Welcome traders to another TickMail earnings report preview with me Patrick Munley. Before we jump into today's report as always we want to adhere to the risk disclaimer and most important for this presentation is the fact that the views expressed by me are solely mined and not indicative or representative of those held by TickMail UK or TickMail Europe Limited. Okay let's jump into today's report and today we're looking at Tesla Tesla announced earnings after the close of New York trading today. The earnings per share estimate is $1.81 on revenue of $16.521 billion. So Tesla reporting after the close the focus really is going to be on how well the electric vehicle maker managed costs and mid-soft delivery numbers. Tesla's ability to preserve margins this quarter will be front and centre. The focus really now shifts to the outlook for the remainder of this year. Tesla delivered 254,695 vehicles in Q2, roughly in line with the lower Wall Street estimates. Around 70,000 were wiped out of the quarter with Tesla's Shanghai plant shut down for two months due to COVID restrictions. Facts that analysts expect deliveries to ramp up in the second half of 2022 with chip supply slowly increasing. Wall Street sees Tesla notching up 1.4 million units by the end of the year. Of course no one is really sure how Chinese officials might deal with another COVID surge. While Giga Berlin and Austin factories are in significant ramp up mode this production capacity expansion is really aimed at 2023 and beyond. However recession fears and growing competition from US based automakers as well as Chinese and European rivals could limit Tesla's growth. Nevertheless based on reservation orders globally for model-wise demand for Tesla vehicles is still outstripping supply. By about 15-20%. Meanwhile Tesla laid off workers from its San Manteo office that employed about 276 staff. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said company plan to cut about 10% of its salary staff. Investors will also be looking to get more details on the earnings call about the recent departure of Tesla AI chief. Tesla's autopilot software has been in the crosshairs of freight drill regulators as it investigates several crashes in which autopilot software appeared to be engaged when the Tesla slammed into stationary emergency vehicles. Meanwhile Tesla's Musk is headed for a lengthy call battle with Twitter after pulling out of the deal to buy the social media company for 44 billion. So let's take a look at some of the statistical trading patterns around the Tesla earnings release. Tesla shares have moved lower in the immediate aftermath of earnings 7 out of 12 previous reports. On average stock moved down 0.6% in the first day of trading after the company reported earnings. Based on the previous 12 earnings releases Tesla is more likely to trade lower one day after earnings for an average loss of 0.8%. On average the stock has moved higher by 3.4% one week after earnings. Let's see what the options traders are pricing in in terms of volatility around the earnings release. Options traders are pricing an 8.6% move on earnings. It's felt though as averaged only 6.5% move in recent quarters. From a flow and sentiment perspective there's been notable by 46,733 contracts of the 750 call expiring on Friday. Options order flow in general though has been bearish. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings has 35% expecting an earnings beat. Tesla share price has drifted down negative 28.5% post earnings announcements. Using the last 12 quarters of data the average drift between earnings announcements is 35.2%. So with all of that in mind let's take a look at the technical setup. Putting in the Tesla chart here we are looking at the daily and weekly data. So weekly data here on the right hand side. It's notable that we test into the equality objective at 618. Pretty much traded it to the to the cent there. We're also sitting right on the 50% retracement of the 2020 low into that 2021 high. So technically we have completed a corrected pattern on the daily timeframe. We're sitting in this triangle. So what we can see here is that we're currently above the high volume low. We had a bullish reversal pattern yesterday and momentum is bullish and the momentum studies are bullishly aligned. So the setup here looks to be for an extension to the upside. We know that 750 call buying. So for me any move that takes out the triangle resistance here 760. I'd like to engage on the long side looking for a move up to test the next high volume lows and the 127 extension of the consolidation here at the $839 level. Now that's the primary scenario. A secondary scenario will be to the downside. We get an earnings miss and poor outlook. I'd be looking for a break of the triangle support. So any move back down through $660 to retest the price cycle lows at 622. And then I'd be looking for a move into the monthly projected range support down just below $600. Now if we did get that move, how would anticipate that would attract some bids in the market. And certainly I'd be looking for any quick reversal back through that $600 level to the upside as an opportunity to engage on the long side. Certainly then we think about a move back into test that $706 high volume low as the next upside objective. As always trade us, plan the trade, trade the plan and most importantly manage all risks. Until next time, thanks very much. Thank you.


Last week I did a little video talking about PDF readers and I mentioned that I used the program Zathura Which a lot of people asked about I guess a lot of people don't know about it is a minimalist and VIM based PDF reader So I figured I'd do a video on it just because a lot of people asked I mean you could just read the manual, but if people just read the manual there wouldn't be any reason for me to showcase things So we might as well do it So Zathura before I even show you the program just know that it is a such a minimalist program that is as By default, it's actually just a shell that can't really read anything. So in order for the Zathura Program to actually be able to read files. You have to install some little sub modules with it now I'm on Arch so on Arch, you know the different programs or the different packages I should say that it comes in is you're gonna want to install Zathura I presume you want to be able to read PDFs So you should install Zathura PDF poplar or Zathura PDF MU PDF Those will enables the Zathura to actually read PDFs And you can also have other modules so you can if you want to be able to read deja vu files Which I do I have Zathura's deja vu or Zathura PS for post script files and you can actually Check your repositories There are going to be other modules as well one annoying thing about a lot of PDF readers is that they only read PDFs But Zathura can read a whole bunch of things because it's built as being kind of module modular So you have Zathura CB for reading comic books There's an EPUB reader. I think up here somewhere. I probably can't see it, but yeah, it's definitely up there So yeah So there are different modules you can give it and just know that when you install it You should make sure you have some of these installed so it can actually read files. That's the point But it is a highly minimalist very responsive a very useful PDF reader Let's get into how this thing actually works. So I'm going to open up PDF Here we have one here. It is Phonological movement in classical Greek now it works pretty much as you would expect I'm going to turn on my key bindings first So if you want to move up and down in a document J and K just like in Vim you can zoom in with plus You can zoom out with minus You can press equal to get back to 100% zoom Notice also when you're zoomed in or whatever You can press H or L to move left and right pretty much as you would expect in Vim Now one of the common things you might want to do with a PDF is print things out now to issue commands to Zathura It comes with a bunch of commands You can read them all in the manual, but when you might want to use quite a great deal is print So I'm going to type colon and that brings up a little command line You probably can't see it because it's so small, but I can type in print Press enter and it will give you your print menu so you can decide how to print this document or whatever So in the basic bindings move up and down Zoom in and out with minus and plus and stuff like that now additionally, I should actually I should show you this because This PDF doesn't have it some PDFs will of course have links in them So this has a link here. This has a link there To follow a link in Zathura.  So this one's to this one's for this one's three Whatever and I can say let's say I want to go to science direct comm I can just type in three and enter again. This is supposed to be a totally keyboard-based PDF reader General document reader you can use your mouse, but there are shortcuts for doing all the stuff You know that you would do you with your mouse. So here we can see this this nice little link came up So again, you can follow links and stuff like that now. I'm going to show you my configuration for Zathura my config file now, which by default By default the config file is going to be in config Zathura Zathura RC now you can see I've added a couple things in here I got rid of the padding the horizontal padding and the vertical padding to documents because by default I think they come with a little padding on the side or whatever This page padding here. That is how many pixels Separate different pages. So this little separation here if you want it to be bigger You can have it do that by putting you know putting in a larger amount I also remap a bunch of keys just to make them a little more to my liking I guess I mentioned that zoom in is plus and minus I prefer that to be capital K and capital J Vim keys. So they're nice and accessible. So I've moved those here I can still press plus and minus Recolor by default you have a nice little night mode in Zathura and you can get to that with control R So control R toggles that I've remapped it to I as well because I just prefer that if you've used MU PDF That's the binding for that. So that's very convenient when you're reading at night I've mapped print to P. Just so I don't even have to type in the command I just press P. Although as you can see I don't really have any printers on this computer and additionally, so I've remapped you and D to move up half of a page or down half of a page by default They're control you can and control D just like in Vim, but I don't like typing control I don't feel it's necessary. Although one thing about that by default There's a let me show you by default. There is a page mode mode where you can get dual pages I've remapped this to capital D by default. It's D But I've remapped it since I'm using D for something else, but I find it just as easy So for some screens, this might help again by default the binding is D I've remapped it on my configs to capital D And there are other things like you know rotate. I haven't mapped to capital R I think it's lowercase R by default But you can rotate documents if you need to if you download a PDF of a map or something like that That's something that I often find I need to use So it's very convenient you have a bunch of other stuff and you can check of course the manual page for the other things or The manual of Zathura RC and this will give you a you know How to set different variables how to map different things now one thing well it lists out all the commands you can you know Map or whatever of course as you would expect a man page to do Now one thing I don't really use but is available in Zathura is different modes for Well, it can be modal in the same way that Vim is modal. So you can have things like I don't think it's a RC file. It's just in the default Yeah, so by default there are some a bunch of bindings of course and you can activate a full-screen mode by typing F11 and then that that has slightly different bindings or you can have presentation mode with F5 And that has slightly different bindings as well now. I don't use these You might find them useful. You can you you can put in custom bindings for all of these. It's very nice I just don't happen to use them if I want a full-screen something I'll full-screen it with my i3 binding and I don't mind using the same You know the same I guess keyboard shortcuts for it Other things other nice little vimisms. I guess let's say I want to bookmark a page. Let's say You know, there's this nice little the paragraph here that I really like So let's say I want to bookmark this in the same way that you can bookmark a certain line in Vim You can use M to mark and then I'm gonna mark this with Oh Oh because I don't know it says one kind of evidence Let's say I want to mark this paragraph. So if I'm in another Portion of the document. Let's say I press GG to go to the top Of course Vim bindings GG to go to the top capital G to go to the bottom If I'm in at another portion of the document, I can type in Quotation mark and then oh and that will return to the place that I marked Just like in Vim you can mark lines with M and go back to them with quotation mark So that's very helpful if you want to move around a document very quickly I don't think I said it before but you can barely see it down here because you know My settings have it so small you do have your page number in the bottom right Notice that this particular document it has three out of five because there are three out of five PDF pages Or two out of five now that we've gone up and there's also the real number of the PDF page If you have that kind of metadata, which is right here I would notice also I'm I'm sort of highlighting things if you actually go over text and select it You'll say that it it'll say that it actually selected that text to your primary Selection so that means if I go somewhere, you know I can paste it in with the middle mouse button or something like that Which isn't very useful in the terminal But you know this can be very useful to copy things and stuff like that Now I think I've pretty much gone over most of it There's one additional thing that I find very I find very helpful about Zathura and that is Zathura can Read content from the standard input now what I mean by that now if you've watched my Let's see if you watch my recent videos on graph Here's a little graph file I have now if I want to compile this let me get rid of these shortcuts if I want to compile this One thing you can do let's say This is just you know the syntax to compile a graph document take this document I'm going to output it to a PDF, but if all that's going to output the standard output one nice thing about Zathura is I can actually just pipe that directly into it and You have it read you have hyphen for reading standard input So if I run this Zathura is going to pop up It's not reading a file that actually exists instead. It's reading that standard input. You can actually see down here It's reading temp as a thorough standard input So that's very nice If you just want to have a if you don't want to have a PDF as a file But you just want to pre-view some PDF information now You might say when do I actually use that that doesn't seem very useful I will say that I found a very nice Implementation of this a second ago or a second ago a couple days ago And that is if you use my dot files, you know that one nice little thing I have is if you press Super and then f1 it brings up this little help document that has a list of a list of all the key bindings And you know a bunch of stuff that you can click on or I guess learn about or whatever So you can check one thing that I had in my github repository is I wanted to have this document and constantly update it when I made changes to You know some key binding so this document was always updated now originally what I was doing is continually pushing a PDF file To my git repository, which is a big waste of space because that's a file that gif or gif Git can't properly analyze. It's not going to be able to diff. You know the differences between PDFs really So instead of doing that I actually have now I have just a readme file which exists only in as a graph text document, which is this thing right here and What I have now is I have the binding of f1 instead of create or instead of viewing a PDF that exists it actually just immediately compiles this graph document and Sends it to Zathura as standard input now what that means is all I have to do is now change this document and whenever A user presses that document on their file or their their own, you know Implementation of my doubt files it brings up a PDF, but this PDF isn't actually in the git repository It's actually just you know Zathura is reading it as standard input So this is much more convenient for using with git because you don't have to worry about it You know this is one of the reasons people use graph for you know doing manuals and stuff like that because pretty much Everyone has the ability to compile a graph document if you're using my you know larbs configuration you have it So this is a much more easy way of having a document that you can come sort of compile real-time on people's computers So that's one really nice implementation It's a good implementation of both graph and Zathura's read standard input ability And now I don't have to worry about having a PDF in my repository and constantly Belly aching about how much size I'm going to be using whenever I push some minor change And I have to redo the and you know effectively it rereads the entire PDF which causes very bloated repositories All right, let me tack on one little thing that I forgot about but this is something that might make or break that the Program for some of you guys one very nice feature about Zathura despite the fact that is very that it is very minimalist It does have the ability to auto update files So if I compile this document and bring up a Zathura window for it, here's my nice little graph document Let's say I throw in another paragraph here. So here is another paragraph And if I compile that you'll notice that this new text appeared in the Zathura document I do not have to despite the fact that I did Remap the reload key to R if I press that it will reload the file But Zathura Regardless of that is still monitoring the file that is open to check to see if there are changes So it will auto update now this I think is something that MU PDF does not do by default I know that like Sumatra PDF on Windows will do this, but this is just another little thing and this can make or break well, it's really gonna make a Particular implementation or coding not coding style, but you know, I guess document creation style you may have So I just wanted to throw that in I realized I forgot it in the original video, but anyway, so that's about it I hope you guys enjoyed it. I find Zathura is a good example of a program that is very it's very small But it's very manipulatable as you can see I had a pretty good implementation of it with the graph that makes Makes doing something more complicated very simple very elegant, so you don't have to worry about it so I enjoy this program and Despite the fact that you can do a bunch of cool stuff with it including a lot of stuff that I can't mention, but it's in the man It it still is extremely easy to use and extremely easy to get out and just even if you don't change anything about it It's still a very useful program. So anyway, I encourage you to try it if you're on I'm pretty sure it runs. I mean it definitely runs on Linux and BSD or whatever But I don't know if it runs on Windows or any of that, but either way I don't know why you're using Windows or whatever, but anyway, so I'll see you guys next time Hope you learned something and have a good one


I'm James Milan, and this is a legislative update with our state representative, Sean Garbley, part of our Talk of the Town series, and Sean, first of all, welcome, and thanks for being here. I can see you're in your office. Thank you, James. Thanks for having me, and thank you to ACMI for doing these updates with the legislative delegation. Absolutely. It's one of our many pleasures, kind of combined pleasures, and what we feel are obligations to the community as well. But as I mentioned, it looks like you are in your office at the State House now, and folks should know that both you and I would have preferred for you to be in ACMI Studios. We were aiming towards that on various occasions over the last month or so. But in the end, our conflicting schedules, and you're a busy man, has meant that this is what we will have to do for today, and we will be hopeful and confident that in our next legislative update sometime in the spring, we will indeed have you in the ACMI studio. Thank you for understanding, James, and every intention of being up at Park Ave today, but unfortunately, well, part of the duties the speaker has asked me to do in the house is I preside over the informal session. So we're still in technically informal session, we're in a short recess right now, but I need to stay until that has concluded, which is the reason I can't be with you in Arlington today because I'm still at the State House. So, but I appreciate your understanding. And we are going to hope that we can get our full conversation in before, in fact, to get called back to your duties. So let's go ahead and start, you know, with these legislative updates, obviously, we are always interested to hear what is going on with the various bills and and other measures that you are that you are working towards at all times, and we will. But I think that we cannot start the conversation any other place, unfortunately, these days then with COVID, as it is currently again in another yet another surge as the Omicron variant has really just taken the country, the region, even the town of Arlington and surrounding communities by storm. So first, your your your thoughts on where things stand and where state policy stands around COVID and Omicron variant particular? Well, certainly, you know, having this conversation remote, right, has just this never happened before, you know, two years ago, we've always done this in the studio or at town hall. And that's because this pandemic certainly has changed just our way of life, right?  They're not in person as much. Now our young people have returned to school, right? Many people have returned to their jobs, which makes the surgeons of the Omicron variant that much scarier for a lot of people. That's why we're encouraging people to get vaccinated. If you're not vaccinated, get boosted. If you are vaccinated, but not yet boosted, wear a appropriate mask whenever you can.  You know, based on my conversations with the Department of Public Health and health officials that I talked to, you know, about the Omicron variant, this variant is, it's different than variants in the past. You know, what's dangerous in many ways about this pandemic, right? Is that a lot of folks who develop symptoms, it attacked their lungs, right? It attacked here. My understanding from health officials is that the Omicron variant seems to attack your nose and that's good in some ways because hopefully hospitalizations will be down, especially among the vaccinated, especially, you know, not attacking your lung area and making that congested. But it's also scary because if it does attack your nose, if you will, it is much more contagious than previous variants. And so that is something to really keep in mind. The spread of this variant has been massive across our state, across our country, across our town. The numbers show that, but the amount of hospitalizations among the vaccinated have been quite minimal compared to the past, you know, the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. So, you know, where John Arlington is doing an outstanding job in vaccinating our young people, you know, we were top in the state. Most recently among all cities and towns and the the COVID response, emergency response committee actually called me and wanted to know, you know, what is, you know, the Department of Public Health, Arlington Health and Human Services, what are they doing? What's their secret sauce, huh? What's their secret sauce that other communities aren't doing. So I called, you know, Christine Bungiorno, who runs Natasha over at Permanent of Public Health, they run a great program and they actually joined me on a phone call with the chair and his staff of the committee to give them their perspective, their ideas, their thinking, what they needed to do and what they should be doing. And actually the committee invited them to come and testify to share best strategies for handling the Omicron variant and making sure young people get vaccinated and all people get vaccinated and boosted. You know, we've run clinics in the town of Arlington at Town Hall at Arlington High that just have been really, really successful. And to see that Arlington has been seen as the model in a lot of these areas is comforting to me and should be comforting to the people of Arlington. And so I'm just grateful to Christine Bungiorno and Natasha and the rest of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Public Health. Yeah, that is great news that you've just shared. I was not aware of that. I've been speaking with Christine Bungiorno very regularly over these last couple of years with COVID-19 updates, et cetera. And it's good to know we knew that the numbers looked good here in Arlington, that the rollout of vaccination clinics and for our youth in particular was impressive. But you've put it in context of the larger state numbers, et cetera. And that's wonderful news to hear it really is and kudos to them. One of the concerns that I share with Christine and other health officials is the fact that in Arlington we have a mask mandate that's dictated around public health measures. And I think it's a great thing. But we are one town out of 351 across the Commonwealth. And most cities and towns, our area they do, but most cities and towns in Massachusetts don't have a mask mandate at this time. And that's very concerning to a lot of us. And I would call on Governor Baker, as I have in the past, to restore that mask mandate. It is not difficult when you go to Whole Foods or Stop and Shop to just put on a mask. If you go to CVS, Walgreens, Trader Joe's, put on a mask. You go to Starbucks, Cafe Nero, Robbins Library, wherever you're going, put on a mask. And that's not just to protect yourself, but that's to protect those around you. And again, as I'm sure you're aware, the degree of compliance with that here in this town is very close to 100%. And at each of the venues you mentioned by name and all the others as well that you intend to cover, again, it's great to feel like that's the community we live in. At the same time, your point is well taken that we are about one. And there are no borders between us. And so we really have to hope that in one way or the other, either because people choose to take on this practice or because the governor or somebody else makes sure that that is the case. I will, before we move on, sorry, go ahead. The mask mandate really should be statewide. And I think it's important that Governor Baker redo that or to put it into motion to make that happen. Point well taken. And as we move on, I just have to note that you went through the litany of things that people should be doing from vaccines to boosters to washing hands to the mask. And some of that is new because the vaccines were not available initially and the booster's not, et cetera. But so much of it is so familiar for two years now, and yet we need to still be saying this thing. So that's worth noting in and of itself. But let's go ahead and move on because I mentioned before that there is always legislation itself to talk about in these legislative updates and that's the primary focus of them. So I do know that you have three bills that have either passed or at least passed the house. And so I just would invite you to share the content of those bills with our audience. Well, James, you've been interviewing me for many years now and I think you know how difficult it is to get a bill passed. And I remember some of your questions and some of your own activism in trying to get other pieces of legislation passed being frustrated that certain bills just didn't seem to go over the hump and get to the governor's desk for his signature. And we share that frustration as legislators, right? When we file a bill, many people will tell us or these senses that it can take anywhere from five to 10 years to get a bill passed. That's a long time, especially when a lot of legislators don't serve five to 10 years, right? This session has been one of the most productive for me and for my colleagues. And I'm very happy to, you know, collaborating with members of the house, members of the Senate that I've been able to get, well, three of my bills passed in the house and then two of my bills passed in both branches of the house and the Senate and two of them signed by Governor Baker. I still have one still waiting engrossment in the Senate, but I am hopeful that it will happen soon. So what are they? The first bill I'm very, very proud of is what we call, especially during COVID and during the pandemic, emergency-paid sick time. So here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, nobody can be denied sick time if they have to not go to work because of a bunch of things. One is if they get the Omicron or if they get COVID themselves, if their loved ones get the variant, if their kids get the variants, anything that would concern them of going to work, they can use emergency-paid sick time. And there's millions of dollars in the budget that we put into this account. So what's critically important about emergency-paid sick time is that the time is adequate and to make sure that it's funded. And we did both. So we gave a week of emergency-paid sick time, which matches with the CDC recommendation, but also it is funded. And we've extended the emergency-paid sick time program here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until April. And that really is important, especially with the contagion of how contagious the Omicron variant is. And so it's just really, really, I think it's great legislation. I think it's a model for the rest of the country that we really need to protect our workforce and nobody who is sick or has COVID should feel that they have to go to work or they'll be fired, right? That is a real concern for a lot of people. And so that's why this bill getting passed by the House, the Senate and signed by Governor Baker was so important. And it's definitely something that I'm very proud to have played a real role in the House and in the legislature and getting it passed. Yeah, really just one quick comment about that. And as you've already mentioned, the people who are perhaps gonna benefit the most from this legislation are, in fact, those who are among the most vulnerable, which I know is always a population that you are looking to provide support for.  And clearly this should be a real concrete benefit to them. So congratulations for that one. And what's the second bill? So the second bill is known as the Nutrition Act here in Massachusetts. And we actually just celebrated a few weeks ago. I joined Governor Baker, Lieutenant Governor Polito and several of my colleagues socially distanced as he signed the bill into law. And what the law mandates is and what Project Bred has estimated, that's an advocacy organization. If you've ever done the Walk for Hunger every sprain in Massachusetts, they've estimated that this bill that I filed now signed into law will help feed an additional 10,000 students across the Commonwealth who are low income or live in what's categorized as poor school districts to make sure that they have a nutritious lunch and don't go without having lunch. I know James, you've asked constantly throughout the time of being interviewed by you around the passion of yours and that's certainly education and the achievement gap and what we need to do in Massachusetts to continue to make sure students achieve and to close the achievement gap in what we would call low performing districts. And we've always talked about the socioeconomic reasons of why young people fail. And certainly one of the reasons young people fail is because they don't have breakfast the morning of, they don't have dinner the night before. No students should be starving in the classroom when they have come to learn, right? I think it's a moral obligation that we have to these students when they're there and their families when they're there ready to learn, they should be able to get a nutritious breakfast and lunch. And I know some people might say chicken nuggets and pizza is not nutritious. We're working on that, but every young person should be able to have lunch so they're not starving throughout the day. And this bill is a huge step in that direction. It's also something that's very important to me because in the legislation, we ban the practice of what's known as meal debt shaming that has been too often used in school districts, not in Arlington, but too often used in school districts across Massachusetts. And what that means is, so a student goes to the line with all their peers in front of them and behind them to purchase their lunch. And so the student gives them their card and whoever's there scans the card and finds out that there's no money on the card whether because the parents forgot to load the card with more money for that student's lunch or because of difficult times, especially during a pandemic, wasn't able to afford it this month. What has been done in so many districts is the person will take the lunch, put an X through it and then give that student another lunch that is deemed appropriate by that school district which is sickening because the students behind that student just witnessed what had happened that that student is too poor to afford a regular lunch. And that to me is morally demeaning to that student. It's literally shaming. And then another thing a lot of school districts do, again, not Arlington, but a lot of school districts have collection agencies literally on the budget where they'll run credit reports. They'll call the families and say, hey, you owe us money. You know, this is public education. This is a public school and that practice is just disgusting. And during the bill hearing, excuse me, James, during the bill signing where Governor Baker signed the bill into law, we had students there who had been shamed. Subject to this. Subject to this cruelty. And it was so wonderful that, you know, obviously it's too late for them because they've moved on, they've graduated, but that this practice will never happen again to another student and all 351 cities and towns across Massachusetts, it's great. You know, it's a great, it was a great feeling to them. And, you know, I know we do show and tell sometimes, James, but this is a copy of the student nutrition bill that was signed by Governor Baker. This is the emergency paid, the Massachusetts COVID-19 emergency paid. Put that right up close to the screen there. Can you see it? Yep, yep, we can see there and just scroll it right on up so we can see the signatures at the bottom. There you go. There you go. And that's what legislation looks like in the end. It takes, it's not, you know, an easy, quick process, but it is the process. And in those two cases, we've been able to get two very good things done that's going to help a lot of people in Massachusetts. And now we move on to the next bill. And so my hope is that- Yeah, if I understood you correctly, you said that two of them had now been signed by the governor and are have been made into law and that now one is still pending, I think, Senate approval, is that right? Correct. So there's a piece of legislation I filed in the house. I've been filing it for a few years now that's around birth certificate access for adoptees in the common law. So everybody, mostly everybody have their birth certificate. It's your ID. It's your identity. It's who you are. Nobody can take it away from you. It's your document that proves you are who you are, right? In Massachusetts, if you were born before 1978 or after 2008, you have your original birth certificate. But if you were born within that 33 year period, you know, 1978 give or take and 2008, 33, 34 years, you under law in Massachusetts, you can't get your original birth certificate. It was just mind boggling to me. That's your identity and you can't get it. And I hear from adoptees across the state who want this bill so bad. So current because of mass law, right? We have three types of people. We have people who are not adopted, who have their original birth certificate. We have people who were adopted, who are adopted, right? But they were adopted outside of that 34 year period where they can get their original birth certificate. And then we have another type of adoptee who was born within that 33, 34 year gap that can't get access to their original birth certificate. So here in the Commonwealth, we have two different types of adoptees. Those who can and those who can't gain access to their original birth certificate and it's just not fair. Yeah, and it seems like for totally arbitrary reasons as well, as you say it, there's just a particular period of time.  That seems simply wrong. Right, some people had argued that it was due to privacy of the birth mother, right? The privacy issues. And I understand that argument. However, I disagree with it because it's fundamentally flawed because it is not the birth mother's birth certificate, right? She has her birth certificate. This is the adoptees birth certificate. Every person born in Massachusetts have their document that says they are who they are. And that's why that's why this is so important. And so you also can't, you shouldn't have two types of people within the adoption community if you feel that way, right? And so legislation has been passing across the country to give adoptees access to their original birth certificate. Connecticut just passed it recently. New York just passed it recently. And we're very close in Massachusetts. Last session it also passed the House but unfortunately couldn't get through the final hurdle in the Senate because of the pandemic there were a lot of things going on so we weren't able to get it passed but the House just passed it a couple of months ago. Again, this session and we're hoping that before the end of this session the State Senate will pass it in Governor Baker, one of his final acts as governor. Maybe he will sign this into law as well to make sure there's equity and fairness in this practice of giving out birth certificates. Yeah, no, Sean, as you said, people are aware that it can take years, years and years to get something from conception or initial proposal all the way across the finish line to become actual law. So again, congratulations for being able to share with us that successful journey for at least these three bills or two out of the three and fingers crossed the other one also makes it across that finish line. Let me ask you, you had mentioned specifically when you were talking about the emergency sick leave legislation that it is important that it was funded or it is funded. And that reminds me of the fact that a conversation that I have had with both State Senator Cindy Friedman and your fellow State Rep. Dave Rogers in recent months has to do with the windfall, the federal money windfall that the state has been working its way through a portion of in order to fund an awful lot of different programs. So just wanted to get your thoughts on both what, what a couple of highlights you've felt for you personally and your particular interests and values and causes are in that, in the way that that money was able to be put into play here in Massachusetts. So absolutely, James. And obviously that incredibly important legislation that passed at the federal level that has provided much relief to the town of Arlington and across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I do want to just want to point out the emergency paid sick time was funded by state dollars in the budget last year, in the budget this year and we appropriated 17 million. And that's really important because it's actually funded that will allow those to take advantage who them or their families are sick will be able to take advantage of this important program. So the ARPA money, obviously a game changer for the town of Arlington, a game changer for the state of Massachusetts, right? We were given a little over $5 billion and we spent I think a little over $3 billion in specific areas from the environment to housing to infrastructure, well, specifically around water infrastructure, which is really gonna be just a game change for Arlington but across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We also appropriated about $500 million for something they call premium pay for low income workers who really experienced troubled times of losing their employment or more importantly, working well, the pandemic was going on and putting their lives and their family's lives on the line and that was appropriated at $500 million. So that was really, really important. We were able to work the Senator myself and Representative Rogers were able to work to secure a lot of specific appropriation items for Arlington, specifically around affordable housing, a domestic violence initiative for the Arlington Housing Authority that's specifically used to house those who are experiencing domestic violence, money for the Millbrook restoration that's really, really important and then a lot of money from that I appropriated as an amendment to the ARPA bill and I know the town got received a lot of money in their version of ARPA for our parks across Arlington, which is just really, really important. An audit was done years ago that really showed the deteriorated nature of a lot of our parks in Arlington. So it's really important to invest in those areas especially if we head into the pandemic continuing into the spring, not to say that people don't use parks in the winter but obviously they're very important to work for the life in Arlington. So to me that's really, really important as well as money across the state for housing, first-time homeowners or home buyers, serious amounts of money into our housing authorities across Massachusetts, including here in Arlington and then again, as the chair of the Global Warming and Climate Change Committee, serious amounts of investment in water infrastructure in addressing sewage overflows, whether it's in the ALY for up at the Merrimack Valley, this is serious amounts of money that hopefully will be able to be implemented, appropriated and address some of these issues. Now I use the term water infrastructure because this money was not able to be used for infrastructure that we know of as roads, bridges and a lot of that is because the federal government, thanks to Joe Biden and a lot of the federal partners passed an infrastructure bill that we're still waiting for the regs from the treasury and how we can use that money but serious amounts of money that we'll be able to use right away for our roads, bridges and other type of infrastructure, try to electrify our buses, our trains and so that'll be up for an incredibly important debate, hopefully later in the winter or sometime in the spring, early summer on how that money should be spent on infrastructure but I would hear a lot from Arlingtonians who asked me, why can't we use the ARPA money for buses, trains, our roads, physical infrastructure and that's because the money was specifically used for things like water infrastructure, housing, the environments, workforce development areas like that. Yeah, you know, it strikes me as I was listening to you speak to that multiplicity of different kind of issues in which as you put it, serious money is now being allocated to support progress in those areas. I'm realizing that that in combination with the fact that you were here to talk about several of the bills that have successfully gone through the whole process and are now in law, it's a grim time out there in the world. We're all very aware of that. We spend a lot of time with dark clouds seemingly looming. It's very nice to have some of these conversations with you and some of your colleagues in which there's some real good news to share with Arlington residents with, you know, residents of the state of Massachusetts where life can, we can imagine and the work can begin on life actually getting better for not just a few, but hopefully many as a result of your work and, you know, and just in federal largesse, which is a powerful combination. Right, so this funding, we did about 200, two and a half billion dollars in the latest round of ARPA. There is $2 billion left that the legislature will appropriate hopefully soon that we'll be able to look at some of the areas that were not funded to the level that, you know, we thought they should have been, whether it's parks and open spaces, tourism, arts, the other important items, more money investment and sewage overflows, but hopefully we'll be able to look at that what has not been appropriately funded and use some of the remaining, it's a little over $2 billion for those purposes. Great, I am very well aware of the fact that you may be coming up against your deadline at any moment here. Before we let you go, I'm wondering if there's any, maybe one or two, if there are things you'd like to mention in terms of stuff that's in the works now, but somewhere back in that process before the finish line, hopefully rounding a final curve or something, but... Well, again, James, thank you for having me, right? There's two types of bills, right? They're the bills I'm working on that I want to get past and there's other bills that other folks are working on the legislature as a whole is prioritizing. And so, those can be usually inclusive, right? But some of them can be different. So I feel very good in terms of the legislature will soon, I hope, pass the Healthy Youth Act, which is very important to me.  That's done by the experts because right now in too many cities and towns, the health curriculum is kind of a hodgepodge of 1950s and 1960s thinking around sex education. And so it's really important finally, I think we're close of passing this bill. And it's basically, if you're going to teach sex education in the health curriculum, that it's appropriate and that it is science-based and fact-based and I'm very hopeful and believe that we can get this passed this session. I think it's very, very close. So that's why I raised that one. Another one, I don't have a lot of specifics for you because the legislation hasn't been released, but I think we're very close to really having a very good debate in the house on offshore wind legislation, you think of vineyard wind that is happening. And I think that's really going to be very an important industry for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that will make us kind of the role model across the country for our offshore wind and also offshore wind in Massachusetts or the vineyard project, but other projects possibly in the pipeline. Right now, our ambition will make up probably a third of President Biden's goals for offshore wind nationwide, which really kind of gives you a sense of how serious Massachusetts is taking this industry, as you may know, I toured the Anaholt Wind Farm in Denmark before the pandemic and that was a massive wind farm of over a hundred turbines right off of Orhouse in Denmark. I'm kind of the northern part of Eastern Denmark, Northeastern Denmark. And so really learned a lot from the Anaholt Wind Farm and really working to encourage that industry to grow in Massachusetts. So that offshore wind bill, I think will really set the table for future offshore wind projects and have Massachusetts kind of lead the rest of the country on offshore wind. So I'm hopeful that we'll be taking that up in the next month or so. I will also say something that's really important to me is everything from early voting, mail-in voting, same day voting to grow our democracy, to make sure it doesn't get diminished or fought by kind of wacko voices and to make sure that we make sure that our democracy is strong and that it survives. And so one of the things that we need to do is to pass a very strong voting rights bill. And I feel very strongly that we'll be passing that soon to make sure that mail-in voting, which was so successful and so well-liked among so many voters across Massachusetts will not be a thing of the past, but will stay and hopefully thrive and make democracy that much more effective and closer to the people. So those are kind of three bills that I believe the legislature will take up soon. Two bills that I'll just mention that I hope the legislature will take up soon or these are mine, one is the 100% clean act that just had our hearing before the TUE committee the other day. And that's really about trying to transition away from dirty fossil fuels and make sure Massachusetts transitions to clean energy in all sectors from our electricity to heating, home heating, transportation, by 2035 and 2045 in all sectors. To me, that's what we need to do to meet the challenge of climate change and that we have to meet that. But also as we transition that we keep in mind and actually have solutions to deal with those who may lose their jobs shifting from fossil fuels to clean energy and to make sure that those individuals are the ones who are first in line for the jobs of tomorrow in the clean green sector that we're hoping to grow and that transitioning is not cheap, right? And to make sure that as we transition especially in home heating that the state comes up with a way to make sure that those who are low income and living paycheck to paycheck there's a lot of us out there especially during this pandemic that they're the ones that are going to get assistance to help them transition easier than those who can afford it. So to me, that's really how you can transition to clean energy easier in the Commonwealth than if there weren't these supports. And then I will also mention my higher education bill that is very close to getting passed. I think I talk about it every year with you, Jane. That is giving students with autism and Down syndrome the chance to go to one of our 29 public higher education institutions in the Commonwealth. All the research is very clear that students with disabilities, autism or Down syndrome if they're given the opportunity to go to college their success rate in terms of their independence their employment is really 40 or even 50 times better than their peers who aren't given the opportunities of being able to go to college and learn those independence skills. So I'm really hopeful that between now and July 31st or just the last day of our session we'll be able to get both of those bills passed. Great, well, we look forward to speaking to you before that time. Sometime in the spring we hope and so maybe maybe we won't be celebrating the passage just yet at that point, but hopefully looking, it will look, you will be as optimistic or more so at that point. So yeah, appreciate these last couple of these last few minutes of and what you spoke about because basically you're talking about with voting rights, the survival of our democracy and with much of the rest of what you mentioned the survival of our planet. So these are two important things. Yeah, rather important things. And again, somewhere in the pipeline because it just takes that much pushing and pulling and negotiating and you know, et cetera just to get these things to where we are actually looking at that piece of paper that you held up before. So we will hope to do that again sometime soon with you but we really appreciate you taking the time today. It's been a very chock full and great content. We appreciate it. Thanks James and thank you and thanks to ACMI for making this available. All right, time to go do your duty now. I have been of course speaking with our state reps Sean Garbley from his office at the state house where he is presiding over this informal session of the house. So we will let him get back to that with appreciation for Sean's time and appreciation for yours out there. Thanks so much for joining us. I'm James Milan. This has been a legislative update with Sean Garbley and Talk of the Town. Thanks for joining us.


Safety is a treasure that is not valued properly until it has been compromised. I also took it for granted. My name is Yuda Temoschuk. I'm a Ukrainian. I'm one of many women whose life has changed dramatically over the past two weeks, after Russia invaded my peaceful country. Are you safe? My friends keep asking me. And I keep wondering, what's the indicator of safety for a woman now? Is being alive or in better conditions than others enough? After 34 hospitals were sheltered in Ukraine, my relative Nadya did not leave a small clinic in Makariv near Kiev and continues taking care of her patients. Is she safe? One would argue, but her soul is in place. It is her decision. My friend Victoria and her 10-year-old daughter have been in a shelter in her son brutally occupied by Russian army for 10 days. Are they safe? They are not. But they keep fighting by taking care of themselves. A woman crossing the border to an unknown country with two kids living her husband behind, without means to secure her life, not knowing the language, having one backpack and a trolley. Will they be safe? Will they feel secure far from home on their own? Safety has different dimensions and it is certainly not limited to your body crossing the border to a peaceful country. For me, this year's celebration of women's day sets a different perspective. Women around the world continue fighting again and again to feel safe, to feel that they belong to the place they are at, to the people they are with, to the thoughts that cross their minds. I am blessed to be surrounded by women who can decide what can be left behind and what's important for them. I would be honored together with all of them to be at the forefront of rebuilding our country in the nearest future and I would like to invite you to take part in that. Advocate for women's rights. Advocate for democracy. Advocate for Ukraine.


The coalition of concerned veterans have staged a protest in Cardinal State against the non-payment of 90% security development allowance to its members as well as other allowances. The retired military personnel alongside widows and orphans of ex-service held placards with inscriptions. We can't pay rent. No food on the table to feed our families. Payers are entitlements among other inscriptions. The protest moved from the Legion Office to the Government House. Government are owing us 24-month arrears of minimum wage which was paid and all civilian counterparts have received their own. All retirees on the civilian part have received their own. But we in the armed forces, retired members of the armed forces have not gotten ours. Then we are talking about security department allowance. The security department allowance is an allowance that is paid to retired military personnel to divide them from selling their knowledge or experience to mercenaries outside Nigeria. Since when we lost our husband, when they pay us our gratuity, they now say they will pay our life insurance. Till now we did not see our life insurance. Since 2014, we have been suffering and we cannot stay inside barracks. We now move out. So our life insurance, they have no pay. We don't know why. If you look many of us here now, we have come because of overthinking. All what the President pronounced, that is for us up till now, nothing done. To extend that, Minister of Defence, make sure in the television that he did all those anything with the retirees. That is what make us come out and protect and let the world see us here also. We are suffering inside. We are suffering inside. Now I cannot be afforded to pay my school fees for my children.


Therefore, it's time for Member Stainless, the Member from Nipian, Carlton. Thank you very much, the Speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to a dear friend of mine, John Newman, who passed away earlier this week. John was an adviser to me on agriculture. He was also a friendly face. I got to know John over probably 13, 14 years ago, and when I started to embark on this career in provincial politics at the Ontario Legislature. And he lived in the community of North Gore, which is part of the Carlton, part of my riding, which I won't be representing anymore. John died this week, but he had a life that was so well worth living and so well worth putting into the record here at the Ontario Legislature. He spent 22 years in Canada's military. He and his wife, Mary, and then purchased Jomar Farms in 1966. And just a few years ago, six years ago, they celebrated a milestone wedding anniversary. And I'm sure every year since then has been blessed. Their farm was recognized for excellence throughout Ontario and Canada, particularly by the old Campville College in Campville, not too far from North Gore, and the University of Guelph. They taught students at their farm. John and Marion were recognized as Master Feed Awards for the Top Stocker Quality and OSCIA Certificate for Soil Management. And John offered excellent farming advice to those throughout Ontario. He was Ontario Cattleman's Association Member's Board of Directors, which is what helped me in my early years as a member, asking him for great advice. But it was in 2000 when John Newman became a founding director of the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency. And, Speaker, you'll recall that we had a BSE crisis in 2003, and that's when John became a critical voice for Ontario beef for every one of us to talk about the great excellence that we have here as well as championing as we move forward. But a few years ago, John and Marion were at a Michael Buble concert. And I was sitting there and I said to my husband, I think that's John Newman. Why would he be at a Michael Buble concert? Well, it was their 50th anniversary for him and Marion. And I know Marion's watching at home, and I just want to say, you know, Michael Buble said it best, you're everything. I sing along because you're my favorite song, you're everything. And I know Marion, you're home today and newly moved into Barhaven, but John had a lasting impact on me. Many people in Carleton County and throughout Ontario. And I know to you and your family, he meant the world. And for that, we're grateful that you shared him with us, not only in agriculture, but also as he served Canada. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you, Speaker. And yesterday made the first highlights that me is Lime Awareness Month. And it is with great joy and happiness that I want to recognize many of the members of the Lime Task Force for submitting in this great report on Lyme disease and tick-borne businesses task force. What it does, it lays out a path so that we could start looking at the real challenges of addressing the needs of individuals with Lyme disease through prevention and control, through surveillance, through public engagement, through care and treatment support, Mr. Speaker. That means establishing centers of excellence for tick-borne illnesses where we're going to start doing that R&D, where we'll be able to amass that information and start providing it to our physicians and our caretakers to care for individuals. But the research that is going to be happening as well is work with patients and providers and researchers, conduct a review of the current clinical practices and review the current testing mythologies for diagnosing, conduct a systematic review focusing on treatment. These are pillars. These are going to be open discussions. These are going to be additional task force that are going to be developed to really look at providing that care, the acknowledgement and the acceptance of individuals who are suffering with Lyme disease in this province. I couldn't be more prouder of these individuals. And I have to give credit where credit is due. The present minister of health provided a lot of assistance on this and the previous minister of health, Mr. Eric Hoskins. I give credit where credit is due. The task force, you did an amazing job, but this is the beginning. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Senator, from Ottawa South. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge my father-in-law, Lauren Hooper, a military veteran who served in World War II. Today, he was honored with a silver leaf on the tree of life at the Pearly and Rideau Veterans Long-Term Care Center. He was presented by the Director General of the Aerospace Equipment Program. I would like to have been there with him and my wife, Linda, for this honor. Instead, I'd like to honor him with a few words. Born in Ottawa in 1922, Lauren was the second son to William and Mae Hooper. Lauren's career in the military began in what he describes as a less than captivating stint as a Saturday night soldier, as a member of the non-permanent active militia. In 1942, Lauren volunteered for chemical testing in the chemical warfare laboratories in Ottawa. And like many other volunteers, he was lucky not to have adverse effects from the testing. At the onset of World War II, Lauren knew what he wanted to be, a pilot, eventually serving as a wireless gunner after having completed his in-air training in a Harvard aircraft. He was eventually posted to PEI Coastal Command where Private Lauren spent his days in pursuit of German U-boats. As he tells it, I never shot at anyone and nobody ever shot at me, or if they did, they were a very bad aim. In 1943, Lauren met and married his wife, Yvonne. They were known as Hoop and Toots, or Nanny and Poppy, and they eventually bought a house in Alta Vista and had their only daughter and my best friend, Linda. And throughout his life, Lauren has been an avid runner participating in the Terry Fox race until he was 85 and running many 10Ks. From Linda, the grandchildren, and myself, grandchildren Kirsten John and James, great-grandchildren Vaughn, Sloane and Fraser, we're all very proud of you. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Further member status, the member from Prince Edward Hastings. Thanks, Speaker. What's going on on the south shore of Prince Edward County is an absolute travesty. This government has broken its own rules around environmental protection against species at risk. Environmental restrictions were put in place and its initial renewable energy approval and the government is allowing them to be violated as construction continues at the site. We've had reports of trespassing on private lands that don't have a leaseholder agreement for turbine construction and additional transmission construction. WPD officials are apparently offering monetary reimbursement on site for damage to property with landowners that don't have council present to act on their behalf. This government has allowed a state of corporate lawlessness to occur on the south shore of Prince Edward County and it has said nothing to uphold any of the energy or environmental agreements it has signed. The Slipperyl government has pretty well told the people of Prince Edward County that there is no rule it won't bend to ensure this project is in the ground as quickly as possible. Analysts have said the project isn't necessary. With the amount of solar hosted in Prince Edward the county may already be net neutral and the distance of the project from a load of any size means this government is allowing WPD to erect nine white elephants on the south shore of Prince Edward County. It's done so over the objections of local residents and in spite of its own rules. Speaker, this project should be put to an end now. Thank you. Member's statements. The Member from London West. Thank you, Speaker. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the great work that is being done in my community by Canadian manufacturers and exporters southwestern Ontario Board. On May 9th, the organization will hold its 23rd annual London Manufacturers' Recognition and Scholarship Awards Night, an event that brings together over 200 manufacturers and professionals to network and celebrate local industry achievements. Most importantly, the awards night provides eight promising Western Fanshawe and secondary school students who are enrolled in manufacturing-related programs with $2,000 scholarships. Speaker, despite the loss of 300,000 manufacturing jobs in Ontario over the last 10 years, manufacturing remains a key sector for London's local economy and for the southwestern region as a whole. Events like the CME Awards Night are critical in the face of an economy that has seen almost all job growth concentrated in the GTA in Ottawa over the last decade, leaving the rest of the province far behind. A recent analysis of labour force survey data shows that between 2008 and 2018, under this Liberal government, 94% of all new jobs were created in the GTA or Ottawa with only 6% growth in the rest of Ontario. Speaker, there is no question that London's economic prosperity remains closely linked to the health of our manufacturing sector with efforts of the CME. We are helping London manufacturers to develop the talent necessary to innovate, connect and grow their business. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. I want to speak about a wonderful, special community in my writing, and the community is called the Lawrence Heights area. The Lawrence Heights community hosts the largest public housing community in Canada, the largest in Canada. But within that community, we have a community health centre. We have a great high school, the John Polanyi High School. We also have a revitalization program that's going on. It is similar to the one that took place at Regent Park in downtown Toronto whereby the housing stock is being improved, it's being made into mixed housing with at-market rent, subsidized rent, seniors housing, all under construction right now. We have, even part of it is a for rent private ownership. And this week we announced a joint project between the federal, provincial and municipal government to build a community hub there which is going to have arts programs, a swimming pool, a community centre, a senior centre, all within the Lawrence Heights community. So the people in the community are not only getting new housing, they're getting new parks, they're also getting this wonderful state-of-the-art community hub that's going to make the Lawrence Heights community even better than it is right now. So congratulations to all those who worked on the Lawrence Heights community project and the future is very bright. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Further member, same as the member from Sault Ste. Marie. I know that the U.S. tariffs, 25% tariff on steel, 10% aluminum was extended by President Trump for one further month. I just want to say this. We work better when we work together. Within all levels of government, between all party lines, if we can work with our friends south of the border in the United States, we need to really demonstrate to them that they need us as much as we need them. A Northern-Southern trade war is not good for Ontario and our community in Sault Ste. Marie. Not good for the workers at Algoma Steel. The problem that both our markets are dealing with is Asian steel dumping, not what is occurring between Northern and Southern trade. We are pro-free trade. Steel needs to be the number one exporter out of Sault Ste. Marie, not our youth. Ontario needs to be open for business. We need to show it's not our job as government to thrive. It's our job to make sure that there's the environment present for business to thrive. Again, I really think it's important for all of us to work together, all levels of government, all party lines in order to try to get this issue resolved with our friends south of the border. We cannot succeed with a trade war. It will not end well for either side. For my last few seconds, Mr. Speaker, I really just want to mention my Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and have surpassed the Kitchener Rangers and congratulations to them. But Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds facing off in the finals of the OHL playoffs starting tomorrow night with Sault Ste. Marie against the Hamilton Bulldogs. Go Greyhounds, go. Thank you, Speaker. I would like to talk about a great organization in the downtown core, the Massey Hall. Massey Hall, as you know is an awful profit charity. It does a great job in showcasing not only domestic talent, but talents across the world. I had a pleasure of joining Minister Sousa, Minister Bill Morrill, for announcement a couple days ago of $60 million that joined funding to support the revitalization of Massey Hall. And for any member who has been in Massey Hall, including you, Speaker, you know what I'm talking about. This hall the acoustics effects, the design, the stained glass now is currently hidden behind the walls are fantastic and I can't wait to see the after the renovation the amazing effect of this great building. Over the years I know Massey Hall has been extending their arms to welcome more international renowned artists. Just last year I was at Massey Hall enjoying a comedian from China to perform. And it was a packed house and there was a lineup outside as well. I think two years ago, if I remember correctly there was a Korean vocal artist group came to Massey Hall and attract so many local Korean community members to come and enjoy this great performance. So congratulations Massey Hall. I want to thank member from Eglinton Lawrence federal member Adam Vaughn and city councillor Kristin Wong-Ten for their support on this outgoing project. Thank you. Further members, statements to members from Bruce Gray, Owen Sound. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. It is a pleasure to rise and share with members in the house news about a group of individuals in my writing of Bruce Gray, Owen Sound, who are doing very honorable work to address poverty issues in the community and across the world. Owen Sound hunger and relief effort, or Oshare, served over 20,000 meals to individuals and families in our community last year. To raise money for meals Jeffrey Robbins, owner of Aveda Main Street Hair Salon in Owen Sound, together with Barry Crystalbrink of Barry's Construction organized a walk for food and water in Owen Sound. This year they raised 75,000 and in 2016 they raised close to 47,000 making it the top fundraising Aveda Salon in Canada. Mr. Crystalbrink was also the top fundraiser of that year. Since the first annual walk they have raised 270,000 dollars. The Aveda Walk for Food and Water is held annually in Owen Sound during Earth Month. In addition to raising funds to assist in providing needed services to vulnerable individuals in our communities, the walk is also helping raise public awareness about the need to improve access to clean drinking water around the world. The average walk is between 5 and 6 kilometers which is a distance women and children typically have to walk every day in rural developing communities worldwide to collect food and water. I thank Jeff and Barry and all the other volunteers, donors and sponsors this past Friday for their 10th annual walk. Mr. Speaker, I am very proud of my community's efforts to address poverty needs and I'd like to thank Jeff Barry and all who supported for making a difference and making strides in our community and around the world. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements. It is therefore time for reports by committees. The member from Ancestor Dundas Flamboy.


Today I'm going to share with you some tips that I currently use as a doctor that I use as a medical student to wake up really early in the morning at hours like 4.30 or 5.30 but still not feel tired for work or at school. That's good. Hey everyone and welcome to the channel. My name is Laksh. I'm a doctor who on this channel as well as this podcast make tips to make your life as a student a little bit easier. So if you're new to the channel, consider hitting that subscribe button. If you enjoy the content, then make sure you show your support by hitting that like button as well. But today I want to talk about waking up early and how to do it without feeling tired for school or for work and you may have a sour taste in your mouth when it comes to topics about waking up early because maybe you've tried it and weren't able to do it successfully or consistently. But in this video I'm going to show you a few ways you can use to overcome it. So it was a quick backstory when I was a medical student in my second year. I had started an Emory journey as a blog post and I was putting different challenges I would do for like 20 days at a time. One of the first ones that I did was I asked myself to wake up at 4.30 for 20 straight days and try to see if I could build it as a habit. Before this I was waking up anywhere from like 6.30 to 7 so still early but like by no means 4.30 early. When I initially started there was a huge bit of motivation because I was getting work done, I felt great, I could report back on my blog post and the 4 people that were reading that it was successful. But towards the middle of the 20 days it was hard. You know it was hard to wake up, it was hard to find that motivation and then you definitely have that natural sensation of tiredness and fatigue towards the middle of the day because you've gotten up a few hours early. But as I was going through the challenge I tested out different techniques that I was learning online and eventually I was able to get to a point where I was motivated to get up at 4.30, I was getting stuff done. By the middle of the day where I typically would hit a low amount of energy I was still energized to do even more work if I chose to. And keep in mind that was my second year of medical school, I'm still waking up at those kinds of hours currently and I'm able to do different projects like work on the YouTube channel, work on my blog as well as various other things that I enjoy doing. So today I want to give you a few tips that I personally use in my own life as a physician to help me become more productive to get up early without having that tired sensation later. So the first thing that I found to be really effective at waking up early but also energized is to wake up your most optimal times. Our body naturally cycles between a variety of sleep stages, some being very light and some being very deep. But the problem of having a specific wake up time every single day is that you can't always direct what phase of sleep you'll be waking up into and so if you wake up in something that's very light it's going to feel very natural to get up. But on the flip side, if you wake up at a much deeper phase of your sleep cycle, you're much more likely to want to go back to sleep or at least feel groggy if you do choose to get up. And so a few great ways to help yourself wake up at a very optimal hours are trying some sleep cycle timer apps that you can find up on iOS or Android. I'll link a few down below because I've kind of flipped back and forth myself, but they're great kind of tools that you can use using the accelerometer that come with your phone to just kind of put it on your bedside table or on your bed face down and essentially can sense your motion as your sleep to try to figure out what kind of phase of your sleep cycle you are. And you can increase your chances of waking up at a lighter phase of your sleep by using the app and dictating essentially what range you would like to wake up on. So maybe it's 430 to 5 or 530 to 6 and the app will do its thing and it'll try to wake you up at a time that's most optimal for you. And as a bonus tip, just waking up doesn't mean you're going to necessarily get out of bed. And so one of the things that I like to do is something that I call the five second rule that I've learned through a variety of self-improvement posts, but basically the idea is, is you essentially count down from 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and that one, you basically kind of make yourself jump out of the bed. It's a little bit silly when you first start, but your likelihood of getting out of bed just increases versus trying to press the snooze button and saying that in five minutes I'll get up. We all know how that goes. Tip number two is to try to have a motivating task as soon as you wake up. I remember when, even when I reflect back to my morning routine as a medical student, I'll link down below a vlog where I did have this situation. I would have a lot of things going on. I would have to do a reflection journal, a meditation, gratitude, and also find time to work out and simply start to become a little bit overwhelming. And so now I simply try to have one thing that I do each morning, whether that be working on a video project for the MD journey or doing some research projects for residency. Now obviously it's very important that you find something that's motivating and not just something that's on your to-do list.  Now tip number three is to have good nighttime hygiene. It doesn't matter if you're using the apps to help yourself wake up in an optimal time or if you're really motivated to get up, it's much more likely you'll feel tired if you don't get adequate amount of sleep. So you find what that is for you. For me, it's about like six and a half hours for other people and maybe eight to nine hours. But make sure you're not short changing yourself on average over the week on your sleep just to wake up a little bit early. And in addition, make sure you're using the bedrooms for things that are appropriate and not for things like looking on your phone or wasting time on social media as you're getting close to bed. Instead of things like just actually going to sleep or reading a book and staying away from any type of screens can really make it much more likely they're going to go straight to sleep. For me, I find that it's very easy to go to sleep, but I also find that my environment is conducive to it. We don't have a TV in our bedroom. I try not to spend a lot of time on my phone before bed. It's just very easy to not. Step number four is really effective and that's to watch what you're eating and taking in before you go to bed as well as when you wake up. We have a tendency, especially in a Western diet, to eat very carb-heavy meals around dinner time and also a tendency to do the same during practice time. But if your body doesn't actually need that energy was you're going to sleep, I try to keep my dinners as car-free as possible, but that's kind of hard. I love carbs. So it's important to kind of reflect back on what you're eating for dinner as you're about to go into a six to eight hour hiatus. It's very likely that you don't need a huge carb-heavy meal for dinner. And the same thing goes for breakfast, especially if you're about to wake up and you're not going to do the sir at yourself. You don't have a morning workout and you still have a good amount of glycogen storage left. I personally will just go ahead and have, you know, an iced coffee this morning and then wait till later on in the day around 11 and 12 to have my first true meal for my body actually can use a little bit of energy. And the flip side of this is eating a huge meal for breakfast and then having all of your body's energy go towards that dressing it or you could be using it for very productive times. And just because I wake up early doesn't mean I don't take advantage. That tip number five which is to have a midday nap if you're able to. I made a video which I'll link down below of something called the caffeine power nap which is an effective scientific backed, you know, 20 minute nap that you can do especially if you're somebody who loves drinking coffee and their tea. So I'll link that down below. But whenever possible if you do come back home as a student to study and you find that the hours in the afternoon are probably not productive for you in the first place, for me they weren't. I would instead replace them with a 20 minute kind of refreshing nap or up to an hour. I still do it in residency when my schedule allows for me to come home and work from home. But otherwise I just have to kind of be a little bit more mindful of how much sleep I get every day. So those guys are the various different ways that I use to wake up early and make sure I'm energized but also keep my energy consistent and high throughout the day. If you guys did enjoy this video and let me know by hitting that like button to just share it with me that you enjoy this piece of content, drop any questions that you guys have down below about anything regarding the student studying like wake up early, be happy to make a vlog if you guys are interested and if you haven't somehow made it to the end of the video, consider hitting that subscribe button or putting up two videos just like this one each and every week. But thank you guys so much for watching. I'll link down below a few playlists and blog posts that you guys can check out. But I appreciate you guys joining me on this channel on my journey. Hopefully I've been able to help you out a lot. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


So, how do we actually make best use of the course book? Well, just a couple of factors that you need to keep in consideration when using these types of material. Use the course book to help you create a balance lesson in terms of the range of skills that are being taught and the actual types of material within that, be it grammar or vocabulary. Secondly, don't use it all the time. Particularly with things like activities, we can create our own materials and we can tailor those materials much more specifically to the actual class that we're teaching. As very often the actual creations in the book are very general, we can make our own materials much more specific. Third thing you need to be aware of is that you can't always rely 100% on the information that's presented in those books. Both in terms of accuracy, there are very often mistakes. And secondly, the way in which the information is presented may not be the best way for your students to understand it. So you may need to actually change the way that the books present the material to make it more understandable for your students themselves. Finally, it's very important that you actually match the material that's given in the book to your particular student's needs. Within any particular lesson, they may have an equal focus on various types of skill and information but your students may need more work in one particular area than that book actually presents. So don't rely just on the information given in the book. Think about what your students need, what do I need to add to it, what should I take away and so on and so forth. So four different possible approaches to using the course books may be to omit, to replace, to supplement or to adapt. With omit, basically what we mean is that we leave out selected parts of the material presented in the book, either a single part of a lesson or indeed a whole lesson or maybe even two or three lessons in a row. So we omit certain parts of the book. We can replace material within the book with what we think is more suitable material. We can supplement additional material into what's already given in the book. So in areas where we think our students need more help, we can add additional material as appropriate and we can adapt. So sometimes we would perhaps like to use our own style of materials based on the information that's given in the course book rather than the course book materials themselves.


The Christian Association of Nigeria, Cannes has declared a three-day prayer for the peace and unity of the country in the face of mountain inter-curity. The General Secretary of Cannes, Darren Muller Badie-Joseph says all participating denominations are expected to gather across the country in the evening of each day for the prayers. The meetings will take place from May 28th to May 30th. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our channel.