from San Jose. It's theCUBE, presenting Big Data Silicon Valley, brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media and its ecosystem partners. Welcome back to theCUBE. We are live in San Jose at our event, Big Data SB. I'm Lisa Martin, and we are down the street from the Strada Data Conference. We've had a great day so far talking with a lot of folks from different companies that are all involved in the Big Data unraveling process. I'm excited to welcome back to theCUBE one of our distinguished alumna, Marybeth Lopez, the founder and principal analyst at Lopez Research. Welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you, I'm excited to be here. Yeah, so you've been up, Strada Conference started a couple of days ago. What are some of the trends and things that you're hearing that are really kind of top of mind for not just the customers that are attending, but the companies that are creating or trying to create solutions around this Big Data challenge and opportunity? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think we talked a lot about data in the years past. How do you gather the data? How do you store the data? How you might want to process the data? This year seems to be all about how do I make something interesting happen with the data? How do I make an intelligent insight? How do I cure prostate cancer? How do I make sure I can classify images? It's a really different show and we've also changed some of the terminology. A lot more on machine learning now and artificial intelligence and frankly a lot of discussion around ethics. So it's been very interesting. Data ethics, how do we do privacy? How do we maintain the right level of data so that we don't have bias in our data? How do we get diversity, inclusion going? Lots of really interesting, powerful human topics, not just about the data. I love that, the human topics, especially where AI and ML come into play. You talked about data diversity or bias in there. We were just at the Women in Data Science Conference a couple of days ago talking to a lot of female leaders in data science, computer science, both in academia as well as in industry. And one of the interesting topics about the gender disparity is the fact that that is limiting the analyses on data in terms of there may be a few perspectives looking at it so there's inherent bias there. So that's one issue and I'd love to get your thoughts on that. Another is with that lack of thought diversity, I guess I would say going into analyzing the data, companies might be potentially limiting themselves on the types of products that they can create, how to monetize the data and actually drive new revenue streams. On the kind of thought diversity, we'll start there. What are some of the things that you're hearing and what are some of your recommendations for your clients on how to get some of that bias out of data analysis? Yes, it's interesting. One is trying to find multiple sources of data. So there's data that you have and that you own but there's a wide range of openly available data now. There's some challenges around making sure that that data is clean before you integrate it with your data but basically diversifying your data sources with third-party data is one big thing that we're talking about. In previous analytical generations, I think we talked a lot about you had to have a hypothesis and you were trying to prove a hypothesis and now I think we're trying to be a little more open and looser and not really lead the data anywhere per se but try to find the right patterns and correlations in the data and then just awareness in general. Like we don't believe we're biased but if we have data that's biased it gets put into the system so we have to really be thoughtful about what we put into the system. So I think that those three things combined have really changed the way people are looking at it and there's a lot of awareness now around that because we assume at some point the machines might be making certain decisions for us and we want to make sure that they have the best information to do that and that they don't limit our opportunities as a society. Where are companies in terms of the clients that you see culturally in terms of embracing the openness? Because you're right, from a scientific method perspective people go into, I'm going to hypothesize this because I think I'm going to find this and maybe wanting the data to say this where are companies, we'll say enterprises in becoming culturally more open to not leading the data somewhere and bringing that bias in? Well, there are two interesting things here, right? I think there's people that have gone down the data route for a while now, sort of the industry leading companies they're in this mindset now of trying to make sure they don't lead the data they don't create biases in the data they have ways to explain how the data and the analysis and the learning came about not just for regulation but so that they can make sure they've ethically done the right thing but then I think there's the other 95% of companies that they're not even there yet they don't know that this is a problem yet so they're still dealing with the I've got to pull in the data I've got to do something with it they don't even know what they want to do with it let alone if it's bias or not so we're not quite at the leading the witness point there with a lot of organizations. That's something that you expect to see maybe down the road. I'm hoping we'll get ahead of it I'm really hoping that we'll get ahead of it It's a good positive outlook on it I think that I think because the real analysis of the data problem in a big machine learning deep learning way is so new and that people are actually out seeking guidance that there's an opportunity to get ahead of it the second thing that's happening is people don't have data scientists, right? So they don't necessarily have the people that can code this so what they're doing now is they're depending on the vendor landscape to provide them with an entry level set of tools so if you're Microsoft, if you're Google, if you're Amazon you're trying very hard to make sure that you're giving tools that have the right ethics in them and that can help kickstart people's machine learning efforts so I think that's going to be a real win for us and we talked a lot today at the Stratoconference about how, oh you don't have enough images you can't do that or oh you don't have enough data you can't do that or you don't have enough data scientists and some of what came back is that some of the best and the brightest have coded some things that you can start to use to kickstart that will get you to a better place than you ever could have started with yourself so that was pretty exciting transfer learning as an example of taking ImageNet from Google and some algorithms and using those to take your images and try to figure out if somebody has Alzheimer's or not and code things Alzheimer's are not characteristic so very cool stuff, very exciting and nice to see that we've got some minds working on this for us Yeah, definitely where you're meeting with clients that don't have a data scientist or chief analytics officer sounds like a lot of the technologies need to or some have built in sort of enablement for a different data citizen within a company if you're talking to clients that don't have a data scientist or data science team who are your constituents there? Where are companies that don't maybe have that skill gap? Who do they go to in their organization to start evaluating the data that they have to get to know it and start to understand what their potential is? Yeah, there's a couple places people go they go to their business decision analytics people so the people that were working with their BI dashboards for example the second place they go is to the cloud computing guys because they're hearing a lot about cloud computing and maybe I could buy some of this stuff in the cloud I'm just going to roll up and get all my machine learning in the cloud so we're not there yet so the biggest thing that I talk to people about right now is what are the realities around machine learning and AI? We've made tremendous progress but you read the newspaper and something's going to get rid of your job and AI's are going to take over the world and we're kind of far from that reality first of all it's very dystopian and negative but even if it weren't that what you can do today is not that so there's a lot of stages in between so the first thing is just trying to get people comfortable with no you can't just buy one product and throw in some data and you've got everything you need right we're not there yet but we're getting closer you can add some components you can get some new information you could do some new correlations so just getting a reality and grounding of where we are and that we have a lot of opportunity and that it's moving very fast that's the other thing IT leaders are used to all evaluate it once a year all evaluate it once every couple of years these things are moving in monthly increments really huge changes in product categories so you kind of have to keep on top of it to make sure you know what's available to you right and if they don't they miss out on not only the ability to monetize data streams but potentially going out of business because somebody will come in maybe more nimble agile and be able to do it faster yeah and we already saw this with the digital native companies that started born in the cloud companies we used to call them well now everybody can be using the cloud so the question then is like what's the next wave of that the next wave of that is around understanding how to use your data understanding how to get third party data in and being able to rapidly make decisions and change models based on that one of the things that's interesting about big data is you know it was a big buzzword and it seems to be becoming less of a buzzword now I mean Gartner even was saying I think the number was 85% of big data projects and I think that's more in test seven environments fail and I often say failure in a lot of cases is not a bad F word because it spawns genesis of new products new ideas, et cetera but when you're talking with clients who go all right we've embraced Hadoop we've got this big data lake now it's turning really swampy we don't know all this we've got lakes, we've got oceans, we've got ponds right what's the conversation there where you're helping a customer clean that swamp up get broader visibility across their data and enable different lines of business not just the BI folks or the cloud folks or your IT but marketing, logistics, sales what's that conversation like to clean up the swamp and do more enablement for visibility I think one of the things that we got really hung up on was you know creating a data ocean we're going to bring everything all in one place it's going to be this one massive big sword it's going to be awesome and that's just not the reality of the world so I think the first thing in the cleaning up that we have to do is being able to figure out what's the source of truth for any given data set that somebody needs so you see 15 sales people walk in and they all have different versions of the data that shouldn't happen so we need to get to the point where they know where the source of truth is for that data the second is sort of governance around the data we spend a lot of time dumping the data but not a lot of time in terms of getting governance around who can access it what they can do with it for how long they could have access to it is it just internal, is it internal and external so I think that's the second thing around like harassing and haranguing the swamps and the lakes and the ponds right and then assuming that you do that I think the other thing is if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail well in reality when you construct things you have nails, you have screws, you have bolts and picking the right tool for the job is something that the IT leadership has to work with and the only way that they get that right is to work very closely with the different lines of business so they can understand the problem because the business leader knows the problem they don't know the solution if you put them together which we've talked about forever frankly but now I think we're seeing more imperatives for those two to work closely together and sometimes it's even driven by security just to make sure that the data isn't leaking into other places or that it's secure and that they've met regulatory compliance so we're in a much better space than we were two, three, five years ago because we're thinking about the real problems now not just how do you collect it and how do you store it but how do we actually make it an actionable manageable set of solutions? Exactly and make it work for the business Well Maryville, I wish we had more time but thank you so much for stopping by theCUBE sharing the insights that you've seen not just at Stata Conference but also with your clients Thank you We want to thank you for watching theCUBE again I'm Lisa Martin live from Big Data SV in downtown San Jose get involved in the conversation hashtag Big Data SV come see us at the forager eatery and tasting room and I'll be right back with our next guest


What's good Josh boros back again with another video, so we're gonna check out ten catastrophic flops in WWE. Well This is the thing that it tends to happen from time to time sometimes things get pitched in the Board meetings or in the storyboard meetings like what we're gonna do this We're gonna do this I think this is gonna be good and then when it actually happens It's a complete failure and that's sometimes the risk of entertainment some things you may think Sounds good on paper, and then you actually put it in the practice doesn't really work out So we're gonna check out some of these moments Where I'm sure Vince thought oh this would be great, and then it just turned out to be fucking awful No, I didn't didn't really plan out like they expected it, but I appreciate all love and support Let's do this thing keeping WWE fresh and current is new and innovative ideas throughout WWE history Oh not a not a general manager flopped either from a creative or financial perspective WWE management fully expected these ideas to be extremely successful But they weren't and WWE prefers that these colors all in the ground Yeah, oh we're obviously gonna mention them So join us now as we look at ten other biggest flops in WWE history Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists Also, check out wrestling video code UK and an un-wrestling channel incredible number 10 NXT kids a due to the immense popularity of the black-and-gold brand We decided to launch a spin-off show for NXT NXT kids would be a show aimed at a much younger demographic It would feature matches, but predominantly focus on fun segments such as WWE trivia and kid-friendly humor The show would even feature literal children on commentary with Corey Graves Which could have been a unique way to appeal to the target audience But only one episode of the show was filmed and this was never even supposed to air But someone in WWE leaked the show so Is in circulation That's rather rare for WWE to scrap a show just after one episode Damn Traditionally prefer to give things a couple of months before scrapping them all together I did not know that was a thing It was clear that Vince McMahon wasn't liking what the NXT team offered and subsequently decided to scrap the concept completely Number nine Indian expansion 2017 WWE shocked the world when they decided to make Jinder Mahal WWE champion Mahal was WWE's resident jobber So naturally it took fans by surprise that Mahal was now at the top of the WWE ladder The reason for making him champion was that they wanted to expand in India and Vince McMahon was of the belief that if Mahal was champion they would have much more financial success WWE planned on having a super show take place in India on December 2017 But they decided to take the title of Mahal one month before the show This was backwards thinking from a business perspective as fans had already survived months of his lackless terrain And they could have easily put up with it for another month Yeah, the super show in question would be made evented by Mahal in a huge match for him against Triple H But in typical WWE fashion, this was a match which Mahal lost Reports from the show indicated that the attendance was around 70% which was significantly lower than the prior year Experiment had ultimately been a huge failure And what WWE aimed to achieve was handled completely wrong and was delivered with naivety and spontaneity Number eight, yeah, they they really messed up when it came to putting the title on him If you're gonna try to tap into that market It gotta make sense. They we we know why they did it You know I'm saying it wasn't for genuine like I guess you can say representation in my in my opinion. We it was for the bottom dollar and ultimately it didn't work out That was some of the that was a rough period for Smackdown. Oh brother stand up for WWE In 2010 WWE launched one of the most unusual PR campaigns ever the stand up for WWE campaign was focused on WWE ordering fans to stand up for WWE when they were attacked by the media Former chairman Vince McMahon would even release a video message where he stated the nearly 600 full-time WWE employees as well as its 140 superstars all work for one reason to put smiles on people's faces The inaccurate media reports about our company are not only injustice, but an insult to our millions of fans worldwide The WWE pushed this heavily. They got every single wrestler involved in promoting the campaign And they would even produce an infographic detailing how fans can support the company This PR sounds about right for locked showed how desperate WWE were Scrapped after a few short months with no explanation Sound about right the junior division a WWE introducing new elements to raw and Smackdown is always welcomed as keeps the show exciting This was seen in 2005 when the WWE introduced the junior division to the Smackdown product It was said to feature major names such as poor London Brian Kendrick, Billy Kidman and Jamie Noble Fans are excited for the concept But when Johnny ace was put in charge of hiring new talents for the division He made a huge blunder for whatever reason he decided to hire exclusively midget wrestlers and WWE had no choice but to present the division when these hired midget wrestlers featured Wow, the idea though was a huge failure and the division would be scrapped completely within just like a joke Launching in 2002 WWE Studios had been around for the past two decades and for the most part the movies that WWE had produced had been commercial and critical Bombs Of course, there had been some successes. WWE Studios had a rotten reputation for putting out the worst of the worst 2014 WWE's financial records offered a frightening insight into the WWE's movie division It was reported they had lost 35 million dollars with WWE Studios, which makes it one of their worst financial losses ever In recent years, they've drastically altered their approach for WWE studios Their output is heavily reduced and they only work on projects when they know they can make a return It took years for WWE to realize that this was the approach needed and it was simply a project that Real things used to give up on number five I don't even think I may have seen the the one movie with stone cold in it I think I've seen that one, but everything else and even in that wouldn't really I could WWE produced movies Never they just they just don't hit bro. Because not everybody's meant to be an actor. You can clearly see it's just there wrestler playing an actor Or playing a character. It's not it's like the whole kogan when he was in movies. Like it's just whole kogan playing a character like It didn't work new york It's usually unbelievable success at wwe during the attitude era Open a restaurant in time square new york simply known as wwf new york The complex wwe rented for the restaurant featured a retail store a nightclub and a viewing area Which would show every single wwe pay-per-view While the idea on paper sounded great the idea was incredibly expensive to run and operate And wwe ran the complex later renamed the world at a loss for years In 2003 lindenbuck man announced that the wwe themed venture would be closing She would claim that this was so wwe could focus on other avenues But in reality it was because the venture lost wwe over 20 million dollars. Damn Roar dark a wwe's flagship show monday night raw has been on the air for almost three decades And in that time there have been some ideas implemented on screen that they would like fans to forget On the 20th may 2019 edition of raw mick foley came down to the ring to make two announcements The first announcement was that the introduction of the infamous 24 seven title and oh brother that shit stinks Oh my god. I'm so glad that that belt is dead and gone. Thank you Second was a drastic change to the third hour of raw A foley would implant that the third hour of raw would be much darker and crucian moving forward I remember that excited fans and it was a struggle which could have led to laps fans coming back to the product However, all wwe did was dim the lights for the third hour Fans felt insulted that this was wwe's plan as nothing had remotely changed The idea lasted just two weeks before it was never alluded to again Yeah, we're gonna go dark. We're gonna dim down the lights. It's gonna be more edgy. No, it was still the same Brand return a landscape of 2002 and wwe was altered forever when they introduced the brand split During this time wwe specifically vince muck man made the brave and bold call to bring back vince russo Russo was lead writer during key parts of the atodera But his reputation following his disastrous run in wcw wasn't exactly the best Yeah, russo came in with a ton of new ideas and most of them were absolutely horrendous Russo wanted to strip the undertaker of the wwe title for no reason and he wanted to bring back dx Even though wwe were planting the seeds of triple h and rick flair joining forces to create evolution Wow, it took just a matter of weeks before muck man realized the error of his ways According to former head writer of wwe brian gowitt muck man personally apologized to him for bringing russo back Which was a rare instance of muck man addressing a direct failure number two wwe virtual reality The idea of wwe using vr technology for their programming is an exciting concept In 2018 they began to put together plans to execute this idea during live paper views The first time vr would be available for fans was during the summer in 35 At wwe were reluctant to make a big deal out of the technology being available And this led to fans speculating that vids muck man didn't understand what the wwe were even offering Following wrestlemania 35. The idea would be put on hold for undisclosed reasons. I did not know that Until survivor series 2019 This would mark the last time to date that wwe would use the technology for a wwe event And it was never made clear why didn't I know that they had This that's crazy reasons the cost of implementing vr online programming is very costly Yeah, yeah turns on this investment may have forced wwe to abandon the potentially game changing project And number one john senor nft Always wwe wanted to make money off john senors 2021 in ring return was with nfts Wow, I didn't know this either so much so that senor himself had to address what went wrong Discussing the nft saga during an appearance up florida comic con senor revealed Wwe wanted to put together a once in a lifetime fan experience. This kit is not just a kit It's the belt the clothing an autograph picture an autograph canvas picture and an nft When it came up with the face value for what it cost it came up to around $500 to $600 retail value and then threw in the value of the nft I talk a lot about failure this idea failed Why is it $1,000 because myself and the folks at wwe thought $1,000 was a fair price point We were wrong. We were absolutely wrong. This shirt is number zero 500 I thought with a value like that the 500 will be gone. We sold 37 of them. Damn It was a catastrophic failure. Damn all my stuff. I was super proud of this. I love the design It's one of those instances where I put my heart and soul and did the design and was really close to the work And pieces and market research. Yes, it seems fair. I think it'll be good. It sucked It absolutely failed. I took a chance and missed. I'm sorry because it's obvious that people like the design But it's way too much Damn, bro.  At least john was able to be like, yeah, yeah, um, we just messed up there That it didn't didn't work out like we planned on man But yeah, man, this this was an interesting video. There was a lot of these things I didn't even know there was a vr Version where you could watch the pay-per-views on the vr headset did not even know that was the thing It could be cool and concept, but they would really have to really buy into that I know a lot of people do have vr headsets and stuff like that So I don't know if they really bought into it and really cared about it Like wanted to spend the money on it possibly that could be a new way to experience wrestling pay-per-view events But yeah, man, that was this was an interesting video comment down below Let me know which one of these flops did you not do you guys remember? Like when they actually introduced it on television and then you remember when it just disappeared I do remember the the raw dark and then all of a sudden, you know saying it just They did for two weeks and then that was it or if you guys remember raw underground when they had this little underground I guess Battle pit or whatever. It's like fight club or whatever, but that didn't last that long. Yeah WW's done some things where it Sound good on paper and then they just kind of throw it away But I appreciate all of them support you guys shown on channel row two 100k appreciate y'all kicking me see y'all next one. Peace


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This is somebody on the left who's against opening up, and he has, and he wrote an article in Medium, his name is Tim Weiss, and he wrote an article in Medium called, 10 questions for those opposed to lockdowns. 10 questions to those opposed to lockdowns, and I found the questions interesting, revealing, philosophically, economically, politically, ideologically, philosophically revealing of a certain mentality, and therefore I thought it would be interesting to go over and consider kind of my answer, which is not going to be the answer, of most people who are for opening up. So, these are my answers, kind of an objectivist's answers to 10 questions for those opposed to lock up. Okay, so here's the first one, and they're long questions, detailed questions, and offer a same perspective, and see if you can identify what the perspective is, what is the fundamental flaw in the way he is asking these questions. So the first one is this, if businesses are opened up, should customers, patrons, and employees be required to follow social distancing and safety guidelines for at least the next few months? Or should decisions about masking, spatial distancing, seating, and or standing capability capacity be made by each individual or business owner as they see fit? Now, that is a great question in a mixed economy, because almost everybody is going to answer, oh no, no, they should be required to follow social distancing requirements, safety guidelines, because after all, we don't allow people to smoke in restaurants. We regulate restaurants in a million and stores and everything else and human behavior generally in a million different things in order to protect individuals from themselves. We don't allow people to choose for themselves, anything. So why would the coronavirus be any different? So I think many people on the right would actually argue for opening up, but regulating it, but controlling it. And if they're not, if they're not, then they're hypocrites. Then are they going to allow restaurants to make this choice? Are businesses to make this choice? They'll get to that point in a second. So my answer to this is, of course, it shouldn't be dictated by the government. Of course, this is a decision that should be left to business owners and to customers. And if customers don't like the social distancing rules established by the business, they don't have to go there. They don't have to go there. It is the business that should determine what kind of, whether you should wear a mask or not, whether you should, what the distance should be from page to page. And some businesses are going to be more conservative than the government. Some businesses are going to be less conservative than the government. Some businesses might be completely irresponsible. And then it's the job of, if you will, the job of customers to regulate the businesses by saying, oh, you're going to be irresponsible. We're not going to come. We're just not going to show up. So I'm for liberty. I'm for freedom. Businesses and customers should make these decisions. Now, note that underlying this question is an assumption that says people cannot make decisions for themselves. They're not rational enough. They're not responsible enough. And you need a government. You need a central planet to tell them how to behave. What to do? That's underlying this. And you'll see that throughout. Okay. So that's question number one, is I leave it to businesses and customers and let businesses and customers deal with it as they will. And I encourage people, I would encourage people to be rational. This is a real disease. Some people are super vulnerable to it. Others, not so much. You know, somebody told me this today. True fact, statistical fact. It is just as likely in Pennsylvania for somebody 40 or younger to die from coronavirus. And it is as it is. So if just to look at the distribution of people or die, but as many people who've died of coronavirus under the age of 40, as they are over the age of 100. Now, the population of people over 40 is much larger than the population of people over 100. And yet, and yet, it's the number of people died over 100 is the same as the number of people died under 40. This is a disease of old age. I've said this all along. I've been talking about this for two and a half months. And they are the most vulnerable. The most vulnerable group is the group that typically doesn't go to work.  They're less likely to be in restaurants. They're less likely to be in shops.  But people don't want to hear that. If masking and distancing are left to obtain individuals and business owners, how do we deal with situations where some patrons go to a bar restaurant or customers go to a store or employees go to their workplace and are trying to be careful about contact with others, sanitizing, keeping distance, etc. But others are exercising their freedom, not to ask, sanitize, or worry about such things. Then he asks, is the burden on the concerned individuals to leave or quit their jobs in deference to the freedoms of the unconcerned? If so, isn't this tant amount to saying that the rights of people who are cavalier about public health and endangering others should outweigh the rights of others not to be endangered? You don't... No, it's not tant amount to saying that. It's tant amount to saying we all have the right to decide on our risk tolerance. We all have the right to decide what level of cautiousness we are going to exercise. And if it's an environment where we feel uncomfortable because we think the risk is too high, then we leave. And look, I don't know what your risk tolerance is. I don't know whether you have pre-existing conditions. I might be able to tell how old you are, but not more than that. You need to be responsible for your life. Now, again, the assumption here is that I think that most individuals that are responsible, most individuals don't care. Most individuals are going to spread their viruses all over the place. And that the few responsible, rational, data-driven people are going to be unsafe and are going to be threatened by all of this. Now, again, take into account the fact that this coronavirus is not a big threat to anybody under the age of 40 and really to anybody under the age of 65 or 60 or something around there. This is not a big deal unless you're old and unless you have some significant pre-existing conditions. And even there, if you're young and healthy, otherwise it's less of a risk. So people have the freedom to live. People have the freedom to make decisions for themselves. Most people, I believe, are going to be responsible, are going to be careful, don't want to inflict their fellow man. And I think it's moral not to want to inflict other people with potential risk and potential virus. And therefore, you keep them away. Now, again, by the way, if you test and isolate, then you exclude from society those people who are clearly risk, you know, inflicting risk on others. But most people don't have this disease. And therefore most people's behavior is not a risk to other people. They are not endangering anybody. 95 to 99% of the people out there don't have coronavirus and therefore are not endangering others. So why penalizing those who are not endangering for the sake of those who are risk averse? Instead of having those who are risk averse, find ways in which to live their lives without taking on too much risk. We all have different risk preferences. So instead of setting policy based on the weakest, based on the most needy, based on the most fearful, based on the most risk averse, let's set policy where we're all free to make our own choices about the level of risk we want to take and about our own behavior. Make sure to exclude those that have tested positive but let the rest of us live. Let the rest of us make choices about our own lives. What kind of risks we're willing to take and not willing to take. Imagine you're on a highway and suddenly everybody around you starts driving like maniacs. They zigzag. They speed. You see accidents happening. Just things are going crazy on the road. What do you do? Like let's say you're driving and suddenly you're in Italy and if you can't handle that, don't drive in Italy. Don't drive in Italy. I mean people drive like maniacs in Italy. Now I love it. I love it because I drive like an Italian, right? Look, yes, I mean suddenly if they're driving in ways that are clearly objectively risky to you, then that's what traffic laws are for and there would be traffic laws even in a completely private society because the people on the road would have an incentive to have traffic laws to encourage you to drive and this is the point about the business owners. If the people inside the business are clearly engaging in risky behavior and there are accidents that is people might have gotten infected in this business, then the business owner in order to encourage people to keep coming to the business has a strong incentive to rein in that behavior. Kick out the bad guys and keep the people who are not and encourage the people who are more responsible to it to come to the restaurant, right? So rules make sense if and when their behavior is clearly risky and the owner identifies as such. What I find interesting and here I'm going to go after conservatives for a minute. If conservatives believe supposedly property rights, if they believe the baker has a right not to bake a cake for a gay couple, then how can they object to Costco requiring them to wear a mask? It's Costco. It's a private business. Costco gets to set the rules of engagement. It gets to determine what kind of behavior is acceptable within their store and what kind of behavior is not acceptable within their store and yet conservatives are complaining right now because Costco is demanding that they wear masks because Costco is trying to be responsible. I keep going back and forth with regard to masks. I know Amesh Aduljah doesn't think masks really help in certain risks associated with wearing masks. I keep going back to Asia and I keep going back to Asia's success with this virus to South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In Hong Kong, I just read an article about how most of the success was voluntary, was people's voluntary behavior. And if you think about one of the things that makes Asia different, one of the things that makes a difference is that they all wear masks. So I wonder if wearing masks does indeed really help in this case, particularly if you happen to have the disease and don't know it. And therefore if you cough and sneeze, you're coughing and sneezing into the mask and you don't let the particles out to everybody around you. So I actually, coming to believe that masks are very helpful in a society where everybody's wearing masks actually reduces the probability of this infection going crazy. And Costco is completely legitimate. It's their stores. So how can conservatives, how can people who claim to be pro-poperty rights, claim to be pro the right of the baker to bake or not to bake the cake, how can they be against Costco deciding whether you have a mask or don't have a mask? But that's on the right. So this is the left. So, yeah, I mean, the assumption that everybody's going to be responsible is, again, embedded into the question. The assumption that business owners are not going to be responsible is embedded into the question. And the assumption that we must sacrifice for the sake of the most risk of us, the most fearful, the most weak and needy, that's altruism, is at the base of that second question. Okay, here's the third question. If an employer decides they don't want employees to wear masks, what should employees with health conditions placing them in high-risk groups do? Should the employer be allowed to fire such employees if they refuse to come to work unmasked, even though they usually would not be able to do so because of health conditions such as these? Now, first, I believe employers should be able to fire you for anything. I believe employees should be able to quit for anything, unless there's a contract that specifies something else. So, yes, if the employer decides that in my business, in my restaurant, in my store, nobody wears masks, they should be able to fire you if you insist to wear a mask. That's, you know, now, how often would that happen? I don't know. But think about this too. This guy, Tim Weiss, who's writing this, believes that the lockdown should persist. So this person doesn't have a job anyway. This person who doesn't want to wear a mask and now he's being fired is right back to where he was when the lockdowns were happening. He doesn't have a job. The difference is that Tim doesn't want anybody to have a job, and Tim doesn't want any business to be open, and Tim doesn't want any business to be able to make choices about opening, about the kind of opening, about, you know, how to treat its customers and how to relate to customers. And Tim, I know, is on Facebook, can you, can you see video? If anybody's on Facebook and they've got, oh, there it is. Okay. I don't know if video's coming in and out, what exactly is going on. And Tim doesn't want customers to be able to access the stores. So Tim, in the name of the employee who might be fired because he's not willing to not wear a mask, wants to fire everybody, wants to destroy every business, wants to make us all dependent on the state, wants to cripple all of our lives, wants to make consumption almost impossible, wants to make shopping and go into restaurants and all those things. Impossible. Why? To protect this one employee, or 10 employees, or 100 employees, or a million employees, who want to wear masks in situations where their employer does not. Notice the altruism, it's all geared towards the weakest. Notice the complete disrespect for healthy individuals, the complete disrespect for businesses, the complete disrespect for employees who are willing not to wear a mask and who just want a job. Notice too, a lack of any understanding of economics with the idea that we can all not go to work, we can all stay home and receive checks from the government and that's somehow a solution to the problem. That lockdowns somehow solve anything. Well, they don't. Again, they might stop in the short run overwhelming the hospital system. But that's it. That's the only thing they're good for. There's certainly not a solution to these employees because the lockdowns, they don't have jobs. Alright question number four, if you advocate opening things up, what should the 45% Americans who fall into high-risk health categories do about their job if they still have them? Or old Americans who despite age are still in the workforce, should they be allowed to choose to remain sheltered in place and still be able to keep their jobs even if their boss wants them back at work? If not, doesn't that mean that even people in high-risk groups should be forced to go back to work and risk their lives? Well, right now, they're getting checks from the government. If they stay home, they'll continue to get checks from the government. There's such a thing as unemployment insurance. They would get that. Employers are completely legit and they have fired people who are not coming back to their work. Employers need to open up their businesses. They need to start working. Old Americans in high-risk categories need to talk to their doctors, assess the situation, talk to their employers, see if they can come to some kind of solution with the employers where they can go to work and stay safe. Or maybe the employer is willing, if they're high-valued employees, to keep their job for them while they self-isolate. But for how long? Until there's a vaccine? Is that six months? A year? Two years? Three years? Is the employer supposed to pay their wages for three years while these people are not working at all? Who is employed just to be sacrificed? Because somebody is needy, is in need? And I feel for these people, it's not that I'm dismissing their pain. This is a real problem. This is why, by the way, you should save. This is why you should have a nest egg. You should have some money put aside for times where something might happen and you don't have a job. And right now the government is paying them anyway. So, yeah. The 45% of Americans are going to have to figure it out. They're going to have to talk to their doctor, see how susceptible they really are, what the risks really are. Then they're going to have to go to their boss. And again, the assumption here is that employers, bosses, are jerks. Are a-holes who only care about they don't care if it's employee X or Y. They're all interchangeable. I just want somebody at work. But what if somebody is being loyal and a really good worker and you like them? Which is most employees. And what they're asking to is to wear a mask. Or what they're asking to is to be able to rest or whatever, you know, a certain ability to stay safe while working. Most bosses are going to say yes. Most business owners are going to say yes rather than have to train somebody in you and have to deal with all the problems of somebody in you. You're somebody I know. You're somebody I trust. You're somebody I trust. Again, the assumption is that human beings are in conflict. That human beings that businesses exploit their workers. That businesses exploit their customers. That they able exploit the weak. No. That's not how reality actually works. Certainly not in a benevolent society which I think we still live in to some extent at least. So what right do you have to shut down all businesses? Because you think some workers won't be able to go back to their jobs. So you're making all workers suffer. Again, notice the altruism. The altruism is here everywhere. Because some people at risk, nobody should go to work. Because some people at risk, no businessman should open their business. Because some people at risk nobody should be able to go shopping or go to restaurants. We should all suffer. Because some people are at risk. The need the need of the needy outweighs the rights of the individual. Question number 5. If you do think they should be able to retain employment, I don't. I.e. not be fired for staying at home. Should they receive paid leave during the time they are at home? From whom? Or if not paid leave should they be eligible to receive continued employment benefits or other government's assistance to make it through the crisis? They are. There's nothing preventing them from getting unemployment insurance or other government assistance. Of course, in my world there wouldn't be government assistance, but in my world there would be charities and there would be other mechanisms by which they could support themselves. Including their own savings. If you answer no to these questions, aren't you saying that rather than people being allowed to choose to gamble with their lives, sick people who are at significant risk of COVID should essentially be forced to do so or else risk financial ruin? Yes, I'm saying they should risk financial ruin. But you see, the flip side is the same thing. Flip the question. You're saying that because some people are at risk all business owners should face financial ruin. You're saying because some employees are at risk all employees should face financial ruin. Again, let's say it's even 45%, whatever. You're willing to sacrifice 55% for the 45%, but of course it's not 45%. Because not everybody is equally at risk. Some people have more risk than other people. And that is something only they can assess. Them and their doctor. But no matter what the number is you want to sacrifice, and this is pure Christian altruism, you want to sacrifice the able, healthy, the relatively prosperous, the successful, the young to the old, the sick, the weak, the vulnerable. How is that right? How is it right to inflict financial ruin on all these people?  But again, you know, you just flip the argument on them. But they can get away with it. Because as soon as you say, but they need help. It engages the altruism and everybody succumbs. So Tim is very popular. All right, we continue. What should otherwise healthy people do if they have an immune compromised, immunocompromised child, spouse, partner, or other family member at home? Or family member with another serious health condition? They would place them at high risk should they be affected by this. Should they be allowed to remain at home? As with above question and receive unemployment benefits or other government assistance? They can now. What's the issue? Even though they are technically able to go to work and not at risk themselves. If you say no, then they should not be able to stay home and collect that benefits. If there is a job available, what would they do with their children or family members until the crisis passes? Send them to live with relatives, not interact with them for the next five or six months. Well, one thing they could do. Here's a solution.  But here's one solution. They could test it. Now, imagine that the tests if they were allowed, could get really, really cheap and really, really plentiful. And you could get tested, you know, every day or once every three days based on what the doctor recommended. Once every three days to make sure you weren't contracting the disease. Now, we still don't know to what extent asymptomatic people are indeed infectious. There's some controversy about this. And it's not clear if you in the early days when you got the virus but still are not symptomatic if you actually are infectious. So, you know, if you test yourself twice a week, you know, and yes, that's an expense. And maybe maybe your health insurance would cover it. Given that you've got an immunocompromised child spouse path, not some other person. Or maybe, you know, maybe the certain charities would cover it. Or maybe you just pay it out of pocket because it's worth it to you because you're better off working and paying for the test and not working and being on government door. But again, same premise. Let's think of the outliers. Now, granted, there's a lot of people in this situation. But we are supposed to customize all of our lives. All the public policy to accommodate these people. Now, you could probably get unemployment benefits right now if you stayed home for these reasons. Now, again, I'm not for unemployment benefits. I'm not for government involvement in welfare and so on. Although, right now, what's the option? I don't believe in taking a well welfare as the first thing one would do in the movement towards freedom and liberty. There's a lot of other things you would have to do before that. But this is again a reason why you want to save in life. Where you want to put somebody aside even if you have to live at a lower standard of living for a while in order to facilitate that saving.  And if that somebody else in your household happens to be over 70 years old, then yes maybe you can send them to live with a relative maybe you can put them up in a hotel maybe you can put them in their room and ask them not to leave that room and make sure that you don't interact with them or you interact with them as little as feasible. But that seems reasonable to me rather than Tim's solution which is to stop all of our lives for the sake of this one family and even if it's a million families, for the sake of them everybody else needs to stop. Now, figure it out. Life is full of problems. Let's figure solutions out. Not as a collective, not from the top down but in your particular situation as a family, figure out how you can do this.  People are irrational. People aren't smart enough. People are poor. People don't have enough bargaining power. People always excuses you get from the left on why people are not capable of taking care of themselves, not capable of solving problems and why all of us must sacrifice for their sake. Now, I'm happy, for example, for family like that if they can't get tested enough I'm happy to donate money to get testing. Open up the economy and I'll donate. I'll pick up a family and I'll donate money to make sure that that family gets testing frequently so that they don't get sick. And I'm sure lots of people would be willing to do that. Maybe even this woman's I'm assuming it's a woman or a man or whatever maybe whoever this employee is maybe even their employer would be willing to pay for them to get tested so that they can come back to work. The extent to which these people hate the idea of people taking care of themselves, of people thinking for themselves, of people making decisions for themselves is stunning. And this is prevalent on the left and on the right on different issues. This is a leftist perspective but you get the same kind of attitude on certain issues on the right. If deaths from this virus were disproportionately occurring among younger otherwise healthy middle to upper middle class and white Americans would you still be cavalier about opening everything up and taking the risk associated with doing so. First of all, nobody is cavalier I certainly am not cavalier about it and yes although there's no question that if this was younger people healthy middle healthy people put aside middle class because that's just racism not racism that's just classism in what gets to the white Americans in a minute if it was younger otherwise healthy people suffering here this would be a much bigger problem, much bigger problem much bigger issue much scarier disease because the fact is that then you'd have to shut down the economy if young people are dropping dead how do you you wouldn't have to shut down the economy but how would the economy function if a significant proportion of young people were dying if the fact is that if the disease was hitting children our attitude would be very different because there's a difference and I know it's not PC to say it but there was a difference between a child dying and somebody 85 dying the 85 year old has lived his life a child does not and a child's death devastates his parents in a way that a parent's death is hard but they're 85 and you expect that death to happen sometime in the next 5 to 10 years anyway, a child is 85 years in front of him so you can't again this kind of egalitarianism all lives are the same no they're not no they are not now he says what if this hit middle and upper middle class ooh why would that make a difference and white Americans so this is the racism of the left the racism manifests itself in that they think everything is motivated by racism the racism manifests itself in that all they can think about is, I mean it's a kind of a moxist, a racist aspect all they can think about is classes all they can think about is how to sacrifice the able to the weak the able to the needy and all they can think about is ooh, what's the color of their skin ooh, what color is it rather than thinking about why is it that the disproportionate number of blacks are dying from this is it really their blackness that is causing them to die I mean maybe if you believe the stories about deficiency in vitamin D, blacks tend to be more deficient in vitamin D than others then maybe that's weakening their immune system I don't know, I don't have a position on that maybe it's because they tend to have a bad lifestyle and they tend to be more obese I don't know again it's an empirical question maybe it's the socioeconomics of it maybe among black families in places like New York there's more intergenerational families together living together so that older people got infected from younger people I don't know, all these are legitimate questions to ask but the assumption is that if you're for freedom if you're for choice if you're for everything else then you must be a racist because he says if you answered let's say, if you answered no aren't you admitting you think the lives of those who are currently disproportionately affected working class older, less healthy and people of color are less value than the lives of younger, healthier and more affluent white people now take out the white people because I don't care what color skin you have yeah, I think there's a difference between older and younger I think there's a difference between healthy and unhealthy I think there's a difference I don't think there's a difference between working class and middle class I don't think that matters but yeah, in some dimensions there is a difference and if you answered yes to question 8 if you're saying you would still support opening everything back up even if the dying were mostly being done by white people healthy people, younger people, more affluent folks I have a bonus question for you why are you lying in other words, we're all racists and if this was hitting white people we would not want the economy opening up I, by the way, want the economy opening up even if white people are dying and by the way, white people are dying I don't think this is just a black thing it's proportionately, but it's still true that most of the people dying happen to have white skin for whatever that's worth and yeah, as I said before I think there's a difference if you're young or not young affluent? Why does affluent make a difference? if rich people are dying of this wouldn't make me less inclined to open up the economy what would make me inclined or not inclined to open up the economy is data, is information about the riskiness of behavior about what causes people to die of it and the argument to close down anything to limit people's freedom I mean they would have to be it would have to be it would have to be pretty extreme situation where I would advocate opening up in any circumstances sorry, locking down in any circumstances in almost all circumstances I would argue for opening up no matter who was dying and then opening up responsibly but that responsibility is the persons not the states, not the governments the responsibility is on you figuring out what's responsible given the data given the data all right, those were the I don't think there were 10 questions I thought there were only 8 questions anyway that's Tim Weiss leftist anti individual decision making anti individual's ability to think for themselves and pro altruism in the worst kind of sense altruism is bad enough but he explicitly wants to sacrifice the business owner explicitly wants to sacrifice the able explicitly wants to sacrifice the young and the healthy to the sick I don't believe in sacrifice of anybody to anybody it's interesting in his bio the way he defines himself is I am an anti-racism educator author no Tim, what you are is racist anybody who uses race to try to inflict guilt or to try to manipulate people or to try to suggest everybody else's racist it's probably a racist anyway, I thought those were interesting questions hopefully you found them interesting what we need today what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect not by feelings, wishes whims or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show many of you step forward and actually supported the show for the first time so I'll do it again maybe we'll get some more today if you like what you're hearing if you appreciate what I'm doing then I appreciate your support those of you who don't yet support the show please take this opportunity go to Iranbrookshow.com subscribestar.com Iranbrookshow and make a monthly contribution to keep this going I'm not showing the next


Images of the scene created after the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Cultural House were soldiers of the occupying Russian army gathered in the occupied village of Kumachevo in the Donetsk region have been released. The images were released by the Telegram channel of Russia's Riyan Obosti Agency to IT should be noted that the incident took place on November 19. A missile was fired at the hall where the awarding ceremony of the soldiers of the 810th Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces was held, celebrating the day of missile troops and artillery. As a result, at least 25 soldiers were killed and more than 100 were injured.


Hello and welcome to the chart of the week video would be David Madden Today's date is Tuesday the 6th of October 2020 and the time has just gone 1738 British summer time And this week's chart of the week is Bitcoin Now first things first, let's take a look at the wider price action We can see here that Bitcoin was in quite decent shape in the middle of February just before the pandemic struck We saw an aggressive sell-off in the cryptocurrency along with you know most other assets And then ever since then it's had a quite a decent bounce back We could see here in the middle of March it traded below four thousand dollars in the middle of August Five months later. I got up to north of 12,000. So it would triple more than triple triple than value In space of about five months and since then we can see that the price action Has been a bit range bound the market has cooled back a little so we've seen the lower low the lower high a lower low a lower high You know that now we've seen the lows of late September are above the lows of early September But you know the highs you've seen in late September have yet to take out the highs of mid-September So we've been a bit range bound recently So where do we go from here? Well, let's not forget that that wider upward the wider trend I still very much to the upside if you take a look at the lows the lows have been getting higher That would suggest that the bias is still to the upside even though we haven't seen a massive move to the upside the lows are getting higher and We can see here that that this yellow line here the 100 a moving average Which comes into play at ten thousand and two hundred two ten thousand two hundred sixty eight We can see that it's actually nicely a support on a few occasions And if we continue to hold above that metric it's lucky that the wider upper trend is going to continue if you press on higher from here We could be looking up heading up towards eleven thousand, you know the next big number up But also we can see this just north of eleven thousand It's just blue line here at the fifth day moving average, which comes to play at eleven thousand one hundred I said eleven thousand one hundred and fourteen and I have seen That area be of importance in the last few months, you know I like to as both as you know as resistance on a few occasions and even after support as well Not too long ago back in the early September and if a metric is acted as Supporter resistance in the past it makes it more likely it'll be of importance in the future although there are no guarantees we can also see at the current level of the of the 50 moving average Eleven thousand one hundred and fourteen is not too far away from the mid-september highs. It's a bit north of it So if you do break above that it will be fairly significant And then if you do go north of that again We could be looking at targeting this area here in around twelve thousand and if we go beyond twelve thousand We could be looking at heading up towards the mid the August highs in around twelve thousand four hundred and seventy seven I keep in mind those those those levels were last seen in in July of last year July twenty ninety So here in the case you know how strong the market was only only save about two months ago Conversely if you do have a decent break to the downside we could see support come into play in around ten thousand You know big psychological number a move below that could take us down towards this zone here the lows of September ninth in around nine thousand eight hundred and fifty down towards that the highs of the twenty third of July in around nine thousand six hundred and seventy eight This entire zone here To be honest anything safe from ten thousand down to nine thousand six hundred and seventy eight Notice how the market gap tire here So a gap was created now one of the myths about gaps is that they're always filled they're not always filled But they are often filled so it is quite possible We could move all the way lower fill that gap and they continue on in the wider upper trend that's been in place now just before we Finish the video. Let's take a quick look at what's going on with a theorem The purpose of that is doll theory one of the tenants of doll theory is that the averages must confirm each other Which essentially say states markets that are that are quite similar should be moving in you know Are likely to moving in the same direction. So take a look at the price action in the theorem We can see here in the middle of middle of March It was north it was below a hundred dollars and a massive rally into September when it got up to well over $400 got got up towards 500 bucks so that a massive rally like Bitcoin It's had a bit of a pullback since then but the wider upward trend is still in play If we do see a break higher in ethereum if we do see a theory and get back above its respective 50-day moving average here this blue line here It'll make it more likely that we could see something similar in Bitcoin, but obviously there are no guarantees Thank you for listening. Have a good training week and good luck


It is therefore now time for Members Davis, the member from Simcoe Grade. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I'm pleased to rise today to remind members of this house and all Ontarians that this Saturday marks Ontario's second annual Christmas tree day. This day is meant to bring awareness to the tremendous benefit the Christmas tree industry has on our province not only to agriculture but also benefits the environment tourism employment and the economy. Christmas tree farmers of Ontario have a new slogan this year it reads we are tree farmers and we take carbon out of the air. It speaks to the organization's mandate to bring awareness to the benefit of buying a real Christmas tree. Mr. Speaker let me briefly touch upon some of those benefits. Christmas trees are a renewable agricultural crop for every tree cut down 10 more are planted to ensure sustainability. Tree farms counteract the human use of fossil fuels and remove 13 tons of airborne pollutants per acre per year. Trees provide a protective haven for a variety of bird and mammal species. The edge effect created by a row of Christmas trees next to a wood lot or an open field is known to increase wildlife diversity. Real Christmas trees are completely biodegradable and return their stored nutrients to the soil from which they came. Mr. Speaker buying a Christmas tree is an easy way to help the environment and our economy. On behalf of Christmas tree farmers of Ontario I encourage all Ontarians to buy a real tree this holiday season and help support an important industry in Ontario. Finally I'd like to thank Fred Somerville and Shirley Brennan from Christmas tree farmers Ontario for their hard work and advocacy within the industry and toward the establishment of Christmas tree day. Remember from Windsor to come see me. Good afternoon Speaker I want to tell you about the Windsor residents for young men. A friend of mine Greg Gulen saw the need for such a facility 16 years ago. Although our area has several places to house homeless young women it was taken for granted that homeless teenage boys or young men could look after themselves. Windsor was the only major city in Canada where there was not a place to get homeless male youth off the streets. It took 12 years to get it open but they've had tremendous success over the past four years. The Windsor residents for young men helps clients find pride in themselves. They've had a 66 percent success rate have helped hundreds of young people get their lives back on track. Some have been reunited with their families some have found employment and many of them are doing well in school again. They rely on donations which is why they're struggling to pay their hydro bills. Hydro costs used to be $300 sometimes four now they're $600 sometimes eight charities such as the Windsor residents for young men should be using their money to keep young men off the streets. Instead they're paying profits to the private investors who own more and more shares of hydro one. This government should be providing hydro rate relief to charities that provide services to low income and vulnerable people instead of selling off hydro one. The Windsor residents for young men doesn't support homelessness speaker they want to end it. Thank you. Thank you for the members please. Well thank you speaker. Today I want to talk a little bit about what an incredible week this has been for me and it reminds me of how lucky all of us are to represent our constituencies in the house the things that we get to do to help regular people in Ontario. This week on Tuesday the committee of regulations and private bills met to discuss my bill 47 protecting loyalty reward points bill and I want to take this moment to thank the premier for her leadership of the minister for allowing me and all members of this house the house leaders particularly for agreeing to fast track this bill through committee to third reading which will happen next Monday. This is an important bill I believe for consumers in Ontario at the committee we heard from stakeholders we heard from constituents we heard from individuals like Michael Judd who represents so like the consumer experience for so many people who have tried to get on to websites tried to get a hold of air miles in this case in order to find out how many points of theirs were going to expire they were concerned they were angry about it and in the course of conversations with my constituents and beaches east york we knew this was something we had to move on we could have done nothing but we became the only province so far in Canada who's moving on disallowing expiry of airport miles and I'm very pleased that we're taking that leadership and for me this bill was the third private members bill that I brought forward which has that same theme of protecting consumers right from the tipping bill from stopping daycares from charging on charging administration fees now I know everyone in this house has had experience to air miles and we're delighted that we have an opportunity now to put an end to it thank you thank you very much speaker I would like to share my sincere congratulations to the citizen for once again achieving first place in the Canadian community newspaper awards the highest category in his class the awards celebrate the best in community publishing from across the country the level of excellence that has been displayed by the citizen and serving both north uran and uran east east communities is extraordinary this award really goes to show the level of commitment that this newspaper has put forth over the years in order to ensure balanced reporting and a comprehensive coverage of its local communities it is interesting to note that the citizen has been nominated for the Canadian community newspaper awards previously in both 2014 and 2015 its tradition of excellence was recognized once again this year and it won first place in the categories of best all-round newspaper best editorial page and best front page the citizen team is one that works hard to keep people and to keep people informed and succeeds in its commitment to write on local issues that are important and meaningful upon reading the judge's comments on the citizen what jumped out at me was this this paper has soul and I couldn't agree more thank you very much speaker thank you for the member statements the member from nicole thank you speaker my office was contacted by mrs sherry allen regarding a frightening incident their family experienced on monday while driving in lively as they were traveling south on main street going under the first of two highway bridges debris fell from the bridge smashing a hole in the sunroof of their vehicle with falling glass cutting their nine-year-old daughter on the neck thankfully the dog her daughter was okay it could have been way worse they are not the only one speaker i have been contacted and i read her statement i too have been victim of a rock falling hitting my windshield from the overpass last friday my husband and i were hit by a rock on my sunroof i had to replace the sunroof and it cost me one thousand three hundred dollars this morning i talked to the minister of transportation about those two bridges it was confirmed that they are scheduled for rehabilitation next year in addition to the scaling work that is underway right now he reassured me that his ministry would work with the local mto office to make sure that the two bridges are safe to drive on and that main street underneath it will also be safe for all traffic i would uh invite though if anybody else from my riding or around lively i've had a similar incident with pieces of the overpass falling on them as they were driving or if they've seen an incident please reach out to my office so we can coordinate with the ministry of transportation thank you speaker thank you very much mr speaker i would say shalom aleikum to our colleagues who are here for a bill that will be debated later on today i would once again speaker like to objectively recognize the best president from the best college in the province of ontario and that is dr christopher lg whitaker who is the president of humber college he has a remarkable uh track record holding a phd from the university of toronto and ma from york university a bachelor's from queens he's been in his position as steward of humber college since 2012 and what a jewel in the crown of itobicoke north speaker between the north and south campus we have something like on the order of more than 30 000 students residential spots for a thousand students we offer programs bachelor's degrees diploma certificates and it's an advanced skills and technology center which i remember christening opening some years ago uh in fields as diverse as journalism and media studies and hospitality and plumbing and woodworking and you name it and of course they are very ably accompanied today by as i mentioned earlier the irreplaceable jane holmes who not only serve this government as a senior policy analyst and they're one of our ministries here but then was also as well steward at the ontario horse racing industry and of course we remember her fondly uh from her days at woodbind and the casino is coming so thank you jane thank you dr whitaker and thanks to all that you do you know they're going to be brief for that the member for what he asked was thank you speaker i rise to speak about the ongoing review of the enteral municipal board and what's clear is that planning in entero has been and should continue to be a public democratic process and any adjudicative process that can supersede municipal decisions must ensure fair and equitable participation by local community members and should speaker meaningfully employ processes and decision making methods that include the public furthermore municipalities are a mature form of government and are in a position to take on a more rigorous role in land use planning and this requires speaker a significant transformation of the enteral municipal board roles and responsibilities and procedures if viewers of our proceedings this afternoon believe their council's planning decisions should hold more influence before an enteral municipal board tribunal then make your voices heard if you have other ideas make your voices heard as well for far too long speaker the enteral municipal board has overruled good local planning decisions made by elected officials and when those decisions are squashed there's no appeal this review is long overdue and clearly needed and i strongly support the initiative and urge all region of Durham residents to participate in the process thank you speaker thank you further member statements further member statements the member from eglinton lords thank you mr speaker i rise today to celebrate the great victory by toronto fc yesterday at bml field this is the by winning the eastern division championship over montreal this means we'll have the first canadian team that will be in the mls championship final here on december the 10th here in toronto you know the toronto fc the reds really reflect the true nature and the fabric and diversity of ontario if you look at the team you have joe z altador from the u.s ben washeru from france sebastian javinko the atomic ant from idly you have tosan rickets from jamaica and chris manella who lives at college in grace this team has excited people from all over ontario all over canada it is a vibrant expression of sportsmanship of excellence it also is good for the local economy in keeping our downtown alive and it is also a great role model for our young people whether they be boys or girls to play sports and participate and we wish toronto fc the best of luck as they go forward in representing canada in the mls championship december the 10th here in toronto congratulations further member statements the member from bruce gray on sound thank you very much mr speaker i rise today to voice my constituents growing concern over the continued lack of access to mental health services in bruce gray own sound an issue that i'm personally passionate about the lack of available psychiatrist mental health beds and other mental health resources is beginning to take its toll on my local hospital emergency departments who are increasingly dealing with suicidal youth and people suffering from schizophrenia instead of matching patient patients with beds emergency department staff are calling in police officers at a very great cost to guard these patients who continue to wait for beds if you can imagine mr speaker this is an impossible task with so few beds in entero and where we still have regions without any youth mental health beds such as the north simcoe muscoca lin i recently listened to comments from dr susan boran from handover into the hospital who spoke very candidly and openly about the consequences of the long-standing problem the shortage of beds psychiatrists and outreach that is putting the safety of patients and staff in dire straits dr boran called it a crisis and warned that it could easily turn into a publicity nightmare for the province this warning was echoed by the otter general whose report released yesterday confirmed a 50 increase in the number of youth and children needing a mental health bed as entero continues to go with a coherent mental health system and where care continues to be scattered over multiple ministries and agencies i take this opportunity to issue another call on the government to immediately direct resources to my communities in bruce gray and all communities across entero facing these huge gaps in service so that our children youth and people in need can get the mental health care service they need i also encourage all members to continue to speak up on these concerns to the minister of health and remind him that the time for action is now thank you thank you i thank all members for their uh statements it's therefore now time for reports by committees the member from left and get me a second


So we're here at Applied Micro. So who are you? Hi, my name is Kumar Shankaran and I'm the senior director of software and platform engineering and I'm responsible for all the software and platforms for all products within Applied Micro. So what we are doing today is we are at the ARM Android Developer Conference here in San Francisco and we're going to be showing several products here during the show. So this is the product from Applied Micro. This is the Mustang board or the XC1 board. XC1, so it's launching right now commercially. Anybody can buy it? Anybody can buy it, that's right. So anybody can buy this product today. And this is the board we are selling commercially today, yes. And we are offering a promotion at this event and this is the Mustang XC1 platform. We are offering it in two different SKUs. One is a lower-end SKU called the Basic SKU which is what I'm holding in my hand here and the other is a premium or a plus SKU which is this box here in this mini ITX compactor. Both are available for sale today at the event. So this board is an ARM 64-bit platform and this is the first in the world the ARM 64-bit development kit from Applied Micro. So this is the first in the world 64-bit development board available. Anybody can buy it? Anybody can buy it commercially today, yes. So what is the 64-bit ARM CPU you have in there? So this is called the XGene 1 platform. It's 2.4 GHz, 8 cores and running in effectively SMP mode. And then we have other peripherals on this board that are built into the SoC. So this is an SoC that incorporates all these peripherals within one chip. So we have 10 Gigabit Ethernet in an XF5 form factor that you see here. And then we have multiple SGMI i1 Gigabit Ethernet and we have a USB and an RGMI Ethernet here. And in addition we have SDIO that is used for booting and backup and restore and RS232 viewer and on the other side of the board here let me turn the board. And we have a PCIi by 8 connector and we have 4 SATA boards over here and then we have 2 DDR channels for a total of 16 gigabytes of memory. 16 gigabytes of memory. That's right. You can have 16 GB RAM. 16 GB RAM. You can have 4 times 4, 6 terabytes. This is a big, big thing. There's a lot of things happening here. That's right. So it's a server product. It's mainly designed for the servers. And today at the Android conference here we think this is a good opportunity for all the Android app developers to adopt this platform. And so here's what we are doing today at the Android. So we are showing a live boot of Android working on the same applied micro XC1 platform. So we'll take a look at this here and then we move to the actual demo. So here is what we are doing. It's the same board you see here. The Mustang platform, the XC1. And then we are pairing that with an NVIDIA GE4 7600 PCI based graphics card. So you have support for graphics card? Yes. We have support for native graphics card. This is kind of like the world first, huh? That's right. Nobody else has ever done it before. Nobody has ever done a graphics on an ambient chip. That's correct. And so this laptop here that you see is used for the Android serial console and they are using a mouse and a keyboard for controlling the GUI. And on the right side here you see the monitor, which is what we are going to see in a few seconds from now where you launch the Android GUI. So we are here at the Android development conference. That's right. And DevCon. Yeah. And DevCon. And here you had a session, right? Yeah. So I had a session here yesterday where we presented effectively the Android boot up and how important it is for all Android developers to adopt the ARM 64-bit platform for their app development. Because this is for developers to start working on 64-bit Android. It's the only one they can do right now. That's right. Anybody can get it and start working on Android 64-bit. Correct. So it's all available in open source today. People can download the software, develop their own apps, compile it and optimize it on our architecture, yes. Android 5 is going to have really nice 64-bit support. That's right. Android 5 is going to have native built-in support for 64-bit. Correct. So right here, what are you showing? So here what you are showing is the same platform and with the graphics card paired in there. So we have a graphics NVIDIA PCI card called the PCI Buy 8 slot on the Mustang board. And all the other peripherals are pretty much the same as what we saw before. So we have a CPU working here, you can see the fan over there. And the internet is on the back and then we have a keyboard and USB mouse that are connected on the USB port on the back side. So that's the plus, right? That's the plus. Correct. So this is the SATA over there. That's right. So SATA port, one of them is used for the Android roof fire system and the UR is on the back. And there's a hard drive right here. That's the hard drive that's built into this thing. And this is the mini IDX chassis that we're selling commercially and we're offering a promotion for this official privilege. The whole, everything. All right. So what are you showing? This is Doody. So this is the actual Android Doody. This is a good Android. We'll go here, navigate to the home menu here. And here you can see the Android standard logo and all the apps within Android that you see. And now we look at the settings here that will show you the version of Android that you're having here. Let's scroll down to about. Okay. Here was the about screen on the Android. You can see the version of Android is all of the three which stands for KitKat. That's the version of Android. The model number is Mustang as you can see here. And the kernel version is what was done by Linaro. So we wanted the version that Linaro had done for Android and it's the 31052 kernel. So all the Linaro engineers have this right now. That's correct. They're all optimizing everything for it. That's correct. So going forward this is going to be optimized for Android Lollipop. And that's the next version that will be coming out shortly. All right. So let's do an unboxing of. Yes. So as I mentioned, we're selling two skews of this product today. And so this is the basic skew. So let me open the box here. So this is we are offering a promotion here. And this is the basic version KitKat comes with a. And you started selling this for a couple of weeks, right? For a couple of weeks it's been going on live. So you can buy it from our website at www.apm.com. Apm.com. Anybody can go. Anybody can go and buy it. Use your credit card. Buy it today. Yes. Right. There is no licensing or anything required anymore. And let's see what's inside, right? So in this, this is the basic development kit that we just spoke about. And here we are offering the Mustang board. It comes with a mini ITX power supply. There is a UR to USB connector for connecting to your. Connecting to your laptop. And we also provide documentation. So the standard price of this is 14.95 USD. And then we are offering a developer promotion of $895. So we can buy it for $895 today at the show. All right. And in terms of the hardware features, it's a 8-core CPU at 1.6 GHz. 8 GB of memory. And 1 GB Ethernet port and SGMI port, PCIe and SATA and SDIU. So moving to the software side, we have a U-boot and open source Linux preloader. And we also support UEFI TianoCore as a BIOS. And on the commercial vendor side, we support Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Red Hat, Fedora and Open Source. So they are all available in open source for download on this platform today. Nice. So the second... So you're the first. You adopted ARM64, ARMv8. You're the first to announce and do it and make it happen. That's right. So it's been a long journey for over three years. So we worked with ARM in defining the standard for the ARM64 itself. And we are an architectural licensee of the technology. So we developed our own CPU within Applied Micro. And that's what is there in these X-GEME family of processors that you see today. And it's crazy today. You just showed me up to 16 GB RAM. That's right. And this wouldn't be possible without V8. That's correct. Exactly. And a whole bunch of other features, right? That's correct, yeah. The product natively supports up to 256 GB of RAM. The SOC supports that. But in this form factor here, it's a smaller form factor so we have put 16 GB of RAM. And it supports a whole bunch of hard drives. So this can be for lots of storage. That's right. So it can be for storage or a Hadoop deployment. It can be for memcached, which needs a very large memory footprint up to 128 GB or even 256 GB. And also for the web tier and web caching, which needs good performance and a good memory footprint. This is a performance trick, right? You're doing a very high-performance ARM processor. That's correct. And it's super computing. Yes. And you can run Android. That's correct. So it is also tailored for the super computing or high-performance computing. So where we can pair this device, the X-GEME device, with an NVIDIA GPU. And that's mainly placed in the high-performance computing market. HP announced they're using it in the moonshot. That's right. And it was launched in a few weeks back at the ARM platform. It's available commercially. Anybody can buy the HP moonshot with your ARM 64-bit inside. Correct. So anybody can buy the HP moonshot with our X-GEME CPU inside today from HP's website. Correct. And the idea is better power consumption, lower operating cost. Yes. So it's a 35% savings in TCO overall when you use the HP moonshot platform in a typical web tier or a web caching environment. 35% savings for the guys using it. Correct. So there's got to be big attention to this right now. It's a very big event, Jeff. Let's see what's going on. Can you unbox it a little bit? Yes. So unboxing it. So as I mentioned, this is the basic skill. So we have the board here. It has anti-static back. And then in addition to the board, we have, as we mentioned, this is the RS232-based USB adapter for serial console. And this is the power supply. So this is the basic skill that is selling today for $895. And then we have the plus skill which is over here. So this, in addition to the basic skill, this has a mini ITX chassis. You can open it here. Can you lift it up a little bit? Yeah. So this is the same board that you saw before on which we were running the Android demo. And this one has 16 gigabytes of memory. It has a hard drive on the side you can see here. And then it also has the power supply on the side here. Nice. So it's a power supply and a fan. So all in one, this is a full-featured development chassis that you can put on your desk and use it for either cloud-based application development, Android development, or anything that goes with ARM 64-bit development. This is really cool. So what is Applied Micro? Can you explain a little bit? Where does Applied Micro do? Yeah. So Applied Micro has been in business in 1979. And we are a public company. Our ticker symbol is AMCC. So until 2009, we were called Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. And then since 2009, we sort of rebranded ourselves as Applied Micro. And since then, we have been focusing largely on the ARM side of things. So we have two business units. One focuses on what's called connectivity products. That's a traditional OTN kind of products. And then the other side is the compute product, which is XGene, and the processors that come with XGene family. And you're the first in adopting the ARM server revolution. That's right. So we define the standards with ARM for the last three years, and we've been working at it. We have the first product in production today. All right. So looking forward to all the 64-bit optimized Android apps. Thank you.