Okay, thanks. Thank you Roy. Thank you under for the shame Okay, hello, everyone. I'm Jackie. My name is John poor 12 years ago I Went for Singapore for for my secondary school and after that I graduated from AIS Became a game developer for three years Two and a half years Then I started my own business to Produce VR VR games so it's a There's a one one day my friend Someone came came look look look someone has a just brought a Oculus Rift 2 so he asked me to Do you want to develop a game? VR game and Together, so I say okay, let's do it. I just want I always want always want to try new things So then we start to think to pick what general way we are going to develop. So firstly, we want to develop a horror game but we but none of us Is there to develop the horror game? Although we want to produce a horror game and then after I think a while and I realized That I have a dream in my childhood is I want to be a scientist so After I play so many games I found after even even you played a game you enjoy the game for a period of time But after You'll stop the game you will feel feel a little Upside or lost because you Didn't get much from the game. So I was thinking how how about make make some Meaningful game we wish that educational game so you bring the fun part into the game and I saw under you after you play the game you have some feedback or some Experience and you learn something so with I started the education game VR project. So I quickly develop a demo during my part time that I Thought there's a competition in China Held by using CVR So I just submit my game then after a period of time I Feedback we have the second second price in the long game So then I realized it's time to set up a company and fund some some people who has a same interest See same interest and same dream High-smile so Okay, so that's why I want to develop the act where I want to make VR education So this is a table contents first I'm going to talk about why we are And then second second part is our approach how we make VR We will put VR technology into education Third is other solutions are currently exist in the market number four is a challenge. That's the way we In the in this VR education industry So why they are education? so We are brings us the visibility so you can Come back to the 2d The book and videos we are VB objects you can Also, there's an engagement you can interact with The virtual object you can pick it up and you can punch it so there's a lot of a lot of interactions and also we are giving us safety when you want to Check We want to experience new things. You don't need to go to the Dangerous environment and you don't need to do risky activities. You can just do it in the virtual environment The lastly we are also brings us the focus One one thing is different from VR to AR is a AR is a you make the the real world more exciting and The VR is a we we can create create completely different universe or space so and this space is a very immersive and it's a very Can you see it is a It's a closed environment so that you you are you will not distract from the real world stuff, so it's a very good environment for the for the students to learn stuff So but what makes VR education special? So I have a search online. I found this story. There's a Asian Egypt Clay tablet It's covered and there's a child written on it and it says They beat me and knowledge entered my head. So so this is a Around 2000 years ago So Back in the old days the learning education is driven by the motivation is the punishment the heart harsh punishment punishment and the but The truth is as the learning must come from yourself come from the interest So I believe the interest is the pop the reason that can keep a person learning and keep keep keep learning and This is a path. This is a really fun 2000 year ago, so it's a one teacher with three students and this is a present So it's a fun on the internet and also one teacher with three students So 2000 years has passed nothing has changed much, right? So what is that so? That's I personally, I thought sort of this question then I realized it's a Purpose in the past, right? Some other people experience some something then they Some rats as knowledge then they read into into the book and they take to picture and they took video and they they try to recall down this knowledge then Then the others will to read will have to read the book read the picture and to and to understand this knowledge and And to eventually apply it to the real world. So the whole process is from the 3d environment to 2d 2d book or 2d images and the the razor we will still have to Convert back to 3d. So this process is there's a Conversion loss. So let's say if some somebody has a very limited limited imagination or Maybe IQ then the during the this process to make maybe a loss and Some that's that's why it's not many Not everyone will Have a good result because there are there's a conversion loss given this information or knowledge transmission process and Now we have VR VR enable us the the chance to experience yourself and Last time the other experiences are second high experience and now in VR So everything you play you you trade you you interact with Your experience is a first-time experience then you can easily understand and Help to memorize it And apply it. So the whole process is a 3d to 3d Conversion so there's no Very very very little conversion lot lot. So that's why I I think the VR is more effective in terms of in terms of Mission knowledge or information so At VR education they provide us first-hand knowledge and no conversion loss and I believe it's a future of the education and Okay, so now it's our approach How are we going to develop those?  There are mini games and there are Quests so and it's a it's a VR game and the content one deliver is from the school the teacher in China the school collaborating with us the teacher will come out with ideas How are they going to teach this lesson? So we implement all those ideas into our game So and we can sell this for self-learning game to the app to the Steam store and the area to monetize and the other way is We implement the education contents in the full-time education. It's just all the schools and to the centers so currently In the schools you have a Number of students and one teacher so you need to engage them all into the same virtual trip Virtual environment so the teacher and the students will come Will go anywhere in this virtual universe and the teachers will have teachers can control the pace and the point of interest so Let's say in the htd back version in the multiplayer version the teacher can be became a giant And the students are all dogs So the teacher will ask the students to follow him or if one student is not listening to the teacher teacher can Pick him up and put it into the correct direction our point. So and the teacher can trigger the event trigger something to happen and Can control mbc's and control our students and he's a so he's also a he's not Replacement for the current teaching method it's just extra stuff and it's a tool for the teacher to attract students to attract students interest and to Make sure the knowledge is a can can be delivered in your efficient way And this is our demo to show the interaction under some some Okay, so the background of this one is a active region So that the the student will be put onto the green green line. So and this is a character will introduce him some the The knowledge or some facts and play some game it will be the pair with a student That's the very raw demo of our game so We will keep the develop keep training to these two directions and we are also trained many small demos like we do some we will make virtual space just for the Just for the students to do a physics or chemistry experiments. Those are very dangerous experiments and those are all very harsh environment like the Vocal or the space in the zero gravity environment, so we can all do do the we can do the Conduct the experiment in those virtual virtual work work and There are other solutions in the market such as a Google expert decisions from this There are both approaches a little bit different from us. They are using 360 videos and In the class, so there will be There are good and pros and cons of a 3d video. Why is the process there's a lack of interaction and And the cons is the graphic will be realistic and And if the the development of a content is relatively fast And then the other one is called Apollo 11. We are so this Education no content is you enable the player to Travel travel to the moon and and about the space ship just like the 11 so you are one of the spacemen and The other one is a call that lapster did this though this one is software is a VR software to simulate the very expensive and then dangerous Let laboratory and all the devices so this this one this lab serve and enable the University to Conduct dangerous experiment and to save money There are also challenges in this We are educational develop development industry and one The most difficult part is the proper Structuring which is how how you tell the story how you make the story? into a game or you Put the fun part into some boring knowledge. This one is the most difficult part we face right now And the other one is the efficient content development as I say if you want to generate Generate whole universe out of nothing. So you need a lot of the talents Compared to the 360 video you that you need a cameraman and the device you can quickly develop the contents if it's a totally virtual world you need to start from scratch so the efficiency is also to consider The last one is expensive hardware. So most of the VR hardware if you want you want to have enable Interactions and you want to have more immersive experience the cost will be very high so Then that is another problem we are facing so but We believe a greater accessibility of VR devices Overcome these challenges and the VR will eventually revolutionize revolutionize education Thank you So if there's anybody who is like in the industry education industry and would like to explore more education in VR Feel free to just approach checking later outside Do you see any improvement in memory retention Students that have a teacher in front of the parking or students that actually interact in This is what they can remember. Yeah the difference between a teacher compared to the virtual virtual teacher or virtual avatar Yeah Yeah, personally I Can feel the difference because If you are you You're learning from you are learning from real teacher Then sometimes you you meet you'll encounter some someone you don't like right? So if you don't like this teacher, then I think the whole subject you will be school So and then in the virtual virtual avatar, there's no something because we can always Let the user to choose the avatar. Hey, hey, like and And you choose the avatar you like then this avatar will get through the whole learning process So this is another way to improve the efficiency of the editor to try to make sure the human factor will not Effect effect that is Education with a teacher a student can ask a question Yeah, so do you create enough Possibilities that a student can actually interact with the possible question You just create a similar experience. Yeah Just now as I mentioned, we have a tool product line one is for single player self learning So this one you may not ask question because we don't have a maybe enough database to Answer you but for the full-time Education there's always a real teacher play with you and Answer your question at any time Thank you aspect but Okay, so my first question is Whether that by varying these are you know gangles for a long time There will be some concern for the eyesight of the children Whether that you have done some research on how long time that will be context is good for the children Okay Okay, that's probably the most frequent question. Yes, I will be asked if the things are All the electronic device if you don't use it properly and then you use a in the wrong way They will will to some extent that will they will cause the Stress to your eyes like a for example the smartphone, right? If you keep playing for half a day play Play games, so you definitely will feel a stress and you will feel that the drop Drop of your I said so in the VR is the same thing so if you use this one correctly and then you'll keep the You don't play for long long time and because the currently all the VR HMD they have the the function to adjust the focus make sure you have a Relief Feeling and you have a the best I said so if you Of course the students need to be get it on how to use that the HMD once they learn they will know how to How to adjust for their best experience So actually my second question is a little bit similar but from the other Another point of view is a as the parent one can say that I don't like to Have my children to be exposed to those electronic devices so frequently and also The worst case and they're addicted to this kind of you know games in a water environment So I don't know whether that this happened to your own business a journey or not But then there is some concern expressed by the children's appearance Yeah, definitely there definitely will there will always be a parents who are Who are very concerned about this new technology whether this new technology will will be addicted or well, this one will affect their results, but we apologize that the we are going to improve your results by improve the efficiency of transmission of the knowledge by Getting the first-hand experience. So I think that once the market is educated enough and there's a result results come out from the students who play the VR rare games using the VR technology to learn The parents will see the results in the future and the Yeah


Hi everyone, Joe for Jazmy's CaseBreaks.com coming at you with a four box break of Bowman University Inception. First letter first name, it's a random letter break. All card ship, a lot of nice stuff here. Victor Wembanyama hunting, Caitlyn Clark hunting, big thanks for two, this group right here, for getting into this break. There are the letters right there. Let's roll it, randomize it, five and a five, ten the hard way. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten the hard way, we got Nathan down at Tristan, five and a five for the letters, one, two, three, and ten. We got K down to C, that's ten times, that's ten times, here are the results, Nathan with K, Eric with A, Kevin with T, we got a little cat right here, Scott, David, PR, David with S as well, and XL, Tristan with V, Victor with D, Tristan with H, Chad with W, Victor with no, Hojin with GI, Joe, John with M, Mark with Z, Christopher with J, Scott, EF, Ryan with B, Tristan with C. Let's order these alphabetically, and we're going to pause the video just for a little bit. When we come back, we'll see if there's any trades, and then we'll have the break. Stick around, BRB. All right, welcome back to the other side of the trade window. Here on a Sunday, no deals were done, so that list right there remained the same here in random letter break number 11. The next game, the next break is in the store right now, and it'll be the final four boxes right there, and I think we have one more case to post to work on after that final four boxes, whichever one they may be. All right, so now let's roll the die. We'll go one, two, three for the left side, four, five, six, four, the right side, and it's six, right side, so this will say for break 12, which is on the site right now. Get after it, jaspyscasebreaks.com. I guess breaking is a game, that's true. This is game 11, game 12. We're discussing a bit about what John Morant's potential suspension is going to be, which I'm sure I would imagine Adam Silver is going to wait until after the NBA Finals to announce it, so John Morant doesn't dominate the new cycle. Jilo was reading up on the Gilbert Arenas incident, yeah, that was a fun incident, or gun incident, typo, forgot how crazy that was. He was suspended 50 games. I feel like that's got to be maybe around there, in my head, I said 20 games in my head for John Morant, but I guess it's 50 for Gilbert, and I don't know how the collective bargaining agreement has changed since then, but there's Jalen Washington, letter J, Christopher, and behind Jordan Travis is Phil Yerkovac from Pitt, letter P, that's going to go to Scott. Here's Jordan Travis, 118 out of 199 for Christopher and letter J. All right, next box, maybe half a season, so 40-some-odd games, all right, these were in a non-cheam facility, so maybe a little less time for John Morant just because it was not in a team facility. I think it's suspension, you know. No, I don't really care about Trevor Bauer. There's Kishon Barthelamy, 34 out of 75, letter K, that goes to Nathan, and we got a Jalen Washington, UNC, Christopher with the letter J, 14 out of 75, Marcus Sasser goes to letter M, John with that one.  This one goes to K, Nathan, fourth and final, and the final four boxes are in the store right now, and then we might have, unless, I don't know, we're kind of sharing our pile of inception with Instagram, if they're selling it out pretty quickly, then we may, we may run out. Will Leviss, that's for Chad Don, letter W, and behind Nick Smith, Jr. is Nolan Smith from Georgia, letter N, Victor Sullivan with letter N, and the last one here is, is Derek Lively II, letter D, that's also Victor, letter D. All right, there you go, gang, here's Nick for letter N for Victor. There you go, gang. I'm Joe for jaskiescasebrakes.com, we got another four boxes in the store, check it out, and I'll see you next time for the next Bowman University break. Bye-bye.


Welcome folks. This is Tom O'Brien, a TFNN. We have five days a week. We have seven hours a day. We go 24 hours a day on the internet at TFNN.com. Always remember folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever. You focus on growth. Hope everyone's having a great day, safe day. We're kicking into May. You got the Fed tomorrow. We got action, You are only responsible for your half of a relationship. There are two halves in every relationship, but you're only responsible for your half of the relationship. It's not up to you to control the other half, respect the other half, and there's always going to be peace in that relationship. Mugget-wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries up 176, NASDAQ's up 70, S&Ps are up 34, Gold Contract up $5.20, trading at $18.68 an ounce, with Silver up 2 cents, $22.61 an ounce, Lights Recruit off $2.21, $102.96 a barrel, notes and bonds. The 10-year note, up 26 ticks, trading $139.29, the 30-year up 80, up 80, oh my God, the 30-year up 26 ticks, at $139.29, and King Dollar. King Dollar's trading down $292, $103.452, yours at $105, the ends at $130 and the British Pounds at $124 to $1 US. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. One note's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at them. What do you have? Okay, so we're going to take a look at the spy. Well, first off, the spies, and an ABC structure down. You've got a price projection of about $394. You broke the B point. You broke it with volume. Come lower yesterday. What are you doing today? You're bouncing today. You're up $3.38 and you get 74 million shares traded. You're coming into like 145 million shares, 122 million shares, 103 million shares and 119 million shares. So bottom line, you can see how this works out. You get higher price. You don't have enough demand. That's an indication that you're building cars for lower price. We're going to take a look at the NDX100. The three Qs, the same type of setup. The three Qs are an ABC structure on the way down. What a, oh, actually, I'm sorry, folks, let me go back to the spy. That'd be shocking. The spy is an ABC structure down to $394 17. The Qs are the ones that is an ABC structure down to the 281 area. So we take a look at the Qs. We'd help with the Qs.  You're up a buck, 20. Bottom line. This is going into 99 million shares, 108 million shares. You made a low yesterday of 115 million shares. Gold. Gold contract is on an ABC structure down to 1788 and bottom line, same type of setup. What you have out here, you've got a rejection today. You've got 157,000 contracts. Now, what you do have in the, not only the gold market, but the, I'm second sorry about that, folks. There it is. Not only in the metals, you also have this in the equities. And what it is, is this. The metal itself has an ABC structure down. That being said, bottom line, what you're also doing is that you are coming back to where gold broke top side in February. So the real question is going to be what's going to win out here. Because as you look as to where it broke out from, this did come down with light of volume. But the bottom line is that I'd go with the ABC first until you get a real rejection of lower price. And assign a strength. And then of course you're going to go over to the U.S. dollar. We take a look at the U.S. dollar out here. What you have with the dollar, that is teetering at highs. This thing is very close to really, I suspect we're going to find out tomorrow. I mean, it's going to be in the language. It's not going to be what they actually just did. It's going to be in the language of what they're continuing to thinking of doing. Because what you have here, you can see this 103, 820. You break that, you're going to 121. And 121, just to give you an idea, I'm going to put it at 121 because that is when I started the gold report. And that goes all the way back to 2000 and 2002. The high there was 121.02. And that was in July of 2001. So it's amazing, folks. It's amazing that gold basically is still up at these prices when this dollar has been that strong. So we'll see where the whole thing shakes out. Notes and bonds. We're going to take a look at the note and bond market, the 10-year note right now. That is up four ticks. And the thing that has been amazing about the note and bond market, your lower price, higher yield, is that the bond market did not care about how fast the market was going down.  Well, they didn't buy bonds. That's the real bottom line. We're going to take a look at the one second here. We had a question about the, I went over about the weeklies. Okay, Tom, can you look at the S&P and Qs on the weeklies using the time and the trade? It doesn't matter. Well, let's take a look at the weeklies. What you're going to see at the weeklies. And I think, well, let's just take a look at it first. So we take the Qs up first. We put these on a weekly. And what you're going to see here, you say the same setup. It's an ABC down in the weekly too. You broke the B point. You broke it with volume. You got a big ABC structure on the way down. You take a look at the spy. In fact, the numbers I gave you are the weeklies on the, that's what they are. They broke the weeklies. They broke them with volume and that's saying lower price is coming at us. Take a look at the spy, same type of setup. You needed more than $593 and you ended up with $597 on the spy. On the NDX, the three Qs, the three Qs were actually bigger than that, but the bottom line is that we had the volume. We broke the B. We broke it with volume. We take a look at the Qs once again. And on the Qs, what you have is that we had $510 million, which is breaking 414, which is breaking 301. These are monster ABC structures down. 281. And 281 is down at the next level. That's where this baby looks like it's going. 281, we'll get you back to the, what's that, August of 2020. That's how this baby's set up right now. Phone numbers<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. I want to know what's going on in your world. DAO Industries right now trading up 167 NAS, except 65, S&P's up 32. We'll come right back.


The monitoring of dams, okay, this presentation is, I'm the first talker, he lead you for various firm, an important dam owner in Portugal. It is the main energy supplier and twice a colleague of mine at LNEC.  The main motivation was the large number of dams. Dam are structures with high consequences in the case of an accident. So there is a little values of probability of occurrence of an accident, but they have huge consequences with lots of life sets. So there is, from the beginning of the construction, a great interest in the monitoring. There was also some incidents requiring the expensive repair works. Let's, in dams, mainly for instance in hydroelectric systems, it is very expensive to not operate. So an adequate monitoring that can avoid the no operation is very important. Also the number of dams in operation is increasing in the aging. So we have the aging of dams. The dams, a lot of dams are being older than the design provision. And also there are important contribution from the development of science and technology to understand the behavior of this monitoring. Only to understand the consequences here, you are, an image of the consequences have a known accident in dams. For this reason, in most and a number of countries, there are specific legislation concerning the safety of dams. In Portugal, there is a decree law, a regulation for safety of dams. The first version is almost 25 years and it was revised in 2007. And it identifies the main entities that are responsible for the monitoring and safety of dams. The main responsibility is the dam owner. But for this kind of works, it is important to involve public entities because in case of an accident, it is a public emergency. So it involves the dam owner, Portuguese authority for dams, LNEC. LNEC works like a technical advisor and the LNEC as continuous, a long time knowledge of the behavior of the dams because from this legislation, the LNEC must know and investigate the behavior of the dams from construction during all the life of these structures. And also national civil defense service. And this is a decree law that is also supported by Codes of Practice with recommendations for the design, the construction and the observation in these patients. So there is a legal framework that concerning these activities. So the main principle of safety control is like the other structures. We have the reality, we have the monitoring and we have the predicted values with numeric or empirical models. And this from the confrontation comparison from monitoring with prediction that we decide about the behavior of the dam. Here is, I'm sorry because the picture is not very well but it is an image of the monitoring system of a concrete dam. You can see devices for measuring the displacements, strange temperature, et cetera. And here you can see a graph with the number of sensors or instruments in each dam. As you can see, the bigger dams have a lot of instruments. So this is because they are important structures. But the smaller dams have a smaller number of instruments. The monitoring systems are designed specifically for each dam, taking into account the recommendations of the codices of practices. Now I gave two examples that I think that illustrate the interesting of monitoring. The first example is a concrete arch dam in Portugal that from the beginning it is a dam that was 50 years old with a lot of cracking. It is a medium high dam, but it was very damaged. It was a lot of cracking. It was this picture as a few years. And you can see that, namely here in the middle of the banks that there are a lot of cracking with water in these dangers. So in the year you can see in a zoom in in that zones. And this was an image of the structures. It was affected by alkali silica reactions in the concrete. And it was identified by the monitoring systems here. It is, we have some points which displacement are observed by geotechnical methods. And here you can, it is represented an arch of the dam and evolution of the displacements a long time. And you can see that all the dam was going upstreams with one millimeter per year during 40 years. So this was a sign of something was wrong. And so 20 years ago or 25 years ago some concerning about the dam, there was some concerning and it was thinking to abandon the dam but with monitoring and another studies to understand this behavior, it was possible. This is a representation of some numerical studies taking that was developed during the 90s. It was understood the evolution of the swelling and it was possible to maintain the dam in operation during more 20 years. With all time with the dam operating with this for production of electricity which was very important. So it is a case here later the dam a few years ago the dam was demolished and substituted for foreign UN. Here you can see in the back the remains of the old dam. This was the spillway the dam was here and this is a new dam that was built down downstream. It was an example of how the monitoring could contribute to the extension of the life of the structures helping the delay of the construction of the new one. Only with a continuous assessment of the dam safety condition it was possible to achieve this objective. Another example, I think in dams in the safety control of dams the old accidents gives always good lessons that are important to learn. Here is a known accident, it was in Italy. Vagion Dam, it is in the north of Vanessa. It was a very high dam and it was built north of Venus in the year 1960. In what happened, it was not in the dam, this is important to understand, the dam, but it was in the reservoir. It happened a huge landslide and all the mountain goes to inside the reservoir and originates a wave that overtop of the dam is destroyed, literally some village. I can use some explanation, I don't want to be very technical but it was not a good zone to make the reservoir because this was some sliding plans. And what happened here, it is like a movie. It is very interesting because the Italians have an interesting side with these pictures. Here it is the beginning, you can see here the dam, the village downstream and what happened, it was this bank, this mountain was not stable and with the rise of the water it was, it originates a sliding of all this mass in the reservoir and the originating a wave, a flooded wave 100 meters over the dam, it was, this is an estimation because I measured, of course, and also a wave upstream for another village and here it was a small valley and here there was some village and what happened, it was a huge disaster with around 2,000 deaths. Here what is interesting is that it was not, the system was monitored, they knew that something was wrong but they could not predict what happened. Here, I'm sorry, you can see that in three years before, they had a small landslide here but then in the accident it was all of this area and it was not possible to, they did not predict it. They had some, this was the first slide, this is the level of the water in the reservoir and they have some measurements and piezometers and so on but they could not avoid the accident because they did not take an adequate response to the monitoring system and so, and they had, this was before the accident, there was cracks in the mountain. This is the small landslide and then it was all of this. So this was the result. Here is one village was totally destroyed. And these pictures, in the left it is the dam before the accident. These are pictures of the dam nowadays. It is there, only this, you can see only this zone of the crest was damaged, but the dam is there. So I think that this give us some lessons. One is that we must not look only on the main structures because here the main structures work to behave well but we must have an overall view of all the problems for all the projects. And another important thing is that monitoring, in monitoring it is not sufficient to only monitor. It's necessary to understand what we are seeing and to take proper decisions. Here it is easier to talk about this after but this is an important issue I think. And in this case it is a limit case of course, the cost of an adequate monitoring with proper decision method was not comparable with the cost of not doing nothing. So only to finish, in the dams we are, the monitoring are very linked to safety problems because we can have these consequences. And so we are investing in new technologies for continuous with automated monitoring systems and so on because this is the main problem. And this is, we have in the case of ADP a good collaboration and they make a lot of investment in monitoring in these activities as they must do also by by law. Thank you. Thank you very much for a very interesting presentation. The third now presentation is by


I'm sorry to interrupt the Member, but it is now time for Member's Statement. I recognize the Member from Whitby. Thank you. Recently, the Minister for Seniors and Accessibility, the Honourable Raymond Cho, and Terrell's Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Edith Humong, celebrated the remarkable achievements of 20 outstanding Seniors with the 2023 Terrell Senior Achievement Award. Joyce Marshall from Whitby was one of those recipients. As a retired teacher and Rotarian, she stands out as a shining example of selfless dedication and tireless commitment to the well-being of the community, particularly its senior members. Her remarkable services of volunteer at the Whitby 55-plus recreational centres reflects a deep-rooted passion for making a positive impact in the lives of others. She's initiated and nurtured various projects and initiatives such as the annual World AIDS Day for the town of Whitby and Hospice Awareness Day in Durham Region. Joyce also serves as a dedicated board member of VON Durham, including a commendable 10-year term as Board Chair. Her unwavering dedication and outstanding leadership has left an indelible mark on the Whitby community. Speaker, Terrell Seniors like Joyce have played a critical role in building our communities and province into the strong and prosperous place it is today. Congratulations, Joyce, on your award. Next Member Statement, the Member for Sudbury. My Speaker, Friday was a rough day in Sudbury. On Friday, the Sudbury Action Centre for Youth, SASSY, announced they were closing their doors. They weren't able to make ends meet, weren't able to make payroll. This is an organisation that really helps youth, marginalised youth, transgender youth, youth who are homeless and youth who are using drugs and provide services and support for them. This is part of the bigger problem when it comes to the use of drug use across Ontario. In 2019, Speaker, I brought forward a prior remembrance motion to declare a medical emergency in Northern Ontario for opioid use and opioid deaths. I was voted down by the Conservative Government, but I think we can have that same motion, emergency motion for all of Ontario right now. The death count from opioid-related deaths since 2018 is 20,000 Ontarians have died, Speaker. 20,000. Meanwhile, Sudbury has been waiting for 30 months for response on a supervised consumption site. For an arbitrary reason, the Conservative Government decided they were going to cap the number of supervised consumption sites to 21. To date, we only have 17. Still no funding for Sudbury. Another bad news on Sudbury was that on Friday, Razor Access was giving notice to their last employee. The only employee who was able to stay at our supervised consumption site this spot because of no provincial funding, even though they've been operating for a year and three months. It's a sad day in Sudbury, Speaker. It shouldn't have come to this. It's going to be difficult in the days ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member Statements. The Member for Kitchener South Haskell. Thank you, Speaker. This statement is a statement that I suppose is sort of dedicated to a group of people, although as you'll hear, dedicated to one specific representative of that, which is the people that, for all of us, keep the home fires burning. As we all know, being an MPP, being a politician, is a job that takes you away from family, from your home, but even from the basic exercises of keeping your household running. It makes you distracted. It can make you distant. It can make you angry and upset and frustrated and sometimes not really the nicest person to be around for the people that love you the most. For me, I'm an only child and those people that really keep the home fires burning are my parents, represented today by my mother, who is in the gallery. Thank you. Mum was talking to some friends of hers that essentially had said something along the lines of, oh, you must be very proud. Your daughter has accomplished so much and my response when she told me that is because they have no idea how much work I am. I think that I am arguably more work now than I was when I was actually under 18. From last minute decorating my parade floats to going out to find the perfect pair of black pants, which we still haven't succeeded and having them the night of, to talking me down from ledges day after day after day. It's really people like my mother that keep the home fires burning. So thank you and thank you Mum. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Niagara Falls. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I want to talk about something important to me and my constituents. Getting all day two-way go train service to Niagara Falls. This isn't just about trains, it's about making life better for all of us. I've been fighting for this alongside my community for 10 years when I first ran for office. Remember that by-election in 2014? The Conservative candidate said no to go. The Conservatives also said no to the new hospital. But my community and I have never stopped fighting. And we've made progress Mr. Speaker. We have go train service that doesn't meet our needs. It needs to be consistent two-way all-day service. Metrolinx is expanding go train trips all over Ontario. Yet Niagara Falls is not on the list where we have 14 million tourists every year. Our region is growing. And so is demand for better transit options. Our readership keeps climbing. Last year alone, a wall up in 67% increase. Over 630,000 people hopped on and off our GOAT station. An increase of 377,000 in 2022. We need to ease the traffic on our highways, protect our environment, help support tourism and give commuters a break. I raise this numerous times with different governments and the CEO of Metrolinx. I will continue advocate for increased service to Niagara Falls which it deserves and it needs. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the Member for Carlton. Mr. Speaker, March is Persian Heritage Month in Ontario. And this week there will be celebrations here and around the world for Norus. Norus, which means new day, falls on spring equinox each year, also known as the first day of spring. It is based on the Iranian solar history calendar and it marks the Persian New Year. Its origins are in the Iranian religion of Zoroastrianism and it has been celebrated for 3,000 years, making it one of the oldest festivals in human history that is still celebrated today. On Norus, millions of Iranians from around the world and all walks of life, irrespective of religion, age, language, gender, race, ethnicity or social status gather together with family, friends and loved ones to celebrate the new year. The celebration marks the rebirth of nature, symbolizing the triumph of good over evil. Norus represents much of what Iranian character, history and culture is all about. We eat traditional food including a fish and rice dish called Savzi Polobomahi. We give gifts also known as 80s to children. More than 300 million people around the world celebrate Norus and it is no small celebration. Imagine Christmas, New Year's Eve and Canada Day rolled into one month long holiday and then add delicious food, street dances, fire shows and a lot of loud banging on pots. To everyone celebrating Norus in Carleton, Ontario, in Iran and around the world, I wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Norus firus javitsha. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Oshawa. Thank you, Speaker. 2024 marks 100 years of the city of Oshawa. However, our roots go much deeper than that. The earliest known settlement was in the 1400s when the Wendat settled near Harmony Creek. The story goes that Oshawa meant where we must leave our canoes. And Oshawa was known as the carrying place where goods and canoes were carried north to Lake Skugog. It was a busy place of intersections. By 1850, Oshawa had become a growing village. By 1914, the McLaughlin Carriage Company was the largest carriage maker in the British Empire, and the McLaughlin Buick was the first car built in Oshawa in 1908 under the GM umbrella. General Motors of Canada was born in 1918 with Sam McLaughlin, its first president. 100 years ago, Oshawa achieved city status on March 8, 1924. From canoes to carriages to cars, Oshawa was on the move. Oshawa was the home of labour. In 1928, 3,000 striking auto workers voted to form an Oshawa Auto Union. But in 1937, the UAW-222 local was born out of another massive strike. CAW and now Unifor Local 222 has been the heart of Oshawa labour ever since. Oshawa was the hometown of Ed Broadbent's local and national legacy. Oshawa is an academic centre with three post-secondary institutions. It is a centre for healthcare, sports, arts, music and culture, and the hub of business, creativity and diversity. As it has always been, Oshawa is a place of intersections, innovation and possibility. So happy 100th birthday to the city of Oshawa. Thank you very much. The member for Brampton East. Thank you, Speaker. Today I'd like to congratulate the Punjabi Arts Association on 30 years of success in arts and theatre. The Punjabi Arts Association is known for bringing attention to serious community issues in a manner which is relatable and entertaining. And over the weekend, I had the opportunity to see their later theatre production, CID, bringing bizarre 911 calls to centre stage. The play was a 90-minute comedy drama focused on the critical issue of non-emergency calls flooding our 911 call centres. Through creative storytelling and humour, it shed light on the real-life consequences of these calls emphasising the importance of responsible use of emergency resources. I want to extend my sincere appreciation to the Punjabi Arts Association for the dedication of using arts and theatre as a tool to address social issues for social awareness and change. Speaker, residents do their part in ensuring these critical services are being used properly. And our government under Premier Ford's leadership has invested $208 million to modernise our emergency response system. This investment is helping municipalities and emergency response centres transition to new emergency communication systems known as Next Gen 911. Once fully implemented, the new system will make it easier to provide additional details about emergency situations such as making a video call at the scene of an accident and giving people the ability to text 911 when requiring immediate help from police, fire, or ambulance services. Under Premier Ford's leadership, we're committed to making record investments to modernise and improve government services across the province. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you very much. Member statements. The Member for Orleans. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Life in Ontario continues to get more and more expensive. Families across the province are facing higher grocery prices, higher hydro rates, higher property taxes, and this government continues to fail to act. The government has failed to control hydro prices and families are paying more. The government has failed to support municipalities, even pushing more and more costs onto them in order to benefit their friends and insiders, and families are paying more. The government has failed to take concrete actions like removing the HSC from essentials like home heating and families are paying more. Medical practices are charging fees for service, and so families are paying more. There is virtually no area of family budgeting where the increased costs are not directly tied to the actions or inactions of this government. All while this government continues to reward their friends and supporters with contracts, public appointments, regulatory changes to help them earn record profits, often off the backs of taxpayers. As the government continues to focus on helping their friends and supporters, many families have begun to cut out the little extras they've worked so hard for. Too many families have begun to cut back on what many of us would consider to be essentials. It's time for the government to put families first and focus on regular, everyday Ontarians, not only their friends and supporters. Thank you very much. Member Statements. The Member for Lanark Frontenac, Kingston. Thank you, Speaker. This government recently announced capital funding to non-profit organizations across the province to ensure communities have safe and ready access to vital programming, activities and spaces. Once again, I would like to thank the minister and the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport for the work they do along with the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Everything from purchasing equipment and building new spaces to retrofits or repairs. Speaker, last month I spoke to a few of a total of 12 organizations in my riding of Lanark Frontenac, Kingston that received funding and I'd like to mention a few more this morning. Organizations like the Southern Frontenac Community Services in Sydenham who are using their funding to add to their new building and increase capacity to serve their clients and deliver programs. The McDonald's Corners Agricultural Society are putting their grant toward renovations to their buildings and create an emergency shelter for the community. Lanark Highlands will renovate the infield at the historical Clyde Memorial Baseball Diamond. Ball and hot dogs are part of the Highland Culture and the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum will create an accessible kitchen to allow the museum to expand its capacity to host community partners and events. Speaker, this government will continue to help build healthy and vibrant communities throughout Ontario by strengthening the impact of our social programs and services keeping people healthy. And once again, congratulations to all the organizations in my riding that receive funding and thank you for all their contributions to the people in your community. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Etobicole, Lake Shore. Well, thank you Mr. Speaker and spring is in the air and I'd like to highlight that it's been an absolute pleasure over the last week knocking on doors and getting to hear some of my constituents what their thoughts are and seeing the kids and their smiley faces. And it reminded me of an event I attended last February or just past February. It was a graduation ceremony for recipients from a local college and it was recipients from the Black Youth Action Plan. Now graduating from the Canadian College of Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, this talented and smart young professionals are helping to improve black youth representation in the health sector technologies and they just didn't graduate from school, they were going to work the next day. So congratulations to all those graduates. And I'd like to thank Umbreen Akkar, Jadain Bhattai who's the Senior Administrative Officer President Syed Hussein all from the Canadian College of Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals for inviting me to join them in the afternoon. You know Ontario's health care field has some of the most innovative and hardest working professionals in the world and with funding like the Black Youth Action Plan it pays dividends in both recipients lives as well as the end user in the health care system. Now because of the great success of this program and on behalf of the Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism Michael Ford, I had the pleasure of announcing a further funding for this program for the College of $600,000. This is great news for those communities and I just want to congratulate the workers once again. Thank you very much. That concludes our Member's statements for this morning.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late sports cards. We've been 22, 23, Penny, Donner's Optic Choice Basketball, 10 box break, number 8, tiered random team style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the website, under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. Good luck everybody. Let's do some optic. Again, guys, just 8 left on impeccable. That's breaking next. Get that filled up, get ready to break it, and we'll keep on going. We'll get into some leap after. Thank you for filling everything up so far. Got a black gold, red man bleep, John Collins. It's going to be a Tony Parker on the auto. Nice one there for the Spurs. That's on that Sanatoni. Got a brand new Ingram. Black gold is Grayson Allen for the box to 8. 4 of 8. There you go. Nice one there. Bucks, you can put any of these in the recap too. Tim Hardaway Jr. Choice Exclusive. And then Jalen Williams, base and base. The Ingram, by the way, was to 88. Hello, Forest. Oh, Mr. Moons.  Laurie Markman. There's Jayden Ivy Hollow. Got a Christian Brown. Nice. Encard Auto for the nuggets. Red Mojo. Red Choice, I should say. Red Kendrick Nunn to 88 for the wizards. We've got a Terry Rose here, Choice Exclusive. Choice Exclusive Kyra Irving as well. Red Green. Jalen Williams. And Kennedy Chandler for your roots. Hello, Forest. He's definitely coming in like 80, 30 plays and solos right now. Little Bomba. This is Zyre Williams, second year auto. Nice one there for the Grizzlies. Op the graphs. T.J. McConnell to 88. Another Black Gold's coming up. It is going to be Ogion Nunn to B. Nice one there for the Raptors. 8 of 8. That's Toronto Black Gold. Red Green, Tim Hardaway Jr. And Shade-On Sharp as well as Malachi Branham on your roots. True. There, there. There, there. Get him out of here. Is that a timeout? Is that a Black Gold Auto? Denny of Dia. That is Detlef Shrempf. That is going to be 5 of 8 Black Gold Auto for the Thunder. Robert W. Congrats on that, buddy. White Sparkle. Oh, no. Aaron Wiggins to 88. Got Trevor Keele's Exclusive Rookie for the Knicks as well as Kenyan Martin Jr. or the Rockets. Jade and Ivy Rookie and Keegan Murray. Good rookies there. Good guys. Just 8 to go. Breakin' next is impeccable. 8 to go.  That Shrempf was pretty cool. 8 to go, everybody. Breaks next. 8 to go. Another spot came in for 10 bucks. Football as well. That is now down to 21 to go. Breakin' at the end of the night. End of the night. Tacos. Ah, man. Malachi Branham Hollow. Vince Williams, Optic Choice Auto for the Grizzlies. Nice one there. Nice one there. Congrats Grizzlies. Jalen Brunson to 88 for the Knicks. Tyus Jones, Choice Exclusive. 224. OG Nunnaby going for that. Rainbow 21 of 24. That might be a yellow card on Forest. Lake Wesley and Isaiah Mobley. That's going to have to be a yellow on Forest on that one. That was tough. That was tough. Almost a red. Could easily be upgraded to a red. We're going to VR. We're going to VR for that one. Few boxes to go here.  You just got jingled. You just got pop or dingled. There's Doug Collins. Nice one there for the Sixers. Off the graphs. Yeah, ended up being. Hey, what's up, Minsu? Minsu. There's Devin Vasell to 88. Oh, really? Yeah, early on for the Poles. Moussi Diabata and Anthony Simons. Got Jabari Walker and Blake Wesley. The red card of Moe is in the Fortnite store. Oh, man. And guys, eight to go. Breaking next is Impeccable. No, that's an emo. That's the dance, yeah. Yogi. What up? Yogi. Send it to me, Shane. Please don't. Jayden Hardy. Nice one there for the Mavs on card Rookie Auto. Dallas, Devin. Dead center, 442. Good lord. He's up in the Bigs now, then, isn't he? That is Anthony Simons to 88 for the Blazers. Got Kyrie Irving Choice Exclusive. Got a dragon scale behind it. Oh, oh, Geonunoby again. So on there is we pulled the blue, the black gold, and the dragon scale. Oh, Geonunoby. Got Raptors is Marvin. Congrats, Marvin. Vince Williams and Jayden Hardy. Two for four. Triple running two RBI's. Good lord. They're sneaky good, man. The Pirates. Shade on Sharpaolo. Auto is going to be, if I can get it. Come on. The Unies are dope tonight. That is Moses Moody for who? For Pittsburgh. Oh, they're wearing the City Canucks? They're wearing the all black pants with the bright and the yellow. Oh, that's cool. Nice one there. Coach three for four. Let's go. I love seeing Coach back there. Brandon Ingram to 88. Christopps for Zingesh Choice Exclusive. Blue, buddy, healed to 24. 23 of 24 for the Pacers. David O'Roddy and Musubi Latte. Two boxes to go. Everybody again, eight to go on triple threat, or not triple threat. Impeccable. Triple threat's impeccable. I guess same thing. Not really, but. I do not, Shane. I do not. How many do you all have? We got another black gold auto. Demontra Sabonis. It is Mugsy Bose. Dude, that's awesome. Six of eight for the Hornets. Dude, that's so dope. I want you to sign it and then send it to me. That is going to be Jason A on the Mugsy. Let's go Jason. Brandon with a spot down to seven. Anthony with a spot in select. Thank you, Anthony. Joe Ingalls. There he is. Two 88. Got Kevin Durant. Choice Exclusive. As well as a Choice Exclusive rookie. Steel of the Draft. AJ Griffin for the Hawks. Got Jake Laravia. And Christian Brown. Hey, thanks, Yogi, for the cheer. What's up, James? James is back. Oh, boy. Jimmy Butler. Jalen Noel. Nice one there for the Timberwolves. There's Eric Gordon to 88. Choice Exclusive PJ Washington. As well as a Michael Porter to juniors in there. Michael never sling the rock, Porter Jr. Dallin Terry. Rated rookie. And Occia Igbagi. All right, guys. Do a quick recap here. This is a fun break. Black Golds. We had Ogia Nunnaby and Grayson Allen. We had Autos. Jalen Noel. Moses Moody. Jaden Hardy. Doug Collins. Zyre Williams. Christian Brown. Tony Parker. Vince Williams Jr. Going to the Grizzlies. Mugsy Bose to eight and Detlef Shremp. Couple of legends right there. That's awesome, dude. That will do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the film. Up next, let's fill up Impeccable.


Across the developing world, most people are engaged, most of the time, in producing food. From the rain-fed maize fields of Southern Africa to the rice terraces of Southeast Asia, most people still live by the seasons, sowing, growing, harvesting and storing crops for their own households and communities. These small-scale farmers depend utterly on natural resources, land and water and vegetation, for their livelihoods. They also depend on animals. It's animal resources, from the humble chicken to the large-draft animal, that make nearly all forms of small-scale agriculture viable, and indeed possible. It's this mix of farm crops and farm animals, with each supporting the other, that's feeding the world while sustaining both our agricultural yields and environments. This is a tribute to the unsung heroes of small-scale food production. Men are mixed farmers. Women are mixed farmers. Boys are mixed farmers. Girls are mixed farmers. Indeed, children of every nationality and culture still grow up, practicing this so-called mixed crop and animal farming. Peer over a fence anywhere in the developing world and you're likely to find yourself staring into the face of an animal. Cattle in India's big farming state of Andhra Pradesh, buffalo in the river valleys of northern Vietnam. Goats, the four-legged savings accounts of most Kenyans, sheep being fattened for religious feasts in Niger, backyard pigs in Mozambique, ducklings in southwestern China, and the ubiquitous chicken, the world's most common livestock in households in Malawi and everywhere else. Caring for animals means working for animals. The daily practices and skills needed to keep animal stock healthy and productive are as varied as the animals themselves. Here a woman in southern Nigeria feeds goats maced over and other wastes of crops. A farmer in Nagaland in the far northeast corner of India feeds her pigs household scraps. In Mali a man feeds his chickens nourishing termites and grubs. A woman in Mozambique's Zambezia province pumps drinking water daily for her animals. A girl in Niger takes her family's sheep and goats out to graze. A woman in south-central India grazes her cattle on the remains of a crop after its grain has been harvested. A youth corrals his family cattle for the night in Chokwe, Mozambique. Men plow land with oxen in Ethiopia's Gibe Valley. A dairy producer in the Kenyan Highlands cuts fodder for her two cows kept in stalls. Farming herds people in Rajasthan store animal fodder in stacks and in bales, in ricks and in trees. A woman in Niger gathers fodder from the field for her newly-bought sheep. Men transport fodder in Pantachero, India. A man carries livestock manure to fertilize his crop lands in Yunnan, China. A woman in West Bengal, India drives manure from her cattle for household fuel. A Mozambican carries his goat to market. Livestock keepers buy space on lorries in southern Africa to transport their animals to market. A young woman sells chickens in a wet market in Maputo's traditional food stalls. A young man butchers a pig carcass in Nagaland, India. Another carries his milk to a collection point in northeastern India. Animals are the unsung heroes of mixed farms everywhere. Invest in the world's living assets. They're the face of a better future for a billion people.


The Mediterranean Sea is heavily polluted with plastic waste, especially in the Palago Sanctuary. Researchers have found that the amount of plastic waste in the sea is higher than expected, and it is likely to be affecting the local wildlife, including the endangered fin whale. This research has shown that the amount of plastic waste in the sea is highly correlated with the presence of fin whales, indicating that they are being exposed to harmful levels of plastic waste. This article was authored by Maria Cristina Fossi, Teresa Romeo, Matteo Baini, and others.


The Beavers NSIC opener, first quarter BSU on offense, Brooklyn Bachman. He spots up left wing, rattles home the three to get their first basket then later. Another freshman, Rhea Apachele. Nice back cut to the hoop for the easy two. That'll cut it to four, but Bulldogs just a few points better and a monkey. Wide open from the elbow and puts it away. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


From the noise, it's theCUBE, covering VMworld 2015. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem sponsors. Now your host, Stu Miniman. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman with wikibon.com and welcome back to SiliconANGLE TVs, live wall-to-wall coverage from VMworld 2015. Excited to have a practitioner on the segment, Bob Dousseau, who's the Information Security Officer with Hallmark Business Connection and also we've got Greg Smith, who's the Senior Director of Product and Technical Marketing from Nutanix. Gentlemen, first time on theCUBE, thanks for joining me. Thank you. Thank you. All right, so Bob, let's start with you first. Tell us a little bit about just your background and what your role is at Hallmark. Well, my background, I've been doing this about 30 years now. I'm an infrastructure guy from way back and Hallmark brought me in to work at the B2B arm of the organization to bring in some, maybe a little bit of forward thinking in the infrastructure space. On top of that, information security is extremely important to us and so I take a critical look at that as well. All right, Greg, just for your first time on the program, we had your CEO on this morning, Giroj, you know, regular on our program. What's your role with Nutanix? I help with the product and technical marketing organization. So our responsibilities help produce some of the solutions guides, reference architectures that hopefully our customers use when deploying enterprise applications on Nutanix. All right, so Bob, in your open you said that you were brought in to help kind of do some new things, help clean up, you know, I guess, you know, infrastructure a lot of times is held back. The operation of IT and, you know, boy security is always a top of mind issue even if it's not necessarily the top funded item. So maybe we can talk a little bit about what the infrastructure looked like before and what some of the major pain points were that you were dealing with. Sure, like most infrastructures, that grow organically, they tend to become somewhat convoluted, complex and difficult to manage. They're not very scalable, they're very expensive, and the staff required to maintain them has to be very focused. At Hallmark Business Connections, are really, and it's not unusual, but we're under mandate to kind of do more with less. And so one of the things we needed to do was kind of untangle that ball of twine that had evolved over the course of about eight or nine years, the traditional three tier infrastructure, compelling HP, et cetera, and figure out a way to make that more scalable, make it more web friendly. And this concept of DevOps, which we all talk about so much, how do we leverage the concepts of DevOps that would hold back our development agility, right? The development staff have become very agile over the last several years, but infrastructure can't keep up with that typically. So how do we kind of reconcile that so that we can realize our dream of that DevOps value chain? And so that's why it was brought in. All right, so you mentioned a couple of the products. Can you paint a picture for us? So what's the IT staff look like kind of before, and were you expecting to do some organizational changes as part of moving to the new, I mean DevOps isn't necessarily something that your typical storage guy has been doing for years, so tell us about that. That's exactly right. So when I arrived about three years ago, HBC had your typical technology stack. We had a virtualization engineer that was very compute focused. We had a network engineer who was very network focused. We had a storage engineer very storage focused. And then we had a handful of ITIL help desk kind of support staff. And what I had presented when I came in was, why don't we try to take these folks and move them more towards a service delivery, a service management kind of platform where we are really trusted brokers of IT services? How do we do that? How do we show value, business value with the IT infrastructure? Because in the end, the traditional IT shop is becoming rapidly irrelevant and businesses can take their IT dollars and move them outside of that shop. And so how do we as an IT staff show value and maybe even take it to the point where we're a revenue center instead of a cost center? All right, so Bob, let's get into kind of the transition you went through.  Or were there some initial use cases and projects that helped you move? I'm assuming Nutanix is part of the solution. Absolutely, so yeah, obviously we don't throw away what we have. You hear it said all along, you have legacy. Legacy has to be retained. We have a lot of capital tied up in infrastructure and it's not going to go away until the book value is gone and then probably some time after that. So what we did was we looked at certain technologies that we thought were going to help us shrink our footprint, help us improve performance, help us streamline management, and then we looked for use cases where that might be relevant so that we could get some minimal investment from the organization to try the mountains in kind of a experimentation process. Can you give us a couple of examples? Absolutely. So initially we looked at VDI. VDI is a really great fit for hyper-converged infrastructure and because I wanted to bring that in, I looked at that first. The problem is we didn't have an appetite for that. We have a lot of unique workloads and so it wasn't a really good fit. Management came to me in the fall of 2013 and said, you know what? We want to do something around analytics. We want to do something around the data that we have in-house, show some efficacy of the programs that we manage for our clients around employee engagement, customer engagement, wellness engagement, and use that in the sales process to try to drive some revenue. And so we need to do that and we need to do that in a controlled way. We need to do that in a way that's hyper-forming and so we want an infrastructure dedicated to that and so that was my opportunity, that was my end. So at that point we started looking at a couple of options and we selected Nutanix through Approve a Concept and we rolled that out in a Microsoft SQL Stack, BDI types of SQL workloads and it proved out really, really well and at the end of that I went back to our senior leadership and I said, hey, look, this is it. This shows this is the future. How about we do a three-year roadmap and that's kind of what we're working against right now. All right, so Greg, let's bring you into the conversation. It's interesting how Bob said, VDI wasn't a fit and there are those out there that say, oh, Nutanix, it's just that VDI company that does some piece there. So how much is this kind of a typical example of trying to get in the environment and then spread out to be a larger piece of the infrastructure platform? Yeah, that's a good question. I think if you go back to maybe even three years, VDI was a very ideal insertion point for a hyper-converged infrastructure like Nutanix because it typically represented a new workload in the environment and gave them an opportunity to deploy new infrastructure. Today for Nutanix and perhaps for the larger hyper-converged industry, VDI is still a sizable portion of the workload but it's a minority. Nutanix today, most of our business is running production databases, big data, a lot of collaboration like Microsoft Exchange, a lot of Microsoft's apps, a lot of server consolidation. So today VDI is about 30% of our workloads. It's an ideal workload in that it demands a lot of resilience, high performance, a lot of density. But what we found is even the customers that started with the virtual desktops would be VMware View or Citrix Zen desktop is they got comfortable with the technology, they fell in love with the efficiency and the performance and they've expanded the hyper-converged footprint with Nutanix to run some of their more business critical tier one applications. So the other thing I'm wondering if you can comment on is it wasn't, you know, my traditional storage was just too expensive. It's agility and specific organizationally how they want to do things. And I heard very clearly, we know we need to change because what we're doing just isn't working for us but you know, and just going through kind of the standard refresh cycle of upgrading what you have. So do you need that change engine inside? Is that pretty typical and do you know, maybe comment on some of those other aspects? Yeah, the first thing you said is the cost. I think that if you go into a Nutanix infrastructure or hyper-converged looking to save money out of the bat, you may not always meet your goals. I think the real savings comes on the financial side on the dramatically reduced operational expenses, the drop in those over time. The primary reason people are adopting hyper-converged infrastructure is like you said, it's for the agility. The mere fact that I can stand up infrastructure not in weeks or days, but in hours. And so what we're able to do in Nutanix and what we did for Hallmark is in a same day that we're able to deliver converged infrastructure, they can start provisioning workloads that same day. And so if it's VDI or production of a database, we just collapse, we really consolidate that time to value for organizations. All right, so Bob I'm wondering, can you give us, do you have any concrete examples of kind of life before and life after rolling in the Nutanix either from the infrastructure standpoint or the operational organizational standpoint? Yeah, absolutely. We've got a couple of really concrete examples that I like to show. The very first example is, we talked a little bit here about you're not necessarily going to realize the financial impact directly when you buy the equipment. But what you do find is that as you move workloads from the traditional three-tier infrastructure to the Nutanix infrastructure, your footprint gets dramatically reduced and so our co-location costs begin to drop dramatically. We are going to save over the next three years roughly $2,200 per rack that we reduce per month. That's real numbers. We expect a return of about 65% over those three years. The next piece we saw from a performance standpoint was during the proof of concept around the analytics, we had the development team come to us and say, hey look, we're trying to do these continuous integration builds. We're trying to do 12 builds a day, but these builds are now starting to take almost two hours. And so one stops, the next one starts, there's not a lot of time for development. And so what we did was we moved that build workload which was using Final Builder on a .NET C-Sharp application. We moved that, no changes, just a V-motion into the Nutanix environment. And we went from about an hour and 40 minute build time to 22 minutes. It's about 67%, or 76%, I think it was, that we saw in terms of improvement in that workload. That's great. So Bob, we all know in IT, first time you do something it doesn't necessarily go as smooth as you want or basically if I have hindsight, I've learned something. So for your peers out there that are looking at a solution like this, what surprised you or what would you do different if you had to, if you're going into this is for the first time. I'll tell you what didn't surprise me and that was that it just worked because when I did my research, I knew that this was going to work. I just felt it. So what we learned was it really was that simple to instantiate a cluster of Nutanix and what really took us the longest was to get people on board with the idea that it was that simple. So if I had to do this over again and I am going to do this over again, what I would do is I would prep the engineering staff a little bit better. I would get them involved a little bit earlier in the architecture discussion so that they were kind of stakeholders in the process because after all, if your engineers aren't really on board with the architecture, it's not going to succeed. So you handle security also for HPC. So how does Nutanix change the security discussion? What's the impact of changing your infrastructure? Well, short-term, it really doesn't change the security discussion, but what it does do with some of the capabilities that are inherent with Nutanix, and I'm going to butcher the marketing term for it, but self-encrypting drives is probably going to help us in terms of performance. Today, we encrypt our at-risk data using Microsoft technologies, inherent within the SQL stack, and we do endpoints through BitLocker, those kinds of things. I think what this is going to allow us to do is take security to the next level, the same way we are with infrastructure, and we're going to start looking at it in terms of software defined. Everything we do now is with an eye toward software defined. If we can't script it, if we can't monitor it in an automated fashion, then we don't want to invest in it. Yeah, and some of that goes back to your comment about DevOps. Absolutely.  How do you kind of, it's really more of a mindset and there's tools involved, typically, but for those that aren't familiar, share your DevOps experience. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. I've been doing what we call DevOps today long before it had a name. I was with a company called Plato Learning years ago, educational software company SAS provider and we knew back then that in order to make a transition from a client-server environment with perpetual license to a software as a service, that you had to change your mindset. And we knew that development and operations needed to work together. And so the then CTO invited me to move over from operations into development where I managed a development team for about five years. And it was through that experience that I started to see that there's a value chain in getting the software being developed out into the infrastructure and how you remove the obstacles in that value chain is what differentiates you from your competitors and that really is the DevOps value chain. Now what you said earlier about, well, there are tools involved and there are skills involved, but it is a mindset, right? It's about how do we recognize the constraints and how do we remove those constraints in the most efficient way possible using those tools and those skills? Yeah, so Greg, I have to say I haven't heard kind of the DevOps story from Nutanix. I obviously am familiar with kind of the heritage of the company, the web scale architectures and simplicity should help enable some of that, but how does DevOps fit into kind of the deployment and customer engagement from a Nutanix standpoint? Yeah, I think at least three different ways. One is by the simplicity of the platform, we really remove a lot of the complexity and help break down those silos within organizations, whether it be a reduction in the need for specialized storage skills, where the virtualization team, the business apps team, can work directly with the infrastructure team. Two is the exposure of a set of RESTful APIs, so the entire Nutanix solution is built upon a very open, extensible RESTful APIs, so we do that. Then largely just simplicity. It's the idea that I can provision infrastructure very, very quickly so that I can put in the hands of my developers such that they can start developing applications and move them through that lifecycle very, very quickly without having to go through multiple teams and get buy-offs as they go from staging and pre-production and production. All right, so Bob, we're here at VMworld. First of all, have you been to the show before? I have not.  We are. All right, so tell us from your standpoint, what's the experience of being both a Nutanix and a VMware customer? I'm sure if you've read some of the industry magazines, you've been a watcher of the industry for a while, your take on that engagement. Yeah, so really we are heavily invested in VMware and it certainly is on our roadmap for the future in terms of our production workloads and it was one of the determining factors of us selecting a hyper-converged provider. They had to support VMware, ESX and Nutanix did that and Nutanix did that and they did it in such a way that it didn't invade the vSphere API and that was appealing to me. We are going to continue to use VMware. We are going to continue to look at alternatives from a cost perspective. What Nutanix is doing around allowing you to move applications around within that sphere, if you will, is exciting to us and so we just are nothing but excited about that. Great and the last question I have for you is how does the cloud environment fit with you? Do you consider your Nutanix environment? Is that part of the cloud strategy? Do you work with the public cloud? You've got background in cloud so how does that fit in in your organization? Well, I think it absolutely is cloud, right? What we do today, I would refer to as a private cloud. Our traditional infrastructure was not, it was very much a traditional infrastructure but what we do today is private cloud and it's service oriented and it's all of those things. We do have a selection of applications that are cloud enabled. We are looking at moving some of our workloads into the public cloud. We're looking at perhaps using Azure for DevTest. We're key partners with Microsoft as well so there are lots of opportunities, particularly around the area of DevTest and even for performance capacity kind of spikes. Yeah, Greg, you and I have talked for a few years, just some of the terminology out there we talk. What is cloud? What is software defined? Hyperconverge, heck we have a term server sand when Nutanix first came out, it was the no sand company even though you guys are the market leader in the space so our terminology doesn't match but what do you hear from customers? What's the driving conversations that's important for the IT staff and the C-suite of customers that you talk to? I mean what our customers tell us increasingly is that they need IT to really work for the business that they're spending too much time, too much money, not serving the business but maintaining the infrastructure. So increasingly they went like Bob said, they went infrastructure that just works and so when Derish was on the show earlier and he talked about invisible infrastructure, I mean he really meant that infrastructure that can elevate IT so that Bob and his colleagues can really focus on the applications without doing a lot of care and feeding of the infrastructure and I think that's a value proposition, those are technological attributes that appeal not just for the practitioner but to all levels of the business. All right, Bob, I just want to give you the final word your first time here at the show. What excites you about being at the show? What advice would you give to your peers kind of at this state of the industry? Well, I tell you, what really excites me about this show and others is just the concentration of intelligence. The smart people, the people that are innovative, it spreads, it's like a happy disease if you will and what I would advise folks who come to these things is to absolutely keep an open mind. Don't come in with a predisposition for a certain technology or other. Just go in and listen and don't be afraid to get your badge scanned and to listen to a spiel, that's what you're here for. If you don't open your eyes to what's being put in front of you, you're never going to know what the next big thing is and I'll have to tell you that selecting Nutanix and moving in the direction that we've done has been nothing but great for us and we would have never done that had I not been to a conference similar to this and listened. Yeah, well Bob, thank you so much for coming and sharing. Greg, thank you for joining us. Yeah, I can tell you just to reiterate what you said, I was at the Nutanix dot next conference in Miami and in many ways the vibe reminded me of VMworld is people excited, people contributing and exciting times to learn the industry. So thank you so much for joining us. We'll be right back with lots more coverage here from VMworld 2015, thanks for watching.


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Definitely not, definitely not. But we had a very, very good road position. By the time ten cars had gone through the stage before us, they were pretty well swept. I felt very sorry for Judi, number one on the road. It's really, really hard work. But we almost made the most of the road position and had a good run, good clean run. Fairly tight stages in there today, weren't they? First two. First two were really, really, really tight. Very, very technical. And we completely bullded the two rear tyres in basically 18k, just completely gone. So, yeah, it was pretty hard on the tyres. So I see there's new rubber on the back now. That's obviously going to give you a bit more bite tomorrow morning. Oh well, we're on to about, that's our third set of tyres, we've only done 50k. So it's, yeah, it's one of those things. But maybe as we get out of town and head towards the coast, we'll get a bit of rain and the roads will cool down a bit and then we'll tyre away. Brent's been around for a long time, probably done the put-underwood stages and he's a great driver and, you know, with a very similar car. So, I suppose it is a bit of a surprise. Well, it's interesting, he was feeling a bit sorry for you because you were sweeping the road. I've had a fun day, it's been awesome and the roads haven't been too bad. The one that was cancelled was very thick with gravel and we were happy with the last stage through Taylor Pass because that was the one time we had a swept road and we had a good stage win in there, so there's a long way to go. Are these roads from what you've seen so far, are they going to be suitable for you? Stages of stages, isn't it? You just cope with whatever it gives you and hope that you can do your best. I suppose the more important question is, is a BDA the right weapon? Yeah, I think it is. It's so much fun to drive. I love it. Every time I crank it up, it makes me smile. So that's the top of the order in the classics and the top of the order as well, overall. And of course the challenge series being led by Brent Taylor in the Toyota 86. Another competitor that we expected to be up the front and bear in mind it's early days is a heck of a long way to go is North Canterbury farmer Brian Stokes, but he's had a few issues today. Yeah, we've had a bit of an issue with the clutch, so we had to take the gearbox out and the bell housing out and have a look at the a bit of a hydraulic leak. So it's been a bit torrid and on a time constraint. So all hands on. How much are you really lost? Oh, we didn't really lose any time in the stage, but now you can't just let gear and drive off. So it's got to be fixed. So hopefully we'll sort of it. So how long way to Queenstown, though? Oh, yeah, sure is. Yeah, and we've just been just been going quietly today. Yeah, it's only the start. And made us see you've got the kids involved. Yeah, I've got my whole family here, all my youngest boys coming on Wednesday. But my daughter's flown back from Canada, especially for this. So it's pretty cool when Anne's co-driving, so fantastic.


The National Workers Union, NWU, has endorsed what it says are the bold initiatives currently being undertaken by the Government of St. Lucia in the gradual opening up of the tourism sector. The Cabinet of Ministers on the advice of the Chief Medical Officer approved amendments to the COVID-19 prevention and control regulations that came into effect on 31 May 2021 to 30 June 2021. The amendments included an adjustment for fully vaccinated individuals, returning nationals and visitors with a negative PCR test and who are fully vaccinated and now not required to quarantine. Deputy President-General of the NWU, Solis Myers, says the measure facilitates the reopening of businesses in the tourism sector. We represent a number of members in the tourism industry. We have a number of hotel employer partners, so we would have been placed strategically, if you will, to actually witness all of the implications of COVID-19 from March last year in terms of the closures, the toll on the workers, the psychological impact, the financial impact, also on the employers as well. So, we were very, very concerned in terms of the future of the industry and, you know, the impact in terms of the workers where they will be placed, etc. So, with the announcement that the Government is going in that direction, the Union endorses these bolding initiatives because we see the positive impact in terms of trying to get people back at work, trying to make sure everybody is able to recover as much as possible as a result of this pandemic because it hasn't been easy on any sector. The NWU advises that while efforts are being made by the relevant authorities to ensure gainful employment is resumed, by the tens of thousands of workers in that sector, all workers need to be mindful that in the current COVID-19 environment, there is a dire need to protect themselves, their families and the general public.