So, one of our members posted a question about a man she'd been communicating with to arrange her first date. And what happened was that they texted, it seems to me I think they probably had more text communication than any telephone call because during the text he had suggested that she come to his part of town and they live in New York roughly about 20 minutes from each other and he claimed that this part of town is nicer than her part of town that there are more fun things to do in his part of town. Now her first reaction was that he was rather snobby suggesting that maybe where he lives is better than when she lives. That's not how I view this and I thought I'd dive into a deeper conversation about men when these things occur. So what in my perception and again with that with limited information and she shared the text message and I didn't think it was it came across snobby and yet to some degree I could see how some parts of town are better than others. I live in Los Angeles, I live in a beach town area but Beverly Hills is a nicer place in town to go out for nicer food if you will. Okay, so but coming back to his suggestion of coming to his part of town.  And the reality is most men these days have become rather lazy in the dating realm for a number of different reasons and I think it's important to explore why this happens rather than judging it. So when I talk about lazy I want you to imagine this. A lot of men get we get we tend to get rejected more by women than men than men rejecting women. Now that's in the case of asking out on first dates. We tend to get rejected more often so put that in a box for a second. I know men may not be noncommittal in and relationships and that's a different story. So we get rejected more often.  Now you might hear that and go well why would I want to be with a man who isn't confident. The reality is is for most of us in midlife on some level we've experienced a lot of rejection because we might have experienced a divorce which is a sense of rejection we might have been in a relationship that ended and there's a sense of rejection. And what's happened is men have kind of lost that drive to chase for those men who are in midlife to chase. Now part of the reason that they're not chasing in this particular case more than likely is this. He views this person refuse this member of ours as a what I call a maybe a maybe. And what that means is maybe likes her maybe doesn't like her. Now most likely all the information he has to go on is a few pictures and a few text messages. That's not enough information to put that person in a category of like oh I really want to pursue this person unless he feels a strong affinity for the profile. Unless you've had this spectacular telephone call that suggests that you really want to connect with this person which I don't believe happened. I believe they probably just had text exchange. The reality in this particular case is he fuses her as a maybe and he wants to put in minimal effort.  Now does that make a man bad. Sure if you're listening to the feminine energy coaches that say men must do the chasing and men must do this and men must do that. And yeah he's not your guy but let's look at this situation. So it's a 20 minute schlep to his part of town. If you did decide to go okay. What's the worst thing that's going to happen. You drew you know you have a 20 minute ride back okay. And you and it was a miserable day okay. I could see that happening but what happens if you hit it off with one another. Is it worth making a big deal about the travel. Now the same could be said why isn't he traveling to her. Well I'm going to make the following suggestion in this particular case. My guess is they've mostly had telephone calls or excuse me. Text exchanges which is very difficult to communicate with our thumbs are our you know human communication I believe 80 to 90 percent is nonverbal. We weren't designed to communicate with our thumbs. It makes it very difficult. I know I have a challenge communicating with my thumbs. And in other words a lot of the thoughts that are here don't get conveyed on the screen. And then sometimes I'm back you know like my grammar could be off or you know I forgot to put a punctuation or something like that. I used your instead of you are you know so. So these things happen with this type of communication. So what I would suggest in this particular case is rather than meeting up is to have a phone date. My suggestion would be to initiate a telephone call where you actually speak for an hour or so to build up some rapport over the phone. Look it's challenging these days to meet total strangers and I get it. You don't want to go get on a subway to go uptown or downtown or wherever he lives and you don't want to invest that either. The reality is is men and women want to invest the least amount of time and we judge men as being bad for wanting to invest the least amount of time. The reality is is these days it's frustrating to date in this in this internet age. It's uncomfortable to date people that you know very little about that are total strangers and worse. It's that we look at a profile and we put this person in this maybe category but that because it isn't so substantially stunning enough to say oh my God she's you know that Farrah Fawcett and I'm going to chase her wherever she lives. I'm picking on Farrah Fawcett because I'm from that Charlie's Angels era. By the way I was more of a Jacqueline Smith fan anyway. Also kind of had a thing for Cheryl Ladd but that's another story. Okay coming back to is he lazy? It's really he just wants to make the least amount of effort. That doesn't make him a bad guy. So why not initiate a telephone call. Just simply say hey you know before we meet is it okay if that we chat on the phone for a little bit to get to know each other before we meet and that way you've initiated the effort. You might be going oh my God that's in your masculine energy. No it is not in your masculine energy to initiate a telephone call. And simply say hey before we meet it would be great to talk on the phone to get to know each other a little bit. So let's say you talk on the phone. On the phone you can make a little joke say you know I'm going to be honest with you. When you suggest it coming to your part of town I kind of thought you were snobby and I just wanted to own that okay I thought you're kind of snobby and I wanted to own that. The point is see how he responds to that because if he is snobby he will go into a controlling defensive behavior actually it doesn't have to be snobby to go go into a controlling defensive behavior but if he gets defensive about it it gives you a clue on where his bandwidth is quite frankly on his sense of humor because you can make it a little bit of a joke to say you know what I'll be honest with you. I thought you were snobby and you can say a tongue of a cheek okay. Now you've established this telephone call this rapport you can simply say you know it would make me feel great or it would feel really awesome if you just came to my part of town that shows you know I prefer that makes me feel safer and you know I'd like to get to know you and meet you but and at the same time I'd feel safer if we came to my part of town see how he reacts now you must keep in mind most guys are talking to three or four women at the same time most women are talking to three or four men at the same time and this might be a deal breaker a lot of men do the numbers game they're communicating with a lot of people at the same time which is very natural with this medium you're meeting a total stranger you haven't met through mutual friends okay this is the tricky part but we can make a big deal you can make a mountain out of a molehill you could simply say he's snobby and you can just reject him or you could simply make a little bit of effort to see if he's willing to meet you halfway I don't mean well you can meet you halfway in a different part of town maybe you guys meet somewhere in town that's only 10 minutes from each other that's another option as well but I want you to know men are lazy they want to make the least amount of effort that doesn't make them bad men that doesn't make them unavailable for a relationship it's just a natural byproduct of what's happening using this medium of technology to connect with people he doesn't know who you are yet you don't know who he is yet at the same time sometimes we have to roll the dice because you might be surprised you never know if this might be a person worth exploring so again you can meet up with them that's one option I suggest getting on a telephone call just to see if you have telephone report in that telephone call suggests somewhere halfway or somewhere near you which would make you feel safer and then see how he responds to that that'll give you an indication if he's a good guy or not if he likes your profile enough he'll make the effort I know if I like the woman's profile enough I'd make the effort and yet I have been very lazy to I'd rather people come to me listen after COVID a lot of people don't want to go anywhere these days so this is just a natural byproduct of what's happening in the dating mating relating realm is this sinking in is this resonating please let me know please post a comment below I'd like to hear your thoughts on this if you have something to add I'd really appreciate it as always if you find value in the group please tell your friends about midlife love mastery send them to my website Jonathan as a dot com have them click the group coaching button so you they can join our fantastic group and I'm gonna sign up this video as I always do first off give myself a big gigantic Jonathan bear out of self love I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm asking you to turn to someone a pet a teddy bear pillow there's a teddy bear give it or them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it we could all use more love in our lives thanks a bunch bye bye now


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unisor Education. Continue talking about different units in physics. Today we will talk about units in magnetism. Derived units of magnetism. Derived from the base units which we have already covered in previous lectures. Now this lecture is part of the course called Physics 14's presented on Unisor.com. The website is totally free. I suggest you to use it. There are no advertisements, by the way. No strings attached. You don't even have to login if you don't want to. In any case, the website contains prerequisite course, mass 14's. You do have to know mass if you study physics. Now this part of the course, units in physics, is just some kind of a recap, because I'm talking only about units. But I do touch base with certain concepts in physics, because to talk about unix in, let's say magnetism, I have to talk about certain concepts related to magnetism. Not in all the details, but just some of them as a recap. The most important part is in corresponding lectures, in this case for electromagnetism and in some other cases. Ok, so let's go to magnetism. Well, magnetism is related to the concept of a field, as you know, magnetic field in this case. More precisely, it's electromagnetic field, but this was covered in corresponding lectures about electromagnetism. Right now, we're talking only about certain characteristics, and more precisely, magnetic characteristics of the field, and how they can be measured. Now, well, the field implies that there is some kind of a force under certain circumstances. Now, you recall that there is a concept called Lorentz force. So what is Lorentz force? Now, I will use only the simplest magnetic field, which is totally uniform. So there are magnetic field lines, and if you can imagine, let's say, a very large magnet of this type. This is north, this is south. Then in this particular part of the magnet, the lines, magnetic lines, are practically parallel. And you know what magnetic lines is. We covered this topic, how to basically display them using some kind of shavings, metal shavings. Okay, so that's done. So I'm assuming that we have a uniform magnetic field, and these are the lines, lines of magnetic field. So it's totally parallel lines, and the vectors associated are of the same magnitude. Now, what about the force? And how can this force be actually demonstrated? Well, the force can be demonstrated if you put some kind of a conductor with electric current. Now, you remember that electrostatic field manifests itself as a force if you put a static electric charge in it. There will be attraction or repelling. In case of magnetic field, you need a moving electric charge to demonstrate that there is some kind of a force. So let's say that perpendicularly to these lines, perpendicular is very important, it would be actually perpendicular to the surface of the board. So I'll put it this way. There is an electric current. It's a conductor of lengths L. Now, electric current is basically a flow of electrons and there is certain amperage associated with it. And the length has a fixed length. Now, if you do this, then the force will be perpendicular to both the magnetic field lines and the line of electric current. So if electric current is perpendicularly to this board, then the direction of the force which is perpendicular to both, to this and to this, will be this. So this will be my force. So that was experimentally basically confirmed. And the Lorentz force basically says that the force in its magnitude, so direction became already determined. So force in its magnitude is proportional to both the amperage and the lengths of the conductor. Okay, now what is proportional means that there is some kind of coefficient of proportionality, which in this case, use the letter B. And this is a characteristic of the field itself. So regardless of what kind of a conductor, lengths or amperage which is going along the conductor is, the formula will be the same. So you will have twice as much amperage, you will have twice as much force. You will have twice as much lengths, you will have twice as much force. But the coefficient will be exactly the same because it's a characteristic of the field. And this characteristic is called either intensity, which I prefer as a term. Or there is another term, length here, but more precise I would say. It's called magnetic flux density. So magnetic flux density, why is it flux density? I will talk just a little bit later. But meanwhile, let's call it density for now. So intensity is a characteristic of the field. At any point of the field, it's directed along the magnetic field lines from north to south, usually. I mean, if it's magnet like this, for example, this is north and this is south, then magnetic field lines are like this, right? And the direction of the B vector would be tangential to every line. So this is direction and the magnitude is basically a coefficient of proportionality. Now obviously at any point of space, it can be different because maybe it will be further from the magnet or it will be closer to the north pole and then to the south. It's not uniform field, generally speaking. I have defined it for uniform field, which means that we can always define it locally. So for every locality, very small one, infinitesimally small one, obviously it will be a concrete vector. So it's a vector field, basically. When the vector is defined at every point of space around the magnet, it constitutes the vector field. It's a vector at each point. This point vector, this point vector, etc. Okay, now let's talk about measuring intensity. Measuring this magnetic flux density. Well, from this formula it's very easy. We can measure it using, we have already defined units for force, units for electric current and units for lengths, right? So if B in this case is equal to F over I times L, so we can say that one unit of measurement of magnetic field intensity is one Newton divided by ampere lengths. So it can be one Newton force, which is produced by the field, in case one ampere of electricity is going through the conductor of one meter lengths. Now, if this condition, then whatever the magnetic field which delivers this one Newton, in case you put one ampere and one along the one meter, that's the unit of intensity. And it's called Tesla. Well, almost almost almost all units in physics. I'm not talking about early units like kilogram. I'm talking about a little bit more advanced units, which were basically established, discovered much later. They're all in honor of some physicists. In this case it's Tesla. So Tesla is a unit of magnetic flux density or intensity of the magnetic field. So magnetic field intensity is a vector. This is a unit of measurement of magnitude of this vector. And the direction, as I was saying, is along the magnetic field lines. So this is a unit. Let me just repeat again. If one amperage exists in lengths of a conductor of one meter, and if the field is uniform and this conductor is perpendicular to the magnetic field lines, and if the resulting force is one Newton, it means that the field, magnetic field in this particular point, where this particular conductor is located, is one Tesla. Okay, now the second thing is related to magnetic flux. That's where you will see why intensity is called magnetic field flux. First of all, what is flux? Flux is basically a, well, half mathematical, half physical concept, which basically means that if you have certain vector field, and right now I draw a uniform vector field, if you put some kind of an area perpendicularly to this particular vector field, so let's say vector field has magnitude V, and the area is S. Then V times S basically is a flux. It's amount of something which goes through this surface, basically. That's what it is. Now, if situation is much more complex, for example, the source is a point and the vector field goes this way, and the area which you would like to basically find the flux through is some kind of ellipsoid or whatever around this point. So it goes through this surface. All the vectors go eventually through the surface. How can we calculate the flux? Well, it's an integration. You take one small piece, one piece has a concrete vector which goes through it, and since it's infinitesimal piece, we can consider that vectors which are coming through this infinitesimal piece are all the same, and it has certain area. You multiply these vectors by this infinitesimal area and integrate along the whole surface. It's mathematically involved, but physically it's much simpler. So let's say some source of energy. Let's say a heater, and you have a heater inside the room, and you would like to know how much energy is consumed by all walls of the room, including ceiling and floor. Well, that's basically the calculation of the flux. In this case, flux of the heat energy. Now, in case of magnetic field, we have exactly the same story. We have a vector field of intensity, right? Let's B. And if we put any kind of a surface through which magnetic field lines are going through, you can always calculate the product. Well, if this surface, let's say, is flat and perpendicular to magnetic field lines, well, you will just multiply by area. So this is area, and this is intensity. So this is Tesla. This is meter square. So the unit of magnetic flux is Tesla times square meter, which is called Weber, WB, capital W, lowercase b. So one Weber is one Tesla times meter square. So this is basically how, sorry, this is how the magnetic flux actually is calculated. Well, magnetic and electricity and magnetism are very complex. And I have this whole part of the course called electromagnetism, which explains the details. This is just a recap to talk about units of measurement of electricity, magnetism and some other things. So that's why it's very brief. My purpose was to introduce basically two units of measurements related to magnetism, which is Tesla. That's a characteristic of the field at each point. It's a vector, which is called intensity or magnetic flux density. And magnetic field is another concept which is integrated kind of a flow of whatever, magnetic field energy, if you wish. This measured in Weber's. And by the way, Weber is just yet another physicist. Everything is by name of somebody. I suggested to read the notes for this lecture. Notes are on this website just parallel to the lecture itself. So if you go to the website, you choose physics for a team's course, units in physics, that's the chapter or part of the course. And then you go to derived units, derived C units. And I'm talking about C only because there are many other units and there are conversions, etc., which I'm not getting involved in. So it's a derived C units and among the derived C units, you have units of magnetism. So notes basically are more or less the same thing as I'm talking about right now. But it's always good not only to listen, but also to read. You have different kind of parts of the brain involved in this. All right, that's it for today. Thanks very much and good luck.


Well as we're in Cardiff the home of Welsh rugby it seemed apt that the next challenge should involve rugby Okay, so eight balls the most conversion wins, and we've got teammates Magic Gynoski and Ty Wyfinnod to go back to back who can do it pressure big pressure Ty Wyfinnod magic. Are you ready? They're gonna run up and one oh First one over And two Second one over oh he makes three third one over Oh that counts, we count That counts. Oh He didn't do it. Okay, we're on four. We're on four This one over we're on five Oh Good effort Ty good effort the pressure got to me three balls it counts. He's on seven six Magic's got seven magic's got seven. It's a good effort. It's a good effort. All right Big pressure big pressure like in the finals Always a winner, right? If we're not comparing in speedway that then I win everything All right, thanks for that. Thank you very much


So here we are in Cakewalk with a very typical setup. With this blue channel over here I have an acoustic guitar track. It could be anything. And over on this green bus over here I have inserted a reverb effect. Okay so anything I send to that bus is going to have that reverb applied. Let's do that now. I'll go over to my acoustic guitar channel. I'll click on the plus symbol next to sends and I'll select that bus reverb. Okay now let me know in the comments down below if you've ever done this and you've noticed this button here. It's labeled post and it's currently switched on and you've switched it off and on and haven't really heard a difference so therefore haven't used this feature. Hi folks I'm Mike and I hope you're well. You know mixing is partially about problem solving and it's amazing how often the solution involves using a bus but how we send our signal to that bus can make a big difference to the outcome. That's why in today's video we're going to be learning about post sends, pre sends and when to use them. Okay so back to our original example that we were looking at in the intro. I've got my acoustic guitar channel over here with this send across to this green channel which has a reverb plugin inserted. So I'm going to hear guitar with some reverb. Before we listen to that let's just switch that send off so we can hear how that acoustic guitar sounds without the reverb. Okay now let's switch it on and hear it with the reverb. Okay right away we can probably hear that there's way too much reverb for most circumstances. Now there's a couple of different ways we can control the level of the reverb here. First of all we could go to the reverb bus itself and just use the fader and turn it down so you could start off with it all the way at the bottom and then gradually push it up until it sounds right to you. It sounds like this. Now that method is okay if you're just using sort of one instrument like this and it's using one bus for reverb but if you've got several instruments or channels going to that bus you may want to control individual levels of reverb for each channel. So what we're going to do is go back to the fader and then just double click on it to reset it and this time we're actually going to use the level control over here right next to the sense. I'll turn that all the way down. I'll play the track and then I'll gradually turn it up until I'm happy with the result. Okay that sounds about right to me. Now an interesting thing happens when we use the fader for this guitar. Let's imagine it was fading out at the end of a track or perhaps just you know dipping down lower during the middle of a track. Have a listen and see what we hear. So we hear the guitar fade out but we also hear the reverb fade out in unison. Yeah they kind of keep their balance with each other and it all sort of disappears naturally there and that's because we have this button switched on this post button that we were talking about. Now what I want you to remember is that the word post also means after. So when we say post fader which is what this is labelling we're actually meaning after fader meaning the signal which is being sent to the bus is being affected by the level of the fader. Okay so less fader less signal being sent to the bus so in this case less reverb. That's quite handy because then when we want to sort of adjust the volume of our guitar in this case we're also automatically adjusting the volume of the reverb as well. So that's the function at the moment of this post button being switched on and it's switched on by default because that's the most common usage. However we don't always want it to behave in that way. So in this example we're using our send for a different reason and you'll see over here with the acoustic guitar we're now sending our signal to a different bus it's called compressor. That's all the way over here it's the purple one and this bus has a compressor on it the FET 76. Now I'm going to be doing something which is called parallel compression that's simply where you have your original guitar signal and then you do a send to a bus with a compressor on it and you have that signal highly compressed okay very very highly compressed and then you just blend the two together okay and that's why you'll notice with this mix at the moment I actually have the fader for the compressor bus down pretty low here okay because normally with parallel compression you're going to want that highly compressed guitar just to be quite a lot lower than the regular signal for the guitar or whatever instrument it is your parallel compressing. Now currently I have that post button switched on as it was before. Now I want you to watch the needle over here on this compressor as I push the fader down okay now with more compression that needle is going to be going all the way over to the left okay you'll see that as soon as I play the guitar it will go all the way over to the left then see what happens as I turn that fader down okay so it's highly compressing it is going down look at that needle and as we get all the way down to the bottom we can see there is no compression happening at all why because we have this set to post fader then less and less signal is being sent to that compressor okay so it's not needing to work because it isn't getting the signal that it needs to really kick in. Now in most cases with something like parallel compression that is not ideal at all we actually want to still have that highly compressed guitar but we just want its volume to go down lower okay so of course as you've probably guessed we need to flick this switch we need to turn the post fader sorry the post fader send off okay so we'll switch it off now we have what's called a pre fader send okay now pre means before yeah so the signal is being sent across to this compressor before it's being affected by the fader at all okay so as you're probably going to guess is as I bring this fader down now that needle is not really going to change over here it's still going to highly compress that guitar okay so let's do that and see how it actually sounds faders going down still lots of compression okay now that fader is all the way down but you'll notice we're still hearing the guitar why because we're actually now hearing only the compressed guitar over here now this can be a little bit problematic of course we are having the effect that we wanted in the sense that we're getting that guitar to be compressed regardless of its volume as its output volume but we usually want those two now to work in unison so we solve that in the following way although at least I solve it in the following way I'm just going to reset that fader for the guitar and we're going to create a new bus okay so just drag this divider over I'm just going to insert a stereo bus here doesn't matter what we call it we can just call it G bus a guitar bus that's fine now at the bottom of the guitar channel okay well we have our output drop down it's currently set to master which means the guitar is just going straight out to the master fade or the master bus okay so I'm going to change that and redirect it to G bus which is that new bus we created also for the compressor over here the guitar compressor in purple I'm going to do the same go to its output and have it go to G bus now what's happening is those two blended signals which are kind of got a balance with each other at the moment the original guitar and the compressed guitar and now both going to this new fader now when I bring this fader down then we get the expected result we're still getting the original guitar we're still getting a highly compressed guitar blended in with it but now when we use our fader for automation or what have you we get what we would kind of expect to happen they both blend out together so when should you use post fader sends and when should use pre fader sends well certain effects are going to have their character change depending on the amount of level or signal they receive okay the example we used earlier was a compressor okay so it's going to actually kick in with more signal being sent to it another example of that would be saturation plugins normally they're going to need to reach a certain level before they actually start to add saturation fall below a certain level and they're really not doing much so in those cases I would always use a pre fader send so that I can maintain a consistent level going through to those buses with those effects on in most other cases when I'm using stuff like reverb or delay or EQ then a post fader send is just fine it's simple to use there's no fussing around with extra buses and it's going to do the trick for you now buses are not the only type of channel that you can send signals to in cakewalk if you want to find out about all of your options in terms of routing in cakewalk by bandlab check out this video here we're going to run through all of that and that's going to help you find better solutions for the problems that you face in your mixes


Well, good morning everybody and We are having a little bit of a late start. So This panel despite the fact that it does address one of the most complex Issues in the whole world is gonna last a little shorter. I had a long I prepared a long introduction but since I am Probably the neat the least knowledgeable person on the stage about the issue I'm going to forego the introduction that that I prepared. I'm just gonna start out by saying that my closest encounter with With the Korean issue was at a time when I served as president of the United Nations General Assembly in 2013 when One of the nuclear tests Was performed by the North Korea and and I was in office and I very well remember the early morning when this became news and when I had Very agile conversation since early morning with my American colleague with my South Korean colleague. Everybody asked me to To call for for a session of the General Assembly an emergency session and and I said of course I will do that But I need to talk to the ambassador of North Korea first So I invited to my office the ambassador of North Korea and I asked him sir There are deep concerns about what took place last night in North Korea and he asked me What happened? And I said well actually the whole world is talking about this and there seems to be You know a nuclear test that was performed and he said that is not true. Do not believe the propaganda of the West So I must admit that I was puzzled with this conversation But nonetheless we did proceed to hold a session of the General Assembly, but but that was my That was my closest call with with the issue that Has been dominating the agenda of international relations for decades and especially in the last year year and a half There were some turbulent developments from fire and fury and nuclear buttons to a bunch of smiles and handshakes and and and a very hopeful discourse according to many Observers in this particular case, but as I said I'm gonna stop there I'm not gonna speak more about about the about the issue here on the stage. We have some really really impressive group of people on my immediate left is Tuske and Elbagdorch former President of Mongolia and a dear friend of mine actually a classmate of mine from graduate school He is he was the leader of the peaceful democratic revolution in Mongolia in 1990s and Served as a member of Parliament chairman of the major Party in Mongolia as well as Prime Minister prior to becoming President having served two terms as presidents He's a commissioner right now for the International Commission against the death penalty and a patron of the world sustainable Development forum a proud graduate from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Then we have one GC One of China's leading thinkers and most respected intellectuals He's the professor of the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of international and strategic studies at Peking University He was a global scholar at Princeton He's an honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies and For many years he served as a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China's Foreign Ministry He holds many other he held many other affiliations and is also a director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China Then we have Douglas Pal vice president for studies at Carnegie Endowment for international peace He Previously served as vice chairman of JP Morgan Chase and a national But he was an official US representative to Taiwan and as director of the American Institute in Taiwan 2006 sorry 2002 to 2006 He was in the National Council staffs of presidents Reagan and George HW Bush And he Also worked in US embassies in Singapore and Beijing Also a Harvard University graduate Then We have will be The order is slightly different. I was about to introduce a Russian but it's definitely not a Russian mr. Yim Sun Jun Senior advisor at Lee international IP and law group Previously he held in position of president of the Korea Foundation Served for many years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea Amongst other posts he held the position of ambassador to Canada in Egypt Served also as deputy minister of foreign affairs graduated from Seoul National University Oxford University and KO University Jose Yuichi is the professor at the faculty of law at KO University in Japan Previously he was an assistant professor at Hokkaido University He was a visiting researcher at Princeton visiting professor at Seattle and Paris He's a former member of the advisory board at Japan's National Security Council He was part of the prime minister's advisory Panel on reconstruction of the legal basis as well as on national security and defense capabilities And last but not least is Georgie Toloraya one of Russia's foremost experts on Korean affairs he Served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs In of Russia, but he also served in Russia's embassies both in the north and in the south Korea he is Currently the director of Korean programs at the Institute of Economy at the Russian Academy of Science and Professor of Rental Studies at the MIGIMO executive director of the Russia's National Committee on BRICS research Without further ado, I'm going to give floor to President Albert d'Orge, and I'm gonna ask you a question because You did visit North Korea more than once and you were very active as president in inter-Korean Dialogue gave you gave a famous speech in Pyongyang about democracy It's a fascinating topic to be discussed there. So it was the president


All right. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Mark Gillard. You're the director of the governor's office of emergency services Today we have the governor here and a number of our public safety leaders To really talk about a number of things that we are continuing to do to enhance preparedness and public safety throughout the state You know, let me start by framing the fact that In the last few years we have seen increasingly complex and extreme disasters that have resulted in significant amount of damage and destruction and loss of life 2018 alone Starting at the beginning of the year with the mudslides that occurred in Montecito in Santa Barbara County as a result of the Thomas fire following the 2017 fires all the way through 2018 with the number of fires And in the north ending with the campfire, which we all know In paradise was destructive for the entire town in all in 2018 We had more than 23,000 structures lost and almost over a hundred fatalities This is a very serious situation and we are continuing to work collectively and collaboratively to be able to address it Throughout our state and there are a number of initiatives that we're going to talk about today and and and Governor Newsom is going to brief us on But before the governor, I'm going to have Public safety partners that that that help manage at the state level Working with our local governments our local government fire law enforcement the sheriffs Our emergency managers are an integral component to our overall mutual aid system and Our preparedness system in making sure our communities are as safe and resilient as possible And it's important that we note that the public themselves need to continue to get engaged and informed To be as empowered as possible to protect their lives and property when these events happen So with that I'm going to Turn it over to our first speaker Tom Porter who is the acting director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Cal Fire Thank You director Giler Ducci I'm here to kind of set the frame framework for why It why coal facts? What is the significance of coal facts in in what is a statewide problem? The There are communities throughout, California that are just like coal facts There is a fire problem that we have that we have been working to mitigate through forest resilience work through fuel breaks through defensible space improvements and All that goes along with that pre fire element of wildfires So coal facts sits as many other communities including Auburn Dutch flat On the rim of the North Fork of the American River North Fork of the American River in this part of the state is a source of most of the large damaging fires that happen here and putting fuel breaks and fuel and forest resilience kind of programs Along the below the rim and along the rim near the communities is one way of reducing the intensity of fires and increasing the capability of firefighters to protect the communities Unfortunately last year the campfire really gave us a test and a Understanding that the the traditional methods that we've used are not working we have to do more and and This governor governor Newsom is going to be sure that we do so and has promised to support Our departments all of us behind me in making sure that happens that is the the relevance of why we're in coal facts and It's very important that that we understand that this is a statewide problem. Thank you Commissioner Stanley Thank You Tom and I just like to talk about the interagency aspect of dealing with these fires. They're so big They're so large and they can go on for a long time and from a law enforcement perspective There's so much law enforcement that is needed The CHP in the National Guard we can come in we provide assistance to the sheriff's department of the police department To help manage the fire so we can mitigate it and hopefully as soon as possible get people back in their homes Once the fire has been mitigated in the ways that we help out are with traffic control security general law enforcement and one thing that was Always so so very important when people have to evacuate their homes and go to a shelter They're concerned about the things that are left there in that home And one of the things that we help with help out with with the sheriff's department of the police department is patrolling for looters and there were some of that going on in the campfire and we were very happy And proud to assist with that and get those people off the streets and From that perspective, I want to say thank you to Governor Newsom for having the faith in the four of us here myself Mark Gilder-Ducci Tom Porter and General Baldwin. We've been working together for the last couple of years, especially We've had so many fires since 2017 and we make a great team. We work hard together We have a lot of fun, but we understand what's going on and we're able to bring in our resources resources to help mitigate these fires and Maintain public safety. So with that, I'll turn it over to General Baldwin Thanks Warren. Good afternoon everyone. The California National Guard has global commitments Indeed in the last two years. We've had soldiers and airmen deployed to all seven continents around the world But for the National Guard, job one for us is here at home protecting lives and property at the direction of the governor and the last few years as Tom Porter and Mark Gilder-Ducci discussed have been especially challenging as we've seen this tremendous uptick in the number of very large-scale disasters Mainly fires. As a result all of us within the interagency that's responsible for public safety have had to evolve the way That we do business Governor Newsom when he first came in here and effectively the first day on his job has directed that we continue to innovate and leverage Technology and specifically for the military department. How can we better use military technologies in order to help our Allied fire and law enforcement agencies protect lives of property here in the state now We've been innovative in the past with unmanned systems But now we're exploring and at the direction of the governor are going to continue to explore ways that we can enhance our Ground-based sensors other aerial platforms and even space-based systems So that we can provide notice and warning to people in real-time and to be able to support those out there on the line fighting The fires are responding to disasters with that technology Some of that change is not merely technological application But we also have to challenge some of the firewalls and systems that exist back in the Pentagon and back in Washington DC where there's rules that limit our access and our ability to leverage and use these systems in use of unmanned systems For example in order for us to fly our Reaper aircraft in order to support Cal Fire We have to go back to the Secretary of Defense who personally has to give us permission to do that That process can take hours or in some cases even days or weeks during an emergency. We don't have hours We need to be able to respond immediately So those are kind of rules and and old ways of doing business that we want to break down at the heart of Innovation is must be a willingness to change and a willingness to take on old ways of doing business and come up with better Ways of business doing business in order for us to respond Collectively in collaborative and with a synergistic effect across the interagency Governor Newsom has directed us to do that and all four of the leaders that stand before you are Poison have already been talking very excitedly about ways that we're going to work better together Breakdown stovepipes between our various agencies and we're collaborating in the interest of the people of Cal California with that I'll be followed by our Commander-in-Chief Governor Newsom Thank you to all of you for being here and and I'm Very pleased to be in Placer County up here in Colfax. I spent a good deal of my life Just up the road in Dutch flat where we have a home and down the road where my father was on the Superior court where I was Jennifer Small enough that I fit in that statue where the gold pan is I was actually Physically in the gold pan. I I don't think I can fit it in anymore, but that gives you a sense of my history in this part of the state and I am happy to be back here on my first day at work to make a Symbolic and substantive point that I place no greater Emphasis and energy and sense of urgency than on the issue of public safety Broadly defined and in particular the issues of emergency preparedness I don't know what more evidence one needed than having gotten gone through an election Only to wake up the next morning To face not only two fires one Up here in the northern part of the state one in the southern part of the state But also that tragic shooting down in southern, California I was as you may recall in my acting governor Capacity as lieutenant governor as the governor had left the state and it only underscored and reinforced the imperative That I place on making sure this state is more resilient and more prepared For natural and man-made disasters look it goes without saying the hots are getting hotter The dries are getting drier the wets are getting wetter You may call it climate change you may call it global warming someone called it global weirding to me the other day Someone at the monivista in we were playing Liars dice the other day said to me. I don't care what you call it He says something ain't right and the fact is the climate is changing and We need to change with it We still have Organized so much of the bureaucracy of government around a world that no longer exists around a fire season that no longer exists We staff up we staff down And now we're reacting to these old mores and that fundamentally has to change in the last few years I think substantive progress has been made in the state of California the legislature and Former governor Brown. I did think I think did a very good job in the last few years Leaning into these issues, but it's clear to me a lot more needs to be done You will see that demonstrably Recognized with our budget that I'll be releasing later this week We will place an historic investment in our emergency planning and emergency preparation in this state We will put over two hundred million dollars Not just the two hundred million that was announced last year on the cap and trade to deal with forest health And address some of the need to thin our forests and make sure they're more resilient We will place even more resources than that baseline. We will invest in Pre-positioning in ways we haven't in the past with more Support local level more mutual aid. We will invest the general said and more technology more cameras technology More strategies to access data like data satellite data and partner with our federal government On other technology that exists that frankly hasn't been utilized in the past We will make sure that we resource As well our efforts to focus on alert systems To build on some of the legislative efforts there Not just with the federal overlays with the we have program But some of the local strategies and the issues related to opting in to those alert systems versus opting out We are going to lay out a strategy and a framework to make sure there's more Consistency in the 58 counties in the state and the 470 plus cities that represent this state over three hundred and five million dollars Will be invested in this space of additional resources including a hundred and nine million dollars To continue our investments in new technology on suppression Specifically as it relates to these black Hawk helicopters that will be retrofitted for water Efforts and for fire suppression. We will continue to make investments in our C 130's And make sure that Cal fire has a fleet of these retrofitted C 130's One will be rolling out formally into our possession even though we have access to a number of these C 130's We have a goal of getting seven additional units over the course of the next few years. So new equipment Historic investment new strategies to plea pre deploy resources and assets Historic amount of money to address the need to invest in our forest to make them healthier And to make sure that they're more resilient and always an emphasis of supporting local government You'll see that also reflected in that budget with grants And with support to localize solutions as each and every part of the state Requires unique and distinctive strategies to address the broader issues of emergency preparedness in addition And I know we're here talking about wildfires in addition We will also be making the final capital investment of sixteen point three million dollars into our early warning earthquake early warning system Which is something I've been eager to see happen for years and years This final investment will complete our sensors All over the state and then we'll have to figure out strategies to make sure that we operationalize You may know Los Angeles did a version of what we want to do statewide We're going to build on some of the work They've done and make sure that every part of the state has the benefit of that early warning system as well So broad strokes. We are stepping up our game. I Hear you I get it We need to do more and do better these last two years have been devastating 167 lives have been lost and fires or floods Over 33,000 structures if you look back over a 24-month period have been lost in this state billions and billions of dollars of Property losses and we are at a point where everybody's had enough and we need to I think make sure we are prepared More than ever for the next few months as we enter into the height of our fire season So that's the spirit of why we're here Let me be specific about three additional things and then obviously open up to any questions And I can flesh out any of the details on the budget if you like as well And that is today. I signed two executive orders one Prioritizing a different strategy to address where we begin to make our investments And the strategy is a little different than we've seen in the past I want to use science in a way. We haven't and I also want to address the issue of social mobility in the way We haven't it's crystal clear to me that the two need to twin We need to know what parts of this state are most at risk for disasters for emergencies for wildfires But not just at risk from a fuels perspective And a property damage perspective, but also from the perspective of mobility and lives social economic considerations seniors People that don't have the mobility many others have folks that don't have the resources that others have and begin to overlay Those two things in a way that then will allow us to more I think strategically prioritize where our first investments are made. I have tasked the folks behind me Including the no longer acting director of Cal Fire But now the current and permanent director of Cal Fire To come back in 45 days with a report That lays out their priorities and in that report will also include the legitimate considerations of Sequa and The prospect of creating some programmatic EIRs to allow us to move forward much more expeditiously Once we have that prioritization And make sure that we hit the ground running in terms of making sure these dollars are being expended And making sure the communities are being protected number two I have been very frustrated with our procurement in the state of California broadly Particularly as it relates to technology and innovation in this space around emergency preparedness I don't want to bore you But we have a world of you know sort of jumbled language on RF eyes RFPs RF queues Where frankly we are determining solutions Putting these things out over the course of years and years and eventually some bidders come forward.  We're living in we want to flip that completely on its head And we found a code section. We've got some fancy lawyers Found some code sections that allow me by executive order. I didn't know I could do it by executive order This is it's kind of fun being governor I thought we I'll go through this legislative process, but we're just going to do it We just did it. In fact sign this executive order where we're going to come out with this new version Called RFI to and we had to come up with a name Basically, it's an innovation model that allows us to iterate in real time and to procure in real time different solutions And to test those solutions in the field before then we go through the procurement process I want to see things happen in real time and I want people to compete for that mind share and for That work and so it's a completely different framework again This I'm not sure any you're gonna be interested in nightly news not interested in this and I'm not sure any you're gonna print this but this is I think actually a really big deal and it it's an encouraging thing that everybody behind me agreed with it and Express similar frustration and hopefully they can be relieved of that frustration as we move in a new direction and finally We have also signed a letter because I believe in collaboration And that collaboration extends beyond California Governor Inslee and Governor Brown of Oregon have signed a letter Long with the state of California that we are now sending this afternoon to President Trump and The White House saying you know what rather than talking past each other Talking down to each other maybe we can start partnering and Doing the work that needs to be done to address our forest health and Forest management because at the end of the day, California has a de minimis amount of Jurisdiction the vast majority of what you see behind you what I see in front of us is federal Land and with all due respect they've cut their budget by two billion dollars in the last few years To make sure that land is healthier and yet we're being attacked for not doing our part when in fact last year 49% of the work we did in our forest was actually work for the federal government in their Jurisdiction and land so we put up a hundred and eleven million dollars Since 2017 for forest inning and half that was doing the job of the federal government now rather than Lamenting about that and as they say talking past each other. This is a letter of cooperation and collaboration And it's a letter that reconciles the fact that it's hardly unique To California these issues they matter greatly to Oregon and Washington State And so the three of us will be doing a lot more together And this seemed an obvious space for us to work Today and so that's a preview of things and and I'm happy to take any questions And there's that So we're working on that in real time I'm not gonna make news on that because I'm very sensitive to The things that governors say Particularly as it relates to the markets particularly as it relates to the magnitude of the challenge Particularly PG&E faces as a utility. We want a healthy utility. We want to utility It's investing in the future low-carbon green growth strategies. That's in an ideal world That's not the case today. And so we are We are addressing that issue in real time. In fact this morning at 8 a.m. We had a meeting on that exact topic and we have a commission as you know that the legislature has Organized and we are appointing three members to that commission We'll be announcing those appointments in the next few days And they will have a very short period of time That they will be tasked to come up with comprehensive recommendations. I'm not just waiting on that commission We are working collaboratively with members of the PUC with previous administration and Folks that I'm now bringing into our administration to address the solvency of PG&E a lot of this will be this a lot of this is a Budget that is part of the new budget that will go through the legislature Either to be supported rejected Some of it was committed as long-term investments, but require annual appropriation Including the cap and trade commitment, which was a one billion dollar five-year commitment with a baseline of two hundred million dollars a Year to invest in forest health. We're gonna actually increase That a little bit because we have some we have identified Additional projects that we want to move quickly and then there's a hundred plus other million dollars in other areas That are new investments in addition to some of the previous investments that I'll be asking for support from the legislature Well, you want to go through the list? Let's do it. I Happen to have it right here Three or five you're gonna see in the budget That I submit it will show a number of four hundred and fifteen point one. I can explain to you the difference But suffice it to say for the purposes of what I'll explain to you today The three hundred five million dollar figure will include the following items 213.6 million dollars for those fuel reductions and forest health 64.4 million dollars for what I refer to as surge capacity This would include the addition of five new Conservation Corps crews which matter to you because we were just down the road here And all that that was cleared out was done by the Conservation Corps So this I think will significantly advantage folks up here in Placer County will also have 13 new engines That we will be investing in and those engines will be pre deployed in areas across the state That will be recognized by the work that will be done over the next 45 days As critical what I would refer to lazily as red flag areas We will put in 25 million dollars of additional mutual aid To support local government and their pre-deployment work will put 50 million dollars Into a communication strategy and I know this may raise some questions But it was referenced a moment ago in my mark and others individuals play a huge role in their own Safety and it is incumbent upon us to organize strategies at the local level working with county supervisors working with local representatives To come up with communication strategies I as a former mayor invested in what we called our neighborhood emergency response strategies And we want to make sure that every region in the state is organizing at the grassroots level Strategies for evacuation strategies for emergency preparedness and the like that money will go in that space This is a big one and I'm glad you asked me to go through this list because I was remiss in not referencing a An investment in our 9-1-1 System it is old long overdue. We have an analog system in a digital world. It is rather remarkable That we haven't made this investment in the past Now in order to completely shift from the analog into a digital system It's going to require I know I know a 9-1-1 fee I know I get it No one's happy when they hear that word fee But we think it's appropriate The question is when do we move on the fee good people have different opinions? We're gonna have to get the legislature to concur on that, but I think this one crosses You know Republicans Democrats alike. I think most folks understand the importance of that But in the absence of the fee actually taking shape we put in 10 million dollars this year for upfront capital and 50 million because I look at things from not just a one-year Prism but from a two-year perspective 50 million dollars that I want to invest next year But tens all we can spend this year 50 we could spend next year as the fee ramps up and it's a 2020 I'm I'm I'm looking at this that we get that fee done ready to go Investments being made on that fee by 2020 but 10 million this year 50 million next year on the 9-1-1 fee We're gonna have plenty of time. I'm gonna go through four more to get to the other budget items And you're gonna have plenty of time ask your questions This because this may be interesting a few more of these things One of the things that's really important to me is the health and wellness of the men and women behind me and Something that was very indelible when I went down to Ventura. I was up a camp on multiple occasions fire was the impact That that fire was having not just on the individuals in uniform but their families and So we're investing in the health and wellness of our first responders as well And I include that in this budget because it deserves to be included in this budget That to me is hard money not soft money And that is new money to invest in making sure that we take care of the brain health Not just the physical health of the folks you see behind me We're also Making the investments as I noted in new technology on hundred plus new fire cameras Infrared cameras, which will be strategically deployed new remote-sensoring technology We are going to as I said put more investment in retrofitting the C 130's that were procuring from the Air Force And to the extent that it is relevant and I'll jump in We're going to make a three-year commitment, which we have never done before to the folks up in butte County and The folks in Lake County because we have not forgotten what happened in 2015 2016 2017 and 2018 in Lake County And that is backfilling their property tax losses. Usually that's not on an annual basis We're committing to three years for the folks up in butte and the folks up in Lake County And that is tens of millions of dollars To address that concern as well as making sure that pursuant to prop 98 will backfill the loss of per pupil ADA as it relates to the school district itself. So that's a preview of that budget Yeah, Munich re came out with a report today showing over 16 billion dollars of insurance losses Related to paradise alone only 12 billion of it insured and also looked at the magnitude worldwide of a world that's radically changing and the insurance risks Increasing consequence premiums around the world and reinsurance challenges, etc So this is along the lines of the PG knee question We just that front and center top of mind in his part and parcel of these larger conversations We're having again. I've been on the job now 12 hours And so we're bringing those same folks together on the wildfires on the utilities that is also when I consider those It's also proxy for the insurance question as well. Yeah, we spent seven hours. That was a look I once again, I'll repeat it. I was very Gratified that the president took the time to be here and I was gratified. We had the opportunity to spend seven hours Dialoging on this topic many other topics as well. That's for a book You get that that's often that was a joke But but we did have a chance to talk about that and you know, I know folks made some light about raking what I think the Pride it's interesting. I'll send him on that a little bit I think what he was talking about was defensible spaces Landscaping which has a role to play. I think that's important You know a lot of stuff gets conflated which is understandable But look he he's never played politics with disaster declarations and he deserves credit for that and we are grateful for that This is not an area for politics. He hasn't hesitated on any of those disaster declarations from the Orville Issued all these other fires and and you know, I'm pleased as well Kevin McCarthy's been extraordinary in this space also getting reimbursements with FEMA and we had the FEMA director with the president on marine one At very intimate conversations on marine one specific to reimbursements specific to forest health and Management and that's why the letter we sent was honestly in the spirit of collaboration and cooperation in the spirit of that Conversation and frankly a follow-up to that conversation now that I am in a position to more formally express myself as the new governor Yeah, forgive me. Look as a former mayor.  Maybe we can lean in a little and encourage and incentivize better behavior not You know discourage bad behavior, but incentivize better behavior meaning positively engaged as opposed to come in punitively But look I that that whole issue of the interface the wildland urban interface is real You look at most of the new construction last two decades. You look at just driving up here all the new investment You know right down this road, you know in this area You know, it's a legitimate concern And so the only way around it to accommodate the housing crisis Which is much worse because of all of these recent fires is density And that's the conversation. We're also having in legislature around what's density look like in big urban settings And how we could provide more density in around transit corridors, which was a raging debate last year Which actually the AP made national issue last year and that will be also part and parcel of the conversations We have this year and I think those two are related Yeah, they've been like yeah, well, I knew the last seven they they keep going. Yeah, they disappear Yeah Yeah, I know I think it look it allows me to pick up the phone because I have the cell phone of some of the Executives and have very honest conversations And allows them to feel more confident with me that they can have honest conversations and and we have during the transition We had some very sober conversations. I didn't just wait till I got sworn in yesterday before I had those conversations There's new leadership there. They've inherited a lot of these problems I mean, you know, I go back for mayor They're in the same Bruno days and there was a CEO and then there was another one between that time and now Gays is there and You know, I think it matters, you know the flip side of that someone could say well, he's too familiar with them So he lacks objectivity. Yeah, you know, yeah, you know, I try to be objective about these things as much as I can I'm a food you share to the people of the state of California. That's my role in responsibility to protect your interest Not PG knees interest, but sometimes those interests may align And that's where this gets complicated And so I think that that history actually will advantage. I hope ultimately a conclusion on this And what I'll do the end right after just because he gone kill me because he's been trying to talk about but go Oh, yeah, there is this. What is he saying? I haven't checked my Twitter feed So the general I we we we've been having conversations have been having with my staff the last few weeks We had a brief conversation a few hours ago on this topic and we are following up very shortly Because we will have a menu of he's providing me a menu of options in terms of What can be done what should be done? What's appropriate what would be inappropriate? What was our commitment under the executive order Governor Brown signed? How's the remuneration work? What exactly is the work currently being done versus the work that was initiated when the executive order was in the place and based upon the fact that we have militarized a large portion of our board over the course last six months and Pursuant to what I imagine may come out tonight as it relates to possibility of emergency declaration That will allow me the ability to assess Changing condition and then make a determination, but I can assure you I have not deviated from my previous statements in terms of my desire to move in a different direction And hope we'll be able to make an announcement on that sooner than later. I You know don't I'm Governor Brown said don't respond to hypotheticals or at least engage in them So I'm that's the one lesson I learned is this lieutenant governor Yeah, I know I'm sorry do that to you No, that's part of it. So that's part of it and there's there's in the number where you're gonna get confused and The budget the budget gonna be on in 45 days is the number in the budget book Which is 415 but there's a reason for that and and that's a more technical reason because that carries over money That you guys reported on last year and that goes to the frame of your question But the bottom line is three hundred Phil five million dollars of new investments in this space That I'll be asking the legislature to approve and I laid out some of the specifics that are additional money or new money That was not part of the budget in the past Some of it was a continuation of previous investments that were one time last year and I'm doing one time investments into the new year But three hundred five million is a good number for you to work off Yeah, the 911 fee is something that we are not we are proposing to enact but not in the Near term I do not anticipate that the legislature will act on that Before 2020 meaning I believe the fee will go into effect in 2020 Now the budget that I'm submitting does not include a Fee it includes capital investment in Lube of a fee to get started to start building out our system and that is 10 million This year 50 that I anticipate putting in next year's budget and then the fee will replace the need for any capital Appropriations and any general fund appropriations and that is what we are going to lay out in our budget book as the framework That requires two-thirds vote from the California legislature and that is a vote that is unlikely to occur in this legislative session And I can express and explain to you why and another time, but I'm not delaying this I want to make sure we're making capital investments today It's it's a mod it will be a relatively modest But by the way, this is old news There was an effort last year in the legislature to do the fee We're just building off the framework so you can go back to your old clips on this And you can get the details Look no one the last thing anyone wants to do is you know to come up on at a time when I'm about to announce an interesting surplus That will be a little more interesting than the one you've been right reading about or writing about I Don't think it's the right time to be talking about a new fee That's a said it would be wrong of me not to invest in the The the imperative that is Investing in our 9-1-1 system and that's why I will use some of that surplus and the general fund to make a down payment on that Until the conditions present themselves where I could convince two-thirds of my colleagues or two-thirds the legislature to To do the fee Thank y'all