In Poak-Twee Province, some 50 kilometers east of Saigon, a Chinook helicopter arrives at an artillery position of the Royal New Zealand Army. The men and guns are to be flown to a new location in the province. The internal loading of the aircraft is expedited as the New Zealand unit prepares to support Australian troops engaged in Operation Ingham. The date is 28 November. Sling loaded material is hooked up and the utility helicopter lifts off and heads southeastward toward the zone of operations. A few meters from this landing zone, the first Australian task force is seeking enemy supplies and supply routes. Two Royal Armored Regiments are conducting the sweep. Now the artillery unit is arriving. The New Zealand artillerymen begin digging in. As soon as their equipment is off loaded, they start setting up camp. Meanwhile, troops of the Australian contingent who had earlier secured the battery position carry out a perimeter guard patrol. It is suspected that the VC may try to hit the artillery position with mortars. Patrolling units keep in touch by radio as they comb the area. On the 29th of November, the day after the New Zealanders landed, the battery fires a mission in support of Australian APCs. The Australian armor has made contact with some VC and the artillery is hitting enemy positions. 3,000 meters from the artillery position, the Australian armored vehicles begin moving in on the enemy. Now at close range, the men from down under are hit by a hail of small arms fire. They return the fire using both 30 and 50 caliber automatic weapons. Abruptly, the enemy ceases firing and the Royal Australian armored vehicles push on continuing the search. But the enemy has fled and is nowhere to be found. At a pre-arranged rendezvous point, a Chinook helicopter brings in a load of collapsible fuel tanks from which the APCs will refuel in the field. On the morning of the 30th of November, the Australians commence refueling operations. The crews quickly hooking up the necessary hoses and pumps. Then, one by one, the armored vehicles are serviced. When the refueling is completed, the Australians start circling back to their base, searching for VC as they go. The area is covered with elephant grass. They soon discover a large enemy bunker with an associated network of tunnels. The entire complex is thoroughly searched and though abandoned by the Viet Cong, it contains nearly 30 tons of polished rice. The searchers explore the various entrances with extreme caution. The rice is destroyed and the task force moves out through the jungles and scrub growth of the coastal province. One of the hazards encountered on the return trip to camp is a swiftly flowing river. Control cables are used to guide the armored personnel carriers across these treacherous waters. Finally, the vehicles of the Royal Australian Armored Regiment reach civilization once again and pass through a barbed wire fence and arrive in camp. Enemy prisoners taken during the two-day search and clear mission are brought to the camp's airstrip. Here, they are transferred to an RAAF helicopter for transport to the regimental headquarters where they will be interrogated. On 3 December, Operation Ingham comes to a successful conclusion in Phuoc Tui province. 64 kilometers northeast of Saigon, in the province of Phuoc Tui, a village is about to be destroyed by elements of the 11th Armored Cavalry. But first, the people must be evacuated along with their belongings. For some time now, the village has been infested with the VC. The surrounding area is leveled as operations begin. At the request of the Vietnamese provincial chief, the work of demolishing the village begins. Flamethrowers are used for the job. In the distance, an airstrike hits a group of VC fleeing from the area. Following the fiery destruction of the village, armored vehicles move in and mow down a thick banana grove. There is to be nothing left which might be of use to the enemy. Even these fruit trees must be denied the VC. Viet Cong snipers wounded one cavalryman while trying to deter the Americans from destroying the village. A flying ambulance is called in. The injured man is soon aboard the Dustoff chopper and airborne for the hospital. On the highway far below, the Vietnamese villagers are rolling toward a life of freedom from oppression at the relocation center. The operation is over. In a valley in Binh Dinh province, 25 km southwest of Bong Son, elements of the first air cavalry conduct a sweep through Viet Cong control territory. It is 20 December and the action is part of Operation Thayer 2. After light contact with the enemy, the unit advances to find one dead VC and nearby a badly wounded Viet Cong officer. He has passed into shock and a medic quickly provides emergency aid to save his life. As soon as possible, a chopper is called in to evacuate the wounded prisoner. He will be taken to a nearby field hospital and if he recovers, will be subject to a thorough interrogation. Operation Thayer 2 which began on 25 October and has thus far accounted for more than 600 enemy dead continues successfully. At Long Binh on 11 December, an awards ceremony is held for the 145th Combat Aviation Battalion and Attached Units. General William C. Westmoreland arrives with Colonel Raymond P. Campbell, commander of the 12th Combat Aviation Group, as participating troops present arms. The distinguished unit citation for extraordinary heroism says in part, when the besieged defenders of Dong Soi requested assistance, the 145th Aviation Battalion responded, although the insurgents had all approaches covered by 50 caliber machine guns and heavy automatic weapons. General Westmoreland fastens the streamer to the battalion colors as Colonel Campbell assists. The general addresses the helleborn troops referring to the citation which concludes, the determination, indomitable courage and extraordinary heroism demonstrated by these units, participating with the 145th Aviation Battalion, are in the highest traditions of the military service. On 21 December, an Air Force jet puts down a Tonsinut Air Force Base. Among those debarking are the Army's Chief of Staff, General Harold K. Johnson and Sergeant Major of the Army, William O. Wildridge, arriving in Vietnam for a Christmas visit. On hand to greet the visitors is General Westmoreland, Commander-in-Chief MacVie. The Army's top enlisted man is returning to Vietnam for meetings and visits with the troops. While the generals confer, Sergeant Wildridge visits with enlisted men of the 18th Replacement Company. Good luck to you. It's all a vast night. Hope if you should come by Washington and stop and see me. Good luck to you. I may see you out at Fort Sill. Hope so. All the best to you. Jarvis, nice to see you. The Sergeant Major then visits the wards and nurses at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital. I'm going to leave from Saigon on the 28th and go directly into Dallas, Texas to represent the Army at the Cotton Bowl there. I understand we're going to talk to some nurses there at Dallas on arrival. And I've been asked to bring something from you to present to them. And I understand you're going to give me one of your very nice pocket patches here from the 93rd Evacuation Hospital. I'll be proud and very happy to represent you there and present your patch to the nurses there in Dallas. I want to tell you, and I know that I speak for all the soldiers, but when I tell you this, how grateful that we are for your help. I visit the hospitals around the states and my travels there, and I talk to a lot of soldiers who have been processed through your hospital here on back to the states. And they always tell me how wonderful the nurses are. And so I know I speak for all of them when I say to you, we're grateful and we're very proud that you're a member of our team. And we certainly thank you for your help that you give to the soldiers. The sergeant's trip would not be complete without a visit to his old unit, the Big Red One. I'd like to say, well, I have the opportunity that I wish all of our soldiers around the world a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And I look forward to seeing you all in the future. I run an office for you a bit and then the Pentagon. I hope that you'll contact me there if I can be assistance to you. And I hope that if you're in the war, then there you'll stop in and see your office. Thank you. At headquarters, Field Force One in Nha Trang, on 21 December, officers and newsmen are on hand for the arrival of General Nguyen Phan Thieu, Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam. General Thieu is greeted by General William Westmoreland, Commander-in-Chief MacVie, and General Stanley Larson, Commander of Field Force One. The occasion is the presentation of awards to staff officers of Field Force One. General Thieu is presenting the medals to the officers on behalf of the Republic of Vietnam in appreciation for their gallant service in the current conflict. With Generals Westmoreland and Larson congratulating the men, the spirit of warm cooperation between the United States and the Republic of Vietnam is reflected throughout the formal presentation. At the Pentagon on 19 December 1966, a distinguished assembly attends the presentation of the Medal of Honor to First Lieutenant Walter J. Marm Jr. in a Special Army Full Honor Award ceremony. The honors include a 19-gun salute. The Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff accompany Lieutenant Marm's inspection of the Honor Guard. Secretary Stanley R. Reeser addresses the formation and guests. I am honored today to represent President Johnson at this ceremony. We are gathered to present this nation's highest award to First Lieutenant Walter J. Marm Jr. Personal courage is a magnificent thing. The ability to lead other men in the face of extreme danger is a rare gift. Today we honor a young Army officer who early in his military career combined these two qualities to meet the test of combat against a trained and determined foe. Lieutenant Marm takes his place before the Color Guard for the citation. Major General Kenneth G. Wickham, the Adjutant General, reads the citation. His company was moving through the valley to relieve a friendly unit surrounded by an enemy force of estimated regimental size. Lieutenant Marm led his platoon through withering fire until they were finally forced to take cover, realizing that his platoon could not hold very long and seeing four enemy moving into his position, he moved quickly under heavy fire and annihilated all four. Then seeing that his platoon was receiving intense fire from a concealed machine gun, he deliberately exposed himself to draw its fire. Thus locating its position, he attempted to destroy it with an anti-tank weapon. Although he inflicted casualties, the weapon did not silence the enemy fire. Quickly, disregarding the intense fire directed on him and his platoon, he charged 30 meters across open ground and hurled grenades into the enemy position, killing some of the eight insurgents manning it. Although severely wounded, when his grenades were expended, armed with only a rifle, he continued the momentum of his assault on the position and killed the remainder of the enemy. Lieutenant Marm's selfless actions reduced the fire on his platoon, broke the enemy assault and rallied his unit to continue toward the accomplishment of its mission. The Medal of Honor is presented to Lieutenant Marm by Secretary Racer for conspicuous gallantry on the battlefield and extraordinary intrapidity above and beyond the call of duty.


time for question period the member from Prince Edward Hastings. Thanks speaker and good morning my question today is for the Premier. Last week we learned that nine companies built Ontario electricity customers out of 265 million dollars. Now we know one of those companies is run by your government Ontario power generation. OPG's turn at the trough cost electricity payers tens of millions of dollars in inappropriate expenses. That's after your government Premier was warned five times about the program that OPG was abusing. So speaker my question to the Premier is this did her government ignore warnings from the energy board because they enjoyed collecting the money that OPG was wrongfully taking from electricity customers. Thank you Mr. Speaker we're confident in the Ontario energy board and our system operator to run an efficient reliable and fair electricity market for rate payers across the province and both the real-time generation cost guarantee program and the congestion management settlement credit playing extremely important role in our electricity system Mr. Speaker these programs are required to keep the electricity system reliable for families and businesses across the province and stable for our neighbors and other jurisdictions if these programs were eliminated reliability would be put at risk when it comes to OPG Mr. Speaker they released a statement and what they said was in respect of some of what they thought were eligible costs OPG repaid certain costs claimed amounts after discussions concluded on what constituted eligible costs OPG promptly repaid the amounts to the ISO and full in 2015. Thank you supplementary. Speaker back to the Premier the Minister of Energy may be confident in OPG but the people of Ontario and the official opposition have no confidence none in this government to keep a watchful eye on what's happening especially in the energy sector the energy board issued five warnings to four different ministers of energy and two different premiers about the program that OPG was abusing the government ignored all of them Mr. Speaker now we find out that the government benefited to the tune of tens of millions of dollars this at a time when electricity prices were skyrocketing 600,000 Ontarians were behind on their bills 60,000 were being cut off. Speaker four ministers were warned and three of them are still in Premier Wynn's cabinet. How much would electricity break payers have to be out before the Premier finally held someone accountable. Thank you Mr. Speaker abuses within the system are completely unacceptable and that's why the system operator has investigated those market participants and where significant wrongdoing was present. Compensation has been recovered and returned to rate payers 168 million of the 200 million and in eligible cost has been recovered by the ISO Mr. Speaker the total annual cost for the real-time generator cost guaranteed program are now 23 million down significantly from 61 in 2014 Mr. Speaker and also according to the December 2016 market surveillance panel report many of the most problematic issues associated with the congestion management settlement credit regime have been brought to an end in large measure as a result of the panel having identified these situations and the ISO having acted to eliminate them the auditor general says our system operator does act when the board's market surveillance panel makes a recommendation but the panel itself disagreed Mr. Speaker final supplementary speaker the energy minister said a lot right there but what he didn't say was that he was going to go back and try and get the 92 million dollars that still outstanding electricity customers in Ontario have overpaid by that much and energy minister after energy minister after energy minister after energy minister four of them and two premiers sat by idly and did nothing despite the warnings as late as September 2016 ISO was still being told at public meetings that this program was a problem when we tried to have the justice committee review the ISO this October what did the government do they said no and stood firmly against accountability the liberals didn't want electricity customers to know that they were benefiting from this abuse of the program speaker the premier has shown that she thinks she's above accountability does she actually think she's above the law too Mr. Speaker as stated before abuses within the system are completely unacceptable and that's why we have our system operator act on these programs Mr. Speaker and that's why the system operator investigated those market participants where there was significant market wrongdoing present compensation has been recovered and it has been returned to ratepayers Mr. Speaker and one of the most egregious they were a record ten million dollars Mr. Speaker to make sure that we can recoup those costs for excuse me for all ratepayers but again Mr. Speaker more program updates are on the way in form of market renewal Mr. Speaker that again is rebuilding the foundation and which also increased the flexibility and efficiency within Ontario's electricity market Mr. Speaker the market renewal initiative is expected to result in more competitive marketplace answer that meets our system needs while increasing flexibility and efficiencies and will always rely on the OEB and the system operator to keep the system in check new question the member from Renfrew Nipissing-Kembroke last week the member from Barry lashed out at small business owners concerned about the impact of a 32 percent increase in the minimum wage she told business owners that they shouldn't be operating if they can't afford it a member of this government think struggling business owners should just shut up and close their doors speaker is that the official position of this government or will the premier insist the member from Barry apologize thank you premier the speaker and as the member of this could be the beginning very much mr. Speaker and as the member opposite knows I was I was not here last week I was actually overseas mr. Speaker in China and Hong Kong and Vietnam mr. Speaker over two billion dollars worth of economic activity over two feet for Ontario so it was a very successful trade mission I am however very happy to be back to answer the member opposite's question and to say that even though I wasn't here I am 100 percent certain mr. Speaker that the member for Barry supports small business in her community and across the province age mr. Speaker and can look after themselves and look after their families thank you you see it please you see it please start the clock I did did did did just calming everything down member sup thank you speaker back to the premier shockingly that wasn't the most ridiculous comment the member made that day Lawrence Vindham is closing his butcher shop because he can't afford to operate in liberal Ontario and the member from Barry responds by alleging he is closing his shop and blaming the liberals why because he's a progressive conservative she believes mr. Vindham is going out of business because of some grand p.c. party conspiracy to blame it on the liberals that is absolutely ludicrous mr. Vindham is heartbroken because his former employees are without jobs weeks before Christmas her comments were disrespectful they were shameful speaker mr. Vindham deserves an apology and an explanation we'd love to hear that right now you see it please thank you there are small businesses and medium-sized businesses across this province that are thriving mr. Speaker and in fact there were a hundred delegates who traveled with us on our trade mission mr. Speaker there was young one young man his name was Chad jakeman mr. Speaker and he processes maple syrup and he went to Vietnam with us mr. Speaker he signed a deal in Vietnam to bring Canadian Ontario maple syrup in Vietnam to support small businesses mr. Speaker we are also we are also working to make sure that the people who shop at those small businesses mr. Speaker the people who are the customers of those small businesses can look after themselves can feed their families mr. Speaker and can actually and can actually go into those businesses in barry and across the province and buy the products that those small businesses are selling the speaker final supplementary thank you back to the premium a member from barry isn't alone she might truly believe that businesses should close if they can't afford to operate under your government's policies her colleague from mississauga streetsville called the people who feel the impact of bill 148 bad actor employers the member for beaches east york said they need to rethink their business plan and the minister of labor said they should simply raise their prices it's clear the liberal policies to tell business owners in ontario it's our way or the highway they don't care about the jobs these businesses provide and they don't care if these businesses close speaker how many more liberal other liberal members have told businesses in their writings just to simply close their doors mr. Speaker i really believe that underlying this question is another question and that that is does this member and does this party support ends me and i think that it's important that the party opposite make it clear to the people of ontario whether they support an increase you see the face the signaling has been very clear we're in warnings and i'm all over it new question the leader of the third party thank you speaker the question is for the premier does the premier believe that prepaid hydrometers should be long in ontario does she believe that we should have prepaid hydrometers in this province thank you premier minister of energy minister of energy thank you mr. Speaker protecting ontario's energy consumers and ensuring greater fairness across the energy system are the top priorities of this government hydro one as we said before mr. Speaker over the last few weeks the member from land arc front net renix and adding to this one thank you mr. Speaker as said before hydro one is exploring this technology as an effort to ensure more customer choice this is part of a proposal that is before the ontario energy board who have to approve this technology before it's even allowed to be used mr. Speaker and the ontario energy board makes decisions and rules to ensure that consumers are treated fairly and they will factor this in when they make their decision about this new technology but let me repeat that mr. Speaker even if this technology is ever approved by the ontario board ontario energy board customers will have to opt in to be part of this program answer also no residential customer will be without power during the winter months regardless of any type of meter that they choose to have in the future thank you mr. Speaker supplementary speaker hydro one has filed paperwork to force families who are already struggling with sky high hydro bills to feed the meter before they can turn on their lights i want to ban prepaid meters from ontario that's why this afternoon i will be introducing a bill to do exactly the premier of this province agree and support a ban on prepaid hydrometers in our province again thank you mr. Speaker again even if this technology is approved by the oeb mr. Speaker and the oeb will review this and the oebs oebs mandate is to ensure that they have the ratepayers best interests at heart mr. Speaker even if they were to actually approve this customers will then have the member from timmons james bay is warned again mr. Speaker then it's up to the customers to choose if this is something that they would like if this is something that they want mr. Speaker then the customer can opt in to be part of this program also as stated no residential customer will be without power during the winter months this is just one of the initiatives mr. Speaker let the options that hydro one is examining to offer their customers more choice on how they can manage their electricity accounts it's important to note that this project again is still being reviewed by the oeb mr. Speaker final supplementary prepay utility meters were installed in homes across the uk under margaret thatcher they were so disastrous for family speaker that they banned them they subsequently banned them from that country yet this liberal premier seems bent on allowing privatized hydro one to use prepaid meters here in ontario a lot of people might be surprised and disappointed to see the premier following in the footsteps of margaret thatcher but then again i don't remember her campaigning on selling off hydro one either will this premier do the right thing and agree to ban prepaid margaret thatcher style hydro meters in our province mr. Speaker when that party had the right thing opportunity to do the right thing and vote in favor of giving everyone a 25 percent reduction they voted against it mr. Speaker it was this party it was this government mr. Speaker that introduced the energy consumer protection act and updated it in 2015 by banning door-to-door sales for energy contracts increasing consumer representation in the ontario energy board proceedings and enhancing the authority of the oeb to further protect electricity rate payers by boosting consumer protection we have made sure that we've acted on behalf of the people ontario we brought forward initiatives that will protect them mr. Speaker and we've brought forward a program that actually reduced their rates by 25 percent and even more mr. Speaker if they're low-income individuals or individuals that live in rural or northern parts of the province on that side of the house mr. Speaker they're talking about a pie in the sky program that didn't even consider first nations or low-income individuals mr. Speaker we acted to make sure that we protected those people thank you new question the leader of the third party for the premier speaker the privatized hydro one has applied for many rate increases already including a plan that will hurt first nations communities in the far north it's also planning to invest more than six billion dollars in a dirty coal burning american power company instead of putting that money to work right here in ontario upgrading our power system for ontario families and now instead of respecting the ban on wintertime connections hydro one is trying to find a way around it why is this premier still defending this private for-profit company that so clearly is not working in the best interests of families and businesses in ontario thank you mr. there is no way around the law mr. Speaker hydro one cannot find a way around the winter disconnection program mr. Speaker the law is in place there will be no winter disconnections once it starts they make it up as they go along mr. Speaker that's very clear when it comes to us to a vista mr. Speaker as we said before rates won't be affected here in ontario it won't affect local jobs either and it doesn't affect the the the maintenance that hydro one is doing on a day-to-day maintenance day-to-day maintenance of ontario mr. Speaker making sure that we have some of the cleanest and most reliable power in north america because mr. Speaker we no longer have coal on our system and we're working to continue to have a partner mr. Speaker and that's what hydro one is doing when you look at a vista they've made sure that they're lowering their consumption but when it comes to being the tip of the spear everyone looks to ontario it'll be the example that they want to represent last week the minister of economic development and growth said this about prepay hydrometers and i quote they're not evil there's nothing that affects vulnerable people in any way about this that's not true speaker when someone gets behind on their hydro payments right now the hydro companies will work with that person they'll work with that family to try to find an appropriate repayment schedule that works with that person's budget but with a prepay meter the option is completely removed it's either feed the meter or go without power that's what's going to happen how can this premier actually endorse a plan that means vulnerable families could actually have their hydro cut off thank you minister thank you mr. Speaker was this premier who actually created a plan who worked on a plan that actually helped low-income families reduce their bills by 25 percent or even more mr. Speaker and it's that party that voted against it it's this premier and this government that worked on a plan that brought forward a 40 to 50 percent reduction for those northern and rural customers and it's that party that voted against it mr. Speaker when it comes to protecting rate payers when it comes to having the best interest of the people of Ontario at heart it's this premier and this government mr. Speaker and the actions that we have taken are representative of that fact mr. Speaker when the opposition can continue to vote against things and fearmonger that's the scary thing mr. Speaker because at the end of the day there is no such plan in place it is being looked at right now the OEB is considering it and if it is considered mr. Speaker if it is considered by the OEB then it is an opt-in program and people will choose it if it's benefit for them and nobody else mr. Speaker thank you final Speaker premier prepay meters are also extremely expensive to install this liberal government has already wasted millions on not so smart meters i can't understand why they would want to repeat that unfortunate incident again the bottom line is that the private energy system in Ontario isn't working for families or businesses in this province rates have gone up 300 under this government power producers are gaming liberal energy regulators for millions and the private hydro one wants to install prepay meters that would hurt vulnerable Ontarians will this premier support a ban on Margaret Thatcher style prepay hydrometers in our province you see it please you see it please thank you minister thatcher is any thank you mr. Speaker once again i need to repeat there is no prepaid plan coming into place the OEB is reviewing it mr. Speaker and they will then make a decision if the decision of the OEB mr. Speaker is to allow this to move forward they will then do this with the decision of making sure that they're keeping the best interests of ratepayers at heart it is their mandate mr. Speaker to make sure that they keep costs as low as possible for all ratepayers and if they do decide to do this mr. Speaker and that's our quasi judicial organization that makes sure that they look at the impacts that this will have on ratepayers if they make that decision then it is still the customer's choice mr. Speaker if this is something that they want to do there is no back room movement mr. Speaker like the NDP constantly say will happen this is a plan that people will have an opportunity to choose to do if it actually gets approved and moved forward by the OEB mr. Speaker there still is nothing moving forward on this new question the member from neppising thank you and good morning speaker my question is for the premier this morning the financial accountability office released another indictment of this government they said quote additional measures to raise revenue or lower spending will be required if the province intends to achieve a balanced budget the premier called the media from china to say she can't understand how anyone can find any savings yet last week the auditor general found one billion dollars in savings in one report alone in just 14 programs speaker the pc plan will look to save two cents on every dollar that is spent speaker to the premier why is this government mired in waste scandal and mismanagement instead of helping ontario's families thank you very much mr. Speaker well i you know i want to thank the the FAO for his report mr. Speaker he actually confirms that ontario's economy is growing and he expects this growth to continue mr. Speaker and he also confirmed that under the accounting presentation that we've been using for the last 16 years mr. Speaker the budget is balanced and in fact there's a small surplus for 2017-18 mr. Speaker so the report actually shows that our plan is working the economy is growing our unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in 17 years mr. Speaker and more than 843 000 net new jobs have been created since the recession but mr. Speaker the fact is that we continue to work to create more fairness in this province mr. Speaker the reality is that there are still people who are not feeling the benefit of that economic growth mr. Speaker and that's exactly why exactly why we're raising the minimum wage mr. Speaker exactly why oh it plus will be in place as of january 1st mr. Speaker thank you thank you supplementary back to the premier well the FAO delivered a blistering indictment pre speaker so it's obvious that the premier read a different report than everybody else the pc plan is different than the liberal plan the financial accountability office said that government must either raise revenues or lower spending now the ontario pc plan will find two cents on every dollar through eliminating waste this government doesn't even believe exists the premier says savings are impossible well if they can't see how to lower spending speaker then the premier must be raising taxes so speaker to the premier will we know before or after the election which taxes they intend to raise thank you the member opposite is part of the party that has promised that they would cut 12 billion dollars out of mr. Speaker 12 billion dollars this province mr. Speaker every community across this province mr. Speaker the impact of those cuts would be felt so if the member opposite is asking whether we support cutting 12 billion dollars out of program and services in this province mr. Speaker the answer is no we're very appreciative of the FAO's report we're very appreciative that he recognizes the economic growth that we're seeing in this province that he recognizes that the budget is balanced mr. Speaker and we're going to continue to invest in the province and not cut 12 new question member from nickel belt thank you mr. Speaker to the premier last week holly pothio went to brampton civic hospital she was diagnosed with pneumonia at that very scary moment when she needed a hospital bed she was told that brampton civic hospital was too overcrowded they could not take any more patient just imagine speaker having pneumonia and being told that you can't get a hospital bed being told that the hospital is so overcrowded that it cannot help you holly was sent by ambulance to the emergency department at etobicole general that's where she spent two days in a night in a crowded hallway with many other patients in a warning sign rather than an isolation room why is this premier letting down people like holly by failing to stop the crisis of holly medicine inside ontario overcrowded hospital questions thank you well thank you speaker and thank you for this question and we strive to have the very best health care system in the country speaker we actually do have the very best health care system in the country but we know we constantly need to respond to to increases in population speaker to other factors that increase demand on hospitals and that is exactly why we're investing 140 million dollars in the hospital home and community sectors to open new beds new spaces to meet the patient to meet the needs of patients and build capacity across the continuum we have an excellent health care system people in ontario rely on it they know it is excellent but we need to be constantly responding to the changing demand and that's exactly what we are doing here thank you supplementary the premier's temporary bed are not a real solution holly knows that respected health care expert are saying the exact same thing take dr paul pageau president of the canadian associations of emergency physician and i quote says funding for temporary beds does not seem to match up with what a normal hospital bed would be funded at dr doris grinspen ceo of rnao says and i quote we will not succeed at staffing those surge capacity beds because people want permanent full-time work not part-time position that only last a few months why won't this premiere listen to the patient listens to the leaders in health care and fund permanent beds with full-time nurses that ontario need to stop this dangerous overcrowding in our hospitals thank you minister speaker maybe these numbers speak for themselves we're making over two thousand additional beds and spaces available this year to improve access to care for patients and families and to reduce wait times that includes 1200 additional hospital bed speaker that is the equivalent of building six new hospital speaker so uh in addition to that we're building affordable housing for seniors who need additional support so they can get out of the hospital and into a home and make room for someone who needs that hospital care speaker we're creating transitional care spaces for up to 1700 patients who don't require care in a hospital we're reopening 150 beds at humper river hospital a decision that that party ridiculed we're opening 150 beds and 75 more beds at u h n's former health care site we are committed to ensuring excellent care new question the member from scarborough agent court thank you mr speaker my questions for the minister international trade i along with my resident scarborough agent court was closely watching the government's trade mission to china and vietnam these missions are always exciting because they're not only promote ontario on a global schedule scale they bring foreign investment fuel economic growth and enhancing research collaboration they also highlight the great talents we're building right here in ontario with greater access to diverse markets come greater opportunities for ontario businesses workers and consumers in ontario alone mr speaker the international exports accounts for 36 percent of the gdp speaker scarborough agent court residents know that diversifying our trading partners with the goods and services in which we trade is paramount our government's plan to diversify our trade is integral part of prosperous ontario and we have seen this been implemented right now speaker three or two the minister can he please share with the house the success of the recent trade mission to china and vietnam minister of international trade thank you speaker speaker great to be home speaker i'd like to thank the member from agent court for asking this question now more than ever speaker ontario's priority must lie in the diversifying our trade routes is why the premier and i along with a delegation of over 100 businesses travel to china and this was the third premier land mission to china and ontario first ever trade mission to vietnam delegates met with local companies and institutions through the many business to business session and site visit this mission spent seven different cities with focused delegations in medical technology science and technology and the act food sector speaker overall the trade mission illustrates ontario world-class education system our competitive answer environment talented workforce and leadership in developing innovative technologies thank you speaker thank you to the minister for this response it is remarkable to hear ontario expanding the global footprint i know that such achievement positive affect all of ontario and especially my constituent scarborough agent court with china being ontario's second largest single nation trading partner and vietnam is a growing nation bursting with potentials ontario is taking full advantage throughout trade mission to create new relationship and strengthen existing bonds i was very excited mr speaker to hear ontario help meetings with byd jenzi and johnson electrics these businesses have committed to continue growing their businesses here in ontario fundamental demonstrate a stronger confidence in our economy and our talented workforce these trade mission mr speaker tangible evidence of a province and ontario businesses are working together demonstrate opportunities for growth here in ontario speaker through you to the minister can he please question the achievements made during this trade missions that will directly affect ontario's workforce thank you minister thank you speaker she can worry worry proud to announce that ontario companies and institutions side an unprecedented amount of agreements where they'll add about 2.3 billion speaker i would like to highlight a few of our accomplishments number one subsidiary of fear her international will set up kingston's first baby formula production facility which will recreate up to 277 jobs senior glass holdings has selected ontario for its north american facility with 450 million investment and we china will be hosting their 25th anniversary leadership seminar in ontario this event is expected to bring 10 000 people here in ontario speaker our government is at forefront of business and we are prepared to navigate new opportunities thank you my questions to the premier speaker as our st mary's hospital cardiac care providers earn national recognition for some of the best cardiac services in canada patients in a world region are wondering where their liberal government is to support those services january will mark another calendar year with patients still facing long way times before getting bust out of the region for cardiac electrophysiology it also marks five years five years since the liberal government promised funding for an urgently needed still undelivered ep lab at st mary's speaker the people's guarantee prioritizes cardiac care with a commitment to expand cardiac centers in the province will the premier and the dangerous waiting game and commit to expand warler region cardiac care shovels in the ground for the st mary's ep lab before the year is out 2017 thank you deputy premier deputy premier well speaker i know that the uh the minister will be more than happy to answer the specifics of st mary's but i do know that that is a project that is is underway but i know that i know that the member opposite will be very interested to hear generally speaking about our health care system and how we're doing when it comes to wait times the phraser institute has recently announced how ontario is doing relative to other provinces speaker we are only one of two provinces in canada to improve from 2016 to 2017 we have the shortest wait time from gp to specialist the shortest wait times in the country from specialist to treatment we have the shortest wait times for CT scans and the shortest wait times for MRIs we have the shortest wait for ultrasounds the shortest wait times for radiation oncology the shortest wait times for general surgery, and the shortest wait time for gynecological treatments. Well cardiac patients in the Warlew-Wolenton-Lin and surrounding area are continuing to wait and wait and wait. And so how many times do we have to stand up? Member from Kitchener's Centre is warned. Question. How many times do we have to stand up to this Liberal government just to get the vital services that they in fact committed to in 2012? How many more patient bus trips out of the region? How many more rides will this government take us on that end back where we started? Despite ministry staff admitting in committee that yes there would be a letter at the time approving the project last year, no tenders have gone out to move us ahead. In fact since then the ministry has used a separate St. Mary's request on top of the undelivered EP lab as an excuse to move the entire project in fact right back to the starting line. Let me make this simple to the Premier. This cardiac EP lab had already been approved. The Liberals promised it back in 2012 and again in 2016. Will the Premier tell the people of Warlew region exactly when their promised critical care cardiac plan will be up and running? Well Speaker as I said this is a project that is moving forward. We've put seven million dollars and the tendering work is underway. But let's think about what would happen under a PC government if they were to be elected. They've promised 12 billion dollars in cuts. Some of that must come from healthcare Speaker. They've promised 15,000 long-term care beds but have allocated money for 1,000. I have a handful I could actually warrant. To make a historic investment in mental health. From Stormont Dundas, Oakland, Gary has warned. The historic investment in mental health. That investment is one fraction, one-fifth of what we have done over the last, one-fifth of what we have done over the last ten years. The only thing historic about it is that it's historically... Thank you. Another question. It's a member from London West. Thank you Speaker. My question is to the Premier. Speaker, students across Ontario will forever remember 2017 as the year they gave up their dreams of a college education because of the Premier's refusal to use her influence and legislative authority to facilitate college collective bargaining. During the December 5th deadline for tuition refunds, the media's report... Stop the clock. Member from Lancaster Dundas, Glen, Gary, Westdale has warned. Finish. The media's reporting that thousands of college students have asked for their money back and are dropping out altogether. We don't know exactly how many because the government is stalling on releasing the tuition refund numbers nearly a week after the deadline. Speaker, Ontarians deserve to know the full impact of this government's inaction to end the college strike. Will the Premier release the tuition refund numbers today? Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I know that the Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development is going to want to speak to the specifics, but let me just say, Mr. Speaker, that I know that there are students and professors and instructors all over the province, Mr. Speaker, who are working to make up that time, and it was unfortunate that students were out of the classroom, Mr. Speaker, and I know that they are working very, very hard to get all of that work in place, Mr. Speaker. But I think what's interesting is that a member of the new Democratic Party is proposing that we should have used legislative authority earlier in the process to undercut the collective bargaining process, Mr. Speaker. That really is a pretty counter-intuitive position for an NDP member to take, Mr. Speaker. But I just want to say, Mr. Speaker, that we support all of the young people, all the students who are working hard now, and we wish them all the best, and there is funding, and I know that the Minister will speak to that in supplementary. Mr. Speaker, I want the Premier to know that facilitating collective bargaining is very different from legislating workers. Mr. Speaker, here's what we know from the media. More than 1,500 students have withdrawn from Centennial, one-third have no plans to return. Close to 2,000 students have withdrawn from Fanshawe, and about half do not plan to return. 1,200 students have withdrawn from Conestoga, 1,200 from St. Clair, 1,100 from Jordan, nearly 1,000 each from Mohawk and Niagara, almost 1,200 students from the five Northern Ontario College, which is more than double the average attrition rate. There's likely to be another wave of withdrawals before semester two from students who attempted the first semester but struggled with the compressed content. Mr. Speaker, think of the huge loss of talent this represents. Does this Liberal government have a plan to support these students to return to college? Mr. Speaker, I have to say, I am Mr. Fajardo. I'm terrified by this question, because that was the party who time and time and time again voted against getting students back to the classroom. That's what they did. Everyone was here. Hansard actually records that the NDP on record. Member from London West, there's one seatmate who is there too, pretty close. The NDP is on one hand on record as saying that they would never legislate back ever, so we still have a strike, and then we hear we should have used those legislative tools earlier and legislated them back earlier, Speaker. The important thing is, the students suffered from this. We've given them the opportunity to do what is right for them. Some of them have chosen to withdraw, Speaker, and they got full tuition refund. They can restart. We are encouraging that, Speaker. We want them back in college, and colleges want them back, so we're going to work together to get students who did choose to drop out to ... Thank you. New question. Member from Ottobock, North. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This question is for the Minister of Francophone Affairs, Marie-François Lland. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to express my pride with respect to our government who is doing all that it can to give Franco-Ontarians the necessary tools to reach their full potential. Government has made the question of equity very important. This will make sure that more than 600,000 Franco-Ontarians continue to play an integral role in our province in French. Can the Minister remind us of our commitment towards the Franco-Ontarian population? The Minister. Thank you. I would like to thank the member of Ottobock, North, for his question. For several months, the Franco-Ontarian population has seen many advances through its various ministries. The government has strengthened this community. I would like to think of the advances made in health with an assistant deputy ministry minister who deals with French exclusively. There's been a pilot project. It's been made permanent with respect to access to French language services. There has been more investment in culture. We have moved towards making the Francophone University a reality. And there's also a new fund dedicated to Francophones, which will provide much important work on the international scale. I would like to thank Kathleen Nguyen, who's working with Franco-Ontarians. First of all, Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the minister for her dedication and for this substantial list of things we've done for Franco-Ontarians, Mr. Speaker. There's no doubt that it's thanks to our government that Franco-Ontarians are best situated. This government continues to show its concrete commitment towards Franco-Ontarians. And the minister of Francophone Affairs tell us more about the importance of Franco-Ontarians for our government, the minister. Again, I would like to thank the member for a total cool. North for his question. He's always been the voice of Franco-Ontarians for his community and Franco-Ontarians throughout the province. I'd like to say to you, Mr. Speaker, that I noticed a small paragraph that's part of the magazine that was presented by the party opposite. And I would like to say how disappointed I was to learn that there was no vision for Franco-Ontarians. The official opposition has mentioned the Francophone University, a major project of our government that's already underway. All we see in the party opposite's commitment are vague references that show an ignorance towards the needs of Franco-Ontarians. I would like to assure you, Mr. Speaker, that our government remains committed concretely towards the Franco-Ontarian community. Thank you. My question is for the Premier. This morning's Globe and Mail article reinforced what many of us have known for years. If you need mental health care in Ontario, you will end up on a waiting list. According to a study in the Canadian Mental Medical Association Journal, the majority of people treated in emergency after a suicide attempt are not seen by a psychiatrist for six months. Mental health needs to be treated as seriously as physical health, yet in Ontario, people are waiting months for their first appointment. Under the People's Guarantee, the Progressive Conservative Party has made a commitment of $1.9 billion additionally from mental health services. Understanding that people are not getting the care they need when they need it will the Premier match our commitment? Well, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And I know that the Deputy Premier will want to comment in the supplementary, but Mr. Speaker, the fact is that the promise that the party opposite is made is woefully inadequate over the last 10 years, Mr. Speaker. We've invested $10 billion, Mr. Speaker. We will continue to invest, Mr. Speaker, in mental health supports across this province. We know, Mr. Speaker, that there is more that has to be done over the last decade. There has been a hugely increased awareness of mental health in this province, and quite frankly, Mr. Speaker, across the country. So we will continue to make record investments in mental health as we have done for the last decade, Mr. Speaker, and to suggest that $1.9 billion is adequate, Mr. Speaker, as an increase over the next number of years, it's just not adequate, Mr. Speaker, and we need to continue to make increased investments. If you don't think $1.9 billion in additional funding for mental health services in Ontario is going to make a difference, you need to get out of Queen's Park and talk to the family. It's an odd request of a member from the same place where the question is coming from not to heckle the member that's asking the question. It's kind of odd. Finish, please. We need to talk to the families who are desperate for help. You need to talk to the individuals who are waiting on those wait lists, who've had a suicide attempt, Premier, and they don't get to see anyone for six months. Chair, please. $1.9 billion in additional funding for mental health. The study outlines that only 40% of those who attempted suicide saw psychiatrists within six months of their emergency room visit. That's 45,000 individuals in Ontario without the care they need when they need it. The variance mental health system is in crisis, and that's why Patrick Brown and the PC Party have committed to the largest provincial investment in mental health in King's Park. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The fact is that mental health has been a hidden, it's been a hidden issue in the health care system for decades, Mr. Speaker. That's the reality. So there's actually no argument among any of us in this House that there needs to be increased funding, which is why, Mr. Speaker, over the last decade, we've invested $10 billion, Mr. Speaker, so we continue to increase the amount of funding that goes into mental health supports. So when I say that $1.9 billion is inadequate, Mr. Speaker, I mean just that. I mean that there is going to need to be increased funding over the next... A member from Renfrew Nipissing, Pembroke, will withdraw, and now the Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation is warned. Anyone else want to comment? Good. Premier, you may finish. Mr. Speaker, we recognize that there needs to be increased funding over the next decade. And Mr. Speaker, we have made commitments. You can look at our record, $10 billion over the last 10 years, Mr. Speaker, and that funding will continue to increase. That is over and above, Mr. Speaker, the money that was committed. We will continue to invest in mental health because it is increasingly a challenge across the province to meet the need. Thank you. Your question, the Leader of the Third Party. Thank you, Speaker. My question is for the Premier. Two years ago, in 2015, a riot resulted in a hostage-taking of a corrections officer at the Thunder Bay Jail. In May, the Minister said that a new jail was coming to replace the badly overcrowded, wholly inadequate, 100-year-old facility there. How much longer do the corrections officers, the staff and inmates have to continue to struggle in a jail that is considered a powder cake? Community safety and correctional services? Mr. Speaker, community safety and correctional services? Well, Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for a question. And certainly, every time an incident occurs in any of our institutions, it gives me great concerns and certainly a desire to see how we can improve the situation. And you know, when I look at the work that in the past few months that we've worked very closely with each institutions, each of our correction officers, men and women, correctional staff that works in our institutions in improving and working together, we committed to transformation change and we made a commitment to bring forward a brand-new facility in Thunder Bay. And we are working very closely with local representative from the jail and area individual. Mr. Speaker, for me, in moving forward in correction, it means transformation and not only just saying it but acting. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, there was a rabbley last week in Thunder Bay because nothing has changed in terms of the conditions of that jail. When I was in Thunder Bay last week, I learned that all of the conditions that led to the riot, the hostage shaking and the years-long isolation of Adam Capay still exist at the Thunder Bay jail. The 100-year-old Thunder Bay jail is not designed for the number of inmates that it houses. There are staff shortages, inadequate equipment and no sign that this Liberal government is doing anything but pushing the problem down the road. When can the people of Thunder Bay expect shovels in the ground on their new facility? Thank you, Minister. So Mr. Speaker, let me be very, very clear. We have agreed that the system needed to change. The system needs improvement. We have not shy away from this. This is actually why we brought in an independent reviewer, Mr. Howard Sapers, who brought us recommendation and we are working through those recommendations in not only acknowledging that we need to bring infrastructure to the system but also bringing new legislation, changing the way we identified, for instance, segregation. Mr. Speaker, I was also very proud of being part of an award recognition where the Premier and I attended, where we recognized the great courageous work that took place on that special night in Thunder Bay with all these wonderful workers that worked that night. And we did this because we appreciate and value the work. We made the announcement for new infrastructure, Mr. Speaker, and we will be moving forward in that transformation. Thank you. New question, the member from Barrie. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Mr. Speaker, last month, leaders from around the world attended the COP23 in Germany to discuss solutions to climate change. The Minister of Environment and Climate Change was in attendance and was able to share Ontario's environmental initiatives on the world stage. The Minister participated in the first international meeting of the Powering Pass Coal Alliance and was able to showcase Ontario's actions to eliminate coal, and shutting down coal-fired generation in Ontario. That action alone is one of the largest ever greenhouse gas reduction initiatives in North America. It's equivalent to taking 7 million vehicles off the roads. Speaker, can the Minister please describe Ontario's role as an international leader in reducing smog and greenhouse gas emissions? Thank you. Minister of the Environment and Climate Change. Well, thank you, Speaker. I have a hard-working member from Barrie for her very important question. Speaker, last month I was honoured to stand with our federal government and international partners in making a commitment to phase out the use of coal to generate power. I was especially proud to represent a jurisdiction that has made it a top priority to reduce carbon in the production of our electricity. Thanks to our leadership, Ontario's electricity system is more than 90% free of greenhouse gas pollution. In fact, since shutting down coal-fired generation in Ontario, we've seen a dramatic increase in the quality of air. In 2005, Speaker, there were 53 smog advisories issued in Ontario. In 2016, Speaker, there were zero. Phasing out coal has saved Ontario $4.4 billion a year in health, environmental and financial impacts. I'm really proud of Ontario. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you to the Minister for the answer. Speaker, Ontario is recognised as a global leader in taking tough action to fight climate change. Through actions like implementing a cap on pollution, we can collaborate with other provinces and states to achieve meaningful emissions and reductions. While some politicians refuse to believe that climate change is real and a threat, let alone take action, subnational governments like Ontario are leading the way in the fight to save our planet. Can the Minister please explain how Ontario is setting an example for other jurisdictions around the world to take serious, meaningful action on tackling climate change? Thank you, Minister. Well, thank you, Speaker, and thank you again to the member from Barrie for that question. As the member mentioned, Ontario is a global leader in fighting climate change, Speaker. We're proud to be leading the way with a plan that guarantees emission reductions at the cheapest price possible for Ontarians. And we're investing millions of dollars in green programs like home retrofits, bike lanes, incentives for businesses to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Our plan, Speaker, encourages innovation, and it drives investment to help Ontario continue to be a leader in the low carbon economy. Meanwhile, Speaker, the opposition scheme would cost members of the public, would cost families and businesses significantly more money, Speaker. Our plan is helping Ontarians make more sustainable and affordable choices to guarantee a greener future for Ontario. Thank you. New question? The member from Elgin, Middlesex, London. Thank you, Speaker. My question is to the Premier. Speaker, last week's annual report from the Auditor General continues to shine the light on this government's waste and mismanagement. It was revealed that this government pays more for generic drugs than some Ontario hospitals, up to 85% more. That's an extra $271 million, dollars being spent on medication to do this government's inability to properly manage the system. That money could have gone to fund rare disease drugs or take home cancer medication. Perhaps the government needs to switch priorities and have the hospitals negotiate generic drugs on their behalf. Can the Premier explain the House why the people of Ontario continue to pay more and receive less from this government? Thank you, Premier. Well, thank you, Speaker. Thank you to the member for this question. We are determined to get better prices for our drugs, and that's why Ontario took a leadership role when we cut the price of generic drugs in half for all Ontarians. That was a policy that the member from Elgin, Middlesex, London actually opposed and ran for the Progressive Conservative Party because he opposed them that much. So, Speaker, I just don't think he has a lot of credibility when it comes to supporting the reduction of the price of drugs. Speaker, we have established the Pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Pricing Network because so if we work as a country, Speaker, we will continue to drive prices down. And of course, bringing in pharma care for all people under age 25 will also give us more buying power, which will reduce the price of drugs in the future. Supplementary. Thank you, Speaker, back to the Premier. And when this government wants to go low on personal attack, they'll go high. The waste and mismanagement is truly astonishing, but I think they've outdone themselves with this report. In 2015-16, the Minister of Ministry of Health purchased nearly $1 million in prescription drugs for those who were already deceased. Only $42,000 of that $1 million was recovered by the Ministry, which resulted in the taxpayers beyond the hook for over $950,000. This government refuses to pay for take-home cancer treatments for the series of the ill, and yet is fine with spending a million dollars on prescriptions for the dead. Will the Premier apologize for this gross oversight to those who continue to struggle to pay for medications, to pay for cancer treatments, to pay for rare disease drugs in Ontario? Well, Speaker, I don't consider it a personal attack when someone's on the record as opposing a reduction in... Never too late. Remember from the P.N. Carlton's warrant. As I was saying, I do not consider it a personal attack when someone is on the record as opposing a reduction in generic drugs in this problem. That is a fact that we've done on the Ontario-led pharmaceutical alliance has successfully lowered drug prices for people in Ontario and in the country, saving a billion dollars each and every year, Speaker. The cuts we made to the price of generic drugs, Speaker, is saving $500 million a year. It might be more now. That was the number of few years ago, Speaker. There is more work to do, and of course the member opposite knows, because he is a pharmacist, that sometimes there are drugs for people in the last days of their life that are not used. Thank you. There are no deferred votes. This House stands recess until 1 p.m. this afternoon.


For me, creativity is a two-part process, it's seeing something completely new and then finding a way so other people can see what you're seeing. I'm actually from the far north, so I really enjoy natural light and trees. I like working outside. To me, that's a really creative environment. I think I do my best writing in the afternoons after spending a morning either mucking around or planning to start. I always have a pen and notebook with me just in case inspiration strikes. There's a lot of strange places all around Auckland. That's what makes it creative. I see creativity as authenticity, an unfiltered expression of a vision that you have in your head.


We teach students here basically how to cook and some life skills and some resume and interview skills. We do have a curriculum that we follow but we also have to match the things that we get in. In the morning we shop around and see what we have coming in and actually towards the end of the day we'll actually put things away that we got delivered here that we can use for the next day.


It was a filtering and I don't know what tonight's all about, in case you haven't already worked that out. Well actually it was New Year's Day last week at some point but I've only just got round to finding the time to open up and this thing, full disclosure, hologram sent me the microphone to check it out. I have not had or do not want to say on the content I make with it, just explore it and if I like it, show it off on the channel and I've actually got as far as setting the settings to work with my setup, so stereo and line up. I haven't even really changed any of the parameters yet. Set up some loops on the dig attack and I thought this evening what we would do together is just have a bit of an explore and see what it's like and expectations have already just been set pretty high because that's lovely isn't it. I'll just turn it off just for a second so you can hear how it just, the dig attack. I've currently just got four loops going, that one's me at the moment. The size of it is quite imposing isn't it. Get the important things out of the way. What am I drinking? I'll have a sip and a nutty scotch this evening and it's knock and tossion, 18 year old. It's actually the last of it. I thought I would treat myself to the good stuff for this demo. What samples are this? So these are the cases on a lot of my streams. These are just some little loops that I put together before stream started. There's all stuff from Spitfire. The piano is just a little loop that I wrote, which is using there, which is a paid library but it's only like $25 or something. That's not expensive and it's really, really, there's a patch pack which I have on. Symbolom pack that Spitfire make and that's, which is from one of the lab's sample packs which are free, which is from the tape orchestra pack. So I'm just on the first, let's bring the mix of the hologram up. I think that's just the hologram that we're hearing. And if we want to bring it up, we've got a separate effect. Mostly everything is done from the knobs, optionally holding down the shift button. Question in the chat. Nice sounds to use a door or a hardware with you. I use a door to record. Electronic music. I'm secretly a shouty guitarist guy as well. I certainly use the door for tracking and recording there. I tend to, when I'm making electronic music, tend to be in the hardware domain. There's no snobbery around the, I think it's just, I enjoy making music this way. I do occasionally write stuff in the door but not often these days. So let's have a play. So one of the things that immediately struck me as being cool, where you've got all of these time-based effects here, is that we have a filter on. So we can actually filter the effect right down. So it's just sort of sitting in the background in a really nice way there. A bit open and sparkly. And the other bit of this control is, we have resonance. And that resonance gets really sharp in terms of picking out those harmonics. Very cool. I'm discovering things at the same time as you are. I don't know what the activity knob does, so let's take a quick look. I'll do some more activity, the density of the effects. And so we should also have some pitch modulation here. So at the heart of it, it's kind of a time-based effect. There's meaning to get one. Because there's lots of things that it does, which I think are useful. Lots of the alternative. So the interesting thing that I noted when I looked briefly through the manual was that this has a pretty excellent MIDI implementation with lots of CC control. So depending on how the evening goes, as soon as we haven't even moved out the first mode yet, we might not get to it. But I was thinking we could start to apply some MIDI control from the dig attack. I am hooked up by MIDI at the moment. Right, so we try another mode. So if I understand correctly, there's four modes. Four versions of each mode. And eleven modes or something. So let's move across. And you'll find out, it probably says, doesn't it? Mosaic. Okay, so this next mode that we're on here, it's pitching down what we've already got in the effect. So we're getting this much lower. Gorgeous. Getting just delicious. Okay, let's have a look at this manual here. So Mosaic mode is all around at the moment. Overlapping loops play back at multiple speeds. So the one we were just listening to was octave up, which is why we're getting that lovely shimmer. So octave up. Sorry, double speed and normal speed. We're getting both. Lovely, lovely, lovely. So that's an octave down, which is, my cross seems marvelous, but isn't it too random? For me it's too difficult and too much automatic things. I don't know yet is the answer. I like randomness in what I'm doing, as long as I can frame that randomness I can understand that having those chance elements is actually quite important to me. And I think this micro, this Mosaic, lots of little loops based upon what's going in, playing back at different times, at different speeds. Let's move to the next mode, which is all loops playing back at double speed. So we should get lovely shimmery. Let's introduce another loop, shall we? Thank you. I'm not doing too much. I'm not doing anything at the moment in terms of processing anything just to keep it more obvious what the hologram is doing. Let's have this particular sample pan left a row, I think. Samples for us to work with. So the next mode, half speed, normal speed, double speed and quad speed. So it's kind of like everything that we've already had together plus more. So the reverb only gets applied to the internally processed stuff, I think. I don't know if there's a way you can get it to reply to your normal sound as well. Right down the space. Isn't the Digitact totally dry? There's a little bit of reverb being added to some of the samples just to make them sound right. But there's no delay on that. So that's Mosaic loops, I think. Let's try Seq next, which I presume is going to use some pitch sequencing. Those reverbs is affected by this. So this changes the subdivision rather than tempo. Okay. Okay, this is cool. Okay, so that's... Okay. So let's bring the... So it's grabbing little loops. Repeats keeps those loops going for long. Okay, so this will make more sense if I was doing something with a bit more of a steady pulse, I think. Similar, but it's going... So this is going on in video or something because this will just create entirely new arpeggios from what's going on. Filter sweeps now. These Mote can create short overlapping loops, shift in pitch over time. So this next one is double off speed and half speed. So similar. Half speed isn't working for me. So the next one should be normal speed and double speed. I think this is a setting where... Yeah, it's a type of pitch. It's not mono, but I think it's working with the stereo spread that I'm feeding it with. So whatever's on the left is staying on the left. Having this dance around a bit more, overlapping samples glide in both directions at the same time. So rather than having just glitch, let's add another layer of something. So dual tricks that the way I guess you would have that dance around more in stereo would be to have your source dance around more. So let me put a little panel on this, I think. Granular processing, I guess. So this is haze mode. Clusters of grains create a wash of sound. An activity that controls the grain density and speed. Okay, let's just turn the space down so we can hear what's going on. Some modulation. Those grains are going for longer, I guess. It's really lovely and this is the sort of thing where a lot of the other modes and it's no criticism. It is what it is for those modes and sometimes it's going to be right. It becomes very much about the effect and the effect becomes the intrinsic part of the the music that's going on. But this is just a mini simultaneous randomized grain. That sounds like the sort of thing I like. Drop the space just for a moment. Is stereo, yes. Insert cable, basically. And this octave down was a little bit more subtle, actually. Yeah, I bet this would be nice for just a bit of vibrato on piano. It never fails. The first one and this one around what was already going on. The octave up one was nice, but it was a bit more sort of there and in your face, whereas these are tibnotic drones with unique modifiers. This is drones that compresses in length and so the reverb is kind of masking what was going on, the weekly digital stuff. Yeah, this is real sort of end of a jam going 100%. It's kind of like doing a reverse reverb thing, isn't it? It makes me think of nine inch nails, actually. Maybe if we give it some filter tweak at the same time. So the next one is going to give us a sub-optive and filter sweep. Yeah, and it's triggered by the envelope, isn't it? Okay, so that should give us a fade in. Yeah, so these ones, these tunnel ones are creating an accompaniment towards going on there. So whereas in haze what we were getting was like a haze around our sound and it was really sort of giving us something that sort of created a bed or blanket at least for our sound. These are creating an accompaniment for sure. Drone samples have resonant burn pass filters. Less interesting to me than the last one, I think. For this source material, the last one tunnel envelope triggered compressing in length. A loud signal comes in, it's going to do the sample length trick from the first one, I think. This is going to react to the source material, but the last one. Okay, so the next one creates pointillistic textures. No, it's crossing a threshold with something. So staying something in there. Cranking activity makes it sound like it's just one long drone, so this is 100% wet at the moment. Okay, that's an easy one. Obviously. So the next one, many copies of the most recent note onset overlapped create phasing effects. Like, some of that looks so pretty, so I will tell you about it. It's a dumpster file, I'll tell you what. You take that back, I will hear nothing no bad words Fourth mode on Strum is a favourite begging for me to make it bit busier, I think. It repeats. Long stuff stays in the buffer. Subject matter in context is you could take something like this and completely morph it into play with it for ages. The next one filters symbols overlapped and fade out results in your soft and less angular glitch sound. The last one rearranges the incoming signal using bit shifts and bit scrap. Pretty better if we had the more busy input in range versions of your playing interrupts at the line. So if you want more glitches, turn it repeats. So the next one interface has lost synchronisation, I think.  Let's try restarting the pedal just to tech issues in the middle of a stream. I think it was the pedal, okay. Perhaps there's a firmware update. Yeah, there we go back to this. So the next one is filter sweeps and decay. Tempo synced with a beat going on. That's so useful for this big footage stuff. Small white machine do. A lot of stuff as it turns out. That wasn't it sad. Inbased. This is mad at this like granular stuff and this activity down. It starts up agiancing. Of course, because it's different notes going in there's loads of interesting ways of rhythmic ideas from rhythmic source material. This strikes me as like a sort of song start-up workstation, especially when it's tempo synced. Have it tempo synced to the door. Feed it with stuff.  What sort of thing do you want to see because it usually is just a case of plugging stuff in preferably in stereo. That's a great way of pushing it. Okay, let's go to the next mode. I'll leave it basically where it is. But we'll go to a different mode. So this is going to be arpeggios include various playbacks, speeds resulting in pitch shifting patterns. The previous mode, nothing was being pitch shifting it was just picking up different chunks of what was playing in and that was what was creating the arpeggios. Whereas now we're also pitch shifting or sample rate changing or less. Pitch shifts which are less related to the source material than the other one. It's a bit more glitchy sounding. The previous version, always based around our source material. Whereas this one is not whether it is but less so because it's pitch shifting as well. Source material. It's just looping our loops and stuff. High bits, super cool. The first one but now with filter values filtering as well. Introduces bit crushing. Source material is really like this mode. All of the arp modes are obviously not suited to the input in terms of blending it into the input but in terms of new ideas loops and bets for tracks. Also if this was something that was sort of the different modes here just changed the ability to just have a good utility delay which is super useful. If I was using this on guitar I would use that to spring back to life. The next one is pitch shifting. That's everything. We haven't looked at the loop but I think that's really enough for one night to see how it responds to pieces of CC because all of this stuff is MIDI controllable. Certainly there were times where I was like I wish I could modulate the shape control and some of them might do some FM there. Also we go on just for that glitch section it's just an idea to write something because I don't see the up six as being competition to something else I hope actually. It might not be what you think.


How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel as you can see we just opened up our new location And I am excited and more than happy to announce that we are hiring So if you're an artist and you have a solid clientele good energy good vibes Then getting contact with me. We are also accepting guest spots So if you want to get spot for a weekend or a whole week or two weeks, let me know But the first project I'm gonna be doing in this building is gonna be crazy this week I have my client flying in from Atlanta to get a full sleeve in two days So with that being said, let's get this day started What are your ideas as far as what you know, how you're trying to approach it? Yeah, I mean we have a big project So yeah, I did write down a couple ideas So one one thing that I generally kind of like that I see a lot is just like space stuff to me It looks really cool. Like I was just really thinking but I was trying to think well What about movies right because I'm a cinematographer and I was like what about movies that have inspired me or a Director for instance, my favorite director Christopher Nolan who has like movies like Inception and Like interstellar which again is like the space thing, you know say hey I want this to be obviously, you know, I put it in the email I want it to be something that you're super proud of because we're gonna do something epic for sure Okay, perfect. I think we have a more than enough to work with and I Feel like we just got to customize and put it together To bed at like a I went I went and got some of those gummies You knocked out I dosed up on those man, and I was out what made y'all want to move from your old place We haven't upstairs to what we're still fixing it feels weird just having a hairless arm And I just look better when you shave so I know I have to keep it shaved No, you're gonna have to keep it shaved dude. Look at the difference. No, it's insane. It's crazy, dude Like you're like half Mexican Well, that smells good. Yeah, it smells like I'm about to get the tattoo I smell pain. I smell pain Right there perfect. Let me concentrate up in here Relax your arm. I'm gonna have you check out the placement on the mirror What a project yeah, we're about to be in it Let's go some stars are getting excited about these stars Ready give it a sound effect. I'm gonna do three that's ready Like that So what I'm doing here, I am adding the white highlights and Because I don't want to come back to this to this to the forum So I'm just gonna do the whole entire thing with some oimin on it Keep it moisturized to what throughout the day that way what by the time we're done I don't have to come back to the bottom part of the Forum here and it's it's less painful Because as soon as I'm done with this I'm moving on to the arm and yeah, I don't I want to leave this area Finished so if you're thinking about doing a whole outer sleeve, there's two ways to approach it if you are Splitting the project into two days. I would suggest for you guys to do the forearm I mean the arm first That way you are wiping down in the second day do the form but since I'm doing it all in one day, I started from the bottom up and completing by sections or there's a there's a third way that you can do it, which I don't like it Personally, but it's also very effective where you start tattooing the arm You put on the stencil on the arm you finish it and then you guys take a break whatever and then You put on the second stand so on the form and continue to navigate through the outer sleeve But today I'm doing it only one day. I want to make sure that the form is completed before I touch the arm But other than that I am static Is that a word that is a word? ecstatic ecstatic with the X X I don't know how you yeah, or yes. Yeah. That doesn't sound right guys. I'm sorry It just doesn't make sense ecstatic. That's it. It sounds like somebody spelled it in Spanish ecstatic Can I get a sprite? You know, right? It's bright. Can we just switch it to an X just for today ecstatic ecstatic You know, I'm fine with it. Thank you good. Close enough. It just sounds it just sounds exquisite. Yeah How do you say the when you're about to finish and your home stretch There you go home stretch. Damn. I didn't know part of myself This is it We're almost done.  You're good. It's rough, but I'll be alright almost there. Come on Let's go son. Let's go Come to work here next time somebody asks you so how was your session?  It's like it's painful. Oh, it's uh, she's tender on the other side Oh my lord Oh, yeah, bro, pull me my son, bro. I need to get hyped up right now.  Good. That's a jam. I Don't know how many artists has given you a private dance, but I don't know man. I'm just saying Well under Facebook Something about you Yesterday to be honest, maybe we would have have but maybe you would have been so Like in pain. I thought of that too. I was like I could probably fight through this but I was like, but well, I end up like Convulsing when I get home I'm glad you showed up check it. Nobody else is coming First day of the week. Oh, you ready for the first day of the week? So this is officially the third day of tattooing When you reach a point where you just get super tired Everything's just gonna hurt, you know, everything just gets painful and yesterday I decided to call it because he I know he was gonna push through it if I was gonna if I would have told him hey, I want to keep going but I knew that it was just too painful his energy his stamina everything was just super low he was just pretty much done yesterday and I decided to call it because there's two things that could have happened if I would have kept going and This is a good tip for everybody who's looking into doing huge projects like this back to back if you keep going and the client is in pain There's he's either gonna go in a state of shock Where he's probably gonna throw up.  Maybe get a fever. There's a lot of factors that can happen And you know, it's better just to call it if you have that extra day Obviously you can you know if your client is local then you can just you know I'll come back in two weeks, you know, but in this case for if you're an artist that gets clients from out of state Now that's where it gets tricky and you have to know when to stop how to navigate and how to approach that situation because you know if he starts feeling sick, what are you gonna do, you know and That's why I'm here. It's like an exit so you can see what I'm doing The smart thing you did in that case is that even though you knew you could do this in two days You told me on the front end, you know, hey three days, you know, and even That way I booked my trip accordingly, you know, yes Because we certainly could have finished yesterday and that would have gave me, you know, just another day here Not doing anything but at the same time thankfully we we thought ahead and We did have this extra time.  He had a good night's sleep good breakfast He has protein in his body and ready to go back at it, you know Because once you're mentally defeated like you're done, you know, there's no coming back from that. I was trying to like Psych myself up. Yeah, but it was like every time I'd say like you could you can do this I the other side of me was like, no, you can't know you can't Give up.  Yeah, I couldn't even really eat my dinner cuz And that's the same you just you just going through a lot But yeah, I always booked that extra day just in case but anyways, what I'm gonna do now is Apply my blue here and my approach is gonna be Because right now his energy levels are up here. I'm gonna Attack these corners here even though it's gonna hurt. He has a lot of a lot of energy right now So I definitely want to put effort into the areas that is the most painful That way he can relax by the time I get to the planets and the you know Meteors and for this planets, I do want to add a darker background so the planets can be brighter And for the four entire sleeve the cartridge that I ended up using was a 14 round liner And the reason why is because I just feel super comfortable with packing color with this cartridge because I used it so much and I'm able to do faster coverage across the whole entire thing, you know very easy It allows me to move faster a 14 round liner for me is it's my go-to for everything And then as I'm going I'm just kind of leaving negative space in random spots for so I can add a white highlight and make it into a Star so it's not something I plan ahead. I just go with the flow. I'm just adding blue and then I'm like I might start right here, but I also Keeping in mind throughout the whole thing that I don't want to have two stars like next to each other So I probably do one to separate them one to separate them that way it's not full of white That's everywhere. So it's kind of nicely separated and even throughout the piece So since I have one here I'll have another one right here and then stay away from this area until I move on to a different spot As I get closer to the border here, I definitely want to I see this gap here And I'm gonna make it into a meteor because it's gonna make a good addition to connecting both sides And I just saw I just see shapes, you know And once I see that shape, I'm like, okay, that's that can turn into something Because at the end of the day if you have your meteors or if you have your concept memorized You're able to make decisions like that And I think I said this multiple times on different videos where if you can make something is something else Even though it's not it's not in your reference do it, you know Your best judgment, but you have to be a hundred percent sure That should be my slogan if you can turn it something into something else do it Don't be scared And on the bottom of that meteor Imperfections is what is gonna help you to make it look more realistic because you're gonna add a salt I'm gonna add a solid black line here to define the rock and Then this little imperfections is gonna seem like it's creating a highlight under that solid black that way you don't have you know dark tones Next to each other But here on the top make sure that it's solid solid perfect, so I'm gonna keep going with the same technique throughout the whole entire armpit and Move on to the planets Here we go last Three minutes you got it. You got sit You're good know what That kind of energy You made it You made it All right, so three days back to back 21 hours. What was the most painful part? I don't know the whole thing man that you're like I wouldn't do that again most painful part Is the armpit? No armpit armpit for sure the ditch area and then The wrist the wrist and yeah, I didn't see you kind of like hurting down the wrist Well, I thought the wrist was bad. Yeah What about the elbow the elbow sucked yeah elbow was pretty bad, too I think yesterday when I was when I did your tricep. That's when it went to shit, you know, because I Quickly yeah, I I feel like I could have navigated better on like going through the middle And then working my way to the tricep But I feel like I was like, you know Let's get the tricep out of the way and that messed it up because that drained your energy like crazy Yeah, I mean all of the skin on the backside is tender. There's a lot of ink back. That's a lot of ink packed in Yeah, and I I hope that when I take the pictures, I'm able to capture like all this color because it's like It's so bright. It's like super bright. Oh night one was rough. I Got like two hours of sleep. So I think day two. I was really my stamina was already down Oh, yeah, no sleep. Yeah, I didn't get much sleep I felt kind of dehydrated because the night day night one before I came in on day one Yeah, I drank a crap ton of water and then during that day you didn't drink I feel like because the most important thing when it comes down to doing big projects like this It's just being hydrated and have a ton of sleep and you going on two hours of sleep and no water By the time we got to the point of like your breaking point, then that's when you got nauseous other than that Damn, we made it. I thought you were gonna fight me at some point, too Yeah, I got a little hangry at some point yesterday I was like, this was gonna fight me right now. No, dude. I mean Mr.. Is Kevin he's great What you guys see in these videos is who he really is, right? Like thank you so much. Yeah, you know, it's he's he's good to be around fun Try to make the experience. Yeah, you know you got a private dance I did get a private dance and then a private a slightly weird A private mini concert of me singing 24 seven does sing a lot. Yeah other than that Let's go home. I'm ready to go you some cookies


Like a YouTube so I've posted videos on Polaris's Honda's and I just recently sold a restored 1991 Polaris with a plow for not one but two of these 2006 Odess 400 4x4 pioneers so His luck had it the gentleman I got it from was older He wanted something running. He didn't have time to or knowledge to fix these And so he wanted to trade two of these for one running ATV So I take a look at it, and I'm like, okay. Well Most of this is made in China First thing I noticed It's like, oh my god, that looks like a Honda engine So I did a little research And if any of you guys are watching this own one of these Um, it turns out that that is a Honda clone engine Every part from what I understand From a Honda will fit on here So if you're having a hard time finding parts or they're expensive or they take forever to So get overseas just so you know, you need a timing chain You need a carburetor Um, I bought this thing. Uh, it was been sitting for a couple years. I've got the carburetor out Um, the Odess carburetor is 120 bucks. I went and bought a a Honda carburetor Got it for 38 bucks And then I had to buy the Uh, choke cable along with it just so it would match up So as I got into it Um The story was this woman that owned it. She was driving it and all of a sudden it quit Um So when I tore it apart I kind of looked into it Tried to turn the starter the starter turned really hard and it would stop and started with struggling And so I'm like, okay Um, I had this problem with the Honda Grab the starter all pull it got about Halfway through the rope and it was really hard to pull So the first thing I thought was okay, maybe it's timing the timing chain Uh valves aren't opening correctly So I just wanted to show you this and uh So let you know, I mean these aren't bad little ATVs If you uh maintain them well I think uh I don't think they're much different than uh than a Honda I mean, uh Yeah, the parts aren't is uh great as uh on a quality parts, but Um, just to give you an example This is a 2006 with a thousand miles on it I'm guessing it wasn't maintained very well Uh, I actually fixed it. I took the uh valve cover off and I noticed the uh The gap between the uh the rockers and the valves were almost 20 thousands of an inch Well, that's going to throw everything off So I set them back to where they should be Um, the gap between the uh rockers and the valves is about six thousands of an inch So I set those Turn it over and I'll even start it for you I'll have the carburetor on but at least you can hear it run Turns over beautifully doesn't struggle Batteries a little weak. It's So six degrees out in Wisconsin right now, so But uh before it would turn twice and then stop Now My video in august I bought this Honda Rapture Check this out Same engine Same exhaust pipe Pull dark back in this corner and grab a light Everything's the same same air box same carburetor Uh Everything looks almost identical. So when they call it a Honda clone, it's pretty much a Honda clone and It's talking about maintenance This is a 2000 Honda. I bought this with the same exact issue as that Timing chain tensioner broke in this. I had to take the engine apart new timing chain New tensioner in it Guess what same issue Is it because it's made in china or is it because it's a hana design? I'm uh Posting this because uh Wanted to give you guys a little info if there's any of you guys out there with uh with old s I know you're probably having a hard time Finding parts finding uh any information on it I did a little research and I just wanted to throw a video out there. Um Said i'm still looking for information information myself um Like I said Not a bad trade-up for me 91 Polaris for two of these And $38 carburetor and just a little adjusting of the rockers. I think I got myself a good deal Uh, have any questions feel free to post them. I'll try to answer them. Thanks for watching