What's the word y'all? Man, oh man, it feels good to be home. If you didn't know, I went to Summer League for the first couple of days. It was fire, came home for like a day, then went to DreamCon down in Texas. Shout out to RDC for inviting the brother. It was fire, but I'm finally home and ready to create content. The only problem is, we're basically in the dead of the off season now. All the big time signings are over. Summer League is done. Shout out to the Portland Trailblaze for getting that ring legitimately, getting the ring. Deondra Aiden just got matched. I guess Donovan Mitchell could get traded in the next couple of weeks or so, but other than that, we're in the dead of the off season. So today we're trying something completely different. Now y'all know me. I am not, and I repeat, I am not the take police, but today I might be. Usually I don't really care of what other people believe when it comes to the game of basketball because at the end of the day, I am team enjoy basketball if you know you know. So someone's bad take doesn't normally affect me, but I was on my flight home from Texas, strolling through Twitter, and this crossed my timeline and I was like, I just wanna react to it. No, it's probably not the worst take of all time, but I've just seen, and I guess the pot has boiled over for me when it comes to bad things said about Nikola Jokic, and this one just so happened to be on the timeline. So I wanna say to this guy, if somehow he comes across this video, this is not a shot at you at the end of the day. Again, we are just talking basketball, and I want y'all at home to realize that as well.  It is just opinion-based, but Jokic at this point has become one of the most disrespected players, which is weird to say, because now he has two MVP's. It seems like he's disrespected by a portion of the media. So you get the Nick Wright to the world saying he was the worst MVP winner in recent history, and now this guy had a take on Nikola Jokic that 97% of it I disagree with, so let's go ahead and talk about it. I'll put the link in the description to this tweet so nobody can say anything was taken out of context. This is an entire seven-minute segment that we will be reacting to. Of course, the whole seven-minute sign in again. Go watch the entire tweet, but I'm gonna try my best to add the most important parts and talk about the things that bro's talking about. So we start off talking about a tweet from Tommy Beard that says that over the last 43 NBA Finals, one of these nine players are added. We got like LeBron, we got MJ, Steph Curry. We got some of the greatest of all time legitimately. In the last 40 years, these nine players have dominated the league so that they are in the Finals all the time. Keep that in mind. That's the beginning of this argument against Nikola Jokic. I think he's had an incredible run. I think he's done something that doesn't get enough credit when talking about his game. So he starts off by doing something that I am guilty of as well. Before I'm about to say something negative about a player, I always start off with some of the positives because it lessens the blow in a sense, right? So the people aren't spamming you on Twitter when you say something negative, but if you say something positive beforehand, maybe they won't pay attention to it. So I'm guilty of this as well. So I'm not even knocking bro for saying this, but he talks about the availability of Nikola Jokic has been amazing throughout the course of his career, which is facts. You can't say that about every player nowadays. That's true. Do I think he's one of those guys on the list or I think he's one of the all time greats? No, I don't. And I can stand by that and it's okay. I'm okay with that. He still has a lot more of his legacy to write, of course, I just don't think it's enough for him to be the best player on the championship team. We'll stop right there. It is not enough for him to be a championship player on an NBA team. And if you think about the original tweet that he referred to, if you think about the original tweet that he referred to, that there's some basis to that. If you are telling me in the last 40 years, there's been nine players that have dominated the league. As Nikola Jokic has been that good of a player when you match up against Steph Curry, you match up against LeBron James and Magic Johnson, maybe not so much, but it's the things that happen after this, things that he says after this that confuses me. Now, remember this tweet. This is where it all stems from. Tommy Beers tweet that saying 41 of the past 43 NBA final series have featured one of these nine players, just that they were associated within the series. Not that they've won every championship because I think that is a huge, huge distinction. For example, Steph Curry. Yes, he's been in a lot of finals, but he did lose one to Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi Leonard was the best player on the championship team. LeBron James lost one to Dirk. Dirk was the best player on the championship team. Kobe lost one to Ben Wallace, Rip Hamilton and all of these players. Like these are teams that have won championships. Yes, you need an all-time great to get there, but I think it's a little bit disingenuous to look at this nine players and say, hey, Jokic can't win a championship because he's not there. When we see people that aren't there actually win it. That's all I'm saying. We can talk with some nuance and some depth and we can analyze a player. Let's do it. Let's analyze. I haven't, they got into that next level. Yeah, it's been some injuries for some. No, no, no, no. See, this is where things get interesting. Let's go back. Let's listen to his exact words on this. Next level. Yeah, it's been some injuries for some key players around him. Yes, there's been some injuries from some key players. Here's the payroll for the Denver Nuggets. The payroll. How many games have we seen between Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. this season? Remember, this right here is what? $60 million of guaranteed money from this season. And what did we get? How many games from Michael Porter Jr.? Nine. How many games from Jamal Murray? Zero. It's been some key injuries? No, that's the understatement of the century. These are supposed to be the two and three to Jokic and they haven't played. Michael Porter Jr. was a max player. Don't forget how good Michael Porter Jr. was the year that led them to give him that money. He was very, very good at the age of 22. Not some key injuries. That's that's what it's way more than some key injuries. That's all I'm saying. You lost the game seven at home in the playoffs to Portland. Yeah, a cheap shot. Somebody in the back, you get swept in the suns in four and you get ejected from a playoff game. Like these are things that happen and we can talk about. It doesn't take away from his greatness. And all of that is true, right? They did lose a game seven to basically CJ McCullum and Dame that led them to go to the conference finals. He has got ejected from a playoff game because he let the emotions get the better of him. He did push Marquis Morris. He is very far from a perfect player. But I can't say right now that he cannot be the best player on the championship team, but in his prime, which is the last couple of years, he hasn't even had an healthy version of the roster that they built for him. When you look at that list from Tommy to have to really win in the NBA, you have to have an all-time great player. Yes, you do. Coli Leonard, two-time finals MVP. Who was it on your list, by the way? He's an all-time great player. And I think Yolkich is just a notch below. You'd rather have Yolkich as your number two. Let's go. Also, it's 22. He's been a two-time MVP. It's Yolkich, man. It's Yolkich. It's Yolkich. It's like the Yanis Ata de Kumpo thing. You have to, we have to learn how to pronounce this. It's not even a hard name. Yanis, I excused everybody who's late to the party. That was 13 syllables. Yolkich is what, five letters? It's a yuh, not a juh. That's all. Like, that grinds my gears. Even when at the cookout, the family members, that Yolkich dude is crazy. I'm like, it's Yolkich, bro. Yolkich. But I just think he's got such a unique set of skills that it's almost too unique. Like, it's not complementary in a way and that you have to run through him. It's like with Mello. You have, they're so, so incredible at what they do and how they do it. It can't necessarily play another way. I don't agree with that take. And the reason I don't agree with it is because we've seen him defer and play legitimate playoff series, basically, when Jamal Murray and Don Vimich were going head to head, dropping fifties on each other's head. The parallel between him and Mello is so different because Mello's play style was like, I'm gonna get you a bucket. And if I'm not getting you a bucket, I'm not really contributing on the office side of the ball any other way. Jokic is the best passing center we've ever seen in the game of basketball.  We're gonna talk about a legit three level scorer at the center position that can do a little head nod, tell his teammate to cut and put it on the dime. So, yeah, he has a unique play style. That's one of the reasons why he's great. It's not replicatable by a lot of people in the NBA. So, yeah, he's gonna be high usage no matter the case. But I don't even know why you would ask him to not be high usage considering how good of an offensive player he is. They go on and talk about like, who would you rather have him or Jimmy Butler? That's all opinion-based. You might wanna take Jimmy, you might wanna take Jokic. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day. So we'll just get past that. They're playing the would you rather game. Which is fun. I've played it on my podcast for sure. Let me know what you think about this one. Paul George, but I think I'd rather have Jokic. Devin Booker? I think I'd rather have Devin Booker. You'd rather have Devin Booker than Nicola Jokic. Now, love me some Devin Booker. But I'm taking Jokic 100% of the time and I won't even think twice about it. You know what I'm saying? I'm taking Jokic. And I think majority of NBA fans are probably taking Jokic too. So the MVP is what, the 15th best player you'd want on your team? It's kind of weird. It's very weird. That's what I'm saying. That's what's weird about it, guys. All right. So things, this is where we stood, like up to this point, there's been some stuff that I disagree with that we'll talk about. It's once we get to the second half of these clips that I'm like, bro, you're stepping on your own feet. Let me rewind this. So let's talk about some of the stuff that he's mentioned in here. People are going to tell you he was good enough to be the MVP of the league, but he can't be the MVP of the team. I like this guy. He has some sense. Even if he's just playing doubles advocate, I'm rocking it. It's happened a lot in NBA history. Well, we saw, there was an argument. Russell Westbrook won the MVP and he lost in the first round, but in five games. Exactly. Isn't that just like a disingenuous thing to say? Am I bugging? Russell Westbrook won the MVP and then he lost in the first round and five games. Like factual statement, but isn't there some, like it doesn't feel disingenuous to even use that as an argument, like in your favor, the Russell Westbrook MVP where his second best player was before he got his shape, Victor Oladipo? Like that's such a bad argument, in my opinion. So not about to start talking about the, oh, he got eliminated in the first round thing. Should he have been the MVP? Which I think, again, is not a very good conversation to have, but they're having it and let's just listen to what they're saying. Well, you know, a lot of people had thought NBA should have been MVP. And he was saying, look, so the MVP of the league can't get out of the first round. What does that say? Should he have won the award? What do you guys think about that?  And what he did in the regular season was amazing. That's, and right there, that should be the end of the conversation. If you ask me, it is a regular season award. And what he did in the regular season was amazing. Cut the clip, tweet it out. There's no need for the rest of the conversation, but it does go on. Now again, like I said, this is where bro starts stepping on his own feet. So let's see what they say. He did not have his two best teammates. Oh, another good point. Absolutely, no. I mean, injuries have defined the NBA postseason historically. There have always been moments throughout time where key injuries have caused the doors of fate to open in a different direction. If you... You don't say! So when we go back and look at the original tweet, there's context to all of these things. There's context. Every single playoff run is benefited from some type of injury or something happening. And I do want y'all to understand. I understand that injuries are a big part of it. That does not make a championship less worthy to me. So me pointing out this stuff does not mean that I think these warrior championships don't matter because they definitely do. But again, like we're talking about, he, his own words were injuries, rights, the history, whatever, whatever. Drew Holiday in 2015 in the first round was injured for the Pelicans. Second round, Mike Hanley was out. Patrick Beverly was out. Does he make that big of a difference in 2015? Maybe not, but this is injury luck. And then we get to the finals. Cary Irvin and Kevin Love both get injured. Champions should bring. Narkage is out in 2017. George Hill is out, who was starting at that point. San Antonio had the Kawhi Leonard thing. Of course, as you know, I don't even remember Tony Parker getting injured. I don't even remember that one. And then again, we get the Kawhi Leonard thing. And then Boogie Cousins is out for the Pelicans. And if you don't remember, that Pelican scene was fire. I'm not saying they were the one that series as Boogie was hooping, but that Anthony Davis-Boogie combination was looking kind of nice before he got injured. So again, injury luck is huge. Even for some of the people on your original tweet. So how can we say that Yolk is just team and the amount of injuries shouldn't play a part in the fact that they haven't reached the next level? This right here, let me round a little bit. This right here is the moment he knew that he stepped on his own foot. Let's get into it, ladies and gentlemen, because this is about to get good. The doors of fate to open in a different direction, if you will. Absolutely. Not just NBA, but sports. And it's been unfortunate for Yolk it's the last two seasons to have guys down at key times in the year. All right, does that mean like, I don't know what do you want to say? Like he has guys injured. Everyone has guys injured. Oh, but what? You see him stammering over his words because he realized, damn, them boys did just had two max players injured. So me saying, oh, what happened last year in the playoffs should be irrelevant because this team was built with two max players that are hooping. Let's not be recording these videos so late at night. Sometimes I don't do the best of getting my point across. Another thing that I failed to mention in this one, it's just bad to say that Yolkitch can't be the best player on the championship team, considering we all agree that all you need is some injury luck and you can do it. You have a couple players go out on the opposing team, you take advantage and boom, you got a ring and that's all that really matters. It takes an immense amount of talent and a lot of luck as well. That's how you win a championship. Talking about Michael Porter Jr. versus Chris Middleton. Solid player, but Yannis didn't have Chris Middleton, a made guy in the league. Michael Porter Jr. is not a made guy on any level in the league. That's true. Right? Chris Middleton is. He's an Olympian. He's an All-Star. So basically what he's saying, hey, Yannis lost Chris Middleton and he still advanced at least to the second round. Where Yolkic, he didn't have his guy and Michael Porter Jr. But I also remember he didn't have Jamal Murray too, but let's look past that. He didn't have his guy, Michael Porter Jr. And he lost in the first round. He lost in the first round to the eventual champions, first of all. And the level of competition that Yannis played against, do you remember who they beat in the first round? It was the goddamn Bulls, who in the second half of the season was like the 20 of 22nd best team in basketball or worst team, depending on how you look at it. It's the level of competition was completely different, bro. Yolkic's lost to the eventual NBA champions, a team that submitted themselves as a dynasty. And this shouldn't have turned into a Yannis versus Yolkic's team, but it did in this case. And Yannis beat the Bulls, which again is good because you're losing Chris Middleton. That's incredible that you were able to do that. But it's still just the Bulls versus the Warriors. And then what did we see when Yannis went against a team that was on at least a similar level than the Warriors? They lost. You know why? Because they didn't have Chris Middleton. The injuries play such a big part there. And it's played such a big part in these last two seasons for Nikola Yolkic. It's the same thing. It's just so wild, bro. And listen, I respect giving the love to Yannis because Yannis did the thing. You still have to go out there and win that series. We were talking about Yannis going against a defense that wasn't good. And that was the Bulls, especially with Lonzo Ball being out. And then Yolkic going against one of the best defense in the league. Remember, this NBA finals was the best defense in the league versus the second best defense in the league, right? And then what happened when Yannis went against the boss of Celtics who was the number one defense in the league? He lost. Once you look at that, bro lost to the team that actually defends. I'm surprised. And Yolkic did the exact same thing. Does it, to me, it doesn't matter if it was in the first or in the second round, considering the circumstances. And I understand why Denver fans love their Yolkic. He's their guy. But I'm telling you, it's Fools' Gold. I'm telling you. It's Fools' Gold. I'm telling you it's not gonna work out. We'll see. It's Fools' Gold. It's how he ends it. It's Fools' Gold, which is actually, I don't think he did it on purpose, but we're talking about the Denver Nuggets and the Gold Rush and boom, boom, bam. So I just thought that a lot of the arguments were just not very well thought out. And I would have loved for some of his co-hosts to push back on it just a little bit. Cause that's what these shows are about. At least there should be conversations about basketball. Again, he said some pretty solid stuff though, you know? But at the end of the day, the meat and potatoes of it, in my opinion, just weren't very good. So I don't know. Do y'all like me going out there and dissecting other people's takes? Let me know or send them my way if you do.


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Just two years after Thailand legalized recreational marijuana, they're about to ban it. What made them change their mind so quick? Let's talk about it. You know, at first we thought it's going to turn Thailand into lit land, but then people, they got too lit. It was too lit. Oh, you know, it was known as Thailand, but then it became Highland. That's funny. Yeah, Thailand is going to ban recreational marijuana by the end of 2024. Andrew, they have a new prime minister. He's more conservative. He is reversing the legalization laws of the previous administration. And this is causing quite a buzz. I mean, Andrew, Thailand Thailand caused quite a buzz when they decriminalized it in 2022, when they even allowed it for medical use in 2018 because Andrew nowhere else in Asia allows it. In fact, everywhere else in Asia has very, very, very strict drug laws. Yeah. And I think we're going to get into the reasons on what changed their mind about it and what this, I'm not going to get too political, but I know that there's a new political party and they're considered progressive. But I think they're just trying to reel it back because maybe the previous party that legalized it, maybe didn't do it with what they believe is the best intentions. But anyways, guys, we're going to talk about it. So please hit that like button right now and check out other episodes of the hotpot boys. Oh yeah. Also pre-order Smala man, this is kind of a complicated topic, right? But at its core, isn't it weird, Andrew, that Thailand is considered, I guess, like the most debauchery place in Asia? You know what I mean? I don't need to get into all the details and say the words. Yeah. Yeah.  But then when it comes to weed, but you, but then on the other hand, all of Asia is actually pretty tough on weed. Like, and you have to understand Singapore, Korea, China, these are very strict countries and a lot of tourism from these countries go to Thailand. And now that's even bothering other Asian countries. So I guess David, what are the main reasons why they're kind of stepping back on this? Okay. So there's a lot of different reasons from what I heard from the internet. Basically, one of them is that they lost control. Like now you can get weed easier in Thailand than you can get either cigarettes or alcohol, which are both more like regulated in a big infrastructure type of way. Right. So now you could just buy it anywhere. Yeah. I think when they legalize it, they actually weren't ready for the amount of shops and all the people that were all the flood of like investment that was going to go into it. I heard also that the high end East Asian tourists are not comfortable bringing their families anymore. So basically if you can see a Western tourist and let's just say from the UK smoking a J and you're from like Korea where it's not even allowed at all, you just don't want your kids to be exposed to that while walking on the street. Right. So now even though it kind of boosted tourism at first when it legalized weed because everybody's like, Oh, go there to smoke weed. Now it's starting to hurt tourism sort of right. And between Taiwan, China, Japan, South Korea, East Asian countries, Andrew, they make up two thirds of actually foreign tourism to Thailand.  But it's like actually if you look at it statistically, Asian family tourism was making up a much larger percentage. Wow. So it's actually bothering the Asian families that want to come by and that's off she most of the time. There are some young people and from Japan and Korea and China that move to Thailand to smoke weed to want to be clear. Right. But also like I heard in South Korea or something like they're warning their their employees like, Hey, if you vacate in Thailand, even if you do whatever there, if we find it on you here, don't bring none of it. We're going to be very strict on you fail a drug test at your job, even though the weed was smoked in Thailand where it's legal. We don't care. Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, I think these are pretty sensible reasons. Yeah. Listen, you lost control. You weren't ready for everything. Now it's starting to hurt tourism because now everybody else in Asia is actually more strict on it. And you're the only one that's letting it free. I guess what people were saying was it used to be only isolated to zones like Pattaya, which were known as very debauchery places. But it was like seeping into like, you know, nice family resorts in Chiang Mai. Right. And by the way, guys, recreational, this is recreational marijuana that's going to get banned. Medical marijuana is still going to be legal. But I will say this like, and I'm not I don't know about the politics, but they were saying how the political party that had legalized it had made promises to the northeastern farmers of Thailand that this was going to be like a big thing. And maybe that's why they got a lot of a lot of corruption low key. Some people were speculating that the previous administration that had passed the law actually low key had mad equity in the weed business itself. So there was it was essentially like boosting your own industry that you own. Right, right. Well, they got they got some new leaders. Yeah, I'll tell you this, Andrew. Drugs are really, really interesting. I looked up some stats, Andrew. The lifetime usage rates of illegal drugs in Japan, which is also an incredibly high GDP country, Andrew, is 1.2 percent. That means people will only 1.2 percent of the entire population will have ever used an illegal drug in their entire life in Japan. And Andrew, in the America, which is the richest country by GDP in the world, Andrew, large country, it's 30 percent, 30 percent of people will have tried an illegal substance throughout their lifetime. That's 30 X more. Yeah, that's crazy. Anyway, let's just get into the comments section, Andrew. We are not experts on this topic, but you know, it's very, very interesting stuff going on. People just said, Hey, man, my dream was to visit Thailand so I could smoke cannabis with a lady boy and they're going to take that away from me. That wasn't my dream, though. Yeah, that was yours. That was whatever comment dream. Somebody said the genie's not going back in the bottle in the same way that toothpaste can't go back in the tube. Ah, you mean they're saying like, Oh, well, all the weed is out there. You can't stop it. Right. Like basically this snowball is rolling down the hill. You can't stop it. It's going to be hard, but they're also going to make a lot of money off these fines because basically if you're caught using it, you could get fined up to 1700 USD. That's a lot of money to get fined for just smoking a joint. Do you think that a lot of Aussies or UK people are reconsidering their destination spots if they were planning on going in 2025? Yeah, I guess so. But I mean, dude, I don't know in Asia, man, trust me, if they want to lock lock down on something, they they more or less kind of yeah, I don't know how well run the Thai infrastructure is though to be honest. I don't know what their ability is to execute anything. Somebody just said America should do the same, but less in jail time, but he should still be illegal. Basically, this is like interesting because in America, Andrew, it all all signs point to it being fully legalized in all the states eventually, right? Right, right. But legalized meaning that as long as you have the systems in place to enforce the regulation, then it's going to be that's that's the ideal situation. Somebody said, I'm a Thai local. It's not going to solve any of the problems here. We just have problems running anything. So basically, like any enforcement of anything is just really difficult. So whether you legalize it, you don't legalize it. Like technically, I guess prostitution in Thailand is legally illegal. But they were just like, I don't know. It's just a lot of things are going on right now that are not legal. Right. Somebody was saying, what about cannabis culture that scares them? And basically, Andrew, some people are indicating in the Thai government, it makes the population drop out of school and not feel motivated to drive the economics forward. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. You guys can look up some studies on like long term use of marijuana. I do think like marijuana being so accessible to young people early on is not good. I think you should be able to do it when you kind of have stuff going on because yeah, it does make you chill and especially Thailand, the entire place is a beach. Right. Yeah, I don't know, man. Dude, it's like, it's not going to make you read more books. Okay, that's if that's the goal, if that's what you're saying, right? Somebody will people said that it's just the style of making laws like one administration will be like, yeah, weed is legal for everybody. We're going to decriminalize. And then the next administration comes right back in and it's like, no, we're going to criminalize, you're going to jail, get fined a lot of money.  Basically, other people are arguing about the usage of weed. Here's my hot take, Andrew. They should keep drugs out of Asia. Asia, I get it. I'm not saying that weed is the worst thing ever, but no, Asia should not become like the Western world or other parts of the world. Oh, yo, trust me, other Asian countries are gonna lock down. No, but it's like, dude, what a lot of people don't understand is because like Western people are like, always like, oh, yeah, they need to chill out. They need to chill out in Asia and stuff like that. But it's like, I think in Asia, there's a long history of like, you know, narco drug wars, you know, warlords, foreign invasions, the opium wars, like people pushing heroin from like the West and stuff like that. And it's just like, it like set countries back like hundreds of years. Yeah.  Everything runs so well. No crime. You can leave your cell phone on a park bench and then go to the police station and somebody will have turned it in. Yeah. And that's because they are not lax on things. Let's be honest. That's why over time, everybody buys in to the strictness and they're still able to find fun and happiness within the limitations. But there are hard limitations in those places. But how do you know that they're really having fun if they're not really having the phone on the drugs where the drugs itself fun wrong? Everybody's had fun in Japan. Everybody's had fun in Japan. I had a ton of fun in Japan. Everybody's had fun in Japan, even a strict and as safe and as limited as it is. Everybody's had fun. I had fun in Singapore too.  Bro, do not, do not bring anything back from Thailand to Singapore. All right, they're gonna lock that down. Anyways, guys, listen, we're not experts on the issue. And I'm not like anti marijuana all the way. But I do think for Thailand, if they don't have the systems and infrastructure in place to regulate, maybe it's best to pull back a little bit. And I think it's gonna be hard though. It's gonna be hard for sure. Yeah. Listen, man, Asia, if they don't like some, they're bringing the army through. That's all I'm saying. Like, I don't think running your country like this debauchers play land for the rest of the world, specifically like the Western world is necessarily the best longterm plan for also still I don't think that that is what I would want to do.  You know, so anyways, guys, let me know what you guys think about this in the comments down below. Obviously, it is kind of crazy to legalize it and then two, three years later, pull back on it. So it kind of shows the jumpiness and how they run things. But anyways, I'm hoping for the best. I like Thailand. Shout out to them, but hope they figure it out. So you guys let us know in the comments down below what you think. Until next time, we out. Peace.


What kind of world do I want to live in? I think about this question a lot. For our generation and for specifically my group of people, which is refugees, the circumstances might dismantle any vision of the future that we have. You're trying to rebuild, you're trying to make a future for yourself, and then the climate-related disaster comes and you start again.  The first step to understand is that we're all a part of it. None of us are going to be left out by the crisis. We're at a stage where if we don't act now, really there won't be very much left. There are generations that will never see certain things that we grew up seeing in real life. We have to start treating this like the emergency it is. To achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, we have to go from an intention to a serious commitment. Business leaders really need to rethink how they conduct their business and invest in creating systems that are climate-friendly. The action I would like to see is accountability. Structures being put in place where countries aren't just asked to do something, but they're kept accountable to the decisions that they make. There has to be that strong collaboration between government, between corporations, between youth activists to drive change forward. The world I would want to live in is a world where imagining the future is not a privilege. I want to live in a world where people do not give up on hope. Hope that a positive change is possible. The fact that you're listening today means that you are willing to make a change. Hello and welcome to the Impact Session, Navigating the Path to Net Zero. The challenge is clear. 50 free gross tonnage, GT, that is the amount of CO2 emissions per year that need to be eliminated by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change. What isn't clear are the pathways the world must navigate to get to net zero. Nearly every nation on Earth has endorsed the Paris Climate Agreement. Industry commitments on climate actions have doubled over the last 12 months and over two-thirds of global citizens are alarmed and concerned about climate change. All stakeholders, governments, industries and citizens have now come together to radically reinvent and decarbonise the global economy. Now is the time to establish the shared priorities, structures and initiatives that will lay the foundation to accelerate progress towards the goal of net zero. And that is what we're going to be talking about today. How we can meet the challenge of our age and what we can learn from one another. My name is Laura Round and I'll be your moderator for this session. I work at the International PR Agency, Freud's, and I'm seconded to the Prince of Wales's Sustainable Markets Initiative, which is working with CEOs and chief sustainability officers around the world to accelerate the green transition. However, I am mainly here in my capacity as a wealth global shaper from London. I feel strongly, as I'm sure many of you do, that this is a generational issue. But people making senior decisions are not the people who will be living with this as much as the next generations. The magnitude of the decisions we're making right now are enormous. And I am delighted to be joined today by three dynamic thought leaders. So let me introduce you to our panel. Firstly, we have Michelle Freddo, managing director and senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group joining us from Paris. Varun Sivaram, senior director for Clean Energy and Innovation for the US Department of State from Washington, DC. Virginia Helias, chief sustainability officer at Proctor and Gamble from Geneva. And in this most recent US presidential election, climate change was a top priority for the first time. President Biden has returned to the US to the Paris Agreement and has committed to net zero emissions by 2050. So where do we stand today in terms of global commitments as we head towards COP26? And what's still to be done there, do you think? Virginia, would you like to take that question first and please? Yeah, sure. So maybe I will ground everybody on what we announced last week because we announced our commitment to be net zero by 2040 on September 14th. And this is a commitment that is across our operation and our supply chain, from raw material to retailers. And we also publish a very detailed climate transition action plan that outlines to your point not just the end destination but what is the pathway to get there. And so that's why we have been tearing targets by 2030 on what we want to do in terms of our operation of supply chain. So, you know, carbon neutrality over 2020-2030, 40% reduction in our supply chain emission, 50% efficiency, now a transportation emission by 2030 on the way to net zero. So we joined the race, but the climate work for us is not new actually. We've been at it for over a decade. We've been working on reducing our emission end to end from sourcing to manufacturing all the way to in use how the emission that people emit when they use our product and just to ground it into our product. This is why Pampers today supply chain generates 1 million tons fewer greenhouse gas emission compared to a decade ago and because they significantly reduce the amount of material. And this is why Thai detergent has avoided 15 million tons of CO2 by enabling people to wash their clothes in cold water. So the focus is not new, but what is new is the scope of our emissions. You know, the breadth, the depths and the long-term view. Because historically we had goals, but there were five-year goals. There were 10-year goals. So we never had an ambition 19 years away. And I think that's really the challenge, especially in a culture like P&G. Because when we set goals, you know, we deliver. I mean, we call it, you know, we have plans of our pledges. 19 years, that means that we need to know how to deal with many sources of uncertainties. And we'll probably talk about those. But, you know, and we spell them out very transparently in our climate transition action plan, you know. That's, that goes from how greenhouse gas emission are accounted for today, which is a nation practice and it can involve, I mean, all the way to how fast look our technology will scale. I mean, those are huge sources of uncertainty. And so our current world maps, the pathways are based on what we believe to be true today, but we can't predict, you know, with certainty how those enabling technology may advance, you know. So that's a muscle we need to learn how to flex, you know, navigating with a very high level of uncertainty while staying focused on the net zero ultimate goal. Well, this is a really timely conversation for you because you have just very recently expanded those climate commitment as you've just outlined, as well as joining the race to zero. And what I'm particularly interested to hear from you is what that process process was like to get to those new commitments, to get your company to sign up and commit to race to zero. And also, you know, you sort of touched on why it's so important, but why was that so important and how did that drive the entire company to really get behind this. So it was a long and tedious process, obviously, because I think what's different with this goal versus the previous one is that although we have a few corporate programs, but the majority of our efforts have to be delivered by and through our business units. You know, when you talk about decarbonization of your supply chain, there is no way that it can be bolted on. It has to be totally integrated in the, in the view innovation program. So, you know, this is why the goals are so important because it is about business practice, practice transformation. And, and it involves now every single employee, you know, just as you say, two thirds of people are feeling that they are personally affected by climate change. I mean, I think now we can say that all PNG employees are with these new commitments personally engaged in finding a solution. So that's very exciting, but it took a lot of internal consultation to make sure that those goals were actually actionable, that we could fit them into our existing processes and systems, you know. So we're talking about the complete engineering of how we do business. And that's the part that takes time. That's also where we realize that a big part of it we cannot do alone. And that's also culturally, you know, a big difference. I used to say, I mean, we have, we have been raised to on how to compete, you know, that's the muscle we know how to collaborate is a totally different muscle. We'll talk about that, I think later. But I think we need to talk about culture change. We need to talk about re-engineering of how we do business. So that's a lot of work, but now we have it and it's very exciting. We're going to start delivering on those pathways. That's great. So Varun is back. It was with us now live from Washington DC from State Department. So it'd be really interesting to hear from you what your takeaways have been during the General Assembly and to discuss the political side of things as well. So, you know, the most recent US presidential election climate change was the top priority for the first time. President Biden has returned the US to the Paris Agreement and has also committed to net zero emissions by 2050. So we were really keen to hear from you. Where do we stand today in terms of global commitments? What is your, the sense you're getting at the General Assembly this week? Well, look, thanks so much for having me first of all. This is an exciting week, right? This is the culmination of close to a year of the Biden administration bringing the United States' leadership back to the four. As you mentioned, Laura, when the US rejoined Paris on day one of President Biden's administration, we signaled, hey, we're back. Within one week, President Biden signed an executive order which put climate change right at the center of foreign policy and national security. Secretary Kerry, who I work for, I'm his senior director for Clean Energy. Secretary Kerry is now the first principal ever to sit on the US National Security Council completely dedicated to climate change. Within 100 days, we hosted the Leader Summit on Climate, which brought 55% of the world's GDP to the table with commitments that we were committed to keep 1.5 degrees Celsius alive. And ahead of Glasgow, top 26 in November, the goal is to get the whole world on board. We've already seen some really exciting announcements. We heard yesterday from China, for example, about ending support for overseas coal. And extremely excitingly, we heard President Biden share a new commitment about working with Congress to further double the US's commitment to climate finance around the world. Look, at the end of the day, this will be a whole-of-world effort to keep that 1.5-C goal alive. We've spent the last nine months or so working with partners and like-minded partners and allies all over the world to get to the commitments we need. Those enhanced nationally determined contributions are NDCs. And many countries are making bold strides. Look, just last week, Secretary Kerry was in India. I was fortunate to get to be with him. He launched a new US-India climate action and finance mobilization dialogue to help India reach its ambitious target of 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030. That target is consistent with keeping 1.5-C in play. And as Secretary Kerry expressed, we hope India communicates that target in a formal enhanced NDC by COP. So this week, we really saw a climate front and center at the UN General Assembly. It's a super exciting time because it's the culmination of a lot of work behind the scenes. Secretary Kerry has been all over the world working with countries to get those commitments up. And I hope, Laura, we can talk in addition about what it'll take to actually meet those commitments, the implementation pathways to get to net zero by 2050. But I'll pause there. It's an exciting week. Well, it's really nice to hear such optimism, which doesn't always go hand in hand with this topic we're discussing today. So thank you so much for that insight. And that sounds very promising and hopeful. So thank you for that. Let's move on to the pathways to decarbonize even more. So I'd like to bring in Michelle from Boston Consultancy Group because BCG has identified the critical role of supply chains in decarbonization, as well as some specific recommendations that companies should take. So why is this broader lens on supply chains so important, Michelle? So thank you for having me. So, of course, I shared the enthusiasm of Barun and of Virginia about what's going on in the world. At the same time, we need to recognize what the challenges are so that we can develop the right solutions. I think, you know, one of the key words to solve it is collaboration, because as we know it's the whole system that needs to move from government developing policies from the financial world financing to corporate changing and not the least consumers changing behaviors and buying decarbonized products. So collaboration is a key word. Now, when you look at, you know, where the emissions come from, for most of the companies, not all the sectors, but if you look at it, a lot comes from scope three. In FMCG companies, clearly the scope one and two emission only represent a fraction. And therefore, you know, getting to the right value chain type of collaboration and investigation, I think is a key lever to reduce emissions. At the same time, when you look at the high-emitting sectors, when you go into where it hurts the most, you take steel, you take cement, you end up by maybe 70, 80 percent of the cost, unit cost that is increasing. But when you transfer that to the whole value chain and look to the cost of a house or the cost of a car, it's a couple of percentage points. So I think that, you know, just that reveals the fact that only a value chain approach can help solve the problem because the steel companies, if they bear the cost just by themselves, are going to go bankrupt. And therefore, getting a sense of overall how the end product manufacturer having higher margins and getting closer to the consumer, and therefore, ability to educate consumers can also share the burden to get the impact. The other thing is, of course, most of these global companies that have banks that pledges, you know, have global footprint and global suppliers. And therefore, this is also a way to have influence on other countries to make sure that they are carbonizing. They want to continue import export products in Europe or in the U.S. as the policies will unfold. And that's why the importance of a carbon price and a carbon price at the border, even if it's complicated, will help. So it requires close collaboration throughout the value chain. And another example, you take the electrical vehicle car and the end of the internal combustion engine. If you don't have the infrastructure that is being built at the same time, there's a chicken and egg type of issue. I mean, those needs to come end in end. In other words, consumers are not going to buy those cars. So I think overall, we're quite bullish about, you know, those value chain approaches where I think this is where collaboration and the new way of doing business will materialize, hopefully, the sooner the better. Thank you.  And so I'd love to bring Virginia back in to talk about creating signals for green demand. Because as is abundantly clear, this is a really complex topic and one where consumers often express concerns, of course, about climate change, but don't often know what to do about it. So how is PNG working to engage consumers on climate and also to strengthen demand for green products? Yes, very important question. But often when, you know, we talk about these people say, well, but before you ask consumers to do something different, can you tell us what you do yourself, you know, and this is why I will answer your question. But I always like to start with the emissions that we control directly. And how can we reduce those?  And so we have a goal, for instance, by 2030 to reduce our own emission by 50%. That's a science based target. How do we do that? We need to buy 100% renewable electricity, you know. And since June, we have 97%. But the most important thing here is, it's not just about buying racks, you know, it's about investing in long term partnership so that we can create additionality on renewable energy. And we just signed a long term agreement with ADP renewables in Spain for two major projects, green and solar, that's 120 megawatt. It's 40% of all the electricity needs for PNG Europe, you know, so that's massive. And so it's important to understand that by doing that, we actually accelerate the decarbonization of the market. So that's, in supply chain as well, just to give another example, and I'll go to the consumer supply chain for us, it's 10 times the emission of our operation. So you go from operation, then supply chain 10 times. And our commitment is net zero. And to get to net zero, this is where we need to work with our suppliers so that we replace all our fossil fuel based carbon technology by either renewable or recycled or even capture carbon technology. This is massive innovation, you know, and by doing that, you send market signals of what is needed, you know, and what's interesting is that the building blocks exist today for many of those technology. But they are still needed to be proven at scale, you know, and, and like we work on on tide with a with the Silicon Valley startup on capturing the atmospheric CO2 and integrating that in our detergents, you know, this is very exciting. But this is also needed to be a proven at scale. Now SDG 12, responsible consumption, you know, those are the emission, we do not control directly. And what is at stake here is really to help bridge the intention to action gap. Because that is really what I say, you know, gloves can just issue the recently a study showing that 46% of people want to seriously change their lifestyle to be more environmentally friendly, but only 22% are making active changes. It's a 24 point gap. So why is this gap because people don't want to compromise, they don't want to compromise on super performance on value on convenience and this is where a company like us touching 5 billion people around the world and investing a lot in innovation. We can help bridge that so we can help develop and it's both innovation and education. So again, it's not what we want consumers to do is how through our innovation, we enable them to bridge that gap intention to action. And for instance, that means developing a detergent technology that can clean in cold water as well as in warm because the temperature of the water cycle account for a big part of the carbon footprint of the detergent. And this is why I L for instance, in Europe has launched recently the every degree makes a different campaign, you know, it's to enable people and to inspire people to turn the dial down and the goal is, you know, lowering the average wash temperature by five degrees and it's a lot. It's about developing detergent that rings faster so that you can spend less time with heated water in your shower. And so it's all about what we call making sustainability irresistible. So that that's the best alternative, you know, consumers go for it even actually if they are not environmentally conscious or if they don't make any change in their life, they will go there because it is the best proposal for them. And maybe just one word on the program that is for us cross sector and I mentioned it because also the web is part of the coalition it's called the 50 liter home coalition. So it is to Michelle's point, it's a cross value chain coalition, you know, all the player energy and water that have something to do with how people live in their home. And the idea is to reduce the amount of water to 50 liter per person per day. Today, it's about 150 liter in Europe because up to 500 liter in the US and doing that through innovation that allows water to be repurposed and recycled and enhanced so that it actually 50 liter feels like it's 500 liter, you know, it's the delight for consumer it's a better experience, and they save water and heated water so energy and water. That is I must say also the phrase making sustainability irresistible I really like. And also as a communication professional I must just add that I do believe there's a real perhaps in some in some case untapped area of sort of looking at how you use communications to drive behavior change. So I just, as a as I say as a conversation I can't not not mention that but that's really interesting and thank you so much. And shocking to hear the amount of leaders that is being used across the UK and the US. Now let's move on to how are we going to pull this off, in particular one of the type of new capabilities and structures and also collaboration approaches that we need to really urgently advance so Michelle let's start with you at BCG you're working with many companies around the world and who are all sorts of you know across a real broad set of industries. What new capabilities are needed here and what are some of the examples that you're seeing that show the most promise. Yeah, sure. So first let me tell you it doesn't touch all industries and all companies the same way that I would say that the first point is that the companies most of our clients in 2030 will not look like they look into in 2020 so it's a fundamental change of what the sources of competitive advantage their product their services their operation is going to look like so it's a full transformation we're talking about so it touches everything from strategy to operation to innovation to coalitions etc. So so when we're saying new new capabilities. I think one one thing that money cannot bear by his experience and therefore we are convinced there's a first mover advantage that's why we're so happy. That you've accepted us to work with you on the first mover coalition because we're convinced that those first mover will be this experience because it's complex because it's costly when you move first on CC us on the hydrogen on director capture you name it you develop the experience and you go down the experience first before the others. So it's a question of developing the new capabilities and existing capabilities deploying them into the new business. You've got you know of said they were offshore oil and gas in the Nordic. They are the leader now in a offshore wind. So they really transferred and build the new capabilities to do that. And that's good examples of redeploying your capabilities partnering with suppliers. I think that Virginia gave some very compelling example but it's also beyond your own industry thinking about you know partnering locally with the people that have too much ways to use their ways. It's a question of how do you use your ecosystem and you foster innovation at the local level in the way you didn't do it before. There is also a question of being able to do all this because let's face it. It's not just about doing better what we've always been doing. There's a need for invention and culturally you know you were talking to me we're asking good engineers. That's what we have in our big corporations to agree on commitments and they only know how to get to those commitments with some of the leaders but not all the leaders. So they require some big bets so that we can start in innovation and making bets in advance. You know I look at mass when they order for one point four billion eight methanol powered vessels. This is a this is a big bet. So when when all companies are starting to really invest in the new world in advance of policies and probably in advance of what the other sectors. I think that they're really doing that in the right way. The other thing that I wanted to say on on on the on the element where we see the winners really acting is because they're in advance they can help policy makers shape the right policies and that's a very important element because those policies need to be careful that they are really helpful in terms of developing you know capabilities and innovation at the company level and therefore acting and influencing them as you are developing them. So just to give some example. I think these were some of the dimensions where you can really make the difference by being your first mover at that point. Always be my big experience because you're developing the new sources of competitive advantage so you can't rely on what you've done in the last 50 years or more. That's really interesting. Thank you so much. Now I just I'd love to bring them back in because it'd be really interesting to get a sense of the mentality at the US State Department and in particular sort of your your sense on on what works between when you're looking at approaching private and public collaboration. What new types of partnerships and collaboration capabilities. Do you think we need between governments and the private sector in order for it to be more effective. Great question. And also it's been wonderful to listen to Michelle and Virginia and Michelle thrilled to partner with you at BCG and thrilled to partner with the World Economic Forum on the first movers coalition. You guys will hear a lot more about it in the coming weeks. But to answer your question. Let's just walk back. Like I told you the United States has put climate change right at the center of our foreign policy. This year that means we're going to make a successful COP 26 at Glasgow our top priority.  Next year our focus shifts to implementation. It's the United States year of implementation. And that starts with we are hosting the ministerial sessions of the Clean Energy Ministerial and Mission Innovation. We just held the major economies forum where leaders from around the world got together on September 17 and we committed to focus on clean energy targets next year when we subsequently reconvene it. We'll also chair the International Energy Agency. So the idea is next year we're focused on getting the countries around the world who have all made ambitious commitments and we're one of them. We made a commitment to reduce our emissions by 50 to 52 percent in 2030. The goal is to get every country together to accomplish the raised ambition. Now we know what we need to do. Look I come from the energy field and energy as you know is 75 percent of emissions. So I'll focus on clean energy transition. The clean energy transition kind of segments into two main topics right and both have clear deliverables in this critical decade between now and 2030. The first main branch is deployment.  The cost effective wind and solar power and electric vehicles and batteries. It's time to deploy the heck out of them. And that's what we can do between now and 2030 just to give you a sense of scale. The International Energy Agency tells us that we have to build the world's biggest solar farm every day between now and 2030 to be on the right deployment pace where we're quadrupling solar and wind deployment thousand gigawatts or more per year by 2030. That's kind of one brand. We know what to do there. And 80 percent of the reductions we need to get to by 2030 are going to come from technologies we already have. The other branch though which is equally important and which Michelle just talked about is innovation. Innovation is going to represent 50 percent of the emissions reductions will need for net zero by 2050. Think about that again in 2050 50 percent of the reductions we've achieved our goal of keeping 1.5 C within reach 50 percent will have come from technologies that today are not ready for market. And Michelle named several of them and so did version. That means that in this decade we need to bring those technologies to scale and we do that in a couple ways. One way is we invest in research and development and demonstration governments and private companies around the world. This is a very important thing that governments can do before I joined the special presidential envoy for climate and the Biden administration. I wrote a book called Energizing America which laid out a pathway for the U.S. to ramp up its clean energy research development and demonstration investment. Of course President Biden has actually announced an even larger target thirty five billion dollars in our D&D. The bipartisan infrastructure bill would increase funding for critical areas carbon dioxide removal carbon capture and utilization industrial decarbonization. I have four and ten times what the targets were that we set and what we thought was an aspirational book. So it's it's an exciting time as I would say. But second in addition to the supply side investing in the new technologies. We need to do what Michelle just said which is create the demand signals the demand signals for emerging technologies that aren't yet on the market but could be. And this has worked beautifully in other fields. Look the reason we have covid vaccines today is because governments around the world set demand signals. They said look if you make these vaccines we will buy them. We'll set a price. We'll set a performance parameter. They have to work. They have to be safe. And then we will buy the loads of them and companies met the challenge. The same thing happened in space flight. The first commercial crude space flight happened thanks to a private company SpaceX because NASA set out clear performance milestones said if you meet them we will buy that flight in energy. The first movers coalition is doing this with the private sector. We're saying look if you're a private company you get a lot of inbound people are telling you to do all kinds of things. They're telling you to go net zero. They're telling you to report your carbon emissions all kinds of things. They're telling you to decarbonize your supply chains right. You're supposed to do careful accounting to figure out if you should buy a Dell Latitude or an Apple Mac book. What's the number one highest leverage thing you can do. It's to create a demand signal for the technologies that will need in 2050 that 50% of emissions reduction that we're not in a position to achieve today. And companies that joined the first movers coalition with us. They're going to set those commitments. They'll say you know a small percentage of the steel I buy or the cement or the trucking that I ship freight on or the aviation that I fly my executives on. I want to make sure that I send the clear demand signal that we've got to have zero emissions technologies by 2030. It won't be a big market but it'll be an early market that paves the way for the scale up of these technologies by 2050. And of course in addition to the voluntary private sector commitments will also work on the public sector side through initiatives like the G7 industrial decarbonization agenda to create demand from the public side. Altogether we know the milestones we got to hit. We know we'll need 100 to 400 million tons of years zero carbon steel by 2030. It's time to hit a public private partnerships and through multilateral cooperation. Brilliant. Thank you. Now we are almost out of time and but I do want to get a last word from each of you. So we've cop 26 less than six weeks away. What should be our top priorities coming out of that moment? And Visiony can we start with you? Yes. And I want to say that you know the power of cop 26 for me is the run up to it. I mean is the fact that we are talking today. It's all these reports that have been launched and the commitment that have been made that that will actually create nothing more than magic. So it's not like before and after it will be totally different. But I think that now we have people across the value chain that are committed to go to net zero. And again I would like to reinforce the two key pillars for this to happen is innovation which by the way doesn't need to be space like innovation. You know you have some very very smart innovation like replacing you know that 20 percent of trucks in Europe that basically are empty. And so they have an empty container. So we work with this starter that fold fold fold. It's called the full container. So you can have four instead of one in those type of very smart innovation at scale can make the difference. And the other one is indeed a cross value chain collaboration and collectively we need to learn how to do that at the pace and purpose that we need. So I believe that 26 is just another step in this big momentum that we are seeing. And now it's not just the pledges but onto the plans. Great. Michelle what about you. The first aspect is delivery. We've done the pages. Now we need to deliver exactly as Baron was saying and the delivery. So for me the cop is not an end. It's the continuation of the process. But really now the focus from pledges to delivery with the mindset of accelerating. We are late. The IPCC says we reached one point five degrees in 2014. Now I mean so acceleration acceleration means changing the context in terms of policy in terms of financing in terms of demand creations and signal. So we need to accelerate in the third word is collaboration. It's public private. It's vertical. It's horizontal. It's between countries. It's a big learning exercise that we need to apply to ourselves which is to foster the collaboration because we cut the same objective at the end. It's one planet. So really these three words are the key. Then because we're in a high risk of not getting there you need adaptation. And I know that probably the cop next year would be in Africa. I think we need to talk about adaptation and include in the plans of the countries an adaptation component that already today doesn't really exist. And that by the way we present a huge market as well for companies because he is going to be a huge market for that as well. And then to finalize I think that the more and more I discussed with companies and states if we don't serve the just transition in a fair way and it's not just north south. It's not south but it's within each of the countries. So because I'm French and I got the yellow jacket. This is going to happen everywhere. So we need to also think that not everyone will be affected the same way. And we need to think about the vulnerable population just to make sure that they are part of the journey and otherwise it will happen. Thank you Navaroon. Very quick final verdict from you please. Absolutely. Look three big things at cop. The number one thing is raising ambition. We want countries around the world to communicate enhanced NDCs thing to the core negotiations. We've got to conclude the rule book under which the Paris agreement is going to function going forward.  So this is a chance for companies countries and other organizations to use that platform and signal real action. Not the kind of greenwashing things that we're worried about but real action. First Movers Coalition is one of those but there will be a range of exciting announcements at cop 26. Look forward to sifting through and finding the most impactful ones. Thanks for having me on. No thank you so much for all your contributions and I'm for one and I'm so excited for cop 26 not least well for everything we've just discussed but also as you say it is the first gathering since the pandemic. Thank you all so much for coming on Michelle, Varun, Virginia you've given us a really great understanding of the work that lies ahead. Thank you so much for joining in for all the work that you're doing to labour foundation to navigate these pathways to net zero. This is the end of the web stream but as this is such critically important piece of work at the forum and for our forum partners please stay on because we want to have some further discussion of you in a slightly more informal setting. Thank you all very much.


Governor Mark Dayton and lawmakers are lining up behind a new proposal to overhaul the state's handling of senior care facilities after widespread reports of abuse and neglect. A recent audit found reports of abuse and neglect at those facilities had increased 50% in the last five years. These are people who call themselves care providers. They're providing care to vulnerable people. And at least some of the abuses that I have learned about are not only illegal, they're deeply immoral. And those are first and foremost the responsibility of providers. And beyond that, the state has its responsibility too. The legislation would streamline those reports of abuse, boost licensing requirements for assisted living facilities, and create stricter penalties for employees who abuse or threaten seniors. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Another important task is to determine whether two populations have different means. For example, do trees grown using fertilizer A produce more fruit than trees grown using fertilizer B? Or do children who've gone through Head Start do better in school than children who don't? Or do people who've purchased a warranty actually save money? To answer this question, we need to find a probability distribution for the difference between means. Now to find a formula for the probability distribution for a difference of means requires some multivariable calculus. So here's a quick version of that derivation. OK, well don't worry about the quick version. With somewhat more work, which we omit, we can show that if x and y are independent and normally distributed, the difference will also be normally distributed. Suppose x and y are independent and normally distributed with mean mu x, and standard deviation sigma x, sigma y. Then the difference will be normally distributed with mean equal to the difference of the means, and standard deviation equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the standard deviations. So let's take an example. Suppose our heights are normally distributed with a given mean and standard deviation, and the height of a two-year-old tree is also normally distributed with a given mean and standard deviation. Let's find the probability a one-year-old tree is taller than a two-year-old tree. Under the assumption, the heights are independent. So if x is the height of a one-year-old tree and y is the height of a two-year-old tree, we want to find the probability that x is greater than y, or equivalently the probability that the difference is greater than zero. So the difference will be normally distributed where our mean is the difference of the means in the same order, and our standard deviation will be the square root of the sum of the squares of the standard deviations. And so we compute and find. So the difference will be normally distributed with mean and standard deviation, and we can use whatever our favorite device for computing normal distributions to calculate the probability that x minus y is greater than zero will be about 20%.


And Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Jordan, the rest of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today on this important topic. More than 229 million American adults use the Internet each day. It is not just a delivery mechanism for copyrighted content. It is the lifeline by which they work, worship, connect with their families and communities, seek and receive health care, stay informed, organize debate and exercise political speech every single day. And yet, despite the scale and importance of this constituency, they are conspicuously absent. Absent from the Copyright Office's Section 512 report, absent from the oversight mechanisms governing their speech, and absent from the debate on Capitol Hill. This is the constituency on whose path I speak today, the forgotten 229 million users in this debate. My written testimony gets into some detail, but I wanted to use my time to touch on three major issues. Section 512's outdated stance on broadband access, the powerful nature and attendant abuse of takedown notices, and the difficult realities of automated enforcement. First Section 512 governs the way in which I am speaking to you right now through a broadband connection.  However we cannot, as a society, accept a law which allows unvetted accusations from private parties of a civil offense to disconnect an entire household from modern society. Yet lower courts have interpreted Section 512 to mean exactly that, that ISPs must shut off household's internet access upon receiving unproven allegations of copyright infringement. A bright spot by partisanship currently is the push to expand broadband access represented by you fewer than 30 bills currently before Congress in both chambers and across the political spectrum. Yet major content companies insist that this tower they wield is not only appropriate, but insufficient for their purposes. Historical context is important. When the DMCA was passed in 1998, ISPs were software providers that operated over the telephone network. As a user, if your AOL account was terminated, you instead subscribe to any of the dozens of AOL competitors. In 2020, ISPs such as Comcast or Verizon controlled both the software and physical connection into your home. For the more than 100 million Americans living in homes serviced by only one broadband provider, an account termination means losing access to the internet in its entirety. Shifting ISP business models as well as the rising importance of broadband to modern life have rendered this punishment wildly disproportionate to the alleged offense. Secondly, most acknowledge the systemic problem of bad DMCA notices and their impact on everyday speech. A DMCA takedown has a power which is unparalleled in the online ecosystem. It can erase speech from the internet for up to two weeks. Takedowns are rarely contested, and there's no meaningful oversight of these notices or disincentive against abuse, but the result is a long and thoroughly documented history of weaponization, with experts estimating that nearly one-third of notices are problematic. Although bad notices stem from everything from algorithmic defects to deliberate abuse, their aggregate impact is undeniable. Senders can use takedowns to censor legitimate content. Incomplete or error-filled notices can make it impossible for platforms to identify the works involved, and search and notice robots can and have disrupted live streams and news broadcasts. Those stakeholders, however, still insist that they need faster takedowns with fewer user safeguards and greater potential liability for any platform that attempts to filter out defective or malicious notices. Finally, we must understand the limits of private, technologically-based enforcement solutions. These often sound good in theory, but the reality is far messier. Because they operate automatically, these algorithms are prone to removing speech that is otherwise political, educational, or newsworthy. And policymakers must grapple with what users and artists alike have understood for ages, that the balance of equities in practice is not determined by the law, but by the financial incentives, design choices, and technological limitations of those who design the algorithms. We are at a historic inflection point, politically, economically, and socially. On the streets, at the polls, and in their homes, Americans are online. We are registering to vote, testifying before Congress, organizing political action, and attending weddings and funerals all online. We are debating and documenting our lives, our surroundings, and our realities across ideological and geographic divides. The Internet is how we bear witness. It is how the work of community activists and organizers is amplified, and how we see ourselves and how we are seen by the eyes of the world. If we are to strike any sort of new balance, it must keep the needs of 229 million voices and their ability to speak freely at the front of mind. Thank you, and I look forward to your questions.


Okay, Bismillah, in the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful, you can introduce yourself. Hello, my name is Manny Carbohal. So our beautiful brother Manny has been studying Islam especially the past few weeks, and he comes from a Christian background which is, you know, there's a lot of beauty in there, obviously there are certain things that doesn't sit well with the hearts. The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, there's a beautiful tradition, the Prophet Muhammad said, ask your heart and your heart would never lie to you. So a lot of the people who convert to Islam, it's the journey of the heart, that it actually sits well with them in their hearts. So just to go over before we do the Shahada about what is Islam, so you know what you're getting into. I know you studied a little bit but I just want to reassure. So Islam, you know, there's a beautiful, what we call hadith or saying of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, that Angel Gabriel came to him and asked him four questions. And when he left, after the questions, Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, told his companions, he said, do you know who that man was? They said, no, we don't know who he was, we've never seen him before, because he came in the form of a man. And then he said, that was Gabriel, Gabriel came to teach you your religion. So all of the scholars, they take this that that is the religion, that hadith, everything that is in that, that's the religion of Islam. So there is a simplicity in understanding the religion, but also there's a sophistication when you get into the creed and you want to understand it in a deep, beautiful way. So the first question was, tell me about Islam, what is Islam? So the Prophet Muhammad's response, all of a sudden, was that Islam is to testify that there's no God but one God and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. That's Islam, the first thing, right? And then to pray five times a day. So our prayers is based on the time of the, as the earth turns or as the sun rises and sits. So it's very heavenly and earthly. So we have five daily prayers and that is for us to be reconnected because the world is trying to disconnect you from God.  It's a few minutes, but those are power minutes. And then he said to pray five times a day and then to fast in Ramadan. So the month of Ramadan comes and we actually go through a fasting period of sunrise to sunset if we don't eat, which seems very impossible, honestly. But once you do it, it's kind of like, oh, that was easy. But you try to do that without intention or fasting is very hard.  By 10 o'clock I'm like, oh, I've got to have my latte, right? I've got my coffee. But in Ramadan, that's one of the miracles of the month that you just do it. And it's easy. God makes it easy because your intention is to fast for His sake. And then to pay in what we call zakat or alms that you pay two and a half percent of your excessive wealth that you don't use. So for example, if you have wealth, like for example, there is no alms in your home. So if you don't own a home for a million dollars, you don't have to pay anything. If you own a ring that has a diamond on it, the diamond has no. But the gold, the actual gold has it. Like it's excessive.  There's no zakat. There's no alms for that because it's in circulation. What's alms is that excessive wealth that you have. You have gold and you have silver and you have cash in account that you don't use. So once you don't use that for over a year, then you pay two and a half percent of that to the poor.   So your parents are your responsibility, not a burden. But then if you have an uncle or that is poor and struggling, you know, who has to be poor people, you can give it to them. But there's eight categories of people that you can actually pay your alms to. Then it's to make the pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime if you're able and physically, mentally, and financially. So if somebody is like, let's say they're poor, they don't have to go. Like it's just waved on them because you have to be financially able to go. Or somebody's crippled or something like that. So that's Islam. So it's very simple, right? It's not that complicated. Yeah. And then they can they can teach you like your friends. They can teach you the prayers. They're going to give you a really nice box set that has all of all of the books that you need for a lifetime. Then he said, tell me about E-man. What is faith? When you say I have faith, what is it? And he said, to believe in God, we believe in one God. See, the concept of trinity is one of the biggest problems that the Christians have because there's no explanation to the trinity. You can't divide infinity, infinite power into three. Because anything divided by something that's infinite is invalid. So 10 over infinity is invalid. So you can't divide infinite power because God's power is infinite into three. See, that's this is, you know, there's no answer for it, obviously. But we believe it's only one God and he's a creator of the heavens and the earth. In the Bible, they refer to him as God the Father. But we believe it's one God. He has no son. He's not he doesn't begets note. He's begotten. He has no father, no son, no daughter. No, he's he's there's nothing like him. There's nothing. Anything that comes to your mind that God is like that, there's nothing like him. God is other than that. So he's just a lot of the, you know, in many traditions like the Buddhists and the Christian to have this, this statue of Jesus that they say, okay, that's God. God has, there's no form. There's nothing like him. He's not a thing. That's it. Anything that you think about is a thing. So to believe in one God and to believe in the angels, that there's angelic world. That simultaneous to our world. They see us. We don't see them. But in the here after in paradise, we see them. They don't see us is the other way around. So there's, there's, there's gins that are made out of what we call the fire and there's angels that made out of light. So that's a, that's a, another rim that, that, that only God knows how it works. They try to figure this out with the Avenger movie, but it's not like that. But then, then you believe in the prophets. One of the thing about the beauty of Islam, you don't lose anything that was good in Christianity. You have everything in Islam. You have Jesus in Islam. You have Mary. So we love Mary. There's a chapter called chapter of Mary in the Quran. There's a whole chapter dedicated to Mary. One of the five saintly women of Islam. We believe in the version of birth. We believe in Jesus speaking in the cradle. We believe in the Bible being a revelation from God. We believe in miracles of Jesus that, that, that, you know, leprosy and and giving life to the, to the death with the command of God. We believe in all that. The only thing that's, that's different. We don't believe he has any divinity. He has no Godness in him.  He received revelation. So we believe in prophets, 25 prophets are mentioned in the Quran, but 124,000 prophets came throughout history of humanity. So Jesus, Moses, Noah, John the Baptist, all of them are mentioned. There's stories of them in the Quran, Abraham, Adam being the first and Prophet Muhammad being the last. So that's the prophet. And then we believe that there's a day of judgment. And we also believe that there is everything is from God. Everything that happens in their life, the good and the evil, all of them from God. Everything is, he, he allows it to happen. And then we believe in paradise and the fire, fire is for purification.  Those who don't, they will experience it to get purified. If there's good in them, they will enter in paradise. I believe all the Muslims at the end will enter paradise. So that's the, that's the faith to believe in those. And then he asked him the third question. What is Hassan? What is the beauty of the religion?  So you have this presence of mind, which in Islam we call it taqwa. You will hear these words often. The word taqwa will come up in every sermon. Taqwa is God consciousness. That you're conscious of, of him. God exists, but are you conscious of his existence all the time? Is he with you all the time? Taqwa is just being God conscious. When you pray, you're God conscious. When you give your charity, you're God conscious. When you deal with people, you're God conscious. So that's very important. And then the last one he told him about, when does the world end? The end of time. And the answer of the prophet was that the one who asked doesn't know more than the one being asked. In other words, the exact time that, you know, there was all this sect of Christianity that says the world is going to end in 1972 in the one. Because they have all these dates and they all fail. Only God knows the hour. But he gives all the signs of the hours. What are the signs of the hours? So he gives all these signs of the hours that before the end of time these things will happen. And those are all very strong in our tradition. So that's the religion, basically believing in those and knowing the signs, to see the signs of the end of time. Do you believe in all of those and you accept it so we can do the Shahada? I do. Okay, good. Okay. So I want to make sure. Are you friends with him? Okay. Why don't you sit here? And hold his hand. Hold hand, brother. We're brothers. Yes. This is brotherhood. Okay, so we're going to do the Shahada first in Arabic. Then in English. Okay. All right. So you just repeat after me. Ashhadu. Ashhadu. An. An. La. La. Ilaha. La. Ilallaha. Wa. Wa. Ashhadu. Ashhadu. Anna. Anna. Muhammadan. Muhammadan. Abduhu. Abduhu. Wa. Wa. Rasulahu. Rasul. Ma'shaAllah. Takbir. Takbir. Takbir. This is just calling that God is great. Only God can do this. Nobody can do this. I bear witness. I bear witness. That there is no God. That there is no God. God but Allah but Allah and I bear witness and I bear witness that Muhammad that Muhammad is his final messenger is his final messenger and his servant and his servant Takbir God is great God is great Hamdallah so from this moment on you have it's it's it's we don't have the concept of reborn and baptized but this is you're a new person the old you is no longer there so from this moment you're pure so you start with a plus right now so for us what it means is that if we die at this moment you're the purest amongst everybody who's here because you have no sin zero sin whatever you have done in the past that was sinful is forgiven whatever you done in the past that was good you get extra credit for it so if you give charity if you help people they all will be accumulated as you're good inshallah and then the other thing is from this moment on Islam all of the written everything is incumbent incumbent on you so the prayer the fasting when Ramadan comes they will help you remind you when Ramadan is in a few months in March so and then the prayer it's their duty to help you make sure you learn it okay their books and stuff we give you but your friends duty to to make sure that they they walk with you and learn teach you that and and that's it so then when you go home what you would do we call a hustle which means a full body shower so basically just like you do the shower you just go shower and then take every all your clothing that you're wearing take everything out and put it in the washer in wash it because you're a new man new clothes and then put on you go and then from that moment on five daily prayers do the best that you can do the best if you miss something and if you do it's not the end of the world God is the merciful and he loves his servant when they repent if you make any mistake just go to God yeah you don't need him you don't need me you don't need the Imam there is we don't have that in Islam where you go to a priest and you say oh father I've sent we don't have that you go directly to God and there's a there's there's an opening between you and God and the closest you can get to God is when you're prostrating that's the moment you go and you make you pray and you make the supplication supplicate for all your family members first and foremost all your friends you know you have friends Muslims non-Muslim all your friends pray for them and then supplicate for everybody who's here and and and for yourself that God give you the strength to carry this this banner and surely you will do great things and I want to be the first after him to give you how to go ahead is first


It's lovely to see that he's got 3 things from Southampton 2 that need to do. Southampton 2 is over at a place, where we generally do very well there, but Southampton has beaten us more than anyone else in the Premier League. That's followed suit quite nicely for them today. First thing we'll talk about is the lack of quality, which we have to talk about in terms of players who are coming. Now as I'm talking about, o'r pwysig o'r blaen i'r cydyddor. Rwy'n bod yn cael rai'n blaen i'r cydyddor gyda gwlad yma, ond mae'r cyllidau sy'n gyflodd o'r cyffredin iawn. Felly hefyd, mae wedi'u yw Llyfridd Cialysen a'r cyflodd o'r pwysig o'r gweld. Rwy'n bod yn gweld cyllidau a fyddech chi'n fflasio'n ymddangos yn y gweithio y 20-25 ymddangos, ddim yn fawr i ddechrau. Ond efallai oedd yn dda'r gweithio. Ond oedd yma'r danysydd yn ei gondol. Efallai eich gweithio ar y gweithio, a wedi bod yn gwneud o'n gweithio, hanes yn gofio, yn amlwg yn dweud o'r gweithio ar y gweithio. A oedd yn dda'r gweithio ar y Gweithio, oedda'r gweithio, a'n llwydo'n gweithio ar y gweithio ar y gweithio. dyn nhw ddysgwyd ar y gweithio gyda'r gweithio. Felly mae'n ffordd o'r hyn ar gweithio. A'r gweithio ddim yn y perifodi. Mae'n ddiweddio'r amser. Fe yn ddych chi i hyn, mae'n gweithio'r cyd-dillfawr yn y gweithio, mae'n gwybod. Mae'n gwybod. Mae'n gweithio'r cyd-dillfawr ar y gweithio. Felly mae'r ffrustrasiwn. Mae'r ffrustrasiwn fwyaf fyddwch chi'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio.oli arnynt o ran ei gwrddon a'r cyfeirio. Mae rydyn ni wedi'w gweld, a'r rydyn ni wedi rhoi chi yn fwy o'ch garwch am yng Nghymru, rydyn ni wedi fwy o'r rherau yn unrhyw yn gyfoedol iawn i ei gwertho arnau i gael i gyfnodol, a'i gyrraedd bach hwnna yn hyn, oherwydd o'r gwahanol i fynd i ddechrau hyn. Felly, mae wedi oswn i ddweud, ond mae'n ddweud o'r Lywodraeth yn rhan o'n gweithio, Llywodraeth, Ond am rhai'n cael ei gael yn llawer y Llywodraeth, yn ymwys i'r prif. Byddai'n ei wedi bod yn gyfaint o'r ddechrau a fyddwch yn ei gael. Mae'n fywch am yw'r prif. Rwy'n meddwl i'n meddwl, mae'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'r prif. Mae'n meddwl i'r prif mewn meddwl i'r prif sydd wedi gael ei gael. Mae'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'r prif. Mae'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'r prif sydd wedi gael. na ddy seanwch i ddim. Mae'r gweithio ag ffordd o'r maghau'r llan, a ko i'n feddynt ti wedi ddigonio. Efallai oherwydd yma gynon, mae wedi fawr eich ei hyd o'ch gweithio eich hanes yn fatha. Mae'n meddwl, mae bod wedi ei gweithio i dda i'r bwyl, fel eich gweithio, mae'n gweithio i'r bwyl, ac mae'n gweithio i ddweud eich hwyl cwrddio o'ngod o'r fwyrddio. Fe ddweud ers yma eich hwn o'i gweithio'r bwyrddio, ac mae'n gweithio i ddweud eich hwyng. Next week for Newcastle, as who plays where, I've personally had be. Obviously Luke of Deane's missing now so, so I've a bit more about that in a minute. So I'm going to come in, well, she'll come in there. But at the end of the day I'm definitely going to be starting out there next week for me because no ritual isn't again, and it's show today that just how important it is to us. Even if you're not scoring, you create opportunities and it takes people with them and we didn't really have any of that today so that's a real worry. Second thing, the red card. I said on me matri action, I don't know. I don't know if it is or it isn't. It was late, he's caught the lad late. There's no intention of both running. Carl Walker Peters runs across him. Deane catches him late. Is that a red? I don't know. It's the real answer. I've seen a lot of people on social media saying it's never ever a red. I've heard Karen Byron, Jamie Redd matri and it wasn't a red card. No intention. Will ever an appeal it. I don't know. Do you look at it again? I mean I don't know why Kevin Friend didn't go and look at it but then I guess after the week we've already never going to give us any decision that could have gone in our favour. It was never happening after what's gone on this week with the media and stuff. So it is what it is. He's now suspended for three games unless everything can appeal it. We'll see. We'll see. I don't think he had a good game anyway. Luke did it but it is what it is. The final thing is really as disappointing as it is today and as frustrating as it is and everything else. We've got to remember that. We've had a good start. We've all talked being top of the league after six games. There's no question about it. The disappointment is today that we haven't performed like I said on the match reaction. You can lose games or football and we did deservedly today Southampton. No qualms about the result. It's a real frustration when your team doesn't perform. We haven't made Alex McArthur work at all in that game and that's the real disappointing thing today. If your caravan team is open and haven't chances and you get beat it happens in football. You can have those days but today we were way below par. The fact that we didn't test them and caused them to put them under real pressure is a massive disappointment to me. You just look and think that decision not to bring in another forward on the last day. Whoever it was, Marcel Brands or whatever because we know Carlo Antilotti was looking at it. Whoever it was, Antilotti or whether they thought it was enough. With Richard Jarlison not there we are so light in that final third. It was a calculated gamble of course it was and at the moment it looks like a poor decision because Richard Jarlison went and got himself sent off but today it was just a bit frustrating but you do have to look at it and go in the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup and the top of the league going into next weekend so I guess that way you've got to look at it and go right. Let's hope today was one of those days because it's massive now next weekend Newcastle club have got a bounce back the team's got a bounce back with a victory up at St James's Park next week now and really dust themselves off after this defeat because it was a shocking performance from Everton and very much against what we've seen so far this season although there has been a couple of signs that the injuries are mounting up a little bit have broke our rhythm you still expect more than what we've got today Just like you say, we're still top Let me know what you think in the comments section below Make sure you subscribe, give the video a thumbs up and if you want more videos join us on Patreon Check out Pets, Matt's reaction and the player ratings too See you later


Slack is the absence of binding constraints on behavior. Slack is not jumping into the wagon when everyone else is jumping. Slack is the spare change you have and decide to give it to a homeless person who might really be in need. Slack means you can relax and you can take care of the problem tomorrow. Slack is when you allow yourself to make mistakes. You can chill. The world is not going to end, you will still have your life tomorrow and simply remembering that you are fortunate enough to go back home. Crush on your bed at night as and will be your eternal reward. You can train, you can sprint, you can rest, you can reassess. Slack means you can still explore without being hasty, without desperation, need and greed. You are okay with losing some as deep down you know that you are going to gain some. Slack is when you are chilling with your friends without necessarily having to discuss something that you and only you consider productive. Slack is trading that marginal error for something you enjoy. Slack is the hoodie you put on when you are at home or when quickly going out on a cozy cellar to buy a pack of cigarettes and you end up with a random friend puffing one on the sidewalk. Slack is refusing to be bound by constraints, views and lifestyles. Slack is allowing yourself to embrace extremes without being vulgar and refining your seamlessness. You can still be decent, you can steal deadlines, you can still be professional. Slack is enjoying two opposite genres of music.  But you still have that room only you know about, that space to push the pedal if you want to.  Society asks you to do things more than ever before. You are primed to opening doors, you need to see what is behind every single door every morning, every day, every night. You need to keep yourself up to date, you need to prove you are not like them while still being on the same boat. Slack is ditching all of that and going into the woods or simply staying outside and watching the sun while everyone else is working. Slack is not knowing what others are doing but also dissecting their every move on a macro scale. The academia does not allow room for Slack. School teaches us that we need to stay on a career path, we need to work, we need to fear failure, we need to be serious. You need to have that piece of paper that credential. A typo is yet one more brick I can use to discombobulate you when analyzing your well-crafted resume and interviewing you like the open book you pretend to be. And if you are not going to protect your Slack, you're going to lose it. Remember, if you have free time, someone will find something for you to do. So protect your Slack. Stop trying to show people the person that you want to be. Otherwise, you're bound, you are in chains. You're on a train you will never escape from, you need to post everything you need to update everyone. Your cash is already planned, you already know what you want to do, where you want to go. And in life, we are primed to trade. But we can control what we are trading. I can control how I feel, I can choose to lose some time on my subway ride back home being connected to the outside world and simply listening out of my cocoon-like car where I'm usually in traffic and waiting for the light to turn green while also catching up with my social media feed. My Slack is productive. So if you feel like you're unproductive right now, it's okay. If you are studying or trying to finish up a project and you have that feeling of restlessness going, it's alright. Do not get angry or hasty.  Slack allows you to do it. Be willing to let it go. The day will still be yours tomorrow.