Ms Mimi Wong, Director, Association of World Citizens Hong Kong China
Chairman and all who attend the forum today. I am Mimi Wong.
Director of Association of World Citizens Hong Kong China
I am also a transgender person
Today is the International Day of Transgender Remembrance
It is for remembrance of all transgender people who directly or indirectly died of transphobism
Hatred towards transgender people is all over the world, not limited to Hong Kong
It is not a surprise that so many people are against us today
People who are against us almost fill the hall
This is commonplace throughout the world
The main question here is whether the Government acknowledges our existence
and act like other Governments to improve our extremely marginalized identity
I dress in black today to mourn their death
Due to people's ignorance, many of them were sacrificed to death
In Hong Kong, even if we have surgery, our legal gender is still our birth sex
Amendment to the sex entry of the HKID is only a disguise
Everyday when I enter the female bathroom
I am in breach of the Public Convenience (Conduct and Behavior) Regulation section 7
Ironically, if I act according to my legal gender and use the Men's Room
Everytime I am kicked out by the men inside with no exception
I also know that there is a transwoman lecturer in HKU who has had no surgery
The faculty and students all know about this
She has been using the Ladies' in the past years with no one woman complaining
On the other hand, if one is a transman,
whether he has had surgery or not, and if he acts according to the regulation and uses the Ladies'
The women inside will be scared and run away
A transman entering the Ladies' is truly a case of a man intruding into the woman's space
Transphobic people is definitely inverting the reality. Is their objective trying to scare all women in the world?
Before the W's judgment, many post-operative transsexual friends used their ID cards to marry
W told the truth but had to wait 5 years to get married
Now there is a court case. Transgender people could legally marry. But what about other areas?
There are no court cases. There is no gender recognition. So every entry to the washroom is an offence.
The Hong Kong Sex Culture Society published a book recently.
They said the W's judgment was a mistake. Do they mean that we need to marry a woman to avoid same sex marriage?
If we got raped and the culprit got acquitted because a man could not rape a man, would you just chuckle and say we deserve, we deserve, we deserve?
The Hong Kong Government should no longer procrastinate and get into endless consultations
Opposing views are the same everywhere in the world like tsunami
This way, gender recognition will see no light out of the tunnel
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Eric Termuende - Public Salon: - Cost of Connection - Duration: 8:05.
Our next guest has weighed the promise of a digitally connected world and found it wanting
He observes that for many the hopes of a connection to a global community has actually left us annoying
isolation
His work as a consultant with leading-edge companies has led him to insights that are changing the way they do business
But tonight he shares these with us. Please welcome Eric Termuende and I
I want to show you guys something. This is my new phone. I just got a text my brother. Thank You Joel
And this new phone of course doesn't matter the model doesn't matter the company that built it
We do know that it was very expensive right because all new smart phones are very
Expensive and well, it is a phone we do recognize that I'm a millennial and I probably never use the phone itself
I'll probably just text and screen the calls that come in and so when we do see that these phones are new and
They're expensive we often talk about the cost of these devices
But we don't talk about though is the cost of using these devices and in early economics
We learn that the opportunity cost of something is
The is the loss of potential gain from an alternative when the other alternative is chosen so for example if I'm on my phone texting
what am I missing right in front of me and
So when we talk about these phones again?
We talk about the cool things that we do if we ask any of my friends with both the an emojis that I'll send them
with talking pandas and monkeys and cats we talk about the
Conversation killing debates when we can Google something we talk about the ability to find the answer to anything at anytime
Right in our fingertips the answers are right there, and this is all happened in the past 10 years
10 years ago the first iPhone came out 10 years ago life as we knew it fundamentally changed, right?
We could have the ability to Google anything we have calculators cameras we had
Internet we had all of these things right at our fingertips
We didn't have to be tied to a desk we didn't have to do the QWERTY or there the 1 to 9
Keyboard where we type you know 1 button 3 times 2 to the letter K things changed right and so when I started to realize
This honeymoon phase of technology that I think we've got in
I think we don't really realize the implications of it
but if you're as keen and
Observant as I am and you walk down the street from time to time you see hands heads are down. Hands are up
if you're on the bus or
C bus or the Canada Line you'll see headphones in eyes down
Actually in a study of three million drivers last year 88% of them were reported to be using their phone at some point in time
This is incredible stuff this has fundamentally changed our lives
And so this has happened in in such a recent time and so I took it upon myself to really understand how much are people
Using these phones how much are we actually on our devices and while the results vary quite significantly on?
Average we're using our phones three and a half hours a day
53 days a year
over 12 years of our life
on our phone staring at our screen
Wondering what's on here that's not out here. What are we missing?
That's a significant chunk of time, and I wondered - if that's the amount of time that wore on our phone
What are the health implications of this what is that? What does that mean aside from what we're missing aside from?
Parenting where I or kids are on iPads at the dinner table where we're crushing crushing debate and crushing conversation because we can Google something
Where teens and people even my age, maybe even myself we're texting people that aren't even at the dinner table with us
I think this is a problem. I think actually we're more alone than we've ever been before
Statistically the number of people who were reported to be lonely have quadrupled in the last four decades
When Americans were asked how many true confidants?
they had people they could go to when they were struggling people that could trust with anything the most common response was zero and
the number of people who reported zero
had tripled in recent decades
Last year a Harvard Business Review article came out. That said we are more lonely than we've ever been before
Upwards of 40% of corporate America are reporting to be lonely
We don't belong anymore this this is has significant health implications
The cost of being lonely is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day
this is real stuff, and it's at our fingertips, and we bought the opportunity to fix it just
Last week my roommate came up to me and he sat me down
He said I want to acknowledge you for the work that you're doing
I've never been sat down in a acknowledge before that was incredible and so I said can we try this too
How does this feel sat him down and acknowledged him for the work that he was doing and the impact it had on us?
Was profound even hugged it out after it was nice
and
so
Well, how this might be a call to put our phones away and shut them off and throw them in the garbage because this is
Terrifying stuff. It's not I get it these things are incredible
We can work remotely we can call and connect with family that we haven't maybe seen in years
We can answer any question in the world we can work earlier and later and wait these aren't sounding like benefits anymore
There's a rally sounding like problems
But what I'm getting at is that the use of our cell phone has fundamentally changed our lives
And the and the kicker is is that the World Economic Forum states that we're now entering the fourth?
Industrial Revolution
One where we're not taking steps forward anymore
We're taking exponential leaps, and if we've seen any of the presentations before mine we can agree that that's true
we know that just last year a zettabyte of information was transferred across the World Wide Web a
zettabyte is the equivalent of two hundred and fifty billion DVDs of information I
Was speaking at a conference last year in Los Angeles with a head of IBM's Watson supercomputer project?
and he said that 90% of the information on the internet today was put there in the past two years and
So while we think that we've plateaued?
while we think that these numbers have flattened out I
Promise you we're just getting started I
Promise you that the technology that we're going to have access to is going to be incredible
And we don't even know that it's coming yet because in the past ten years
We've gone from no iPhone to talking and emojis, and I'm not complaining about that, but I'm complaining about losing some of my friends
I'm complaining about losing some of the connection
I am worried about losing that sense of belonging and friendship that I've got with people that I really care about
I'm worried about them losing me for the same reasons and
While this might seem like a negative talk it might seem like a bit of a warning
They say that it's darkest before dawn and in this case we get to choose when the Sun rises
Because we get to choose to acknowledge people we get to choose to look them in the eye
We get to choose to care about them
We get to choose to ask them. Not just how was your day, but what did you accomplish today?
What are you excited about?
What problems are you looking to solve and how can I help?
How can I acknowledge you for what you've done today the incredible effort that you've put in to keep your busy life complete
to allow you to feel fulfilled and full and
to get the most out of this crazy busy world that we're all trying to navigate and
So while we're so often talking about the cost of the device
I'm stuck wondering. What's the cost of using this device?
What's the cost of connection?
I'll leave it to you to answer that question for yourself
Thank you
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- This program is all about engagement.
On one hand you could read a case study about how a
Fortune 50 CEO navigated a crisis, on another hand you could
actually engage that CEO directly
and at this program I've done that.
- One thing I'm not shy about is bringing the issues that
I have at work into the classroom.
- I put into action everything I learn on a daily basis.
- Georgetown is committed to having some social impact.
- You need to serve the common good.
- You can really do much more than you realize.
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Sciences Po - PRENDRE LA PAROLE EN PUBLIC - Cyril Delhay - Duration: 4:39.
-The second challenge is to prepare your body for public speaking.
In order to drive a car,
you are taught to control several things before starting it,
how far the seat is from the steering wheel, the mirrors,
the gears, the seatbelt.
Similarly, in order to speak correctly in public,
and before doing so, you should pay attention to four things.
Firstly, feel how anchored you are in your body
and on the ground.
Your body weight should be equally distributed between both feet.
Your knees should be slightly bent
so they cannot get locked in in hyperextension.
Secondly, focus on your verticality.
In other words, feel the connection of your body from head to toe,
whether you are standing or sitting.
Thirdly, make sure your eyes
move rhythmically from one fixed point to another.
It helps work on your internal stability
while remaining receptive to what is happening in the audience.
Fourthly, your breathing should be costo-diaphragmatic.
In other words, your diaphragm,
the muscle connected to your pulmonary alveoli,
comes down toward your abdomen when you inhale,
so the lungs can spread out downwards.
Very often, under the influence of stress,
we do the exact opposite. We tighten our floating ribs,
which prevents the diaphragm from going down.
Our lungs remain upwards,
where their volume is 70% inferior to what it could be.
You should also think of a personal warm-up a few minutes long
for your posture and your voice.
An athlete would never get started without warming up first.
A boxer does not walk up unprepared on the ring.
A sprinter does not start running without warming up their leg muscles.
The same goes for public speaking.
The warm-up will be shorter, but remains unavoidable.
To be a good public speaker, you must keep in mind
that everything is connected.
If you are sufficiently aware of your body,
you can be present for the audience and improve on your charisma.
A costo-diaphragmatic breathing helps you regulate your stress.
With this type of breathing, and since air is fuel for your voice,
you will be comfortable using your vocal organ,
and play on the tone or intensity of your voice whenever you want.
With this type of breathing, and since air is fuel for your voice,
you will be comfortable using your vocal organ
and play on the tone or intensity of your voice whenever you want.
Make sure that these essential elements are in place.
You will find, for each point mentioned in this unit,
an exercise to help you improve.
The body learns or relearns slowly but surely.
Five minutes a day for two weeks are usually enough.
Once you have mastered this step,
the challenge is to cultivate a personal art or style.
To cultivate your style, you must know yourself,
be aware of your body, and work on your message,
what you want to tell other people and how you want to tell them.
It can be polished, questioned and nurtured
through what you do, what you read, what you live, who you meet
throughout your life.
The oratory is a living art.
Keep up the good work!
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George Belliveau - Public Salon: - Duration: 9:51.
Our next guest is a professor of theater at UBC
But he uses theater as a tool for research and social change. He raises awareness of veterans
Taken from Canada
Dropped into brutal environments, then returned to their homes here in Canada
Often given no support to make sense of their experiences
And I would like to acknowledge a number of veterans who are with us here today?
We thank our next guests for using theatre to teach us and them
New ways of understanding ourselves and the world we live in please welcome George Beliveau
Theatre is often defined as a place to see to hear
to feel
to witness
to question
And to safely witness the consequences of human behavior, and I'd like to add that theater is a place where we come together
to share humanity
For the last three years I've had the privilege of working on a collaborative project with
military veterans and counselors and
In that project we produced a play called contact unload which toured extensively in Canada in the UK
But what I wanted to share tonight is
The the impact that that play and the creation of that work
Working with these veterans has had on me as an artist as a researcher
but most importantly on me as a human being
As a father of two girls a husband a
Son a brother and most recently working with these military veterans
I've been wondering what it means to be a man
What does it mean to be a decent man in?
This day and age who are models I?
Mean who are your models?
For the first two decades of my life, I identify myself as a hockey player in the dressing room
I was surrounded by a hyper masculinity and on the ice
It was about being tough and strong in a fast physical game with other men
I mean, I dreamed of being a goalie in the NHL
I wanted to be Ken Dryden because he was an athlete and a scholar
Well, I didn't make it to the NHL
but I did manage to play at the university level where I traveled from hockey to theater dressing room as
I majored in acting at Dalhousie University
At the age of 18 as I made my way between those two
drastically different worlds I
came to realize that there was a spectrum of men and that performing one's masculinity is part of the continuum I
Mean I enjoyed the camaraderie in the Brotherhood of my hockey teammates
But with my male acting friends I felt more alive
I mean I was exploring parts of myself that that I never knew existed
So in my second year university I decided to hang up my hockey gear and commit myself. Fully to theatre
Much to my father's surprise
My brother Don though he got it because at that point in his life
He was moving away from weightlifting and playing football and taking a new pathway by climbing in the mountains
from the Canadian Rockies to the Himalayas, but dad
well
You see to be a man is to play hockey
To be a man is to be tough and strong and reserved an emotion to be a man is not to
open oneself up and be vulnerable in front of others I
Now work with military veterans men in particular
Men, who were deployed overseas as peacekeepers
These men who risked their lives for the well-being of others represent for many of us the epitome of being a man
In my three years of working with these men though
I've realized the various layers and levels of what it means to be a man and
Being a man goes much deeper than the bravado the uniform and physical strength
Because these men I work with have seen and experienced things that
Hopefully many of us will never encounter. I mean imagine I
having to decide
whether or not to shoot a
Young Afghan boy who's coming towards your compound
Because he might be carrying explosive devices in his backpack
While holding on to your your mates shrapnel filled body as he takes in his last breath
These men I work with have journeyed from war zones to counseling support and now to the theater
where they perform their lived experiences in our play called contact unload and in the play they share their stories of loss of
survivor's guilt
But they also bring to life the camaraderie the Brotherhood as they come together to heal to cope and to reclaim
parts of their souls
Souls that were fractured or for some of them left overseas?
As one of the vets says you got to die when you join, so you don't fear dying when you're there
Well, it's not easy when you come back to try to reclaim your life
But nothing's the same here, nothing makes sense when I was there. I was something when I'm here
I'm just dead inside
Our play
at the very beginning
Shows these hyper masculine hyper masculine men initially defying any kind of support. Hey listen
I'm fucked up, but I'm not that fucked up or
They're guys. That are way worse than I am
but gradually
with persistent persuasion from other vets they step forward
and they seek professional help in an attempt to literally for some of them save their lives and
Here I am as their director and co actor in the play, and I'm witnessing this for 25 shows and
I'm in awe of
their courage their courage to be vulnerable
their courage to open themselves up and share these deeply personal injuries and
Then painfully work at stitching them the pieces back together so that they could live more fully
So what does it mean to be a man?
Well I never served in the military
So what did I really know about their struggles?
I mean the only weapon I've ever held is a wooden sword in a Shakespearean battle scene
or hockey stick
But something something inside me was happening as I watched them firsthand rebuild themselves in the company of their brothers
I was wrestling with my own identity
As a father as a son
My father
He grew up on a farm in eastern, Canada. He was a hockey player a
Weightlifter a boxer at age 18 my dad could benchpress nearly 300 pounds. That's twice my weight
My dad is 74 now when we move furniture dad. He still takes the heavy end
But when my dad was 49 the age, I'm now
He lost a son
my brother dawn in a tragic mountain climbing accident I
Was 27 at the time and I had no idea how to grieve for my only brother a best friend
but my dad
He showed me another way to be strong
he stood beside me and
With compassion we grieved and we cried together
releasing sharing the burden of our loss
Never alone never alone. That's the model that the veterans I work with use. I've got your back in the battlefield and at home
Well my dad
He saw the production of contact unload and like many other men and women in the audience the night
He was there his eyes were filled with tears
As he watched these six veterans stand side by side
hugging singing lean on me
Well men do cry and they laugh in fact we have the spectrum of emotions available at our
disposal
We just need the courage to act upon and release these emotions
So what does it mean to be a man?
Well for me it means being true to myself and to those around me
Thank you
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Matt Harper - Public Salon: - Duration: 8:49.
In our quest to live lighter on the earth and
avoid environmental
catastrophe a great challenge looms before us
Renewable energy is central to the solution
but energy from the Sun or wind is limited if we don't have an
Effective way of storing this energy through down times could it be that the solution to this existential
problem is right here in Vancouver our city has an unusual cluster of
electrochemical experts a legacy from pulp and paper industry and our next guest
Just may be on the verge of
converting this unique advantage
into something very significant, please welcome Matt Harper
Well, thanks, Sam and thanks to Lynn and everyone else who's been involved in pulling this together tonight and and look
I think that this event is such a phenomenal part of our civic fabric
And I want to thank all of you for taking part for coming out and sharing in this dialogue. Give yourselves a round of applause
Okay, you don't need the clap for me anymore perfect some of the most amazing advances in human progress
Have been made by our ability to control
Our resources and to control those resources both in where we use them. I had to control those resources in when we use them
You think about?
Prehistoric times you know we were able to move from the plains
up into caves because we were able to collect water and earthenware bowls and
Carry it with us
if you think about
if you think about some of the great advances in
Politics and philosophy and science it was the critical mass of cities
where those ideas were able to build and become part of
part of our history and
Those cities were only possible because of the aqueducts bringing water into cities like Rome and Athens
In the last 300 years
Humankind's
mobility and Industry has made all of our lives better by
Allowing us the the goods that allow us to live better lives the ability to travel to experience other cultures and different people
That has been
facilitated by our ability to store and transport fuels
Now
Over the last hundred and thirty years what we've seen is
our electricity system has brought us most of the things that we refer to as modern conveniences and
The electric grid is the thing that has brought that energy into our homes and the electric grid is an amazing machine
It's the most complex machine humankind has ever built any hour of any day
There are millions of people around the world working to make sure that the 6.3 billion people who have access to electricity
Can walk over to a wall flip a switch and have light come on. It's an incredible achievement
But what we've never mastered is the ability to control electricity in time
The way the electricity system works right now is that electricity is generated the instant
It is consumed it travels at the speed of light from generator to consumption
Think of it this way
Imagine us imagine if the world we lived in was one where water had to be consumed the instant it fell from the sky
That's what our electricity system is today
Now up until now this hasn't mattered because
We make electricity by burning stuff
We burn gas we burn coal or oil we burn whatever we want and we control when that burning happens
So we're able to make an estimate of how much stuff helen collects history
We're going to need and then we can burn as much stuff as we want when we want it well
the problem with that is that
The negative environmental impacts and impacts on our ecosphere of that burning are starting to catch up with us
And we're seeing increased toxins in the environment
And we're seeing increased carbon emissions into our atmosphere
Twenty-five percent of our carbon emissions are currently
Used are currently produced by generating electricity that's more than transportation. That's more than industrial usage. That's the biggest single category of
Co2 generation in the world today, and if we don't do something about that
We are gonna have a very very hard time mitigating climate change
So fortunately in the last couple of years. There's been this amazing revolution in renewable energy and
You know we've seen that the massive rollout of you know wind power plants and solar power plants
You know these are these are installations. You can now see from space these are massive efforts
But the problem with these devices is that they are not under our control
they generate when they want to generate when the Sun is out the solar panels make power when the wind is blowing the
We get we get power from our wind generators, so
That has created an incredible amount of instability in areas that are using more and more
renewable power
We see tremendous instability in the markets that support our electricity system
We see tremendous
instability in the amount of power available so you start seeing blackouts in places like
California and Australia where there's a tremendous amount of this renewable energy being used
So if we're going to continue down this path we need to find a way to control when electricity is used
in time
So why can't we just do this?
I mean we all have we all know what we all want know what batteries
Are we know we have them in our cell phones, and we have them in our cars
And we have them in this wonderful little device here
the problem with the batteries that we have right now is
again related to the sophistication and maturity of the electric grid the electric grid is made up of devices that are
unbelievably reliable and at last for a very very very long period of time
We have hydro generator facilities here in BC that have been in operation for over a hundred years
the batteries that we have today are
Devices you know made to be used for a couple of years
You know you get a new cell phone used for two or three years
You know the charge starts to suck so you go and upgrade to a new one
But that kind of device is not gonna. Give us the low-cost reliable energy that we need on the grid
So what do we do about this well?
There's a number of people myself included lots of people around the world are starting to talk about what we refer to as
Grid connected energy storage, or just energy storage for short, and it's terrible branding ok elastic stored energy fair enough
But you know energy storage is how this nascent industry is being described
And what these what are essentially very large batteries?
Do is they're able to store for much longer periods and as a resource that's appropriate for supporting our current electric grid
My company Avalon battery is building and designing and constructing these
Devices right here in East Vancouver, and what we're building is
devices
Called a vanadium flow battery
Which is a hybrid essentially of?
Conventional battery technologies and fuel cell technologies where we're able to do the regular charge and discharge that little batteries do but to do that
Tens of thousands of times over decades which is exactly the kind of resource we need if we're going to decouple
the time of electricity use consumption on the grid in
Doing this work we are tapping into a Sam mentioned is some of the great
pioneering work in electrochemical engineering and product development has been done right here in Vancouver
You know in recent memory companies like Ballard Power Systems, but going back in history to the the chlor-alkali
capabilities that were built to support our
Pulp and paper industry in the 60s and 70s has all been part of this pioneering work this led us to where we are today
so
We're not going to be the only part of this there are going to be many different solutions for
Making sure that this decoupling can happen, but ultimately we believe that being able to by being able to store energy
We are going to make renewable energy reliable and we're going to be able to provide clean
Reliable energy for our cities for our industry and for ourselves in the future. Thank you
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