Is a lot of truth contained in the old joke which goes like this How did you is answer a question with a question and why is that why not? How well should they answer? the truth is that questions are the very lifeblood of What it means to live as a Jew and I think really should be the lifeblood of every human being The Talmud says in tractate Baba Kamma, which deals with torts and laws of damages That there were four kinds of things that caused damage in the world and the Talmud lists the shore the ox and the bore and the pit and Ash and fire and then they list a fourth mysterious thing called mother and It's not clear exactly what mother is the sages of the Talmud debate What Mava is according to one opinion Mava is the human being the human being So why is the human being called Mava and The answer probably is that the word Mava means to seek To inquire to question and so the Talmud seems to be saying here Is that the very definition of what it means to be a human being is to seek to question to inquire? It defines who we are in addition Mentioned that the name of the human being in the Bible is Adam Adam We know that in Hebrew every letter has a numerical value The word Adam is spelled alif Dalad mem alif is a number number one in Hebrew Dalad is for mem is 40 So 40 plus 4 plus 1 is 45 The word ma mem hay is also The numerical value of 45 mem is 40 and hay is five So the word Adam human being has the exact same numerical value as the word ma what Because the idea of asking what Seeking answers defines what it means to be a human being The Midrash teaches us the sages of the Talmud teach us How did Abraham come to faith in God? They say he came to faith in God by asking questions big questions They'd have a parable about a man Abraham in the parable finding a burning palace in the middle of the forest And he wonders who is the owner of this palace that it's on fire that it's a fire in there He's asked the question who is the owner of the palace and really what the Midrash is saying is that Abraham was asking the Question who made the world who made the sun who made the stars? Who created all of the things that we see around us all the time and that's what would drove Abraham to realize That if we live in a world that seems designed There must be a designer and so those questions about who created the world are what led Abraham to come to faith in God We're told that Moses When he came to Mount Sinai Earlier before he received the Torah as a shepherd He comes across a bush that's on fire And he looks at the bush and He looks at it quizzically and he says wait something is strange going on here. The bush is burning But it's not being consumed. That's pretty strange normally when a tree is on fire when a bush is burning it burns up there's nothing left but ashes and He is looking at it long enough to notice there's something strange going on and so the Torah tells us That it's only when Moses turned aside to look at this bush Asking the question why isn't the bush being consumed when he had that question? That's when God reveals himself to Moses God sees that Moses is asking the question Moses is interested and so God reveals himself We're told that one of the greatest sages that ever lived Rabbi Akiva Grew up as an ignoramus for 40 years didn't know anything and What turned him around was he was sitting by a river one day and he was observing a rock in the river That had a hole that was born through it by the water that was passing over it for generations And he was wondering isn't this strange and interesting how the water which is soft is able to penetrate the rock which is hard and That Phenomenon got him thinking He took notice he wondered and he thought and he came to the realization that if this rock Which is hard can be penetrated by this water, which is soft Then certainly he said the Torah which is fire can penetrate my heart Which is flesh and he went on to become the great rabbi Akiva one of the greatest sages in Jewish history Our Talmud begins the very beginning of the Talmud is the Mishnah And the very first word in the Mishnah is may amatai from what time What the Mishnah begins discussing are the laws of reciting the Shema Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Akhod And the Mishnah wants to know at what time do we begin reciting the Shema in the evening That's the first question from when The Mishnah begins with a question and then the Gomorrah the Talmud discussing this Mishnah Asks also a question the Gomorrah wants to know How is it? mehei haqai What is the Mishnah standing on that it asks this question from what time do we say the Shema? The Talmud is bothered. How do you know you've got to say the Shema in the first place? Where does the obligation come from that they begin discussing from what time? So the very beginning of our Talmud the Mishnah and the Gomorrah itself each begins with a question and Of course the style of the entire Talmud all the tractates is Question and answer question and answer the Passover Seder is the educational experience par excellence It's replete with audio visual aids great food But probably the most important part is that it's built around questions The Seder does not get off the ground Until questions are asked Until the questions of the children come forward Mani Shana Halayla Hazanikul Halalot How unusual how different this night is from all other nights? And the children ask Why do we have matzah tonight all during the year we eat regular bread and why do we have bitter herbs tonight all during the year We eat all kind of vegetables and why do we dip tonight? We have all this dipping going on and the children observe. Why do we recline in our chairs tonight? So the Seder doesn't begin unless the children ask for questions And then that this the Seder the Haggadah that we recite on Passover Eve Mentioned by name these four children because the Torah itself Speaks about the four children who will ask you in the Torah itself It says and your child will ask you on that day and what the Haggadah is doing here by beginning with these questions and beginning with the questions of the four children is Telling us that the education of the Haggadah of the Passover evening does not get off the ground without questions the Seder is Not successful When we regurgitate these questions The point is that the Haggadah is giving us stage directions. It's cluing us into the fact that during this meal We're supposed to ask a lot of questions these questions that are in the Haggadah the book that we read that night These are just telling you Ask questions tonight ask lots of questions and especially the children Because unless children are asking questions, there's no real education going on What's going on is brainwashing is propaganda is indoctrination Unless someone is curious and they want to know They're not going to learn and so we do many things at the Seder that are weird We have strange things that we do at the Seder that we don't do any time during the year in order to provoke the children to ask Because asking questions is the essential ingredient for learning There was a wealthy man that once wanted to find a match a Shidduch for his special and beautiful daughter So he went to a Yeshiva a Talmudic Academy to find an appropriate match for his wonderful daughter and He presented a very difficult question to the students in the Yeshiva and He said that anyone that is able to solve this question. I Will allow him to marry my daughter so he posed this incredibly difficult question and None of the students in the Yeshiva were able to answer his question So he got into his carriage and he left He looks back and he sees a young student is running after him and running after him And he finally stops the carriage and the young student is dripping with sweat. He's out of breath and he says So what's the answer to your question?  You're interested. You want to know Abraham Joshua Heschel once said we are closer to God when we are asking questions Then when we think we have the answers The incredibly important book Pathways of the Just Nisilat-e-Sharim Says that we always need to be asking ourselves Why am I here? What is the purpose of my life and unless we clarify this question is basic question. We're not going to be successful in life We have to always be asking ourselves. What is the purpose of our life? Why are we living? What is it all about? We're Sonic a coin of Lublin the great Hasidic master who died in the year 1900 Taught that when you find something in the Torah the first time it appears is the most important place That's the headquarters. If you want to understand anything in Judaism find the first place it appears in the Torah So there's a story that's told About the first Lubavitcher Rebbe Rishnarazalman of Liyadi Known as the altar Rebbe and He was thrown into jail his religious opponents fabricated charges and he was jailed While he was in jail. He had a Russian jailer That was very impressed by the Rebbe He noticed miracles taking place all the time He saw little rats bringing the Rebbe his slippers in the morning a lot of other weird things happening So he finally got up the guts to ask the Rebbe a question and he said Rebbe I see that you spend the whole day studying and I see you're a very wise person and you must be very knowledgeable He says you know I also study the Bible. I'm very interested in the Bible and the Rebbe says that's important That's wonderful great. It's important that you study the Bible So the jailer said but you know what I have a big question that I can't understand So the Rebbe says what's your question? He says God created the whole world and he puts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and says don't eat from the Tree of knowledge of good and evil and they disobey and they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and They open of their eyes and they realize that they're naked and they go and they hide and God calls out. Where are you? He says Rebbe. I don't understand that God created everything on the planet everything in the universe. God can do anything. God knows everything So why does God have to ask them where they are? God knows exactly where they are And the Rebbe said that's a great question. You're asking a very important question He says this story is not just about Adam and Eve He says when God is asking this question. You have to realize This is the first question in the Bible When God says to Adam and Eve ayyeko, where are you? That's the first question in the Bible, which means It's the ultimate question It's the most important question and it's a question that we should be asking ourselves Every human being should always be asking themselves ayyeko. Where are you? Because the Rebbe told the jailer God created each one of us for a purpose with a vision and God is asking each one of us. Where are you on your journey in life? How far have you come and the Rebbe turns to the jailer and says you've been here already for 36 years How far have you come in your life? and when a jailer heard the Rebbe Say exactly how old he was he embraced the Rebbe and said bravo Rebbe bravo. It's amazing


Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Alex White. I'm Director General of the Institute of International European Affairs, and it's my great pleasure to welcome you. All those of you are in the room here in North Great Georgia Street to attend in person and those of you who are joining us remotely. Thank you for doing so. And we look forward to a most interesting event with a very distinguished and very welcome guest, Professor Connor Gearty. But with, if I may say so, and Connor won't mind, an equally distinguished chair for the afternoon, the Attorney General of Ireland, Rossa Fanning, Senior Council, and I will do no more than to invite Rossa to introduce the event. And thank you for being here, Attorney. Thank you very much, and Director General Alex White, my colleague at the Bar of Ireland who I know of old, it's wonderful to be here. My office, the Office of the Attorney General is a corporate member, and I'm delighted to be here at this event today. I was tempted to come by the distinction of the visiting speaker and Professor Connor Gearty, who is Professor of Human Rights Law, the London School of Economics. He's also a barrister at Matrix Chambers. He published on Fantasy Island, Britain, Europe and the human and human rights in 2016. And his next book, Homeland insecurity, the rise and rise of global anti terrorism law will be published by polity in spring of 2024. Professor Gearty is Vice President for Social Sciences at the British Academy. He's a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He's an honorary KC. He's a Bencher of Middle Temple and at the King's Inns. And he also demonstrated exceptional judgment when he was the external examiner on my LLM dissertation a quarter of a century ago, for which I was awarded first class honours and slightly less good judgment when he attended at my house a number of years ago following a dinner for former winners of the Irish Times Debate. He was part of the self-confessed golden generation of debaters that was approximately 15 years older than me and who I've come to know, some of whom became distinguished lawyers. In any event, Professor Gearty, who I will hand over to shortly will speak to you for approximately 20 or 25 minutes. And for the benefit of those here and those joining online, we will then go to a Q&A session. You'll be able to join the discussion using the Q&A function on Zoom, which you should see on your screen. And please feel free to send your questions in throughout the session as they occur to you and we'll come to them if we can when Professor Gearty has finished his presentation. Today's presentation and Q&A are on the record and will be available thereafter. And please feel free to join the discussion on Twitter also using the handle at IIEA. And I think we're also live streaming this morning's discussion. So a very warm welcome to anybody who's tuning in via YouTube. So without further ado, Professor Gearty is going to speak to us about the fascinating topic of human rights after Brexit. Thank you very much. I'm going to stand up just habits of a lifetime really, and I'm also going to take a tiny sip of water. And I'm going to ask Barry to let me know when we're about 20 minutes in so I can then stop. The book I wrote in 2016 or was published in 2016 was an idea that grew out of a single image in my mind. And so I got a book out of an image. So I had the cover before I had the title before I had the book and the cover was a beach with a little sandcastle. And then coming out of the little sandcastle was a little Union Jack, very small Union Jack. And so everything grew out of that. And in the questions are later. I might give you my my genuine assessment of the deep nature of the British problem is linked to that cover. But I won't get there directly because we want to know about Brexit and human rights. I'll put down my glass of water. Since we're on the record, I want to make absolutely clear that I have a very vivid memory of that very late night in the attorney's house. His suggestion, which I thought was implied, but nevertheless brutal, was that I had somehow rather forgotten every aspect of it. And having confirmed that it was indeed his house, I now have a very clear memory. It's a great night. And then the European Convention on human rights, what is going on is something you might say in Britain why I'm going to give you my spin on it. It's extremely well known that Brexit has been a public policy calamity. So we know that the manifestation of its calamitous nature lies in the absolute inability of the British authorities to find anything on which to diverge from the European Union. The only thing they came up with was let's pollute our rivers even more and destroy our habitat, which was not an easy sell. They mentioned something about building houses, but it's gone away. They can't find anything. They parade pint glasses as an achievement of empire, only to be reminded that there were pint glasses under the European Union's tyranny as well. So there is a total collapse of confidence and disintegration of the political culture for a reason. And the reason is because none of the main parties, including deterring an interest of my friend Kirsten, can actually tell the truth. It's the most extraordinary thing. And it behoves any of us to fall into this trap. They have to all pretend that Brexit is not even redeemable, but that it's not a bad idea. So there is an amazing gulf between what the public know and what both political parties at the top say. And it's on the record, but it's not unexpected. The Labour Party is very anxious about rejoining because they are terrified of galvanizing the mad people into a coalition of anger. So it is a huge risk for them to begin a discussion about return to the European Union because they'd immediately be asked about the sacred pound. And they'd be asked about the Charter of Rights and the various iconic claptrap that has accompanied British nationalism or English nationalism, or pharagism, which it probably is now better described as, would then roll into gear backed by the foreign-owned press. So it's a huge risk. I don't expect it anytime soon. The review, this is the end of my brief remarks on the EU as such. There is a review of the trade and cooperation, whatever it's called, agreement coming up. I think it's, is it 2026 or 2025? It's quite soon. It'll be under the control of the next government. Everybody expects that government to be headed by the Labour leader and it's thought then Prime Minister Keir Starmer. What will happen is that the Labour Party, if they are in power, will seek a broadening of the reviews terms to enable some covert linkages with the European Union. And I think the Europeans will be extremely mistrustful of that and will probably seek to narrow the terms of the agreement of the review to mere tweaking. So it'll be a paradoxical reversal of what we've been used to. The British will be trying to go for covert connections and the Europeans will say, look, you know, what's the point of this? Crucial is the election, not only who wins. It seems now to be widely expected, though nobody's yet voted that the Labour Party will win. What's going on at the moment in the United Kingdom, of which human rights, which are now turned plays a large part, is an effort by what is still called a Conservative Party, but is, is not a Conservative Party. It is a series of factions overseen by an ineffectual political player to limit the damage electorally. Those who know about the British political system know that the Conservative Party risks total and complete obliteration. If, because the first pass the post system, which you are familiar with, but don't live in this country is enormously punishing if you fall below a certain percentage in certain places. And they risk calamities in Wales and Scotland almost given possible calamity in what they call their heartlands, where the various people who are as inverted commerce kind of decent Tories choose the decent Tory option now, which is the Liberal Democrats. Whilst the people who used to vote Labour, who shifted because of Johnson's Liberal imperialism in 2019, shift back in the West Midlands, London's gone anyway, you end up with very few Conservative seats, very few. So what I think is going on at the moment is an effort to try and energize a swing set of votes in order to secure seats that might otherwise go to Labour. The risk is they lose their heartlands, but that's the risk they're taking. So they're obsessed by whether there's a toilet into which everybody can go. You're going to have a toilet czar at one point, but that's disappeared.  You know, they're obsessed most recently, a major government initiative to try and stop hospital wards containing sorts of people that are designated woke creatures. It's astonishing the triviality of their commitments. But the purpose of it is to draw a wedge between themselves and Conservatives to remind the former Labour voters of their nostalgic, imperialist conservatism to try and keep them in the Conservative family. It might work. They won't win, but they'll get enough seats to have a run at the next election. That's what the game is. That's what the game is. They are backed by foreign-owned viciously right-wing press and they dominate the BBC and they have every chance of rebuilding themselves based on lies and myths if they don't fall to about 10 seats. And if you think I'm being too polemical, look at the applause which greets Liz Truss within a year of her destruction of the economy. So if you have power and money behind you, and if you are calling yourself a Conservative, it's amazing how quickly you can revive in the British culture, a culture renewed to conservatism that is an innate Conservative voting culture, at least so far as England is concerned. So the big game is how big is the Labour win. It has in Canada, where a Conservative Party practically disappeared and remains to be seen. That's what the game is. Human rights are part of that. You will have seen yesterday the Home Secretary, Suwala Breverman, called the Human Rights Act or the Convention as a Charter of Criminal Rights. Part of the positioning by both Mr Sunak and those jostling for the succession to his position involves a much-vaunted, destructive approach to human rights, much advertised. And the purpose of that is to energize this base. The sorts of people who don't think much, who think that it's all woke, the sorts of people who watch GB News avidly. They are potential voters for the Conservative Party on this basis alone, and that's what they're after. Now, how will it play onto the human rights dimension? Just as I don't think Britain will be rejoining the European Union any time soon and wouldn't be let in if they did, because the Europeans will not negotiate with Britain if the Conservatives look as though they're going to be the next government. They will need a complete cohesion on the part of the main political parties that if we joined the games up, we're not going to start withering away, calling for this, that and the other. And that won't happen if the Conservative Party come out at the next election with enough of a base to challenge properly in the election after. So that will finish any serious engagement with the European Union, by the European Union with Britain. But what will it mean for human rights? Well, I've just said I don't think there's going to be much change on the European Union. If Labour win, there'll be slight moves towards a better relationship with Europe. On human rights, here's my prediction that in five or 10 years, there will still be a Human Rights Act. There will still be membership of the Council of Europe. There will still be a Britain that subscribes to the European Convention on Human Rights. And here's the risky bit. That will be the case whether or not they win, even if the Conservatives win the next election. The human rights measures are here to stay. Now, I'll explain a little bit in a moment why. Well, I'll explain directly why. First of all, when it came to the European withdrawal agreement, the British... By the way, I think Theresa May mixed up the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights when she declared an extraordinary red line about a court nobody's ever heard of. And I think they're paying a price for that mistake. Mr Timothy is not a genius, the man who ran her and turned Britain into hard Brexit. But what they knew about was something called the EU Charter. John Major, whom with each passing year looks and looks at better, better Prime Minister. I'm not just saying that because his role in Ireland has been unbelievable. He made a big song and a dance about not signing up to the EU Charter because he knew, sensible fellow, the EU Charter of Rights meant not very much. So the British made a big song and a dance about not signing up. One of the benefits of withdrawal was no EU Charter. And sure enough, there's no EU Charter of Rights. That's changed. That's not going to change. That's there. That's gone. Not that it ever meant anything, but it's gone. Or very little. Very little. I should be careful. It meant something. What's in? Well, the trade and cooperation agreement, if that's what it's called, I think it is trade and cooperation. It has, it's laced through with rights guarantees. So the international commitments that Britain has made, the policy declaration, which it agreed in October 2019 are absolutely clear that the agreement is based upon a commitment to rule of law, democracy and respect for fundamental rights. So the edifice that is the EU withdrawal agreement is constructed on an assumption about three things, democracy, the rule of law and human rights. And in particular, drilling further down, some of the things that really matter in Britain, security matters, things to do with extradition, biometrics generally, they hinge on respect for human rights within the jurisdiction. They hinge on it. But if the British were to withdraw from the Council of Europe, and I'm sure this group, both watching and here, don't need the thing that all the students need and then forget that there's a difference in the EU and the Council of Europe. They, if they were to withdraw from the Council of Europe and join Belarus and Russia, they, there would be a legal basis. The Attorney will, I'm sure, know this more than me, but there's a legal basis and one of the articles of the thing, article I think made in order 692 for retaliation. So if they withdraw, and if they repeal the Human Rights Act, this is a clear and explicit breach of the trade and cooperation agreement, because they wouldn't be replacing it with any equivalence of fundamental rights protection and they would be vulnerable. It's not, there's another article which says they can, you can end the whole thing, but they'd be vulnerable on this alone. So that is a very big deal. That's a very big deal. And anybody who's engaged in this rationally knows the big deal. So it's a huge cost. If they decide to leave the Council of Europe and repeal the European Convention on Human Rights, but it also, and this is also obvious. It would have a huge immediate cost for Anglo-American relations. Now, we are in an exceptional stage when we have got a person who thinks he's Irish as President of the United States of America. It's fantastic. I'm a huge fan of Mr Biden, whom I've never met, sadly, but whom I hero worship, because he's like one of those creatures after the 1970s that I remember he's one of the great Irish American politicians. Is he like that? Because he is one of them. He's the last remaining one.  Tip O'Neill, Edward Kennedy, Hugh, what's his name, Kerry, yeah, but here he is. It's not only because of him. So obviously there's a huge concern about the collapse of democratic rule in the United States in November with the likely challenge to Biden of Trump. I think probably what happened yesterday has done for Trump, we'll see. The defeat of the House of Representatives leader demonstrates to the world a party that isn't a party, and they won't be able to elect anybody else. So the Democrats have played mischief by joining with eight mad people to get rid of their leader McCarthy. But he may win, Trump may win, but I don't think it'll affect things because the American system has more than the president. So there'll be Congressional people who have a strong commitment to Ireland. There'll be leaders of business who have strong commitment to Ireland. There'll be leaders of states who have strong commitments. I remember the Comptroller General of New York terrifying the British authorities by speaking at the British Arts Association about the power of the purse and how he could punish the British for unfair employment practices in Northern Ireland. So it's it's not going to be solved by a tweet or whatever his new thing is called from Trump saying good old Britain, get rid of the European dimension. So for reasons to do with the EU and reasons to do with the United States, the costs of withdrawal are so high that only a crazy government would do it. And what's happened is that the government of the United Kingdom at the moment is behaving as though it weren't the government. So, so this is an extraordinary play. And it's supported by the press and so on and so forth, of course, but it's ludicrous. But however, there you are, Mr Sunak, the Prime Minister agrees that he has to stop the bolts. I'm not even sure if he has private conversations where he understands that departure from the European Union meant departure from the Dublin agreement, which meant that there was no obligation on the countries that would have taken the persons who arrive in Britain to take them, and that it's acknowledged that once you get to Britain you're likely to stay because the other countries won't take it. I don't think that if he knows that he suits and politically pretend he doesn't know it. Or better still pretend he's not the Prime Minister. So he's calling for an end to the convention in order to free up the opportunity to expel the people who come by boat, the irregular migration. But where is he going to expel them to? And who's going to take them? Mr Kagami has seen a chance to make a bit of money out of the United Kingdom. I think you lot should volunteer. Rockall has a safe venue because there's money to be made by the British desperation to export their problem, but they won't solve it. So it's positioning, but it's put the human rights thing again in the frame. And Soella Bravaman yesterday, who is positioning herself to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, clearly the same. Why am I so confident that the Human Rights Act and the Council of Europe membership and the European Convention on Human Rights will survive? Well, either Labour win the election and it will be clear it will survive because Keir Starmer is a human rights lawyer and he has made absolutely crystal clear.  No end of temptations into a woke struggle will lead him to concede the Human Rights Act. And that's the most likely scenario. But if the Conservative Party won with the huge majority, I still think it would be safe because they have had the perfect circumstance for repeal of the Human Rights Act and they flunked it. And what was the perfect circumstance? They had a huge majority 2019. They had an enthusiastic hater of human rights, Mr. Rad, who alleges, I'm sorry to say, I taught him. I don't remember teaching, but he says I taught. And now look at none of this barracking from the floor. People at home, you're lucky not to have heard an allegedly senior figure in this organization attack me. I'll have you removed like that poor gentle conservative man who was removed yesterday. He was deputy Prime Minister. They had a majority of over 100. They had a manifesto commitment and they still couldn't remove the Human Rights Act. And that is an interesting point because real world congregated around them and they couldn't answer the following question. And it's a longish question. If you are going to repeal the Human Rights Act, and if you are going to replace it with something better, what is the something that they couldn't answer that question. And so you see, they want to get rid of the Human Rights Act because schedule one of the Human Rights Act is the European Convention on Human Rights and act to buy labor in 1998. But they didn't say we want to get rid of rights altogether. They didn't say that because they couldn't bear to say it. Although to be more honest position, it would get them in terrible trouble with everybody, the Americans and the Europeans and so on. They had to pretend they were coming up with something better. They couldn't find anything better, except something they hate for other reasons, which was the right to jury trial. So the Bill of Rights which Mr. Rad actually got published, and which was brought to the House of Commons, and which was a subject of much discussion included the following. Everybody shall have a right to a jury subject to subsection two. The right to a jury will be in accordance with law which may regulate any kind of jury service. So the right to a jury would have meant that a jury abolition act would have been compatible with the right to a jury. So it was nonsense. It was nonsense. But all they could find that wasn't in the convention was a right to a jury. The rest of it's just gobbledygook. It collapsed in its own, in the midst of its own illogic. I do not know how that couldn't happen again. Now, you know, the conservative body might decide to have no rights at all. But if they do that, they are literally finished because the Europeans will end the trade and cooperation agreement. The Americans, whichever bit is in American power will will deride it. And of course it'll be a massive humiliation for England. They're literally marooned even more. The signs are that the rational elements in the English administration are prioritizing the Council of Europe. They have nothing else. They're beefing up their presence in Strasbourg. They're keen on growing the Council of Europe participation because they've lost their main source of influence in continental Europe. So I think it's bound to collapse, frankly, because if they decide to replace it with something else, they'll have the something else. What is that problem? Which is what did for Mr. Rabb. Mr. Rabb would have been done for even if it hadn't turned out, it hadn't, it had turned out he wasn't a bully. You know, remember he was got rid of for various other reasons, but this would was never resolved. The hostility it was shown by all the remaining parts of civil and political society was huge. I'm winding down, but I want to wind down actually absolutely fitting with my timetable by reminding you of a person to whom I alluded, whom I like a little groupie forced my way through a crowd to shake the hand of John Major. This Eurosceptical thing in the Conservative Party is a part of English nationalism. And I mentioned I'd allude to this and question and answer. I'll allude to it now. It's all part of the inability of England, Scotland's done much better to come to terms with being a post-imperial power. They can't bear it. And John Major had this problem in the 90s. This is a very old problem. And the very old problem is how dear these foreign judges interfere with great us. F.A. Mann, a very distinguished professor, greeted one of the early cases in Strasbourg as early as 1974. How dare they? I've never even heard of these countries. How dare they? That's been a part of British English constitutional culture for years. Major handled it in the 90s in the following way. He sent the saintly Lord Mackay, who was the Lord Chancellor, to Strasbourg to complain about how awful Strasbourg was. So Lord Mackay went. He, of course, was too saintly to have a drink, but he had a very good lunch. He presumably issued a statement saying that the Europeans are slowly coming to their senses and then life carried on as normal. I remember at the time the European Court of Human Rights had the good sense to say that a pornographic and erotic movie about Jesus coming off the cross or was it Mary? The visions of ecstasy was not required to be watched by everybody on the base of the human rights thing. So that was one thing he did. He made lots of noise as did Mrs. Thatcher. Lots of noise. Noise is fine. And he also got that extraordinarily astute politician, Mr. Clark, who was the Lord Chancellor, Kenneth Clark. He produced, and older people here with nothing to do, may remember this, the Brighton Agreement. It was an astonishing breakthrough by Mr. Clark, under which the Council of Europe was finally coming to its senses, and it was finally agreeing all of the agenda requirements that Mr. Clark had demanded. So nobody remembers it from Adam. It's obviously just common sense, built one or two things into the preamble. But they took all this noise and they diverted it in harmless directions. And very last point, they left a country reasonably in good shape in 97. And they did not pretend they were opposition in the run up to the election, adopting absurd symbolic positions to try and maneuver Mr. Blair. They made fair capital with Mr. Blair, who, who was at the time leading a party opposed to terrorism laws that was fair. And they made fair capital with Mr. Blair by saying that they would freeze public spending, forcing him to freeze public spending. But they did not do what the current Conservative Party is doing in their desperate desire to be electable, if not next year, then in five years time. I think I'll end their attorney. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Hello, everyone, welcome back to another mid-journey tutorial. On this one, I'm gonna show you how to create any piece of art in a style of your choosing, whether it's a painting, whether it's a particular artist, it's a particular style. If it's a particular anything, I'm gonna show you how to do it, and then I'm gonna have you access to the resource. So here's something. I've got a Megurumi, I don't even know what the heck that means, but here's a style that I wasn't familiar with. So I said a Megurumi character of a French bulldog, Presto, got it. Here's a medieval plague doctor in the style of San Diego Caruso. Click on it for amazing pieces of art. Here's another one, a French bulldog playing poker in the style of Adam Hughes, awesome.  Like, I'm going quickly through them, I don't wanna waste your time. But amazing stuff. I did another one here, I have, here's the plague doctor upscaled, and then I had one here. This is parting the Red Sea in the style of Caravaggio, a famous Italian painter. And if we go down here, these were mostly misses, but here's one, I got a really good one here. This looks like something he would have made himself. So how did I do it? Very simple, as you might probably already tell, all you gotta do is forward slash imagine, and then whatever you want it to be, French bulldog in the style of, this is the important part, just make sure it's in the style of, and then what you wanna do is you wanna go to this sheet. I'm gonna give you access to it. I'm gonna give you access to the original sheet, and then this is the original, and I'll also give you access to my personal copy that has a little bit less slowdown. So because you'll see up here, there's 17 people viewing it, and it slows it down quite a bit. So I wanted to do Adam Hughes, for example. He's the artist that I liked for my bulldog images. So I just go back into Discord, and I go in the style of Adam Hughes. And then I can add in any other stuff, playing poker, whatever, something like that, okay? I would hit Enter, and then it's gonna flesh that out. I'll go back to the other sheet here while I got you. So under characters, you can see that these are some of the best character artists, and there's like 150 of them. And there's probably even more gonna be added in over the next few days. I'm not gonna bore you with going through them. If you want a background landscape, you can go through all these different landscape artists. All you need to do would be go back to Discord here, and then go imagine landscape in the style of John Constable, and just, I don't know, mountains, and a lake behind a forest, something like that, whatever. Just hit Enter. It doesn't matter what it is, and then it's gonna cook it up. And you'll already see that this has already done a crazy good job of a Bulldog playing poker. Oh, my Lord, look at how good that is. Anyways, guys, this is all you need to do. I'm not gonna bother you, bore you with a seven minute video when you can make it in two minutes, but look through all these different tabs here. You can use your own favorite video games. So here you can play your different games if you wanted a style from Animal Crossing or Assassin's Creed is a popular one. And lastly, the styles, Angel Punk, Cyber Punk, Blood Punk, all this stuff, guys, it's all here. Just remember in the style of and go to this sheet and you will love the new art that you create. Thanks for watching.


Then the other way you can do is export them to Excel and use Excel to put them all on one PDF file. So that's what we'll do now. One more time. I know this is getting tedious. I'm going to go into the balance sheet. Let's do this again. This is going to go from 010123 to 022823. Let's run it and then I'm just going to export it to a Excel file and use Excel this time. I'll drag that into my worksheet over here. I'll drag that into my worksheet. Boom. Drag it. Took the thing by its by its hair and just dragged it into my Excel worksheet. I'm going to right click and rename it and this is going to be reports month, month two I'm going to say and then I'll open that up and just and now I can do some added formatting if I wanted to do any added formatting outside of what I can do in QuickBooks. I won't go into too much detail but I'm just going to say let's go to this side, this side. There's the end of the report. So I might make this large enough so it fits on one page like that or something and then I'm just going to do some standard editing just so you can see like some quick editing you might do. You might make this tab a little smaller. You might put some underlines here like this way. You might say I want these underlines like that and then maybe maybe you want a double underline under this one like a double underline there and then maybe I want like brackets around this thing. Maybe brackets. So there's some standard formatting that looks a little bit different than what other people might be doing. You can make this a little bit larger so it fits on one page wide and then maybe I make the header different. So I'm not an expert on formatting and you might make the text a little different but you can do a lot of stuff that you can't really do in QuickBooks that can just some little tweaks that you'd have to do every time but I can it can make it a little bit more customized so just to give you an example. So I'm going to go back up top and then let's do this one by one again and then the balance sheet and let's say this is going to go from<PHONE_NUMBER>23 to 022823. Run it and then export it to Excel. This time I'm just going to open it and then copy it over. I'm going to open it up and then I'm going to copy it over. I'm going to just go boom put my cursor in the triangle control C or right click and copy and then I'm going to go into this one and add a new tab and I'm just going to double click on the tab call it a balance sheet BS put it in B1 or select the whole sheet right click and paste it then I'm going to go to the layout and back to the first tab so I can see what happened holding control down scrolling up and I'll do the same thing I'm just going to make this wide enough so it fits there I'll make this one a little bit thinner I'm going to make all of these with an underline have like this kind of underline and then and then these ones I want to have them have like like a double underline I want those to have like a double underline like that boom and this one did these put an underline I didn't do it on the bottom half this one this one this one this one this one this one this one this one needs a normal underline and then I can select the whole thing I put some grid lines on the whole thing need some grid lines boom and then I can make the top header like black and white do some fancy shamancy and then when I print this I can go to the first tab and I can print and I can use my cute pdf printer and then print all the reports on one worksheet so now it looks a little bit different formatting but you've got more formatting options you can you can also add text and whatnot in excel or combine it to word you know to do a more formalized report or customized report if you still choose let's do number three keep on going with this process we're going to go from 010123 to 022823 run it and then let's export it export open it and we'll just continue the process with an income statement report this time closing or enabling selecting the entire sheet right click and copy going back on over adding another tab double clicking on the tab to below income statement summary these names don't really matter too much because you're not going to give this to the client we're going to make a pdf out of it putting my cursor in a one or selecting the whole sheet and pasting it checking the tap the layout to the right back to the left widening up let's holding control scrolling up to make it a little bit larger widening up column a so it so it's like as wide as the page let's say let's make this one a little less wide let's put I'm going to select I'm holding down control to select everything that has an underline on it and I'm going to make this kind of underline and then on the bottom line I like to have a double underline and then I'm going to select the whole thing and put some grid lines around it grid lines round and then make the header black and white boom all right done with that one let's go back to the next one this is the income statement report two more to go and then we have to stop this good times the good times have to stop sometime you know good times can't go on forever but they'll be back at some point and then we're going to go to the triangle and right click and copy and then back here we're going to say plus button this is going to be just a normal income statement selecting the whole thing control paste bam holding control scrolling up a bit tab to the right or the layout back and then I'm going to expand this one again so it fits and make that one smaller and then I'm going to do the same thing here selecting all the lines that have an underline and I'm going to make the underlined lines look like that double underline here selecting the whole thing and put some grid line ease and then we'll do the black and white up top boom all right and then let's do it again two more times dose vases this is the tricky one I have to do for February it's already pulling up though it's doing it right so let's just say that's good and then I'm going to export it to excel open it up and check it out and then we'll do our formatting enable the editing in triangle control c back to the other report plus this is a what is this I don't even know I'm going to paste it first it's a comparative balance sheet so it's a bs comparative report holding control scrolling up a bit view to the right view to the left this one's too long this time so I'm going to have to make this a little bit skinnier this time skinner eyes skinner eyes I'm going to get rid of this row all together you're not needed delete and then again I can select this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this and do this kind of underline and then maybe I'm going to select this and the total assets this and do double something like that and why does it have a double total thing oh I messed up this double I don't want the double there I want it there that's what that's right anyway something like that I'm just not going to spend a whole lot of time on I'm just just for example a sample and then we'll do the black and white up top black and white


It's about double of the intensity I've ever heard my wife yell and She has no idea where it came from It's like a wormhole opened up inside her she reached out and grabbed one of those monsters from the Avengers and just channeled its voice Five minutes later my son was born. So That was incredibly quick pushing.   Oh, right. Yeah, these are hey, you're part of me. That's cool And then even crazier than that after all of that agony my son's nursing for like 15 minutes right after right after he's pushed out and My wife turns to me and goes let's have another one after all of that agony After all of that pain and just craziness the brain is just flipped and it's like Okay, let's have let's have another one now in the meanwhile while all this is happening the midwife is down there kind of kneeling and like my sonapesia on me Happens when they need to create space between the to open up the vagina a little bit more my wife didn't either do it surgically or tears My wife had some tearing on the inner walls of her vagina. So the nurses down there just so in her up reaching in so in her up and And and we're just breastfeeding and having a grand old time And then there's the after birth where the placenta gets pushed out and they're so like what do you want to do with that? We're like give it to someone for stem cells. I don't know Well, I know and to be honest. I don't remember what we actually did with it because I'll get to that in a second So like eight hours later. We went home like we didn't have to stay Sarah was able to get up and walk. We took Jack home And then begins kind of the interesting first year So like I said, it's really should be called fatherhood the first 21 months not fatherhood the first 12 months So now my marginal utility really begins The closest thing I think you we are going to get to time travel in our life is The first two months after having your first kid Because I remember October Fest kind of because my son had like baby leader hoson We took it to a friend's house. He was there during October Fest He was born on October 2nd. I remember a Halloween. Maybe The smash potatoes I made for for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but otherwise Nothing I blinked and it was two months later It's because you're tired. You're really really really really tired And I think you're also tired because there's some literature on this about the morphology the brain changes that go on When becoming a new father some interesting things happen you develop Certain components of the of the audio processing portions of your brain to start to tie in with the the cries of your kid Because how many of you had a crying baby on her flight coming into not here you did you did you did you did you did you I'll talk about that in a second But but all of a sudden you start to get in the wavelengths on your kid You're sort of like oh they're crying because they're hungry. They're crying because they're sleepy They're crying because of this it's very very strange, but yeah, I finished a master's degree In this last in this period of time. I don't remember how I did it was great But that's the closest thing I think we're ever gonna come to time travel blink and it's two months later And you're going like where did the time go? That is something that you will experience with children. There's a great saying which is the days and the months are long but the years are short my son's one now and It feels like that it feels like yesterday It was bored, but if I spent an entire day with him it will have felt like Like I was on some sort of three-day weekend bender Even though one day we one day has occurred like like you can't turn off being a dad You're always on duty, but it's a weird thing So so having a child with sure you have narcissism at least temporarily because you realize like I always have to be on daddy duty and I have to be paying attention to this thing like you're doing other stuff You get really good at multitasking like there I am like chopping vegetables and my son's trying to like turn on the stove and I'm like buddy back away You know go go walk and I'm still chopping and I'm stirring this and I pick them up And I'll put them on the refrigerator, and I'll be like play with your magnets, and I'm chopping and then the mail comes And he comes crawling after it and he's tearing stuff down and you're always on daddy duty, but all of a sudden you find this capacity to You realize that all of your interests are quite important But you don't have to obsess about them to get them done in a good way And in fact having a little distance from all of your interests kind of let you Make better decisions about them. Have you ever been so obsessed with something that only when you got away from it Did you realize that you made some bad decisions along the way? Being a parent by nature fatigue and having to pay attention to someone else gives you that distance constantly So you start doing this cost-benefit analysis in real time without the emotional component I really want this to work because I really want it to work Which is kind of interesting because you start applying that elsewhere if you if you remove the domain dependence of this is for my kid You start doing that elsewhere like you know I think I'm going to value sleep over seeing my friends again tonight Or I think you know that ACL Fest is a great idea, but I Think I'd rather just I'd rather see my friends like they're you start to become very compartmentalized in in in your decision-making But that first first week you're gonna have what's called this beautiful labrea tar pit type poop This is in high definition again high definition does no banana favors so they tell you that This stuff is going to to Be a few days and it's gonna be a little bit for my son It was like a week and you can't wipe that stuff off at all like your kids gonna crap And you're gonna open up the diaper and it's gonna be in all these crevices and you've got the wipes and you're sort of like All right.   He's just like You know and like what the hell's going on because he's been thrust into this world, right?  What do you what's going on here? and Like I said, so kind of the nurses go hi. Yeah, it'd be a couple days for me. It was a week.  They possess better olfactory Sensory organs they in fact have a higher rate of what we call people who are super tasters Which is like I know 4k tasting.   Let's wash that up. No big deal Oh, it's on my shirt. That's fatherhood.  It doesn't mean, you know, you're you like you're excited about it But it just stops.  We don't have this Oxytocin laced crazy experience of shoving a kid out and connecting with it having us having it biting on our nipples every day Thankfully, I'm very very lucky in that way and on top of that early on you're being you're being ignored not ignored like like intentionally like stiff arm by your wife, but you the baby is taking precedent cool I get that my marginal utility increases with age. I understand that so you're sort of like rationally All right, I love this thing. I clearly see its resemblance to me because I'm you know I look like I have alien eyes and and we're in that funny hat But fatherhood creeps up on you like you're taking care of the kid and you're going through the motions And you don't care about it because you recognize this but all of a sudden fatherhood just kind of kind of Sightles up beside you you're working with the kid one day and just kind of bumps you and goes like And it leaves like it's like it's like that little like good good good talk and and then all of a sudden it's like It's like you're it's like you go through this wormhole of beautiful relation with your kid and it clicks It doesn't happen immediately In fact, there's some my other fathers talk some my other clients who are father talked about that like early on It's this really frustrating thing because they're not getting attention from their wife They can't really comfort the kid because early on you're not really a sense of comfort You don't have you don't have the milk and you don't have mom's smell That's why they encourage like skin to skin to contact you'd be laying there on your chest with your baby In its diaper just on you feeling touching communicating and now my son likes me more than my wife But but that's just a phase They'll go through it. I want mommy more than daddy. I want daddy more than mommy So so it does come back to eventually kind of pay dividends in that way they're You're gonna find that you start caring about things Like schools all of a sudden your kids two months old and you're starting to worry about the neighborhood schools You're starting to worry about preschool and daycare and all of this other crap and providing for your kids There's a term white flight That is used when all of these all these previous people's who are occupying the coffee shops and the bars in the city Up and leave for suburbia because the schools are better and this comes with some of that fatherhood element of like Shit I got to provide for this thing and I either the do it montero Lee or I have to do it locationally You start caring about in a really weird way it's not something you chose to care about or even chose to take an active interest in it Just clicks like that whole providing


When arsenic-containing drugs are fed to chickens, not only does it grow out into their feathers, which can then be fed back to them as a slaughterhouse byproduct, the arsenic can get into their tissues and then into our tissues, explaining why national studies found that those who eat more poultry have tended to have more arsenic flowing through their bodies. Why would the industry do that? In modern poultry CAFOs, these concentrated animal feeding operations, there can be 200,000 birds under one roof, and so the floors of these buildings become covered with feces. While this so-called factory farming decreases costs, this also increases the risk of disease.  The arsenic from the drugs in the feed can get into our crops, into the air, and into the groundwater, and find its way into our bodies, whether we eat meat or not. Yeah, but how much arsenic are we really talking about? Well, we raise billions of chickens every year, and if historically the vast majority were fed arsenic, then if you do the math, we're talking about dumping a half million pounds worth of pure arsenic into the environment every year, much of it onto our crops, or shovel directly into the mouths of other farm animals. Most of the arsenic in chicken waste is water-soluble, so there are certainly concerns about it seeping into the groundwater, but if it's used as a fertilizer, what about our food? Studies on the levels of arsenic in the U.S. food supply dating back to the 70s identified two foods, fish aside, with the highest levels, chicken and rice, both of which can accumulate arsenic in the same way. They're an arsenic-containing drug like rocks are sown to chickens, and it ends up in their manure, which ends up in the soil, which ends up in our pilaf. Rice is now the primary source of arsenic exposure in a non-seafood diet. I was surprised to see mushrooms in the top five food sources of arsenic, but then not so surprised when I found out that poultry litter was commonly used as a starting material to grow mushrooms in the United States. And over the years, mushroom arsenic content has rivaled the arsenic concentration in rice, though people tend to eat more rice than mushrooms on a daily basis. And arsenic levels in mushrooms did seem to be dipping, starting about a decade ago, confirmed in this latest 2016 paper that looked at a dozen different types of mushrooms, human white-button mushrooms, cremini, portobello, shiitake, trumpet, oyster, nemiko, never heard of it, mayotake, alba clamshell, brown clamshell, never heard of those either, and shantarelle. Now only averaging about half what rice is running. Just like some mushrooms have less arsenic than others, some rice has less. Rice grown in California has 40% less arsenic than rice grown in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas. Why? Well, arsenic-based pesticides have been used more than a century on millions of acres of cotton fields. Noted to be a dangerous practice, back in 1927, arsenic pesticides are now effectively banned, so it's not a matter of buying organic versus conventional rice, because millions of pounds of arsenic had already been laid down in the soil well before your rice was even planted. The rice industry is well aware of this. There's an arsenic toxicity disorder in rice, called straighthead, where if you plant rice in soil too heavily contaminated with arsenic, it doesn't grow right. So instead of choosing cleaner cropland, they just developed arsenic-resistant strains. So now lots of arsenic can build up in rice without the plant getting hurt. Can the same be said, however, for the rice consumer? Same story with wine, decade after decade of arsenic pesticide use, and even though they've been banned now, arsenic can still be sucked up from the soil, leading to the pervasive presence of arsenic in American wine, which could pose a potential health risk. Curiously, they sum up by saying chronic arsenic exposure is known to lower IQ in children, but if kids are drinking that much wine, arsenic toxicity is probably the least of their worries.


Welcome to Pacific Partnerships in Education here on Fink Tech, Hawaii. I'm your host Ethan Allen. Thank you for joining us today. Here in the Fink Tech studios, I have with me three charming young ladies, Arsena Moore and Gloria Lani, and we are going to talk about Marshall's Education Day. All members of the Marshall's Education Day Committee, which is planning this celebration. So, people probably not, everyone probably knows what Marshall's Education Day is. Maybe, Gloria, you want to tell us a little bit about what it is and how it came to being? Right. Thank you. The Marshall's Education Day, Ethan, is an annual event that draws bringing honor students to the event to be recognized for their academic achievement. Students in the middle school to high school students who have achieved 3.0 and above the GPA are to be recognized and given the acknowledge for their academic achievement. It is also an event to bring in families, parents. This is to raise awareness of parent involvement. It is the reason why this event has been out there for how many years? 12 years now since 2008, and we are so excited. We're going to have another one this year. On? Another April 27th. Yes. Thank you. Yes. In that event, it's not just for the honor students award ceremony and the parent involvement, but it's also to bring in service providers. These service providers are to share their program services to the community, the Marshall's community as well. Would these be education service providers or are these social service agencies or mixed? We have both. Yes. The focus of the day is largely educational, but in order to be able to support families in that role, we also feel that there are other social services that can offer services to the Marshall's community and be able to help them so that they can focus and help students on their education. Right. There's a fair number of Marshall's. We've shown up here relatively recently. They may have come from further remote islands. They don't really understand all how the city like Honolulu works and need some assistance in figuring out how to access bank accounts, whatever driver's licenses, all things at least for them living here. Yes, exactly. That's great. I know there's a great deal of interest in this, and it's wonderful to hear that you're trying to eat the parents and family support in that. That's a very valuable part of it. You said it's been going for 12 years now. That's great. About how many people? Are you expecting? Yeah. Usually, in the beginning, we got 200 people, but lately, the number has been increased to 700, 800, the 10 days. That's wonderful. It's a half-day event or all-day event? It starts at 8 a.m. and ends about 3 p.m., so it's most of the day. Excellent. Where is it being held this year? It is being held at the Harris Methodist Church at the corner of New Anu and Vineyard. Oh, okay. There we go. Good job. That's, yeah, 20, about Vineyard. Okay.  They give talks.  Yes. So, we, as part of the program, we have sessions where we breakout students that are in middle school, high school, from Kiki, for instance, and from parents. We try to focus on the areas that are, you know, specifically in need for those, you know, for those people. And we also, because this is our 12th year having it, we have had students that go on to college, and we try to bring them back, and we try to feature, you know, some of the stuff that you, that's a middle school, a high school student. This is what you have to look forward to as college, in college, so we bring them back, and, you know, share some of their stories, and, you know, help them out. Excellent. This actually sounds a bit like the Micronesian Youth Summit. I had some folks a few weeks ago talking about the Micronesian Youth Summit just after it happened. Do you guys collaborate at all? So, we, yeah, we have, we've all set up booths at the event, but they are, I think, the third or fourth year or in our 12th year, and I think, you know, I would like to think that we inspired some of what happened at the Micronesian Youth Summit, yeah, because they do sort of breakout sessions, they do service providers, and they do a main event as well, so sort of similar program. Theirs is to all Micronesian students, and not just to Marshall East. Ours is focused on Marshall East students, yes. And for those who don't understand, sometimes the term Micronesian is used to encompass the Marshall Islands out through Palau, and other times Micronesia is supposed to be focused just on the Federated States of Micronesia, right? So, but the Marshalls are, of course, their own country, yeah. Part of the larger Micronesian area, yes. And about how many Micronesian migrants are here in Hawaii these days? Do you have a mind of your own? Do you know? I think Micronesian or Marshall East? Marshall East, sorry, I meant. Oh, the Marshall East only focus on Marshall East. I'm assuming, I think in 2006, if I may correct, they were like 8,000. Oh, okay. But the number has doubled, yeah. Yeah, it's grown from that. Yeah. And of course, there is concern given the impending changes in the compacts of free association that there's going to be further migration of a fairly substantial nature after 2023, right? I do think there's a little bit of uncertainty about what the status is going to be, which might result in some people moving out. But I think even bigger than that is economic issues, health issues, educational issues. There's definitely more opportunities here in Hawaii and the states, obviously. So people, I think, are striving for that. And of course, we also have climate change issues. There's just a lot of challenges. Right, so it's going to be a tough thing. You have a culture thousands of years there, or a very rich culture. Different, multiple cultures rely on the multiple different atolls, I'm sure. But yes, as you know, with climate change, increasingly the king tides sweep from side to side on some of the atolls. We're making it very hard to grow food there. Yes, and specifically to the Marshall Islands, we are a country of just atolls. So we're low-lying, we're made up of coral. So we have, I think, some of those issues are much more magnified in our situation as opposed to other parts of Micronesia that have fertile soil, have mountains. We, unfortunately, don't have. Right, it's a real challenge for the Marshall Islands, in particular, along with Kurovoss, the Maldives, all are low-lying atolls. Low-lying coral atolls. I know in Kurovoss, apparently, the government is actually buying old oil rigs and anchoring them in some of their lagoons, so that when their lagoons become uninhabitable, they can still keep a population there and lay and claim to the nation. Because it raises an interesting point, when your nation literally goes underwater and no longer exists as a landmass, do you, what is your legal status anymore in the UN? So, yeah, fascinating, and that's why your students need to be educated, right? Yeah, of course. Under new challenges. Of course, and I think also here in Hawaii, we've heard a lot of people talk about the challenges in dealing with Micronesians, and so we wanted to be able to try to be part of the solution. For example, Tuency raises an issue in the Marshallese community, and we wanted to be able to bring parents in and educate them on the importance of being involved in your students' education, making sure they go to school. So yeah, we just wanted to be part of the solution. And that was the main focus on why we decided to create this event to make sure that the parents are involved with the students and understand, of course, that the students are having challenges, so they should understand those and they should understand the US school systems and laws and all of that. They're right there, you know. Great, because there's a huge cultural difference, right? If you're on a small outer island in the Marshalls with a few dozen to a few hundred people who families have known each other for generations, school is sort of less a priority, right? Everyone's sort of understanding that maybe it's not happening today, no biggie, you know? Yeah, and a lot of them survive through subsistence living, so education doesn't bring food to the table. Right, it's much more learning from their parents and their uncles and aunts and cousins about what needs to be done. Exactly, sharing their responsibility. So they don't necessarily understand when they come to the US that school attendance is expected and mandated. And if you don't do it, you actually are causing trouble. One of the resources of providers that are invited to come in are about the college programs, Gear Up Hawaii, or 3Ps program at the UH, where families, parents, and students can not just think that, OK, if I graduate from high school, that's it. But we're saying, OK, this is not it. There's a lot more that you can do. And here are some essential resources for you. These are very great partners that they've been partnering with us from the beginning. And that's what makes the program successful, because then it allows the students and the parents to know that there's these resources out there, and they can always do that's where, I guess, the motivation, the values, and the inspiration comes from. For me, as a volunteer, to keep continuing to do this, partnering with all these. And we did a survey. We asked parents at one of the events, remember, ladies? And we asked on the survey, what was the reason why you came to Hawaii? And it was education. And so that really, like, OK, so this is a priority for our community. Besides coming to see doctors, education is their top priority, that's the way. So your president, Hilda Hainia, is a good example, right? Yes. Yeah. Her PhD at First Women PhD from the Marshalls. And also, former Crell staff member. Mind you, that's one. Wonderful person doing great stuff there. So but it's good, then. You do have some role models of various sorts of people, Marshalls, who have gone on into higher education and can talk about the value of this and what it's meant to them and how it's helped them and their lives and their families. Sorry, these are the kind of people that we make sure that they come back again and again to inspire the students, to talk to the students, to talk to the parents, the community, and of course. Because it must be very discouraging, particularly for some new students come here and they're not understanding the language. They realize they're not academically sort of on a par with their age group of other students here. They don't go English as well. They don't read as well. They don't maybe have science background that's strong. So it's got to be very discouraging. And that can lead, of course, to a bad cycle of bad behavior in school and dropping out. And you don't want that. You want to encourage them and say, you can stay in. You can catch up. You can succeed. Yeah, and so that's why we have the ceremony where we recognize their achievements, because we want students who haven't done as well in school to see it's possible to do so.  You can catch up. So it's just meant to encourage the students and the parents to really just try to stick in there. And it'll happen. Absolutely. It's a message that's very in line with current thinking about intelligence and what is called a dynamic mindset. Realize that intelligence is not some fixed quantity that you are born with. It's a trait that you cultivate. And if you learn how to learn, you keep learning all your life.  And if you encourage people to continue to stay in school and broaden their horizons, expand their knowledge bases, stay curious, they'll continue to learn and succeed, even if, yes, even if they're starting out a little behind their peers. Well, that's the goal. So hopefully, we are making a difference on it. Absolutely. It's really wonderful you're doing this. I think it's a wonderful event. And we are going to talk more about maybe what's coming up in this year's event. But we're going to take a short break first. Gloria, Joanne, and Arsena are with me here today in the ThinkTech studio. We're talking about Marshall's Education Day, which is April 27th this year. 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I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your co-workers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that may be a little outside of your experience. So please join me, because security matters. Aloha. Thanks for coming back here to Think Tech Hawaii and joining us for the second half of Pacific Partnerships in Education. And we're talking about Marshallese Education Day with Arsima, Joanne, and Gloria, who are all members of the Marshallese Education Day Committee and are helping to plan this wonderful event this year on April 27th at the church. Paris Methodist Church. Paris Methodist Church and Vineyard and New Honored. All right, excellent. And so let's talk about what's going to be on the program coming up here. Starts early in the morning. Sure, it starts early in the morning, starts at 8 a.m. registration. It starts at 8 a.m. and then we have breakout sessions starting at 9. For the parents' session, we have Gear Up and Pacific Classes in Pipeline. They're going to be talking to the parents about some of the opportunities at UH specifically. And then at the student session, we have Joanne and one of our other volunteers, Tamra, who are going to be talking actually some of our culture and some of these younger students have mostly grown up here. So we wanted to be able to get them to relate to kind of know where they're coming from. We thought that's a very also important thing to know. So part of every ninth and during the sessions, we would make sure that somebody from the culture would come and talk about that, or we would do something like a presentation that would allow the students to understand their role as martiaries, making sure that they don't forget who they are. Exactly. And then after our session, we have our main ceremony where we honor the students. When we first started the program, I think we had about 20 students that we recognized. I think there's over 50. It's been sort of growing. And in terms of speakers, we have someone from our culture, someone representing our culture. So we're still a chief speaking. And then we have a former student who is an honor student coming in to speak. And then we have, I apologize if I mispeak her name, but it's like Louise Pagada, who from KCC. She's a chancellor, vice-chancellor or something. And she did her PhD thesis on martiaries. So she's going to be coming to speak about the importance of being able to speak more than one language. Yeah, so we're very excited about that. No, it sounds like a wonderful program. Excellent, excellent. I mean, that's a tremendous point. It's more and more people recognizing the value of being bilingual. And how it's pretty valuable if you can instill very young childhood bilingualism, learning two languages at once. If she does her brains a lot of good. Yeah, something that we've noticed recently is that this is our 12th year having the event. And more and more students are speaking mostly English and not martial arts. So we really wanted to be able to make sure that we also incorporate some of our culture into the program. Absolutely. Certain language, you lost the cultural knowledge. You have tremendous knowledge. Recently, it's come out that the, for instance, the stick chart is a class of navigational aids. These are based on a very actual curriculum, which we're not recognized for long time. But the Marshallese centuries ago discovered that they could almost by feel really more than anything else pick up these particular currents that would give them a clue as to where they, a good clue, as to where they were actually sailing. Yeah, I mean, we decorate with these things, but these are actually functional. And they're a result of historical knowledge. So we want to help instill a sense of pride in our culture as well. Exactly. I mean, it's actually, if you read the early European explorers, what were marveled at the speed and maneuverability of the Marshallese canoes. And they had nothing like it.  Yeah, there's definitely resurgence of that as well. I would also like to add to the fact that because on social media, and there's a lot of discrimination against Micronesian and Marshallese, of course, that's part of why we really wanted students to understand that, hey, you don't have anything to be shameful of. You came from your own, your country has also had their own values. And these are very important values that we want to make sure that they can understand and know. So they're not ashamed of being Marshallese. Right. Now, this is something that Hawaii has a rather bad history of. Whoever the latest immigrant group is, Hawaii tends to disparage them, blame them for troubles, call them the cause of most of their problems. But these cultures then become a valued part of Hawaii and contribute richness to the rich fabric that we have here. It's great to see that the Marshallese are building their own contributions to that. And I would just like to add that we're all volunteers. We all work full-time jobs. But we do this on the side because we want to be able to make sure our Marshallese community is successful. Even some of the new ones that are just sort of learning the system here, it is a different system. But we want to make sure they know what they're getting themselves into. And they're successful. It's definitely possible. We've seen definitely tons of people going to school, graduating, contributing members of society. So. Excellent. And actually, that brings up a good point because you're all volunteers. This event, putting on this event, obviously takes time, energy, and involves a certain amount of experience. You said I think that people can still contribute to. Yes. So on our flyer. I think on our flyer, yes. We have our Facebook page on there. It also has a link to a GoFundMe page that we've set up. So yeah. And we're certainly taking donations. Yeah. If anything can. We're grateful for anything. Events like this need broad support and are certainly worthy of broad support. So if that's great, we will push that and encourage all of our viewers to support this, literally. Thank you. So where do you see this going, do you think? I mean, is Marshall's Education Day is obviously going to continue. You have plans. If you've done it for 12 years, you're obviously going to keep going in the future. Do you see it growing? Well, from the beginning, I think one of the very highlight of this event is we've always do, we try to raise funds for the event. I mean, there would be only 10, 12 people, but we try to raise funds on our own by doing a lot of sales. And then we would do very little ways, like anything that would donate money, we do that. But we even sell our used handicrafts just to make sure that we get something. And this year, we just got our 501C3, and that's a really good thing. Now we have hopes that there's more that we can do instead of just doing the Marshall's Education Day. We've also talked about other things. Yeah, I mean, it's a one day event. We've held it for 12 years, but we also, throughout the years, we've held other events, like, for example, we've had events where we teach parents just for parents how to read the report card. Just sort of these really small things, but we want to be able to follow the students beyond just the one day event that we do. We want to be able to follow them through college, and make sure they're still continuing on a successful track. Providing information on nail care, for instance, so a very valuable thing. Oh, I hadn't realized, so you have a group now that's a 501C3, a non-profit organization, which gives you a great deal of access. Now you can go out and apply for funds for people and all. Wonderful, wonderful. We're hopeful. Yes. We also have had parents who, in the past, never attended school functions, school events, parent-teacher conferences. After our event, we've seen a lot of our parents attending the events, and we hope that this will continue parent involvement involving in their children's academic achievement and education. That's one of the things that's proven pretty true across the main. All of US is the greater the parent involvement, the more successful their kids are, basically. It can be carried a little too far. College scandals have shown, but you're not putting that level of parents involved. But having parents' support of education, understanding what the education system wants and can bring, they have their responsibility too to help ensure their child does show up, shows up, prepare, ready to study, has a place home to study, to learn, gets the support and backing of their parents when they take on school projects, science fair projects, what happened, what are you, right? Yeah, I mean, we want to be able to provide resources for parents, and we've actually reached out to schools because they've been having difficulties in communicating with parents or reaching out to parents and we've offered our help in that. So just, we believe in the importance of education, so we want to be able to support that in any way, and not just our one-day event. Excellent, excellent. So if you each, I'll give you each about 30 seconds to talk to the viewers and tell those pretty young viewers what's important. Young viewers, hey, young viewers in Marshallese English. Please come and join our coming event. We're taking report cards right now, so make sure you send those report cards, okay? To Marshallese Education Day committee at gmail.com or just call what number again on the flyer, call us. Congratulations on the flyer. And we need one, dear, so please come, come, come. We're always the people.  That's what I was gonna say. We definitely, there's like a group of, like less than a 10 of us, so we put on this event, definitely use all the help we can get. Oh, well, that's, you guys deserve many commendations for doing that. I know I've done enough special events to understand that it's a huge task and more people will get involved in the better in general. There's a lot to do, it's wonderful that you're doing that. And it's, you're doing a huge service, not only to your community, but to Hawaii as a whole. You're helping raise recognition that Marshallese have a lot to contribute, a lot to bring here, our being contributing members of the culture and our being a positive influence here. Well, excellent, this has been wonderful. I'm very much more enlightened now about Marshallese Education Day, so I very much appreciate our senior memoir, Joan Lyric and Gloria Lani. I appreciate you all coming in here. Thank you. Thank you very much for having us. You're on Pacific Partnerships and Education, and I hope our viewers will come back and join us on our next episodes of the show. Until then, I'm your host, Ethan Allen, signing off from Think Tech, Hawaii.


This is TFNN, the Tiger Financial News Network, EFNN. Headline, News Update. Tom O'Brien. We have the Dow Industries down 84, Nasdaq is up 33, S&Ps are up 3. When you talk about a turn, you get quite a turn here in the S&Ps. We take a look at this S&P future, which you're going to see out here. From highs to lows out here, you had this morning we had a high out here running at 2935, 75. Bottom line gets down to 2914 and crawls all the way back top side. And right now you are pushing into the overnight highs. The overnight highs in this baby is only 0.75 of one. That's where we're at right now. Dow Industries, bottom line, just about all the loss inside the Dow Industries has to do right now with 3M. You have the Dow down 82 points right now. When you take a look at it, 3M is actually putting a negative 190 points into it. So you had quite a turn around. When we started out this morning, you only had four stocks inside the Dow Industries that were in the positive. And bottom line is that now you have Boeing putting 57 positive points into it. Boeing went from a price point of 372 to 383. So they've been buying that all day long, particularly as a couple big buys that came in there at 1250. You have Microsoft putting 32 points into it. Microsoft now has a market cap over $1 trillion, actually $994 billion at this particular point. It got up there at one point, it was trading at $131.37. Kingdala, bottom line, you still get divergence out here in a huge way. What the divergence is is that you have the Kingdala going to new all-time highs, as well as gold basically flat, bonds flat, but yet want higher price. And what's so unusual about this, folks, is that 99% of the time, you do not have the dollar going to all-time highs, not all-time highs, but highs, and then simultaneously risk assets also going up into higher price. We're going to take a look at the Q's, the NDX100, that's still the leader out there. NDX100, three Q's are up $18, you're trading out at $1989, and that's bottom and all-time high. Stay right there, folks. Next 16 minutes of trading coming up as well as numbers after the close. We are in the middle of the numbers this whole week. This is the biggest number coming out. Come right back, folks.


In this video, we will compute the solution to question number seven for practice exam number three for math 1210, we're asked to find the derivative of the function three to the x squared. So I want you to recognize that this is a composition of two functions. We have x squared as our inner function and we have three to the u as our outer function. And factor that out necessarily, I mean, do it if you need to, you get e to the u, right? Composed with this x squared and we're trying to take the derivative of these functions. So by the chain rule, when we calculate the derivative, we have to take the derivative of the outer function first. That's this exponential function e to the u for which the derivative, when you take the derivative of an exponential, you're gonna have to pay the tariff. So you get the natural log of three. You'll times that by three to the power x squared will be the power. So you have to put the inner function inside of the outer derivative and then you need to multiply that by the inner derivative. So we have to take the derivative of x squared, which we know the derivative of x squared is just gonna be a two x like so. So when you put that together, we see that the correct answer would be two times or two x times the natural log of three times e or three to the x squared. So we see that the correct answer is d. Let me briefly talk about some of these, some of these distractors here. So thumb some things to note, when you look at choice e, which is incorrect, it's because we didn't put the inner function inside of the outer derivative. That's a common mistake. Watch out for that. If you look at choice f, choice f, it has the outer derivative, but it doesn't have the inner derivative. That's also a very common mistake. So watch out for that. Some of the others are even worse, things like that, like, well, I mean, maybe not worse, but like choice a, you forgot to pay the tariff. So that's what's wrong with that. And then C and B are just combinations of some of those three common mistakes there. So do watch out. These multiple choice questions have the advantage that the solution is provided, but it also has the disadvantage that predictable common mistakes will also be included. So you have to double check your work to make sure you don't fall inside of those traps.