Since the first Earth Day 50 years ago, researchers have made tremendous strides in understanding our complex planet. Working together, engineers and scientists have harnessed technology to make first-ever measurements of the Earth and our environment, taking advantage of instrumented satellites and the unique vantage point of space. Today, we are observing the Earth in more detail and looking at more processes and variables than ever before in human history. Our scientific satellites are taking the pulse of the planet everywhere and all of the time. Scientists and policymakers are using the satellite measurements to learn about how our Earth works, how the many processes on land, in the atmosphere and in the ocean interact with each other to create our present environment, how those interactions will change as the climate evolves, and how we as humans can alter what we are doing today in order to safeguard our planet for future generations. Thanks to satellites and to science, we now know much more about the Earth than we did on the first Earth Day 50 years ago, when I was just 15 years old. Let me give you some examples of questions that we can answer today but that we couldn't answer then. On the first Earth Day, we didn't know quantitatively whether and how global sea level was changing. We only had records from scattered coastal tide gauges. Today, from more than 27 years of data obtained by exquisitely precise satellite instruments flown by NASA and our international partners, we know with precision and accuracy that global sea level is relentlessly rising. The satellite instruments that we use to measure global sea level are so sensitive that if we were to put them in an airplane flying at 40,000 feet, they would be able to detect the bump caused by a dime coin lying on the ground. From these decades of continuous satellite observations, we know that the global average sea level is rising 3.4 mm per year and the rate seems to be increasing. Even more importantly, from those satellite measurements of sea level and separate satellite observations of gravity changes, which are related to changes in the amount of water in the oceans, we know which processes are causing sea level rise. Nearly two-thirds of the observed rise results from adding water to the ocean by melting ice sheets and glaciers on land as surface temperatures around the globe increase. The satellite data tell us, though, that more than a third of sea level rise is the result of heating the upper portions of the ocean, which causes the water to expand just like the fluid in an old-fashioned thermometer expands when temperatures increase. So, thanks to decades of precise global satellite observations, we know that the changing climate is resulting in global sea level rise and we know how much of the rise is the result of putting more water into the ocean and how much of the rise is the result of heating the upper ocean. With so much of humanity worldwide living in coastal areas and with so much of our nation's economic and defense infrastructure located near present-day sea level, the climate-induced rising ocean will have a significant impact on civilization and on our nation. On that first Earth Day, scientists knew that long-lasting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere influence our planet's overall radiation balance, whether the earth warms by trapping some of the sun's energy or whether it cools by radiating out more energy than is absorbed by the sun. They knew that human burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil, and natural gas – increased the atmosphere concentration of carbon dioxide and other potent greenhouse gases and also likely caused the planet to warm. But we didn't know how much of the human-burned greenhouse gases stayed in the atmosphere and we didn't know the ways in which natural processes control exchanges of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere on the one hand and the land and ocean on the other hand. Indeed, at that time, some people thought that almost all of the human-caused CO2 that didn't stay in the atmosphere was taken up by vegetation on land. Thanks to satellite missions such as the orbiting carbon observatories 2 and 3 from NASA and to international partners such as Japan, we can now measure and monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide levels globally with high space and time resolution. These measurements from truly cutting-edge instruments show how our planet breathes, with land vegetation and phytoplankton in the ocean taking CO2 from the atmosphere during the sunlit growing seasons while putting some CO2 back into the atmosphere during our dark winter seasons. Indeed, by analyzing the satellite and other measurements, earth scientists now know that on average only about half of the human-caused CO2 from fossil fuel burning stays in the atmosphere, while the other half is taken up almost equally by the oceans and the land vegetation. The satellite measurements are helping us understand remaining open questions such as why some years almost all of the human-caused CO2 remains in the atmosphere while other years almost none of it does. Our planet is complicated, but detailed global long-term satellite measurements are giving us insights into processes that have been mysteries for all of human history to date. On the first Earth Day, and even until the start of the 21st century, no one knew how much rain fell on our planet. Scattered rain gauges on land provide an important information, but 73% of the planet is covered by water, and it is not possible to make accurate rain rate and amount measurements on oceans and large lakes. Today, however, thanks to precision measurements from joint NASA and Japanese satellites such as the Tropical Rainfall Mapping Mission launched in 1997 and the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory launched in 2014 and still operating today, as well as thanks to instruments on more than 10 other satellites that together form the Global Precipitation Constellation, NASA researchers are routinely producing global rain and snowfall maps with spatial resolutions of 6 to 12 miles and time resolution of an hour or less. This information, which can only be obtained from combining observations from many satellites all orbiting at the same time, is improving severe weather and flood warnings and weather forecasts around the world. Thanks to long-term, global, frequent, high-resolution satellite measurements of many different environmental variables, today, research and decision-makers alike have available observations and understanding that could only be hoped for 50 years ago on the first Earth Day. NASA, other U.S. agencies and international partners across the globe are planning, building and launching even more and more capable Earth-observing satellites. All of us have the responsibility to help advance the technological and Earth science revolutions that together have given us such insight into our complex planet and that will improve the lives of every human during the next 50 years and beyond.


I'm Mikey, but I have a special reason why I have RSV-200 Big Key. Yes. And it is a title tradition for Japanese or Chinese that our presentation, I apologize for my stage. Ah, usually you guys are in US countries that present their presentation by some jokes. It's a different culture. And yes, in our culture, the 2KT considers good. And my concern, my major point is that key sizes are important culture, true. But it is a simple culture among others. And I care how I wear to put my driver. And my concern is how I can control my own recommendations. It matters a lot. And however, here we have a dilemma. Better control versions. Users' computing freedom. I mean that the smart part is considered better for your security. And it's better controlled with computation inside a special purpose computer, not on your general part of the computer. But the card readers tend to be provided. And the card itself tends to be provided. And the access to the technical documents for crypto-engine, crypto-accelerator, tend to require non-disclosure agreement between Sengonaka chip vendors. Fortunately, the protocol itself is publicly available thanks to a team who wrote their documents. And the free implementation of the driver, the host receiver, is in place of there. So basically we have a dilemma. Should we use proprietary card readers or reading using a general purpose computer for a quick computation? So my original purpose for token is that I wanted to change the group of this station. But these days, you see, in the Vivian community, basically the standard is 4,000 kb. And now we have another dilemma. Longer PNs versus better controls of private key migrations there. But my hope is that in Sengonaka, let's say, a one-year or a half year or a one-year, we won't have such those kinds of dilemmas anymore. And when we introduce ET25519 and the card 25519, it is okay for the Vivian community about their threats that we will have more. Better control and computing freedom and compared to Vivian standard or Vivian culture. That's my hope, perhaps, until Sengon in Germany. And that's the story of my executes. And let me explain in detail. I'm talking about RUNU, which is a software implementation of OpenPCD card protocol. And the FST-01 is a reference hardware which is PCB designed under creative commons. Yes, and noisy is RUNU-01 version of the presentation. And the FST-01 is a happy machine. This is another story. What is this? Is it higher? Yes. It is the Vivian logo in your machine. But this is not totally related to crypto. This is just a happy machine. And the code is available at my site, or in the audience. The FST-01 is available from Chinese. It's a company. It's for something like five years old. And it only sells 10 pieces at my shop. Can you see the label? Yes. Can you see the one before? Yes. Can I see the one before? The one. Do you need medical or tutorials? Of course. Do you object to a beam string? Okay. It's available there. It's available there. It's available there. And the shambanya. So we might have a session about that. We discussed there. We discussed about the possibility of tips like that. Do you have a campaign? Yes. In this way? And it's on already? Does it work? Thank you. But see, it doesn't sell a lot. And actually, I had a campaign from November to this June. And for selling random number generator, stand-alone device. But it says 1.5 pieces per month. So I don't think... But it's just a Japanese market. So I don't know. But the Gnuk token sells better than random number generator. Yes. And here's the history. I got open PGP card version 1 in Germany, Karlsruhe. The conference name is Winnockstark. And I found that it is very useful. And it is secure. But unfortunately, it requires proprietary card readers. Or the implementation itself is proprietary. Yes. So I wanted to change the station. And I tried using 80 Mega in 2008. But it takes five seconds or more for RS-810 1K key. Yes, I demonstrated it in India and in Tokyo in 2009. And I changed my controller to superior one, SDM32. And 80 Mega is just 8-bit computer. And this is the SDM32 is ARM-based 32-bit computer, which runs at 72 MHz. And it's OK for me. At that time, it requires 2.2 seconds to sign. And now it... Now it requires... It takes 1.4 seconds to sign for 2K key. Yes. I demonstrated it at 4th Asia at Saigon. And then I joined a Gunu PG development to improve the situation of the PC side, host side. Yes. At that time, Gunu PG only supports 2K key for the card, even though the card itself supports 4K key. And in 2011, I discovered... Do it yourself, Ray, for Gunu. How to say? Abusing existing key. We have an educational key. Yes, this one is educational key for 8-bit computer. This part, we have an 8-bit computer. And this board, the prices are less than 10 US dollars. But fortunately, we have a dongle here. And it uses 32-bit computer. Yes. It's somehow funny relationship. Yes. This is main board computer with 8-bit capability. But the dongle uses 32-bit computer. We found this. And we found the way to take advantage of this part. Yes. Yes, so I wrote this document. How to use this 32-bit computer for Gunu in 2011. And I promote this new way. How to say? This is a kind of hack against semiconductor chip vendor. And if you have some skill, it doesn't require superior skill. If you have some basic skill of electronics, I really recommend this way to produce your own Gunu token. And basically it's simple. Here is a USB cable and cut it off. And then using this board and make it small and connect the cable. That's all. And actually here is an implementation. Yes. So since 2011, I recommend my friend this way of putting their own private key, open PGP key. But many other usual normal people complain. It's too hackish or... It's against semiconductor vendor, perhaps, somehow. So I designed my own hardware, reference implementation. It was in summer in 2011. Yes. And I claim that here we have a free design. Please use this PCB design to build your own token. But people still complain. You see that it is impossible for us to manufacture the Gunu token, even if the hardware design is free hardware design. So I asked manufacturing in the Chinese factory to manufacture, I mean in production, many mass production in 2012. At that time I expected that the people who complain should buy my product. But it turns out the people who complain is basically complain. I figure out. Yes. So now we have a free software implementation for token, cryptographic computation, as well as we have a free design for reference implementation. And then at that time we had no good to random number generator. So at that time Gunuq didn't have a feature of key generation by the device itself. We always have to put our key from generated on our PC, and we register, we upload our key into the device. That was our way. Fortunately RSA doesn't require any entropy when we sign the key. Yes. I have to, around 2012 I was trying to implement ECDSA for better security, but ECDSA requires some entropy even for signing, not only key generation but only for signing. Thank you. So I implement Noiji. Noiji is an implementation of a true random number generator. And I had a campaign in Japan for the better entropy. Yes. That's a history. And let me explain the Gunuq more. Sometimes people expect one-time password token when we say token, or cryptographic token, but it's not one-time password token, but a token for OpenPGP. And it is, yes, this is my statement. It's by free software, it's for free software, and it's free software. Gunuq itself is free software, and we don't require its developers. No proprietary software is, we don't require, we require no proprietary software such that development environment. And in version 1.0, we use Chibi OS RT for thread library, and Polar SSL for AES and RSA, and we use the SHARP 2 implementation by Brian Gladman. And in 1.1, I use my own thread library, and I wrote the implementation of ED-25519 and curve to 15519. Yes. And let me introduce Noiji. Noiji is the name of a set of routines for true RMG. It is used in Gunuq, and as well as I use Noiji for Noiji standard device. It's written in C, and it's for STM32F103 only, specifically. But perhaps it could be, it could run on other STM32 process microcontrollers. And it uses output of AD converter as a source of entropy. If you have some experience using AD converter, the LSB has always unstable. This significant bit of AD converter output is always unstable. So it is considered, we can take some entropy from AD converter. And we use built-in temperature sensor and built-in voltage difference and unconnected analog inputs as a source of analog inputs. Yes, putting those analog values together into conditioning components of SHA-256, we generate random number sequence. Yes, and here is the reference. Sometimes people don't like this organization, but the document itself is very good. Yes, usually we used to have a good document by German standard, German information technology standard agency or something like that. Speaking about the true RNG, the German standard is very difficult to implement into such a small computer. They require higher standard, basically they require examining the bit by bit, how to say. The examining and evaluate the random number sequences heavily and it requires more CPU power. Yes, so generating would be easier than examining the random number sequences and the German standard is very difficult to implement onto the smaller device. On the other hand, this standard, its status is just a draft but it doesn't require much testing in runtime testing. So it is okay. It is in practice easily implemented onto the smaller device. Yes, and generally I tested generated sequences on PC using the die-hard or traditional STS test-free and we have a test user one and another one at Sourceforge called named PRACTLAND. PRACTLAND is not that popular but this one is very good. Testing suite. Yes, and the standard on the device just use CDC, I mean communication device class, so it's plain byte-stream. Yes, so no special driver is required using no-g standard device. Yes, and by changing the TTY deciphering, we can select allow EDC data or after CRC 32nd filter or SHAR256 filter. We can select. Yes, and that is basically my explanation. I want to demonstrate somehow. Yes, I already demonstrated the UI. Usually I always bring my key. Yes, and this is the one. I use the cover of eraser, so it's a kind of camouflage. Yes, please. I was wondering if you have any of these for sale here. Yes, but I am afraid that it's against the code of conduct or something. Is it okay to sell here? Yeah. I am afraid that the university has some code. This conference is not for commercial activities. Is that okay? Something between you and anyone? Just between individuals, that's okay. I'm not trying to turn into a sales talk. I'm just curious to know if you have. I have, I have. How much? That's 35 US dollars. Actually, we have two, the noisy standard device, noisy standard device and the Gnuq token. Yes, but here we have an issue. I have to explain that the GPL version 3 requires when you distribute code, binary code, say, I have to distribute the GPL version 3 itself together. So actually, if you have a computer, you can try this one. I put GPL 3 together with noisy. And when you insert that one, the standard mass storage device pops up and it includes GPL version 3 to conform GPL version 3. After that, you can use the noisy standard alone device. So it's somehow complicated and it is introduced after noisy and I have to say that Gnuq token doesn't have that feature. So I need to comply with GPL version 3. I need to output GPL version 3 in paper and I have to give you GPL version 3 together with Gnuq token when I sell. That's somehow the practice. So I should explain another term. It's in the transparent tube. I sell STZ1 in three ways. One is bareboard and another is the one in the transparent tube. And another one is with enclosure, but it is open. So it's transparent and open. That's my point. Yes. And I should demonstrate online. Yes. Where is my eraser? Yes, my eraser. Yes. I don't say this is my key. This is my eraser. So I just put my eraser into this computer and here is the output of card status. And it's only 2KT. And here is my fingerprint. Yes. This is the card number. Card number is defined by ISO standard. And this number is for our organization, FSIJ. So I asked my number, F517. It looks like FSI and J. Yes. Similar. And then I'm using this token for SSH access too. Actually, I'm using this portal box and it takes 1.4 seconds to sign. I input my pass phrase and it takes 1.4 seconds. And I can access the SSH server by SSH. So see, it is acceptable. It doesn't take so long time. Yes. So the signing is similar. See, I made this yesterday. Yes, let's try. Yes. Sign it again. No, no. It takes about 1.4 seconds. Yes. So I think that it is okay to use. Yes. But it is only using RSA 2KT. Yes. And I also demonstrated the noisy standard device. You tried to measure the time for 4KT. Yes. I measured 4KT not for full stack, but just I measured the time for using debugger. For the RSA computation routing only. And it takes more than 5 seconds. More than 5 seconds. Yes. So that's maybe too slow. But for me, it's not my option. Perhaps for signing, it would be okay. But for using SSH access, it's not my option. 5 seconds are considered too long for me. Yes. So let me show you the noisy standard device. Standard alone device. Okay. Yes. How many keys can you put on the card? Three. The question was how many keys can you put on the card? It is open PGP card compatible. Open PGP card can handle three keys. The primary key, key for decryption and key for authentication. So we can put three private keys onto this card. Yes. So it seems like that might make it difficult to do key rotation, in particular if you wanted to have a second encryption key that you started to use as you were fading out your old one. You still wanted to be able to decrypt your old messages. That's a very good question. Yes. People sometimes use such a practice for keys on PC. But open PGP has... It's the scenario of open PGP card is limited to just three keys. So you can change the encryption key on the... The three key registered on the card can be changed one by one. But the only three key can be possible to store. Okay. Is there any thought about changing that to permit... In theory, it isn't that hard to change the capability. Say supporting more keys is basically not that hard in terms of GNUQ implementation. But we need to change the specification of the open PGP card. And we need to somehow standardize the way to handle keys on the open PGP card. Okay. And would the discussion for that take place on GNU-PG DEVEL? No. Where does this standardization discussion happen? Between me and Varna Kov and Akim. Okay. These three discussed. And our consensus is that it would be better to use GPG agent protocol itself directly by USB. Currently we use the hard protocol. Yes. But it would be better to just implement GPG agent protocol directly by USB. Yes. That's our consensus now. I like that. And then that would permit you to put arbitrary numbers of keys on the card. Yes. Yes. It will be transparent. The hardware or the specific hardware or the storage on general purpose PC, it will be transparent. Okay. Thanks. Yes. A question. I wonder if you plan to support 4,000 keys. Yes. Because right now, for example, I have a crypto stick from Germany. And it's okay, but right now it's out of stock. I wonder if there are other alternatives to the device? There are some... These days we have multiple implementations for OpenPGP card. Yes. I mean the original implementation was done by Akim, by the card. And also the German guy produced a crypto stick. Yes. But unfortunately it's out of stock. But using crypto stick, you can... Although the card implementation itself is proprietary, the card leader implementation is free software implementation. Yes. And these days, Ubiqui, you know the company Ubiqui. Ubiqui has an implementation of the OpenPGP card protocol. They have a device for such a crypto computation by their product. And there are another implementation by Java. There are some activities around smart card using Java as a language to implement those features. And it would be possible to use some Java card implementation to use OpenPGP card protocol. Yes. But my recommendation is that GNUQ is stable enough now. And I think if I remember correctly, last month or two months ago, we introduced someone send us patch to support another HSM hardware security module for OpenPGP. So perhaps the newest version of GNUQ PG supports another hardware security module. So we now have multiple selections. And some of them support 4K key. Luckily. Yes. And now I open the file manager. And here we have a GPF inside the device. And the readme. And when I unmount this storage, now the CDC is available here. The noisy tool RNG. The manufacturer is Free Software Initiative of Japan. And we can access TTYHCM0 for random number stream. And here is a point. Our organization FSIJ has a vendor ID. Yes. For USB. Yeah. And because I have a configuration here for Udev, the script automatically runs when I insert noisy standard device. And here is a script to invoke RNG Demon for this device. So now this computer has enough entropy from the device. And RNG Demon watches its quality. Yes. So it's just a plug and play device for better entropy. Yes. But I'm afraid that people usually don't buy such a gadget. Yes. People prefer cryptographic device than entropy device, it seems. Yes. But you guys, hackers love entropy device, perhaps. Well, are there questions or suggestions or comments? Yes, please. What is the maximum key size? Of GPG. For the GNUK. GNUK is 2K, only support 2K. Okay. Yes. Does the GNUK contain the random number generator at the same time? Yes. So you can buy it separately or with the GNUK? It is possible to use random number generator on the GNUK, but we need some special driver. The protocol is based on basically the card reader protocol. So the noisy standard long device would be easier because it's just a stream of random byte. Yes. So if you write some driver, then you can take advantage of the GNUK and because GNUK includes the random number generator, you can use it. Yes. I don't know enough about the actual USB protocol. Would it not be possible to present two different endpoint devices from the GNUK, one of which looks like... It is possible to have two different devices on the same channel. But in theory it is possible, but the current implementation doesn't do that. Okay. Yes. But it requires more... It is possible in theory, but in practice we require... We need to change the implementation and the implementation will be more complex. And my idea is that basically I want to keep the code as simple as possible. Yes. That's fair. For an important device like a cryptographic token, I can see that. Yes. The elliptic curve implementation would require different hardware from the existing GNUK that does the RSA. The GNUK supports multiple hardware. At the start I didn't have my own reference hardware, so I started by the general purpose evaluation board. Then I found some hackish way of using an educational board, and then after that I built my own reference implementation. So rather it is easy to port GNUK to other evaluation board or your own board. Yes. GNUK doesn't require special things. Yes. And the noisy also requires special hardware. It uses just an AD converter, and our entropy source is not a diode, just an ADC. So it's simple to port. Yes. So I think that it's very much fun to use the code itself. Yes. So I'm running out of time, so please feel free to discuss later in person. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.


Hi, my name is Faden Vumpailich, and I'm a developer at the Center for Open Science. I work on the Share project, and I wanted to show you how easy it is to get your data into Share. First, you go to the Share registration page, osf.io, slash share, slash registration. Click register as a provider. This will take you to our registration form for new data harvesters. We'll just need some contact information, so we can follow up with you when your harvester is complete, or if we have any questions about how to interact with your API. Then, you need to indicate that sharing your metadata for redistribution is consistent with your service policies. If you can agree to the statements, then we just need some basic information about how to gather data from your service, including any rate limits you may want us to obey, as well as general information about where your metadata lives, its format, where the documentation lives, and what kind of data your service provides. If you aren't OAPMH, you can click next and be done. But if you are OAPMH, we just need to know what sets we are allowed to harvest. If the answer is all of them, you can just hit select all, and you're done. That's it. We'll get back to you in a little bit of time to let you know we received your registration, and your service will be in the queue to add the Share harvesters. That means that we'll take all the information you've given us, and use it to write a harvester for your service. You don't have to do anything else. This is all that it takes to get your data into Share. Thank you.


Hello, I'm Dr. May Blanchard. I am the Program Director for the OB-GYN Residency Training Program here at the University of Maryland. University of Maryland is an exceptional place to do your residency and a wonderful place to train. We expose our residents to the full breadth and depth of the field of obstetrics and gynecology. Our residents get experience from day one under direct supervision and oversight of our faculty. The residents also are wonderful support to each other in that they learn from each other, junior residents learning from their senior residents as well as their faculty, and they progress throughout four years of training, gaining, increasing, experience, skills, and the ability to practice independently. The University of Maryland OB-GYN Residency Program is based at the University of Maryland Medical Center and our secondary site is Mercy Medical Center, a community urban hospital just one mile away. These two institutions provide a wide array of exposure to both normal and very sick patients and the ability to then differentiate as that very well patient suddenly becomes very sick, which can occur in a matter of moments. Our residents gain the acumen and the clinical judgment to be able to be vigilant to evaluate those patients and be able to take care of them regardless of what their socioeconomic status is, their prior comorbidities, their exposure or lack of exposure to care, and we care for our patients regardless of their ability to pay. There's a lot of pathology that our residents are exposed to and consequently they are real advocates for their patients and being able to gain the best experience they can. Our residency program is also really strengthened by a faculty who is so invested in the training of our residents and really helping them to grow and develop into competent, independent OB-GYNs. I often say they make my job easy because I have a very invested faculty who are so willing to help the residents grow as physicians, to grow in their clinical skills, to grow in their surgical skills, to grow as researchers, and to grow to really be able to care for their patients in the best possible way. Our program is also very adaptable and certainly we saw this during the unfolding COVID pandemic that occurred. Of course we were impacted by the halting of elective surgeries, but we were subsequently able to introduce a tiered work schedule for the residents so that they were able to work both from home as well as in the hospital and subsequently learning and education did not stop. I will say our institution was so supportive and our department was very focused on making sure that our residents and our faculty were safe. We always had very ample personal protective equipment and fortunately all of our physician faculty and residents have remained intact during this crisis, but ultimately education did not suffer because of our focus on education in our program. I've been the program director for 12 years and have seen a lot of changes. We expanded from a residency program of 24 to 28 and recently to 30 and this really attests to the surgical and educational experience that our institutions afford both at university and at Mercy. In addition we have our additional GYN surgical sites of University of Maryland Midtown Campus and the VA Baltimore Medical Center and all of the surgical experiences that we had available to us really demonstrated to the ACGME the educational and clinical experiences that were going not fully fully capitalized on by the residents. In addition our expansion allows us to be able to even better comply with the duty hours so we were really pleased to be able to get that expansion early this year and we matched our first class of eight residents who started this fall. So normally I would say come to University of Maryland you will get to see what we're all about in person but of course we're not in normal times right now but take a look at our website, our Instagram and talk with the residents and the faculty on interview day. I think you'll agree with me that there's no better place to start your career as an OBGYN than here at the University of Maryland.


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So, what happened in Hawaii, according to the Associated Press, and many other news outlets that have been following this, including Ableton on Air, in Hawaii, according to the Associated Press, a mobile Mark unit has arrived on Tuesday. Now, imagine this has devastated the island of Hawaii. Maui and everybody else that is going through this. A mobile Mark unit arrived this past Tuesday to help Hawaii officials working painstakingly to identify the remains of people killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui. And the death toll rose above 100. As a matter of fact, now, according to President Biden, it is 106. And teams intensified the search for more dead in neighborhoods and reduced to ash. I mean, excuse me, Governor Josh Green, Joshua Green of Hawaii announced that confirmed the death toll has rise from 99 to 101. And in the afternoon video saying we are heart sick, we've just had such a loss. The U.S. and now it's 106 as of today. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services deployed a team of coroners, pathologists, technicians, along with an exam table, X-ray units and other equipment to identify victims. And process remains as Jonathan Green, the agency's deputy secretary for response. According to the Department of Health, it's going to be a very difficult mission, says Green, and patients will be incredibly important because of the number of victims. A week after the blaze tore through the historic Lahana, Hawaii, and many survivors moving to hundreds of hotel rooms set aside for displaced locals while donations of food, ice water, and many other centers poured in. Crews with cadaver dogs that scoured about 32% of the area of the county of Maui said in a statement Tuesday that the governor asked for patients as authorities became overwhelmed with requests to visit the burn area. Just three bodies have been identified thus far and officials are starting to release names. Tuesday, according to the Maui police chief, John Pelleter, who renewed and appealed with families of missing relatives to provide DNA samples. So far, according to this report, 41 samples have been submitted by the county of Maui in a statement and 13 DNA profiles have been obtained with the remains. The governor warned that scores of bodies can be found while fires and some have not been fully contained and are ready to deadliest in the US in more than a century. The cause is under investigation. When asked by the Hawaii News now, which is a television program, if children are among the missing, Green said Tuesday, tragically yes, the bodies are smaller and we know it's a child. He described of the sites being searched too much to share to see if it's just human perspective. Another complicating factor says Green that the storms, wind and rain were in the forecast of the weekend. Officials are modeling whether preemptively power is down or lack of short period of time because now the infrastructure is weaker. A week after the fire started, some residents remain with intermittent power and reliable cell phone service and uncertainty whether to get assistance. Some people walked periodically to a seawall where phone connections were strongest to make calls. Flying low off the coast with a single prop airplane and loudspeaker to blur information where to get water and supplies. Victoria, a month to see, lost her scuba business and a boat who lost her scuba business and a boat, planned to travel to her storage unit in Kauai and Kahana Home Wednesday to stash documents and keep safe and to keep by her friend which house was burned. These things she grabbed and the only thing she could grab and I wanted to keep them safe. She said, although a local power utility has been faced with criticism by not setting up the power as strong as when buffed under a high risk area for fire. And it is not clear whether the utility equipment played any role in igniting the flames. The Hawaiian Electric Company president and CEO, Sidney Kimura, said that factors go into the decision to cut power including the impact on people who rely on specialized medical equipment and concerns that a shout off in the fire would knock out water pumps. If you have specialized medical equipment during a wildfire, it's really hard to deal with. Green said the flames raised as fast as a mile, 1.6 kilometers every minute in some areas, fueled by dry grass and propelled by strong winds from a passing hurricane. The blaze that swept into centuries old Lahana last week destroyed nearly every building in the town of 13,000. The fire had been 85% contained according to the country, according to the county. Another blaze as an off county fire was 60% contained. The Lahana fire caused about 3.2 billion in short property losses according to the calculations by Cameron Clark and Company, a prominent disaster and risk modeling company that doesn't count damage to uninsured property. The firm said that in 2,200 buildings were damaged and destroyed by flames and 3,000 damaged by fire and smoke or both. Even when the flames had retreated, authorities had warned that toxic byproducts remain in drinking water and flames spewed poisonous fumes that people are unable to return home. The Red Cross said that 575 Blackened Easts were spread across shelters on Monday. Green said that thousands of people needed housing for at least 36 weeks. He said on Tuesday that some 450 hotel rooms and 1,000 Airbnb rentals will be made available. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he and the First Lady would visit Hawaii as soon as they can and he doesn't want his presence to interrupt recovery and cleanup efforts. During a stop in Milwaukee to highlight his economic agenda, Biden pledged that every asset they need will be there for them. FEMA will be providing $700 to displaced residents, $700 each to displaced residents to cover the cost of food, water, first aid and medical supplies. In addition to qualifying coverage of lost homes and personal property. The Biden administration is seeking $12 billion more of Governor's Disaster Relief Fund as part of the supplemental funding request by Congress. Green said that leaders across the board are helping to donate 1 million pounds, which is about 450,000 kilograms of food as well as ice, water, diapers, formula, US Marines and Hawaii National Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers and Coast Guard have all joined the aid of recovery efforts. The Lahana resident Kiyoka Lansford said that who helped rescue as the flames, she was helped being rescued as the flames swept across the town. Now he is collecting stories of survivors hoping to create a timeline of what happened. He has 170 emails so far. The scene was haunting, horrible. Lansford said Tuesday you could see you have seen hell in the movies. That's what it looked like fire everywhere and dead people. Honolulu reported and Los Angeles Associated Press journalist Bobby Conner, Calvin of Kauai and even Daly of Hawaii and other reporters from New Hampshire and other places including Washington have contributed. The Associated Press climate environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. Also, if you want more information on the wildfires, you can go to www.apnews.com slash Hawaii. So now I'm going to give you information on American Red Cross disaster relief. So if you're having any disaster right now, fires, floods, anything of that nature, the Red Cross has disaster relief services. You can go to www.redcross.org. That's www.redcrossredcorsf.org. The Red Cross responds to an emergency every eight minutes. So if you need help from home fire relief, hurricane relief, wildfire relief or flood relief, you can go to www.redcross.org. And down here, as you can see on your screen, there is a graph. If you want to learn more about the historic disaster responses, according to year, the method, let's go to 2022 and go across the graph. Hurricane Ian was in 22. So going up top, if you want to volunteer, I'm going to the part up top here. So anybody that wants to volunteer for the American Red Cross, again, you can go to www.redcross.org. You can be a blood ambassador and give blood. You can do blood transportation. You can be a blood transportation specialist. 90% of the Red Cross workforce are volunteers. And there are videos to watch and training to watch and so on. So volunteers help respond to an average of 60,000 disasters every year. More than 25,000 volunteers support Red Cross blood services. More than 15,000 nurses and nursing students are volunteers. 25% of volunteers are age 24 or younger. And you can go here to give blood. There's training and certification, so on and so forth. So for more, again, there's a graph drop down menu. But for more information on the American Red Cross, you can go to www.redcross.org. That's R-E-D-C-R-O-S-S dot org forward slash volunteer. It's extremely important to help our neighbors in need, especially during the Montpelier flood that we've had recently or anything that is dealing with disaster relief. We must help our neighbors also by giving food. One last website I'm going to give during this show. If during disaster relief, during the disaster situation, anybody that needs food stamps during this time of need. I'm going to go click here. Anybody that needs food stamp benefits during flash flood fires and so on, you can go to www.usa.gov forward slash food stamps. So that's www.usa.gov forward slash food stamps. And they give you information on how to known as food stamps, SNAP, the supplemental nutrition assistance program. You can pay for food if you have low income. Each month SNAP benefits are added to an electronic benefit transfer EBT card, but you can shop for food. To be eligible for SNAP benefits during disasters or regular time, you must meet your state's requirements. So you must meet the Vermont requirements if you need food stamps. And it's part of your income limit. States can take other resources into account like the money you have in your bank to decide if you qualify for SNAP. To apply for SNAP, contact your state or local SNAP office. Depending on your state, you may apply online in person by mail or fax. You may need to be interviewed before you get SNAP benefits. So Vermont and on the side of this page, the USA.gov, it also talks about school meals. So let's go there for a minute because we're going to be going into school in September. School meals and food programs for children. Your child might qualify for a free reduced price meal at their school or childcare center. They can get food assistance through the school year and summer break. You can scroll down and go to the national school lunch program, the school breakfast program, and the special milk program for milk for students. For more information on this page or this information, you can go to www.usa.gov. For sports last school meals starting in September or maybe this summer they also have school meals. This information was important today due to the wildfires or anything, any other resource that you needed on today's program. You can also go to www.orchimedia.net and look at Ableden on Air. So that's www.orchimedia.net, forward slash Ableden on Air. This has been an episode of Ableden on Air. Again, Arlene is not here today. She is recuperating in the hospital and we wish her speedy recovery. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. 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