Distinguished audience, distinguished speakers, I would like to welcome you all to this panel entitled Women Leaders on the Path to Decarbonization. This panel is co-organized by Women in Nuclear Wind Global and the Canadian Nuclear Association, CNA. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Eva Jan. I'm a member of the Wind Global Steering Committee and I'm an experienced nuclear professional having worked at the IAEA for 35 years and six years for the UAE Nuclear Regulator FUNNER on the BARACA project. It is my great pleasure to be back in the UAE for this panel because I considered my second home and I'm happy to moderate this panel. I would also like to express my gratitude to the IAEA for allowing us to co-host this panel at the Pavillion Atoms for Climate. This panel is also being live streamed via the IAEA website so a warm welcome to all those from around the world who are here with us today to watch this panel. The objective of our panel is to highlight the contributions of women driving the global transition to sustainable energy solutions. We have a panel of visionary leaders here today who will share their insights and underscore the significance of gender diversity in the clean energy sector and to discuss also some of the challenges and their potential solutions surrounding gender disparity within the clean energy sector. Not only nuclear but also renewable energies. So we have six distinguished speakers here on our panel who will deliver their insights one by one. We will then have a question and answer session so please hold your questions until all speakers have spoken. First of all, let me welcome Madame Dominique Mouillot, the current president of Wind Global, who will be our first speaker. And let me give you some background information about Dominique. So Dominique Mouillot is a well-recognized business leader in the French nuclear sector. She started her professional career as a chemical high school engineer at the CEA, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, leading projects for the French Ministry of Defense and reprocessing plants. She held high positions in the fields of nuclear engineering, nuclear measuring instrumentation and radiation protection. She was also the chief executive officer in prominent French and international groups of the nuclear sector, in particular in the areas of engineering, decommissioning, and nuclear power plant maintenance. She specialized in the creation of joint ventures with important international companies involved in the nuclear industry. Currently, she's working for the Spanish Group of Energy Services, GDES, as the vice president in France. Today, Dominique will highlight wind global activities related to the subject. So let's welcome Dominique Mouillot. Thank you, Eva. Dear ladies and gentlemen, we have gentlemen, which is very pleasant, and dear speakers, let me give you a few words about wind global. Wind global is a non-profit organization of women working professionally in various areas of nuclear energy and radiation applications. We are present in 145 countries, and we have 35,000 members all over the world. Since our foundation in 1992, we have been strong advocates for environmental sustainability, diversity, and gender equality, as well as leadership development of women. To power a thriving, inclusive future for all, we are committed to promote an evidence-based dialogue with the public to raise awareness about the essential contributions of nuclear technology to people and society, especially as part of the solution to the climate crisis, and as a key element to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Climate change affects women and young women in various ways including their health, education, food security, stable homes and families, economic well-being, and even opportunities for leadership. These impacts are closely intervened with existing gender inequalities. Addressing gender dimensions of climate change as Wing Global is doing is essential for building more resilient and equitable societies. Progress is noted in gender equality policies globally, yes. However, policies on plan relocation, displacement, and migration due to climate change effects are often insufficiently gender responsive. More efforts are necessary to redress unequal access to resources across and within communities, hosting displaced women and girls. Additionally, women must be empowered at all economic levels to partake in and benefit from implementing nuclear technology-related projects that aim to mitigate and provide adaptation measures to climate change effects in their home countries. For instance, in South Africa, businesses are encouraged to recruit women first. In this case, this facilitates a fertile business ground for women and it assists women to participate with support from government to parts of business, including the nuclear technology-related business value chain. As wind global, we have established through our local chapters collaboration with the governmental authorities to contribute to promote women to decision-makers' positions to implement the energy policy in the country. Furthermore, we have developed strategic partnerships with several organizations, Women in Renewable Energy, Nuclear Energy Agency, World Nuclear Association, AFCON, Women in Fusion, and IAA, which is extremely supportive, to have common actions and to be more efficient, more visible and exchange opinion. We have, as well, published position paper for the COP 27 and for the COP 28. Climate impacts on women and children need meaningful action. Now, nuclear power can support this action. We are, as well, part of Nuclear for Climate and we have signed the position papers established by these organizations. We have regular events with IAA during the climate change and the role of nuclear power in IAA and during the International Energy Agency, women confront climate change. So we have regular events and it's a way, of course, to talk about this issue and we have one, as well, with African women in Nuclear for Securing Water Resources, for instance, in Africa. Last but not least, we have our own young generation group. Today we have 120 young ladies from 35 countries supporting wind actions, especially in addressing the climate crisis. We conceive the use as change agents and, therefore, they are an active and crucial pillar to build the future of wind global because we need to attract the young talent. Wind global community is convinced that women have a key role to play in the road of decarbonization. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Dominique, and let me come to our second speaker. It's a special pleasure for me to introduce Mr. Enobot Agborot, the Executive Secretary of AFKON, who also happens to be a former colleague of mine from the IAEA.  Before joining AFKON in 2022, Mr. Agborot worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency for 32 years in various roles, including on safeguards and the nuclear fuel cycle development. He is an advocate of a multilateral approach to address Africa's energy poverty to contribute to Africa's agenda 2063. Today he will present on the activities of AFKON and also what's going on on the African continent related to gender equality. Mr. Agborot, please, the floor is yours. Thank you. I'm just checking if I'm live. Ladies and gentlemen, let me first of all thank Wing Global for inviting me to participate in this very important panel. The issue that this panel is addressing, I believe, is existential for our race, for humanity. Climate change is an urgent and existential challenge for humanity. Recently Harvard Academic published an award-winning book. I think Elizabeth Colbert and in this book she argues that the world is currently facing the first extinction of species that is not related to external natural forces. At the moment this extinction is mainly affecting other species but if we do not address it urgently, it will eventually lead to our own extinction. About 50% of the world's population is women. If the world has to address this existential threat from climate change we have to deploy all our resources, material resources, human resources, intellectual resources. If women are left out we will be leaving out 50% of our capacity to address the climate change challenge. This is beyond gender equality. This is also about the existence of people on this planet in the long term. This challenge is very important and we cannot deal with it in a mechanistic way. In order to effectively address the issue of climate change, it has to be part and parcel of our culture. It has to be a cultural part. It has to be a cultural thing for us that as we live our lives we are conversant about climate change and we pay attention to it naturally. In all societies of the world, women are the primary caregivers and the teachers are babies and children and the youth from birth until about the mid teens when school becomes in some cases more important than home teaching. But in order for dealing with climate change to be part of our culture we have to rely on women. We have to empower women to teach our babies, our children, our youth our young people so that by the time they become adults it is natural for them to make decisions and do things that mitigate climate change. These young people are the future leaders they are the future decision makers and we have to rely on them to make the right decisions when they are in positions of power. Another aspect that women can contribute to mitigating addressing climate change through relieving women from the I want to say unimportant tasks that the majority of women spend their time their daily lives. In Africa for example firewood we call it biofuels are the main sources of energy in most of our countries 90% of our countries and women spend a disproportionate amount of time every day traveling long distances to collect this biofuel to cook and to supply energy for their families. I'm representing the African Commission on Energy AFKON and one of our flagship projects is to accelerate the achievement by African countries of the infrastructure issues that they need to attain in order to develop nuclear power as part of Africa's energy transition if this comes to pass in the coming years we hope and as we expect that would free up a lot of time for women to address other important issues in our society such as climate change. Here in Africa women are still lagging in policymaking and decision making positions in government and we need to look into that but it's not all bad because in our families at home the people who have the power are women women are the people who manage our homes and our families and I think this is a power that women can leverage to influence political decisions decisions to do with issues such as climate change in government they can use behind the scenes power to start contributing while we are pursuing other avenues of empowering women to be part of the global efforts for climate change mitigation in Africa and my company we have a gender balance policy 50% of our professional program staff are women and we also have that balance here I am here from Africa and the man she's from Africa and she's a woman we have a 50-50 balance here and it's the same balance that we have at our headquarters in Pretoria I just want to end my saying that AFGON is fully behind WIN Global and WIN Africa the youth in nuclear in Africa and you can count on us to support you at your events and to work with you to ensure that our efforts globally to address climate change are inclusive of men and women and the youth and everybody working together to address an existential threat to humanity Thank you Mr. Agborov for highlighting the activities of AFGON and also what's happening on the African continent and for the still a little bit hidden power of women and how we can bring it out a little bit more so thank you very much for that our next speaker will be Ms. Diane Cameron so let me first introduce her briefly Diane Cameron is the head of the Nuclear Technology Development and Economics Division at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency in NEA in her role at NEA she leads an expert team of economists and scientists in energy policy and nuclear energy policy development amongst NEA member countries by advancing evidence-based authoritative assessments and analysis in the areas of nuclear economics financing and cost reduction as well as nuclear technology, innovation and the nuclear fuel cycle from 2014 to 2021 Diane was the director of the Nuclear Energy Division in Canada as director she headed up the division responsible for leading and coordinating Canadian public policy on nuclear energy and she served as chair of Canada small modular reactor SMR road map and action plan she joined the government of Canada in 2007 to work on energy, environment and economic policy including international relations and negotiations prior to her tenure with the government of Canada she worked in management and consulting and engineering in the private sector specializing in global value chains and international logistics so let's welcome Diane Cameron who will speak about the activities of NEA in the area of gender equality thank you very much for the very kind and thorough introduction I'd like to start by thanking Wynn Global and thanking the CNA Canadian Nuclear Association for organizing this event for inviting me to speak on this topic at the NEA I lead a team that looks at technology, innovation and economics but elsewhere in the agency there is a team of social scientists who prepare a report that I'd like to tell you a little bit about before turning to the report I'd like to also congratulate women in nuclear Canada for taking the significant step this year to join the equal by 30 initiative which is an initiative under the clean energy ministerial that aims to achieve equal pay equal leadership and equal opportunities for women in the global energy transformation by 2030 so congratulations that's an important commitment to have signed on to at the end I'll share some personal remarks on that and some of these other items I'm also very pleased to announce that earlier this year NEA created a Wynn OECD NEA chapter and we've had a lot of energy for that chapter a lot of young women in the agency really driving the work forward so that's been very positive at the agency the NEA under the leadership of director general Bill Magwood has been very active in promoting women to senior positions very active in promoting diversity in the nuclear workforce within the NEA but also in our NEA member countries not only is it the right thing to do but it's also a strategic move as the previous panelist has just explained and I agree wholeheartedly climate change is an existential threat and in order to address climate change and in particular in the nuclear sector in order to triple global installed nuclear by 2050 which is now the call to action from this COP28 to triple global installed nuclear capacity by 2050 we're going to need to increase the talent pipeline on a scale and assuring the scale and quality that we've never had to grow that fast before and that's going to require the young generation it's going to require women not just young women but women mid-career it's going to require talent from the global south it's going to require a new way of thinking about training people and bringing them into the nuclear sector not just straight out of university but also mid-career from other industrial sectors so let me turn to I've got some talking points here about this report it was put together by a group in the NEA agency that really did some fantastic work it essentially is based on the premise that the nuclear sector should reflect the diverse societies that it serves and on gender balance in particular this report finds that women are 25% of the sector's workforce and considerably less than that in the STEM aspects and the leadership roles in the sector it finds that female new hires and promotions are clustered around the non-stem aspects in the sector and based on current trends in hiring and promotion and retention the sector is not on track for gender quality at all by 2030 or 2040 or beyond women are paid less than men in the sector women face negative career impacts from pregnancy and family responsibilities this challenge is not unique to the nuclear sector it exists more broadly but there may be certain characteristics about jobs in the nuclear sector this challenge women working in the sector report experiences of workplace hostility sexual harassment, cultural biases and they report a lack of management and institutional support negative impacts are higher for women in the STEM roles and women from underrepresented communities my relationship to this report is as a consumer colleagues prepared it as a different team I read it with great interest it's a topic that for obvious reasons is very near and dear to my heart as a woman who started in engineering in the early 90s what's really quite interesting about this report and I think probably the most important thing to know about this report is the data collection so there was quantitative data collected from governments and private sector in our member countries and there was also qualitative data collected through surveys and interviews with 8,000 women around the world from our member countries and that sort of sets this analysis apart from some of the other pieces that have been written on this topic in the past I would offer for consideration that policies and measures that are designed to improve gender balance really should not be developed and designed and implemented based on people's hunches and guesses and assumptions are about what the issues are that women face and the reasons why women are underrepresented with better data and better policies and measures with better data and better measures we can break down some of the barriers provide equal opportunities and create workplaces that are free from bias harassment and discrimination and so for that reason I think this report is quite unique because it is based on data that's never been collected before so I encourage you to check it out it's on our website when I read this report you know it's it's disconcerting these findings are troublesome they're troublesome because of ethical reasons but they're also troublesome because of capacity reasons we need women in the workforce but they were not surprising to me nor would I imagine they would be surprising to me as an undergrad in engineering in the early 90s I joined a campaign and the tagline for the campaign was equal by 2000 so a few years ago when I was working in the government of Canada when the government of Canada decided to co-sponsor and launch equal by 2030 under the clean energy ministerial you know yes it was a positive news story but for me on a personal note I had been part of a campaign called equal by 2000 and here I was 30 years later facing the same kind of call to action so the world needs clearly smarter policies and better designed measures if we intend to make more progress on this issue in the next 30 years than we did in the last 30 years and to do that we need data and we need to listen to women and we need to not assume the reasons why women are underrepresented in the sector so thank you for including me in this discussion I look forward to hearing from the other panelists and for providing us with more details of the important report prepared by NEA and I really encourage all of you who are interested in this topic to check it out online and especially to read the recommendations because I believe there's still a lot of work that needs to be done from a personal note I remember when I started my career and I was going on IAEA inspections and I had to dress either in a behind a curtain or in a prayer room because there was just no place for women to put on their working clothes so I think this situation has changed gradually but I think in terms of taking women into account there's still a lot of work to be done so thank you for that so our next speaker is Miss Nicole Butcher from the Ontario Power Generation OPG so Nicole is responsible at OPG for the OPG's generating fleet with a capacity of over 15,600 megawatt consisting of 10 nuclear units, 66 hydro stations two thermal stations and one solar facility she is also responsible for the engineering function integrated fleet management commercial business functions including energy trading commercial contracting and market affairs at OPG In addition, Nicole is the chair of the board of both Eagle Creek Renewables Energy OPG's US hydro subsidiary and the Tura Power OPG's fleet of combined cycle gas plants cycle gas plants in her previous role as senior vice president renewable generation power marketing Nicole was accountable for the operation of hydroelectric and thermal generation in Ontario Nicole held a wide range of roles in OPG including OPG's corporate business development and strategy team focusing on implementing OPG's long term strategic plan including executing on five million dollars of acquisition building and electrification strategy driving an innovation culture at OPG she also worked with Canadian nuclear partners now Laurentis leading a corporate wide business transformation developing the Portland's energy centre in Toronto In 2021, Nicole was named one of Canada's top 100 most powerful women and named women of the year by wire the women in renewable energy and a pro association of power producers of Ontario Nicole, the floor is yours to tell us more about what OPG does in terms of gender parity Thank you, and thank you to Wynn Wynn Canada is an incredible resource for all the women in our organisation they get so much out of their membership with Wynn Canada and they get to see the networking and learning that is provided there so thank you very much for that so a little bit about OPG OPG's mission is to electrify life in one generation so to do that we really have three key strategies that we're relying on one is our climate change plan and our climate change plan really talks about how we can do to grow clean energy in the province and that includes significant nuclear so we do have North America's first SMR under construction I was talking to Deanne about how many dump trucks are going up and down the road right now moving dirt which is fantastic to see so at the end of the day we intend to have a fleet of four SMRs built and then are also looking at building part of our climate change plan but the other two aspects that are equally important to our strategy are equity, diversity and inclusion strategy and our reconciliation action plan so I wanted to spend a bit of time talking about those two pieces because I think they're critical to the discussion here today so our equity, diversity and inclusion plan talks about how we are going to really get to gender parity and maybe a bit of a background on OPG we're doing really well at the senior level so our board of directors is actually 60% women and our senior executive is actually 60% women and I have sort of seen that transition and really the amount of collaboration that we have like it has dramatically changed as you've seen those numbers come up so it is critical that we actually get there because I think we make better decisions when you have a diverse organization where we're not doing so well is really at the shop floor and a lot of the statistics I think Diane was talking about really we're not that far off at that level so we're certainly not celebrating when we need to get to the shop floor and so we are doing things with our growth plan we're obviously hiring a lot of new people so this is our opportunity to actually change what we are, the diversity this is a once in a generation opportunity for us so we're making sure we have diverse panels for interviewing to make sure that we've taken the bias out so that we can really start to change the way we are doing things we have other programs like women in trade so we talked about women in nuclear and having not feeling alone and really having a networking that's important for our women in trades because they are often alone in the nuclear side it's a big station there's lots of people on our hydro side we can often have one woman one trades woman in a station and they very much feel alone and so enabling them to come together having sessions once a year really building the networking and the mentoring so that they know they're not alone they have somebody they can call when they have a challenge and they have a common voice to really advocate on their own for stuff that they need in the organization like change rooms and actually having overalls that are fit for women there's very simple things that they can advocate quite effectively for in the organization so we rely on that a lot we also are really focused on getting women into operating roles which is a challenge you're going on shift it's a different life and so we have a bridging the gap program which really talks to our women engineers and helps them understand what is life like when you go on what we call the program and really get trained as a licensed operator because it's very different and we don't want them dropping out because they didn't understand it and so really encouraging them and knowing that they have a group of women that are supporting them and mentors through that program is critical so those are really the key pieces under our ED&I program that I wanted to focus on a reconciliation action plan for those of you who may not be from Canada I think everyone in Canada probably understands what it is it's really reconciling with our history with our indigenous communities and so it's acknowledging what has happened and then beginning the reconciliation journey and so there's a lot of aspects to that plan including supply chain and having indigenous equity participation in all of our new generation so including nuclear we at the end of the day have an indigenous partner in with us as we build new nuclear but on the employees side it's putting special programs in place to be able to ensure that the indigenous communities understand the opportunities and are trained and so we have an indigenous opportunities in nuclear program ION where we're really trying to bring at the trades level indigenous people and we will train them there's an apprenticeship program and then they either come to work for us or they'll come to work for one of our construction vendors and it's been very successful in bringing indigenous people into our company and we are also starting an apprenticeship program for our hydro facilities our facilities are further up north away from the city density and so therefore the communities themselves are different and have a significant component of indigenous people so we really want to reflect that community in our station employees so bringing them in and giving them opportunities and even if they go back to their community afterwards we know that we've helped that community because we've trained someone to be able to go and do they have trade skills that they can take with them for life so it's an important piece for us and so those are sort of the key elements and we see the ED&I and the reconciliation the RAP as we call it are as critical as our climate change plan and being able to actually get to electrifying life in one generation Mr. Agbor needs to leave us because he has another event he's a bit wired still you can't go so thank you very much Inno for being here with us today thank you so thank you very much Nicole for sharing your experience with OPG and also I really like your background of not just in nuclear but also in the other energy sources I think OPG is doing some important work in terms of gender parity and these policies that are being implemented at the practical level I think that's really important that you are not just aware of the problem but also how do you overcome the challenges and I also of course like the inclusion of Indigenous people which is especially pertinent in Canada and I'm really glad to see this change in Canadian culture two of my grandsons are Canadians so I can fully relate to this so thank you very much for your presentation so we have two more speakers our next speaker is Miss Joanna Osawa she's the Senior Business Development Manager at Burns and McDonald's and she's also the President and CEO of WIRE Women in Renewable Energy Joanna attended Western University studying languages graduating with an Honours Bachelor of Arts she has used these her language skills in a focused 15-plus year management career at leading renewable and energy sector companies in Canada and in the United States by carrying complex projects through many stages she has seen firsthand the vital role renewable energy and emerging technologies serve in moving the Canadian, American and global energy mix forward Joanna has been appointed to the Federal Sustainable Development Advisory Council led by Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Gilbo she looks forward to continuing to engage and contribute to the council's success the council is made up of the Canadian public that represents the views of different provinces and territories indigenous peoples as well as environmental, non-governmental organizations and businesses and labour organizations so Joanna the floor is yours thank you so much for having me here thank you Dominique for partnering with WIRE I'm really happy to have this relationship thank you to CNA so I'm going to start off by letting you folks know I don't have a daughter I don't have children so WIRE is my baby daughter she just celebrated 10 years I'm so proud of her and I'm sure that you know most of people in the stream can relate with their children and I'm saying it's been an emotional ride it's been very happy it's been sometimes strenuous it's been stressful but I am so happy that WIRE has grown into being a young lady that continues to thrive not only on the Canadian market we're in every single province in Canada including the territories Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Jordan UAE, Africa, UK, Italy our plan next year is to open up in WIRE USA Japan and Iceland and the mission at WIRE is to advance the role and recognition and the underrepresented groups in the energy sector I'm going to talk a little bit about the programs that we have on the Canadian market segment because what's right for Canada may not be right for the UAE or for Jordan or for Africa but we're very closely with our chapter leads to ensure that the correct programming is applicable in those prospective demographics on the Canadian market we bring up networking events so we bring C-suite level folks to come and talk to us about what it is that we do in the energy sector because sometimes unfortunately we sit in silos and it's really great to get together and actually talk about what a design engineer does what an archaeologist does what a geologist does so I think it's really pertinent to make sure that those dialogues and that education is being spoken about we provide field trips as a matter of fact OPG just hosted us two weeks ago at the nuclear power plan and what an educational experience that was and so fantastic I love it because most people don't understand what the difference is between a transmission line versus a distribution line so field trips are impactful we provide speed mentorships speed mentorships are typically done at conferences where we bring decision makers and students or emerging professionals that really want to get into this sector and every 15 minutes they sort of move around it's similar to speed dating someone told me once we do speed interviewing which is very different so I work with the GEs of the world, the Siemens of the world HR will bring me a job description and I'll send up to 20 candidates and talented candidates so they're able to minimize HR hours they're able to shortlist they're able to hire so between speed mentoring and speed networking we've done such a successful job and I've been very proud of the folks that we brought in to the energy sector we provide awards such as the one that was Nicole Butcher was the recipient and most recently Miss Heather Ferguson at Waterpower Canada fantastic job we provide student bursary so students can actually attend conferences and be able to you know talk to decision makers and aggregate market intelligence because again it's such a complicated industry that we're in that it's really important to exchange those conversations we have a huge awards program as I mentioned so not only do we work with clean energy ministerial you know on we did emerging leaders organizational award and also women of the year award within WIRE we do women of Waterpower which Heather was the recipient women of the year award which Nicole received as well women in renewables as well as right now we are developing the women in indigenous leadership award with Canadian Council of Aboriginal Business and we work very closely with indigenous communities not only here on the Canadian side but also on the global side of things we've created many reports as well we work very closely with IRENA out of UAE as well in regards to understanding what that gender impact is and the diversity equity and inclusion is we're actually currently working towards 2024 to actually publish with IRENA and WIRE another really important report one of the things that we are launching or we've launched already is it's a survey called Energize Equity actually on I think it's November December 11th we are hosting a side event here at COP28 to talk about what Energize Equity is it's basically being comfortable talking about the uncomfortable and some of the stories that we're aggregating is for instance well there's a team there's ten engineers on my team I'm the only female and yet I'm always tasked with administrative duties let's talk about those elephants in the room let's make sure that we're understanding what that means our programs are continuously growing thanks to the importance of having sponsors such as OPG we work very closely we have so many different partners it's so important to have partners with charities and non-for-profits that align with our mission of course whether it's skill trades because again if we don't have skill trades we're not building anything let's face it I work with Global Affairs Canada NRCan I work with G7 member states the way that I enter the international markets is precisely I actually provided my intervention at the G7 in 2018 and at the close door event that evening our Prime Minister pulled me aside and said listen I think that the best way for you to actually go enter the international markets is go through the Canadian Constance or the Canadian embassies and I only go into countries that are inviting me to go into otherwise you know again we're a volunteer based organization and we don't have enough resources so we have to be very selective on where we make those impacts as mentioned what's right for Canada may not be right for Africa may not be right for Jordan so we're very very conscious on how we move forward lastly I just want to say that when I started this is like 10 years ago I had a CanRIA the time it was called Canadian Wind Energy Association which is now called CanRIA but at the time I was given a 10 by 10 booth and and I was given a mic and a podium to celebrate wire what happened next was absolutely mind-blowing I had men screaming at me that I was segregating the sexes I had women being telling me that they're there nice sorority I was like what is happening I received hate mail I actually have like two of the hate mail I have them on my wall in my office just as a reminder of how important it is to be able to move forward and most importantly when I get quiet is when I get when I become the most dangerous so I started in Toronto downtown like I said we're in every single province including the territories and my goal is world domination and one day I don't want wire to exist because there will be no longer this conversation to be had and we're working together wholly to advance into net zero and make sure that climate change is successful thank you thank you very much Joanne for sharing your activities of your baby that's very impressive and I strongly believe that nuclear and renewable need to join forces because they complement each other so I'm really happy about our partnership with wire and wind global and I I'm sure there will be some future activities resulting from this partnership so thank you very much for that so our last but not least speaker is Miss Hasna Alblushi from Nawa Energy Company I don't know whether all of you know who Nawa is so I think all of you know ENEC which is the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation the company that owns the Baraka nuclear power project and Nawa is the operating company so once the unit started becoming operational Nawa was created and some of the ENEC or most of the ENEC staff joined Nawa Hasna is also very active in wind global and let me briefly present her to you so Hasna Alblushi is the nuclear training director in Nawa Energy Company in her role she's leading Nawa in the development and delivery of nuclear professionals to operate and maintain the Baraka nuclear power plants through Nawa Energy Company reliably and efficiently Hasna established the first Baraka women in nuclear wind chapter in the UAE in April 2014 and actually it was in November 2016 that under Hasna's leadership wind global held their annual conference in Abu Dhabi she has also been an advocate for female employees and she has supported their needs within the organization to develop a nuclear power plant are female employers of choice she has demonstrated excellent leadership skills and has quickly adapted to the nuclear model for operations by creating the performance improvement model designing and implementing the training program she became also the INPO international certified nuclear instructor joining Nawa Hasna worked in the healthcare industry and also for the Abu Dhabi national oil company ADNOC in various roles and Hasna is also a member of a number of committees including the health education committee the healthy cities project as well as being the chair of the Baraka wind chapter the first of its kind in the Middle East she is also an executive board member of wind global and Hasna will lead in two days time the establishment of the women in nuclear Middle East chapter so Hasna the floor is yours thank you Eva for welcoming me and allowing me to actually join this panel it's a very important topic for all of us as you mentioned I am the nuclear training director at Nawa energy company for those who don't know Nawa is a subsidiary of nuclear energy cooperation we are the operator and the maintenance of the Baraka nuclear power plants which is our first of a kind nuclear footprint here in the UAE as well as the Middle East honestly I have been very fortunate to join the nuclear energy sector almost 11 plus years back and I was one of the very first females that had joined such a male dominated can I say industry just to give you a little bit of background about the UAE nuclear energy program you know the UAE program started back in 2008 when I had joined it was almost four years old can I say and it started when the UAE's nuclear energy policy was released but the objective was not only to create or to produce clean energy and clean electricity but it was also all about you know securing energy security reducing carbon emission and also to create a sustainable platform of jobs for UAE nationals within the country right at the start honestly capacity building was one big peeler of the nuclear energy program here in the UAE all the way from scholarship programs educational programs developmental programs mentorship creating the women in nuclear chapter within the Baraka spectrum was an excellent platform to actually attract women not only women but also men but mainly women in an aspect that there was a unique platform that was called women in nuclear that was very specific to looking to their needs Ava might have alerted to this a little bit but I am not of a nuclear background I am of a healthcare background so coming into a nuclear industry whereby you know nothing about engineering and how nuclear actually works this job in a nuclear industry was very attractive because it made me open my wings to a new platform that I was not accustomed to learning something that was beyond my even imagination on how this nuclear energy power plant would bring this electricity back to my home and for me to see my electricity bill that is from Baraka and that was really one of the most empowering things that I was really looking forward to until I did see it happen Personally, myself and a lot of the female colleagues wanted to join the UAE's nuclear energy program just because it was new to the country what is this new thing coming up here in the UAE and that excitement created a lot of people to come and think okay there's something new happening it's a new project, there's a lot of hype on it we want to join that industry. Typically, normally in any country this is what happens, people want to go to where the new hype and the new conversation is alerting to but honestly it really offered excellent training programs, one of the things that I went through and almost the company invested in me over over half a million dirhams on just going to bridge my program to get into understanding nuclear power and going through a management certification program on how Baraka really works really working in a simulator and understanding how operators life actually looks like was one of the key transitional key points for myself amongst the many other training programs that I went through but not only that Joana talked a little bit about and mentorship was very important not only did I receive mentorship from male mentors, but also from female mentors, just sitting through mutual conversations of being able to share and to ask openly and transparently and listening to other women's ideas we're always attuned to one style but listening to someone else's style gives you an opportunity to have a light bulb in your mind set and say huh, that was something new to me that I could use but today you know in COP28 you listen to the UAE having a lot of female minister of states and over 50% of the UAE's minister of states are females and within the last few days of COP you probably have heard her excellency Miriam El-Mihiri who is the minister of climate change and environment and her excellency Shemal Mazroori who are the championing role of the young people in tackling climate change. These are examples of not only women at a very very leadership of minister of state cabinet within the UAE but also women like you, like myself who are in the field itself trying to get the work done and trying to have a lot of women get into working as operators as maintenance technicians as chemistry technologists within the Baraka nuclear power plan. So you know when I think about how we could encourage women not only through awarenesses, campaigning the importance of training and mentorship for women within the nuclear energy sector but also being transparent about the challenges that they face and how to overcome those challenges. Because a lot of people want to talk about the positives in nuclear. Well there's also the other side of the house that we need to consider. It's always always young, it's always easier for women who are young who have not yet established their families to get into nuclear and it's always easier for women who have got teenage children and upwards getting into nuclear. It's interesting how the transition phase is always very tricky, who are women trying to build their families at a start with very young children and how to cope with that mechanism is very very critical. And I want to say at a personal level, you know with Nawa Energy Company and Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation when I joined I had a four month old daughter and a two year old son and a four year old son all that were very very young as I joined Nuclear and Boracca was around three hours away from my house so the company had created a lot of important infrastructures to make my work and my home life very easy. Things that we saw for working very remotely was having affordable living accommodations that were female suited. What works for a man doesn't necessarily work for a woman in a lot of the what they call it in a lot of the situations. Creating policies and legislations within the company such as nursing hours, allowing remote work which we used when I had a son sick I would say hey could I work remotely today and my boss would be that's fine you're within a lot with having to deal with the night fever that came up or with the running flu that came up on that day. Important policies were about nursing hours and equal pay. I talk about personal experience because I've lived through this and I've been fortunate to work in a company that supports women's role and women equality in a nuclear industry such as the Boracca nuclear power plant here in the UAE. So thank you for having me here today. Appreciate it. Thank you very much Hasna for sharing both your personal and the UAE experience as somebody who has worked in this country for several years I can certify that the UAE really has a strong policy to support women and actually in the federal authority for nuclear regulation where I was working the nuclear regulator almost 50% of the staff are women. Congratulations on that. I'm just looking at the time and I'm looking at Antonio Antonio in the background. We are a little bit over time so let me open the floor to any questions and answers. Do you have any questions to any of the panelists from the audience or any comments or anything you would like to share? Yes, please. Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing all of your stories. I think it's so important to hear the different perspectives from the industry. What is the one thing if you could say that you want you think the industry needs to action to make a change? What is the one thing that you would recommend we do? Like to respond or let me just hand over the microphone from one to one. What's the most important thing from three to be done? I think that the most important thing is really to attract young people. To attract them to federate them to develop mentoring. What we do in WIN Global we have a mentoring platform to give classes of leadership development to involve them in our actions and really to build the bridges between the generations. So as I want to leave the microphone to my colleagues I would say that for me it's the most important to attract young people and young talents. Yeah, okay great. I'm going to cheat. There's two things. One is sort of the agency message which is data and interviews and listening to women and collecting data because better data leads to better policies so that we're tailoring policies and measures to what the actual impediments are. But I also want to plant a seed just, this is more of a personal comment which is that it's not just about designing flexibility for women. It's also about providing flexibility and maybe changing the expectations for men in the environment. So we know that when men start taking parental leave then it starts to change the roles at home and it starts to create a possibility for women at work so it actually is not just about tailoring measures for women and introducing flexibility for women it's also about looking at the measures and the expectations that are being placed on men. Do men who take parental leave and this is worth collecting data one of the questions I would ask is do men who take parental leave face disadvantages when they're up for promotion? What are the expectations on men? Because those two things go hand in hand. Yeah, I guess I would say one thing is to take a risk. So the women may not like the people that you've always hired into that position it may be very different and that's okay let them step up really take a risk on them let them flourish in a job and support them. And from a women's perspective be willing to take that risk and step out and see if you can do something and accelerate because I think we're not going to change things quickly if we don't start putting different people who may have different backgrounds into roles and really get that built up. Thank you. Let me bring the microphone here. I want to see women at the executive level but more importantly also at the board of directors level I think that that's extremely important. McKinsey published a report last year where it showed that 5% of women from the 500 fortune companies are actually at the top level. We need every single person at that table included in women and underrepresented groups. I can tell you when WIRE international gets together whenever we have an obstacle I can't tell you how quickly we're able to resolve a problem. Thank you. Thank you Joanna. I would honestly say that breaking down barriers and can I say advancement of women that's probably the main thing and it's not only it should be at all levels. Okay? You'd always find that certain roles or we don't want to have women in that role is very difficult like a local operator having to move and work with pumps and everything. Well why not? They are women who like to work vocational work with their hands so I think breaking down those barriers and having to advance women in different levels and in different roles would be something that we should be working at. Okay. Thank you very much. I'm looking at the time and I think we are running a little bit over time so let me quickly wrap up. First of all a big thank you to all the panelists and in summary I would like to say that I think we are really at the crucial time in history if we want to implement this tripling nuclear power generation by 2050 I think we also need to triple our human capacities in order to fulfill that program apart from all the other things that will be necessary to do so so as Inno has highlighted and all of you have mentioned women just cannot be ignored I think as has also been mentioned we all have a role to play the older generation amongst us to pass on our knowledge to the youngsters to show them the right way to share our experiences with them and for the young generation to be open not to be shy to step up to us and seek advice whenever you need it just feel free to ask any questions you have and those at the middle level we all need to support each other we need to support each other that's really crucial for women and for the nuclear industry in general so thank you very much and thanks again to the IAEA for hosting this panel and for the audience can we have a group photo?


What's up everybody? Jason here for jazbeastcasebrakes.com. Last break of the night, and ending it off strong, guys. 2022 P&E National Treasures Football, four box case break, pick your teams number three. So here we go. So there's that. I did the football one. I just didn't do the one you just recently did. You're good. That's right, I appreciate it. I'll put that on right now then. All right, there's everybody there. There's the customer names with that R&B. The customer names there with this R&B there as well. Oh, the lock, y'all. You know, peek in there, flip, and all right, let's go with the first two base. So it's gonna be a 799 Nick Bosa for the 49er, Sean Maddox, there you go.  And then we got a Saquon Barclay, the 25er for the Giants. Giants going to Matt Smith, straight up. All right, we have a treasured patches of Brian Burns for the Carolina Panthers, 120s, and 130s. Panthers, Jeremy Taylor's bought in straight up. Then we have a Jalen Waddle, 10 out of 25. Nice two color patch there for the Miami Dolphins. Miami Dolphins, that's part of the R&B with Jacksonville. That's a 10 out of 25. Jacksonville R&B zero is Sean Maddox. There you go on the board there on one of the R&Bs. For the Browns, that's Miles Garrett to 49er. Browns, going to add straight up. Then we got a Michael Parsons. I actually hit a Nike swoosh of this exact heart on Fanatics Live yesterday. Six of 10 for the Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys also going to add. Here we go, we're gonna start going to some autographs. First one is Darrell Green, Darrell Green, sorry. Redskins signatures for the Washington, then Redskins down commanders, of course, to 99. Washington commanders is Kenneth, sorry. Barefoot with that one. I recognize this signature right here, and that's a nice one right there, Billy Sims. That's very close to potentially Barry Sanders though, right? It's like I always got duped with him. The other number 20 for the Lions. And that is 86 out of 99 for the Lions. That's part of the Lions R&B. Detroit, six is Simon. All right, we have a Peyton Manning. How about that on card? 27 out of 49, the sheriff. Peyton Manning.  Very nice. And then the last one, all we see in this Christian Watson kid, man, I swear. Christian Watson to RPA, that is 61 out of 99. Going to John with the Packers. That's a nice one. He sells extremely well too. Like super, super well. I tend to pull this kid a lot, like a lot. So there you go. First box had a true RPA. Now I've seen some cases I've had like two. Some cases I've had one. Some cases I've had none. But of course there will be other RPAs in here in booklets potentially, but obviously you want to look for the true RPAs that we really want. Maybe some shields, maybe. All right, let's go to the next one. All right, we got a Stophon Diggs. That's for the bills. 66 out of 99. Bills R&B. Bills are in the R&B, right? That's Detroit. Six. Simon. And how about this? A one-on-one. That is a modern master's Patrick Mahomes. Beautiful car too. Look at that. Really, really pops. And that's also part of the R&B. Going to the Kansas City Chiefs R&B, spot one. We're just south. There you go. Look at that. One-on-one Mahomes coming your way. It's a sweet-looking car too. Definitely worth that filler spot, right? Very nice, man. All right, we got Cam Acres to 49. For the Los Angeles Rams, Arthur Hackett to 49. We have for the Giants, Eli Manny. Giants is a straight-up Matt Smith. We got Pratt Friar Muth. A little dual relic there, Sunday Treasures. 68 out of 99. Steelers, Bryan straight up. And more Steelers for you, buddy. That's two out of 10. Nice three-color patch at the bottom. TJ Watt at the top is Minka Fitzpatrick. Another one there for Bryan and the Pittsburgh Steelers. All right, let's go to the autographs. Next one is a Greg Dolchich for the Denver Broncos. Denver Broncos, that is part of the R&B for Jacksonville. 90, which is zero, going to Shawn Matic. We have a little Tim Brown for the Raiders. 62 out of 99. Las Vegas Raiders going to Nicholas. And then we have a very nice one right here that is a 72 out of 99. Vilas Jones Jr. That is for the Chicago Bears. Jason W with that one. Looks like he signed the damn autographs on the patch too. And another true RPA, Bryan Robinson Jr. Very nice one there, that's 93 out of 99. Kenneth with the Commanders. So I mean, Bryan Robinson Jr. was a stud for sure. But of course, I know we want some Sam House, I hope we can still get some Sam House for you too, but very nice one, that's two true RPAs already. Let's continue on. Next box, got two more guys, still halfway through. Those other modern marks again. This time it's not obviously a 101, but Pay Manning. And A. Zach Wilson, a 35. Pay Manning, though nice one there for the Coles. Going to Matthew. And then of course Jets, it's going to Copperman. Oh, Copperman's going to be so surprised that this break actually sold out tonight. Then we got a 16 out of 25, Amonra, St. Brown. Nice three color patch at the top. That is for the Detroit Lions R&B, which is Detroit Kansas City. Six, another one for Simon. Then a little Devontae Smith for my Eagles. 14, Eagles part of the Jacksonville R&B. Four, on a Sal Las Palmojo. Then we got a Matthew Stafford. That is a Century Materials, 28 out of 99 for the Rams. Arthur Hackett. And then last one here, before the autos. We got a Tremendous Treasures, there's Drake London. That's a eight out of 25, Falcons, Mack, Johnston. All right, next one we got is, how about this, a four out of seven field pass, Aiden Hutchinson for the Detroit Lions. Big defensive presence right here. Could have easily won NFL Rookie of the Year on the defensive side if it wasn't for sauce. That's four for the Detroit Lions. Lions spot four is Sean Maddock, beautiful man. There you go, that's sick. Then we have a Jacob Harris, and I believe this is definitely an update. That definitely did not have this this year. This is from 2021. That's a hybrid RPA there for the Rams. It's a nice little hit right there for Arthur. And then we have a Pierre Strong Jr., 45 out of 99. NFL Gears RPA for the Patriots, that's Alfred B, straight up. This is our third straight, I feel like, true RPA, but this one's actually a low number to one. It's one out of nine Kenneth Walker for the Seahawks. Beautiful. Oh, that's the jersey number RPA, actually, that's sick. Wow, and the first print run too. Nice one there for Matt Johnson and the Seahawks. Beautiful. Wow, that's three straight RPAs, like the true versions, I guess. Except that one was just jersey number, though. I haven't seen a case like that yet. Here we go, guys, last one. Still looking for a big quarterback, though. We've got in receivers, running backs. So looking for a QB still. Hopefully it's hiding in here. This one might have a booklet, though, but hopefully it's a big QB, though. All right, we got Ace to Fun Dicks, that is 25 out of 99 for the Bills, and then Aaron Donald, 16 out of 35 for the Rams. But of course, Bills is part of the R&B 25 for the Detroit one. Five is Sean Maddock, so Sean gets that one. Straight up. Whoa, this part was stuck, guys, so unfortunately, sorry. We have a quad relic, though. Arthur, that is for T.J. Hawkins, and Thielen, Jefferson, and Kirk Cousins. And then Wangu was stuck right to it, unfortunately, it kind of fell there, but luckily I think the quad will be much better, though. 33 out of 49, back-to-back, if I can sense. All right, we have a Randall Cobb, 19 out of 25 for the Green Bay Packers. John with the Packers. And we got a Patrick Mahomed patch, three colors, and how about a little Travis Kelsey, 19 out of 25 for the Kansas City Chiefs. Chiefs part of the R&B, that's nine. Nine would be Brian Kay, there you go, nice. And we have a little big boy, Jordan Davis, that's 58 out of 90, that's the Jersey numbers, parallel there. Fly goes fly for my Eagles. That's 58, Eagles, eight, Allen. We have a James Harrison, 60 out of 99 for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Barrett. Wow, another true RPA. This time it's out of 49, though. Taekwon Thorn, 32 out of 49, so we have four RPAs here, that's wild. And that's Patriots going to Alford. And it looks like your last one is out of 99, rookie first edition signatures, another one for the Patriots, Bailey Zappie. One, two, three, four color patch on the booklet, another one for Alford there, who has the Patriots. And there you go guys, so pretty nice stuff right here, coming out to a lot of the teams. Got one RPA there, got the Kenneth Walker to out of nine, the Jersey number RPA. We got the Brian Robinson Jr. RPA. Lot of really, really nice stuff. Christian Watson in 99 RPA, paid Manning. And then of course, we got is, Aidan Hutchinson with Patrick Mahomes as well. Very, very nice stuff for you guys. Thank you guys so much. Again, this was case number three. Again, now that we got this one done, we'll post up case number four R&B so we can get the next one going tomorrow guys with me. So I appreciate you guys, thank you guys so much. JaspysCaseBrace.com.


Leonardo da Vinci Time Traveler Leonardo as we all very well know was a genius before his time and he is frequently mentioned alongside the greatest thinkers our world has ever seen and he was obsessed with everything from painting to inventing things like the helicopter but where did all this manifest from what gave him the spark to ignite such curiosity at which he came up with ideas at an absolutely obsessive rate. During da Vinci's very well documented life there is a bit missing not a few days or weeks but years missing he vanished and when he reemerged he could not create his ideas fast enough he was literally a man on a mission and even up until this present day we are finding instructions from the great man regarding very high technological advancements that are completely out of place for this time period wait till you hear this insanely brilliant this was one thing da Vinci had in common with Nikola Tesla Tesla himself openly tried to invent a machine that would guide the human consciousness to a different realm all together could Leonardo have built a similar device a time machine perhaps we know that does sound pretty crazy but during the years 1476 to 1478 Leonardo da Vinci was gone no record exists as to where he went except in his notes he briefly mentions a mysterious cave during this period of his life and he describes a dark cave that frightened him as to what may lurk within the darkness but also an even more overwhelming desire to find out and conquer that fear he describes beings he encountered here as being slightly creepy with a strange presence to them could the dark cave in fact be space this is significant because he very rarely wrote about his private life although he shares his ideas with the world he rarely shared private thoughts so this stands out as a pivotal documentation of what he encountered could it even be possible that da Vinci was a time traveler from the future who got stuck in the 15th century and began drawing blueprints of the things from the time from which he came he invented tanks submarines and helicopters using 15th century technology he also studied anatomy against the pope's orders so the chances that the great man was from the future are not that hard to grasp at or perhaps during his two-year disappearance this happened in vice he somehow went to the future saw all these amazing things and tried to replicate this in the 15th century here is an interesting plot we found from a 1960s book named twice in time while vacationing in Italy 19 year old Leo Thrasher rashly experiments with a radical new science he had accidentally discovered time travel and traveled back to the 15th century the time travel affected his long-term memory but he could remember enough details of 20th century technology that he was able to invent machines for a friendly warlord who then became his protector he was then able to pursue other interests such as art and non-war inventions and when his protector who was from Vinci Italy adopted him his name became Leonardo de Vinci nice plot right but what if this could be true isn't it as if Leonardo had tutoring from a more advanced civilization there is close to no way he could envision all the projects he took on without some sort of visual memory of these things in the first place what was driving his obsession was he chosen to create a quantum leap or a reference point in history using secret technology from a future human civilization when he appears in 1478 his creative output reaches a whole new level unprecedented in fact even by today's standards from many different scientific minds perhaps this is why he was so secretive and not only his ambitions but on his private thoughts of which he rarely shared as we noted another thing he achieved was to produce aerial maps of cities with astonishing accuracy and consistency as if he himself had personally seen the city from above going by the maps it is hard to believe he never witnessed this view from an aerial vantage point as if in a flying machine of sorts little known to most one of Leonardo's finest works is not a painting or an invention but rather something from astronomy he saw the ancient riddle of earth shine you can see earth shine whenever there's a crescent moon on the horizon at sunset look between the horns of the crescent for a ghostly image of the full moon that's earth shine for thousands of years humans marveled at the beauty of this ashen glow or the old moon in the new moon's arms but what was it no one knew until the 16th century when Leonardo figured it out perhaps this was simply part of his learning process during the last years Leonardo da Vinci is considered one of the most brilliant minds the world has ever known but what was the source of his profound intellect he was absolutely immersed in finding out maybe even proving that we were not alone perhaps like the biblical prophet Enoch he was sent beyond the earth and was shown the earth from above and he was given a concept of the cosmos and of machines and inventions and of earth that no one before him had ever had is it really possible that Leonardo da Vinci had received guidance from some outside universal source and when he returned to Florence his creativity took on a whole new level going beyond art and extending to numerous other disciplines that boggles the mind as to how this was even possible what do you guys think of this did he experience time travel or was there some sort of divine intervention with this great man's life comments below and as always thank you for watching


Before I get into this video, I want to remind you that we have a giveaway going on right now for a Hylian Shield replica, two copies of Legend of Zelda 2's Kingdom Collector's Edition, also two Legend of Zelda Switch OLEDs, it is a kickoff giveaway for our Prime Gaming Festival Street. We will have details on by the end of this week. That being said, just head down to the pinned comment or the link down in the description. Enter is free to enter. All you have to do is be subscribed to the channel because it is a subscriber giveaway. By the way, we are on our way to 133,000 subscribers so I would appreciate if you hit that subscribe button and drop a like on this video and maybe get on in the comments and let me know what game you are looking forward to next. I don't care what platform it is for, it is just what game are you looking forward to next. Now let's dive into the news today because we have four stories for you guys, timestamps all below. Let's dive into the first one because Nintendo did something interesting. So Nintendo and Valve sort of teamed up over the weekend or really late last week to block Dolphin Releasing on Steam. Now this story ended up getting misreported in a lot of places and the too long didn't watch version of the 17 minute video I put over the weekend on it is basically Valve reached out to Nintendo and said, hey what do you think about Dolphin Releasing on our platform? Nintendo said, ah we think it violates DMCA, can you please remove it? Valve goes, sure and they use their terms of service that allows them to remove anything to remove it. Nintendo never actually filed a legal takedown so there isn't anything legally Dolphin can do to respond because it was removed due to Valve's TOS not due to Nintendo taking legal action. That being said, Nintendo did issue a response to Kotaku who reached out to them for comment and here is what they had to say. Nintendo is committed to protecting the hard work and creativity of video game engineers and developers, a spokesperson for Nintendo told Kotaku in an email. This emulator illegally circumvents Nintendo's protection measures and runs illegal copies of games. Using illegal emulators or illegal copies of games harms development and ultimately stifles innovation. Nintendo respects the intellectual property rights of other companies and in turn expects others to do the same. Obviously Nintendo doesn't do themselves any favor with the court of public opinion when they are this strict. This isn't a statement that's really surprising, we know how much Nintendo dislikes emulators and dislikes ROMs so this is really par for the course for what Nintendo typically does but it is something that just makes people get more and more frustrated with Nintendo and them trying to state that emulators themselves are fully illegal is questionable at best. Honestly there's only ever been one lawsuit over emulators that Sony lost back in 1999, however that was over a very specific use case of emulators having to do with firmware and a BIOS. We haven't actually seen emulators fully defended in court, mostly because video game companies are probably afraid to take them to court in case the courts just completely favor emulators screwing over these video game companies or the emulator people fearing that they're going to actually favor the companies and suddenly emulators become illegal themselves so there's also some controversial stuff within the dolphin emulator that's including Wii keys and decrypting games which is also still questionable legally we don't actually know because it's never gone to court. Like most things with emulation most of it's never gone to court so emulators aren't blanket legal they're also not blanket illegal it's more of a completely gray territory and this is Nintendo's stance on it. Alright diving into our next story tears of the kingdom oh boy tears of the kingdom remains number one for the third week in a row how amazing is that wow three weeks in a row at number one in the UK how did that happen well all this information comes from Christopher Dring the sales have actually declined 50% week over week and yet it still remains number one now Breath of the Wild itself actually climbed from number eight to number seven but one interesting note on tears of the kingdom sales these are only boxed sales this doesn't include any digital data is it is already almost surpassed Hogwarts legacies box sales in the UK which is the current best-selling game in the UK this year so maybe even one more week even if tears of the kingdom loses its number one spot might still put it ahead of Hogwarts legacies so that's extremely impressive for the Zelda series to pull off naturally Hogwarts legacies going to be a really popular game in the UK it's also a very good game so it's worth the popularity but yeah very interesting to see what's happening with tears of the kingdom and I'm just excited to see those sales continue to rise we'll get updated data later this week to find out if it's still number one in Japan as well so our next story deals with live alive or live alive or live alive I don't you know what I never really figured out how to pronounce it you guys can let me know down in the comments below because live and live are spelled exactly the same so what do you want me to do with that it is what it is well there might be a sequel coming for the game the game actually never originally had a sequel but this comes from an official net square enix q&a where the games producer Takashi Tokita when asked if there could be a live alive to said the following if the upcoming PlayStation slash PC launch can combine for a million in sales and you add that to the switch sales of course it gives him confidence to ask Square Enix for permission to make another one in other words the upcoming release on PlayStation and PC if they can somehow get to a million in sales they are willing to go to Square Enix to be like hey can you fund another one of these I think they just want to get into that autopad traveler situation where it sells a million every time you do that it actually encourages Square Enix to invest and allow him to make another one now a sequel has never existed for this IP before this was an old game getting remastered and coming back so we'll have to wait and see what happens here but it was a fantastic game it introduced a lot of people to this game for the very first time last year and I really hope it does get a sequel so here's hoping that live a live actually sells well on the competition's hardware now next up is our last story but one that I've actually got a bit of a statement on but we got to get into the details because a new class action lawsuit has spun up to go after Nintendo for Mario Kart Tour now Mario Kart Tour for a little while featured a gotcha style mechanic to get new characters carts and gliders on what I was like a pipe system I can't remember what it was called some sort of warp pipe or whatever it was just a loot box let's just call that what it is and you spend in-game gems and you could just get like random stuff and those gems could be earned but are also primarily bought via actual real-world money now the potential class action lawsuit was filed by a father on behalf of his son who's a minor stating that the system promoted using dark patterns which is a term for tricking consumers into spending money there's actually some exact definitions of it and at the time of me reporting on this the FTC does not consider gotcha mechanics random awards for spending money to be a dark pattern as defined by the law now the suit alleges the minor spent over $170 with the father's credit card which was attached to the child's Nintendo account Nintendo discontinued spotlight pipes I guess that was the name of it in September of last year and replaced it with a more traditional shop where you spend money for exactly what you want this is one of many lawsuits over gotcha mechanics in games notably one last October went in favor of game maker take two companies have gotten in trouble for dark patterns in many places in the world but again gotcha mechanics specifically are not considered to be a dark pattern legally at the moment that is well it's argued to be a form of gambling unlike real-world gambling you always get something for your money versus losing your money the majority of the time you gamble for no return now the reason we know about this lawsuit is because it has appeared in federal courts and we'll see what happens we you know I don't really know what's gonna happen with the suit is Nintendo what is Nintendo gonna lose right now there's been many of these class action lawsuits or other lawsuits filed against gotcha mechanics and so far none of them have actually gone in favor of people complaining about them and I think there's a key reason why it's not going in favor at least right now they some places have been trying to push it for a while I mean FIFA they've been trying to stop FIFA and their gotcha mechanics for a long time and yet still aren't able to do it completely so let me explain why this might be the case because the idea isn't that adults are choosing to spend money that's not what's making these gotcha mechanics stop the idea is that it's a minor spending money and often spending their parents money now here is where I chime in and this is gonna make me look like I'm in favor of gotcha mechanics and I want to be very clear I don't really enjoy gotcha mechanics I don't find them to be useful I think it's a just a dumb way a sleazy way a lazy way to make money but it works and some people love it fire on them heroes uses it dragalia lost use it before that got shut down there's a little bit where you know Animal Crossing pocket camp so I get it like this is the mechanic that's very popular especially with free to play games or whatever but here's my thing with the whole gotcha mechanic thing and this whole should it be legal should it be illegal or really why parents in particular are going after these companies I am tired of parents blaming companies for their children using their credit card let's be real that's what this lawsuit's about why was your credit card connected to your son's nintendo account which is strange you actually don't need to use a nintendo account to buy things on mobile devices usually go through the app stores your charge goes through the google play store it goes through the apple app store you don't really need it attached to the nintendo account I don't know how relevant it being attached to the nintendo account really was but regardless of how it was spent whether it was spent through a nintendo account or spent through an app store parents and I am one so I feel like I could speak directly to this I have children ripe in the age to be manipulated by these games I've got a seven year old I've got a 10 year old I've got a 12 year old ripe in the age to be completely manipulated by all these mobile games my kids have tablets they do play them these mechanics do exist in some of the games and you know how my children aren't really worried about it aren't really addicted to those mechanics of spending money I don't let them participate in those mechanics I think parents forget what it means to be a parent when I was a kid we didn't have the gotcha mechanic stuff but what we did have was the ability to sneak things and break the rules and do things we weren't supposed to do or gosh forbid pick up a telephone and call certain hotlines that charge you per minute or even sometimes per 30 seconds and rack up phone bills I did that once when I was a kid there are so many ways that kids could you know do these sorts of things and yes today it's worse it's even easier for kids to do some of these things but it's only easier if a parent isn't doing their job this lawsuit exists because a father's credit card was used to spend over 170 dollars on a game how that child had access to the credit card isn't being debated here however oftentimes it comes up in the court cases and this is often the case why companies win these lawsuits why the hell did the child have access to your credit card it's a fair question we are in a world where all the controls even through nintendo's own account system exist to block charges my children can't spend a dime without me knowing heck right now my children can't even install an application on their tablets without me knowing because I have to manually approve it because I set up all their devices this is the crazy thing about all of this is it creates the excuse for a lack of parenting a lack of paying attention to what your child is doing a lack of knowing what your child is into if you don't know what games your child is playing what applications your child likes to use that is on you as a parent if you don't know that your child is racking up charges on your credit card how do you not know since your child shouldn't have access to spending money on your credit card they shouldn't be able to add a credit card because you can lock down the devices to prevent that so them stealing your credit card to spend it won't work oh and on top of that they shouldn't just freely be adding your credit card to children accounts and then allowing them to try that there should always be password protections uh parental having to go to a parental app and asking permission the bottom line is well I don't actually like gotcha mechanics parents step up be better we live in the world of technology if you are going to give your child access to your phone their own phone your tablet their own tablet do research and accept the responsibility of what that means if I give children my phone they not only need to have a face scan of me to buy something they also need to have my fingerprint and they need to know a passcode and if they know all three of those things or someone get access to all three of those things you know what that's on me to update and fix it and see it right away which the thing is when my account gets charged I get an email so I would know literally within a day if someone spent money on my account now my children's devices they can't do anything they're completely locked out they can only play the games I allow them to play they can only play them for as long as I allow them to play I have set play limits oh and they definitely can't spend anything because there's no cards added to their account if they want to buy something it goes to the parents account and then I approve it and I buy it for the child it is so stupid that parents are passing off their responsibility as parents on to game companies it is not nintendo's responsibility to monitor your child none of these purchases can be made without being 18 or older if they're being made by a minor that is on the parent for not paying attention to their kid not locking their kid down it's not me being a strict parent it's me being a smart one be smart be better what happens with this lawsuit I don't know I would like to see gotcha mechanics go away but also whether they go away or not doesn't excuse your responsibility as a parent because instead of spending money on gotcha mechanics you know what he could have spent money on he could have bought stuff straight from the store and got exactly what he wanted and still spent hundreds of dollars maybe even more because maybe the keyboard wanted to buy everything in the Mario Kart 2 or store and I don't think that should be illegal it's a free to play game it's got to make money somehow so yeah have a store where you can buy things because children shouldn't be able to buy things can we just agree on that if you are a child that needs a credit card to be 18 or older in the United States you shouldn't be able to buy things that's on the parent that's all I have for you guys today and I'll catch you in the next video


Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, you know, it took me a while to get to this film and I'm glad I did So how did I feel about it? Well, let's get into it. My name is Brennan Keith Avery and this is just my opinion Hey guys, thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for three billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri I really do appreciate it But before we get into the review, help your boy out by going ahead and clicking that subscribe button become one of my Subscribers so you can get all the content I have to buy Also click the bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and also give me that thumbs up Let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes now Like I said, you know, this film came out on earlier this month in November and you know, it just kept slipping under my radar I've been wanting to see this film for quite some time, but I am glad that I finally did when I say I'm glad that I finally did I'm not just saying that because again this film is a contender for one of the best films of the Year, I'm not necessarily going to say the best But it is possibly the top 10 that I have seen this year and I have missed some films, you know But hey, I can only talk about what I've seen and this movie is being directed by Martin McDonough He's done maybe like four or five films before and the reason why I say four or five films Is because in this filmography one of his films was like a short film And I don't know if you consider that a full film or not and another one would just kind of like a video short Video they had to do with another movie. He was part of so, you know That's why I say four or five and the film that he's most known for is and he's a writer and director And I have a lot of respect for directors when they also write the film because they just have that much more creative control And the film he's most known for is seven psychopaths which came out in 2012 And I haven't seen that film it got away from me I still want to see it but around that time I do remember all the other critics and fan films and whatnot were just talking about how great it was and had You know such a high anticipation, you know for that film before it came out and then that film You know it's seven people with Collin Ferrell Sam Rockwell Woody Harrelson Christopher Walton Tom Waits Abby Cornish and Olga Kirillenko and two names that pop out to me the most is Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson reason being is there also part of this film three boy billboards outside of it being Missouri and Sam Rockwell popped up on the scene for me back in 2010 and Iron Man 2 He was Justin Hammer one of the nemesis to Iron Man Tony Stark And I know he was more popular before that movie I said it he popped up on the scene for me, but he was also a part of Green Mile And Woody Harrelson, I'm sure you pretty know who Woody Harrelson is I don't think he's ever won an Academy Award, but he was nominated for the people versus Larry Flint Which was like back in the 90s But the main character in this movie is a Francis McDormand Whatever and she and I'm trying not to say whatever somebody in the comments told me not to say that as much but she won the Academy Award for a fargo which came out in 1996 and She was also nominated in 2005 and 2006 for almost famous in North Country and as the film starts off you already know with Francis McDormand She plays a character named Mildred you can already tell that she's a phenomenal actress or whatever And then she put a lot of heart and soul until this performance And she does that from the first frame all the way to the last frame of this film And what the film is about is it takes place in Ebbing, Missouri and to be honest with you This doesn't necessarily this isn't a true story when I tried to look up some information But I'm not even sure if Ebbing, Missouri is a real place because I was I was I was I can't talk as I was Watching this movie. I was just dying to know two things What year this film took place in and I'll talk about that towards the end of the review and just how small or big This town was and when I was looking things up like every Link was just a review to this film and I finally found a website and it gave me like every city in Missouri But I still couldn't find anything on Ebbing, Missouri or whatever. So if you know, please let me know in the comment section below but what it's about is a Mildred played by Francis McDormand. She's very upset. She's distraught She's just very tired and frustrated because Sometime like seven to eight months ago, you know Her daughter was out walking and was raped and brutally murdered and there has been no arrest There has been no convictions and it seems like the police to the small police department led by Woody Harrison He's the chief police. It seems like they're just sweeping this under the rug And so she's just tired of it gathered some money that she has saved and she's borrowed and you know Did this and did that to get some money? So she puts up the three billboards that puts the case in the public's eye And that just stirs up a whole bunch of myths in this town with her just trying to you know Find out, you know who murdered her daughter and why no one has been arrested so early on in the film You can already you know kind of just sympathize can empathize because I'm not a woman and I don't have any children But you can are automatically just sympathize with her character as to why how frustrated she is and she just wants justice or whatever So she's the main protagonist in this film and just like right off the bat You are on her side because you're sympathized with her and also just because you wanted to find out the the murder mystery yourself Now like I said, this is one of the best films that I've seen this year because it's a great story great plot great writing and great Performances from all the actors all throughout this film Not just from Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrison and Francis McDormand, but other characters as well Even Peter Dinklage is in this film too, and he plays a nice Little funny role and you know has an important role to play himself And what I really liked about this film besides the performances by the actors is just how honest and true the film really is Because everybody in this film is basically just kind of tired and fed up with life Not that they're looking for a PD party and they're just tired But you know, they're just dealing they just going through life dealing they're just going through life with the hands that were dealt and I mean Life is not fair and this film is a true testament of that and so there you know Tomorrow is not promised in real life and in this movie or whatever and a lot of people while they're just sitting there at 40s and 50s and you know 60s or whatever they they just kind of live the lives like tomorrow is a promise So I'm not gonna have any filter if I come and cross with somebody I'm just gonna tell them how I feel and if they like it fine if they don't that's fine, too And that is the case with every character in this movie and just something that stood out to me the most And something that another thing that this film did really well is combined it can be described as a dark comedy drama and And to me in my opinion some is it's really difficult to combine comedy with you know dark Serious moments and this film melded those two aspects very very well at the very beginning of this film I was laughing very very hard and at the same time I feel sorry for a lot of characters in this movie and we'll just kind of stand on my side damn man Why do they have to happen to you or why does she do that or man? This is so unfortunate, you know, man I wish I could feel your shoes just for a day because I can tell that you're going through a lot of pain and For some reason, you know the director McDonough he was just able like to make you feel like really bad and really sad and angry for these characters But then like the next scene give you some levity and light and some goofy mannerisms by one character in particular Which is Sam Rockwell or whatever and the way it just transition back and forth and bounce back and forth like, you know A ping-pong table or whatever. I thought that that was done quite well and it was very thorough and like I said Mildred's character Whatever. She's very really tired. She's frustrated. She's distraught.  He plays somebody named Dixon or whatever You know, he's a mama's boy and gets kind of pushed over by everybody You know his colleagues the townspeople pretty much everybody and he's a drunk It's kind of funny and fascinating how he's drunk every scene that he's in living with his mom But he's still able to have a prominent force on the police force or whatever, you know But hey, you know, that's just how it is sometime and Woody Harrelson is like on the fence the whole time because he is really a good man Or whatever and I don't want to give too much away But you know in my opinion, he really is a good man and is on the fence of this being pulled in every direction And it's not as far He doesn't know how to handle the situations in because he has this illness on one side But then he has people chewing him out on this other side because they don't feel like he's doing the best of his ability to You know resolve the situation of finding out who the murderer is You know for Mildred's daughter or whatever and something that I just really liked about him and the characters as well is Everybody is going through something and no one knows how to really deal with it Everybody is just kind of lashing out at each other and while they're having these conversations in dialogue While they're lashing out and being very angry with each other, you know seconds later They really do turn into carrying human beings and can lend out a helping hand I mean, there's just one scene in a police station to where Woody Harrelson's character will go be I think it's his name in Mildred, you know They're pretty frustrated with each other right now and I see both sides But there's something that happens in one of the characters and they just both snap into like, you know Human humanitarian goddess or whatever and they're just there for you They're there for each other, you know, and I'm just like man You know this moment right here was just really touching and that just goes to show how great the story and the writing was from the director Something else that really just stood out to me was a score in this film There is this character that dies in this film early on and I was just like man Why did you do that, you know, like why don't you have to put yourself in this situation die? And I'm kind of playing with the worst right here because I don't want to give it away But this character still came back and was able to speak to the rest of the cast while he was dead through letters And these were some of the most best scenes in the whole movie for me just because the words that he was The words that he was saying has so much weight to him but there was also like a lovely score in the background that had to do with a piano a violin a good tar and a Flute and it was so beautiful I mean and there was like three letters that he read to certain characters that popped up in different You know parts of the movie and it just spoke volumes to me one in particular Like I said have those instruments another one was kind of like a opera classical song But the one with all the instruments it was so lovely to me that when the film ended I was walking out of the theater wasn't that it wasn't that packed I was walking out the theater down the stairs and they started playing the music again I actually stopped turned around and went back to sit down So I can watch the credits and listen to that song and score again because to me at least it was just that great You know, I would not mind if someone were to burn this song for me And I listened to it like while I'm reading in my car or just when I want to be in deep thought I mean so you know scores and soundtracks is not something that stands out to most people But in this particular film it did an amazing things for me at least and it made me love to feel much better And I really don't want this to go on too long. I try to I'm trying to shorten this but I really do want to cover everything There was also It wasn't you know, not that much racism in this movie But they there was dialogue that addressed it and you know, I don't want to say that I wish I would have saw it But there was no really seems to back it up either So, you know, I kind of like the way they addressed it But they could have you know combed that through just a little bit more But that's just a little right right there, but overall guys I really did love this film Somebody else another commenter of mine a subscriber I don't want to mention his name because he may not want his name mentioned He really said that he liked the film too said that I should see it I was like, yes, I really want to see it But he said he liked the film but he was disappointed with the ending and I Talked to my mom. She liked the film as well But she was disappointed with the ending as well and it didn't make sense to her And so I went in kind of preparing myself for an ending that possibly could be disappointing But to be honest with you the ending was not really disappointing to me It was a realistic ending because towards the end of the film Like, oh, let me let me back up a little bit the one of the characters that died and how he was still in able to influence others that were alive in His letter writing that was something that stood out to me as well And he really inspired one character to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and to you know Be the person that they really wanted to be and I don't want to spoil it for you And towards the end of the film that person really did become the person that they really wanted to be and then there was one scene in The bar where things were coming together and I was like, okay, this is just too coincidental I hope this film doesn't just I like happy endings But I don't like happy endings just to be forced down your face or whatever And I thought the film was gonna go that way But it did not go that way and the film ended in kind of a realistic ending to where life is hard Life sucks and sometimes even though you're deserving you always just don't get the outcome that you want that you deserve So what will you do in these situations? Are you gonna ball up in the fetal position in the corner and cry and beg for pity?  The best way you can and make the ending that you want and that's what two characters kind of did in this movie It did not necessarily end the way they want it, but they were just like, you know, hey, it is what it is I'm just gonna make the best out of it. I'm gonna make this happy ending for myself Even though it is not what I want, you know, and that kind of made sense to me or whatever And I hope that makes sense to you but guys I really did enjoy this film I think you will too if I had to rate three billboards out of Ebbing, Missouri out of a one out of ten I would easily give this a nine out of ten. Yes a nine out of ten But guys, that's just my opinion. Have you seen three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri? Or do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below. 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