all have their own interests, they do share, I guess, a common thought of doing what's good for the community. But you know, because there are so many and so scattered, it really does take someone to be a liaison to kind of help, I guess, shepherd these discussions to be constructive. You know, I know when I was mayor, there's always those figures that have been involved in the community for a long time that everybody kind of looks to. Nothing can come through Chinatown without their permission. You know, it was my day was Sonny Wang, Hinchulow. Are there Sonny Wang and Hinchulow today in Chinatown? Well, I can say Sonny Wang and Hinchulow are still very well known and remembered in Chinatown. They're legendary. But you know, today we still have a group of leaders still from the old days. I think you may be familiar with the honorary mayor of Chinatown, Dr. Joe Young. Yes. He's around all the time. Then you have other great leaders, Chuan Chuber Kwok, president of CBCA, Lee Stack, president of the CID. You have Sandy Paul with her arts group, and you have Nicole Reed with her restaurants at Hotel Street. All great people, friends of Chinatown, our friends on K-Kalike Mall. There's just so many great people in the community. Yeah. You know, the thing though, I always know that whenever I would meet with them, you always have to have a meal in Chinatown. Yes. You got a favorite Chinese restaurant or two that you want to share with us? I know you got to be politically correct, but, you know, when you're on for Chinese food. You know, I want to be honest to say I've never had a bad meal in Chinatown. You can tell he was a government judge. But I will say I did thoroughly enjoy the meal we had together at Golden Palace, where I believe you tried the chicken feet. Yes. I did. Well, you know, Chinatown is just a wonderful place. And I think, and that's why it's so attractive for tourists because of its authenticity and its history. I want to come back to you. We have an annual conference called the Visitor Public Safety Conference every year, where we as a tourism industry come together and we sit down with HPD and all the law enforcement stakeholders and business owners and the community and try to identify the hot button issues. And we kind of say, look, we're in it together. Let's work together and collaborate on this. And so in our conference that we had this earlier this year, Captain Ballard came and Deputy Chief McCarthy, they always participate. And she said in no uncertain terms, the number one issue for HPD is homelessness. And she appealed to us to help and assist. And obviously, we're all ears. And she talked in particular about a certain model that came from the city of Seattle, the LEED program. And we got together. And as you all know, we were able to find some matching funds from the state in which we awarded some dollars to the Hawaii Harm and Health Reduction Center led by Heather Lusk. And we gave them a $90,000 grant to go forward in this mission and collaborating with HPD. We also gave $15,000 to the Chinatown Improvement District for their citizen patrol program. That being said, I want to acknowledge and credit Hawaii tourism authority, the stadium. I want to acknowledge the legislature and Governor Ege for proving these matching funds that we were able to parlay into giving these two worthy organizations that are very integral to what you do in Chinatown. Can you drill down on that initiative that really seems to be making a difference and they have a creative guy like you implementing it? Right. So yeah, LEED is a law enforcement assisted diversion. It was brought, I had her lost in her organization who she sits over the lead Huey for Hawaii. So of the many creative things I've done, that I did not create. I do participate in anything that's a great idea. So when I was invited to hear about their great idea, I just had to go ahead and support it. You know, the data is there to back it, that diversion does work. And again, you know, it's not going to be for everybody, but for a subset of the population, it can definitely make an impact and improve the community because for every one person that's diverted out of the jail system, out of that revolving door and gets help for mental health or substance abuse, that's one less individual that we can count as homeless. And again, particularly into the Chinatown area. So the LEED initiative, we do support diversion and it's one of the definitely one of the definitely the one of the main diversion programs that we're looking at to move forward. It's always the devil's in the details and China iron out a memorandum of agreement into how that process would work. But we're definitely interested in supporting it and making sure that when we do encounter individuals that could benefit from a program that Heather and her team have put together or brought here to Honolulu that we go ahead and send in that direction, set it through jail just to be released in the morning and back out on the street. Now I was impressed with the statistics that Heather provided to us demonstrate why this would be a good contribution to make to them of $90,000. But what I really find very refreshing, it kind of helps negate a stereotypical image of how HPD is involved with the homeless situation. You usually talk about them and helping to, you know, move the homeless out of the parks or any legal areas or people talk about, yeah, they get excited to get in life. But this one here is really a different approach because as you say, it's all about diversion. Correct. So we definitely want to be, I'm going to say more dynamic in the way that we approach it, right? It's very easy and it's very impersonal to just give someone a ticket and walk away. It's very impersonal to just arrest someone, drop them off in jail. What it does take is somebody to ask somebody, why are you out here? Why it keeps you out here? And is there a possibility of me diverging into a service rather than jail? So we definitely want to have a softer approach because we realize the data. And again, everything goes on to data. The data shows that you can have a positive effect on someone without having to arrest them. And it's something that Chief Ballard has supported. So walk us through how it happens. So you come across a homeless individual. And what are the kind of things that you're looking at to say yourself, you know what, this person could be a good candidate for this diversion program? Right. So again, we're all in discussions on how the actual process. But some of the ideas that have come out is that an officer encounters someone, say perhaps for a part closure. If the officer is the complainant, meaning a member of the public has not called on that individual, it's solely on the officer. We can have the option to divert them to services rather than take them to jail. That person would have to be screened. So a lot of the big things we want the community to understand is that we're not taking robbers and murderers and giving them a break. It's for that person that basically has done nothing else wrong in their life except for be poor or have some type of other issue that keeps them on the street. So we screen them. If they don't have any violent history, they are eligible for lead.   But really what we want to do is there's a lot of people, a lot of great people that I've met out there that are just down on their luck, maybe a few bad choices of their own. They're now in the predicament they're in. But I do believe that everyone is salvageable. Some people need a lot more effort than others. But everyone as a human being can improve and change. And that's what we want to do as a police department is give people that opportunity to improve. How many of you are involved in this effort that you lead a special unit? So there's me and I have five under my command. And it's a big hearty group. A lot of them actually have experienced homelessness as a child. So they really have the heart for it. Everyone thinks as police officers that we come from this perfect world and we get slapped on a badge and every night we beam up to the mothership to our perfect world. We don't. We we take off our uniforms or go back to our homes. We have a history within those communities that they all are complaining about and upset about. And we have the same frustrations. But we just have to be maintained our integrity and be fair in how we're how we're administering help. How has this been received in the Chinatown community? What Heather and our organization has done in partnering with HBD? Very well, you know, I can just say in talking with the community members that are overjoyed. That day that the gift was presented by HTA and HLTA. They were just so many smiles and there was just a sense of optimism that, yes, things are going to get better. But it's exactly this. It's what it takes. It's not just government. It's not just community. It's community government and the private sector working together. Can you talk about the Chinatown Improvement District and the good job that they've done? Leastac? Yeah, so Leastac has been in the community for many years. She is one of the landowners in there. I can't even count how many meetings, community meetings I've been with Leo over the years. But she is always in the community almost every other time I'm in Chinatown. I will see her brother just walking around and, you know, she's always willing to engage and I was thinking of new ideas. I mean, over the years, it's just these small ideas, but to help improve the community. I'm not, if you're aware she came up with the idea of hanging the flower baskets on the light posts on Hotel Street. We work with DTS and she actually goes and waters them herself. So it's a really great organization and it's really made some positive changes in the community. Yeah. So talk about this patrol program that this neighborhood patrol program that we, the money that we gave her is going to help fund. Are you familiar with that? I'm not too familiar with that, but my understanding it is going to be similar to other established neighborhood watches working in conjunction with HPD. And I actually commend her because actually that part of Chinatown, that arts district, that's one portion that really didn't have a watch. You have those guys on Kei Kaolike and up by Lumsai Holtong. But yeah, I think so this is going to really good fit for the Chinatown arts district. I can actually add a little bit to that. So at least like she really, really went above and beyond as a community member to bring people together and she reached out to the district ones community policing team. And what they identified was the issue, a lot of the issue with Chinatown is the whole private public area. So what happens is when our homeless go on to the private area, the police can't tell people to move along unless there's a representative. So she's really brought people together to fill that gap so that when an officer encounters an homeless individual on private property, there's a point of contact that we can verify whether or not they're supposed to be on property or not. Prior to initiatives that she's brought together, that wasn't an option. We just kind of had to leave them where they were. Well, folks, there you have it. We've had a very engaging discussion and dialogue with these two gentlemen who at the forefront of making Chinatown a better place. I said, I just want to thank you. I want to thank you as a citizen. I want to thank you as a Waikiki Tourism Association stakeholder in all this tourism, if you will. I want to thank you as a former mayor because Chinatown is so important. It has a rich history and we want to make sure everybody remembers what's so great about it in the past. But in going forward, the best is yet to come. Absolutely. So thank you for being here. Thank you, sir. Captain. Appreciate it. That's what's just to you. Yes. Keep it going. I'll try. Be more. Come in, man. Sean, keep up the great work. Go Buffin Blue. And he'll honey. Thank you for joining us today. We'll see you next time here on Think Tech 101 with another edition of Tourism 101.


Over the past five years doing this series, one thing I hope that I've made abundantly transparent is my utter disdain for socialism and central planning. I've tried to be clear and detailed across my many criticisms of the ideology, but at the core of everything, the problem is simply that collective ownership over the means of production just doesn't work.  We've seen this play out all over the world. Cuba, Venezuela, China, the USSR, East Germany, Cambodia, North Korea, even places that we often don't even think about anymore, like Somalia and Zimbabwe, were decimated by socialist policies. Those countries would have been better off with no government at all than they were with a government that controls natural resources, dictates what people are allowed to produce, sell or buy, and sets prices for goods and services across their economies. The evidence of socialist failures is overwhelming and it's really not that difficult to understand the causal relationship, and yet somehow millions of people around the world still think it's a good idea. Why? Well, perhaps one reason is because they just aren't particularly connected to the victims. After all, they're on the other side of the world. They mostly don't speak English. They're probably dirty capitalists anyway, besides a lot of the worst abuses happened a long time ago. But what if I told you that there are large areas of the United States right now, today, which feature all the hallmarks of socialism? The people who live in these areas are subject to complete top-down control over education, healthcare, resource management, business licensing, utilities, food distribution, all of it directly managed by U.S. government agencies. Immigration in and out of these areas is also restricted, and it's even difficult for outsiders to do business in these parts of the country. Predictably, sadly, the result of socialism in these pockets of the United States is the same as it has been literally everywhere else in the world. Poverty, suffering, despair, death. If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm talking about Indian reservations. Realistic portrayals of American Indian life in popular culture are sometimes few and far between, but we're starting to see more and more content that depicts the realities of living on a reservation. But what most of these portrayals still don't tell you is how and why those realities came to be, and almost none even hint at effective solutions. So stick around and join me for something I've wanted to talk about for a very long time on this episode of Out of Frame. Let me say a few things up front. Yes, for the most part, I'm going to be using the term American Indian, or just Indian, and not Native American. If you have questions about why, CGP Grey did a pretty good video about it that I'll link in the description. The short version is, that's the term used for legally recognized tribes in the United States. Another thing you should know before we really get into this is that while I will be challenging some common misconceptions, it is absolutely true that what the United States government has done and continues to do to American Indian people is horrific and unjustifiable. It's true that Native populations were most likely declining before Europeans arrived, but the introduction of new diseases and increased conflict led to a massive decrease in their numbers between the 1600s and the early 20th century. The full history is bloody, cruel, and too long to be properly accounted for, but the highlights include enslavement, slaughter, reeducation, forcible relocation, occasional forced sterilization, and denial of any semblance of autonomy, some of which continues to this day in spite of what you might have been taught in school. Of course, the contentious history between Native tribes and the federal government goes back further, but for our purposes today we'll start with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This is the legislation that granted the president authority to set aside lands west of the Mississippi River for Indian resettlement in exchange for their traditional tribal lands within existing state borders. It's the start of what we now think of as reservations. The remainder of the 19th century was marked by the western expansion of the United States, more forced relocation of American Indians, and escalating violence on all sides. Eventually, some of the land reserved for relocated Indians was even taken back by the federal government and made available to American settlers instead. Indian religions were banned, Indian children were taken from their tribes to be civilized at government-run boarding schools, the same way Aboriginal people in Australia were treated until the 1970s. If those children returned, and we've been discovering that that's a big if, they no longer spoke their native tribal languages, knew their people's history, or believed in their tribes' religions. In the words of the Great Libertarian Activist and Ogallala Lakota tribesmen Russell Means, in the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and it's a policy where they discourage critical thinking and the creation of ideas. And yet, in spite of all this re-education, American Indians weren't even granted full US citizenship until 1924. Tribal landholdings were in decline as well, from 130 million acres in 1884 down to just 40 million in 1934. Now, you'd think that as a lot of those atrocities became more widely known and as more Americans started to actually care, things would have gotten better. But the main thing that happened was that the way our society viewed Indigenous people started to diverge. Some folks held on to the traditional racist image of Indians as genetically inferior savages who needed to be civilized. But the progressive intelligentsia of the early 20th century started to develop a new and different perspective, which added a veneer of science to that same racist idea, reimagining American Indians as noble savages, tragic casualties of history to be mythologized and saved by self-appointed do-gooders. And throughout the 1900s, the prevailing political attitude toward American Indians was that the government had the duty and obligation to take care of the tribes and their members. You see, according to the progressives, American Indians had been irrevocably broken by the oppression they faced throughout the centuries. And as per usual, they thought that bigger, more intrusive government was the answer. Now, to be clear, while the progressive viewpoint might seem to be kinder on the surface than that of the more obvious racist who believed that Indians were somehow innately inferior, their conclusions were fundamentally the same. Native people simply couldn't handle freedom.  But whether it was due to genetics or history and socialization, both the arrogant progressives and the old school bigots believed that American Indians were just not cut out to make decisions for themselves. And of course, the only solution either group has ever been able to come up with is to have the government get more involved, policing crime, managing their economies, and re-educating Indian children. But that's always been true. The federal government, specifically the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has been handling education, infrastructure, healthcare, food distribution, licensing, regulation, and even law enforcement on Indian reservations for as long as they've existed. The result? A poverty rate of 25.4% hours long drives to the grocery store, assuming you're not getting commodity foods from a food distribution program. Either way, this usually means being stuck with processed, shelf-stable foods that won't spoil on the way home, which isn't particularly healthy. Unfortunately, unhealthy food generally leads to poor health outcomes, so it's no wonder that obesity, heart disease, and diabetes rates are much higher on reservations than in the rest of the country. This means a shorter life expectancy on the reservations than anywhere else. But it also frequently takes hours for EMS to get to a medical emergency, so a lot of people die simply waiting for healthcare. Indian health service clinics are overburdened, poorly run, and difficult to get to. Many homes on reservations don't have adequate access to necessary infrastructure. And I'm not talking about multi-gig, high-speed internet, although of course internet access is a problem too. I'm talking about the basics, paved roads, electricity, running water. The, you guessed it, Indian Housing Authority, a division of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, recently determined that more than half a million American Indians have severe housing needs. But the IHA's waitlist for better housing is incredibly long, and the government's restrictions on development make it all but impossible for private alternatives to emerge. Law enforcement is another problem area for reservations. Tribal police are empowered to deal with crime that is entirely contained within their tribes, that is crimes committed against a tribal member by another tribal member. Once a crime begins to involve non-members, such as casino guests visiting a reservation, the FBI or state police have to be involved, even if the crime occurs on reservation land. Given that the circumstances for American Indians on reservations are so bleak, it's no real surprise that there's a higher incidence of the side effects of despair, like alcoholism and drug abuse. As far as I'm concerned, virtually all of this can be traced back to the federal government's authoritarian control over Indian reservations. And I bet you thought they were sovereign territory, right? That's certainly what I was taught in school, and I believed it for a long time, even though it's actually nonsense. This is a weirdly personal issue for me, not because I'm particularly connected to tribal people, but because of where I grew up in Nebraska, and because of my dad, who has been an amateur collector of Native American art, and a voracious student of their history and culture since I was a small child. Most of us learn a little bit about different societies in school, but strangely, very few Americans have any knowledge of our country's own indigenous tribal cultures whatsoever.  I learned U.S. and European history. We studied little bits about Mesoamerican culture, Japanese culture, Chinese culture, Russian culture. I grew up around a lot of German and Czechoslovakian immigrants, so I got a taste of their cultures growing up too. But in spite of living right in the middle of Lakota territory, almost everything I knew about the tribal people of Nebraska prior to college came from my dad, and also from reading books about important figures like Black Elk, Sitting Bull, and Red Cloud. Nebraska has several large reservations. The Pawnee, Odo, Nyebrera, Omaha, Ogallala, Sack and Fox, and Winnebago people all have a home in that state. I was fortunate enough as a kid to be able to experience some powwows and other American Indian cultural events first hand. And again, thanks to my dad, I spent hours and hours listening to Native American mythology on audio tape. Admittedly, I had a pretty unique upbringing in that regard, but all that interaction with Native culture gave me a perspective that I think most people probably don't have. And you know what I learned? All the indigenous people who lived in the United States and every other part of the world before European colonists arrived were and are just people. They aren't all vicious warrior braves or magic shaman who have some kind of supernatural connection to nature.  Those kinds of exchanges happened among their own tribes for centuries after all.  They were just groups of people trying to survive the harsh realities of nature, doing the best they could to develop technology, art, and industry. And many were pretty successful. But as has been true for every conquered group throughout history, they were just not as successful as the people who now inhabit their former territory. Sadly, until the 1990s and early 2000s, our school books and virtually all the movies and TV shows you could find about American Indians just reinforced all those old tropes. Fortunately, with the success of films like Dances with Wolves and Smoke Signals and shows like Northern Exposure, some of that started to change. And now, I think we're entering a much more interesting time with content that treats American Indians and other indigenous people as, you know, human beings. We're finally beginning to get better glimpses of life on reservations in pop culture. The 2017 movie Wind River and 2018's breakout TV hit Yellowstone, both from writer-director Taylor Sheridan, are pretty good examples. Fair warning, spoilers for both titles are coming. Wind River stars Jeremy Renner as a fish and wildlife service hunter named Corey Lambert and Elizabeth Olson as a relatively inexperienced FBI agent, Jane Banner. Corey is called out to his ex-in-law's farm on the Wind River Reservation to track down and kill a mountain lion that's been taking down local livestock. The actual Wind River Reservation is one of the largest in America, spanning 2.2 million acres and it's primarily home to members of the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes. But like most of Wyoming, it's mostly uninhabited, so it's pretty shocking when Renner's character, Corey, discovers the body of an 18-year-old woman dead in the snow. Since she's a tribe member and the obvious victim of sexual violence, the matter can't be left to tribal police. They have to call the FBI. And the nearest available agent is the rookie Jane Banner, who's only in the area for firearms training. Jane has very little idea what she's doing and is completely unfamiliar with the local geography, but she's all the federal government will provide. Knowing she's in over her head, Jane enlists Corey as a guide and assistant. As the case progresses, we learn that the victim, Natalie, was childhood best friends with Corey's daughter Emily, before Emily's own mysterious death two years earlier. The movie does a great job showing the meager resources available to the tribe to investigate serious crimes. We also see the damage that drugs, violence, and despair deal the families that remain on the reservation. The film is bleak and heartbreaking, and also a little heroic, but mostly it just feels real. Yellowstone is more cynical, although still fairly similar in tone, but it's centered around property rights instead of crime. Kevin Costner plays John Dutton, the patriarch of the largest continuous ranch in Montana, and his property abuts the fictional Broken Rock Indian Reservation, which I'm guessing is home to crow or salish people. There's a lot of tension between the ranch and the reservation. For one thing, John's youngest son, Case, is married to a member of the local tribe, Monica, with whom he has a son. But that's really just the personal family drama aspect of the series. The broader drama is an examination of both political power and property rights, who has it and who doesn't. Turns out it's not really anyone living on the reservation. But one of the standout characters in Yellowstone for me is the tribe's new chief, Thomas Rainwater, played by Gil Birmingham, who was also Martin in Wind River. He's savvy and sharp and seems to be a match for any of the other power brokers in the show. A lot of Taylor Sheridan's work is kind of depressing, but I really appreciate that it shows a part of America that most people never get to see, and it does it without resorting to simple stereotypes of either white Americans or American Indians. But okay, you get it.  I can already hear the arguments that this isn't real socialism. Except that it kind of is. Socialism is not merely all the things you think are good, nor is it an imaginary state of Marxism that can never really exist. Sorry, tankies. It is any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. And that's exactly what happens on Indian reservations. So yeah, it's a pretty good example of real world socialism. But no one can make decisions on behalf of other people better than those individuals can make for themselves. In the words of Ludwig von Mises, socialist central planning is the antithesis of free enterprise, private initiative, private ownership of the means of production, market economy and the price system. Planning and capitalism are utterly incompatible. Within a system of planning, production is conducted according to the government's orders, not according to the plans of capitalists and entrepreneurs, eager to profit by best filling the wants of the consumers. When we allow society via the state to control people's economic and cultural decisions, we end up with utter chaos and a rejection of individual people's wants and needs in favor of political whims.  And of course, that's been a pretty common theme among socialist states, too. The US government has treated the Indians like children forever. Even as far back as 1831, Chief Justice Marshall, in his ruling in Cherokee Nation versus Georgia, called Indian tribes domestic dependent nations. He added that the tribe's relationship to the federal government was that of a ward to his guardian. Under this flimsy justification, the federal government essentially eliminated private property rights on Indian reservations. 75% of reservation land is in tribal trusts, though it's actually titled to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Another 20% is held in individual trusts, meaning an individual can own an interest in the land. But the title on that land is held by the BIA as well. This fake version of private ownership is further complicated by legally mandated fractionation. That is, when whoever owns an individual interest in a piece of land dies, inheritance has to be split equally among that person's heirs. As you could probably imagine, after a few generations of this kind of division, that land is essentially dead capital, since the law requires consent from a majority of the owners of a plot of land to do anything with it. In reality, only about 5% of reservation land is truly privately owned. So, I mean, when 95% of the land is owned by the state, when it's essentially impossible to access the resources on it or use it as collateral without majority approval, yeah, that's what collective ownership over property actually looks like. In other words, socialism. All the excuses in the world cannot change that fact, and it's happening right here in so-called capitalist America. It's shameful and it needs to stop. As a group, American Indians have been horribly subjugated for hundreds of years, and they are now the only group in America who are forced to live under the exact kind of socialist central planning that impoverished people in the USSR and China, and everywhere else those ideas have been implemented. I don't know about you, but I'd actually like to fix this problem. So, maybe instead of focusing our attention on performative virtue signaling like land acknowledgement statements, renaming sports teams, or politically correct terminology, we should actually try to get the government out of the way for once. The only real solution to any of this is individual freedom. People need to be allowed to make their own choices with resources that they actually control, and they need to be able to earn their successes and learn from their mistakes instead of being treated like children. American Indians aren't being given that opportunity. Their cultures, economies, and very lives are controlled by the U.S. government, and that was just as true for their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents going back hundreds of years. It's time for that horrible experiment in authoritarian socialism to end. Returning basic property and decision rights to the individual people living on reservations could unlock an astonishing amount of wealth and well-being for American Indians, and for people brimming with entrepreneurial creativity, that would be an amazing thing. But don't take my word for it. Allow me to leave you with some final thoughts from Russell Means. Freedom is what's important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise, you become what the colonizers have designed, and that is a lemon.  Without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on a centralized power, the more easily you are led around. Hey everybody, thanks for watching this episode of Out of Frame. As we're coming to the end of this series, this is one episode I'd have absolutely regretted never doing. I hope you enjoyed it and want to talk about it in the comments. 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One Basel Chap and this is the Elmer O'Clock Tiger Financial News Network market update and we're looking at the Dow was up sharp the earlier on actually went to $33,272.00. Now it's at $32,815.00, so that's quite a tumble there, it's almost 500 points. Well, it had a beautiful session on Friday. One I didn't quite understand, not that I'm complaining because subscribers have been long the Dow but most importantly it just that was what 500 points that was crazy. So we've had two days of consolidation. There might be a little bit more going into Thursday but I suspect that we will start pushing to the 32,300s very soon and that the 32,000 I'd probably say 32,700 600 areas really good support. We're looking at the S&P also had a very very nice early morning up move and now it's down 23 at $4108.00, the $4102.00 area to $4102.00, yeah to $40,992.00, it should be good support to $44092.00. We're looking at the QQQ helped earlier on by salesforce.com, now it's down $0.28.00 It didn't have a nice move up hit resistance at the 312 level. It needs to get you 314 by about Monday this coming Monday. We're looking at the IWM the Russell 2000 pulling back $1.66 at 183 not acting all that well. Now gold is going to be very interesting because gold is holding lower under the 14 period moving average and 9 period moving average in an arch formation but it depends the further way it goes from the 200 period moving average of 1869 the greater the chances are that it's going to have that's going to be your big resistance to overcome and if you're looking at the dollar dollar had a nice move up it's now up 71 ticks at 102.48 it held for four days three days sorry three days it held the 200 period the 50 period exponential moving average now it's gone back into the rectangle formation and that's going to be very important because it helps the weekly chart looking at the TLT that's bonds oh down 30 35 cents again 116.21 yields are going higher this is tough you know yields going higher that's that's the market is doing it the Feds work for it and you're looking at crude oil is crude oil still up yes it's up $1.51 holding quite nicely at 116 at any point if it starts today's high was a hundred seventy eighty-seven if it can close above a hundred and fifty that hundred and twenty never looks like it's going to be gay we'll see what happens stay tuned the ladder for the winter coming up great program definitely if you start off at nine in the morning with Tommy Jr. with market kick off have a great day Tommy's Tommy's seniors ends the day he's doing a webinar Friday a week


Good afternoon everyone, my name is Michael Donnelly Boylan and I am the Assistant Dean of Admissions here at the Law School. I would like to welcome all of you to Roger Williams University School of Law and to Orientation 2016. I am so glad to see the class of 2019 has finally arrived, you have no idea. We have been anxiously waiting for you. We in the Admissions Office have had the distinct pleasure of getting to know you throughout this process. Thank you for sharing your stories with us. The class of 2019 has had a wide range of experiences and I am here today to tell you a little bit about the folks you'll be calling your classmates for the next three years. Before I hand your class over to President Farrish, Dean Yelnosky, and the faculty. Students in your class attended a wide variety of colleges and universities including Arizona State, Cornell, UConn, the University of Texas and Antonio, Colorado State, and Florida International University. But some schools sent us a few more than others. Two schools are tied for fifth place on the list of largest feeder schools for your class. Those are Rutgers University in New Jersey and Stone Hill College in Massachusetts, which both sent us three students. St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire is in fourth place with five students. Rhode Island College in third with seven students. Our own Roger Williams University is second with eleven students. And this year the top feeder school to your class is the University of Rhode Island, which sent us 21 students, a total of 13% of your class. In your class you will find a high school teacher, a lobbyist, a freelance journalist, a union organizer, a concert promoter, an anti-bullying advocate. You will even find an actor who toured in the Broadway production of Shrek. Members of your class have worked to create change in their communities. One member of your class founded a non-profit in New Jersey to aid young girls who are the victims of sexual abuse. Another drafted and promoted a law passed in Rhode Island to help student athletes who receive concussions. And one here served as an advocate for homeless youth in the state of Montana. Someone in your class founded a fair trade organization to make their university free of sweatshop labor. Someone else taught ESL to refugees in Manchester, New Hampshire. And another worked in a sexual health clinic catering to the underserved in Syracuse, New York. Classmates have built homes for migrant workers in California, helped domestic violence victims in West Africa, worked with undocumented students in New Jersey in need of mental health care, and educated LGBT youth in Seattle about the perils of human trafficking. An unusually large number of students in your class have spent significant time working with and advocating for the disabled both locally and nationally. You have made the most of your college experiences. We have a quarterback of the football team from Gettysburg College, the student body vice president from our own Roger Williams University, and the president of a diversity organization at Stonehill College. You have had many interesting internships including with the DEA, the TV news in El Paso, Texas, the Rhode Island Commission on Human Rights, and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Many of you have had legal internships. You have trained in law offices in Columbus, Mississippi, District Court in King, New Hampshire, the Bridgeport Connecticut Public Defender's Office, and the Rhode Island Supreme Court, just to name a few. Frankly, I lost track of how many of you interned at the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office. Apparently our alums there are our best advocates. At the law school that houses the highly regarded Marina Fairs Institute it should not be shocking that a number of your classmates have done interesting things on and around the water.  They have also searched for the remains of a Dutch fleet shipwrecked in 1677 off the coast of Tobago, and have worked on educational research vessels conducting hands-on research on the marine ecosystem. I predict this will be a very interesting election year in this building as your class has been extremely politically active. One of you attended the Democratic National Convention in 2012, while another attended the CPAC Convention in 2013 and 2015. In your class you will find the Campaign Manager of Frank Caprio's Campaign for Governor of Rhode Island and a Staff Assistant from Senator Marco Rubio's Orlando office. You have interned for Governor Christie in New Jersey, Governor Baker in Massachusetts, Senator Shaheen of New Hampshire, Senator Reid of Rhode Island, and Senator Warner of Virginia. One of your classmates even spent two weeks last year visiting the Iowa caucuses and meeting with 14 different presidential candidates advocating for employment opportunities for people with disabilities. This may be the largest number of public safety officers we have seen in one class in quite some time. We have a number of current and former police officers. We also have a 9-1-1 dispatcher, a volunteer firefighter, an EMT, and a TSA agent. 6% of your class served in the United States military, representing the Army, Navy, and Marines. A number of you served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Someone here serves in the National Guard. One classmate was in the Coast Guard, and another was in the Coast Guard Reserves. We thank all of you for your service. 32% of your class is made up of Rhode Islanders, meaning two-thirds of you are relocating to the Ocean State. 26% of your class hails from the other New England states, and exactly the same percentage, 26, come from the rest of the Northeast. In fact, yours is the only class that I can think of in my memory where the second biggest state behind Rhode Island is New York. 9% of your class comes from the South, 5% from the West, and 2% from the Midwest. A large number of your classmates immigrated to the United States. Just some of the countries you were born in, Canada, Guatemala, India, Benin, Morocco, Paraguay, and the United Arab Emirates. Your class is evenly split between men and women. The average age of your class is 25. 9% of you are 30 years of age or older. A number of you are married, and some of you have children. And 4% of your class identifies as members of the LGBT community. As of tonight, we expect that 26% of your class comes from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the legal profession, making your class the second most diverse in this law school's history. With the addition of your class to the classes already here, Rachel Williams University School of Law is the most diverse it has ever been. I am also very pleased to say that while many law schools have continued to shrink, your class marks our law school's third year of steady enrollment growth. And I'm even more pleased to announce that that growth is not at the expense of quality. In fact, your class has the highest LSAT scores of any class currently in our building. Finally, I'm very pleased to welcome our inaugural class of the Masters of Studies in Law program. These students, mainly working professionals, will be taking classes alongside our JD students while they earn their MSL degree. I think you will value the perspective these new students will add to the classroom. In this group, you will find a reporter from the Providence Journal who covers the courts, a mediator, a longtime legal assistant at a law office, the assistant director of the Rhode Island Office of Veterans Affairs, and someone who assists the legal team at HealthSource Rhode Island. It has been a pleasure getting to know all of you over the last year. Please don't be strangers to the admissions office. Stop by and say hello. And on behalf of all of us at RWU Law, welcome to law school.


Last time you guys were coming in, the PFRs were real tight. You couldn't get at your particular job on the back of the PFR. So we did not have any sockets in the pallet for the PFRs to fit in place. And my son, is that the reason I'm a little longer? Yeah. But I didn't know about it. So we talked about it. I have to go back and be honest. Missing a degree of freedom. That's where you're going to pass your other end of your PRD. And of course, you already know how to use your PRDs. Now, Bob and I were talking about this. You have your preset PRD.  As I remember when we did this, I mean, if you get in, you're postulating the two of the cables are intact. So the thing is not going to go falling away from you. The problem was to pull the thing so that instead of going skew and missing the purlers, you straighten it out. And what I remember is we were actually attached to the saws of the IPS. We're pulling it out and forward. So that as the hive went forward after the pillar, so that as the IV was letting out the cable, we were continually winching in a little bit just to take up the slack and getting it going in the right direction. In fact, depending on which one of the cables you were signaling breaking, we had to do it on one side or the other, depending on which way it was trying to go. And that's true. And I was there diving when we did that procedure. That's acceptable, too. I have no doubts that there are several ways of doing this. And certainly we can approach that. If you want to approach it that way, this is still a development idea. When you were talking about attaching to it, this is the actual experiment attachment. 30 GPH on EV1 and 2. That's going to back up. Safety divers, release shoulder strap. Release backpack from Donning Station. Safety divers, take the subjects down for a final ballasting in heads up position and slowly. And Mike and Jeff? Yeah. We have a PAM mock-up representing the BBXRT today. OK. We've got it in the same ex-location just to give you a feel for where that's going to be. OK. The objective is to lower it down and find a great position. And that's where you're going to end of that 8-900 pound stop. And then the GLM would take over from there. OK. Well, you know what I would do rather than push it down myself, I think one of us might stay back here to try to control it a little bit. OK. I don't know. But I really don't have a sense of how hard it would be to move this. I mean, if there were a real jam on it, which is another possibility, you know, us pushing on it isn't going to work too well. But in that case, I could certainly put a PRD. Oh, I bet I could push as hard as you can put tension on a PRD if I get my feet down here. That's assuming that it was down this part of the jam. But you know, the thing might be straight up. That's what this thing is here. All right. And that should have popped off. We're just simulating a cable fail. And I'm wondering how we can get that done. What would happen in this case right here, or any of these cases, if we just went ahead and did this and released the other two and left the springs pulled in if they're secure, if the cable's secure, and if it's already pushed out anyway? Yeah, but you see the problem is that that loose spring is still pushing it off to the side. You're pushing it from one side, and the other two sides are free. Well, I know. But we've at least got all the energy out of the system that it's going to have. No, we haven't. Because that spring, I mean, that's fine if the thing is pointed down into the perlas. That spring is going to push it. But it's not at the end of its drive when that thing is in the perlas. If that thing misses the perlas, it's going to push it past the perlas, and we'll never get it back. So what are you going to do with the perlas? Forward? Well, we might have to. I mean, if the thing is actually pushed too far aft, then we're going to actually have to hook up to it and pull it back. You know, it really depends on the case. Well, I meant this case. Well, in this case, it doesn't look like it's too far. I think the main problem is to pull it down. Utility diver to the DC console, please. If you come over now, actually, you know, when it starts to come down, it looks like it's going to hit the top of the perla. So, you know, in this case, we might want to try pulling one of these to the back, like Tom was suggesting. Let's try that. Aren't they also going to try and get them in and out of some sort of any grace? No, they're going to start right here as if they had already been back. They're going to start right when that personnel function is going to be the IPS stuck. This is not really flight-like because it's out of the way. I'm just going to say that I've done 10 turns. OK. OK. Because normally, the thing would be up above here. But it's not. It's about a foot low. All right. So we'll say it's separated now. OK. OK, the latch is closed. I'll bet with the luck we've been having that when they go to close the keel line, that's not going to work either. I'll tell you, why don't we just go ahead and put these struts in place, and we won't even have to do the keel? That would be the next failure, you're right. But it is 5.30, Paul. And you requested that we terminate, and I think we can. And we can pick up a lot of this other stuff next time. OK. And we'll have the IPS working properly. OK, and we did put the keel latches on last time as well. That's correct, Paul. That was pretty easy to do. Oh, you did the keel too. Yeah, well, now you've got a strut wrench to work with. OK. All right, guys.


Hello, welcome to short video measurement of the Output Spectrum of STN32WB on Spectrum Analyzer. Now we will set the Spectrum Analyzer for depicting the Bluetooth Spectrum of DUT. Press the Frack button and click on Center. Enter the Center Frequency to 2.45 GHz. Then press Spun button and enter the value for example 1 GHz. Now we set the reference level by pressing Amplitude and Reference Level. We will set it up to 10 dBm to enter to be seen at even for higher power levels. Now we will set also the input attenuator to be sure about RF power doesn't damage the sensitive input of the Spectrum Analyzer. Click on RF attenuator manual and set the value to 30 dBm. Moreover we need to set the reference bandwidth and video bandwidth of input filters. Press the bandwidth button and video bandwidth auto and reference bandwidth auto. Connect the output of STN32WB to Spectrum Analyzer input. Use torque range to be sure about right tightening. Connect the USB cable to the on-board STi-Link. Start the STN32Q monitor RF and choose the appropriate comport. Click on Connect button. The state window will display communication with the DUT board. Click on RF tests. This is the dialog window with transmitter settings. You can set various parameters as output power, TX frequency, packet length and so. Just we start with the TX tone. Set the maximum power and the channel 19. Click on start tone button. The tone appears on an Analyzer display. We can set the marker peak by button marker, then marker function and click on center is equal to marker frequency. Also modify the span to 100 MHz. Now we can change it to modulated signal. In GUI click on start TX. Transmitter will output the modulated signal with preset data. Now we modify the plot. Change the reference level to 0 dBm by amplitude button and reference level. Then change the span to 10 MHz. For more stable view is necessary to modify resolution bandwidth and view bandwidth. For example, RBW to 1 kHz and WBW to 10 Hz. Thanks for watching, bye.