Bob, what was it like your first time in Buffalo, putting the uniform on for regular season game? You have an impact instantly, like sack first series. You know, whenever they dropped the schedule, I've always envisioned success. I didn't know what that would look like, but I never really had thoughts about going there and losing or going there and, you know, being disappointed.  I never thought about us losing a game. And just because I think in that manner doesn't mean it to go that way. But we started the game off and everything happened exactly like I thought it would. You know, everybody was on fire. Josh Allen was just killing, you know, to start the game. But it was, it was kind of weird. Being in there right when I walked into the field, I'm warming up. And my spot that I usually warm up in and that's on the wrong side of the field.  But so far it's always been love. That is the best stadium in our league.


Who says you can't have it all? Not Appalachian Wireless. We know what you want. Appalachian Wireless offers the hottest smartphones and unlimited data plans. All on the region's number one network. Kara Patrick died in a crash at this location in Pikeville, January 16th. Now the driver in the vehicle in which she was riding is facing a felony charge in relation to Patrick's death. 24 year old Kristen Dameron was indicted this week in Pike County on a second degree manslaughter charge. Dameron was driving her vehicle on Chloe Road in Pikeville on January 16th when she lost control and collided with an oncoming vehicle. Dameron's passenger Kara Patrick was killed in the crash. Pike Commonwealth's attorney Rick Bartley said the investigation into the wreck indicated Dameron was intoxicated on meth at the time of the crash. Inside the car, unfortunately, the police did find evidence of meth use including used syringes. They also found meth. Bartley said the wreck happened at the onset of a snowstorm. He added that investigators do not believe the snow caused the wreck. The blood test results showed what we suspected that she was high on methamphetamine. We think the methamphetamine caused the wreck, not the snow. I'm surprised that there's not more of these every day, frankly, because we are finding people just every day at all hours of the day under the wheel, operating a vehicle after they've used meth. Kristen Dameron is lodged in the Pike County Detention Center on charges not related to the crash. She could face 10 years in prison if convicted on the manslaughter charge. In Pikeville, Chris Anderson, EKB News.


What's up guys, it's Josh and we're back again with another video. Like I said in the last video, it's been a little while since I posted any major videos or updated you guys on what's been happening. So I thought I would make this video. Alright, the last three weeks have been really busy and hectic, but I've had the opportunity to do a lot of cool things. So I think the last time we talked was about the week before fall break, so I guess I'll start there. So at Yale, you get three days off for fall break right in about the middle of October, which is really nice because it's right after your first set of midterms. So you get a little bit of a mental break, but it's also only like five days total, so it's not enough time to really go home or for it to be worth it. So a couple guys on my floor and I decided that we would take the train down to New York and split a hotel for a couple of days. We had a really great time, got to do a lot of stuff. One of my friends had never been before, so we got to do a lot of the touristy things that you do when it's your first time in New York. Although it was really nice to like break the stress from school and everything, get yourself a little bit of a mental break, I feel like the best part was definitely the food. Just not having to eat dining hall food for every meal, being able to go out in New York and just choose a restaurant and like eat some really amazing food, hands down the best part. I actually made a whole video about what I did on fall break and it will be up on the channel hopefully sometime this week. I'm taking a little longer to edit that one to make sure it's really good. Of course fall break eventually ended and that meant that I had to get my nose back on the grindstone and get some work done. That whole next week was the week leading up to Halloween. So I mean, there was some spooky stuff going on. Had a lot of cool stuff in TD with a little like pumpkin carving session in the courtyard. That whole week was just all the events leading up to Halloween. Halloween was definitely fun. The first night, me and my whole suite, we all dressed up as Santa. Yeah, that was quite interesting. And then the second night, I think I won as like Clark Kent. I went over to Pearson College. They had they have like an annual Halloween dance every year. That was a good time. Overall, Halloween. Success. Following Monday, I went to go see one of the members of the Magic Society perform. He was actually having like a one man show in one of the secret libraries on the old campus in Bingham Hall. It was a really great show. He did a really good job putting it all on by himself. Actually, the guy that performed, he was one of the members of the Magic Society who has been on the hit TV show, Penn and Teller Fool us. So I don't know if you guys are familiar with that show, but he was on it when he was 14. So really great magician, really great guy. I look forward to working with him over the next couple years. The next night is definitely considered the highlight of Halloween at Yale. And that is the Yale Symphony Orchestra Halloween show. For those of you who don't know, the Y-Sows spends all the fall making a silent short film. And then Halloween night at midnight. Everyone packs into Woolsey Hall.  Like the tickets for these shows sell out in like two minutes. That's how many people want to go see it. So everyone packs into Woolsey Hall, which is the big like auditorium like music hall on campus. And what they do is they project the movie onto the screen above the orchestra. And then the orchestra plays like the music to go along with the movie since it's obviously a silent film. This year's was amazing. Apparently it's one of the best shows that's happened in the last couple of years. And I'm really glad it got to be my first one. Only at Yale, the students get so excited for a silent film and classical music at midnight on Halloween. And I also forgot to mention that before the Y-Sows show, me and a couple of friends actually went across the street to Silliman and they had their annual haunted house and the Silliman had a college house. So that was really cool. So the rest of the week was really busy, catching up on all the stuff I'd missed because I was having too much fun during Halloween. And then I also had to get started on all the work for the next week because that next weekend was family weekend. I knew I'd be spending a lot of time with my family as well as prepping for the Magic Society's annual family weekend show. Yeah, it got to the point where like the four days leading up to the magic show, we were practicing like three hours a night from like 9 p.m. past midnight, just trying to get our routines down and getting the flow of the show. It was insane, but very worth it. Our show went awesome. We did a performance Saturday night and Sunday night. Feel free to check it out on the Yale Magic Society's YouTube channel. I think I uploaded the whole show to the channel so you can literally watch the whole thing if you wanted to. And then obviously it was family weekend. So I got to show my family around campus. It was good to see them since it's been like two and a half months now. And then they also got to go see me perform in the magic show. So overall really great weekend. Now this whole last week has been spent preparing for my second round of midterms. I had physics last week and then I have my math one this coming week. So I'm trying to get a lot of that work done now because this weekend is not only Thanksgiving break, but on Saturday is the Harvard Yale game. And I am pumped because I have a couple of friends from Harvard that I haven't seen in forever. Gonna get to see them. And then overall it's just gonna be a great experience. And of course Yale is the Ivy League champions in football, so we better beat Harvard. All right, I think that's most of the big things that have happened over the last couple of weeks. If you guys have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, just leave them down in the comments below, I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoyed the video, consider dropping a like. It helps a lot more than you think. And if you're new to the channel, if this is the first video that you've seen, consider subscribing. It'll be fun, won't regret it. As always, I'll be back again in a couple of days with another video.


We had a very productive 18th session of the CDIP beginning from 31st October this year. The committee made a lot of progress under the able guidance of Ambassador Chavez of Peru. There was one very long standing issue of technical review of technical assistance. Luckily we had an agreement on that issue this time. After almost it started from the 8th session and this was the 18th session. So you can imagine after 10 sessions we had an agreement on that. There was an issue outstanding for a long time which is now called the General Simile Decision on CDIP related matters. Unfortunately the committee didn't have time. We'll be coming back to that issue for the next session. Quite a bit of reporting. We had a progress report which provided an overview of progress on all the projects, on all the recommendations. We had a report on the conference on IPN development that was held this year. It was a very successful conference, appreciated by delegations, by the civil society a lot. So we had a report. The committee considered the report, requested that there should be similar biennial conferences in the future. So that indicates that the conference was considered very successful. We also had a very important report and that was a 5-year or 6-year independent review of the implementation of the development agenda. It was conducted by three external experts. Member States will continue to discuss this issue as to how to implement recommendations contained in that report. Three other issues. One was transfer of technology. There were proposals submitted by the Member States. We approved some proposals for the work based upon a proposal, project proposal submitted by the delegation of South Africa will be considered for the next session. We also had considered SDGs. The secretariat is supposed to go back with a lot of reports, by the way, to the committee, to its next session and future sessions. Consideration of SDGs will continue in the committee. The last but an important, again, issue was we have a database on flexibilities and countries had requested the secretariat to provide, suggest mechanism to regularly update it. The committee decided on one of the options that we proposed. We are supposed to disseminate information about this database. So overall, a very successful committee meeting.


The Cavalcade of America, presented by Dupont. This evening the Dupont Cavalcade presents the story of the coming of the Swedish colonists to America. After landing on these shores 300 years ago this spring in 1638, the Swedes built Fort Cristina on the site of the present city of Wilmington, Delaware. This evening's performance is being broadcast by a short wave to the steamer Kung's home at sea, where the crown prince of Sweden and his party are en route to attend the Swedish her sentinary celebration in America. About 200 years ago, about 200 years rather after the Swedes came to America, there was born in Sweden a man who later became a world famous chemist, Alfred Bernhard Nobel. His studies resulted in the discovery of that remarkably useful explosive dynamite. Our story of chemistry tonight concerns dynamite's part in securing a rare mineral, one that was known for many years simply as element number 42. Did you ever hear about the Japanese sword maker 600 years ago, whose accidental discovery now enables steel mills to produce steel that doesn't get tired? Listen at the close of our broadcast for this tale, which illustrates once more how Dupont research chemists are helping to provide better things for better living. Through chemistry. Tonight's dramatization is based partly on material supplied by Kathleen Paul, whose current novel, Mural for a Later Day, has its historical setting among the early Swedish colonists in America. As an overture, Don Voorhees and the Dupont Cavalcade Orchestra play a special setting of Victor Herbert's ever popular waltz, kiss me again. In 1609, Henry Hudson from the deck of his ship, The Half Moon, was the first white man to gaze on the shores of the state of Delaware. The following year, an English navigator, Captain Samuel Argoll, cited the capon Cromontory and named the region in honor of Thomas de la Wa, first colonial governor of Virginia. Then came the English colonists to settle at Jamestown and Plymouth Rock, the Dutch to follow at New Amsterdam. This spring of the year 1638 at Fort Nassau, a trading post to the Dutch West India Company on the upper shore of the Delaware. The commissary, Jan van Ilpendam, is sitting with his advisors at a table beneath a towering tree. And the governor ends his letter this way. It is your responsibility to strengthen our positions along the river. Signed Keith, New Amsterdam. You've been receiving many dispatchers from him lately, Jan. And all of the same tone masters. Who can it be? He's worried about Fort Nassau. He has no right to be. The Dutch farmers are happy. Trading is excellent. Hand me that quill and the apartment. I'll reassure him again. Masters! Masters! Oh, Captain Van Orman seems excited. Masters! My men have sighted the ship in the bay. Flying the flag of Sweden. Are you sure? That sounds impossible. Hi. It's a Swedish ship, Masters. There's been some talk in New Amsterdam of a Swedish company. But how dare they invade Dutch territory? What kind of fools have I got around me that such a ship could enter the bay without being stopped? But, Masters! How's the guard? We'll drive them off Netherland territory. Commissary, that might be unwise. How do we know Sweden hasn't made some agreement with the Dutch West India Company? And if we go charging down to the shore to drive the Swedes away, we might blunder into an embarrassing position. I'll ask Keith. Maybe they know something about this in New Amsterdam. And I was going to reassure the governor. Well, so be it. We'll wait for his order. In the meantime, Governor Keith had learned from the directors of the Dutch West India Company that the company of Swedish colonists had been dispatched to the New World. In charge of the venture was Peter Minowitz, who had formerly been a director of the Dutch West India Company at Fort Amsterdam. On what is now Manhattan Island, New York. Governor Keith dispatched a sharp note for testing the Swedish action in care of his commissary at Fort Nassau. On receiving it, Van Ilpendam, his councillor of Hanfleet, and their escort hastened to the spot where the Swedes have nailed their coat of arms to a tree and are now surrounding two newly erected blockhouses with palisades. We're looking for Peter Minowitz. Yes, why Van Fleet, my friend? I haven't seen you since you were governor of New Amsterdam, Minowitz. We come as representatives of the Dutch West India Company. This is the commissary at Fort Nassau, Jan Van Ilpendam. You must meet my commissary and my commander. Huygen! Yes, sir? Kling! Put down your axes and come here. You plan to settle on these premises? You see for yourself. Every man is busy building Fort Christina. You called us Minowitz? Yes, Huygen. These gentlemen are representatives of the Dutch West India Company. And I know they have something to say. I want you both to hear. I will come to the point at once. Here. Read this dispatch from Governor Kiefst of New Amsterdam, if you please. From the governor of New Amsterdam? Hmm. We do hereby protest against all damages, expenses, and losses together with all mishaps, bloodshed, and disturbances which may arise in future time therefrom. And that we shall maintain our jurisdiction in such manner as we shall deem most expedient. Well, the governor has the right to protest. Huygen. Yes? Give me our treaty with the chief. Certainly. Here. Thank you. Listen, master. To the Swedish company, lawful control of all the land between Minquist kill and Bombay hook, as well as the territory from Minquist kill to the school kill. And there are their five totemarks. We made that treaty as soon as we anchored the Karamai nickel. The Netherlands won't recognize an Indian treaty. Don't try to make me believe that. I made the one which gave the Netherlands New Amsterdam while you were still a counting house clerk in the haze. They recognize that treaty. To be consistent, they'll have to recognize this. Tell that to Governor Keith. If you think, can you let the one come? It'll be wiser if we return to Fort Nassau for the present. You show good judgment, Van Tley. We can all trade peacefully. Even now, our other ship, the Fogelgrip, has gone to Jamestown to trade with the English. Don't be too optimistic, Minuit. You haven't seen the last of us yet. Give the order to Mark. Company, march! Did you hear that, Peter? Yes. Does that mean trouble with the Dutch? I don't know. But we're here, and we're going to stay here. But with the completion of Fort Christina, discouraging news beset the little colony, as the Fogelgrip returned from Jamestown. Michael Simonson, its mate, reported that the English had refused to recognize New Sweden and would not trade. At this, Peter Minuit resolved to return to Sweden for much-needed supplies, only to perish in a storm off St. Kitts in the West Indies. Then the Swedish government dispatched a second expedition, including a group from Finland to the New World in 1639. The new governor, Peter Ritter, mismanaged the affairs of the colony. And one day in 1643, he sits gloomily talking with Hendrik Hoegen in his cabin at Fort Christina. Would it not be wise for you to greet the two ships which have just anchored Governor Ritter? Minuit would have. Let these new colonies come to see me. I'm the governor. I can see the ships out this window. The squads. And the farmer. Beautiful boats. Has everybody landed yet? Most of them. Some are coming up to the fort. One of them's a giant, tallest man I've ever seen. More mouths to feed. There isn't enough here for the colonists as it is. You'll just have to authorize my making drastic reductions in the allotments, Governor Ritter. Detail, detail. I don't want to be bothered with it. Can't you attend to it yourself? Very well. Come in. And by the table of war, the least I expect is that someone here sees that my furniture and my womanful belongings are properly looked after. Good day to you, gentlemen. Good day, sir. Welcome to Fort Christina, sir. This is Governor Ritter. Indeed. Well, sir, I've been hearing your colonists' complaints. And rightly so.  But I am to relieve you as Governor, sir. My name is Johann Prinz. That's good news. You'll get no protest from me. My appointment.  Here, you read it. Too many nice things for me to say about myself. Johann Prinz, Lieutenant Colonel of the West Gothic Cavalry and noble by us, the now appointed Governor of the considerable track of land in Sweden. And my best wishes, Governor Prinz. Have you any orders? My wife and family must be housed as we fit their station. We have no elegance here. You see, for yourselves, we live in a wilderness. Wilderness, nonsense. You may have everything here. But you do nothing. Never mind. All will be changed. This should be good farm country. We must have fine homes and beautiful farms. I'll see to that. But first, let us go straight to the church. We must offer thanksgiving for our safe voyage. We have no church, Governor. No church? In colorable. One must be built. Mr. Campanius. Mr. Campanius! I am here, Master Prinz. Gather our flock. We will have to sing our hymn of gratitude here in the blockhouse. I shall give the note.  Oh, my chief of... From 1643 to 1653, Johann Prinz's commanding presence and inflexible will brought confidence to New Sweden. Under his administration as Governor, the colony achieved its highest peak. The Governor's home, Prinzhof, was the most magnificent house between New England and Virginia. One afternoon, Governor Prinz and his wife are talking with the Reverend Johann Campanius and a distinguished Dutch explorer, David De Vries, at Prinzhof. Will you have some more wine, Master De Vries? A little, please. Ah, thank you, Mr. Prinz. My wife makes it herself. Oh, hell, that accounts for its fine flavor. Tell me, Mr. Prinz, which do you prefer, the New Sweden or the Old Sweden? Neither, Master De Vries. Gosh, 15 wife, what do you mean by that? Please, Johann, you're all...  Oh, it's just that sometimes, Johann, I think we use the word Sweden too much. When it no longer matters, really, the Old World, all that, we've left behind it. We're in a new land now, and we have new lives to make. Mr. Prinz is right. A point is well taken. Like the wine in our glasses, Master De Vries, we made it, and we enjoy it. That's how we feel about our colony, why I'm proud of my husband. Everyone along these shores knows about the governor's work. I've tried to do the best I could. Look out of that window, Master De Vries. You see a great and beautiful country. You see homes, farmlands, boats on the rivers and rich timber in the forest. We have every reason to be happy, leaving this heritage to coming generations. Yes? What is it, Hilda? Master Huygens, see the governor. Have him come in, by all means. This way, Master. Governor, I have important news. Well, well, the indomitable Huygens. The news can wait. Now you must meet Master De Vries. Hendrik Huygens is my most trusted counselor. How do you do, Master Huygens? You are David De Vries, the Dutch explorer? Yes. I'm glad to know you. Governor, may I have your ear privately a moment? What reason is there? It's urgent, Governor, and necessary. Very well. Look after our guests, my dear. Excuse me. Now then, Hagen, what is it? One of my men was hunting two days ago in a forest. He saw Dutch troops building a fort down the river right here in our colony. I couldn't tell you in front of De Vries. By the people of Warman! Is this true? I fear it is, Governor. How many Dutch soldiers did your man see, Hagen? Not many. He was driven away by one of the sentries. We could easily capture it, Governor. Else it will split our colony. We'll be isolated from our key fort at Elbsborg. Such a victory would be short-lived, Hagen. Remember this. We've got to be diplomatic with the Dutch always. They'd overwhelm us if they sent an army down here for Italy. Then what will we do, Governor? Let them have their fort, Casimir. Much good it will do them. If we seize it, we'll only bring about a war. We need more men. I know, Governor. I hate to leave, I must. I am going back to Sweden for help. However, on Johann Princes' return to Sweden, the Swedish government decided to replace him with a new governor, Johann Riesing. Immediately on his arrival, Riesing disregarded Hagen's advice and easily captured Fort Casimir, which he rechristened for Trinity. In New Amsterdam, Peter Stiverson vehemently protested. For the following two years, Johann Riesing strove to strengthen the stature of the colony in a land seething with trouble. One stormy evening, he is sitting with his counselor, the aging Hagen, in his two-story mansion on the banks of the Brandywine River. The storm is just about over now. I think I'd better go home then. Oh, I didn't mean it that way, Hagen.  I am kept busy riding up and down the colony so I can report to you how our plantations are progressing. You saved me much worry. I am worried about the Dutch, though. Our messengers from New Amsterdam say they are drilling their troops from morning until night. Peter Stiverson will never forgive you for taking Fort Casimir. I didn't realize the implications at the time. I won't refuse your advice already after this, Hagen. I have been in New Sweden from the very beginning, Governor. I helped Bill report Christina. I have served under every Governor. That's why I feel I should be able to advise you. Thank you, Hagen. I appreciate your experience. Yes? There's an Indian out here. He brings news. Yes, Johnson. Come in. Come in. He's complaining. He's complaining about the soldiers taking corn from the Indians. What soldiers? I guess strict orders. Dutch soldiers, Governor. Dutch soldiers. I think they're on the way to Fort Christina. Says they've recaptured Fort Trinity already. And Stiverson sailed here with his army. Just as I feared. Lieutenant Johnson, muster our troops. We'll march to Fort Christina tonight. As the morning mists curled over the Delaware River, the Swedish soldiers manned every loophole in Fort Christina, waiting. Governor Reasing and Rick Huygen and Lieutenant Johnson stand near the stockade gate, as Governor Peter Stiverson and his escort enter the fort under a flag of truth. That's not mince words, gentlemen. I come in the name of the Netherlands to annex this territory to our kingdom. I demand your unconditional surrender, Governor Reasing. And if I refuse, Governor Stiverson... You should know our reply. Fire and the sword. Your forts can't stand against my ships. However, I will grant this. The Swedish people who remain will be allowed to retain their civil and religious liberty. That's your last word? Unless you choose to hear a Dutch cannonade. Very well, Governor Stiverson. Then I advise you to leave the fort while we're still under a flag of truth. Talk it over with your men. I'll give you one half hour. If my terms are acceptable, order your drummer to sound the drum roll and have your soldiers march out of Fort Christina. That'll be a sign of your surrender. Remember I offer peace and civil liberties under the Dutch flags. I never go back on my words. We will discuss it, Governor Stiverson. You have the power to force a war or to maintain peace. Captain, we march. Forward. Lieutenant, shut the gate behind him. At once, Governor. I'll have the sergeant pull down that white flag. It was a mistake to raise it. He said we'd have civil and religious liberty under Dutch rule. Now what if he did? That means we could go about our lives in peace. You'd better not stay here when we open fire, Governor. The blockhouse is safer. This is a crisis, Governor Easing. Think before you plunge us into war. This is no time for thought. It's time for action. We'll all suffer if we go to war. We can't submit to stifling. Resistance is futile. Minuit, ridder, prince. They all realized it. You would have a new flag over our colony. The flag is nothing. It's ourselves that matter. We have a chance to build a great civilization here at Fort Christina in peace. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. We can't progress if we keep up this enmity with the Dutch. We came to America to make progress. Very well. Lieutenant, assemble your soldiers to march out into the fort. Order the drum roll. Yes, Governor. You know, Huygens, I don't feel that this is the end. We've done too much to give it all up and return to Sweden. We may have to fly the flag of the Netherlands, but it's really the spirit of the Swedish people we'll be raising to the American skies. The Swedish colonists contributed to the rise of the state of Delaware, first under their own sovereignty, later under the flag of the Netherlands, then England, and finally our own United States. Swedish resourcefulness and effort forms a contributing chapter in the development of American character. Sweden was the first world power to recognize our newly-born Republic after the War of Independence. This evening, Dupont salutes the Swedish people who have come to this country and have contributed to its greatness in the cavalcade of America. You've heard the expression as tough as steel, but did you know that steel gets tired? Just as human beings take a tonic to avoid that tired feeling, so do modern steel and iron get a dose of medicine that builds up strength against what the experts call fatigue. One of the products used for this purpose is called molybdenum. It makes steel tough, and it's a tough name to pronounce, but since even the people who mine molybdenum call it moly, that's what we'll call it from now on. More than six centuries ago there lived a Japanese sword maker named Masamune who made such fine swords they were noted for centuries. What really brought Masamune's swords their fame was the tough quality of their steel. Six hundred years later a chemist analyzed one of these marvelous old swords and found that the steel had moly in it. Almost up to the beginning of our own century, moly was regarded simply as element number 42, a rare, practically unknown metal. Widespread use of it didn't begin until about 20 years ago, not long after the greatest moly deposit in the world was discovered in Colorado. Bartlett Mountain in the heart of the Rockies is almost a solid mass of this valuable ore. The metal itself is distributed in very small amounts throughout solid granite rock, and the only way of getting it out is to pulverize the granite in the mountain. That's where the DuPont Chemist comes in. Because the chemical product dynamite is the only practical tool to use in obtaining the ore. About once each month a great chunk of the mountain is blasted into pieces which are carted away and crushed up in the mill nearby. A few years ago more than 110,000 pounds of dynamite were set off in a single blast. This dislodged some 750,000 tons of ore said to be the greatest underground shot ever set off in this country. Just imagine a mass of rock the size of a 20-story building one block square supported underneath by 90 solid rock pillars. All these pillars were loaded with DuPont dynamite. Then the switch was pushed and the mountainside crumbled into bits. That's how chemistry starts molly on its way to serve you. As for instance in the durable lightweight steel that goes into your automobile. Alloys containing molly combine great strength with lightness. They're tougher and have greater wear resistance. The DuPont company itself uses molly in a unique process for bright zinc plating which DuPont chemists developed as a big step forward in protecting metallogics. The story of molly adds up to another apt illustration of the DuPont pledge better things for better living through chemistry. We've received many letters asking why in our stories of American pioneers we've not dramatized the life of the founder of the DuPont company. So next week we will present the story of Eilufair Irine DuPont founder of the company which now bears his name as the concluding broadcast in this present series of the Cavalcade of America. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.


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For decades, Japan has had the longest life expectancy in the world, while spending just a fraction on health care compared to other high-income countries. This longevity has been attributed, in part, to Japanese dietary patterns, which are thought to have contributed to their comparatively low rates of coronary artery disease.  Japan, however, has among the highest rates of stomach cancer. Yes, Japanese men may have had seven times less prostate cancer than Americans, but got six times more stomach cancer. Is there some Achilles' heel in the Japanese diet? One of the first theories proposed in the 1970s was that it was the talc used to polish white rice to give it a glossy sheen. That was the case with ovarian cancer, which led to billions in damages against Johnson and Johnson's baby powder, as I detailed in a previous video. But that did not appear to be the case with stomach cancer. Is it just genetics? No. Studies on Japanese migrants show that as they and their children westernize their diets and lifestyles, their stomach cancer rates drop accordingly. Well, the most well-established risk factor for stomach cancer is H. pylori, a bacteria that infects the lining of the stomach and causes the chronic inflammation that can lead to cancer. H. pylori infection is considered a group 1 carcinogen, indicating our highest level of certainty that it indeed causes cancer. Korea and Japan have the highest rates of stomach cancer and among the highest incidents of H. pylori infection. Case closed then, right? The mystery seemed to have been solved. But then came the African enigma. Countries such as Nigeria had even more H. pylori, but only a fraction of Japan's stomach cancer rates. Then came the Indian enigma. H. pylori is twice as prevalent in India than Japan, yet Indians get 10 times less stomach cancer. Obviously, H. pylori alone can't explain Japan's epidemic. Though most cases of stomach cancer are thought caused by H. pylori, but most people with H. pylori don't get cancer. H. pylori is one of the most common human infections. It's been estimated that half of the world's adult population is infected with H. pylori, yet half of us don't get stomach cancer. There must be some kind of co-factor in countries like Korea and Japan that explains their elevated cancer rates. The inflammation caused by H. pylori may just set the stage for cancer formation, increasing the susceptibility of the stomach lining to dietary carcinogens. But what's so carcinogenic about Korean and Japanese diets? Studies that have compared the dietary components of different Asian populations with similar H. pylori rates, but dramatically different stomach cancer rates, have suggested preserved salted foods, both fish and vegetables, as the culprits. Fresh vegetables and fruits, on the other hand, were associated with an 85% reduction in stomach cancer odds, whereas consumption of fresh fish doesn't appear associated with stomach cancer either way. A review of 60 studies found that the consumption of pickled foods was associated with significantly higher rates of stomach cancer, though more so in Korea than Japan, perhaps because per capita Korean consumption of salt-fermented vegetables like kimchi is 5-day times greater. You can't know for sure, though, until you put it to the test. Pickled vegetable extracts can cause DNA damage in cells and in petri dishes, but what about in people? Researchers in Vancouver fed people 30 ounces of fukujinsuke, assorted vegetables pickled in soy sauce, or pickled cucumbers over a 3-day period. Biopsies taken from their stomach lining before the experiments started were normal, as were the biopsies taken after eating fresh carrots or cucumbers. But after just a few days of consuming pickled vegetables, moderate to severe tissue abnormalities were found suggestive of stomach irritation. The consumption of non-fermented soy foods, such as tofu, edamame, and soy milk is linked to a lower risk of stomach cancer in Japan, whereas no association was found with fermented soy foods, even highly salted miso. The protection afforded by soy foods was attributed to the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects of the isoflavone compounds in soybeans. Salt itself isn't considered a direct carcinogen, but it may damage the stomach lining, thin the protective mucus layer, enhance H. pylori colonization, enhance the penetration of carcinogens, and enhance the formation of carcinogens. Even moderately high salt intake is associated with significantly increased risk of stomach cancer, though in Japan this effect may be limited to those already suffering from H. pylori-induced inflammation. H. pylori is typically treated with a cocktail of multiple antibiotics. Is there any way to eradicate it naturally through diet? We'll find out next.


My name is Max Feinde. I come from the Sweetgrass First Nation in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan. I'm the co-executive director of Canadian Roots Exchange. The Target age group is young people generally. We work with folks in the elementary school system and folks as old as 29. The end of the program is to advance reconciliation broadly. Now generally we do that through building relationships and giving young people the opportunity to engage with indigenous people, give indigenous young people the opportunity to engage with non-indigenous communities, including newcomer communities, including the first settler descendants, all that sort of stuff. So it's really about bringing people together and exposing them to the idea of reconciliation on top of that, exposing them to elders, to ceremonies, to land-based activities and programs as a way to view reconciliation. Something that we often hear from our participants, whether they are in elementary school, high school, university, whether they're doing their master's degree, is that they often haven't had the opportunity to engage with indigenous people before. Even though it's 2018, even though we live in Canada, a lot of people think Canada is a great place of justice, equality and all that sort of stuff. We still live in a very segregated society and Canadians often only have the stereotypes of indigenous people to fall back on because they don't have the opportunity to engage with us on more than a surface level, on more than a getting asked for money by one of our relatives on the street. That's their only point of engagement with indigenous people. So what we try to do is show that indigenous people are just that people and that does wonders for relationship building. We're not then only stories on the news or stereotypes we are, where they're friends, where they're classmates, where they're neighbors, all these sorts of things for indigenous people. I think it's very powerful because we have been legislated out of society for a long time. We have been segregated from the rest of society for a long time. There's a lot of folks who are first generation urban dwellers or second generation urban dwellers who haven't had exposure to the rest of Canadian society. Right now we're in Toronto. People from 120 countries live in this city. There's 120 different nationalities that have all come together here. I think it's good for our people to learn about those different cultures, those different communities and build solidarity amongst one another to show that my well-being is connected to those of my neighbors. My well-being is connected to the folks who are organizing in the multicultural community, who are organizing with Black Lives Matter, who are organizing with other social justice movements and in other communities. And it's good for our people to be exposed to the world. So I think that's the reciprocal nature of our programming. It's a give and take. It's a learn and receive model. So for us, I mean, this is certainly about Indigenous education, but more than that, it's about exposing again those settler friends and relatives to our education. So anything, any of our programming, isn't just framed within Indigenous education, but it's framed with a holistic sort of reconciliation model in mind. I think it's so powerful when we get knowledge keepers to come into our programs, which is something that we are committed to doing. And allowing for those folks who have grown up without their traditions, without their ceremonies, without their languages, to be exposed to those ceremonies, to those words, to those songs, to those practices for Indigenous people that's so powerful, we've heard from our participants that that's a way to access ceremony for the first time or have a reliable or begin a reliable relationship with that knowledge keeper, with that elder. So that's something that I'm committed to incorporating, not only the sort of relationship building piece, which is of course important, but diving a little deeper and incorporating the ceremony, the knowledge, the worldviews, the stories, the language and the songs, not only for Indigenous people, but for non-Indigenous people as well, to show that we actually, we have a worldview, we have a culture, and we had before colonization distinct and complex societies with rules and laws and protocols that were well established and clearly defined, that our knowledge keepers can come in and explain and talk to the young people about. So then we're not just, we're not words of the state, we're not savages, we're not people who are terra nullius, who are empty in nature, but we are proud, complex people who are descendants from proud complex nations. Talking with our participants, we have a strong national network of volunteers who we've engaged for the last nine years, who are very very loyal to us, who talk about the uniqueness of CRE programming. We have close relationships with them, the more formal ways I think, like a lot of nonprofits, we struggle with the right way to thoughtfully evaluate our programs and adding on the component of working with Indigenous communities, finding the right way to evaluate land-based programming or evaluating, you know, it's, for me, I struggle with how do you evaluate an elder, right? How do you evaluate a knowledge keeper, right? So we, we, it's an interesting question because we are unique in that, you know, I'm going to keep getting this particular elder because I know that they're very knowledgeable, I know that they're very well respected and they sit within a certain position within, within knowledge societies, right? Having said that, we, of course, this past year, we engaged a, an evaluation company to come in and talk with us about what evaluation for intercultural programming looks like, to sort of brainstorm ideas about what is unique, what are the unique needs of CRE is trying to evaluate, and how do you make sure that you're getting it right in a culturally responsive sort of way? So we've, we've begun that work and we are, we are currently formulating a new way to evaluate with all of those, those trainings, those conversations and those ideas from that, from that company in mind. So stay tuned, as a country run a journey of reconciliation, these past, the past, you know, two years that the, that the TRC final report has been out, people still do not understand by and large what it means to work with Indigenous organizations. They think that, that it should be as easy as working with a, working with a non-Indigenous organization and without recognizing that we do things a little differently and we have different rules that we follow and, and we have more sort of accountabilities, certainly I do, than just my board of directors, right. So, so, you know, on top of being held accountable by my board of directors are sort of my family, my community, our participants, all this sort of stuff, which hold me accountable to a different standard than a non-Indigenous organization would. People are slowly learning what it means to work with an Indigenous organization and that it takes more patience. It takes a different worldview, it takes a different understanding and it requires some serious self-reflection on our, on our partners, our non-Indigenous partners that we work with in figuring out what their, what their motive is, what their, what their role is and what an opportunity exists for them to help advance reconciliation for young people across the country. You know, for me, Indigenous education, I was lucky to be raised with, with my teachers, my knowledge keepers, my ceremonies, my songs, all that, all that sort of stuff. And, and it often, I often have to remind myself that not everyone was as lucky as I was and not everyone has the clear understanding that not only were we, yes, a hunter-gatherer society that, that had, you know, roles and responsibilities for each community member, including leadership and including elders, including male, female and the transgender to spirit community within our societies. We had roles for young people. We had roles for, for, you know, adolescents. We had roles for everybody, healers and all this sort of stuff. But we were also engineers, you know, we were also doctors. We were also, we also had, you know, for lack of a better word, we had lawyers, right? We had a legal system. We had all these sorts of things. When we talk about what Indigenous education is, for me, it's about, it's about being able to learn those things and be able to transfer the knowledge that I have to other young people to show that, yeah, you know, we, we made teepees or we made longhouses. And yeah, we participated in powwows, you know, on ceremonies and dances and all this sort of stuff. But it's so much deeper than that. It's so much more than that, that Indigenous education is so, is so, is so complex, is so, is so deep that, that in a lot of our programming, a lot of the conversations we're having, even as an Indigenous community, we're only beginning to scratch the surface on all that exists and all that was and all that still is there. But, you know, I, to, to your, to your, to your question, I think Indigenous education is, is reconciling all of that and being able to have those conversations and being able to expose our children to those conversations at a pre-K, you know, primary, middle, high school and university context so that they can learn about all, all that we used to be, all that we continue to be and go as far as to figure out what comes next and how do we, how do we decolonize ourselves to get back to those perspectives and then advance for beyond that. That is something that we hear a lot about young people feeling like they are walking in both worlds, having to, you know, navigate both of those things, walking the tightrope, all that sort of stuff.   It's, it's really difficult to, to navigate for young people. I'd say it's one of the, one of the top struggles that Indigenous, Indigenous young people face today. For me, you know, we, we recognize the struggle that exists. All that I can do is provide, provide information, provide opportunity to learn about these sorts of things, but also provide that, that normalization of our, of our culture, that normalization of, of the pride that we all should have, right. A lot of other cultural communities, you know, I'm from Saskatchewan, Ukrainian people make up a large percentage of the population. They're very proud of people as they should be, as a beautiful culture. We should be just as proud and not ashamed of ourselves. We should be able to, you know, go and speak our languages to, to our peers, to our friends without any sort of hesitation. We should be able to, to carry ourselves very, very with, with ease within, you know, an urban context and, and, and celebrate who we are. I think we're lacking that as a community, we're lacking that. And certainly in past generations, I think this generation is becoming increasingly more proud of being Indigenous. There's still a lot of work to do. And, you know, I think until we can, we see more people who are, who are expressing their indigeneity in, in everyday contexts and constructs. We'll have, we'll have a ways to go towards normalizing, towards normalizing the ability to feel that sense of pride, that understanding of who we are and celebrate, again, all that we, all that we were, all that we are and all that we have yet to be. There's so much opportunity that exists. You know, if I think about, if I think about the last 10 years, you know, where we were in, in 2007, that was before, I don't know, more, that was before, you know, this big awakening, that was before we started talking about reconciliation as, as a country, you know, we're going to, we're going to be telling our children's stories of, of what we grew up hearing. And again, you know, when I, when I was growing up in Saskatchewan, I heard the names Neil Stonesheld a lot and Daryl Knight and Rodney Nastas and these men who were, who were dropped outside of Saskatoon in minus 30 temperatures. These Indian men and they were left to die. The Starlight tours. Yeah, the Starlight tours. And, and, you know, I, when I think about in where we're going to be as communities and as a society and where Indigenous education is going to be in 10 years, I want those, I want those, I want those stories recognized, right? I want, I want, I want folks to remember those names. I want, I want Canadians to, to really sit with the, the horizontal injustices that have happened, not historically, but in our lifetimes. And I, and we're young guys, we're in our 20s here, you know, and, and recognize, before we can reconcile, we have to, we have to recognize all that, all that has been done in the recent past, you know, even, you know, last summer we saw what happened in Saskatchewan with Colton Bushy, right? And recognizing that there's still this deep, deep racism that exists. So when we, when we talk about the, the future of Indigenous education in the next 10 years of Indigenous education, you know, I would love to see more, more curriculum being developed in, in science and math and English and, you know, gym and, you know, all this sort of stuff for, for the, for the kids in, in primary schools to be able to engage with Indigenous society, because we have contributions to make in every subject, every subject, we have contributions to make, and they should be included in the curriculum. But we also have to, have to recognize and have to remember that while we're advancing and doing our nation-building work that's so, so crucial, and a lot of young people are, are, are focused on, which is great, there's those of us who, who are, who are able to, again, walk that tightrope, who are able to participate in both sections of society, who have to work on this reconciliation piece here and, and make sure that Canadians are held accountable to, to their history, that Canadians are held accountable to the calls to action. Canadians are held accountable to that, that treaty relationship that we first envisioned, that our ancestors first envisioned when settlers came here of peace, prosperity and mutual benefit, right? And I think that's, that's something that I'm committed to doing. That's something that I'm, I'm working on, that's something that hopefully we'll, we'll see a great deal of progress on in the next 10 years. So I grew up, I'm, I'm half Norwegian.  You know, a lot of time around that, that side of my family also grew up on Syracuse First Nation with, with my father's side of the family. I realized that that was a unique position growing up in the, in the 90s to have connections on both sides of those families that were very, very strong. I realized, I think, before a lot of other people in Saskatchewan, Canada, that we are more alike than we are different. And that, you know, we have these, we have these divisions set up to, to, to trick us into hating one another, right? And, and that was the point. That was the point of what the government tried to do, tried to get people to not like Indians, try to get Indians to, to stay, to stay within the reserve boundaries and not be able to succeed and then eventually they just die out and go away. So, when I would go and visit my, my father's family and I go visit my mother's family, I'd realize that these people laugh at the same sort of jokes. These people love me in the same way. These people work in the same way. They want to provide for their families. They want the same things to come out of their life. I'm in a, I'm in a unique position that I understand, that I understand those people. I understand both sides of the treaty relationship. I can see a clear path to how we get back to that because it happened at my birthday parties. It happened at my Thanksgiving dinners. It happened at my, at my family celebrations where Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people came together with, you know, I wished each other prosperity, mutual respect and, and, and wanted each other to, to benefit from the prosperity of this land. I've seen the ability for us to do that in a, in a very micro, in a very micro way with my family. I think that, that through telling those stories and bringing young people together, we can begin to see, we can begin to see that at the macro level across this country. So, we've been in 15 different communities across the country from coast to coast to coast. We have participants every year from every province and territory through our different programs and we've engaged, you know, all for, you know, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, First Generation Canadian to, you know, the descendant of, of the First Settlers. So, we get a great perspective of the Canadian project thus far and we get to bring in those voices to figure out what comes next. Now, I'm a, I'm a big believer in the idea that, you know, we're hosting a conference in a couple weeks, a national conference, 250 young people, half indigenous, half non-indigenous are going to be there. I really believe that, you know, the next Supreme Court justice is in that room. I really believe that the next grand chief from the Yukon is in that room. I really believe that the next members of parliament or city councilors or mayors or, or CEOs, you know, or, or, you know, whatever are in that room. Those are the folks who are going to be making key decisions for our country in the next 10 to 20 to 30 years and beyond that. We need to invest in, in the, the education of young people that they're not getting from the provincial system as it is to really dive deep and explain the importance of remembering our history, explain the importance of, of including partnership as a crucial element of the Canada that we want to build as, as, as millennials, as young people. There's a study done by the Environmental Institute about a year and a half ago that said that 79% of young people age 18 to 29 believe that meaningful reconciliation can occur in their lifetime, 79% higher than any other demographic in Canada. So when we talk about reconciliation, yes, you can sort of triage the pain and the suffering that's happening now and try to talk to the boomers about, you know, making more thoughtful decisions, making more decisions that include Indigenous people as partners, all that sort of stuff, but you can only triage it. If you want to begin to change and heal the damage that has been done to our communities or people in this country, then you have to invest in the long-term development of this next generation of leaders and that's what Canadian Merit Exchange believes in doing. You know, we need the ability for, for adults, for our parents, for our aunties and uncles to, to trust us. We need adults to, to realize that young people not only have the passion for reconciliation, not only have, have, have a vision for this country, but we also have the ability to see it through and that is shown by the last nine years of programming that we've done. We really need young people to be able to lead, to be given real decision-making powers and thoughtful engagement in, in decision-making bodies. We also need the opportunities to, to broaden our coalition of young people. We need school boards. We need individual classroom teachers. We need principals to, to recognize that they weren't trained in how to do reconciliation work. They weren't trained in Indigenous education and that they need to let organizations like Canadian Merit Exchange come in and, and expose young people to this work, to these thoughts, to these ideas, to these, to these truths, to these histories and, and, and to help, to help guide their education so that they can, they are not robbed of the opportunity to learn about the beauty of the strength and the, the partnership that they can have with Indigenous people as every other past generation has been. It's something, you know, that people don't think about, you know, people don't know anything about Indians or Indigenous peoples and that was purposeful, right? I remember my mother telling me very clearly that when she was in, you know, the one-room schoolhouse in Saskatchewan growing up that her teacher told them that all the Indians were dead, that there was no, no Native people and that's why they got to live here, right? So it was, it was purposeful that, that these people were in these decision making, decision making powers, decision making positions today, don't know anything about our people and aren't thinking about the rights of Indigenous people, aren't thinking about how this impacts the treaty relationship, aren't thinking about what, what partnerships can, can exist within their, within their sphere of influence because they weren't given the ideas or the opportunities to learn about it. I'm a big believer in meeting people where they're at. We've, we've, we've started to have conversations with Canada now and a lot of Canadians are horrified to learn what their country did in the name of settlement, what their country continues to do in the name of, you know, keeping the wealthy wealthy and keeping the power where the power is. You know, we have, we have Canadians who have always thought of themselves as, as very patriotic, very, very proud to be from Canada because they are from this great, this great country that is seen as the human rights defender on the global stage while Indigenous communities sit without water, sit without access to mental health supports and young people are killing themselves, sit without the ability to get an education, all these sorts of things. Canada isn't the, the, you know, the good guy that a lot of Canadians think it is. When I have those conversations with Canada, you know, with Canadians, I make a lot of time to listen to, to, to their revelation that Canada isn't the great, the great country they thought it was. And then, you know, as they sit there in sort of a stupefied reflection, that's when we, that's when we call them to action, that's when we tell them that they, they have work to do, that they are the vice president of a bank or they are a faculty member in, in English or they are, you know, they are this, that or the other thing in the world. Everybody has the ability to impact the advancement of reconciliation. Everybody has a role to play and everybody has a job to do. I think it's, it's incumbent upon us, those of us who have, who have decided to, to participate in, in reconciliation on the Indigenous side to help guide them and show them the way and show them the past and show them the path forward. I mean, the problem that I see with reconciliation today is it's focused so much on our government, which is, you know, it's important. They, they have a role to play in reconciliation, absolutely. They are the, the representative of the crownless country. Focus is on our universities, again, very, very important. I want universities to focus heavily on reconciliation. That's where, again, a lot of these, a lot of these leaders are going to, are going to come from is, is post-secondary landscape. But also focus is in cities, which, you know, makes sense. The high population come from their more, more Indigenous people than ever live in cities. The thing that frustrates me is that we don't see a lot of, a lot of time or attention or, or column inches spent on, you know, what's happening in, in rural Alberta, right? What's happening in the high school in Kelowna, you know, what's happening with young people in, in Gimli, Manitoba, you know, there's, as, you know, as I just said, there's a role for everyone to play in reconciliation. But too often, we're focused on our governments, our cities and our universities. It doesn't matter where you live in this country, you should have the opportunity to be able to thoughtfully engage and contribute to the movement of reconciliation. You know, I know that we work a lot with young people in, in Happy Valley Youth Bay. We've worked with young people on Rankin' Inlet, you know, in, in the far north of Nunavut. And those young people, those teenagers who are sitting there in their high schools or in their, in their elementary school, they may not make it to university. Some may, some may choose to stay within their community. There are a lot of folks in downtown Toronto who may not make it to university. You know, that's just statistically speaking, that's both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. If we focus just on university, then we create this, this, this power hierarchy where reconciliation is only accessible to those who have the ability to participate within, within the academy. And I think if we, if we've learned anything from our history as Indigenous people, you know, that, that exclusion, that, that creating, that creating, you know, different, different hierarchies of, of knowledge, creating, you know, systems that, that privilege some folks based on their, their abilities or what have you, that, that isn't helpful. That, that doesn't serve our interests. That's actually what has been used to, to keep us, keep us oppressed for the last, you know, few hundred years. I think it's important that the young people are exposed to the ideas of reconciliation as early on in their educational careers. They can be including, you know, grade one, grade three, grade five, grade seven, whatever it is. And that's why we work with, that's why we work with young people as young as grade seven. So I work in high schools to, to make sure that at, at a few different points within their education, they have the opportunity to engage with, with someone who's of their generation. So they can thoughtfully think about what their role is and normalize the ability to treat Indigenous people with compassion. I think that's what's going to change the country in this next generation. You know, I think we're going to see a big shift in the next, in the next few years in, in how the movement is progressing. I think reconciliation, if you, if you look back to, to when the Truth and TRC started, and you look to now, you'll see just how much the movement has changed. I think reconciliation is going to be known as one of the, the reconciliation movement is going to be known as one of the fastest adapting, quickly changing and, and agile social movements in the history of, of this country, possibly even the world, because we are more connected than ever, because we have young people who are willing to, to shift their thinking around what they, what they've been taught in schools and, and have a real passion for seeing results. We're not, we certainly are and have, and you've seen that through, through I don't know more, we've been taking to the streets, we've been protesting, engaging in sort of traditional behaviors that social movements do, and I think that's really powerful that sends a strong message to the public that we're out there, we're organizing, but we're also permeating the, the system. We have people working within systems of power who are making the, the day-to-day change or doing that sort of work. I think, you know, going back, going back to your question, we are an organization who, who has been trying to react to this change, who has been re-examining our programs, who has been responding to the needs of young people to engage in reconciliation.  You know, I don't want to be doing this forever. I want reconciliation to be achieved. You know, I don't think, I don't think we want to see a Canadian roots exchange forever, right? Because we want to see these, these problems, these disparities, these gaps closed. We want to be on par with, with the rest of Canada. We want to be respected. We want, you know, we want equity from this country. And I think, you know, we would, we would love to have young people who believe the same. We would love to have their vision, their voice, their experience, their passion, their dedication, and their ability to contribute in that way. And we'd love for them to be part of, of series programs so we can get there together.


Hey everybody we're joined here by Bruce Press from Maryland correct. That's correct. Yeah outside of Baltimore very nice Now jeb Bruce, which which Tam is this that you've been to this is our fourth my wife and I have been coming since Tam 7 and It's something we look forward to every year and which one was the best so far Well since this one hasn't started yet I'm gonna say last year's was the best with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye the science guy It was just incredible. There was a an amazing amount of discussion And just interesting. There's actually some conflict on panels, which I thought was cool It's good to have people with different opinions up there getting Larry Krauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson kind of throwing back and forth I thought that was amazing. That's actually great answer I was trying to put you on the spot like he asked me not to do it and he comes up with a great answer So we'll go figure the last year What's up for me talking about this year? So what are you looking forward to this year though? I? Really just enjoyed being out here with the people that we've met over the years Our skeptical friends some of them from other countries and from all over the world I had an opportunity to hang in the Del Mar with somebody from Sweden somebody from Denmark some a couple of Canadians But you know Canadians all the time And that's just amazing to me you know to be able to connect with those people and The ability to build community just across everywhere is how much I love this place Yeah, a lot of people mentioned that Coming here to actually see in person the people that you know on Facebook and Twitter is like the coolest Oh, yeah, and it's and it's difficult like I I was met this person named Emily and They were like looking for registration and we're trying to help them out and stuff like that and it wasn't until later like two or three hours later when we were in the Del Mar that I realized that Emily died from Australia as somebody who I knew on Facebook and Because people don't always post pictures of their face that is recognizable and easy and yeah in person everybody looks a little bit Different so it's it is very cool to meet these people that you've commented on things looked at pictures of their family And all of a sudden you're face-to-face and you get to talk to them. I think that's fantastic very nice What are you what's your plan for the rest of today today's chill? I'm a photographer, so I'll be shooting some of the workshops and and the opening ceremonies of the the meet and greet tonight I'll be helping angry loss get some of those pictures and and sometime by the pool Which I think last year we didn't get by the pool at all So try and mix in a little bit of vacation with this and today should be some something of a relaxing day And if you come to Tam in the future and you want to meet Bruce just look for the guy with the biggest camera Can you pick that up so we can take a look at it? Let's see this There we go. That's big camera. Here's the big gun. That's right Bruce. Thanks a lot for joining us my pleasure


Hi, everyone. I'm Giovanni. Welcome back to another Cointelegraph interview. Today I'm joined by professional trader Alessio Rastani. Okay, Alessio, so let's get started with some charts. The Bitcoin chart, what is your point of view on the current situation in the Bitcoin market? Hi, Giovanni. Thanks for having me again on your program on Cointelegraph. Great to be here. So about Bitcoin, the way I approach it is, as I'm sure many people are aware, I approach it through the Elliott wave model or Elliott wave theory. The reason, first of all, what is Elliott wave theory? Elliott wave theory simply says, as this standard chart shows, the standard model, that when price is trending, that price essentially moves in the direction the major trend in five waves. So in other words, price moves in the direction the trend in five waves. But if it goes against the trend, it moves in three waves. So in other words, counter trend moves are usually composed of three waves. But in the direction the major trend is five waves. Now, that essentially is what Elliott wave theory is.  By the way, each wave is subdivided into smaller waves as well. Now, the reason why we apply Elliott wave theory and the reason why it's useful is because it's the only method out there.  Nothing else will give you that. So in other words, if you want to know where are you in the big picture, are we at the beginning of a major trend? Are we at the end of a major trend? Are we in the middle of that trend? Or are we in a, are we about to start the correction? All of those questions can be answered for you to some degree of probability by Elliott wave theory. I'll give an example. Now, for example, Giovanni, if you know that you're about to start a wave one and two, a wave one, then it tells you that you're potentially the beginning of a major trend. If you know you're about to start the wave three, wave three is usually, wave three is usually the biggest, I would say this, usually the strongest and most dynamic part of a trend. So knowing that you're at the start of a wave three is very important because that could prepare you for a big wave, a big move up in an uptrend, for example. And if, for example, if you think you're at the end of a wave five, then you should be getting ready for a major correction. So have a look at this chart that I've actually given you here. This is a Bitcoin five wave, or should I say Bitcoin Elliott wave chart. What I've done here on this chart is to the best of my, best of my knowledge here, I've pointed out from 2011, from the beginning, from the very start of the trend in Bitcoin, the uptrend here, the bull market in Bitcoin, I've outlined the five waves here for Bitcoin, going all the way back to 2011 to the present. Now, notice that that first major bull market, the first major move from 2011, 2012, all the way to 2013, that was a five wave move, which completed back in 2013. And then we had a bear market, as I'm sure you remember, Giovanni, anyone who watches this video right now, will remember the bear market of 2013, and then to the start of 2015, 2015. That was an ABC corrective wave, as you can see there. Then from 2015, from January 2015, we had, we started a major bull market. This is the one that took Bitcoin from about $100, $100, $130, all the way to nearly a $20,000 mark, but just under $20,000. That was also a five wave move. That was a wave three, by the way, wave three ended in 2017 in the famous peak of 2017. And then we had a bear market correction in ABC wave four correction, as you can see there in the wave four, ended at the end of 2018. And then from end of 2018, from start of 2019, we started a five wave move in the bigger wave five. By the way, the large wave counts are shown to you in red. The smaller wave counts are shown to you in white. And the magenta counts are the ABC waves. But it's the larger wave counts in red that I'm looking at at the moment, the larger red wave counts. I think basically we're starting this next major wave five. I think we're at the beginning of a wave five. And if I had to narrow it down, I would say we're potentially at the beginning of a wave three of a wave five. Many people thought that the crash of April to June was a bear market. I'm sure you heard this. Many people were saying that there was a bear market a few months ago back in from April, the crash from April to June. But I disagreed. We said, no, it's not a bear market because we haven't broken market structure. Market structure was a 30,000, 29,000 levels. We never broke it because I said it was a way for correction. This is how Elliott wave theory helps you because people who said we're in a bear market were forgetting that actually there was a high probability we were just completing a wave four of this major wave five, not an actual bear market. By the way, when this five wave move completes, then I'm expecting a bear market. Okay, that's interesting. So a bullish view overall regarding all time highs, do you think that we are going to break through the all time highs by the end of the year, according to this model that you just showed? It's a very good question, Giovanni. Yes, I do think so. I think that as far as the all time highs of Bitcoin, which were formed back in April, just near 64,000, I think it was. So as long as Bitcoin remains above the September lows, which I think were about 40K, approximately 40, 41K. So as long as Bitcoin remains about that September low, the odds are higher that Bitcoin could make all time highs, likely by the end of this year. And here's another reason. Seasonality is what's called the Halloween effect. My research shows that the period between the end of October, October 31st, to the end of December is a bullish period, not just for the stock market, but also for Bitcoin. So now, of course, seasonality is not a guarantee. People often think that seasonality is like a short thing that definitely we're going to go higher or it's definitely bullish. It's a probability. I would say the probability is higher than 50%. So it's a very good probability. But all the studies show that as long as Bitcoin remains above the 200 moving average, daily 200 moving average, the odds are higher for Bitcoin to move potentially higher, making all time highs between October 31st Halloween and the end of the year. Okay, that was pretty clear. So now let's switch to Ethereum. So a lot of eyes are pointing to Ethereum this year because it has been outperforming Bitcoin for most of the year. What is your view on Ethereum currently? I'll make my analysis on Ethereum very quick because my main focus is usually on Bitcoin. But essentially, I think that Ethereum also is going to benefit, I think Ethereum. One of the things that's interesting is Ethereum has not yet confirmed as we're making this video. I mean, it could change by the time people are watching this, but at the time we're making this video, Ethereum has not yet confirmed the breakout above the September highs, although maybe that will change soon. But Bitcoin has made, Bitcoin has taken out the September highs. Ethereum hasn't done that just yet at the moment anyway. I think once Ethereum confirms that, once Ethereum takes out the September highs, that also would be a very bullish factor. So I always like to combine Bitcoin and Ethereum together to get a better probability. Put it this way, if Bitcoin is going to go to 100,000, which I think is likely by next year, then I think the probabilities are that Ethereum is likely to go over. My targets for Ethereum would also be for next year or maybe perhaps by the end of this year would be 6,280. Again, these are my targets more likely to be next year, but 2022. But let's say 6,280, 7,800, and then 12,250. Some people may think these targets are rather conservative, rather tame, but I'm going to keep it modest and conservative. So that's 6,280, 7,800, and 12,250, potentially by the end of next year for Ethereum. And if Ethereum were to drop below the September lows, which I think carries a lower probability, but if that were to happen, then I would have to change my mind about those targets potentially because that would change the structure of the charts. But those are my targets as long as Ethereum remains above the September lows. There are news coming out lately that Bitcoin ETF might be approved soon. There are several of them that are being considered by the SEC currently. So what is your view on this issue? There are some analysts that say that this is going to be not a game changer since there are already a lot of access to Bitcoin investments for institutions as well. So it's not going to be a game changer as some people tend to believe. What is your view on this ETF approval? What kind of effect might have on Bitcoin? I think it's going to be bad news for Bitcoin. Put it this way. Let me explain why. So whenever Wall Street or whenever the institutions bring out an ETF on anything, that's a warning sign. It's a big warning sign to get ready for something terrible, get ready for something dangerous. Now, don't get me wrong here. I'm not saying as soon as the ETF comes out that Bitcoin is going to crash or I'm going to get out. That's not what I'm saying. I just hope the ETF won't come out before Bitcoin hits 100k. I'm hoping it's going to come out after Bitcoin hits 100k because in the past, whenever an ETF has come out on most things, on almost anything, usually at top forms, usually major top forms in that market and we see a bear market or a crash occur in that market. I could name a few things. In 2000 and I don't know when it was, but in 2008, 2009, after the major Wall Street crash of 2008, the major recession, what happened was this. Wall Street came out with an ETF for volatility for the VIX, I think it was. Now, I forget the year exactly. I think it was late 2008, beginning of 2009. But that was exactly when essentially when the stock market bottomed and it went up. What I'm trying to say is Wall Street saw a lot of people were putting their money into volatility index markets. So they thought, oh, okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to make an ETF for people who want volatility. What happened? That was about the time when the stock market bottomed and when volatility topped. So in other words, it was about the time when the markets reversed direction. In other words, actually, there's a lot of research on this that whenever an ETF is brought out on something or a futures contract on something, usually it's a warning sign of an extreme reaching in a specific market, a turning point, an inflection point. I'll give you another example, Giovanni. I think it was late 2017 when Wall Street brought out the futures for Bitcoin, Bitcoin futures. I think that was late 2017, probably December 2017. But that was about the time when Bitcoin topped. There was a temporary top at the 19,000, 20,000 level and then it crashed. So my point is anytime Wall Street brings out something, whether it's a futures contract or something or ETF or something, it's a huge warning. It means be careful and get ready for something, get a potential inflection point, a turning point might be approaching. All right, that's an interesting perspective. Quite, I would say, counter-intuitive, but let's see how it goes. Let's then wrap up the discussion with my last question, which is related to one of your predictions. So you predicted that a bear market for the stock market may be coming soon. So what time frame are we looking at? Why do you think that the bear market is coming and what kind of effects that is going to have on Bitcoin? Let me say that I'm not expecting a bear market this year. I've made that very clear even last year. I'm not expecting a bear market this year. I think a bear market in Bitcoin and the stock market is likely coming potentially towards in the next couple of years. So according to Jason Geppert of Sentiment Trader, he says that there's a rising probability of bear market and deteriorating macro conditions. And he says that whenever there's whenever the spread between bear market probability and macro index models increases over 20%, as shown here by this chart, then there is a very high probability of a bear market. In fact, we've seen before when this happened, 2007 bear market occurred afterwards, 2000, then we had a dot-com crash, the dot-com bubble burst in 1990, the famous 1990s recession, 1980, 1973, 1969. Every time when this model shows a signal going over 20%, this shows a rising probability of a bear market. And I again, I have to give thanks to Jason for that research. But the bottom line is, I think that from a technical perspective and from an economic perspective and even a fundamentals perspective, everything is looking likely that again, not this year, not 2021, but potentially the next couple of years, we could very well see a major top in not just the stock markets, but also Bitcoin as well. Because as we've seen in the past, usually when the stock market crashes and goes into a bear market, it has a negative impact also on Bitcoin. When the stock market crashes, Bitcoin may also crash and drop as well, is because both are risk on markets. Stock markets and Bitcoin are risk on markets. When there's an appetite for risk, both markets go up. But when there's low appetite, when there's little appetite for risk, they go down. So when investors and traders, when they fear risk increasing and they potentially fear losing money on markets dropping, then they typically sell both stock markets and stocks and Bitcoin. In fact, there's a theory that perhaps Bitcoin gets sold to cover their losses. When traders lose money in stock markets, they may sell their Bitcoin wallets, empty it out to upset their losses in other markets. So yeah, I don't think it's going to be a good news for Bitcoin when that bear market comes. Yeah, actually, we saw that exact scenario happening last year when there was the coronavirus outbreak. We saw the stock market crashing and Bitcoin crashing. You're absolutely right, Giovanni. You're right. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Thanks a lot. I'll ask you for coming on our show. That was super cool to talk to you. Thanks very much, Giovanni. And again, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.


Live from New York, it's theCUBE. Covering theCUBE, New York City, 2018. Brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media and its ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're here live in New York City for CUBE NYC. This is our ninth year covering the big data ecosystem. Now it's AI machine learning. Used to be Hadoop, now it's growing. Ninth year covering theCUBE here in New York City. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Our next guest, Josh Rogers, CEO of Syncsort, going back long history in theCUBE. You guys have been on every year, really appreciate chatting with you. Been fun to watch the evolution of Syncsort and also get the insight. Thanks for coming on, appreciate it. Thanks for having me, it's great to see you. So you guys have constantly been on this wave and it's been fun to watch. You guys had a lot of IP in your company and then just watching you guys kind of surf this big data wave but also make some good decisions, make some good calls. You're always out front. You guys are on the right parts of the wave. I mean now it's cloud, you guys are doing some things. Give us a quick update. So you guys got a brand refresh so you get the new logo going on there. Give us a quick update on Syncsort. You got some news, get the brand refresh. Just a quick update. So I'll start with the brand refresh. We refresh the brand and you see that in the web properties and in the messaging that we use in all of our communications. And we did that because the value proposition of the portfolio had expanded so much and we had gained so much more insight into some of the key use cases that were helping customers solve that we really felt we had to do a better job of telling our story and probably most importantly engage with the more senior level within these organizations. What we've seen is that when you think about the largest enterprises in the world we offer kind of a series of solutions around two fundamental value propositions that tend to be top of mind for these executives. The first is how do I take the 20, 30, 40 years of investment in infrastructure and run that as efficiently as possible. I can't make any compromises on the availability of that. I certainly have to improve my governance and security of that environment. But fundamentally I need to make sure I can run those mission critical workloads but I need to also save some money along the way because what I really wanna do is be a data-driven enterprise. What I really wanna do is take advantage of the data that gets produced in these transactional applications that run on my AS400 or IBMI environment, my mainframe environment, even in my traditional data warehouse and make sure that I'm getting the most out of that data by analyzing it in a next generation set of times. I mean one of the trends I wanna get your thoughts on Josh because you're kind of talking through what the big mega trend which is infrastructure agnostic from an application standpoint. So that's the trend with DevOps and you guys have certainly had diverse solutions across your portfolio but at the end of the day this is the abstraction layer customers want. They wanna run workloads on environments that they know are in production that work well with applications. So they almost wanna view the infrastructure or cloud if you will, same thing as just agnostic but let the programmability take care of itself under the hood if you will. Right and what we see is that people are absolutely kind of extending and modernizing existing applications. This is in the large enterprise and those applications and core components will still run on mainframe environments and so what we see in terms of use cases is how do we help customers understand how to monitor that the performance of those applications. If I have a tier that's sitting on the cloud but it's transacting with the mainframe behind the firewall, how do I get an end end view of application performance? How do I take the data that ultimately gets logged in a DB2 database on the mainframe and make that available in a next generation repository like Hadoop so that I can do advanced analytics. And when you think about solving both the optimization and the integration challenge there, you need a lot of expertise in both sides, the old and the new. And I think that's what we unique. You guys done a good job with integration. I wanna ask a quick question on the integration piece because it's becoming more and more table states but also challenging at the same time. Integration and connecting systems together, if they're stateless, there's no problem. You use APIs, right, you do that. But as you start to get data that needs state information, you start to think about some of the challenges around different disparate systems being distributed but networked. In some cases, they've been decentralized. So distributed networking is being radically changed by the data decisions on the architecture, but also integration called API 2.0 or this new way to connect and integrate. Yeah, so what we've tried to focus on is kind of solving that piece between these older applications around these legacy platforms and making them available to whatever the consumer is. Today we see Kafka and in Amazon we see Kinesis as kind of key buses delivering data as a service. And so the role that we see ourselves playing and what we announced this week is an ability to track, change data, deliver it in real time in these older systems but deliver it to these new targets, Kafka, Kinesis and whatever comes next. Because really that's the fundamental partner we're trying to beat our customers is, we'll help you solve the integration challenge between these infrastructure you've been building for 30 years and this next generation technology that lets you kind of get the next leg of value out of your data. So when you think about the evolution of this whole big data space, the early narrative and the trade press was, well, no SQL is going to replace Oracle and DB2 and the data lake is going to replace the EDW and unstructured data is all that matters and so forth and now you look at what's really happened is the EDW is a fundamental component of making decisions and insights and SQL was the killer app for a dupe. And I take an example of say fraud detection and when you think, and this is where you guys sit in the middle from a standpoint of data quality, data integration, in order to do what we've done in the past 10 years, take fraud detection down from where I look at my statement a month or two later and then call the credit card company, it's now gone to a text that's instantaneous, still some false positives and I'm sure you're working on that even but so maybe you could describe sort of that use case or any other of your favorite use case and what your role is there in terms of taking those different data sources, integrating them, improving the data quality. Right, so I think when you think about a use case where I'm trying to improve the SLA or the responsiveness of kind of how do I manage against or detect fraud rather than trying to detect it on a daily basis, I'm trying to detect it at transaction time. You know the reality is you want to leverage the existing infrastructure you have. So if you have a data warehouse that has detailed information about transaction history, maybe that's a good source. If you have a transaction that's running or an application that's running on the mainframe that's doing those transactions real time, the ultimate answer is how do I knit together the existing infrastructure I have and embed the additional intelligence and capability I need from these new capabilities like for example using Kafka to deliver a complete solution. What we do is we help customers kind of tie that together. So specifically we announced this integration I mentioned earlier where we can take a change data element in a DB2 database and publish it into Kafka. That is a key requirement in kind of delivering this real time fraud detection. If in fact I'm running transactions on a mainframe, which most banks are. Without ripping and replacing. Why would you want to rip out an application that you send your core customer file while we can just extend it? And you mentioned the Cloudera 6 certification. You guys have been early on there. Maybe talk a little bit about that relationship, the engineering work that has to get done for you to be able to get into the press release you know day one. When we, so we just mentioned that my first time on theCUBE was in 2013 and that was on the back of our initial product release in the big data world. When we brought the initial DMXH release to market, we knew that we needed to have deep partnerships with Cloudera and the key platform providers. I went and saw Mike Olson. I introduced myself. He was gracious enough to give me an hour and explain what we thought we could do to help them develop more value proposition around their platform. And it's been a terrific relationship. Our architecture and our engineering and product management relationship is such that it allows us to very rapidly certify and work on their new releases. Usually within a couple of days. And so not only can customers take advantage of that which is pretty unique in the industry but we get some visibility from Cloudera as evidenced by Tendu's quote in the press release that was released this week. It's just, which is terrific. Talk about your business a little bit and you guys like a 50 year old startup. You've had this really interesting history. I mean I remember when I first started in the industry following you guys and you've restructured the company. You've done some spin outs. You've done some M&A. But it seems to be working. Talk about growth and progress. So we're the leader in the big iron to big data market. We define that as allowing customers to optimize their traditional legacy investments for cost and performance. And then we help them maximize the value of the data they get generated in those environments by integrating it with next generation analytic environments. To do that we need a broad set of capability. There's a lot of different ways to optimize existing infrastructure. One is capacity management. So we made an acquisition about a year ago in the capacity management space. We're allowing customers to figure out how do I make sure I've got not too much and not too little capacity. That's an example of optimization. Another area of capability is data quality. So if I'm gonna maximize the value of the data it gets produced in these older environments it'd be great that when it lands in these next generation repositories it's as high quality as possible. We acquired Trillium about a year ago. And I was coming up on two years ago. And we think that's a great capability for our customers. It's going terrific. We took their core data quality engine and now it runs natively on a distributed Hadoop infrastructure. We have customers leveraging it to deliver unprecedented kind of volume of matching. So not only breakthrough performance but kind of this whole notion of right wants to run anywhere. I can run it on an SMP environment. I can run it on Hadoop. I can run it on Hadoop in the cloud. And so we've seen terrific growth in that business based on kind of our continued innovation particularly pointing it at the big data space. Yeah, one of the things I'm impressed with you guys is you guys have transformed so having a transformation message to your customers is a lot of credibility. But what's interesting is that the world with containers and Kubernetes now in multicloud you're seeing that you don't have to kill the legacy to bring in the new stuff with you can see if you connect systems what you guys have done with legacy system. Okay, connect the data.  You can do cloud native. You can do some really cool things. Right, I think there's this rip and replace concept is kind of going away. You put containers around it too. That helps. Right, it's expensive and it's risky. So why do that? So I think that's the realization. The reality is that when people build these mission critical systems, they stay in place for not five years but 25 years. And so the question is how do you allow the customers to leverage what they have and the investment they've made? Let's take advantage of the next wave. And that's what we're seniorly focused on. And I think we're doing a great job of that not just for customers but also for these next generation partners which has been a lot of fun for us. And we've also heard people doing analytics they want to have their own multi-tenant isolated environments which kind of goes to if don't screw this system up if it's doing a great job on a mission critical thing don't bundle it, just connect it to the network and you're good. And on the cloud side, we're continuing to look at our portfolio and say what capabilities will customers want to consume in a cloud delivery model? And so we've been doing that in the data quality space for quite a while. We just launched and announced over the last about three months ago the capacity management as a service. So you'll continue to see both on the optimization side and on the integration side us continue to deliver new method new ways for customers to consume to consume the capabilities they need. That's a key thing for you guys integration that's pretty much how you guys put the stake in the ground and engineer your activities around integration. Yeah, we start with the premise that you're going to need to continue to run this older investments that you made and you're going to integrate the new stuff with that. What's next? What's going on the rest of the year for you guys? So we'll continue to invest heavily in the real time and changing the capture space. We think that's really interesting. It's, we're seeing a tremendous amount of demand there. We've made a series of acquisitions in the security space. We believe that the ability to kind of secure data in the core systems in its journey to the next generation systems is absolutely critical. So you will continue to invest there. And then I'd say governance. That's an area that we think is incredibly important as people start to really take advantage of these data lakes they're building. They have to establish real governance capabilities around those. So we believe we have an important role to play there. And there's other adjacencies, but those are probably the big areas we're investing in right now. Continuing to move the ball down the field in the SyncSor cadence of acquisitions, organic development. Congratulations, Josh. Thanks for coming on to Josh Rod. CEO of SyncSor here inside theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. 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