Good afternoon. You are in the Vermont house government operations committee. We've been spending some time in the last week or two on each 196. And we took a look at the language in this fairly straightforward bill yesterday and so I'm glad to have Bryn here with us and Bryn if you want to just just to make it official, tell us what this bill language accomplishes and we'll take some questions from there. Good afternoon committee for the record Bryn here from legislative council. I just sent Andrea and updated edited draft of the amendment to 196 I'm hoping she posted that and if you'd like I can share my screen. So you can look at that version. We all have secondary devices so we can follow along. Great. So Andrea, did you have a chance to post that draft one point two. I emailed it to the committee so I'm going to go post it now. Thank you. Okay, so you should have, you should be looking at draft one point two from today. And I don't know if you looked at the draft one point one or not if the committee has looked at that. Have you looked at one point one yet. We did. Okay. Okay, great. So this just adds a little phrase. I'll show you the difference. But this is really pretty straightforward language it's session law adding to new positions to the agency of administration. So it provides that those positions are permanent and classified and authorized in fiscal year 2022 a policy research analyst and an outreach and education coordinator. And it specifies that the positions are transferred and converted from existing vacant positions in the executive branch. And then here's where the addition is is online 15 to support the work of the executive director of racial equity. Just to make it perfectly clear what these positions are for. And then subdivision C sets out the appropriation, which is $250,000 to fund those positions coming from the general fund. And then on the second page is the effective date which is on passage. And that's that sweet and simple questions for Bryn on the words on the page Bob Hooper. Thank you madam chair I apologize for getting to the meeting late I was encumbered by some malty guy who talked a lot. I bring a lot of the conversation that people have been having with me is the independence of this whole office and structure, and having worked in state government for a long time I know it's not very plausible to have a standalone like a board or something like that in this context is, is there in any way something that that makes it more independent under the secretary of the agency than one normally would have. And I know that that's a really poorly framed question but it seems to go to the issue that I've been hearing a lot from people about. So are you talking about the position of the executive director I assume you're talking about that position. I am, I am but in the context of adding to. I mean as things grow people look more and more for supervisory structure I don't know if it's not germane having just had plenty of germane conversations. But if you have an opinion at some point in time I would mind hearing it maybe not in the middle of this particular. Okay, I'll take my direction from the chair, if you'd like me to respond or not. So we have come back to this question a number of times about whether, whether the racial equity director would be preferable in a standalone independent situation versus embedded within administrative agency and I would prefer not to take up that question in the context of this bill. This bill is putting statutory language around an appropriation that was called for in the governor's governor's recommended budget. If we wanted to get into the larger question of an independent racial equity director in Vermont, we would want to do a full analysis of all of the perspectives on on the benefits or drawbacks of having an independent commission versus one embedded in in the governor's administration and, frankly, I don't think we want to slow down the appointment of these positions to allow for time to talk about independence. And I, I appreciate that madam chair, I know that she has had conversations about it and it's it just seems like all of a sudden there's a much bigger deluge of information coming in from the public about that to my mailbox anyway. So I withdraw the question and thank you very much for your tolerance. Thank you. Yeah, I definitely agree with the chair about this issue. I mean, if you look at the statute and the duties of the executive director of racial equity, almost all of those duties rely around coordinating with various agencies within state government. I think we would have to rewrite the entire statute. If we were to make this an independent person, an independent agency in the state so I mean that that would be a lot of work and I would want to have testimony as to why the current operation is not working. Before we moved in that direction. Thanks.  Sorry madam chair that was by mistake I was hitting something else on my iPad. Well I know you won't be shy if you want to have a chance to ask a question you just jump right in there again. Okay, so other questions for Bryn on the words on the page. And I think by by moving this bill forward does not foreclose a conversation in the future about whether there is an advantage to an independent entity but but in keeping with the timeline of approving the governor's recommended additional positions. I'd like to try to move this today. Sam Lafave has a hand up. Sorry, thank you madam chair. So I know that we had asked previous people that had testified where these positions were coming from and I feel like maybe that was a little bit of a squished answer so can you say clarification again that I understand that we keep saying that they are coming from polls and the executive but where are they coming from a fresh pool, are they coming from the internal pool or from the outside. And can you help orient us to how this all works perhaps. So I don't know exactly where they're coming from this is the, this is the language that I received from the executive branch I didn't receive any specific information about what positions, where the positions are coming from. But I will say that when you set up new positions you do it one of two ways you create new ones or you transfer existing positions that are not filled. So I apologize that I don't have any more interesting information for you. Madam chair if I may, I just feel that we have asked some questions of others I've testified and I understand the importance of making sure that this is out in the timely manner. But I just feel that maybe there's some or it might be I'm wrong but I do feel that some of the committee questions have been asked and that some of the questions weren't directly answered and it might be the same situation where they just weren't had the information. I understand that Miss hair is specific to the language she is presenting to us. But I'm just not sure that all of our questions have been answered. So Bryn can you enlighten us who you were communicating with in the administration to, to build this language that is fleshing out the request that they made. I'm sure so I primarily communicated with the member of your committee representative Colston, who I believe was in touch with members of the executive branch that were responsible for putting forward this suggestion. And there's something else I wanted to say but I forgot hopefully it'll come back to me in a minute. Thanks, Rob. Yeah, I'm thinking back on this and I believe that either I was involved in or part of a discussion where these two positions, even though they're new positions they're coming out of the current position pool. We're not necessarily increasing the size of the number of state employees by positions but because they're coming out of vacant positions that are already there that helps Sam. I think it would be helpful in the larger sense for us to have a little state government positions 101 seminar for the benefit of all of us who've learned it and forgotten it but also for members of the committee who are new. But if this is language that has been recommended by the administration, I'm going to take their word for it that this is, this is how they would like to accomplish adding these positions to the racial equity director's office. Another thing I was going to say which is that because the bill contains an appropriation I imagine that it will next go to the appropriations committee, which will receive, and they tend to receive the finer more granular details about where the positions are coming from in my experience. Yes. All right. How if you are ready, I would entertain a motion. So moved. I have a discussion about each 196 draft 1.2, which is posted on the committee page. When you're ready how I shall begin the roll call. Gannon. Yes. Marike. Yes. The Claire. Yes. Cooper. Yes. Colston. Yes. Anthony. Yes. Yes. The fave. Yes. Higley. Yes. McCarthy. Yes. Copenhagen's. Yes. The hotel is 11 00. Thank you committee. One other item on our agenda this afternoon and that is to come back to Tucker Anderson with respect to the charter amendments. Specifically the aspects of the Montpelier charter on all resident voting that differ from the Winooski Charter so Tucker I know you all were in the middle of a conversation this morning so if I haven't characterized where you left off or what you were expecting to answer you just go right ahead and answer the question that you were left with before lunchtime because. I explained to the committee before that I listened to the morning committee work on my lunch break but I couldn't quite get through the entire hour. I didn't carry your attention the whole time. I was listening to you at two times speed but I couldn't get through the whole hour in the 30 minutes that I had. Did it change the tone of my voice at all when. No it doesn't. It's quite wonderful. All it does is eliminate any pauses that we might put in between words. The committee left off was that the Vice Chair and the committee members had requested that I send along the ledge Council memos concerning the constitutionality of non citizen voting. I sent the most recent version which was from May 2019. It's a 16 to 18 page memo including appendices, and it covers the constitutional authority for the General Assembly to determine the qualifications for local elections and local voters. In addition, I sent along some materials that Betsy, myself and Michael Churnick dug up of historical references to statutes that allowed greater pools of voters than were contemplated by the Vermont Constitution. So there's a little bit of history there that you can go through. And additionally, a memo that was prepared for Senate government operations on this charter amendment by Peter teach out. So those were the primary research materials that were used to discuss the constitutionality of non citizen or all resident voting. Thank you Tucker. Who's got questions. Peter Anthony. Thank you madam chair not so much a question but it seemed to me that the Montpelier version is in at least one respect less controversial because of the specificity of the idea of resident. Obviously, the Winooski's got a bunch of other issues as we spoke over that prior to the lunch hour that will take a lot more time to parse out. I'm happy with the way the Montpelier one is right now, frankly, but I, you know, don't want to be overbearing about it. Robert Claire. Thank you madam chair. So my my sentiment is is that we're, we're quickly coming to a point where we're going to vote on this which I totally support in that. I remember being part of this conversation last year, quite honestly as well. And I don't think that there's any question about the constitutionality of it is it is constitutional. I think that there's also some history there that shows that it was allowed to happen in the past as well. But for me, I struggled with this one, some in that. Well one for me it's kind of a two part process in that if we do have people who have applied to become citizens. And because of the process they are denied the ability to vote. I do struggle with that I think that if they've gone through the process and because of no fault or the wrong they're not able to. But the other part of this for me is that there are people. And if I recall correctly one of the witnesses from Montpelier was a woman who has been living in Montpelier for many many years. And she was currently a citizen of another country and if I remember correctly, it was a country that did not allow dual citizenship. So therefore she couldn't be become a US citizen and not give up her citizenship from her former or all the country she was from. To me that's different in that she's making a conscious choice, whether she gives up her citizenship or not. We couldn't go vote in her country. We do in the US allow dual citizenship. So, for me it's life's about choices. So, unless somebody can assure me that this Montpelier charter changes addressing those issues. I will be voting no on it, somewhat reluctantly because there is a part of this that really does resonate with me as far as people shouldn't be penalized if they're in the process, but if it's going to allow folks that have made a conscious choice not to become citizens, then that's their choice. And the other part I guess, while I'm thinking here is, you know we're talking about people looking on voting on vote, voting on local issues for instance like Montpelier if I recall correctly. Montpelier is a unified school district, they are Montpelier and Roxbury. So, if these folks are given the opportunity to vote, they could not vote on school budgets, because it's a unified school district. So, I just see this process fraught with all sorts of logistical issues. And there's some budgetary concerns as well because we do have a statewide education funding formula that these things all play into. So, I will be voting no, but for those reasons not because I don't conceptually agree with them if they're legally going through the process and just haven't been able to get through it yet. Thank you Madam Chair. Bob Hooper. Thank you Madam Chair. 17 years in some Scandinavian country as I recall but I have a question I guess for Tucker I, I am under the impression that we do not allow dual citizenship and that our oath of citizenship has something in it that basically says renouncing all others. You know, would I guess fall to Rob's point at some degree but frankly we're the country that landed the free home of the brave and everybody's welcome. I don't think at this level that granting the right to vote no matter what the reason if you're paying taxes you're living in a community. I support this fully and I'm proud to stand behind it. John Gannon. Ford. Thank you. I just want to remind people that none, but and John Odom sort of testified about this that non non citizen voting has actually been the norm for much of the United States is history. Non citizens voted in every presidential election until 1924. So, I mean, this is not something that's new to this, this country, and it's not new to Vermont, Vermont allowed non citizens to vote before it even became part of the United States. So this is part of our history. Unfortunately, because of nativism and racism. And I don't think we should continue with those types of policies that are racist and nativist in nature. Thanks. Mark Higley. Yeah, I object to john's clarification that for some reason if I or anybody votes against this, we're somehow racist. I'm getting tired of that mantra regardless of of what your position might be. And I will not state all my reasons for not voting for this but I will not be voting for this. Other committee discussion. I just want to apologize to any member of the committee I was not saying they were racist or nativist I'm just saying the change in policy in Vermont, and the United States was driven by racism and nativism. When those changes were made. So I apologize to any member of the committee that thought I was intending to consider them a racist or nativist. Thank you john for drawing that distinction that was my understanding of what you said as well. And I think it's good of you to point it out. Mike Marwicky. Just to clarify, one of the highlights here, we are looking to approve people to vote only in municipal elections right nothing beyond that. This representative Marwicky that is correct. It is strictly city elections and the Charter amendment calls out that non citizen voters are prohibited from voting in federal state county special district or school district offices or questions. So they're not allowed for to vote for example in the unified school district votes and they're not allowed to vote for water and sewer district votes things like that should strictly be city elections and questions. Thank you. Mike McCarthy. One thing I just wanted to point out is that unless things are very different there than they are in my municipality, the school district and other district ballots happen on a completely separate ballot so the, I think there was a little bit of an implication in the comment about there being, you know, budgetary logistical issues the elections and I think we heard pretty loudly from the clerk that, you know, they had thought through the ramifications and that they were pretty minimal in terms of having the two separate checklists and being able to accommodate the non citizen voting so I'm definitely going to be voting yes here. Okay, any other committee discussion on the Montpelier Charter, Sam LaFace. Thank you madam chair, and I guess I'd like further clarification while they may not be voting in the unit, you know the unified school districts, some of the questions within the city, maybe opting into money's questions correct. I think it is an issue on the city ballot which would include budgetary items at the city's annual meeting then non citizens would be able to vote on them. I'll cost him. Thank you madam chair. I will be supporting this bill, and I was struck earlier by a comment made by representative Mary Cooper and and her reason for supporting this is because it builds community. And that's a good thing for our democracy. Thank you. Right, any other committee discussion or questions for Tucker on each 177. Montpelier Charter amendments. All right, I would entertain a motion. So move manager. Thank you Rob. I appreciate it. How when you're ready. We need you to unmute. I shall begin the roll call. Gannon. Yes. Ricky. Yes. The Claire. No. Cooper. Yes. Colston. Yes. Anthony. Yes. We hope ski. Yes. The fave. No. Higley. No. McCarthy. Yes. The vote is eight. Three. Zero. Thank you all.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jespeys, casewrakes.com, knocking out a case of 2022 Tops Tier 1 Baseball 12 box picker team number 27. A lot of great stuff in here as we know, so let's get to it. Big thanks to this group right here for getting on the action. Thanks to the people who bought their team straight up. Appreciate that. Then we pulled the remaining teams that were left and made two different random number blocks for it. So here are the results of those number blocks right here. Here's the Angels one, the slightly more expensive of the two that we did. And we also, these randomizers are also in a different video if you're looking for that. But these are the results. I'll actually set that over here to my left and then here's the another group featuring Seattle, et cetera, et cetera. Also we did that in a separate video as well. And this time we actually gave away two spots within the number block right there. And let's do it. Yeah, we're talking a little bit before we started this video. We're talking a little bit about Fernando Teteis Jr. being suspended for PEDs. Rex is arguing. He had to go to the doctor for a ringworm and then get meds so a doctor could have warned him what was in it. Unless Teteis Jr. went to a doctor that is not familiar with the whole, I don't know. If you went to a team doctor, I feel like he should know. But a regular doctor, I don't think, is obligated to know exactly what's on the PED list or not. That's on Teteis Jr. to tell his practitioner what's on this list. But I feel like he didn't do it. My guess is probably it was an honest mistake probably.  So he probably was just like, whatever. Next doc for the anti-ringworm thing or whatever it was. There you go. 002 out of 249, Jake Cronenworth. Now if Teteis Jr. did tell him the list and the doctor is like, eh, I don't think it's in there. And that might be on the doc. Speaking of the Padres 002 out of 249, the Cronen zone, Jake Cronenworth, part of that Padres number block and that San Diego tube. That's part of the Seattle group and that's going to go to Rick Teteis. 48 out of 299, Ernie Clement. Cleveland! This is for you! I'm going to go to Eddie H. and the Cleveland Guardians. Yeah, I feel like there should be an appeal, Logan. I mean, if they can, if the major league baseball can term it, it's a like, you know, that it's a honest mistake then maybe they could reduce that, something like that. But yeah, I don't know why these guys don't go to their team doctor. Here's Will the thrill, 8 out of 25. But then again, team doctors often have the team in mind as their best interest, not the patient per se if you get my drift. There's Will Clark, Chris Walker and the Giants. So maybe he wasn't comfortable seeing the team doctor. I don't think they should cut him some slack for the sake of cutting him slack, but I wonder if there's any kind of appeals process or anything. Maybe not. But it's like, hey, this is an honest mistake appeals process. Let's shorten the thing.  Oh, you can appeal, but he's already dropped the appeal. Got it. 89 out of 299, Spencer Watkins.  So that'll go to Orioles 9. That'll be for Chase. And there's Vlad Guerrero Jr., 68 out of 125. Expo stuff, of course, goes to the Nationals. And so that's also part of the Seattle group. Washington A. Chase with Vlad Guerrero Sr. Yeah, team should screen all the screen. Yeah, I don't know what the, I have no idea what the sort of collective bargaining agreement says about medical care. You know, team doctors may only be able to diagnose or be able to know X amount of, maybe they're more of sports. I don't know, maybe there's just different specialties that you need to go to for that sort of stuff. And if he doesn't have that, you may have to go to another doctor or if it's a non-sport related injury. Maybe there's privacy issues that players may have. There's 11 out of 349, Dustin Padroia, Karen with laser show, so I don't know how that works. What access, you know, Major League teams and employer has on their employees' medical records.  So I don't know. I don't know enough about that. 61 out of 299, Jazz Chisholm, Mike Cody, the Marlins. And back here is Larry Walker. Nice, 134 out of 175, tier one talent. Larry Walker, Eddie with the Rockies. Great penmanship right here, too. I like it. Thanks to Eddie for picking up the Rockies straight up. Next box, his doctor's a Dodgers fan. I don't know if the Dodgers were that threatened by a Tetease junior. The Teosca Hernandez, 11 out of 349. That's for the Blue Jays. That's going to go to Chase, picked up the Blue Jays straight up. The Glenn Otto Otto. 9 out of 10, Glenn Otto Otto. Going to the Otto Otto, going to John. John G, that one. Nice silver ink Otto on this, too. On this Otto Otto. Are all of the out of 10 silver? Maybe. What was Glenn Otto doing this season? Just curious. Let's do a quick check on baseballreference.com. Former fifth round pick, not so hot. Sorry. 17 starts a 5-2 area, 4-8. 69 strikeouts over 83. And it's only his second year. This is the most starts he's made in his major league career. So maybe one to kind of put in the back of the drawer and see how he emerges. Look at this. O'Neal Cruz, 110 out of 299. This exciting youngster going to Chase with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Picking up the Pirates straight up before it went into a number block. He cut it really close, too. This is exactly who he was looking for, he said in the chat earlier. Nice breakout autograph, O'Neal Cruz. That's what he had. There you go, Chase. Congrats. I remember, Chase. That's what you were waiting for. O'Neal Cruz started off the season really hot. Still has a 1.1 war over 165 at bats. 206 batting, he's got to work on that. But nine homers, 34 hits, six stolen bases. You know, he's got six doubles in like 45 games. A triple, nine home, so it's pretty exciting. His defense is legit. That's right. I'm sure that average will improve over time as well. But he's splashing a little power. There are nine home runs in 45 games. That's about, what is that? If you get 45 games, I know this is not going to be one like for like. But that's about 30 home runs on the season. That's not bad. 342 out of 399, the big unit, Randy Johnson. Sorry, O'Neal Cruz, another ex Dodger. Ryan Hynes with the big unit, the Yankees. We've got Sonny Gray, 225 out of 299 Red Legs edition. That's going to go to Jonathan Kent and the Reds. Yeah, Rex was mentioning that earlier too, Jonathan. My only counter is that Tetease Jr. maybe went to a private doctor, his own personal doctor, that for whatever reason, it's not his job, per se, you know what's on a private organization's banned or not banned list. It seems like that's on Tetease Jr. to tell him what's there, not the other way around, you know? 7 out of 10 Joey Votto, Silver, ain't got a graph. Another Red Leg for Jonathan. But yeah, Taylor Clark saying it's a topical cream used to shrink ringworm. Those done contain, those don't contain anabolic steroids, which is what he got popped for. Yeah, well, I'm not sure we'll ever really know. Chad, that's on you for looking, going on ESPN. Well, I don't know what doctor he's going to, Jonathan. I can't assume that he's, what if he's going to like some pediatrician? What if he's going to some, some not very good doctor that doesn't know his stuff, but it's a family friend? It's Edward, we're the twins. There's a mar, Aramis Ramirez at 299. I don't know. I don't blame the doctor in this situation, you know what I mean? Like, I think that's on to T's Jr. And he said as much too. Canard with the Cubs. Well, I mean, we're just as good as ESPN. I'll tell you that the Ames have 0% chance of making the playoffs. There's Dale Murphy, six out of 25. Cubbies, Canard with Amaris Ramirez. The Braves are a number block team. Six out of 25, that goes to Angels, number block group, Angels six, or check that, Atlantis six, that'll be for Chris Butler. The Dale Murphy, Gold, Inc auto. Right, that's true Logan, I mean, I don't know where he's at right now. Did he, is he back home in the Dominican Republic going to a doctor there? I don't know. Mariners apparently have his 27%. What would Joe Jaspie say? Well, JSPN would say a better chance in the Angels. That's what I say. I don't know, you don't need numbers to tell you that. 25 out of 25, nice game used relics here. Ronald Acuna Jr., another Brave. So this is Atlanta five this time. Sean Healy with Atlanta five. Jack Flaherty, 138 out of 2.99. So more than zero is my, absolutely. Hot takes from Joe Jaspie. Jack Flaherty for the Cardinals, Pat Wolfe. Gets the Cardinals straight up. Wait, we were just looking at the standings. How does, you must be looking at some wrong numbers. The Mariners are a half game ahead of a wild card, of the three wild card spots. And the Angels are 10 games behind. How are they, you're looking at the numbers wrong, Chad. Angels are 23 and a half games behind first. Mariners are 13 games behind. Then, there's Joe Ryan.  Joe Ryan, Minnesota Twins. Edward, with the Twinkies. Tell me where I need to go on. You tell me exactly the steps I need to go on ESPN. I can't say here in search. I'm in the middle of a break, Chad. Where am I going? I'm on ESPN.com right now, MLD homepage. ESPN.com.mlb. Ooh, extra relic in this one. Although we, I mean, we got a little time. I'm at standings. Oh, Nick Jaspy has, wait, I went to standings. Hey, that's why we're here, Jonathan Kenton. No, that can't be right. 538.com has Seattle with 79% chance of making the playoffs, and the Angels with a less than 1% chance of making the playoffs. So this is on you for consulting ESPN. Nope, I'm still right, Rex. I'm using the correct sources. Orioles are a number block team. Baltimore 7 is on this side, Chase. 538 worse than ESPN, unlikely. Nick Jaspy's an Angels fan. 538 says, Astros have a greater than 99% chance to make the playoffs. There's Bryce Harper, 152, can't just have one resource, Chad. Multiple resources are helpful. 152 out of 199, Bryce Harper. Phillies, Rob with the Phillies. There's Joe Musgrove to 299. I don't know, they're trying to be like a data center, but I don't know how successful they are. Padres, four, it's 154 out of 299. San Diego four is for Raymond. And there's Cabrion Hayes. I like this action shot. It's how I'm about to fly off right there. Nice action shot for Chase. Pirates, last spot Mojo. But I remember there's like a, they have a soccer power index for ESPNFC.com that's consistently seems off all the time. So I don't know. Those numbers must not be updated for some reason or they're using some, I mean, you have to be, you have to question, I don't even see their methodology on percent chance of making the playoffs. They don't even have a something to click on that. I don't know why not, but you know, I'm always skeptical of a place that really doesn't share their methodology. As far as I know, some intern could just be punching in random numbers, just what they think. Ooh, an eight out of 10, Jacob DeGrom. And long suffering Mariners fan, Chad says, you're putting the Mariners on at 27%. What's your methodology? How did you get to that number? That's for Taylor Clark and the Mets. There you go, Taylor on the board. See what else we can get for you. There's Yanni Hernandez, 118 out of 299 for the Rangers. John with the Rangers. Oh, you're taking this. Yeah, I'd take that also with a grain of salt, Chad. 193 out of 299, Byron Buxton. That'll be for Edward and the twins. Getting that tier one talent autograph. Yeah, he's pretty good. Also, Fan Graphs. Why don't we use a real baseball site here? Fan Graphs has the Mariners chance of making the playoffs at 86.1% and the Angels 0.2% chance of making the playoffs. I think I'll trust Fan Graphs before I would trust ESPN. That's all baseball, all they do is baseball. Let's take a look at playoffstatus.com for whatever that's worth. They have the Mariners at making the playoff, the wild card at least, 86%. Let's take a look at baseballreference.com, playoff odds to make the playoffs. Where's AL West? There it is. It is postseason 89.4% to reach the postseason. 199 out of 399, Mike Piazza, Padres edition, that famous Padres run that he had. That'll go to Padres nine. Padres are part of the Seattle group and that'll be for Chase, J.D. Martinez, piece of his lumber, 210 out of 349. Red Sox, Karen, the Red Sox. I really thought J.D. Martinez would get moved to the deadline, but Gavin Lux, 82 out of 299. Who's been hitting the ball well? All right, Taylor's like, I have the Mets and Dodgers and the Padres is a Piazza. Well, making the World Series is different from the playoffs, Chad. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's go one step at a time. He was a Padres for a season. He did play 126 games with the Padres. That was the second to last year of his career, 37 years old. He had 283 with the Padres, 22 homers, 68 RBIs, 19 doubles in 126 games, that's not bad. Well, at least you'll get this Gavin Lux, Taylor Clark. He's been hitting the ball well lately. And we got Bill Mazurowski, 236 out of 299. And goes to Chase, last spot mojo doing well in this break. Last due to hit a walk off homer in game seven in the final game of a World Series. I think the only guy to do so. I guess there's been other World Series clinching home run, but he's the only guy that's done it in the final game of a World Series to clinch the entire thing. All right, two more boxes to go. Let's get this guy right over here. That's Freddie Peralta, 270 out of 399. Game use material for Ryan Hynes and the Brew Crew. We got Joel Pozo, Joel Pozo. 227 out of 299 for the Rangers. That's gonna be for John G and the Texas Rangers. And this is a Jersey, wow, nice patch auto. Jesse Winker, he's a Winker folks. Eight out of 10, Red Legs, that's Jonathan Kent with the Cincinnati Reds, nice three color patch. He's got some nice penmanship. This is Reds edition, eight out of 10. Predigious patch autograph. All right, last box coming up, boys and girls, good luck. All right, another extra hit in this box. It's like an extra relic. We got big Boppy, David Ortiz, 173 out of 399. That's Karen with the Red Sox. Karen, I was at the Field Dreams. That's at the Hall of Fame about almost two weeks ago now. And a lot of people crown around that big Boppy plaque. Looks good. Josh Donaldson, Twins edition to 349. That will be for Edward in Minnesota. Now we got two, I think autographs left. Fingers crossed, everybody, good luck. First one is Nick Fortes. 275 out of 299, Mike Cody in the Miami Marlins. Mike in the Miami Marlins. Sounds like a band, Mike in the Miami Marlins. And there's Tim Reigns, eight out of 125. That is for the Nationals. Expo stuff goes to the Nationals. And that's a part of a number block team. That's part of that Seattle number block group. It's a nice snug fit in there. Double oh eight out of 125. And that is for Chase with eight. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen. That's the break. Another case of tier one baseball in the books. Another case will be loaded up. Remember, everyone on this list, if you didn't have a good break here, remember, everyone who bought a team straight up will be on the list for the promo. And random number block, those two groups, those 10 spots each there will also be in the promo as well. We got a few big breaks to knock out by the end of show, Tuesday night to get that promo done. So let's keep working on it. Jaspeyscasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one.


Hi, I'm Joël from ST60 Marketing Team. I would like to give you a quick guided tour of contactless connectivity in ST60. As we all agree on mobile equipments, we would like to get rid of connectors, because they are bulky, because they are costly, because they are fragile, and in some case they prevent the product to be truly waterproof. So for that purpose, ST has developed the ST60 product family. This is a tiny RF transceiver operating at 60 GHz, which is intended to replace short cables and connectors. Today we will be demonstrating the ST60 A3, which is housed in a 3 by 4 package with an integrated antenna. This is what we call antenna-in-package solution. For establishing a contactless EUSB2 link, we will be using a pair of ST60 A3. The contactless link will work up to a distance of a few centimetres. This is a point-to-point connection, which does not require any complex pairing mechanism. The power consumption is in the range of 100 milliwatts. So this is the ST60 A3 demo. We will be browsing contents, contactlessly, between the telephone and the USB key. We are using the ST60 A3 disco kit. It is plugged on the telephone without any specific drivers on it. As soon as the second ST60 A3 is coming near the local one, there is a main discovery mechanism taking place and the USB storage appears in the telephone. Now I can simply browse through the content and play this video. Here we are. Now I will show you that this RF connectivity link established can go through some new non-conductive materials such as cardboard or glass. Now you may want to remove this power cord and use wireless charging instead. This is actually what we are implementing in this demo kit. So here we are combining a wireless charging and its coil and ST60 A3. ST60 A3 is operating in the middle of the coil and those two technologies actually can coexist very well. This is what we are showing in this demo where we are again browsing content from the USB key onto the telephone. So if you would like to know more about ST60, please visit st.com slash st60 or contact your ST representative.


So one of the terms that everyone is talking about now that you'll certainly hear if you're in the cancer world is this term NGS. What NGS stands for is next generation sequencing. But it's used with a lot of different terms, right? So if somebody says, have you done molecular testing on your tumor? Have you done genomic profiling on your tumor? This is all in the same bucket of this NGS concept. And this concept is an extremely important one. And let me tell you why. What NGS in molecular testing is, is looking at, let's see if there's something more specific on the aisle itself. So you're looking at the actual, you know, jar of pickles rather than being on the entire aisle. And that is a level of far more basically detail when it relates to a cancer than it is in a generalized chemo way. Now, is chemo necessary? Absolutely. Especially in the curative sense, it's very effective because it helps kill cells that replicate fast by basically poisoning the process of replication.


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Hello. Welcome to the Invest Crop Pollination Model training video. This will be a training from me, Eric Lonsor, and Chris Newtonboom. I also want to acknowledge some of the original co-authors of the model and the kind of paper that this was based off of Taylor Ricketts, Neil Williams, Ray Winfrey, and Claire Kremmit. And so I'm going to talk really briefly about the importance of pollination, the theory about mapping the service, basically the production function, and how we value the pollinator providing habitats, a little bit how we've used the model, and then Chris will give a brief demo. Okay, so if you're working on this, you probably already know and recognize that pollinators are really important. They provide up to 35% of the global food supply by improving 75% of globally important crops. They provide biodiversity. They're also really important. They obviously support pollinations of many, many plants, 60 to 90% of all angiosperms require some form of external pollination. Most of the time this is going to be bees. And it's been shown to be a limiting factor of reproduction for many natural plant populations. Evaluate in a service. This is just another example of an ecosystem service or those benefits that nature provides people, nature's contributions to people or NCPs. It might be another way that you think of them. And there are two key steps to quantifying them that I'm going to go over this ecological production function, and then the economic valuation. The production function links the ecology of the system with the particular service. So in this case, if we're thinking about strawberry production, we're going to model just that plant pollinator interaction, the bees landing on the flower, providing pollination that leads to some sort of fruit. That fruit has value to people. So if you go to the market and purchase it, we can kind of then link that value that's going to be provided to society back to the service being provided by the bee itself and we do that for management decisions. We're interested in how changes in the landscape would translate into changes in dollar values or some sort of value. And we can break that down by understanding how the pollinator system changes with changes in the landscape. And if we can understand that we can connect it then with how changes in yield are affected by pollination and then obviously the changes in dollar and by putting that all together, we get the full component of changes in dollars to landscape. So that first part that I'm going to talk about is this ecological production function, which here is the model and you can read more about the details of that model in the invest guide. So here is just a training session of the bees to make sure they follow along exactly what the model is doing. We want to make sure that their ecology is, you know, the bees kind of understand what we're trying to do. I'm kidding of course what we're actually doing is trying to represent the ecology with the model. And so here's how we were thinking about it. So here is an example landscape. We can imagine bees in a nest right there and this is a representative landscape, the yellow kind of in the middle might be a crop of some kind that requires bees, and there's wildland in the surrounding so if we have a nest site where the bee is. We can represent that bees moving around the landscape we can assume that forage resources closer by are more important than those farther away and so we have this distance decay function. So we can assess the quality of that landscape. And we also know that sometimes bees vary or we know that these very some go really far, some go much shorter. And so for this one if it's a be that doesn't fly very far it may not be able to get into that wildland which may provide lots of great resources. If a bee can go farther it can it can access that. And so we can kind of model the fitness of the bees in that nest site by where they are with in relation to those resources and we've done a lot of tests in agricultural systems and I just want to talk a little bit briefly about how we've validated the theory in the model. This was there an original study in Yolo County California and the Central Valley where there's lots of different crop types. And here, my colleagues sample bees and watermelon fields that's where those black dots are. And the way the model works. As first we translate that landscape into different nesting guilds. So we can translate that land cover map into four guilds stem nesting cavity nesters would and ground. And then the here the green represents good quality and the reds are poor quality. All right, so these are, and we'll get into sort of the tables that are required to translate that. And then we convert that same landscape into floral resources and the reason it looks a little fuzzy is because we're modeling how bees are moving. And so this is a distance weighted convolution it's called that weights floor resources in different seasons so here you can have spring summer and fall. You could just have one season if that's all you know about. And this model then basically adds up the quality of those four resources in the landscape. Yeah, and then we put those two layers together to create this integrated assessment of the overall quality of the abundance coming from those nest sites. All right, and then we can predict based on the surroundings of each of those nest sites, how many bees might be visited. Now emphasize this is a relative score, we don't know exactly how many bees are out there that that's just sort of, that's some data that we just don't have we're not exactly sure what the true number is so it's a relative score from zero to one. So we call that a pollination service score. And here are three tests that have been done at first, and we showed that for modeling native abundance that we got pretty good fit in California and Costa Rica, but in some landscapes it does it doesn't always work in every landscape. So and this is in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Eastern United States, we just have never been able to get a good fit there. And after that we wanted to make sure that it wasn't, you know, the model works more generally. And so we did a global test of this of the production function on many other crops and landscapes around the world. So this was a paper led by postdoc of ours Christina Kennedy, who looked at 39 different studies across 23 crops and six continents, and the model generally worked. There's a lot of variants but overall we do find this nice strong positive relationship between the pollinator landscape score and the abundance of bees on there. And I just want to point out here that it the management of those fields matters. And so if it's a simple lands conventional landscape. That's kind of a more intense there are generally fewer bees. So there's this interaction of local management with the landscape around it. And as the landscape quality increases, we tend to see more bees on those fields. Okay, so that's the kind of ecology of the bees kind of getting to those fields. The next part is the valuation. So how do we actually translate abundance into valuation. All right, and so here we have a bee drinking coffee. But really we're going to be talking about the, the benefits to coffee production of the bees themselves. I am colleague of mine Taylor Ricketts did some great work testing the model in Costa Rica. Here we see a relatively large coffee plantation in the middle of a landscape, and he sampled sort of from the edge, natural areas, deep into the coffee plantation to look at how distance from that edge affected production yield and he did a pollinator exclusion which we'll get to in a minute. And so to get to valuation. We have to kind of model the bees coming from those nest sites as I mentioned so in this case imagine that the yellow box here is kind of the crop we're interested in, and they're going to come from the surrounding forest. Okay, this is actually really good for resources for bees in Costa Rica. And so we first model the source abundance of those bees. And we imagine that they're going to fly to that field. And then we'll be able to kind of test that the effect of their abundance on crop yield, and then based on where they're coming from redistribute that value back to the landscape that's that natural capital. Okay. In the landscape. Okay, and so what Taylor Ricketts did. He actually looked at the abundance of bees visiting the crops and those sites again we're on the gradient and found that as the abundance index increases we see a really nice fit there and that was one of the original studies. And this was the actual effect on pollinate pollinator limitation. The production which is measured in this unit called a funnega in Costa Rica that the production of the coffee actually increases with increasing pollinator visitation. And so we can then translate that again this value back into the landscape, which we'll get to a man so here's then this abundance map in corn and coffee rather. This is the actual predicted visitation 107 bees from zero, and we can see there's a strong edge effect more wild bees are expected along the edge. Okay. And then if we can then retranslate in the actual dollars per hectare coming from wild bees. Okay. And then one of the things we can do with that is actually start making management decisions sort of what is the value of that pollinator providing habitat, who would be most vulnerable it's like landscape were to change. And then what might be the end of flip side of the value of restoration. And we can do that by destroying imagine that we're destroying forest pixels virtually converting them to pasture. And then looking at the change in landscape this is a marginal value approach. And we can see that in areas like this peninsula of forest here is probably the most valuable it's almost acting like a little natural beehive kind of inserting itself into coffee. And so that's where it would actually be $700 per hectare per year lost, if you were to destroy that forest. Okay, so high marginal value usually usually happens where there's already a good source of bees. There's lots of the demand for that being the certain terms of the coffee, and there's few other substitutes so there's no other landscape around there. And we can also do the same thing like if we were to lose forest, or convert them we can change production this is the change in value. So sort of the risk. This is where in the field, you'd actually be losing that value. And this is sort of the vulnerability of the crop, sort of the opposite of this there's lots of coffee and lots of demand. There is few opportunities for kind of saving that and other forest. All right so basically the point here is that the value of the service requires there to be some user, like demand is needed. Okay, and then we can also do this to look at the value of restoration. Maybe we could explore converting some of the crop into forest. Okay, it turns out for coffee that's probably not going to be great, but you can do this for other crops. Coffee does not highly dependent on pollinators, but some other crops are. So here we can start using these models to evaluate what the economic value would be so you can get up to $70 per hectare in your highest restoration values where there's going to be lots of coffee around and far from existing sources. Okay, so there's relatively low supply of the service. Okay, I'm going to pivot over to Chris to kind of talk about the required data how you run the model yourself using the invest tool. I'm going to talk about the land use and land cover map that's needed. The attribute table that is used to translate the land cover into habitat quality for bees, and then how we deal with multiple types of species.  All right. So, as Eric has laid out the invest pollinator model has a relatively simple list of inputs but a lot of complex ecological math underneath the hood. So we'll be walking through today, what you plug into invest, how you work with that, how you might find sources for that data, and what it looks like so that when you are taking this into your study area, it should be at least conceptually simple to access. So this is what the invest user interface looks on my computer it may look different for you depending on the version that you downloaded and are working with. But there should be a list of several files that you need to provide invest to run. I've already pre populated each of these with files on my machine, but you can simply click and drag different required data points onto this interface to make it work. I'm going through what each of these mean in a bit. I'll show you this is a the workplace a file that you want to drop things in when the model is done you can just click and drag and populate right there. So that's a interact with invest. But before we get to just hitting the run button down here in this nice little corner, we need to go through what each of these components of the model are. To start, we're going to look at our land use and land cover map this bit right here. We're going to go back to Yolo County in California. And this is what a typical land cover raster of crops in the US looks like this is called the cropland data layer. I think this is 2019. So you can zoom in you see this is a raster data set so it's a gridded continuous data set with different values representing different land covers on the map. In general the CDL is very detailed crop inventory. I would say for visual representation of colorful colors are typically crops you can see kind of the patchwork quilt here in the Central Valley and the more muted earth tones typically represent wild lands. So you can see on margins and in the hills on this area there's lots of wild lands surrounding the Central Valley of crops. So this is the sort of file that you can provide to invest to represent the land use. However, invest doesn't naturally know anything that relates this land cover map to pollinators in itself. You need to provide what is called the biophysical table that links grassland tree corn soybean almond whatever crops you have on this layer to expected resources for different pollinating species. So that brings us to this land cover biophysical table in the invest interface here. We have an existing biophysical table for the cropland data layer that we've used. It's been validated by several studies and so you can find this in the literature. And this is what it looks like for this version of the invest model. Again, sometimes the header column names might change in between versions of the investment model as code changes in the back end. So always check the user guide for the version you are working with. These are the titles for what we are currently working with here. And what this does is this shows the land cover codes so the value of that raster pixel linking to the name or description of that land cover type so we have lots of crops here. And you can see there are shrublins forests pasture lands. And we link each of those land covers to different types of resources for pollinators. We specifically have two main drivers of the model it's nesting resources and floral resources nesting being various types of pollinator nesting habitats. Here we have ground nesting cavity nesting stem nesting and wood nesting variables, and each of these numbers is an index of quality. So higher numbers from zero to one indicate higher quality nesting sites of these types of nesting habitats. You can collapse many of these categories into a single generalist nesting category if that's what's most important in your study area or you can expand it to be ground nesting cavity nesting etc. The model will respond to correctly labeled headers in that case. Another resource that this table links land cover to is floral capacity on the landscape so each of these land covers has a different amount of floral resources that bees can use to feed themselves and to promote additional be abundance of landscape. Again it's a zero to one index one being the best amount of floor resources the landscape could provide. And each land cover will have a different amount of floral resources. These, you notice that there are three different columns here. These are different time periods across the year. So we have spring summer and fall floral resources for each of these crops and land cover types. And this has been parameterized for the continental US. You can also collapse this to a single, single column for an entire annual representation of pollinator floral resources if you want. But the model will respond in granularity and either synthesize it up to one generalist nesting and floral resource category or do this much more explicit temporal and nesting categorization. So this plugs in right here to the land cover biophysical table. I can see that there are nice green checkboxes on the right here. That is the model testing to make sure that your data tables and data inputs are formatted correctly. If they're the right file type this was a CSV so a comma separated Excel file. This is a tip for a raster file. This is a little info boxes that tell you what should go in these categories and it will give you a big old red X if you've done anything the model won't accept. The final table that we need to talk about before we can hit run is this guild table. So now that we have none of the model knows how the landscape intersects with resources for pollinators. We need to know how those pollinators use those resources. So the guild table is a little bit more simple than the biophysical table. And what it does is it takes a list of these species here we have bomb is called out, and then a couple of generalized species here either a generalist species that specifically rely on small stem nesting or cavity nesting resources. And then for each of these species you can link their dependence on these different kinds of resources using the columns here. The generalist species will happily use any of the nesting resources that we provided the model so we have ground nesting cavity nesting stem nesting etc. However the stem nesting species that we've called out in row four will only use the stem nesting resources here as indicated by this one column. This gives you an ability to map the different ways different species will use the landscape so you will see different results for these different species depending on how the landscape is providing these different kinds of nesting resources. The same can be said for the foraging activity here on the right. So this is linking the expected ways these different species forage on the landscape what they're looking for in terms of floral resources. These are different times of the year. So you can see that for the generalist species we've averaged it out it's an even foraging across all three seasons that we've prepped the model for. However bomb is here is only really foraging in the spring and then a little bit in the summer before not doing any foraging in the fall. So this is a way to look at how different species will rise and fall across a year in terms of their ability to forage. The last two parameters that you need to link each species to our alpha and relative abundance alpha is a very key parameter because this is telling the model how far each of these species is going to travel across the landscape to forage for floral resources. This will be in the units of the raster that you provide. So here it's in meters. And here you can see that bomb is is flying a significantly further distance than the small stem nesting the that we have right here that's only traveling about 300 meters. So that gets back to that animated diagram Eric showed earlier that some bees might not be able to forage in the wild lands further and further from their nesting site. So this helps you really target any restoration that needs to be done in smaller areas for smaller foraging rabies. The last parameter is the relative abundance of each of these species on the landscape. So in general this should sum to one across the column. So here we've just made it an even waiting for each of these species because this is an example. This can be taken from literature from your study area if you're really focused on bomb is saying you can up this to point eight and the others could be point one point zero five, etc. And all of these nice green checkboxes marked here you can click run. We're not going to run this for you it's it's rather boring to watch two researchers watch a model run on screen. So we've already run this to show what the results look like for this study area. So if we click into the workspace that we provided the model this results folder here. You can see a list of files going to take a look at them this way. A list of files most of them are rasters, along with a log telling you what the model did and then some intermediate outputs in a separate folder. Each of these can be visualized in a GIS. Here we're using ArcGIS but you can use Q or you can do it natively in a coding environment like Python or R. And we can take a look at there are two kinds of maps here there's pollinator abundance and pollinator supply pollinator supply let's take a look at that for bombs. You can throw it on the map and you see right here it's a gradient from zero to about point one to again as Eric said these are relative numbers so we're not expecting point one to be on the landscape this is just a low to high abundance ratio. And you can see pretty much immediately that the cropland in the Central Valley is much less pollinator heavy than the wildlands to West in white here. I just wanted to jump in and say that this setup for this county and all the bees took about a minute to run. This took about a minute to run my computer, it'll take longer for you I don't have the stats on how big this raster is, we're looking at 30 meter resolution so it's not extremely high input raster, but again, it depends on the specs of your machine and the capacity that you have to run the model. But it shouldn't be taking dozens of hours unless you're really running a very high resolution large land area. So, for pollinator supply, this is showing where the pollinators exist in the landscape where they're nesting where where they are starting from. So this is just showing not where you would expect to see them during the day, just where pollinators exist on the landscape in Z2. Pollinator abundance is often the map that we typically link to crop production to indices of value etc and that if we look at bomb this I've already loaded up onto the map is slightly different so if we toggle these on and off you can see the supply is a lot more crisp. And the abundance is a lot more faded in and that's because abundance is taking into account that traveling distance where are these pollinators coming from their nesting sites or the supply map on to the rest of the map in an expected way. Again, this is a zero to it's about again one point zero point zero four is the ratio here again it's just a relative index, not a number of views. In the West in the wild lands again you see an expected higher abundance, but there is some higher amounts of expected abundance on some of these farm fields in the Central Valley representing that foraging into farm lands from more protected nesting sites in the wild land. So that is the general look of the results of the invest model again you can see over here to the right is a lot of different rasters here, and that's because the math or the model will spit out the pair wise combination of the different kinds of nesting different kinds of species that you you entered into the model in the different temporal scales of foraging that you expect to see so we can see we have a bit generalist abundance in fall in spring in summer, we have bombast supply generalist supply etc so there's different ways of slicing the data that you have provided the model. So with that I'll return it to Eric to wrap us up. Great thanks Chris. And I think, just in wrapping up, I will say that if you're more information on the invest user guide and the website and literature you can find if you have any questions. Feel free to contact the kind of the help line. That's provided the website to. Alright, thank you. Thank you so much.


It's now time for a member's statements. I recognize the member for London Fanshawe. Thank you Speaker. Speaker I rise today on behalf of my constituents of London Fanshawe because I want to bring their voices forward during the pandemic and what they're what they're saying and contacting our office about. One thing the Ford government has been saying is that our central workers, frontline healthcare workers are heroes and they are our heroes. They are dedicated, they're committed and they're strong and they put their lives on the line every day to look after our society. You know the grocery stores are loved ones. The whole gamut of how the world is working is because of essential workers and frontline healthcare workers and what I hear from specifically from healthcare workers is the announcement that was made on April 24th. They're very grateful for that but they wanted to know why not have that now announcement be back to when the emergency order was called. There are workers at PSW that contacted my office. She's home sick from the pandemic from COVID-19 and she doesn't get the pandemic pay so that's another hole in announcing it on the 24th. The other piece of that is I get calls from PSW's for agency workers and they're saying you know we're doing the same work as everybody else but we're not categorized in the pandemic pay so I just asked this government from what I've been hearing in London Fanshawe from my constituents and I'm sure they've heard it too to reconsider that and include all healthcare workers and heroes that keep us going through the pandemic. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member statements. The member for Chatham Kent Leamington. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. On May 16th, 2020 a miracle took place in my writing of Chatham Kent. People from all corners of the writing took part in what they may have may have been the most paramount display of community we have ever seen. It all started with an idea by Chatham Kent residents West Thompson and James Rasmussen after hearing of the shortages at our local food banks and the amount of new people and families seeking food donations. They came up with the idea they called the May 16th miracle. The idea spread rapidly throughout our community and roughly 5,500 people volunteered for the event. The idea was to have local residents leave non perishable food items and gift cards on their front porch driveways or doorsteps. These items were then collected by volunteers going door to door in every Chatham Kent neighborhood. Chatham Kent residents and businesses did not disappoint Mr. Speaker. Signs were hand painted and they were set up around the community with the words May 16th miracle and pretty soon many businesses donated thousands of dollars and manpower to the cause. No stone was left unturned. There were over 50 drop off spots in rural areas to ensure everyone was able to donate and participate. In the end so many food items were collected that Chatham Kent has unofficially broken the Guinness world record for the most amount of food items collected at over 678,000 pounds. Our local food banks will be stocked for months and so I'm so proud of Chatham Kent. We have truly exemplified what we call hashtag Ontario spirit is all about. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member statements. The member for Windsor to come see. Thank you, Speaker. Good morning. I know you value the work of our frontline medical personnel down in Windsor and Essex County. We have a long tradition of honoring our nurses for 13 years. The RNAO has selected a nurse who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession as well as to the local community. They received the lowest fairly nurse of the year award. Well this year, the year of COVID-19. The award has a new wrinkle. Instead of recognizing just one nurse, the lowest fairly 2020 nurse of the year award goes to each and every one of the people practicing nursing in Windsor and Essex County. The registered nurses, the nurse practitioners, the registered practical nurses and the nursing students are all being recognized this year. Our nurses have demonstrated a commitment to our community through excellence in their delivery of patient care. Speaker, as you know, this has been a time of great stress, anxiety and concern day in and day out. Our nurses have demonstrated great compassion, professionalism and true leadership within the medical community. They have shown great courage in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. They've done it in our hospitals, our clinics and our nursing homes as well as in home care, physicians' offices and at our local public health units. This is not to downplay in any way the contributions of every healthcare professional helping us through this epidemic, this crisis. And thank you to each and every one of you. But hats off to the registered nursing association of Ontario, the RNAO for recognizing the service that our nurses are providing. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Niagara West. Thank you, Speaker. I rise today to express my gratitude to local nurses, doctors and frontline care workers as well as essential workers in many different sectors across Niagara West, including healthcare providers at West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Grimsby and the St. Catherine site of Health Niagara for their extraordinary dedication and commitment as we continue to work together to protect the health and well-being of Ontarians against COVID-19. I want to echo the sentiments of the hundreds of signs and homemade banners on front lines and porches across my writing. Thank you and stay strong. During this pandemic, we have seen community leaders and local residents also step up to serve others, whether volunteering through spark Ontario, providing PPE to local hospitals or donating non perishable food items to food banks. We have seen the true Ontario together spirit in Niagara West. And I stand in this chamber to highlight just a few outstanding efforts in my writing during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Grimsby downtown improvement area teamed up with woodworkers unite in town of Grimsby to make available hundreds of face shields for local businesses. Clean works in Beamsville developed a federally approved process to sanitize and reuse and 95 masks. Dylan small batch distillers in Beamsville was among the first producing hand sanitizer and disinfectant for thousands of frontline care workers across the province. Stampack and Smithville providing warehouse space and logistical support for the West Lincoln community care. The Faut Hill Legion has been preparing thousands of meals for isolated seniors and local residents generously have participated in food drives for open arms mission in Wayne Fleet. Speaker, as we continue to face the challenges of COVID-19, I'm amazed and grateful to see how this outbreak has shown the people of Ontario are ready and willing to love their neighbour as themselves. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Member statements. The member for Sudbury. Thank you, Speaker. Speaker, as our economy reopens, Ontarians return to work, worker safety must remain a top priority. Throughout this pandemic, we've heard numerous instances of workers not having access to the equipment and the PPE they need to stay safe at work. And tragically, many of these frontline workers have become sick and in some cases lost their lives due to inadequate protections from COVID-19. Recently, I've been hearing from workers who are worried about their safety as returned to work, worried because the government's workplace guidelines are completely optional. I'm hearing from employer speaker worried because the government's workplace guidelines are too vague for their specific circumstances. Speaker, the government must take a proactive approach. Ontario needs to strike a workplace safety readiness committee. This committee will be composed of safety professionals working with representatives from both labour and business. The workplace safety readiness committee would help identify hazards to ensure that all workplaces have the tools and PPE they need to follow public health advice and the precautionary principle. The workplace safety readiness committee would provide strong recommendations to ensure a safe transition back to a fully functioning economy. We all know, Speaker, that when workers are properly protected from COVID-19, everyone in Ontario will become safer as well. This government must step up and put workplace safety first. They can prevent a second devastating wave of COVID-19 cases by striking a Made in Ontario Workplace Safety Readiness Committee today. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Members statements to member for Guelph. Speaker, I love downtown Guelph. I love the character, vibrancy and vitality that independent local businesses provide our communities and neighborhoods all over this province. And I don't want our downtown to become ghost towns because of COVID-19. June 1st is less than a week away. Rent is due and over half of Ontario's small businesses will not be able to pay their rent and 47% say that their landlord will not apply for emergency rent assistance, which opens today. The neighborhood group operates five restaurants in Guelph, Waterloo region. They hope to celebrate their 30th anniversary next month. They've been awarded the Independent Restaurant of the Year Award. They employ over 150 people and are certified living wage employer. They've raised over a million dollars for charities. Two of their landlords are working with them and two of their landlords are threatening to lock them out. Losing these businesses would be devastating to our community, their workers and the farmers who supply them. 80% of their food comes from local Ontario farmers. They, like local businesses all across Ontario, need the premier to bring in a temporary ban on commercial rent evictions now. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Members statements to member for Mississauga East Cokesville. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the people of Ontario have shown their Ontario spirit by going above and beyond to help and uplift those who need it most. I wanted to highlight some of the people, businesses and organizations in my riding of Mississauga East Cokesville doing this wonderful and inspiring work. The Vietnamese community at Saigon Park had organized a PPE drive among local businesses and raised $10,000 for the Mississauga Food Bank. Flato Developments donated much needed and appreciated PPE to long term care facilities in my riding so the folks working and living there would get that extra protection. Grasshopper Energy donated $50,000 to the Mississauga Food Bank. Global Medics donated $650 of food to the Mississauga Food Bank as well. Mr Speaker, throughout Ramadan, several Muslim community groups came together to host Ramadan iftar drive-through dinners for those in need. They prepared meals for our front line heroes, delivered groceries and prescriptions to our seniors and most importantly raised much needed funds for our local hospital. Mr Speaker, I want to say thank you to everyone who has donated, organized, prepared meals and supplies, who has made calls and arranged for services and donation. The Ontario spirit is strong and I believe that together we will come out of this crisis stronger than ever. Thank you and God bless each of you. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Last week, I am honored to say my son Jonathan Lindell received a promotion. He is now petty officer first class with the Canadian Navy. As I reflect on contributions of all our military men and women, I opened an email from the local Legion in St. Catherine's that sent chills down my spine. The local Legion has a revenue loss of close to $30,000 because they have to shut down because of this pandemic. Their hope for support through insurance was denied. It was not just denied for their Legion. It was denied for every Legion across Ontario, across this province. Legion survive off community based events. They are all at risk of losing so much right now because of COVID-19 pandemic. Veterans and seniors and legions need our help. It's a harsh reality to face, but with utilities and insurance costs and thousands of dollars now, just like all of us across the aisle and here, we honor our veterans with ceremonies and gratitude while also valuing their sacrifice. I would like to see this assembly honor them in another way by taking action. We need a utility payment freeze and create programs to offset insurance costs for our legions in Ontario. One day my son will be a veteran and I refuse to leave him a province that ignored supporting our veterans when they needed the support the most. They least, the least we can do is show our veterans how much they mean to us by taking action and providing critical, critical financial support today. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Ottawa West and Appians. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is wonderful to rise again in this chamber during these extraordinary times. Over the past number of weeks, we have seen countless examples of people going above and beyond to support their communities. In my hometown of Ottawa, this has certainly been the case. Our frontline health care and emergency response workers have been selflessly working to care for our most vulnerable and respond to those in need. Our charities have been hard at work filling the gaps and providing the necessary services to support individuals and families across the city. And our businesses are stepping forward to demonstrate what the Premier has called the Ontario spirit. I'd like to take a moment today, Mr. Speaker, to recognize just one of those businesses who has demonstrated that Ontario spirit. Gabriel's Pizza has been a staple in Ottawa since 1977. Helmed by George Hannah, Gabriel's has always recognized that they have a role to play, not just as a business, but also as a community leader. At the onset of the pandemic, the Gabriel's family stepped forward to support the community. Over the past two months, they have donated around 5,000 meals to deserving workers and frontline support workers and charities right across the city. I was honoured to have the chance to deliver a large number of these meals. We brought delicious lasagnas and pizzas to the teams at Chio and the Queensway Carleton Hospital, to the folks at some of our long-term care and retirement residents, and to the hard working volunteers at the Caldwell Centre. I know that these donations meant the world to these workers. On behalf of the people of Ottawa, I would like to extend a warm thank you to the Gabriel's Pizza team and all of their workers for their generosity. Members' statements? The member for Barry Innisfil. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am proud to serve the residents of Barry Innisfil. Barry Innisfil is a community that has each other's back. For example, Bonnie Barth and Sonia De Silva are an example of women in Innisfil who stepped up to bring hope, love and care to our seniors. When Bonnie saw the images of seniors on the news isolated by COVID-19 pandemic, she wanted to do something about it. So, Bonnie came up with a caring card campaign, asking residents to write greeting cards that she would deliver to residents and staff brightening up their day. Her plan was to collect the cards, sanitize them at home for several days, and then deliver them to the lakeside retirement home in Alcona. It's an idea that has inspired the whole community. In fact, it's inspired the students at Nantire Shores Secondary School who got involved, as well as Councillor Kenneth Fowler and his son Gabe, who built a card, a caring cards mailbox at the Innisfil Community Church, which of course received the blessing of Pastor Howard Courtney. The hope is that all residents are going to be able to fill this mailbox with cards to brighten the days of our seniors. And in fact, Mr. Speaker, even before that mailbox was set up, Bonnie received 22 cards dropped off at her home. Thank you Bonnie and Sonia for uplifting our community to show that seniors and lakeside retirement home live in a community that cares, loves for them. This is the interior spirit. Thank you very much.


In this video, we will provide the solution to question number nine for the practice exam number one for math 2270. In this question, we are given a statement, a system with more unknowns than equations has at least one solution. And so we're supposed to determine whether this thing is true or false. So we're considering a system of equations with more variables than equations. Is it consistent? If it has at least one solution, that means it would be consistent. Now, if you have more unknowns, the variables correspond to the columns, then equations which correspond to the rows, we're thinking of an augmented matrix which has more columns than rows. And so this is going to be a false statement. Consider the following counter example. Let's take a say a two by three coefficient matrix. It could look something like one, two, three, and then augment that with four. And then you're gonna get one, two, three, augment that with five. Notice that the coefficients in the two equations are identical, but the right hand sides are different. And so if we were to row reduce this matrix, notice this would row reduce to be one, two, three, four. And then we get zero, zero, zero, one, right? If we took row two minus row one. And so this would be an example of an inconsistent system. In fact, we could potentially start with something like this, but to really kind of fill out here, consider this thing right here. And so notice what this counter example presents to us. The above augmented matrix corresponds to a linear system with three variables, three unknowns and two equations, but it is inconsistent, inconsistent. I hope I spelled these words right. And so this would actually provide us a counter example to show that a statement is false. You provide a counter example and give some evidence on why this counter example in fact does show that the statement is false. One thing you should be aware about with true or false statements. If a statement is true, that means it's always true. That means for every possible assignment it's true. If a statement is sometimes true or sometimes false, then actually means it's false. Because if counter examples exist, that means the statement is false. One counter example is enough to show that a statement is false. To show that a statement is true, you'd have to then provide an argument why it's always true.


Today is our sixth anniversary She's been putting up with me for six years. So we're here in Winnipeg We dropped off the little guy at his Nana's house We didn't quite know what we were gonna do today, but we figured we come to the forks at the forks here is the Canadian Museum of Human Rights We haven't been inside there yet, and they made a big deal of it when they built it a few years ago So we figured we go check out what all the fuss was about. It's supposed to be really nice in there The weather was supposed to be a little bit nicer, too It wasn't supposed to be quite so chilly windy and gloomy So we thought we were gonna do a river walk or a river boat ride, but it's way too cold Yeah, it's getting a little cold leaves are falling here already Summer's over indoor activities again Yep So we'll check this out and if we still have time once we're done that we'll just walk over to the forks Which is just a little bit Down that way yet in the same lot. I have my GoPro here, but I'll apologize in advance for the audio I have the GoPro here, but I Didn't bring the SD card in there So you kind of need that so we'll be filming on our phones today It's always something it's always something, but at least we have these cameras so we can Create these memories together today and put it together for you later Here's to six more Six and then six after that 66 more 66 more. That's a much better And then we'll go back to our contract We'll reevaluate after 66 years Okay, let's go inside see what this is all about This is it This thing took them quite a while to build and of course in true Winnipeg spirit It went way over budget and took way longer than they said it would That's actually a pretty pretty big museum. It's a national national museum It's right downtown. I Think she might have Oh, we got a pay to park here. It's a lot bigger when you get close to it They could have used this area for some kind of display too It's just gravel. So we just came around from the other side over there We went through this room over here and we came out here. We're slowly making our way up Still both kind of surprised at the plainness of it Wide open walls. I mean that you put a beautiful artwork piece right there Yeah, there's so much room just empty and there's that gravel see we're standing just on the other side of this thing before And it goes down to there. I mean, it's big and it's interesting and you got all these walkways, right? That intersect and go all the way up there. That's pretty cool, right? but really lost opportunity for Lot of artwork like over here. This is the room. We just came out of This is very interesting Still very wide open but Each little booth there has a different story to tell and then you have that centerpiece there. I'm not sure what it's for It's definitely interesting. I've always wondered what's been in here This building looks very Interesting fascinating from the outside. So I always did want to come inside. I just thought that it would be a Little I guess I was thinking over-the-top extravagant and it's sort of just Me so very interesting I've heard that from other people before too like it's worth coming to see once it's kind of expensive, but And they got to pay for all of this somehow. I'm sure it's very expensive to maintain all of this and it's not very busy in here It's a Saturday afternoon when they would you think they'd have the most traffic Very quiet very quiet so We have found ourselves in this Contemplation garden. Is that what it's called?  I Be nice. I Mean you get beautiful areas like this Which is amazing Maybe they will over the years go further with more artwork and does your garden have elevators Arstas That's beautiful. Wow. This is where it opens up to the top. I guess the elevator takes you way up to the top of that Spire. Oh, maybe we should go and check that out. Yeah Let's go see what's at the top We're on level four, I believe That's coming down to get us to take us to the top Like it is dead in here It is nice. Yeah, remember when we went to the museum when Theo was born? Yeah, 20 days after something so busy It was like overwhelming Oh, that's fun All the way to the top that seems at the top You don't like heights Me neither really but as long as I'm in an enclosed elevator Some people in our government and across Our country need to read everyone has a right to freedom of opinion and expression This includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media Regardless of frontiers This power confers great responsibility on all who work in media And on each of us as individuals listen and read and watch Something that seems to be forgotten in some areas It's good that they have this on display So people can be reminded it was a museum Well, it takes I sort of like walking through Ikea This is long maze and you get to the end you got to walk all the way back could have taken the elevator I don't like heights either. Yeah, as long as I'm like in a box even if it's a glass box. I'm okay usually But I mean my opinion on it is it's it's worth coming to see once I don't think I would want to pay to come back again They could have done so much more. I don't want to sound like I'm criticizing it because It's more than we could have done more than we could have done It was it's a beautiful building beautiful inside But I found a lot of empty space that I wasn't really expecting You know buildings extravagant buildings like this that were built in the past, you know Would have just amazing stone carving and artwork on every building This only seemed like to have a lot of empty wasted space, but if it's weren't Functioning right now because it looks like they may have had water damage or something There were big bands blowing and like sectioned off pieces Some guys one of the museum workers told us to go get a free voucher to come back and we're like, no, we're good Yeah, maybe that's why maybe they took all the artwork down Because they had major water damage I don't think that would be the case, but I don't know That was that was a lot I mean for the all the hype that Winnipeg did For this building like it's been big like it's been a huge hype And it took forever to forever to build they went over budget everything We thought it was just going to be over the topics trafficking and I guess maybe I had my expectations set pretty high and it was a little bit underwhelming but The best part was that you were there Six years Maybe something to do. It was very very interesting something different. Mm-hmm Are we walking to the forkster? Yeah, because it looks like there isn't going to be a lot of parking There's a lot of cars. We're gonna go see if the Christmas store still exists I hope So this is the forks in Winnipeg that refers to the forks in the river or the fork in the river between the incentive one river and the red river It's a special meeting place open to everyone.  So they took the old buildings And so it converted them into Sort of like a little mini mall Actually, I haven't been here in a long time I thought I heard that it was still open somewhere. Maybe they just moved So we're in Kite and Kaboodle Well toy store And we're looking for the Christmas store. So I googled it why we couldn't find it Googled it and it says shop lifting causing Christmas store at the forks to close and that was in 2014 already It's not too bad. It's one of the original shops And it was open year-round Just for people I guess Christmas nuts finding anything I love this monster pillow I was just showing them the Results of our search that the Christmas store is closed. That's cool.  He is definitely getting one of those once he's big enough.  Did they make one big enough for me too? Wish I could fit on that next stop Carnival It's a brazilian barbecue Restaurant downtown here right on the water Lots of parking available today. Winnipeg is very quiet today for a Saturday Usually these places are just hopping Four dollars per hour. What are we gonna get two three hours? So the red river goes right behind there And the Asiniboian river meets it right over there. So the forks is just Over behind those buildings over there So we're not too far away from where we were River is right there and here This carnival. Oh, that looks good Oh Have any of you been to this restaurant? I believe they are in other cities as well So it's an all-you-can-eat meat buffet pretty much They cook it right beside us right here And they bring it over here one bit at a time if we want more we turn this over But right now we're pretty full So we turn that red but as soon as we turn that over it'd be green and they'd bring us more The beef Yeah, I got beef. They got lamb Chicken Chicken, ham Everything I mean look at all that Delicious And I didn't film an end of day on that day the rest of the time I just spent it enjoying my date. I didn't want to film the entire time So I filmed a little bit here and there we went to The Canadian Museum of Human Rights. We went to the forks and we went to carnival I would highly recommend carnival if you're in the Winnipeg area Maybe check to see if they have a location in different areas where you are as well I don't know if they if they're a franchise or not, but wow Amazing amazing amazing food Great experience a little bit pricey just a heads up when you go there But you get what you pay for you get an amazing experience So I would recommend it Come back home and just want her to say bye That's all and explain why there was no end We're just focused on the date the rest of the day and I think you can understand that So I'll see you tomorrow everybody. Don't forget to be safe. Stay safe And as always drive safe. I'll be back in the truck in my next video I'll see you tomorrow