My name is Josh Stacker, and I'm going to be moderating this event today, which is going to look at the Arab Spring and the prospects for democracy in the wider region. While we were supposed to be talking about the wider region, there's been a little bit of rare consensus among the panelists that we're going to talk mainly about Egypt. So I'll be here mainly to kind of push them to kind of look beyond Egypt to see if we can find out. But as everybody is comfortable, I like to thank everybody for coming out on a very beautiful and cloudless day here in Williamsburg and on behalf of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, as well as the Williamsburg Forum. Thank you for joining us today. As by way of sort of before I introduce her, but I just had a couple of quick things I wanted to go over in a way of framing the uprisings just because I know that we're dealing with a more general audience than what we're used to be dealing with. So if we think about the uprisings in the regional revolutionary activity that's taken place in the Middle East, which began in December 2010, it really has roots. And while the focus of this conference and this workshop have really been about Egypt, Egypt wasn't the first country to go through this. Many would say it was Tunisia that started this. But if you push back a little bit further, many would say that Iran also had an uprising in 2009. So we're dealing with a wider dynamic here. And so how do we understand what's happened and what continues to unfold in this region? Many social scientists, and I'm a political scientist, which I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's just it's there. We could focus on, and many of my colleagues have decided to focus on, many of the grievances that animated the protesters. So a lot of social scientists are trying to operationalize concepts like dignity. Or they're spending a lot of time looking at how people organize in protest tactics. Many are starting to look at the role of information technology, social media sites, and how that helps overcome a collective action problem. But I'm a sort of more old fashioned social scientist. I believe that the social and political structures under which a society is forced to operate tell us a lot more about explaining a situation because it helps us explain what's changed, what hasn't changed, there's continuity. And so rather than look at these very interesting aspects, I'd rather focus on what I feel are the three sort of key factors that help us explain what has been dubbed in the United States for better or for worse, the Arab Spring. And one, it seems that countries that don't have resource wealth, this seems to play a factor. And whether or not you experienced an uprising or a revolution, countries where there's a kinship tie that binds people, that seems to be a factor. And then thirdly, the degree of one's stateness, right? So this is an old concept that goes back to the 60s in political science. And it's how much of a functioning modern state do you actually have? And so if we bear those three factors in mind, and we talk about sort of 18 Arab cases plus Iran, that leaves us with 19 cases that we can think about. And if we bind the time period from 2009 to 2013, what we're looking at is out of these 18 cases, four leaders have been changed in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. And if you parse that out further, three of those leadership changes were really popularly inspired regime changes, whereas one was a foreign inspired regime change. And I'm speaking about the case of liberty because Libya, because there was outside Western interference in helping bringing down the Qaddafi regime.  So out of 19 cases, we've had seven uprisings. Four have led to leadership changes. There are 15 cases where the incumbent remains and uninterrupted in its line of who rules the country, right? So just to give you an idea of the countries that we're talking about, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates, right? So if we think about it in these ways, we can start kind of framing what has happened in terms of uprisings and changes. Now these aren't stagnant regimes. The ones that have experienced leadership change and the ones that haven't, none of them are stagnant regimes. All are ongoing reforms. And at this stage, what we can really tell from those three factors that I brought out is that if you're a non-oil-rich state, this is a sufficient condition for you to have an uprising. If you're a non-oil-rich state and you combine that with a non-kinship-based network in your state, that can lead to a real explosion, right? So that is where we see Egypt and Tunisia. Yemen doesn't fit that one, but many would argue that Yemen has more of a quasi-state in terms of how it functions with kinship ties, right? So that seems to be, from a social science point of view, the mixture that ignites these things. Now, just one more quick, really point of introduction. It's become very fashionable for people to ask one another in Egypt, in Tunisia, in Yemen, in the United States, particularly if you follow these things closely, where were you during the revolution, right? It's been also very fashionable to say, did the revolution succeed or did it fail? And I don't know that we're really at a point where we should talk about these events in the past tense. We're not watching the outcome of a process, we're watching a process, right? There is no formal ending. And what we see is the continuation of a social struggle that has deep roots before January 2011, and that are going to keep unfolding. The revolution isn't over, and there is no repressing one's way out of it, unless the elites of these various countries decide they want to take their countries down very dark paths. And so I think that if I can invite you to entertain the idea or think about what we're watching as a historical process unfold, I think it's a much better analytically way of thinking about it than if we think about it as an outcome. And then lastly to frame the struggle, social science has largely had this age old debate, the chicken under the egg debate in social sciences. Do structures matter or does agency matter, right? And what I'm trying to say is that what we're watching is we're watching the interplay of agency and structure, and that's why it's unpredictable, and that's why it's so dramatic when we see it, because political elites, it's debatable whether political science is a science, but there is one law, and that's incumbents do not give up power, okay? So incumbents are going to try to design a structure or a politics that favors their incumbency. And agency is the beauty that makes this overrun these structures. And so what we're actually watching is a bunch of mini outcomes that just reframe the struggle going forward. So in the spirit of those comments, that's where I kind of decided to frame this discussion. And we are joined today by a very illustrious panel. On my far right is Dr. Armahamzawi. He's a former member of parliament. He has a PhD from the Free University of Berlin. He used to teach at the Cairo University. He used to be working for the Carnegie International Endowment for Peace in Washington, DC between 2005 and 2009. He now is at the Public Policy School at the American University in Cairo. And he's someone that I've known for a very long time. I think we met in Berlin in October of 2000. So he's well qualified to talk about what's going on in Egypt. To my immediate right is Dr. Sami Ateya. And he is a member of the Freedom and Justice Party, which is the separate but affiliated party of the Muslim Brotherhood. He's a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and is in charge of the International Cooperation Coordinator. He has a PhD in management. And so he'll be speaking in from that point of view. To my left is Dr. Manaro Shalbagi, who I also know for a long time. She is an associate professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, where I got my master's degree many moons ago. And she is a specialist actually on American politics and has transitioned into also writing about Egyptian politics now. She served at a very high level. I can't remember the formal title. And the constituent assembly that drafted the constitution. But she resigned from that assembly over a lack of consensus on some issues. So she's someone that is, again, very plugged into the system in Egypt and will bring fantastic perspectives. She was my deputy. She was my deputy. Oh, began? OK, there we go. And then last but certainly not least, Dr. Ahmed who is also from the Freedom and Justice Party. He's also the secretary general of the Foreign Relations Committee. Inside that, he used to be the secretary general of the government of Giza for the Muslim Brotherhood. He was educated at Cairo University in engineering. He has a PhD from Purdue University, which is one of the top engineering schools in this country. And so he'll be speaking at us from a sort of more senior level membership of the Freedom and Justice Party. So without any further ado, I'd like to kind of give each panelist about eight minutes, maybe five to eight minutes to kind of give some sort of opening statement. And then I will cherry pick what they say and try to put them on the spot and make them feel uncomfortable. And after about 40 minutes or so, we're going to be collecting questions from the audience. And I will try to manage those collectors and sort of find a way to get your voices to ask the participants directly about what your specific concerns are. Dr. Hamzah, would you like to begin? Sure. Thank you very much, Josh. It's a pleasure to be here in Williamsburg. And thank you very much for coming on, as you rightly mentioned, on a cloudless, very pleasant day. Thank you very much for coming. And let me start by sharing an experience with which I recently had in Egypt to be specific in the city of Alexandria. On Monday, two days ago, I was in Alexandria giving a lecture at the University of Alexandria, a relatively good crowd of students, female and male students, and quite diverse in terms of their political outlook and in terms of their ideological preferences. And the one common question which they kept raising and increasingly critical manner is, are you satisfied with what you politicians are doing? Two days later, earlier today, in one of the sessions which we had in our conference, organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, some politicians, including myself, were pushed and pressured by entrepreneurs, by investors. In fact, raising the very same question, just like students in Alexandria, are you satisfied with what you are delivering as politicians, government and opposition alike? Well, facing the same question in Alexandria and in Williamsburg, facing the same question raised and put forward by students and by a different crowd in Williamsburg means that that is definitely one of the key realities we are looking at in Egypt of 2013. And let me start by saying that two years after the revolution and I continue to term it a revolution, not an uprising, of January 2011, Egyptian politics has not delivered to meet people's demands. People in Egypt or at least broad segments of our population took out to the street to demand dignity, social justice and freedom and end to human rights violations and end to limits and restrictions on freedom of expression and a space for them to articulate their demands and to be able to hold public officials elected and appointed public officials accountable. Two years later, politics has not brought Egypt or has not brought Egyptians closer to those demands and therefore one of the key realities we are looking at is a growing disenchantment with politics. And we can see it in numbers. If you compare the voter turnout in the parliamentary elections of 2011 or the presidential elections of 2012 to the last voter turnout in the constitutional referendum of 2012, we have a drop from around 50% to around 30%. So a 20% loss in voter turnout and that is definitely a reflection of the growing disenchantment with politics. Secondly, why are Egyptians increasingly disenchanted with politics? Let me name three major factors. Factor one is the very fact that politics and politicians have been primarily occupied with high politics and have ignored to a great extent the day-to-day management of politics and the day-to-day management of politics in a way which would address and tackle and account for people's needs. We have discussed for a very long time issues pertaining to the constitution. That is a Muslim Brotherhood's driven conspiracy to stop my argument on disenchantment. Because the second point would have been that the ruling party is responsible primarily. No, I'm joking. So... Well, politics has failed in the sense of addressing social and economic needs in moving beyond high politics and moving beyond debates on constitutional issues, how to get our legislative institutions democratically legitimated and so on and so forth and to bridge the gap between high politics and local politics. And that is definitely one reason for the disenchantment. Secondly, a second factor is the growing ungovernability of Egypt. Egypt is in a severe social and economic crisis. If you look at major indicators with regard to economic and social issues, the country is in a crisis. And you cannot ask people to be patient with politicians if they see their country being trapped in a severe crisis and if they feel that the crisis is impacting their daily lives and growing poverty rates, the growing unemployment rates and so on and so forth. The third and last factor for the growing disenchantment of politics is the fact that politicians, and here I come to differentiate between government and opposition, the third factor for the growing disenchantment is the fact that politicians, political parties have not been able to agree on a national agenda, to agree on a roadmap to transition Egypt to democracy. On January 25, 2011, as Egyptians took out the streets to demonstrate against the spotic rule of former president Mubarak, they were hoping that a national agenda, a roadmap of sorts will emerge with points of convergence and agreement between religious right-wing parties, liberal parties and leftist parties that has not been happening. So the third factor for disenchantment with politics and politicians is the fact that we have not been able to deliver with regard to agreeing on a roadmap, on a national agenda, how to transition Egypt to democracy and how to tackle the different questions which are related to that. And let me put as a caveat that it's not easy to agree on a national agenda, it's not easy to transition to democracy. If democracies are messy, functioning democracies are messy, as you all know, in the US and elsewhere, transitions to democracy are even messier. Transitions to democracy are even more tough on societies to tackle and to manage. But we have that growing disenchantment and those are the key factors, growing signs of ungovernability, failure to address people's demands in the day-to-day management of politics and lacking a national agenda. Third factor is, and here I differentiate between government and opposition, and of course when I refer to government, I'm referring to the government of the elected president, President Mohammed Morsi, who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and who used to be the president of the Freedom and Justice Party. And the Freedom and Justice Party continues to be the strongest party in terms of its representation in the existing legislative council, the consultative council. And when I refer to the opposition, I'm referring to a variety of liberal leftists as well as some religious right-wing parties as well, quite a diverse spectrum. Now the government is, and the reference is to the last 10 months. Since July 1st, 2012, the day on which the presidential term began up until now. The government performance is characterized by three facts. Number one is, to my mind, an inefficient handling of social and economic issues. Secondly, an attempt to control state institutions and not to rationalize and reform state institutions. And thirdly, departing from early promises to build national consensus and to agree on a roadmap into a mode of hegemony building of dominating Egyptian politics. On inefficiency, I believe, if I'm not sure whether you are following Egyptian politics or not, but if you look at the performance of the existing government, of the cabinet, of the presidential team, I believe that Egyptians are not being given what they deserve in terms of tackling core social and economic issues. Secondly, with regard to controlling and not reforming the state in any country which is transitioning to democracy after decades of autocracy, the state bureaucracy needs to be reformed. There are reform projects which need to be put forward and promoted, introducing the impartiality of public service, introducing accountability and governance measures, introducing transparency. All of that continues to be lacking, two years after the revolution or 10 months into the presidential term of the elected president. Thirdly, and against earlier promises by the Muslim Brotherhood, which promised at the beginning not to run, not to feel the candidate in the presidential elections, in order not to dominate Egyptian politics, which promised after the president was elected, the existing president, Dr. Muhammad Morsi, who once again is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and used to head its party, or the party, the movement established, against promises to put forward national consensus and national dialogue, not much has been offered in reality. And what we are seeing is an attempt to take Egyptian politics in a direction which is to my mind, substantially undemocratic. Clearly, the ballot box is being respected. The results of the ballot box are being respected. Islamists, the Muslim Brothers, talk a great deal about institution building and I see where they are coming from. But whatever else belongs to democracy in terms of democratic procedures and values, building consensus and including opposition movements and creating a space room of maneuvering for different political actors to exist and to share responsibility, it's not out there. The opposition, and I'm going to end on that note, final and my fourth and last point, the opposition is not free of mistakes. I believe and I'm generalizing and of course I'm offering some self-criticism as well since I am acting within the opposition spectrum in a front which was recently established by the name of the National Salvation Front, composed of different liberal and leftist and nationalist parties. The opposition is not free of mistakes. I believe the opposition committed several mistakes in the last 10 months, in the last two years. Let me name four of them very briefly and end on a positive note. The four mistakes are number one, the opposition was willing to, not to compromise, but did not appreciate the value of building institutions to transition to democracy. Countries do not succeed to transition to democracy if they do not have strong and viable institutions and even if we have some doubts about the legality, the constitutionality of institutions, it's always good to have an institution than not to have an institution. And that was not appreciated by the opposition. Secondly, the opposition did not do a proper job in putting forward suggestions as to agree on a road map as well. So it was not only missing or lacking on the side of the governing Muslim Brotherhood, it was missing on the side of the opposition as well. Thirdly, the opposition did for a long time fall into the trap of playing politics in a very conventional manner which really does not correspond to people's needs. Opposition leaders used to and continue to do that. In fact, sit in closed rooms, issue statements, announce statements in front of TV cameras, and that's it. That is not the way you do proper constituency, outreach activities, you do proper constituency building, you reach out to people to convince them by what you are pushing forward. Finally, the opposition has yet to shape an alternative. And of course I'm not generalizing by asking the opposition liberal, leftist and far religious right wing to offer a joint alternative, but at least each one, each component of the opposition spectrum should offer an alternative on social economic and political issues and try to convince Egyptians that that is a more efficient and viable alternative as opposed to what the government is putting forward. To end on a positive note, against that background, against the disenchantment of Egyptians and against different troubling signs including sectarian tensions, including growing violence in different urban and rural areas, against that background, we have a vibrant public space. We have a public space which is debating politics increasingly in a rational manner, moving beyond that obsession with high politics, with the constitution, with election related issues and pushing politicians and parties to deliver on the day-to-day management of their lives, asking about what are you going to do socially, what are you going to do economically, and that rationalization of the public space and the diversity of actors taking place, young Egyptians, people organized and parties, people not organized and parties, different protest movements, that vibrant public space is one hope which we continue to have in a moment which is difficult socially, economically and politically. Thank you very much. Thank you, Dr. Hamzawi, Dr. Atay. Okay, thank you, Joshua. Thank you for coming, joining us, and thank you for being interested in Egypt and Egyptian politics. Three years ago, some hungry and uneducated Egyptians went to streets demonstrating and asking for food and jobs. Some of the oppositions working against the country used those innocent young, needy Egyptians to step down President Mubarak, who was freely stepped down to minimize losses may happen among protestors. The people of Egypt, the people of Egypt, the people of Egypt, the people of Egypt, the people of Egypt, the people of Egypt, the people of Egypt, the political parties and groups ruled a country in the period in these three years' period were remotely directed from other countries working to fall down Egypt. No social justice was implemented. More poverty, less education, they even sold Egypt assets. Finally, the Egyptians realized that President Mubarak was a wise man and a great leader who protected the country from those traitors. They set Mubarak free, Egyptians, of course, and apologized to him, begging him to rule again. President Mubarak sent all these leftist liberals and Islamic leaders to jail, but refused to rule again. He said, people wanted change and we should implement their needs and assign President Gamel Mubarak for the presidency as a change to all the people's demands. This is the scenario. Some of us are very afraid to happen. And all of us are sure, we are all sure, that the counter-revolution in Egypt is working on it and working hard. This will never happen. What happened in 2011 is irreversible. As Dr. Khaled said this morning, it is irreversible. Why, I'm sure, I'm quite sure. Egyptians went to streets, 25th of January asking for bread, means money and jobs, freedom, social justice. Suddenly, we all became quite sure this will never happen, unless we free Egypt first. We had to free Egypt from dictatorship to get our needs, to get our demands. 28th, we changed the slogan and to people, Shabi-e-Reed, people who want to step down the regime and the Mubarak must leave. How am I am she? This is what we said, all together. Guess what? We weren't hungry and jobless. Most of us are highly educated, have jobs, some are businessmen. We were after Egypt, not ourselves. A lot of Egyptians died for this cause and much more are willing to die for the same cause. Egyptians will never let it happen. We'll never let it happen with us or without us, with our help or without our help. We have challenges, yes, we have economical and political challenges and Dr. Hamza, we said a lot of the challenges we are facing. We have adventures, yes, we have a lot of adventures. We had achievements, yes, not quite a lot, but we have achievements. Still, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is there. Still having long trip together, yes, but we should be together to arrive. By the end of the day, we'll do it. And what is do it? What is it? We thought and allow me to be a little biased, but Egyptians are all biased to Egypt. We thought the humanity, how is civilization 7,000 years ago? We thought them how to start, how to stand peacefully against injustice and severe power. And we will teach the world how a great nation is Egypt and how we will lead again. We used to be leaders and we will lead again. And provide civilization to the world, new concept of civilization. We did it when we picked up Egypt rather than picking up sides as Dr. Sullivan said the first day we were here. We did it in Tahrir Square. We did it several times ago and we will do it again. What if we didn't do it? Egyptians will step us down and pick up others and they will do it, but Egypt, we will do it. Egypt will do it. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Ataya.


Priyanka Chopra has established herself as a Hollywood starlet but America wasn't always so friendly to the actress back in her teens. Priyanka first moved to the United States when she was 13. Although she fell in love with American idols like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tupac Shakur, her peers at school bullied her relentlessly due to her race and accents. Eventually, enough was enough and Priyanka returned to India set on a path to become an engineer. As fate would have it, her mother enrolled her in a few local beauty pageants which would take her career in a different direction and following her win as Miss India World, her parents had to bar up their house because the male suitors wouldn't stop showing up uninvited. What's going on guys and girls, it's Kara. Last week we dropped a house to run Priyanka in her hubby Nick Jonas and you guys seem to like it so I thought I would follow up with a more in-depth look at Priyanka's come up story with a full biography. We've dropped a few of these on this channel including one on Will Smith and another on Kelly Rowlands. If you guys like these videos, be sure to hit that like button, subscribe if you're new and I'll see you all after the intro. It's a very big thing for India to have a role, a Miss World from India and it's very important for them to understand who we are and when they start doing that, after the past minutes that we've had, we've become sort of like role models for them and they listen. Priyanka Chopra was born on July 18th 1982 in Gemshedpur, Bihar which is now an area known as Jharkhand. Her parents Ashok and Madhu Chopra were both doctors in the Indian Army which resulted in the family relocating time and time again with young Priyanka never staying in one place for long. She has a younger bro Siddharth who is seven years her junior and three cousins all with the last name Chopra who are actresses in Bollywood films. Growing up young Priyanka attended all girls school but from a young age was already one who stood out from the pack. I used to, I got really bullied when I was in school in America so that crushed my spirit a little bit more. When I was a teenager I used to have like I was a tomboy so I had scars and like I was always falling on my knees. She grew up surrounded by army kids and they all lived in bunkers, they would spend their spare time running around outdoors getting messy. Then at the age of 12, Priyanka took a chance on seeing more of the world. She left her family in India to study in the United States living with her aunt and uncle in Newton, Massachusetts. Again Priyanka was on the move as her aunt and uncle also traveled for work. During her three years in America she lived in Boston, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Queens, New York and briefly in BC Canada. Tell me a misconception Indians have about Americans. That all Americans are super rich and you can sue anyone here, though that might be true. There were quite a few things she quickly fell in love with in America. One being Sarah Michelle Guller's hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My favorite was Buffy and like 90210 and like growing up with that stuff. Which for those who are following my personal channel would know I too, I'm a super fan. I know my transcripts are a little...colorful. You burned down the gym. You're not seeing the big picture here.  Asbestos. There were other interests including a love for rap and her favorite artist was Tupac Shakur. He's a rapper. When I was in school, when I was in school he was shot and killed. In school she participated in several theater productions and studied western classical music, choral singing and Indian dance. She described herself as being a gawky teenager and was the only Indian girl at the western schools.  Girls are mean in school. Everyone has had that one girl who makes your life miserable when you're in high school especially. So I think she just found what would affect me and what would hurt me to wind me up and just said what would hurt me. After completing the 10th grade she had enough and decided to move back home. Her plan at the time was to become a software engineer or a criminal psychologist. I didn't even know that acting could be a serious profession because I was that Indian girl who sits front bench always knows the answer, comes first in class, honors student. During this time she attended the army public school in Birelli and despite the strict schooling she has fond memories and now regards it as home. When it came time to apply for a scholarship her mother had other plans and professionally shot photos to a local Mayqueen beauty contest where she won. She then went on to the Miss India pageant and Priyanka ended up winning that one as well. She was enrolled at Jai Hind College in Mumbai now studying aeronautical engineering but her newfound fame was opening so many doors that she had to put her studies on hold. She began to receive offers to appear in movies, she was travelling the country and back home suitors would show up at her parents home on the regular. So much so that they had to put bars up on the doors and windows for her protection. Those be some hungry suitors. Priyanka went on to the Miss World pageant where she was crowned Miss World 2000 and Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty Asia and Oceania at the Millennium Dome London. Chopra was the 5th Indian contestant to win Miss World and the 4th to do so in 7 years. She first tried her acting in the 2000 low budget film of Goodnight Princess. This fell through due to lack of funding. The next year she picked up more work in the 2002 films Tamizhan and Jeet born to win. When she first started acting she wanted to quit but she didn't know what to do or say but eventually these would be fears she would overcome. In 2003 she appeared in her first Bollywood film The Hero Love Story of a Spy. That same year she appeared in Nandaz and this kicked off a long string of films appearing in as many as 5 or 6 a year. Inspired by her father who had been extremely musically inclined she also took up singing. Priyanka quickly climbed through the ranks becoming one of India's highest paid and most popular and credited as the most talented as celebrities. She would go on to receive numerous awards both in India and abroad. It was in 2015 that Hollywood finally took notice and ABC approached Priyanka with a full slate of scripts they had in development. She allowed her to choose which project she wanted to star in and thus began her journey to transition from Bollywood star to Hollywood leading lady and a household name. Aside from Baywatch Priyanka starred as Alex Parrish in the ABC thriller series Quantico from 2015 to 2018. These days she's happily married to Nick Jonas and the happy couple resides in Los Angeles. As for where does she go from here well Priyanka has already done it all and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. And if you want to see where she kicks up her feet with her hubby be sure to check out our recent house tour video we dropped for you guys. Thanks for tuning in don't forget to follow me on Instagram and let me know what videos you want to see next. I'll see you all soon. Byeee


Here is Bella everyone, isn't she wonderful? Sorry, sorry, off you go, she just wanna play. Also, Tom is upstairs, but that is Bella. They're so cute, I'm dying. It's so exciting. This video is sponsored by Epic Games, thank you. One moment. We are going to talk about alternative ways of playing handheld. I love playing handheld.  Lovely to take it with you, lovely to lie in bed and bed game and all of that.  Sometimes I just feel in the mood to kick back with a handheld. But as it so happens, Xbox and PlayStation doesn't have handheld systems like the Nintendo does. So how can we possibly play Xbox games and PlayStation games handheld wise? We have cloud systems for that. Or remote alternative ways to do that. So I am experimenting a lot right now with cloud gaming consoles, controller attachments to my phone, remote playing my PS5, my Xbox Series X. And in this video, I am going to explore and compare a lot of the options we have available for us right now when it comes to cloud gaming and remote playing our systems. Let's just say it is a rather new era still when it comes to cloud gaming. It's still kind of new. I don't feel like it is properly established yet. It is not properly optimized yet as you will see later in the video. And it can easily get confusing for just about anyone. I'm gonna try and explain it as best as I can. I am now allowed to tell you guys what I did in Los Angeles. I recently had the trip and I was so lucky to be invited to the Alan Wake 2 event to get a hands-on experience of this upcoming highly awaited sequel to Alan Wake. Me and some other content creators and Twitch streamers and podcasters and video game journalists, we were invited to this event to actually play the new game Alan Wake 2 and listen to the developers talk about the game, also the actors and a bunch of people that were involved in the making of. Now Alan Wake 2 is developed by Remedy and they are known for Quantum Break, the first Alan Wake also, and Control. Now I traveled with my sister and she was my cameraman. And we got a raincoat and we got that famous thermal spot oil that Alan Wake is known for. You collect them in the first game, oh dear. And you know what, I met a familiar face. You know, leading up to this event I was asking the people that invited me in email, like trying to figure out who else was invited. Maybe there were some YouTubers that I know. And yeah, I met a familiar face. I met Dreamcast guy. So that was a nice surprise, a familiar face. He also said that he wanna visit Norway pretty soon and I said, yeah, you should. She's just as stoked as me to be invited. 13 years. How do you believe? And then the presentation started and I made sure that I sat next to Dreamcast guy. So we listened to the people involved in creating Alan Wake 2 and they were talking about their vision for the Alan Wake sequel and why it has been 13 years since the original game. And then we were brought to another room. Exciting times. This is the coolest thing ever. Yeah, I know, right?  A hands-on first experience for ourselves. Also, I want you to check out my link in the description to pre-order your copy of Alan Wake 2 on the Epic Games Store with its fall release being on the 27th of October. And I feel like this is gonna be the perfect autumn fall game. Am I supposed to say fall or autumn?  And it's gonna be quite the investigation and quite the story, definitely. And I hope you will enjoy Alan Wake 2. I know I will. So today I will be comparing some games on the Logitech G-Cloud. And I am going to check out my phone with the PlayStation Backbone Controller attachment that you attached to your phone. And to top it off, we're gonna compare some games that are on all systems both remote play, cloud-based and on the Switch, actually installed on the Switch. Just comparing graphics. It's a mess of a video, I know. But it's gonna be fun. So let's start off with what is the Logitech G-Cloud? It is an Android-like cloud gaming device that makes you able to remote play your PC games through the app that's called Steamlink. You can remote play your Xbox Series X or S, your PlayStation 5, and you can play Android games. You can download Google Play Store apps such as the Xbox Play and the PS Play to remote play these consoles if you have them and if you have a Wi-Fi connection. So already here, there are restrictions. You have to own the physical consoles and also be at home. And you can play your Steam games with Steamlink if you have a computer currently running Steam. But this device also comes with an app that's called Xbox Cloud Gaming Beta. And this one works without already owning an Xbox. You don't have to have an Xbox in order for this app to play because this is entirely cloud-based. But restrictions. You gotta have an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription for this one to work because this one is actual cloud gaming. The game is coming from the clouds. So the whole thing, it can be really restrictive and confusing because it requires a lot of stuff, this device, I mean, unless you just wanna play Android games that are installed locally and doesn't require an internet connection. But that kind of beats the purpose. I mean, you have your phone for that. So this one, it is probably good if the TV is occupied and you wanna remote play your PS5 in another room in the house. It also feels like a tablet of sorts doing everything that a regular tablet does. Now on the other hand, what is the PlayStation Backbone? It's a controller that you plug and play attached to your phone that you already have and yeah, I'm making that assumption in 2023 that you have a phone. So this is the thing. And it works in a lot of the same ways as the G-Cloud where you can remote play with the Android remote playing apps. It's a much cheaper option over the G-Cloud because you already have a phone, remember? And the thing about just playing in handheld, I love it. And I mean, I talk about the Switch so much on my channel. But there are games that are not currently out on the Switch that are out on the PlayStation or on the Xbox and I still wanna have that handheld gaming feeling. Like, for example, Genshin Impact is still not out on the Switch. I don't know about Tower of Fantasy. I don't think that will ever come to the Switch either. But that has dropped on the PlayStation and I'm loving it. And I will be making a video about Tower of Fantasy a bit later. Anyways, so now let's compare the graphics and performance with a game that is both on the Xbox Cloud Gaming Service and on the Switch, Immortals Phoenix Rising. Now, on the Logitech G-Cloud with the Xbox Cloud Gaming app, it looks blurry, not very good. This game is coming straight from the cloud. And I would say that it is playable if you are very desperate. And this method is good if you own nothing to begin with. But I would not prefer to play this game this way. I still think that cloud gaming has a long way to go in order to be good. Now, on the phone, with the backbone, I am opening my Xbox Play and this is looking better because this is local remote play drawing power from my actual Xbox in the living room on the same Wi-Fi. And this looks way sharper. Already now, we can conclude that if you own the system, remote play looks and performs better than cloud gaming. And now just for fun, since Immortals Phoenix Rising is also out on the Switch, we are gonna see how that looks compared to the local remote play and the cloud gaming version. So here you can see it. It is actually installed locally and no internet is required. But I have to say that this looks blurrier than I remember. I don't remember this game looking this blurry low. But with this method, you can at least bring your game out of the house, out of the range of your Wi-Fi. And this is where I played Immortals Phoenix Rising and did everything. So the conclusion, the Switch version is probably better for the long run. However, remote play looks the best. Now let's check out Genshin Impact on the G-Cloud. It was downloaded from the Google Play Store, the Android version of the game. I tweaked the graphics to be the very best possible without overclocking the system. Now this right here is installed locally and played on the G-Cloud's actual hardware, which is the Snapdragon 720G, whatever that means, and it looks passable. But no way near perfect. Now with this setup, I can absolutely bed game some easy quests, but it's not the most optimal way to play Genshin Impact when it comes to the harder battles and when precision is vital, as the PC version will always be superior. Now Genshin Impact doesn't have native controller support, which is so weird. So in order for this to work, you have to hold the Home button until you get this menu and go to Key Mapping and manually drag and drop the keys on the screen. So the G-Cloud buttons will work as if you are touching the screen since this is a touchscreen game. So this is definitely one way that you can play Genshin Impact handheld. Now let's check out the Android version of Genshin Impact on my phone with the PlayStation Backbone attachment. Starting out, it didn't work. No buttons worked with Genshin Impact and the Backbone, so I did some research and I couldn't for the life of me find a Key Mapping setting even in the official Backbone app and even after reading on Reddit for a while, I didn't become any smarter. In short and basically from what I read, the Backbone favors the iPhone iOS over Android phones. Apparently you can also use something called Mantis Pro, but that was not user-friendly and lengthy and I just gave up. While not fully comparable to playing an installed version, I could if I absolutely wanted to play Genshin Impact with the PS Play app remotely, locally, which requires me having a PS5 and internet connection with Genshin installed on said PS5 and this works with the Backbone, remote playing PS5 to my phone. I could bad game Genshin Impact this way if I absolutely wanted to. This is way sharper and responsive. I think that this is currently the best way to play Genshin Impact handheld. Just remember to put the settings in the PS Play up to 1080p, which is a thing that you have to do in the settings, I figured out. And also, the PS5 version of Genshin Impact has instant traveling.  I am not editing this. That was the loading screen. Fast traveling instant play. So what is my conclusion? If the game is out on the Switch already, that could actually be a good place to play it. And also if you care about portability, taking your console with you out of the house, out of the Wi-Fi range. Now, if a game is not on the Switch, it is much better to local remote play. And all you need then is this thing and or also this thing. But I do not recommend actual cloud gaming as of right now where the game is coming from a cloud server. But what works the most for you, it depends on a lot of factors. Do you ever leave your home? Do you never leave your home? Do you wanna have a device that you can also use as a Android tablet? Depends on a lot of things. As a personal note, I can say that I am using this one in bed to play Tower of Fantasy right now. Because, and this is like a hidden feature I think, the buttons are so silent that you can bed game quietly next to your partner without waking your partner up. That is a pro in my book when it comes to silent bed gaming. However, I was trying to silent bed game with the backbone, that was not possible. The buttons are very clicky. Even though I just love the design, I love the backbone. This one is like my daytime remote play thing, but I cannot silently bed game with that. So this one, silent bed gaming. Mm-hmm, pretty good. I like both of these things, both the backbone and the G-Cloud. But they serve different purposes. Now the conclusion of the backbone on the other hand is that this is currently now my favorite way to handheld play my PlayStation 5 games. And have you guys seen that it has been announced that a handheld remote play accessory to the PS5, that was a mouthful, is coming out and it's called PlayStation Portal. And it's this thing that can remote play your PlayStation 5 games. In short, basically what this thing is, except I may sometimes feel that it is a hassle to take my phone in and out of the attachment. But I have to say that my phone with the backbone and with the PS Play app, it is looking incredibly sharp. And these are currently the best handheld graphics. And what this is telling me is that remote play is really good right now. So, and therefore, I have complete faith in the PlayStation Portal to be just as good, just as sharp, responsive, looking really good, playing excellently. So, I am looking forward to the PlayStation Portal. I will get it because I am just the person for such a product. But remember that is a necessary to the PS5. It is not a handheld gaming device per se. So that is also something to remember. So, are you guys looking forward to the PlayStation Portal or are you just gonna check out the backbone or maybe the G-Cloud?  I wanna know everything. And please hit like on my video if you enjoyed it. And join the Discord, join the channel if you feel like that. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you later. Check out Tower of Fantasy. I'm soon gonna make a video on that.


Good afternoon. I want to thank you for attending my presentation this afternoon towards the very end of the summit. I think this may be the last session in this room. So thank you. I'll be presenting on catching consistent redfish in the deep blue data center. My name's Richard Pioso. I'm with Dell Technologies. A little bit about me. Formerly, I was a contributor to the Ironic Bear Metal Project where I lent support for our Dell Technologies PowerEdge servers. I worked specifically on the iDRAC driver and also made contributions to the redfish driver. So we're going to cover several topics. First, I'll give an overview of redfish, a brief description of it, and identification of a particularly thorny problem, which is what I refer to as a consistency challenge. Then we'll go ahead and look at a solution to that challenge, which is redfish interoperability profiles. They enable you to express your needs. In other words, your opinion is to what's needed. We'll then look at a tool that can process one of those profiles and exercise it against a redfish service implementation to determine if that service meets your needs. And then to dive even deeper, we'll go ahead and examine some other conformance tools that the redfish forum makes available. Finally, I'll go ahead and describe the DMTF interoperability lab, which is a community testing facility. Before we continue, I'd just like to ask, how many of you are familiar with redfish? Just raise your hand. That's great, the vast majority. How many are actually using redfish in production? Awesome. That's great. Thank you very much. So let's move on to the overview. Most of you will know or understand this already that redfish is an industry standard to manage converged hybrid IT and the software-defined data center. It's REST-based with JSON payloads. The model is data-driven and it's schema-backed yet human-readable. The redfish data model describes a broad range of technologies and features. That means that most of the model, the vast majority, is not required, which could be a bit confusing and challenging for those that use redfish. Why so little of it required? What kind of standard is this? How do you make it interoperate? And what I learned while using redfish and lending support and actually contributing to the implementation of a redfish interoperability profile for Ironic is that the authors of the standard wanted it to be broad so that it could support multiple needs. And they've left it up to those organizations that are trying to lend support for their devices to define what's required. So basically, redfish implementations are expected to support only what's most applicable to their or for their product. Due to the wide range of options available, users and organizations require methods to convey baseline expectations for what is implemented in redfish services they consume. And so the solution to the challenge is redfish interoperability profiles. Redfish has independent versions for each of its roughly 100 schema. There's a common question that's asked, which is, what version of redfish do you support? Well, that question's not meaningful at all. There is a protocol level, which does have some meaning, but that's typically supported. It's the schema that matter. So redfish interoperability profiles offer a standard format for specifying redfish support needs. The Open Compute Project, OCP, defines several profiles. There's a base profile, which applies to all OCP conformant products. And then there are others in development. So there's also a server profile, which applies to OCP server conformant products. And others are in development for other classes of equipment, such as rack-mounted power distribution units. Provided a link to where you can find those open profiles. As I mentioned earlier, I contributed to an ironic redfish interoperability profile. And it defines a profile to express requirements for a system to integrate with its redfish device driver. And there's a link to the Git repository that hosts that profile. So let's dive down and take a look at a redfish profile document. Redfish profiles are also JSON documents. They're based on resource and property requirements. Now resource is one of those schemas, or it's at least expressed as a schema. The format allows for easy comparison to a retrieved redfish payload, which is typically a resource in its schema that complies with the schema, I should say. You can build profiles on the shoulders of existing profiles. So as I mentioned, there was a base profile for the OCP, and its other profiles are built on top of that. So the profile document allows specification of redfish protocol, features, actions, and registries. They are a redfish interoperability profile as a version document. Once a version of a profile is published, it should not change. If new requirements or fixes are needed, you create a new version. And versions are in the form, which I think most of you are already familiar with from other software, in the form major.minor.irata, for example, 1.4.2. So here's a picture of a redfish profile document structure. At the top, we have the profile information, which expresses protocol requirements.  And then at the bottom is a set of registry requirements. So again, each section is a JSON object. Resource schema and registry objects follow the names of the defining schema. So for example, Ethernet interface, or maybe also familiar computer system. And then the property level requirements are nested within resource requirements in name to follow the defined property name. So for example, asset tag and speed and NBPS. So here's an example of profile info and protocol requirements. So you'll see at the very top, there's schema definition. So there's actually a redfish interoperability profile schema itself. And it's saying in that first line that this particular profile conforms with that schema. Then there's a name for this particular interoperability profile, which is the open stack ironic profile. And then a version number and purpose, et cetera. And toward the bottom there, the author has gone ahead and specified the protocol requirements, the min version, and also query parameter support. And you can also express discover support. And finally, at the bottom, you can go ahead and build, as I said, you can build a new profile on the shoulders of existing profiles. It's sort of a glorified include, as in pound include in C and C++ or include in Python. So this fleshes out the resource requirements section that was presented on the previous slide. And the example here is for ethernet interface, which recall matches the name of one of the redfish schema. So it's organized, again, by schema name. Again, ethernet interface matches the ethernet interface schema. And it can include requirements for any schema. So you can use a resource requirement for any schema of interest. The resource level read requirement sets the need, sort of the fundamental need, for the resource. And then there are property level requirements embedded in there that are embedded in there. You can specify minimum schema version required URI patterns and action requirements. So here we see that there's a read requirement on ethernet interface, and there are particular properties that are required. And then here we drill down into the property requirements for individual properties. So in Ironic, there's a need for boot source override enabled. And there's a need for, specifically, a minimum number of supported values, disabled once and continuous. It's critical in Ironic. And then there's also boot source override mode, which is related. So UFI, for example, boot mode. And then boot source override target, where you specify the device that you want to boot from. So this is the way that Ironic. Ironic uses these properties to specify the boot source in a hardware-independent manner. Boot sources can be very complicated in that they're implemented in different ways across hardware, commercial off-the-shelf hardware and BIOS. And this is sort of an abstraction where you can say, oh, just boot once from this particular source, or at the end of the deployment, boot forever more from this source. So it's a very important set of properties from Ironic's perspective. So again, as you can see, the property requirements are expressed in a JSON object that follows the property name. The properties not listed, and there are a lot of them, have no requirements at all. And empty objects default to mandatory. So if you just have open brace, close brace, it means it's mandatory. Right requirement is used to specify patch support. And other terms can be used to express expected values returned on get, allowed values to patch, and conditions for usage based on comparisons with other properties. So here's an example of an action requirement. In this case, resetting a computer system. And again, you'll see this pattern from the other ones we've looked at. It's organized by the action name within each resource. So again, it aligns with the actual schema and with the actual resource itself. So this allows for specifying parameter requirements and supported parameter values. And finally, in terms of a profile, we have the message registry requirements. And these are, again, organized by registry name. It allows for multiple registries to be specified. And you also have the ability to include OEM registries. Message is listed with individual requirements. Messages can be listed with individual requirements as needed. And an empty object, as before, indicates that it's mandatory. So now that we have a profile, or at least we've seen how you build up a profile, let's talk about the tool that actually operates on the profile and causes it to exercise the device under test, a Redfish service. That's called the Redfish Interop Validator. So it's a tool that is, as I think I mentioned earlier, it's a tool to determine if a Redfish service meets your needs if it is aligned with your opinion as to what the Redfish service should provide. It's a Python 3 open source tool to check a Redfish service against a profile. It's publicly available. It's open source on GitHub. And installing it is very easy. Just clone it. You change directory to the tool. And you do a PIP 3 install. And then running it's also very simple. You just enter the command there and provide the values needed. Those are highlighted in red. And then you inspect the results. By default, HTML results are produced in the .log sub directory. And here's what one of the test results or test reports can look like. The top there shows the tool information. So you can see there it says where it comes from. It has the version and the date and the amount of time it took to run it. And then toward the bottom, it talks about, or it gives information about the system under test. So it provides the root service version and the URI of the system under test. And finally, the profile tested is provided by the bottom section. In this case, it was the open stack ironic profile. Additional information is provided by that test report. You can get a per URI info result. In this case, it was the processors. And there's an ability to toggle the payload display. And then the payload test results per property are shown there in the middle. We see processor architecture read requirement. And it failed in this case. The status.read requirement, it passed, et cetera. And then finally, there are other errors and warnings listed at the very bottom. So now that you've gone ahead and expressed your opinion and determined if the system under test is aligned with your opinion, you can go down deeper in terms of conformance testing the implementation and the service to see if it conforms to your needs. And the DMTF Redfish form provides these additional tools. There are also Python 3 open source tools. There are two of them that I'll cover today, just very briefly. One is called the Redfish Service Validator. And it validates that all resources in a service match the actual standard schema definitions. So it goes ahead and queries the service, gets the resource from the service, and then compares it against the actual schema. And as before, it's very easy to install it and to run it. And I go ahead and provide where the HTML report is provided. So that's sort of a middle. I'd say that's a middle level. We're sort of working our way from top to bottom in terms of testing. The top is your opinion or your organization's opinion. Next level down here is to see if the resources that a service provides are conformant with the standard. And then the next level down is the actual protocol level, which is very foundational. It's the basic foundation on which all the rest is built. And that's the Redfish Protocol Validator. And there you can make sure that the service conforms to the protocol requirements, such as HTTP header usage. So it's much, much lower down the stack. So let's go ahead and let you know if you're not already aware of a DMTF Redfish Interoperability Lab that the Redfish form makes available to its community. So as I said, it's a community testing lab. It's hosted by the SNIA Innovation Lab. Members of DMTF Redfish form can submit Redfish-enabled equipment to be tested at the lab. The, in addition, the DMTF Redfish form conducts plug-fests every two or three months at the lab. And those plug-fests allow the Redfish form to see how different implementations interpret the specification. So of course, the spec is written by humans and then interpreted by humans. And so you have to determine whether or not the implementers are actually interpreting it the way that the authors intended. And if not, those differences have to be reconciled. And that's one of the goals of the plug-fests. And they range from running conformance tools to stepping through typical client workflows. And then the results, as I said, are fed back to the standard and tools to address interoperability concerns. I should point out the Redfish form does not certify, qualify, give badges to implementations. Because the whole point is for this to support a large array of equipment. And they're not in the business of defining the requirements of those different types of equipment. That's what the Redfish interoperability profile offers. Oops, out of memory. OK, bear with me a moment. That's interesting. Next to last are three slides left. So I've gone ahead and collected a bunch of references that you could use to learn more about all of this. They're listed here. There's a large collection of DMTF GitHub projects that are open source. They're available there. Then there are three different categories of things that I've different, three different categories of tools. One is the Redfish client tools and other is conformance tools. We've covered three of those today. And then there are development tools. So the client tools include libraries for Python and C, as well as what they call a tackle box, which are client utilities. Then the conformance tools are, working from the bottom up in this case, the protocol validator, service validator, interrupt validator. And then there are these use case checkers, which go ahead and test typical workloads or workflows, I should say. And then finally, for those that are implementing services, there are a couple of development tools. One is the mockup server for testing a client. And then there's a mockup creator. And that's all I have in terms of formal presentation. Be happy to entertain any questions you may have. Any questions? All right, well, thank you so much. Appreciate your patience and attendance at the very end of the summit. Thank you.


In no matter our circumstances, we all seek some form of inner calm and joy in our lives. Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls this inner calm in the Qur'an, Sakeena. And he says in the Qur'an, It is he who sent down Sakeena, calm and tranquility, into the hearts of the believer. That they may feel and grow more in faith. Another reference to this divinely gifted tranquility shows up in the Qur'an, Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions the story of the Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam and his beloved companion, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, when they were hiding in the cave. And he says, If y aqul ala sahibihi laa tahzan, innallaha ba'ana, fa'anzalallahu sakeenatahu aleihi wa ayyadahu bijanudil lam ta'rahuha. The Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, Said to his companion, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. Do not worry, Allah is with us. And then Allah continues the verse and says, And he made his tranquility descend upon him and supported him with forces you do not see, meaning the angels. That means that one of the main keys of tranquility in our lives is that feeling of comfort and knowing that Allah is with us. Inna Allaha Ma'ana, Allah is with us.  What makes you feel sakina? I wonder if you'll take a moment and share with us in the box below. What makes you feel a sense of calm and tranquility?


Unfortunately, we have run out of time for debate and questions, so we will now be introducing our members for member statements. I recognize the member for Elgin Middlesex, London. On Friday, October 2nd, 2020, Cindy Devine was killed at the young age of 35 in a two-vehicle accident. She was a wife to Richard and a mother of four, Richards, here today. She was alive shortly after the crash, but she was completely entrapped in the car and could not escape. Unfortunately, Cindy died after her vehicle caught on fire. This tragic incident and accident was a result in a campaign now called, Extinguishers for Cindy and their calling for Cindy's law to be established in this province. The Extinguishers for Cindy campaign has now raised over 45,000 in the past three years. Here this campaign has a lot of well-deserved support and momentum in my riding of Elgin Middlesex, London. In addition to the money that the campaign has raised, Extinguishers for Cindy has also handed out approximately 1,000 fire extinguishers to local residents. Speaker, this is a friendly and a passionate reminder to all members of this House and those watching from home. Fire extinguishers are not only important to keep in our homes, but they should also be kept in our vehicles. Fire extinguishers save lives. Keep up the good work, Richards and team. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you very much. Member Statements. The Member for Nickelbelt. Thank you, Speaker. Today, December 1st, is AIDS Day.  In the 80s, AIDS in our blood supply unknowingly infected hundreds of Canadians who needed blood transfusion, leading to the Royal Commission of Inquiry and the blood system in Canada, better known as the Crevver Inquiry, which concluded, and I quote, that blood is a public resource that donors should not be paid, that Canada must increase self-sufficiency in all blood and blood products, and that no part of the national blood operator's duty should be contracted out. In 2014, Private Company was prepared to open Paid Plasma Collection Centre in Toronto and Hamilton, recognising the threat the government passed the Voluntary Blood Donation Act. I was proud to vote in favour of that bill, along with the current Minister of Health, Minister Jones, and eight members of the current government, to shut these clinics down. Now, eight years later, Canadian Blood Services has signed a deal with Grifle Pharmaceutical in order to contract out Plasma Collection to that for-profit collector. We must remember the Canadians, the Ontarians who became sick, who died. We must remember the lessons of the past and respect the Crevver Inquiry. The Ontario Minister of Health is the lead supervisor of the Canadian Blood Services. She has a duty to act right now to protect Ontarians and Canadians by shutting down this deal. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Member Statements. Member for Lanark Frontenac, Kingston. Thank you. I want to talk today about the launch of an exciting idea and acknowledging the good work of our Minister of Colleges and Universities and our Minister of Education to support our young people to explore and find a rewarding career. Speaker, this is a good news story, from the recognition of missed career opportunities for new generation to the rollout of the dual credit secondary school program, supporting the needs of a dynamic and changing workforce. This is an idea with wings. When news of an additional $4.8 million in program funding reached the secondary schools of Lanark Frontenac, Kingston, the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. Smith Falls District Collegiate Institute principal Terry Gardner said, the dual credit program represents an outstanding opportunity for students entering trades or trying a course in their area of interest. It allows them opportunity to try on college and many students see that they can be successful. Janet Sanderson, principal of Granite Ridge Education Center in Sharbutt Lake, said, it gives our students a chance to get a taste of college life, explore post-secondary options and test the waters. One student remarked, the dual credit program gives him a reason to like school again. Speaker, with one in three trades people over the age of 55, the infrastructure of our future will be built by the next generation. Experiential learning is an imitation to explore pathways to robotics, electronics, carpentry, health care, mechanics and more. All under the guidance and mentorship of skilled trades, teachers, college partners and industry professionals. Ontario's dual credit program has created a buzz in Lannert Front and Kingston and it's powered by the purest form of clean energy, the curiosity and inventiveness of our youth. Member statements from the Ottawa Center. Thank you Speaker. A loud thud was heard yesterday across Ontario at 11am Speaker. It was the dropping in the introduction of the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Commission report. It was a 650 page plus document speaker detailing the problems we've had with our LRT system. It was something I have fought for in this place, thanks to residents and community members back home who I want to thank for their work. But you know, sometimes Speaker the truth hurts and it certainly hurts this morning for advocates of public-private partnerships and infrastructure because Justice William Horgan who led this report said the following quote, the P3 model caused or contributed to several of the ongoing difficulties in this project. The city traditionally had a hands-on role dealing with projects given the lesser role it played in this particular mode, it was left in a position where it had limited insight or control over the project. End of quote. Speaker, P3s are an accident waiting to happen. They will not offer the transparency the public deserves. That is the lesson I believe from Ottawa's LRT failure. But right now as I speak the same P3 consultant speaker, the same P3 contractors that made a mess out of Ottawa's LRT are building the Eglinton Crosstown. So I call on this government to read Justice Horgan's report, to learn the lessons not waste the public money and make sure the mess that happened in Ottawa never happens again. Member Statements. Member for Stormont Dundas, South Glen-Garris. Thank you, Speaker. For 10 years the United Way Sontrade of Stormont Dundas and Glen-Garris has been kicking off the festive season with their annual holiday gala. This past weekend at the gala, Karen and Ray Brunet were recognized with the Andre Mayo Award which is the United Way's highest honour, volunteer honour. Although this award was announced at their AGM in early June, the United Way Canada representatives attended the annual gala to present the award to Karen and Ray in person. With this being the 10th year of them being the chair of the gala, the timing couldn't be any better. The award honours a volunteer who has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to community, philanthropy and the United Way movement. The individual is recognized by his or her peers as exemplifying the United Way values of leadership, volunteerism, inclusivity, community engagement, commitment and respect. Karen and Ray were selected from among nominations that came from many of the 69 United Ways across Canada. Karen and Ray have put in over 5000 hours of volunteering into my local United Way and can be linked to the majority of sponsors and donations that this event receives. And they therefore ensure the event's success year after year. It is not exaggeration to say that it is truly thanks to their selfless dedication and community connections that this event has raised over half a million dollars in 10 years that has existed. Thank you very much. Member Statements and Member for Humber River, Black Creek. Thank you Speaker. The holiday season is upon us, a time of kindness and goodwill toward all. During this time, many groups, associations, places of worship and more organised important acts of charity. But sometimes a single person or family steps up to do something remarkable. These acts of joy and kindness and charity come in many different forms and each with their own story of inspiration. The Desario family were inspired by the care their daughter received at Sick Kids Hospital for juvenile diabetes.  And when I say decorate, I mean over the top beautiful with tens of thousands of lights probably visible from space and every other decoration you can imagine. It's a wonderful site that captures the hearts of all ages and this year they're hoping to raise $20,000. Here as you know, the Hospital for Sick Kids is known as a place of legends where every one of their patients has a legendary story that inspires us all. It is also home to the largest hospital-based child healthcare research institute in Canada and we're so proud and fortunate that it is located here in Ontario. Speaker the Desario family festival of lights begins this Saturday, December 3rd at 5pm at their home at 165 Benjamin Boat Trail in the Keelan Shepherd area in Toronto's northwest end. It runs until the end of this year and I thank them for their hard work to spread joy and help children in need. So whether you happen to be in the area or not, I encourage you to come by and view the site for yourself and perhaps that visit may become a family tradition for you as well. Happy holidays. Thank you. Member statements, the member for Mississauga Centre. Speaker, good morning. It is an honour to stand in the house today to mark an important anniversary that Romanians all around the world celebrate. Every year on December 1st, Romanians come together to celebrate Great Union Day, also known as Romania's national day, the unification of the Romanian provinces into one country which took place at the end of the First World War in 1918. Romanian Canadians make up an essential part of our national character. In fact, Canada is home to over 250,000 Romanian Canadians. Speaker, Mississauga is home to close to 4,500 Romanian Canadians who continue to contribute to the cultural, social and economic fabric of Mississauga and of Ontario. Canada would not be the same without athletes like Bianca Andrescu or politicians like Andrew Scheer. Mississauga's own Bianca Andrescu, who is a proud Romanian Canadian, is the highest ranked Canadian in the history of women's tennis association. Speaker, Romania today is a historically mature country whose binder has passed the test of time. Canada has excellent relations with Romania, as evident by the strong political ties highlighted by shared membership in NATO and Laugh Honkophonie. Today, I am very happy to welcome Miss Oana Raluca Gorghi, the Consul-General of Romania, Mr Florentin Tito Gorghi, Consul and my dear friend Raul Dudnik from Omni TV to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. I would like to take a moment to wish them and all of our Romanian Canadian friends a happy Romania national day here in Ontario as well as worldwide. Thank you. Thank you very much. Members' statements? The Member for Guelph. Here I am honoured to rise today to highlight the amazing people powered organizing that is taking place all across this province right now. Last weekend I participated in a day of action with hundreds of people knocking on doors from Thunder Bay to Windsor to Ottawa and cities in between, speaking with neighbours to talk about how vital it is to protect the farmland that feeds us, the nature that protects us and calling on the Premier to keep his promise not to open the green belt for development. In a few hours, people collected nearly 4,000 petition signatures and identified hundreds of sign locations, calling on the Premier to keep his green belt promise. Speaker, this weekend there will be rallies again all over the province. Organisers like Environmental Defence, Gasp, Water Watchers and Stop the Sprawl are mobilizing to defend the green belt, calling on the Premier to keep your hands off our green belt and to keep his green belt promise because we know people power works. Speaker, a healthy democracy requires citizen engagement and mobilization and I am inspired by the people taking the time out of their busy lives to demand that the government maintain the integrity of the green belt. I will be there this weekend with people defending the green belt and calling on the Premier to keep his promise, Speaker. Thank you very much. Member Statements. Member for Markham Union Bill. Thank you Mr Speaker. As 2022 is coming to an end I would like to revisit our recent Markham Union Bill funding announcements to wrap up the year on a generous and bestowing pitch. For most, I would like to recap that November 17th marked the 40th anniversary of Ontario Trillion Foundation. Partnering with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, I thank OTF for awarding funds to those in need and facilitating culture and sport events in Ontario. I look forward to engaging more in person recognition in the future. Ontario Arts Council's OAC operating grant continues to help enrich our culture lives by supporting the display of some wonderful collections by Canadian artists at our gallery in Markham Union Bill. Senior Committee grant from the Minister of Seniors and Accessibility is another great program. Mr Speaker, this year Markham Union Bill has four recipients. It's great to see senior clubs reconnect and keep their members active again in Markham Union Bill. Ontario's health and safety is the top of our government's agenda. Earlier in November through Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund and Community Infrastructure Renewal Fund, Markham Stovell Hospital and Hongfork Mental Health Markham Branch have received respective funding that allows them to provide quality care to their patients. Funding is an important tool for us to work well with our community members. My congratulations here to all successful applicants. Thank you. Thank you. Member Stavex, the Member for Brantford Branch. Thank you, Speaker. Our government is building a strong, secure food supply chain and securing Ontario's food position as a food leader in Canada by releasing our Grow Ontario strategy. The strategy outlines the province's plan to strengthen the agri-food sector, ensure an efficient, reliable and responsive food supply, and address ongoing vulnerabilities through new innovations by focusing on three priorities by strengthening the agri-food supply chain stability, increasing agri-food technology and adoption, and attracting and growing Ontario's agri-food talent. This is particularly important in my home writing of Brantford Branch, Speaker, as agriculture is our single largest economic sector. This plan is a bold vision of pride and trust in the quality and quantity of food produced in Ontario, growing on the foundation of a competitive agri-food industry that serves the needs of Ontarians, Canadians and the world. That being said, today in the Gallery I would like to welcome the Paris Fair Ambassador Bronwyn Monkhouse and the Berford Fair Ambassador Doug Archer and his parents Scott and Elizabeth. They supported and advocated with distinction the Brantford Branch agricultural sector, farmers and food processors that feed us all. Many of us remember the gaps in grocery store shelves on and off during the pandemic. These young people who act as ambassadors for the agricultural sector remind us that food does not magically appear on grocery store shelves, but rather our food is planted, cultivated, raised and processed by some of the best farmers in the world right here in Ontario. And remember this, farmers make up less than 1% of the population, but 100% of us eat. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you very much. Before I invite members to introduce their guests, I beg to inform the House that pursuant to Standing Order 9-H, the clerk has received written notice from the Government House Leader indicating that a temporary change in the weekly meeting schedule of the House is required, and therefore the House shall commence at 9am on Monday, December 5th, 2022, for the proceeding of Orders of the Day.


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A touching show of support for a little boy in New Jersey battling brain cancer. Seven surgeries. Chemotherapy and radiation. And Tommy Fitzpatrick is just six years old. Well now people in his community are rallying behind him in a big way with the hashtag Tommy Strong. Eyewitness news reporter Lucy Yang has the story. Six-year-old Tommy may be shy but he's a fighter.  He is like superhuman. He's an amazing healer. I mean he's been through seven brain surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation.  His most recent brain surgery, his seventh, was only two weeks ago. And look at him today. He had a cupcake mustache and the giggles. He would never know how he suffers. He's been braver and more resilient than most adults have been. And he's my hero. So why this celebration? The Fitzpatrick family raised $50,000 for pediatric cancer research and this was a chance to thank their community. Unbelievable and heartwarming, overwhelming. And it just shows how great everybody is and how they just kind of rallied around us and around Tommy. It began with these hashtag Tommy Strong t-shirts for the family to help them get through months at the hospital. Then friends and strangers wanted one too in solidarity. So the Fitzpatrick family decided to turn a kind gesture into a fundraiser. It's very difficult going through the diagnosis of cancer, but to be able to think about other people while you're going through such a difficult time and be willing to raise money like this is just something really special. Tommy Fitzpatrick, the youngest of three, is now back at school. His family does not know what tomorrow will bring, but they do know. They are not alone in their battle against brain cancer. In Wycoff, New Jersey, Lucy Yang, Channel 7, Eyewitness News. Now the $50,000 raise goes to the Children's Cancer Institute at Hackensack Medical Center. What a wonderful thing. It's great. Absolutely really good. You're doing all right, Joe.


In their interest of converting Jews to Christianity, Jews for Jesus, Messianic Jews and Hebrew Christians claim that what they're doing in their religious practice is 100% Jewish. They claim that to believe in Jesus is the most Jewish thing that you can do. However, calling it Jewish doesn't make it Jewish. The famous American president Abraham Lincoln once asked, how many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Well, four he answered. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Let's see how Abraham Lincoln's lesson applies to Jews for Jesus. Plain and simple, Jews for Jesus and Messianic Jews are following evangelical Protestant Christianity. Their beliefs are not Jewish and have no relation to Judaism. On every basic issue of theology, the Jews for Jesus and Messianic Jews reject the Jewish point of view and embrace the perspective of Christianity. For example, Jews for Jesus believe in the Christian concept of the Trinity and worship the man Jesus as God. Judaism insists on a pure monotheism that worships only the Creator of the world and no physical created being. Messianic Jews maintain that the only way we can be forgiven for any sin is by accepting Jesus and believing that he died as an atoning sacrifice for us. Judaism follows the Torah or biblical teaching that each individual can secure forgiveness through repentance, a sincere rejection of past wrongs, and a resolve to change one's ways. Hebrew Christians believe that it is impossible to have a relationship with God unless we believe in Jesus. Judaism insists that we are able to relate to God directly with no intermediaries. These Jewish Christians accept the Greek or New Testament as part of the Bible in addition to the Hebrew Scriptures, the Torah, prophets, and writings of the Tanakh. However, the Jewish Bible does not conclude by saying to be continued.  The Torah defines the worship of anything or anyone other than the Creator as idolatry, one of the gravest sins. Jews for Jesus believe that they must convert every person on the planet to Christianity. Judaism has never taught that non-Jews must convert to Judaism to attain spiritual fulfillment. Our rabbis taught that all righteous people from the nations of the world have a share in the world to come. Jews for Jesus and Messianic Jews claim to reject the Talmud and rabbinic teachings and follow only what is taught in the Torah and Bible. However, in practice, they do exactly the opposite. For example, Jews for Jesus celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah, which is mentioned only in rabbinic sources, not the Torah. Messianic Jews wear keypot or skull caps, accustomed found only in the Talmud, not the Torah. Jewish believers in Jesus wear prayer shawls resembling those of traditional Jews who designed them according to rabbinic tradition. The actual design of prayer shawls is not mentioned in the Torah. Hebrew Christians light Shabbat candles, a practice ordained by the rabbis of the Talmud, and not found in the Torah. Jews for Jesus celebrate a Boyz Bar Mitzvah at age 13, a practice found only in rabbinic sources and not the Torah. Messianic Jews follow the weekly cycle of Torah and have Torah readings instituted by our rabbis and not delineated in the Torah. Jews for Jesus and Messianic Jews strongly argue for the Jewishness of their movement by claiming that Jesus and all his original followers were Jews. But not everything that Jews do is necessarily in line with Judaism. Those who built and worshipped the golden calf were also Jews. However, there is a very significant issue that we must recognize and appreciate when thinking about Jews for Jesus and Messianic Jews. These Hebrew Christians are not villains. They are victims. They are victims of misleading, proselytizing, and are vulnerable to a due to severe Jewish malnutrition. Invariably, they never acquired a sophisticated level of Jewish education. For them, Judaism was merely an expression of culture or ethnicity with no real meaning. They've never experienced a rich spiritual path that has sustained us as Jews, vibrant, and learned people for over 3,300 years. So, how can we Jews who are committed to Judaism help those Jews who have embraced Christianity? Well, the vital first step is to display warmth rather than hostility. Show them what it means to be a passionate Jew who strives for closeness to God and personal integrity. Be a role model who reaches out to help his fellow Jew and derives inspiration from his heritage. These are the most powerful ways to help those who have strayed and help show them the way back home. Remember, a little bit of light can dispel a lot of darkness.


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Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's Caveswrakes.com with 2018-2019 Panini Chronicles Basketball Hanger Box Edition number 14. All right, 30 spot breaks, little hanger box. At the end of the break, we'll randomize all 30 customer names and the top seven are going to get spots in 17, 18 serial, well, 17, 18 flawless basketball serial number break number three. So a little bit of a mouthful. Big thanks to all of these folks for getting into the action, really appreciate it. And there are all the teams right here. Let's roll it, let's randomize it, two and a one, three times for each, we're doing the break first, three times for each, that's one, two and three. And we always do the giveaway stuff at the end with a different dice roll, Dustin it down to Matthew. So this is break 14, 15 already sold out, three, and we already did that video, one, two and three, easy. Nets down to trailblazers. All right, so there's the first half of this right there. There you go Rex. Los Mavericks and Nancy with the Hawks. And there's the rest of the list right there, TWC trade and window close. Let's sort by team and let's print and rip. Final print out right here. Rudy Gobert leads us off, Jaren Jackson Jr., Trey Young, Mo Bamba, all pretty nice. Gary Clark, Bagley, Jerome Robinson, Devin Chenzo, and another Mo Bamba. Nice, Mo Bamba for the Orlando Magic, Zach Paul, you'll get the classics edition too, I think that looks pretty sharp. And Jaren Jackson Jr., let's see what else we have here in Chronicles 14, Melton, Mitchell Robinson, Miles Bridges, Wendell Carter Jr., Devin Chenzo, Chandler, Jalen Brunson, and Miles Bridges right here. Was the Trey Young numbered? Oh, it was, yeah, I kind of missed that. Yeah, at a 49, nice, even better for Nancy. There you go. All right, now let's see who's going to win those mixers, not mixer spots, flawless basketball spots from Nancy down to Brian, everybody in between. So top seven after six, one, two, three, four, five, and six. After six times, congrats to everybody right here. Also, I'm giving away 25 bucks of break credit to the eight spot right there, this break was a little delayed. It was distracted. All right, top seven, congrats to Nancy, Patrick, Aaron, Marco, Adam, Brian, and Steve. There you go. Congrats to the seven right there. Appreciate everybody getting in. Zeller, I'll send that break credit to you right after this completion of this video. Joe for JaspysCaseRakes.com. I'll see you next time for the next break. Flawless. Bye-bye.