It is now time for Member Statements. Member Statement, the member from Etobicoke Lakeshore. Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's always great to stand and speak about the great things that are happening in Etobicoke Lakeshore. And first of all, I'd like to recognize Pat and Murray Wood, who reside in Tapestry at Village Gate West Retirement Home. And they are recognized for the good work they did to make their home a better place. And it was recognized by the Retirement Homes Regulatory's Authorities 2023 Residence Champion Award. So I just, I had the opportunity to have coffee with Pat and Murray. And what a lovely time it was to learn about their residents and what they do to make everyone's life that much better in our community. So thank you to both of them. I also want to congratulate the team at Mabel Arts. And I had the opportunity to join a seniors chair yoga class. And what a great time that was. And that yoga class was made possible by our own Raymond Cho and our seniors grant. So I want to thank the minister of seniors and accessibility for ensuring that our seniors can be active in their residents. And I had a great time too, and I'm not a senior just yet. And then I walked across the street to see the community center that they're building. It's under construction. But I want to thank our government for almost $200,000 investment into this wonderful place. That's just going to be a meeting place for the community members to have barbecues, to have watch plays, just to get together and have that conversation. Because so many of our seniors out there need that companionship. Lastly, I know Remembrance Day is coming up, and I'd like to take the time to remember and honor those who have fought for our freedoms and continue to keep us safe. May they never be forgotten. Thank you, Member Statement. Member Statement, the member from Thunder Bay Atacoken. Thank you and good morning, Speaker. I rise today to celebrate the recent graduation of ten new recruits to the Thunder Bay Fire Service. These recruits, now qualified firefighters, have gone through an extensive 14 weeks of training and education clocking in over $500 each. I stand with much respect reflecting on their graduation. As the recruits have now stepped into their roles, protecting and serving the residents of Thunder Bay. Speaker, becoming a firefighter is not a job, it is a calling. It is a commitment to protect and serve others, often in the face of great personal danger. It's about providing comfort to someone in their darkest hour, offering a helping hand in times of need, and being a pillar of strength when all is lost. It is a vocation that demands unwavering courage, compassion, and selfless dedication to public safety. Throughout my 21 years as a firefighter, I have experienced a camaraderie, sacrifice, and determination alongside my fellow service members, and I have been blessed with being part of the Fire Service family. Speaker, this province has a long history of supporting our first responders, and I'm proud to say these new firefighters are a valued addition to the family. To the most recent graduates in Thunder Bay, welcome to the noble profession of firefighting. May you return home safely at the end of every shift. Thank you. Thank you. Member Statens, the member for Kiwetno. Good morning, Speaker Manegasheba. Speaker, I was standing here up here this morning to share good news. But the news from the north is sad today. Elena Beardy, age 11, took her own life in my home community of Kingfisher Lake First Nation. At this time, words are not enough. Her family, classmates, and all of Kingfisher Lake and Sachiko Lake are affected. Their grief is unimaginable. I'm going to share what was sent out by her family. Elena was always a happy young lady. Always had a ready smile for everyone. She was always willing to lend a helping hand, especially to her friends that she left behind. We called her Princess Elena, or baby, because that was who she was with us. She loved everyone around her. Princess Elena will be forever missed and will be forever in our hearts, end quote. Her family requests continued prayers for her friends. Miigwech for listening, and if you have a moment today, think of Elena, her family, and friends. Our hearts and prayers are in Kingfisher Lake and Sachiko Lake today. Miigwech. Member Statements. I recognize the member for Kitchener, South Hespler. Thank you, Speaker. I hosted my very first community event last week, which is admittedly a little bit delayed, as I was elected in June of 2022, but it takes me a while to get around to these things. It ended up being absolutely wonderful, and I have a lot of people to thank. We held it at Stecly Farm, which is a beautiful heritage working farm in my area. And I can thank my friend Corey for that idea. For those who are sort of old hat at holding MPP community events, I look forward to the day where I have your outlook. We were doing a pumpkin patch and funnel cakes courtesy of the funnel cloud. And I had some moments of extreme fear where I thought it was just going to be my dog George and I sitting alone on 200 pumpkins eating funnel cakes for an entire community, and no one would come. But that did not happen. We had an absolutely wonderful turnout of people from the community. And I have to give a ton of thanks to a lot of people. My dad, as always, was a huge help in that. And also my friend Corey and her husband Todd, who brought all the pumpkins and my volunteers. Benita, Monica, Jerry, Marie, Angie, Megan, and Steph. It was wonderful to see people from the community come out. We had Fauza from Cambridge Muslim Women, and with Sam from the Coalition of Muslim Women. And it's just lovely to see people that I've spoken to coming to my event. So anyway, thank you so much to everybody that helped me put it on and make it such a success. Member Statements, the Member for Parkdale High Park. Thank you, Speaker. We're all deeply saddened and horrified by the recent tragedy in Sault Ste. Marie. Angie Sweeney and her three children were killed in a case of intimate partner violence. The sad reality is that such tragedies happen far too often. Last year in Ontario, 52 women, which is nearly one per week, were killed at the hands of their intimate partners. And by September of this year, there were already 46 similar cases. Shelters and support organisations are overwhelmed by the demand for help. And these numbers are not going down. They are on the rise. Over 30 municipalities in the province have already declared intimate partner violence and epidemic. The Renfrew County Ingress last year made 86 recommendations. And the first recommendation was for Ontario to formally declare intimate partner violence and epidemic. Which this government has refused, arguing that intimate partner violence isn't an epidemic because it's not an infectious disease that spreads from person to person.  Declaring intimate partner violence and epidemic is important because it means the government acknowledges the urgency of the problem and is committed through resources to address a very real threat facing women and families. I urge this government, show some leadership, declare intimate partner violence and epidemic. We don't have time to waste. Thank you. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Perth Wellington. Thank you, Speaker. Perth Wellington is a place of vibrant energy growth. And today, I want to celebrate an incredible success story of one of our small businesses. Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending the grand opening of Grit Engineering's brand new expanded location in Stratford. Grit Engineering, founded and led by Montana Wilson, is a shining example of what small businesses can achieve when they combine determination, dedication, and vision. They offer a wide array of high quality services, including geotechnical engineering, civil engineering, surveying, and environmental services. It's no exaggeration to say that Grit Engineering plays a vital role in building our great province. It was wonderful to walk through their state-of-the-art facility, witness the cutting-edge technology they employ, and meet some of their dedicated team. What's even more remarkable is that Grit Engineering is one of the few female-led consulting engineering firms in Ontario. The company also provides 24 individuals in our local community with well-paying jobs and with the majority of employees being under the age of 40. They're not just building infrastructure, Speaker. They're building careers and opportunities in Perth, Wellington. Montana's recent recognition as the recipient of Ontario Home Builders Association's inaugural service professional of the Year Award is a testament to the outstanding professionalism and integrity that she brings to everything she does. She is truly a role model for young women everywhere. Speaker, it's great to see continued success of small businesses in our rural community. I want to wish Montana and Nick and their whole team much success. Thank you. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Oshawa. Thank you, Speaker. Mental health matters and it is my honour to recognize a member of our community in Durham Region who is making an immeasurable difference in the lives and futures of young people across this country. Mike Sherman was living an active life as an athlete, coach, and paddleboard instructor with plans and a bright and unfolding future. He was struck suddenly in 2018, however, with a rare neurological condition called Ramsey Hunt Syndrome, which left him with permanent nerve damage on his right side, struggling and with a heavy prognosis of never being able to paddleboard again. He had to relearn the basics of walking and functioning. Imagine the news, the shock and the depths of emotional challenge that comes with a life change like that. Mike's mental health was dealt a very heavy blow and yet because of the support he had and the ultimate personal power that wasn't ready to give up, Mike began his climb back onto his paddleboard and slowly his climb out of despair and into hope. He worked hard to get back on the paddleboard and regain his footing. He went from relearning to remarkable. Mike undertook the challenge of paddling across all five Great Lakes and with his remarkable inspiring support team they did it. Mike Sherman became the first person with a disability to cross all five Great Lakes. On World Mental Health Day at Ontario Shores, I joined Mike and community members for the screening of his feature length film When Hope Breaks Through. Sharing the journey was about sharing the pain and the hope with youth who might also be struggling with mental health and also struggling to stay afloat. Mike has been raising money and working tirelessly to bring awareness to the need for systems of support for youth mental health. Mike Sherman is awesome and I hope that everyone will watch and share when hope breaks through. Thank you, Mike. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Ottawa South. Thank you very much, Speaker. I'd like to say a few words of congratulations to an important organization in Ottawa South, Purly Health. Formerly known as Purly Redo Veterans Health Centre, Purly Health is a unique long-term care and independent living home that is home to more than 600 seniors and veterans. They're a leading advocate for improving the well-being and quality of care for the senior population through education, clinical innovation and research. With over 800 employees and 400 volunteers, they work hard every day to improve the lives of the seniors that they serve. Through the Centre of Excellence in Frailty Informed Care, they provide a space for future caregivers to learn through hands-on experiences. Today I'd like to highlight their wonderful achievement of completing their $10 million dollar campaign answering the call. It is their largest fundraising campaign ever and it aims to foster innovation and excellence in Ottawa and across Canada. On November 20th, they will be honoring those who have answered the call to highlight their important contributions to improving the everyday lives of the seniors and veterans at Purly Health and indeed in Ontario and across Canada. To everyone at Purly Health, thank you for caring for the people we care for most. Thank you. Member Statements. The Member for Mississauga, Erin Mills. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Last weekend, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association organized a charity youth run in Mississauga to raise funds for Trillium Health Partner Cancer Research Program. This enthusiastic youth are making a difference in our community. An example of amazing things that Ontario Youth can offer and it reminds us that it continues to be our responsibility as leaders of this province to show them our full support. I recently joined the Minister of Education and member of Brampton West for the grand opening of a new daycare campus in Peel, the largest child care centre in Canada. Lulebu Child Care is just one of many organizations that are supporting our children in Mississauga and across Ontario. Our government has cut children care fees by 50% and our investments are continuing to support children and families. I thank the minister for his dedication to this important cause. I was honored to be joined by in my writing on October 27th by minister of long-term care for groundbreaking of a new long-term care project. The Ivan Franco Homes Long-term care new campus in Winston Churchill Brevard was 160 modern beds will provide seniors with convenient and culturally connected care. This plan was over six years in the making and now it's finally underway. This is a great success for Mississauga Erin Mills and a success for all of Ontario. Yet another promise made, promise kept. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member statements. The member for Sault Ste. Marie. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you everyone. The my community of Sault Ste. Marie has endured quite a lot over the course the last six weeks or so. As many of you know recent events but it's been a long it's been a very very difficult and trying time. On September 5th of this year constable Orette Robinson su-police officer was killed in a traffic accident. The very next day on September 6th, Mikaela Ouellette was involved in a traffic accident. She was 27 years old. She passed along with her unborn child. On September 7th the very next day a horrific stabbing incident occurred.  The community as a whole did not know how things could get any harder. We are a small city of just about 75,000 people. Those three days felt like the worst three days we could have imagined. Then October 23rd happened. Angela Sweeney was murdered 41 years old.  We held a vigil last week on Friday. We had about a thousand people arrived including Angela's father. Our community is mourning. Our community needs to heal and our community did an exceptional job of coming together in solidarity to attempt to heal and I want to thank everyone here for all of their kind words that I've received to date. We appreciate that you've been thinking about us and it's uh it's something that it's been it's been helpful. I want to quote I know I'm over time here Mr. Speaker but the words of Shirley Marshall she had me read a letter. She was the mother of Taylor. She said Sault Ste. Marie, small city big heart and we really are that community and then the father of Angela Sweeney spoke at the event and said at times like this it's everybody's love that's making it easier to get through. So please share that love, continue to share that love. It doesn't cost a thing, it's free. Thank you. Thank you very much.


Oh, howdy. How you been? I Can't hear me I don't know what the hell's wrong with me. Can you hear me? Hey, what's going on?    I am. I'll tell you what I I want to come back in town I'll be here for a little bit for sure. You know, they they had me you would you'd never believe this They had me inducted in some dad gum you win league of legends. That's what they said They they wanted to induct me into some dad gum league of legends and the hell I wasn't surprised so I showed up and To be honest, I think it was something that I didn't expect so I'm back here Holy cow. Uh-huh. What did you do to get sent to the league of legends? Everything oh my god Yeah, it was a lifetime achievement award or something.   Oh Oh, that's that's pred's department now. Yeah, that's jenny's in your department. Yeah. Yeah Oh, howdy, man. Good to see you. Oh, so is gunner. I missed you. It's been too long.  Yeah, I am. Oh, congratulations. Thank you very much Yep No, I'm not No So You said I'm a senior captain senior captain. Yeah No, I mean hell, I mean that's fine, you know, I'm fine being a senior captain I I'm gladly accept the promotion here. I got to use a restroom right quick. I'll be back Where the hell's the bathroom Where the hell's the bathroom in this place?  We're we're the day. Where's the name bathroom? Okay, come on over here Corner itself for most I got you something Hey It's gunner. Yeah gunner. I was gonna say you're uh I like your hair. Yeah. Oh, thanks. Like listen, I got invited to the barbecue.  Let me know what you think So what do you think? Yeah, that's good.  Is there any good american? Uh, what kind of chocolate? What do we have? Hershey's?    I got a lot of work to do. Well, I I didn't even know I was a senior captain now I'll see y'all later. Hey, congratulations, sir.  All right, son. What's your name again? Uh, salee avocata. Okay, salee avocato. You have a good day now son. Good luck to you Avocata not avocato. Yeah, we'll be seen around mission road.    Is that space boy?   No, hell. I'm I'm senior captain cletus corwood of the bc sl. I think You are bbc There may be palito bay. Hell.  Do you have a service? Bless you.   My name is hot shoe. Bless you, ma'am Gazoo intact What what does that stand for is that like the ymca? Oh god Dispatch 316 1041 Oh good Good to see y'all Bench in the Why is he a bench in the motor pool? Hey, can someone tell me why bench guy has a bench in the motor pool? So a bunch guy thinks, uh You can carry Bench's friend He has portable benches the only person to pick him up. That's so funny.  Where the hell have I been? Listen, I've been listen, I got Yeah, hell listen, you gotta understand I got inducted into some dad gum league of legends, you know And it's a lifetime achievement award son.  I like the the leg room.  Well, yeah, I told you not to let him try. I think uh, no, ma'am ma'am I think he got my land. You'd got stuck on my steering wheel. All right, let's get you to the hospital Jesus Christ. Hey, uh, this guy uh Hey, Randy, that'll be fine I probably don't even need an help Dr. Blake's in the wards. I'll take you to him The lives because always tells everybody's gonna kill him.  Actually, river.  I did forget to file charges.  I mean don't escalate this I'm not with him. We're not together. We haven't been together Do you have any proof of that ma'am? Do I have any proof of that? I don't know my name's off the joint account.   What other drugs do you do you do ma'am? I actually you could raid me right now.  No, no, I don't do any drugs. I don't traffic drugs at all. What about children? No, I don't do anything. I'm a legal law-abiding citizen. I work at burger shop. Okay No, I may bribe children a bit but 400k who wouldn't Okay, bribe and children for money. Okay So where do you think these children get the money ma'am? Being a coke dealer So teaching children to deal cocaine. Oh, they deal cocaine. I used to be my supplier. Okay Wrangler, what do we classify that as? Is that third party?  I was helping them Well, now I'm gonna have to charge you with accessory to serial You're gonna put me in. Is that a hut if it's an accessory?  Yeah, I'm looking at it. You know what?  I'm gonna need I'm gonna need paramedics for wrangler burger shot This damn crazy lady just stabbed him. I think he probably slept with her and didn't call her back or something I don't know We're 23 We get ems staged up And I dodged the knife I don't even know how I dodged the knife What are you doing? Do we have a description of what she looks like I dodged the knife That was like Rex Fondo I don't even know what's happening It'll be okay. Just hold on wrangler. It'll be okay Oh funny. I've been having It's good to see you captain. Do you remember your basic CPR? Uh, yeah, you just you just kind of performing CPR. Well, I think Hey, it's good to see you son Yeah, I mean he got he got stabbed. I don't think I don't think I'm supposed to CPR him for a stab wound Wait, really? Yeah, I'm pretty sure if I do that, I'll squeeze all the blood out. Well, I mean But I think we're supposed to put pressure on the blood out. He gets it Here we got to put pressure on the wound. Hey, don't go easy on her.   What what do you mean? Oh, dammit just Good to see y'all here.  They're my all right. Good work everybody. Well done. Good job I'm getting the hell back to chin too If any available 77s to assist bass, you gotta be kidding me. Okay Oh lord Pierre it's coming straight to watch you pass.  He's Out vehicles out individuals running northbound. We got another one another person in the car. I believe he's down We got one person in the car down. I'm gonna sit back with them Individuals now running eastbound on the third path Let's get more mobiles than I got. It's up. Yeah, motor's down now running northbound Now running westbound on the dirt path 95 Are you guys get up there? You need any more 77s. Oh, she can work. We're good. Just jumping in the river It's coming across the river. They're running southbound Now He's now crossing route 68 still running southbound. Oh, what are you good? Yeah, I'm doing fine. I just have some trouble swimming Don't tell him what am I doing?   That made his way on the dirt path. Well, it's good to see Andrews Good to see you too. Mr. Cornwood So you guys put about 95 people in jail today is that what I'm hearing uh 96 97, maybe 96 90 so good. Good. That's a good day's work.  Looks like your statue's still the same Hands are still tight. Yep Something is still there Yep That belt is still extra large Yep That hat could probably fit the entire galaxy in it. Uh-huh Yep, and that radio could probably pick up uh transmission from an alien planet Absolutely it can Hmm Legend is back. Uh-huh What's your position mr.  Well, that's what tortellini said I was Your senior captain. Yeah, apparently, you know, there's some kind of falling down We got multiple sheriff's departments something or another. I but they said I was senior captain


What up guys? What up? Jake here. It's Sunday. Sunday, what's the date? I didn't even know the date. Sunday, the 7th of February. It's one o'clock in the afternoon. I've decided to make this video just to discuss my future plans in depth with regards to competing. I've had a few days of humming and hiring like I always do about whether I should continue cutting or go back into a lean bulking phase. I know that when I train with enough carbs in my system, when I train in a surplus, I train better. I have better pumps. I have more productive workout. That is not losing fat. That's not losing weight. Honestly, after I made that transformation video just recently, looking at myself at 8% body fat, it's extremely hard to put that in the back of your mind and just continue bulking and not worry about your abs, which is what I did for a good 10-11 weeks after my show, but I found myself getting way, way, way too soft. Since the start of this year, it's February 7th now, obviously. Since the start of this year, I've been low-key dieting, haven't tracked a single thing. Basically, I've just been keeping the level of protein in the back of my head, trying to hit at least 200 grams a day. As far as the other food in my diet, it's just basically been limiting it, definitely limiting the fast food sort of thing. I haven't been eating a lot of fast food at all. In fact, the last time I had KFC or McDonald's or whatever was in one of my last videos, which is called The End of the Dirty Bulk, which was just before Christmas Day, and that was the time when I decided, right, enough is enough, I'm going to go and try and get back to the condition I was before the show. Because at the end of the day, I think that is actually maintainable. That was around about 8%. I never got down to the really, really nitty-gritty, like 6-5%. That isn't maintainable, but at the 8%, it certainly is. I reckon it is anyway. Basically, I'm going to try and get down to that. As well as that, I'm going to compete in the INBA. As you guys have probably already heard, I've discussed it a few times, but today is the day that I'm actually going to weigh myself for the first time in weeks. I've bought a scale over there. I'm going to jump on them. I will have an accurate reading, an accurate start date, because the show is literally, I think it's 12 weeks away today. Is it 12 weeks away today? Yeah. No, it's 12 weeks away today. It was 13 weeks last Saturday, last Sunday, when Dylan and I went down to the information seminar down in Adelaide to discuss this actual show that I'm looking at doing, so it's 12 weeks today. So, what I've gone and done is I've bought a couple of whiteboards. This one is going to be, I really don't know what it's going to be, but basically I'm just going to put my weight down and then I'm going to track my weight on one of these boards.    And at the time that I put it on the whiteboard, it seems like a fantastic idea so that, you know, when I come home and I'm in that different mindset, when it doesn't seem so fantastic, I can look at it, I can be reminded and be reminded how I felt when I wrote that down and hopefully, you know, continue with whatever ideas that I have put down. So anyways, guys, day one, return of aesthetics weigh-in.  All right, guys, now we're on tiles and I want to keep it in the exact same place every single weigh-in. I don't need, I don't want any, any little, you know, discrepancies. So we've got it down here. I'm going to take my shorts and my t-shirt off to get a really accurate weigh-in. This morning, all I've had is some oxy-shred. I haven't eaten yet.  I've only had, as I said, liquid today so let's jump in here and see. Now as I said before, I haven't weighed myself in ages. The heaviest I've been is 102 kilograms, ever. The lowest I've been within the last, you know, three years or so was 87 and that was just before my show. So I bulked right up to about 98 kgs after my show. And so we'll see, see what I've got down to. 92.55 kilograms. So let's try that again just to make sure. Yep, same result. 92.55. So that is obviously where we're at. And I will write that down. So day one weigh-in. What is it? Feb 7. We've got 92.55 kilograms.  So I'm officially sitting at 204 pounds on the dot, basically. So I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to structure this whiteboard but I do know it's, you know, it's going to be smaller writing than that so I can really fit quite a few weeks worth of wanes in there. But yeah, here we go guys. This is the start, return of aesthetics. My return of aesthetics. Feb 7. 92.55 kilograms, 204 pounds. And just before I do go, I will, I'll show you guys a bit of an update.  So let's see. Right, so I've got no idea what that looks like but I'm assuming it looks washed out and not that great. So we can only move forward from here. Today is the day. I'm starting tracking everything. Starting with my weight and then I'm also going to be tracking my, my calories, my macros. I haven't used my fitness pal in months. In fact, I just looked at it before and the last time I logged in was like two months ago. So, you know, I've made some good progress in the last six weeks without but obviously there comes a point where if you want to keep progressing or you want to keep progressing at a certain rate, you have to be accountable. There's just no way around it. And all it is is an extra, you know, five minutes a day, putting in your food, putting in your macros and calories but until you get in the groove of things, I know guys, I know, coming from experience. All it takes is like your first week, but to get to that point, it's a little bit of a struggle. So today's the day.  So by the end of tonight, hopefully I'll have my first complete day of logged food and the house will be clean. My coffee table will be up and, you know, I'll have a really nice environment to wake up tomorrow morning, Monday the 8th of February, 12 weeks out, you know, clean house, clean slate. I'll jump on the scales after having a really good day of dieting today. Hopefully I'll have a new low and we'll be off from there. And then it's anyone's guess how we go. So thanks for watching guys, just a bit of an insight. This is the routine of aesthetics and we're out.


From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2018. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Welcome back to theCUBE. We are live day two of VMworld in Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay. It's apparently very hot outside but we're in here getting all the exciting scoop. I'm Lisa Martin with my esteemed co-host, John Ferrier. Hey, John. Good to see you. Welcome back to the set. Thank you so much. We're pleased to be joined by a Fortinet customer, Ken Busby. Keith Busby, excuse me, the executive director of information technology and security at the school district of Philadelphia. Keith, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, thanks for having me. So the school district of Philadelphia, eighth largest public school district in the United States. You've got over 134,000 students. Over 18,000 staff. If only your IT budget was enormous, right? So you guys, something also interesting this morning, Malala Yusofsi was speaking with Sanjay Poonan, very intriguing on the whole kind of spirit of education. Let's talk about that. You guys gave Chromebooks to over maybe half the student, well, about 50, 60,000? It's not one to one, so they're shared resources. They have carts throughout the schools. But we have between 50,000 or 60,000 Chromebooks on our network right now. So I imagine great for the students and the education, the firewall security may be a bit challenged. So as we started transitioning to the Chromebooks, it overwhelmed our legacy internet firewalls. So we had to go out and do perfect concepts and test multiple vendors. Talk about the security. Pat Gelsinger said on theCUBE, I think four years ago, Dave Vellante, co-host asked him, is security a do-over? And he's like, yes, it's a do-over. We need to do a do-over. I've said Mulligan, all kinds of terms, resetting. How have you guys set up your security architecture? Because I've heard stories of phishing attacks just to get the bandwidth to do Bitcoin mining to crazy things on security front. How are you guys laying out your network security? Honestly, it changes on a day-to-day basis, right? Because as new vulnerabilities come out, you always have to adjust your posture. So over the last year and a half, we redesigned to where we're not, we were routing through web proxies. We're required to do web filtering for the students by the SEPA Children's Internet Protection Act. When we've replaced our legacy firewalls, we were able to transition everything over to that and just use the Fortinet firewall to do web filtering, intrusion prevention, antivirus and traditional firewall. How virtualized are you guys? Pretty much completely virtual. We still have a few legacy physical servers, but pretty much all. So one of the things that we came up in the keynote today with Sanjay Pune, but yesterday Pat Gelsinger referred to was the bridging of the waves, you know, connecting computers together. But he mentioned BYOD, bring your own device as one of the waves and that was really the iPhone kind of generation. Obviously, kids got Instagrams and all kinds of devices, he says. How is that impacting your IT? Is it up and running? Is it solid? What are some of the details? We don't have a traditional BYOD policy. It's more teachers get devices and they bring them in and we just have to find ways to support it. So it stretches us, we're a small staff so we can't always help the end user with their devices. So if they bring their own device, we have issues, they're trying to use applications that we can't support for whatever reason. So it's an issue. So when you had this, obviously, that all the devices that come into the school, in addition to the 60,000 Chromebooks, needing to rethink your security architecture, what were some of the technical requirements that you were looking for that made Fortinet the obvious choice? Performance and cost, right? I mean, as we spoke about, we have budget constraints. So they have an extremely high performing firewall at a reasonable price. So after we did a proof of concept with five different vendors and theirs just outperformed them all. How about automation? Big talk in cloud is automation. How are you guys handling automation? Are you micro-segmenting? What's that? So we're transitioning to the NSX and Fortinet BMX for our server firewall. That's going to allow us, since we're a short staff, if our server team stands up a new server, my policies automatically take effect just through the use of their security tags. That's the FortiGate product, right? If the BMX. How is that working for you guys? We're still in the, we just did the proof of concept. We haven't transitioned our live systems over to it. But so far, all our tests have shown that it does what we expect it to do. What's it like we're in such a huge school district?  It's like, we look at it as we're an ISP, right? So every school comes through us. We always say that we're protecting the internet from our students. Students like to, we have smart kids, and they, they're digitally native. Yeah, they find ways to do things. And then, next thing you know, I'm getting a report by websites, and hey, we got students coming and throwing a tax at us. Yeah, I was talking to a guy in higher ed about the bandwidth, a huge bandwidth. So obviously people gaming, putting gaming servers out, all kinds of IP management issues. Fortinet's pretty hot, I'm sure. I mean, people are playing Fortnite, and you're- Hopefully we don't allow that, right? So. But this is what kids want to do. They're like born hackers. It is. They're curious. Yes. And it's a good thing, but you also want to basically make sure they're safe. Yes. That's pretty much what my job is. I want them to learn, but at the same time don't use it for malicious purposes. Yeah, it's true. One of the things I liked about the public sector is cloud really makes things more efficient. What are some of the things that you've seen with virtualization and with cloud kind of on the horizon? How has tech helped you guys be efficient and be lean and mean? Kind of the 10X IT kind of guy thing.  We have a very small staff. The school district's budget is $3.2 billion. And IT's operating budget is $20.8 million. So as you can see, we really have to be cost effective. And that's where virtualization comes into play. What are some cool techs? What's some cool tech that you like on the horizon? We hear a lot about SD-WAN. I'm sure that might be something that's cool for you guys. I like the VPCs, right? AWS Virtual Private Clouds, where you can set up your own network out there in Amazon's world. Attach it to your vSphere so you can have on-premise virtualization and out in the cloud. Oh, thanks, Beth. So one of the things that Pat Gelsinger talked about yesterday, we hear this a lot, John, is tech for good. I liked how he described it as it's essentially neutral. It's up to us, the Mware, everybody else, to shape it for good. I imagine that's challenging. We talked about the Fortnite explosion, which I have only heard of. But you've got so many devices. I imagine there's some amount of security gaps that are probably acceptable. In terms of reducing the maliciousness of some of the things that happen in there, tell us about some of the things that you're achieving there, leveraging such things as the automation. How is that helping you guys to enable the Chromebooks and the BYOD for good? Well, the automation frees up our time so that we can focus on the policies, the education, the different procedures for the district. This is why we're not spending time hitting the keyboard trying to review our traffic logs. You had a session yesterday which you were talking, a breakout session, and you were saying that there were some folks that were so interested in what you had to say. You had limited time in your session. Give us a little bit of an idea of some of the feedback or maybe even people that might be in your similar situation that want to learn from, hey, how did you guys tackle this huge problem? So they were from a school district in Nebraska and they wanted to see how we were handling and they just became a Fortnite customer. They wanted to see what trials and tribulations we had, implementing their equipment, any lessons learned, and we just had a conversation about where we see our programs going. It was about compliance. One of the things that's come up is managing the laws of the land. Luckily, I don't have much compliance, right? So we're not PCI, but SIPA's pretty much at FARPA, but the only reports that we really have to provide are for SIPA, we'll have to prove that we're doing web filtering. That's where the 40 analyzer comes into play. I'm able to just schedule the reports through there, shows that I'm blocking or based on categorization and we're good. What's the biggest thing you've learned over the past couple of years in tech and IT to be effective and to do your job? What's that learning? It's going to sound weird. It's going to sound weird coming from a security guy, but I think it's important to take the risk, right, accept the risk. So most organizations won't try a PCB equipment live, right? So I was the exact opposite. I put every firewall that we were going to try live and push our entire network through it. I mean, if it breaks some things, we figure it out, but I think that's the only way to get a true test of whether or not it's going to fit your needs. One of the things that came up yesterday, I interviewed Annie, a vegetable sign legend. They call the Rembrandt of chips and Pat Gelsman called him that, founder of Arista and other companies. He talked about how NSX has the security wrapped around the application more around NSX. That's freed up as security teams from handling a lot of the network security, which kind of like has been intertwined in the past. Do you, are you seeing that same picture emerge? That's why I'm transitioning to that, to get out of the traditional IP based firewall rules. It's not really what it was designed for. It was more for transport layers. So switching over to the NSX and the BMX, now we're basing it on the application and what its purpose is. What's the impact to you guys? What does that mean for your operations and your benefits or staff or what's the impact? It frees us up. So during the winter months when we're going to have a snowstorm, our server team might have to deploy some more web servers to handle the traffic that's going to come in. Before they would have to reach out to my team to get us some modified policy because they have a new device coming online. Well now they just tag it as a web server and it's automatically in the roles. You know, I love talking with these guys. I have four kids, two of them are still in high school, two are in college. So it's so funny how they all hack the report cards because there's sandboxes out there for testing the new curriculum. So they all get it and they all share it and the school says that I know, well that's not actually officially updated yet. So the kids are smart. Like you said, they get what a sandbox is. They don't know why it's there. They know how to get to it. So you guys, student elections, all kinds of things that go on in the academic world that have been digitized that are vulnerable. You have to handle that. How do you, how do you stand times it? Fortinet help you there or what's the main, main way to keep the secure access? I mean, that's why we're going with the BMX, NSX, the micro segmentation. It really takes the effort off of us and allows the appliances to do what they're intended to do. That's awesome. Well, it's a great case study. Any advice for practitioners out there who are in your seat in their world who might be looking at, okay, I got to reset. I got to start rethinking things. I got to do more with less. I got to be lean and mean. It's kind of come in and control, but you got to manage it. You got a lot going on. The battlefield of IT is changing. So what's your advice? Take the risk. Try it out. I mean, I just recently hired another engineer and on his first day, I pretty much told him, go ahead and break something. It's all right, we'll figure it out. We'll fix it. But so he has his own little lab and I'm like, just go mess around and figure it out. Play, do some R&D, kick the tires. Yeah, that's the best way to do it. Keith, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Awesome. It's CUBE live here in Las Vegas. Stay with us for more coverage after this short break.


Dear students, today we are going to talk about the society from a sociological point of view. And we are going to talk about society from one of the very key sociologists who can also be considered the founder, one of the founders of the discipline, especially when it comes to empiricism, Emile Durkheim. Emile Durkheim distinguishes society based on the solidarity. Solidarity means it is the sense of belongingness or the sense of bonding to which a person can be attached to his or her society. To what extent we attach to our society and how we attach to our sense of belongingness, Durkheim gives it the name of solidarity. As per Durkheim, there are principally two types of solidarity based on which we can classify different societies. Number one is mechanical solidarity and the other one is organic solidarity. Before talking about these two types of solidarity, we need to see that Durkheim addresses the question of how Durkheim addresses that what holds the societies together. To him, collective conscience gives the group social solidarity. Collective conscience means it is the sense of belongingness, we see that as an individual, I think I have a lot of ideas in my mind and I have a lot of opinions about different people. But as a society, as a whole, we do possess a collective conscience. The collective conscience defined as the body of beliefs, common to our community or a society. It creates a sense of belonging and the feeling of moral obligation to the demands or values. This moral obligation makes us the part of that collectivity. So Durkheim says that when morality or common morality exists in societies, it produces a binding force through which we feel a sense of belongingness and sense of identity. Where does the collective conscience come from? He argues that it stems from people's participation in common activities in our everyday life that begins through the process of socialization such as work, family, education, and by becoming part of many social institutions, we produce that sense of belongingness for each of the individuals. Coming to the definitions of the differentiation of mechanical society as well as organic society, Durkheim talks about the mechanical society or solidarity in a way that it arises when individuals play like similar rather than different roles. It means that we are not much specialized in our own distinctive tasks. Our collective conscience is based on our identification, those sense of belongingness that we feel by becoming part of a community, usually through the shared norms or the similar values. So it holds ourselves together as well as this have a particular feeling of cohesiveness like in a society which is as simple as we are living in the rural societies where we see that there is not much specialized way of labor or much specialized domain of tasks, complexity, and because of not being there, people know each other and the same identification with each other becomes part of mechanical solidarity. Whereas in organic solidarity, we see that societies especially in urban areas where people don't know directly to each other, they do not have much more acquaintances to each other as we see in rural areas. So what happens there is that Durkheim thinks that someone has been united in a binding force. What is that binding force? According to Durkheim, it is interdependence. That interdependence is a specialty of tasks. For example, we see that a college professor or a school teacher needs a lot of people in urban areas to spend their lives in a comfortable way. He also needs a home, he needs a grocery store, he needs a driver, he needs a school for his children. So his life is dependent on many people's specialized tasks and many people's lives are dependent on his specialized tasks. So Durkheim thinks that this interdependence that produces the organic solidarity based on which we can have that sense of collective conscience that can be available in the urban societies which can be noted as organic solidarity.


All righty folks welcome on back here this Wednesday afternoon December 15th shortly after 2 30 p.m. Eastern Time and of course this time the day welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting. Great to see Brian, Udaya, Debra, Mark, Michael, Ari, Patrick, Norm and all of us here still sticking with us. Great to see everyone loud and clear from all. Perfect and if you're joining us back on social media, Facebook live or YouTube as always welcome on back. So right now we just finished up the Fed meeting actually not so fully finished. I know we have a little competition here at 2 30 Eastern Time. I know that Fed Chair Jay Powell is beginning to talk right now. Little joke there, little competition here at this meeting. But I'll give a quick little update on the Fed. Looks like they're gonna see three rate hikes across the 2022 calendar year. It will accelerate the wind down of the stimulus. For right now they leave the interest rates unchanged as of right now. The Fed sees Fed funds rate at a median of 0.9% at the end of 2022. The median 1.6% at the end of 2023 and 2.1% at the end of 2024. What does all that mean? I don't have that answer. You probably know more than me. In terms of the instant reaction from the market at least, we ended up seeing a bit of a pop and myself and Rich Lizzie here in the office were kind of talking about that a moment ago. He was wondering why the market ended up making a bit of a pop with the rates, well not to say rates unchanged. To have the rate hikes going into next year. Why is the market popping? Well let me ask you folks, why do you think that's the case? Why is the market popping after hearing that news, after the Fed finishing up? What are your thoughts on that? I mean we don't have a fully answer. We don't have a full answer in front of us, right? But what are your thoughts? Brian says it could be priced in. Norman says uncertainty is gone. Udea says because the rates are not going up too high. And then Michael says that is what was expected. Well yes, but as far as the pop with the market, I don't think seeing rate hikes would lead to a big pop right away. Rod says the folks who were worried about it even going higher. Well that's a possibility. Perhaps just seeing that could lead to a bit of a nice reaction perhaps. And this is just a thought. I don't want to be a pessimist here. Perhaps this could be the beginnings of short covering. And then if we happen to see continued direction on the way down, then we'll probably see that heading into the next week or two. So for right now, in my opinion, a little bit of a pop perhaps could be either a combination of buying just perhaps they thought the rate hikes would be a lot higher from what Rod said, or otherwise at the same time. It could be potential short covering leading to a bit of a pop at first, but then look what's happening right now. Over the last 10 minutes, we're pulling right back down a bit folks. So we'll see what happens here heading into the final 70 minutes here of our day. For right now, the AVCT stock is on the screen to begin. It's obvious on the top of the gainers list right now as well, up just about 27%. Right now it's stocks making lower highs, trying to tease us for this big pop heading into the close. Was this the stock that had the common stock offering or direct offering of shares back from the other day? I mean, you can kind of see what happened for as much as it moved up from the end of last week into this.  I don't know. I'm not really too particular about this one just yet. I'll keep it on the side list and we'll kind of just go right from top to bottom. Otherwise, we'll recap any of the other movers that we had from this morning. But I will say, because the Fed was finishing up its meeting today, we knew that it was going to be a slow morning, slow early afternoon. We knew that we would have to wait for 2 or 2.30 to come to see a bit of a pop or drop within the market. So, we'll see what else is out there. All right. Number one, I just want to look at it. Just normally, there's not really going to be a $191 stock on the top of the gainers list. My assumption would be a buyout, but I'm just going to check just out of pure curiosity. We're not going to trade this. Yeah, that's it actually. That's exactly it. CMC materials, shares are trading higher after the company announced it will be acquired by Antigris for $6.5 billion. That is $6.5 billion. Pretty interesting. Hey, for such an expensive stock, it's going to have a slightly bigger range. So, you can see there actually is a bit of movement here as it's trending up into the afternoon. Normally, we say these buyouts don't move. I forgot the last one that we saw. Oh, you know what? Actually, I do remember. Solely. Look at Solely from yesterday. This is where we say buyouts do not move. But the more expensive the company is upon the buyout, you probably get a little tiny microscopic movement. So, that's what you're seeing there. THRX. How about this one? Oh, this is the one too. This is pretty crazy, folks. Now, we didn't mention this at all during the day today inside Cybergroup. This is just something that I saw at the end of yesterday. I don't know if anyone caught this as well. I don't think it was a glitch. Pretty funky stuff. But you see right over here, see that little dash? At the end of the day yesterday, I'm looking at my platform, the gainers and losers lists, and I see THRX down 99%. I'm like, what the hell happened here? 2,200 shares were filled at like 3 cents. I have no idea who did that for what reason.  I don't know what happened there. But for right now, this stock ended up making a nice recovery, at least from the close from yesterday, and then pushing up right now up over 27%, 28%. The only issue on this stock is just the volume it's trading like. Very little volume across the duration of the day, just under 200,000 shares right now. Big spread. It's on the top of the gainers list here, but it's not really looking that great for a clean opportunity. Nice trend up, but we don't know if that's going to continue. And with the lack of volume on the order book, it just makes it really tough to try and figure that out. So we're going to pass on that. CNEY at least has a lot more volume on the order book at least, and it's right at the highs of the day. So we hope to see this stock only continue to push up, hopefully making a bigger pop here heading into the afternoon. So for right now, yeah, we'll at least add this. This looks a lot better. Actually, we'll say what doesn't look good out of this stock, although I just said it looked alright. Just look at the lack of volume after like 130. It did drop off quite a bit after 130. So with that, it hasn't really moved since. So we got to see a lot more buying coming in to lead to another big pop on this trade. Alright, so we'll keep it going now. It took a 5 cent loss just about 15 minutes ago or so right on the GMTX here.  You know, the news that came out on this stock, H.C. Wainwright firm, they ended up giving like a $20 price target for this $3 stock, for this like $2.50 stock as of yesterday. You know, that doesn't happen often to see a company give a price target that's like 5X from where it's trading at, if not maybe 10. But it's just to say, we've seen this happen before. I think it was even H.C. Wainwright themselves that gave this seal stock at the time. It was, I think, back in October here. Ended up giving them like a $15 price target. So listen, you don't want to hold your breath waiting for that exact number to hit. But when this stock's trading at $2, what's stopping it from going up to $3? What's stopping it from going up to $2.50 at least, right? So the thing is on GMTX, when the news came out of potential price target of $20, don't hold your breath for $20. But what's stopping this from going to $4? That was my thought on it. So with that, that's what made it so disappointing because it didn't even get close to $4. Didn't even get close to $3.50 here from the pre-market. Just kind of chopped around here in this range. And just a moment ago, I took a loss on this stock as it finally decided to snap back over $3. And I was able to get in right here, dip down, and right here, I thought it was going to make the pop. And I told Rich L here in the office, I said, I feel like we're going to get a big move coming up here. I think this is like a crossroads here on this trade. Well, unfortunately, I was wrong. I was wrong with the direction. I sure made a big move after, but ended up just dropping, stopping me out for a minus five. The news out on it still leads me to be interested in the trade. But how could I be interested in this trend right now or lack thereof? So listen, I'll come back to this at the end. If it ends up making a big pop as soon as I turn away from this trade, then we'll easily reconsider. And again, otherwise, I'll come back to this at the end. All right, BFRI, another teaser for us this morning, but this one has treated us pretty nicely across the last two to three weeks, including Monday of this week. So we ended up seeing it begin to show signs of life after 8 AM, ended up breaking above major resistance after the market opened up this morning at 7 20. And for the most part, you could see what happened afterwards. It pulled back down under that same level, held under that same level perfectly. I think just, you know, false breakout here. And then you know it's going to happen if it pops and drops right away on the same bar. You know it's going to just go the other way. So unfortunately, this was a bit of a loser after the market opened up or at least after this first pop. And yeah, I mean, hey, keep it on your side list for as much as we've seen the stock make, you know, these moves over the last few weeks. We're not going to totally ignore it going forward. You know, we're not going to ignore it tomorrow. Well, at least look at it in pre-market to see what it's up to. It's up or down X amount of percent trading a few hundred thousand shares. You know what, hey, that's pretty interesting to me. I'll keep it in mind if that's the case. And then otherwise, we'll keep it going here. MTCR, dollar stock, just about trading six million shares so far on the day, but it's not really doing much on the chart there. MESO, near the highs, but it's only trading about 3700 shares per minute right now, like three to four thousand shares per minute. That's very little. ESSC here is trying to squeak up going into this afternoon meeting time, but pulled right back down and not to be confused with ENSC. This stock, we ended up trading back from the end of last week, well really all of last week, but from Thursday and Friday gapped up and then from there pulled back. Hey, right now it actually looks pretty decent, you know, trending up with higher lows, trying to make a higher high at least from four to move up towards the actual high of the day here for 25. A little bit of a thin order book, so that does deter me a bit. I don't mind coming back to this at the end if I need to. Let me check it out at the end again. MOXC, same thing, just choppy, spotty chart. It's going to be a theme here folks. Nice little pop back up at least on the spy over the last five or seven minutes there. Hey, I'm rooting for a strong market heading into this close, rooting in or heading into the end of this week. I would love to see it. Damn, you also got some pretty expensive stocks here too. TNDM, Lily, LLY, I know Fausto was harping on that earlier today. And with that, I mean, of course, we should just jump right back to the Pfizer stock. PFE, breaking all time highs. Perfect timing with this now, breaking a new high, breaking back above the major resistance that we had from this morning at $58. I was in this trade just earlier off a pretty good entry. There was like an eight, well, you could see it here too from the volume spike, but there was an 870,000 share print that came in on the tape. It got filled exactly at the price $57.17. And I'm hoping that I could show that to you right here on the Trade Station Histogram right over here, $57.17, this big spike of volume. So it just goes to show certainly at that price we had so much volume filled within one transaction. And that was from the early morning here too. Well, this is why we need to follow the big money folks, right? I mean, that wasn't shown from level three. That popped up right on the time in sales as a dark pool print. So that will show in bookmap too. That would be like a big red dot on bookmap point being this is where we say follow the money, right? Look what happened, held it perfectly as support. Even once the Fed decision came out and we ended up seeing a quick spike down initially, held right above it, popped right back up and here we are now. So certainly we'll put PFE on our watch list also for the reason of job security. I feel like Fausto would fire me for not putting this on our watch list. How can we not follow this PFE trade heading into the close? And I'm kidding when I say that, of course. Alright, so let's see what else we can grab though. Otherwise this wasn't really on the gainers list. You know, it's up only 5%. So maybe there's others that are looking even better at this time here. The SEAC stock were certainly pretty familiar with this one at least. You know, moved up pretty nicely across the early afternoon. I guess you could say holding here. In fact, perhaps making a higher low, you know, maybe teasing us for the higher high. The breakout later on. Not fully committed to this trade just yet. So again, we'll put it on the side list if we need to. Talk about a disappointing stock, honestly, this CFEI. Listen, we knew that we had the Fed today and things would be slow. We knew that. But you know, we ended up seeing news come out. I think it was official that there was the partnership between Trump acquisition or Trump media and technology group. They ended up announcing the partnership with Rumble, which the CFEI stock is heavily tied to. That was kind of a buy the rumor, sell the news type of deal because that was rumored to be the case back from last week. So it's disappointing, you know, even though you kind of expect that to happen by the rumor, sell the news, you know, ended up completely dumping off after the market opened up. Right now it's just really flat, pretty range bound here. So I'll keep it on our side list. I'm definitely interested in seeing what the CFEI is up to come tomorrow morning, really across the whole week. I'm watching the street. Alright, so with that, let's hop over to the loser's list here, see if there's anything looking just as good, if not better. And right before I do that, I wanted to turn over to this Arcat stock. This one's been a runner for us in the past. Just pretty slow right now. It's at the highs, which I like, but not a whole lot happening otherwise there. Alright, also a familiar name actually to top the loser's list. How about this? Good old familiar name for any of our long time C2 students here. Plum, or otherwise PULM, right? We nicknamed the stock plum.  The stock has been in play for us for quite some time. All these days here where it's making these big pops and moves. So for right now, hey, we're not going to trade it. Just interesting to take your eyes off a trade for a period of time and come back to it. It's like, holy smokes. What happened to this trade? When did it end up dropping off this much? So yeah, for right now, we're not going to put it on our list, but pretty interesting to look at.  So you can't short it. Is that all time lows, but can't short it? ASPU trading about 3 million shares. It is shortable. No trend on this though right now either. So we're going to pass Roku little pricey for my liking. So we're going to pass on that as well. And I'll tell you folks, I don't really see much else across the loser side here. That's within our price range that, you know, that that looks easy to borrow. SGMA is the one that I will look at. Not much of a direction here. I guess it did pop from 1150 up to 121250 ish, but over the last 15 or so minutes, it's just been stuck. Alright, so folks, if there's anything else up, down, left, right, more than 5% that you'd want me to look at, then just type it in the chat board, just let me know. In the meantime, of course, in the interim, I will just pop up Bitcoin today being Wednesday. So with the market pushing up off the Fed meeting, you would assume at least for Bitcoin to make a similar move. And with that, I'll quickly just show the 15 minute chart just to kind of show what had happened since 2pm. So yes, we had a nice little pop so far. I don't think we're anywhere near out of the doghouse. And if I'm wrong with that and we see a huge pop overnight, then I'll be really happy to be wrong. But I'm expecting a pullback. So, you know, where can we see Bitcoin potentially pullback down to? I told you earlier, or I told you back from Monday, in case if we happen to see Bitcoin pull lower towards this as low as 45 here, I was going to look to buy. Obviously that did not happen. But for right now with this push back up here, should this hold here? Should we happen to see higher lows truly begin to form? Then maybe right around 47.5, 47, just kind of support back from the end of November beginning of December here. That could be a potential spot. Should that break? Then I would assume that we get our 45 here. But I'm pretty bullish as of right now. Nice popped thus far. You know, the big talking point for me at least when it comes to Bitcoin is the white trend lines at this point. Because once we saw a break this one, which was holding for a little while back from July of 2021, well, what happened had a big drop. And over time, it only continued to break these trend lines that I had from the beginning of the pandemic from the beginning of March of 2020 even. So you know what, if we happen to see this begin to show signs of life and pop back up over these lines, it's a pretty encouraging thing to happen leads me to believe that we'll begin to see this begin to get closer towards the two and 500 EMAs here. And then perhaps a nice clean run. But I think that will take a little bit of time for that to materialize. Alright, so folks, lastly, at the bell here from Udaya, he's asking about ENGA. It's no it's an OTC stocks. And that's why you can't we don't trade it OTC stocks Udaya. And then otherwise, it's just a real spotty chart, real real spotty chart here. So not too particular about it. It's up to 320%. So that's that's the interesting tidbit about this trade. But I'm going to pass. Alright, I said to come back to CMTX at the end. They say CMTX GMTX. I'm right. I'm reading my notes wrong there. GMTX trying to make the push up as we speak. You know what, we're going to add one stock to our list doesn't hurt for us to add this stock that makes it four in total to watch heading into the close. But folks, it's still making a lower highs. We got to see this begin to truly pop not only over three. But I would say even more so right around like 312 310 ish seems to be a really strong top heading into the afternoon. Alright, so I will add this to our list. And then hey, you know what, on top, I didn't even mention this part. I was more looking for the long so I wasn't even thinking this from the market open really. But if this fails to break over three or 310 and if it makes a false breakout and craps out breaks under support, if we happen to see a lot more selling coming in on this trade, believe it or not, the stock actually shortable and it has been since the market open on the trade station platform that we have. So that would be a thought if we happen to see a head fake or if we happen to see a lot more selling kick in. But for right now, I'm more hoping that we happen to have a big breakout here heading into the close. Oh, welcome back, Doug, Doug Cherry on YouTube saying MGI just got halted. There we go. There we go, Doug, very nice call out. So yeah, MGI what's the news on this trade? I mean, this is like reminiscent of the seal stock or not seal reminiscent of what stock was it SEAC back from earlier this week, right? We ended up seeing the stock get halted at the very end of the meeting here just on Monday and look what happened.  So for right now, MGI it's much more within our price range. It's a Nasdaq stock you day. So this is one that we're going to have data for. We're going to be able to see the icebergs for it's only up 5% but a huge pop, obviously. Let's see the news on this. Looks like MGI shares are halted on a circuit breaker. That's obvious. Following a report Madison Dearborn has approached the company with an acquisition offer potential buyout right there. So by the rumor sell the news, right? So it's not official. It's not an official buyout yet folks, but it's rumor speculated by the rumor sell the news. I'd still anticipate a pullback by the time this reopens up. But hey, this is still a great stock to trade here. I like this. So we'll add this stock to our list. Great call, Doug. And then Norman says the see any wise popping right now too, which is already on our list. I felt good enough to put this on our list still. So you know what? I'll stop talking. We're good to go folks. So at least for right now, we have about five stocks in total or four stocks in total. I'm sorry to work with no five. I'm sorry. MGI five. MGI makes it five. So we have five stocks to work with now heading into the afternoon. And then, of course, if there's anything else that does make a big move after three PM Eastern, I know that rich myself will look to call it out. Alright, for all of a sudden YouTube, Facebook Live, Doug, and all of us, I appreciate you each and every day, each and every afternoon. If you'd like to learn more about what we do here at Cybertrading University, you do have two options. First, always send a quick email right over to my email address josh at ctu trading dot com. Any questions or feedback or concerns that you may have, always let us know. It typically takes me about a day or two to write back via email or otherwise, if you wanted to join us live inside the cyber group trading room, all you got to do is go right down to the link on the on the banner below of the stream just to get yourself started. Alright, so for all of us there right now, Brian Norman, Lita, Udea, Patrick, etc. Brian, I just talked about Bitcoin a moment ago. I don't know if you joined in late. I talked about Bitcoin already starting to make the pop. I'll talk to you in private chat about that in a bit though. Alright folks, but aside from that, we'll be back on very shortly from now. Take care.


Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Oli. Over the past four years we have been on some epic adventures around the world. Now, after converting an old van into our new home on wheels, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin! We are still in the beautiful mountains of Austria and we parked our campervan last night in this sort of lay-by on a side street surrounded by forest and also right next to this nice river which I'm going to take you down to. There we go! That's really nice to camp next to a beautiful river like this, hey! And the sun's just coming up over the mountains and it looks like it's going to be a beautiful morning. So today we are going to be heading into the Huwtauen National Park which is the largest national park in Austria. It's the first national park in Austria. Also in this national park is the highest mountain in Austria and we're going to see this mountain just now! So the tallest mountain in Austria is called Grossglockner and we're heading up to a road called the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. And apparently it's one of the most beautiful panorama roads in Europe so it's going to be an absolutely amazing place to drive in our little red tornado. So the Hochaukmanstrasse is actually a toll road and we're about to enter right now. It's 37 euros 50 for a ticket to drive so it must be really spectacular for that price. They have an indoor parking place here where we just packed up red tornado safely. From here they have already pretty good views but we aren't satisfied with seeing these views from afar. So we are going to take a hike to get up close and personal down there. Davy's just cooking us up a hiking pack lunch of some eggs and some bread. Yummy! So we're not sure how long this hike is going to be so we're just taking lunch just in case. We have like vegan meat where we can put on our bread. This fake meat is so tasty. So we will have this one and egg on our bread. Goodbye red tornado! It's time to hit the trail. So this behind us is the Pasteur's glacier. It's the longest glacier in Austria and that down there is where we're going to hike so we can see it up close. So let's go! Lots of little cute fairy marmots. So we're going to try and listen out for them and see if we can... And they're so cute I really want to see them.  The marmots just sitting there on the side of the cliff. I usually look so cute. Oh my god. And then we can spot from here as well. Like four ibexes I think they are. That's so cool. Nature there is already here. That's unbelievable. Incredible landscape. Looks like we're walking on a different planet. So this mountain in Grossglockner behind us is absolutely massive. 3,798 meters above sea level. In Austria this is the highest mountain. It's really iconic. It's an iconic mountain. And right down there the Pasteur's glacier. 8.2 kilometers long. The longest glacier in Austria. And it looks so so impressive. Like a sort of waterfall draining out from the top of the mountain all in super slow motion. And you can see down here by the lake huge chunks of ice that have come from the glacier. Along the way here they're showing pictures of how the glacier used to look from like the 1980s until now. And I can tell you it's not looking good. It's crazy even in 1995 here this one. Even then the glacier was looking quite extensive and now look. Is that global warming? What do you think? You can write in the comments what you think. But yeah it's drastically been reduced over the last 40 years in the pictures that we've seen.  It's just like huge chunks of ice sitting in the water. It's all dripping and melting away into the lake. Wow it's like being in the Arctic or something. So cool. I don't look it. Wow we're getting closer to the glacier and we're just coming up to the Glacier River which is coming off of the meltwater. Look at that. Look how much water is melting from this glacier every second. It's actually a surprise that there's any left.  Unbelievable. It gets more and more pretty and seriously it's so cool. It's so cool.  That is so awesome. I can feel the coolness coming from it. I can feel the icy chill.   We are standing right up at the face of the largest glacier in Austria.  Yeah really you can imagine that you're in the middle of like Antarctica or something here. It's unbelievable. That is an absolute ice wonderland. And this whole wall is like moving. It's slowly slowly moving and melting into the valley. Now we have to say goodbye to an unbelievable place. Goodbye beautiful place. But honestly this place is one of the most incredible places I've ever been. Really. We've been on the tops of volcanoes. We've been to some crazy places. But this is really really special. Okay it feels like it's just starting to rain. So we've got to try and make a move back. And we've got to go all the way up to there to the car park where the car is. The glacier is already far behind.  I think it was like 400 450 meter elevation. Super tough really super tough. That was exhausting. Yeah we're back at the visitor's center. Back at the car park where red tornado is parked. So we're going to go back into red tornado. We're going to hit the hawker Alpenstraza again. And complete the rest of this amazing panorama road. Yes. Oh yeah. Back where it all started. So we have to find a place now. Where we can camp for the night. So we're going to check on eye overlander and park for night. And see what places we can find around the area.  That was some crazy downhill that we did. We descended like a thousand meters in like 10 minutes. But this is the place that we will be camping tonight. It's actually right next to the the toll road entrance. Which is just there. And yeah there's a little grass parking area here. With some amazing mountain views around. So this is where we're going to be staying. We will have a very very good night tonight here. So I think it's time to cook up some dinner. Tonight we will make a coconut curry with some vegetables. And some bread. And look at all these tasty ingredients. Yes. Lots of spices. Some of this one. Full of spices. So there we have our beautiful coconut curry with some bread. It's a beautiful meal in a beautiful landscape. I was really blown away by the landscape of Austria. And this national park the Hohe Tower National Park. Wow absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. It was so worth it to come and to see the glacier which is eight kms long. And we touched the glacier. We actually went and touched it. Yeah it was incredible. It was incredible. We really hope that you enjoyed the episode. And enjoyed coming along on our alpine adventure with us today. If you did please give the video a thumbs up. And don't forget to subscribe to the channel. We will see you next time. 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Yeah, so a few things here about cultural appropriation, which there's a lot of sensitivity to these days So, you know, here we are in the dominant culture facing a disintegration of the culture really Severance of our ties to tradition to our indigeneity to our structures of meaning And so we're hungry for these things We're hungry for Rituals that feel authentic. We're hungry for stories that tell us who we are We're hungry for a sense of belonging. We're hungry for identity because identity is built through relation relationships and our relationships have been attenuated and reduced by consumer culture by Technology so so here we are hungry for meaning hungry for identity hungry for belonging and then we come across Indigenous practices rituals stories That Offer Offer some meaning offer some identity. So one form of appropriation is to like latch on to that and identify with that and It's like it's almost like you're kind of using it Almost as like a consumer product to meet an unmet need At the same time though, there's also a really authentic beautiful longing here like that that That comes from the the bankruptcy of our culture the danger is to bankrupt the other cultures too and To to turn them into, you know Workshop leaders and and to kind of commoditize Their culture and essentially strip mine their culture just as we strip mind their places Their mountains their rivers their soils And there's still something left. It's the culture and maybe we can strip mine that as well So that's that's one of the dangers You know, so you have yeah, so like the hunger for identity and meaning, you know So maybe you practice yoga and you take on a Hindu name and you identify with any do Hindu rituals You know from the yoga tradition And that meets some of the need perhaps And I'm not necessarily even saying this is a bad thing because there's another level here where all of the Cultures on earth that were not fully colonized and that I say fully because Most of them have been to some extent There are very very few if any well, there are few maybe more or less pristine Cultures that have have escaped the influence of modernization But even the ones that have been heavily influenced. There's usually something there that has been preserved And that's been preserved for a reason. It's been preserved not and the reason isn't to keep it and to protect it To preserve our traditions Traditions never were preserved. They never were static. They were alive and organic and they evolved over time and each culture then through what has been preserved or what has not died what has not been colonized Has a gift to offer the the planet today like these precious treasures that have been kept Sacred and kept safe within Maori culture within every culture Outside of the dominant culture Those are Part of the great reunion the coming together the next evolutionary step of the planet They've been kept safe for a reason and the time and this isn't just like me some white guy making this up okay, this comes from a lot of deep conversations and communion with wisdom keepers and They all say the same thing Which is that the time has come For the hidden treasures to be made visible to be brought into the world to be shared whether it's by Indigenous people whether it's Secret like mystery schools and lineages that have within dominant cultures have kept certain knowledge safe and secret It was necessary for it to be secret and no longer necessary So all of the hidden gifts are coming to the surface right now for the times that we are in so I think that Yeah, I think this is and it might be a bit of a contentious thing to say Especially as a person with pale skin but maybe those of you Who are connected to these traditions? Can feel the truth of it? that all Things ultimately all gifts are meant to be given forward. So there's An element that's still necessary of protecting it protecting it from being Monetized commercialized strip-mind Basically to keep it sacred, but no longer to keep it secret to say yeah, this is a sacred offering to the world We would love for you to learn Our dances but not to learn them as some kind of spectacle To put on a performance and charge money for it But to learn them as the gateway to a deeper knowledge that we've kept safe for you and when it when that knowledge is offered and accepted with permission and Grounded in that lineage and Connected with a whole way of thinking and a whole value system and Part of this arising story when it's done in that way, that's not cultural appropriation that's receiving a gift respectfully and Accepting the duty that comes with a gift the obligation that comes with a gift to pass the gift forward to use that gift for the purpose that it's there for and Not to divert the gift toward narrow self-interest


from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. It's theCUBE, covering VTUG Winter Warmer 2018, presented by SiliconANGLE. I'm Stu Miniman, and this is SiliconANGLE Media's production of theCUBE at the VTUG Winter Warmer 2018. It's the 12th year of the event, the fifth year we've actually had theCUBE here. Dave Vellante, my boss, was here the first year, every other year. I've been kind of manning it solo, great community here. Got to talk to a lot of users, and really looking at some of the transitions that are happening in the industry. This event is all about virtualization and cloud, and to help me kind of put an exclamation point on everything that we've been looking at here and what's happened in the industry, have it all welcome back to the program, Rob Stochet, who is the SVP of product at Zerto, someone I've known for longer than I even realized, and been on the program anytime. But first time, I think, since you've been at Zerto. Yeah, first time since I was at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, so I'm glad to join you guys here, and great event, glad to be able to get down here today. Yeah, so Zerto, a company we've known for many years, I happened to know one of the earliest investors in the company, and when I look at two of the biggest industry shows when you talk about virtualization and cloud, it's VMworld, and it's Amazon's re-invent show, and I remember the first or second year we did Amazon re-invent, the Zerto booth was right behind us, and so your company that really spans that gamut, helping customers with that, so Rob, I want to get your viewpoint, you talked about why people come here, but what are you hearing from the users, and what are some of the big challenges they're facing, and how are they looking to manage some of those transitions? Yeah, I think it's really critical to have events like this that are a lot of different vendors that are here, because I think when we see a number of companies going out and looking, and I was with a customer down in New York City yesterday, does software for FinTech, and what they were looking at is, how do we leverage multicloud? It becomes very important, they're looking at, it's not going to just be Amazon, it's not just going to be Azure, it's not just going to be VMC on AWS, they're looking at how they're going to have a multicloud strategy, and I think that when, what we're hearing from customers is, there's a lot of confusion in the market, and I think that's why this program, and others are really great at cutting through what is real, what's not real, how do you look for the ability to have that data mobility between clouds, but with security, especially today's privacy day, on the 25th, so you start to look at it and go, hey, security is a big thing, and a big theme from what people were saying here today too. Yeah, and one of the user interviews that I really love today talked about one of the biggest challenges he saw, he said, gosh, security, think about the Intel discussion there, what's that going to mean? He actually said, the performance issue actually isn't a big deal for him from an architectural standpoint, but security? Oh my gosh, he's in healthcare, it's like if he's in violation, or if patient information gets out there, this is the kind of things that put companies out of business. Absolutely, yeah, and I think that's what we're hearing, I mean, especially yesterday, it was okay, how do you layer encryption on top of your solution? How do you utilize the different types of secure transfers? How do you make sure that the data is secure? There's a lot about that resiliency of the data and making sure that you can get it back, and it's immutable for that matter. Yeah, one of the things, when we talk to customers, it's funny, in the industry, we're always arguing as to what's the right terminology? It's like, I still get to have a company that said that they had a convergence problem that they were trying to fix, and also, it's like a hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, no, they have a cloud strategy, and yes, they're using SaaS, yes, they're using public cloud, and yes, almost everybody's got something in their data center, and how do we get our arms around it, how do I have the services that work with me wherever I am, whether that's data protection, security, replications? So, we're zero fit into that discussion, and how are customers doing it, getting their arms around these big challenges? So, I think a lot of, when I'm out talking to the CIOs and the VPs of infrastructure and having those conversations, a lot of what we help them understand is, here's where you need to go, and here's the choices you need to make. Are you going to use Azure? Do you have an EA with Microsoft? Because you've probably been paying for Azure credits that you're not using. So, start there. It's simple, it costs you nothing extra. Get your feet wet, dip your feet in there. We see a lot of customers of ours that use DR as a service as the first stepping stone into getting into the cloud. It's a nice, easy way in. They can get their feet wet, they can test out the performance, the security, they can do user acceptance testing without actually having to go there. They can also get a realistic view of the cost. I think that was talked about earlier today, too, with some of the Amazon stuff, is that really, you have to understand the cost. It's not the same as owning it on-prem, but then again, you're not having the on-prem anymore. So, if you can get away with that, when we see the people taking strategies, a lot of it is data center consolidation, but maybe now I'm down from six data centers to two, and I still need to have that third copy. Where do I put that third copy? Do I put it at another data center? Do I go to a managed service provider, cloud service provider, or do I go to the public cloud? So what we try to do is offer them a platform, the Zerto platform, that can actually take them to all of those different places. We can take them there and bring them back. Yes, people use us for DR, but really that data mobility and the data flexibility really helps them stay away from the vendor lock-in as well. Yeah, and what do you hear from customers when they talk about vendor lock-in? There's very few companies out there that do a good job at being, it's like, oh, VMware, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, yeah, we can actually help you across the board there. And how much is lock-in a concern, and how do you, as a software company, stay agnostic and still fit into all of those environments? Yeah, the staying agnostic is really tough because some people are nicer than others to work with, and you try to not pick your favorites, but at the same time, we let our customers drive us to where they're going. I think that when we've started to look at the bigger picture, people start out, you know, Amazon's the 800-pound gorilla in this space. Everybody tries Amazon first. Maybe they didn't like or have the experience, they thought it was a lot more work than they thought it was going to be, so they start to look at other options. So when we started out, 2014, we've been shipping our two Amazon, DR to Amazon, part of our platform. Now, over the last year, we've added in the go-to and come back from Azure, and we'll soon release the next iteration of that next month that will take you even further among and across those different platforms. And I think to your point, it's a how can we give our customers choice? If you want to use a managed service provider, such as like an IBM, where they're based on Cloud Foundation from VMware, you can use that. If you want to then go from there to Amazon, our product will actually enable you to do that. And I think that's what we can do is look at our customers and they've luckily enough driven us to this heterogeneous cloud environment. Yeah, why don't get your comment on something. When people talk about compute moving to more of a utility model, but it's not the way utility was where if I'm getting energy as a consumer from one place or another, it doesn't, I don't care whether it's wind, solar, coal, nuclear, because I'm just getting it. When I look at cloud computing, even infrastructure as a service, there's things that need to happen. When I talk to most software companies, it's yes, I'm going to support across the board, but there's special integrations. There's things that I can do to make Amazon better, Azure better, Google better, and it's all a little bit different. And even with things like Kubernetes, it's not homogenizing IT. The big problem we see out there is, IT is a heterogeneous mess. There's never killing anything. It's all, oh, and add this and add this and add this. And now I've, you know, it's like, we've got a bad episode of hoarders. Is what we've got. So I'm curious from a customer standpoint and from, you know, a product standpoint, maybe, you know, talk a little bit about that. Yeah, I think our customers have been very clear to us that simplicity, and I think that's what you're getting at, is that simplicity is job one for us. If we're not being simple about what we do and we're not really trying to make it all that one platform, we're not doing our job. We're doing it to service to our customers. So our Azure product looks identical to our AWS, looks identical to our IBM, looks identical to one of my other cloud service provider products. Looks the same as your on-prem VMware to VMware or VMware to Hyper-V for that matter. I think part of it is we've taken the approach that exactly that. We got to be heterogeneous, but we got to make it all look the same and be the same user experience. So I think what we as a industry can do better is really focusing on, you know, on user experience and single platform to help across these because like you said, we have a customer, he uses both AWS and Azure. And he was one of our first customers on AWS and one of our first customers using our Azure product. He said that certain Linux systems actually run better on Azure than they did on Amazon and that surprised him. But he was able to go up and test them out, put them up there, fail them over and do it in a test bubble and see how well they ran. And I think to your exact point, that was a surprise to him. And I think it's the, your mileage will vary with the different clouds and being able to go there, test on them is very important because you're going to find that, like he did, that, and we kind of look, he's a smaller company. They were fabrics manufacturer, Tincate. They really focused on having that multi-cloud strategy because for them, they didn't want to have all their eggs in one basket either. But they found that certain applications ran better on Azure, certain ran better on AWS. So they're going to have that multi-cloud strategy. All right, Rob, help bring us home. What brings Zerto to an event like this, kind of user groups in general and VTUG specifically? Yeah, so the VTUG, we've been a long-term supporter of this I think since pretty much the founding of the company. So one of the reasons is that a lot of our customers come to it. So we want to support them getting more knowledge out there. Obviously we get to reach more customers and more potential customers, but at the same time, it's about the community and building that community. And we look for more. In fact, we're starting to do even local user groups of our own. We've kind of seen that the user groups have fallen off and in particular around disaster recovery and IT resiliency, there's really no place to go. You had ISACA, you had different organizations for certifications, but really that community where I can go and understand what are my peers doing and get that group learning is so important. And that's why we've been a long-term supporter of this. All right, well Rob Stretche, really appreciate you helping me wrap up, put an exclamation point on what's going on here at the show, as well as in the industry, all the major changes happening, virtualization and cloud. Make sure to check out thecube.net for all of our coverage. We have a huge lineup of 2018 events. Feel free to reach out to the teams. As always, I'm really easy to get on Twitter. I'm just Stu at STU. And thank you so much for watching. I'm Stu Miniman and you've been watching The Cube.


Exploring Mozambique, Africa's hidden coastal gem. Mozambique, nestled in the southeastern corner of Africa, is a country of captivating contrasts and remarkable natural beauty. What sets it apart is its coastline, one of the longest in Africa, extending a staggering 2,500 kilometers along the Indian Ocean. This immense shoreline is a source of pride and sustenance for Mozambique. In terms of size, Mozambique is expansive, covering approximately 800,000 square kilometers. It's diverse geography ranges from pristine beaches to towering mountain ranges, lush rainforests, and fertile plains. The capital city, Maputo, is a bustling metropolis located on the country's stunning coastline, offering a vibrant blend of culture and commerce. Within Mozambique's borders, you'll discover a tapestry of cultures and ethnicities, with major tribes including the Makua, Tsonga, and Shangan. While Portuguese serves as the official language, a multitude of indigenous languages add to the nation's rich linguistic tapestry. Mozambique's economic engine thrives on agriculture, with cashew nuts taking center stage as a major export. The medical serves as the currency that fuels its trade and commerce. The country's landscape is truly a sight to behold. Pristine beaches beckon sun seekers, while mountain ranges and rainforests offer adventures for the intrepid. National parks like Gorongosa team with an astounding array of wildlife, from the iconic elephant to the majestic lion, and a symphony of birds. In ancient times, the Swahili city-states thrived along Mozambique's captivating coast, serving as vital trade centers. The country's history is marked by a complex interplay of African, Arab, and Portuguese influences. Mozambique achieved hard-fought independence in 1975, a significant chapter in its historical narrative. Now let's delve into five truly fascinating facts that illuminate Mozambique's unique character. Great Lakes of Niasa. Mozambique is home to Lake Niasa, also known as Lake Malawi, one of Africa's great lakes. Its crystal clear waters and unique secret fish species make it a paradise for divers and nature enthusiasts. Hidden island paradises. The country's coast is adorned with stunning archipelagos, including the Bazaruto Archipelago and the Kirimbis Islands, renowned for their pristine beaches and vibrant marine life. Music and dance. Mozambique's music scene is pulsating, with genres like Marabenta and Reggae setting the rhythm. Traditional dance forms like the Marabenta dance captivate audiences with intricate footwork and vibrant costumes. Gorongosa's rebirth. Gorongosa National Park, once ravaged by conflict, has undergone a remarkable conservation and restoration effort, making it a testament to the resilience of Mozambique's natural treasures. Island in the Sky. The Gorongosa Mountain, often called the Island in the Sky, boasts a unique rainforest ecosystem isolated from the surrounding landscape, making it a haven for biodiversity. In summary, Mozambique's endless coastline, diverse landscapes, rich cultural heritage, and remarkable wildlife make it a captivating destination. Its history is a testament to the resilience of its people, and its natural beauty leaves an indelible mark on all who explore its shores.