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Next question is from Kat Il Est. How do I fix an imbalance between my left and right lats? Same way you would work on an imbalance with any right to left muscle, which is to place more emphasis on the weaker smaller side. Now, here's the challenge with this. The challenge is, and I know because I ran into this too as a younger lifter, you're afraid you're going to slow down your gains because you're focusing on the weaker side. You're not. The bigger side isn't going to shrink to match the smaller side. It's just that you're going to get the smaller side to speed up a little bit. One way you can do this, and I remember Adam bringing this up on the podcast a long time ago, as a physique competitor, this is something he had to focus heavily on because he was getting judged by his physique on stage, was to do unilateral exercises. So one arm or one legged exercises, right? So in this case, it'd be one arm. And then allow the weaker side to dictate the weight and the reps. So if I'm doing like a one arm row or one arm pull down with perfect form, and the most I can do is 100 pounds for 12 reps with my weaker side, that's what I'm going to do with my stronger side. Even if I could do more than that with the stronger side, I'm going to stop there. So it's the weaker side that's dictating the sets and the reps. And then what'll happen, you'll find by doing it this way, is it actually catches up. It actually does catch up pretty quickly to do it this way. So exercises. Rows. You said lap. I mean, literally almost everything that you would do with both your hands, you could do by yourself.  I mean, there's tons of exercises that you can do. Almost anything that you could do with a barbell that you would do for your back, you could do with single arm with a dumbbell. And so this is a perfect time to make your routine be all unilateral for a while. And I had to do this for my shoulders. I had to do this for my chest. I had to do this for my biceps. All at different periods of my training career. You just get avoided barbells. Yeah, I just avoid it for a while. Honestly, it only took, I want to say three to six months. I can't remember. Each one was probably a little bit different. But just simply focusing all on unilateral. So one arm, one leg, like you said, at a time in your routine, getting rid of the barbell stuff for a while. Because this is a priority, right? I know you hear us talk on the show all the time about barbell exercises, barbell, barbell, barbell. But that's why there's always exceptions to the rule. Like if someone's asking me, oh, you say you need to do barbell exercises all the time, but then you guys say to do dumbbell exercises and get rid of barbell exercises, well, that's because this person right here, this is an example of this now takes over a priority of, you know, what exercise technically would build the most muscle on their body and it's more, let's get it balanced out, then we can go back to those barbell movements. Right. And also to, I guess I just think, I think also about posture and what maybe a block in that process in terms of unlocking more potential for you to gain access to your lat. So what if like your chest, for instance, and your pecs are, you know, a bit tighter on, you know, on your other side and you really need to do the work of mobility in assessing where those deficiencies may lie. If there's any asymmetry or anything within, you know, your posture that you can realign in order for you now to then, you know, really be able to focus on gaining more connectivity towards the lat.


Did you ever stop to wonder about the origins of the most famous symbols on the planet? If you consider the hieroglyphics and structures in Egypt are of completely different time periods all together, then you must seriously contemplate the real timeline of history. There are obelisk and monuments, stela and temple walls that are covered with ancient hieroglyphics that suggest to us that the dynastic Egyptians built the ancient structures and covered them in hieroglyphics, but there are three problems with this theory. One being that the dynastic era don't claim that they built the Giza Plateau with the exception of repairs as immortalized on the dream stela of the great Sphinx. The second problem is that hieroglyphics are clearly a much later addition to the ancient monuments and the third problem is that the great pyramid is dating well before the emergence of this civilization. Before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, we had very little clue as to how to translate the cipher that is hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone is engraved in Greek and Egyptian symbology. Through our understanding of Greek, we are able to come up with the translation of Egyptian symbols that is still key to this day in translating the ancient text. It must be said, however, that the Greeks changed their alphabet in 800 BC and the markings on the Rosetta Stone are dating to 196 BC. This means these translations are from the very latter period of the dynastic period of Egypt and earlier inscriptions may not be very accurate when using the more modern Rosetta decipher. What this stone is is a list of accomplishments from the late Ptolemaic period issued at Memphis. Though it is unclear what happened to this artifact or how it became discarded in such a disrespectful manner, one can only conclude that if Napoleon's officers had not uncovered this piece during the construction of a wall, then we would still be wondering what all the markings was all about in the region. It does make you wonder that if the Greeks had such a close relation with Egypt, then why is there not more documentary evidence from the ancient Greeks? There is something that is not adding up and you have to wonder how was the knowledge almost completely lost as to read the ancient text? Wait, do you hear this? Attempts at deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics were made by Arab historians in medieval Egypt during the 9th and 10th centuries. By then hieroglyphics had long been forgotten in Egypt and were replaced by the Coptic and Arabic alphabets. You have to wonder when and why they stopped using these glyphs and why they were seemingly almost completely forgotten despite the fact that there are hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of texts in Egypt in hieroglyphic form. The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was one of the writing systems used by ancient Egyptians to represent their language. Because of their particular elegance, Herodotus and other important Greeks believed the Egyptian hieroglyphics were something sacred so they referred to them as holy writing. Therefore, the word hieroglyph comes from the Greek hyro meaning holy and glypho meaning writing. So the Greeks, these symbols meant holy writing. In the ancient Egyptian language, hieroglyphs were also called the gods words and it was believed that this writing was an invention of the gods and attribute the invention of these texts to the god Thoth. Archaeological discoveries suggest that hieroglyphs may be the oldest form of intelligent writing anywhere in the world. The earliest evidence of an Egyptian hieroglyphic system is believed to be dating from 3300 or 3200 BC and they used the writing system for the next 3500 years. The first known example of this type of writing in Egypt was discovered on bone and ivory tags, pottery vessels and clay seal impressions discovered in pre-dynastic tomb in Abidos and dated to 3400 BC. Fath is the Egyptian god of writing, magic, wisdom and the moon. He was one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt, alternately said to be self-created or born of the seed of haras and from the forehead of set. Worship of Fath began in lower Egypt in the pre-dynastic period and continued through the Ptolemaic period which marked the last dynastic era of Egyptian history and marking Fath's veneration as among the longest of the Egyptian gods or any deity from any civilization. In 3150 BC the first dynasty appeared in Egypt with the unification of upper and lower Egypt by the king Menes who incidentally is now believed to be Namir. Regardless he is depicted on inscriptions wearing the two crowns of Egypt signifying unification and his reign was thought to be in accordance with the will of the gods however the office of the king itself was not associated with the divine until later. Like most ancient scripts the origin of Egyptian hieroglyphs is poorly understood. There are however several theories that have been put forth over the years with the most convincing theory being that of the art of envisioning visual imagery however during the Ptolemaic and Roman period in Egypt Greek and Roman culture became increasingly influential. Towards the second century Christianity started to displace some of the traditional Egyptian cults and this is reflected when the Byzantine emperor Theodosus the first when he closed all pagan temples throughout the empire. This action terminated a 4000 year old tradition and the message of the ancient Egyptian language was lost for 1500 years. It was not until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the decipher of Jean-Francole Champollion that the ancient Egyptians awoke from their long slumber. Today by virtue of the vast quantity of their literature we know more about dynastic Egyptian society than most other ancient cultures however just like our understanding of anything else from ancient times the decipher may be flawed as the Greek alphabet was changed and this would suggest that earlier hieroglyphics from before 800 years BC when the change was implemented are probably inaccurate to a certain degree and some texts could be completely misrepresented altogether. The first dynasty of Egypt covers the first series of Egyptian kings to rule over a unified Egypt. It immediately follows the unification of upper and lower Egypt. The date of this period is subject to scholarly debate about the Egyptian chronology. It falls within the early Bronze Age and is variously estimated to have been anywhere between the 34th and 30th century BC. The historical records of Egypt incredibly began with Egypt as a unified state. The historical records of ancient Egypt began with Egypt as a unified state. According to Egyptian tradition, Menes thought to have unified upper and lower Egypt was the first king. The Egyptian culture and social structure was closely tied to religion remarkably stable and changed little over a period of 3,000 years. Egyptian chronology which involves regional years began around this time. The conventional chronology was accepted during the 20th century but it does not include any of the major revision proposals that also have been made in that time. Even within a single work archaeologists often offer several possible dates or even several whole chronologies as possibilities. Prior to the unification of Egypt, the land was settled with autonomous villages. With the early dynasties and for much of Egypt's history thereafter, the country came to be known as the two lands. The pharaohs established a national administration and appointed royal governors. According to Manthio, the first pharaoh was Menes but archaeological findings support the view that the first ruler to claim to have united the two lands was Namir, the final king of the Nakata, the third period. Nakata, the third period is the last phase of the Nakata culture of ancient Egyptian prehistory. It is the period during which the process of state formation was installed. It is a little bit strange that there is very little sign of civilized culture before the unification of Egypt. You would think that there would be a whole struggle spanning thousands of years to even arrive at the point of unification, leading to much speculation surrounding the separate origins of the Giza Plateau and other monuments in Egypt, which are dating way past the period of history and may even have stood here well in existence at the very beginning of dynastic Egyptian history. If so, you are talking upwards of 10, 20 or even 100,000s of years before this civilization used their hieroglyphics to scrawl over the enigmatic designs that are found in this region. Thoth created the written word people used to record their history and keep track of their daily lives. According to some stories, Thoth invented the word and gave it to humanity, while in others Thoth was the creator of his consort Shashat, gave words to the people. In other variations, Thoth was the creator, but Osiris or Isis gave words to humanity. In every case, Thoth is the creator of written language and the literary arts both for humans and the gods. The very fact there are reliefs of this god makes one wonder if Thoth was present to the dynastic Egyptians or if these people had uncovered much more ancient text credited to the god and that hieroglyphics are derived from the more ancient and advanced symbols. Thoth appears regularly at the side of Osiris and Anubis in the Hall of Truth as described who has kept accounts of the life of the soul of the deceased and who records the outcome of the weighing of the heart against the feather of truth. All known accounts of history are all pointing out the same thing, that civilization emerged just before the unification of Egypt and the culture then seemingly began using hieroglyphics, which was the language of the gods, suggesting that these symbols were not invented by the Egyptians of this time, but that the style of documentation was long in existence from a much more ancient culture. They then derived this form of writing and covered the walls and passageways with the text in an effort to document the earlier more ancient history of Egypt, the time of the gods nonetheless. That's all for the moment guys. You can let us know what you are thinking and as always, thank you for watching.


Hey survivors and frivers, in this video I am going to be discussing how narcissists are like parasites. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to make a donation, my paypal link is in the video description. If you are interested in one-on-one coaching, you can email me at NarcisfyverCoaching.com. Narcisfyver Merchandise is now available. You can now get your own Narcisfyver Premium Quality T-Shirt or mug through our Teague Spring page. The link is in the video description. Narcists are parasites. First I am going to start with the definition of what a parasite is. A parasite is an organism that lives on another organism of another species, its host and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense. This is exactly what narcissists do. Narcists live on empaths or codependents. They benefit by extracting or obtaining nutrients from us. Inutrient is a substance which provides nourishment essential for the narcissist's maintenance. Not for their growth, as narcissists do not grow. They do not get better by extracting or obtaining nutrients from us. They only get worse, but it provides them with temporary relief. It provides them with a feeling of reassurance and relaxation following reliefs from their anxiety or distress. It calms or comforts them temporarily, but it never sustains them because the nutrients which they extract from us are not meant for their consumption. Initially it may provide them with a feeling of reassurance and relaxation, but over time it interacts with them in a way where it doesn't benefit them. The initial feeling of reassurance and relaxation is part of a process. Just like they are taking a drug, they may have a craving for a certain drug, they may have a powerful desire to interact with you and extract whatever nutrients you may have to offer and upon interacting with you and extracting these nutrients it may satisfy them initially. It may meet their expectations, needs or desires, but over time it begins to have a negative effect on them. Now I'm going to talk about what kind of nutrients the narcissist is desiring to extract from you. Like any parasite, the narcissist attaches itself to you to extract specific nutrients which will initially benefit them in some way. These nutrients may be your attention, validation, approval, admiration and affection. They will use your empathy to validate them.  They will force you to submit to their needs of being dominant over you. They want to have power, influence and control. They want to have a sense of superiority over you. They will target your self-worth, self-esteem, self-assurance, self-belief and self-respect to make themselves feel as though they are bigger and better than you or they are more valuable and significant. Of course their actions and behaviours are very contradictory to their exaggerated perceptions of themselves and what they are trying to get you to believe about them. They are dependent on you by nature to regulate their self-esteem and their emotions. They need you to validate them. If they were alone, their true beliefs about themselves would be revealed. The nutrients which they extract from you are used to regulate their false selves. Without these nutrients, you would then see the real person who is smaller and weaker than you could ever imagine. That's why they so desperately pursue these nutrients or narcissists apply because without them you would quickly discover that the narcissist is scared and traumatised. They are hiding behind the grandiose mask of their false selves. This is why on the surface they may appear to be so contradictory or inconsistent. They might say or imply something and then do something else. They might indicate the truth or existence of something by suggestion and then do something which is not in line with what they previously indicated. This is because the person beneath the mask is very different to what they are portraying themselves to be and this mask is used to cover up the real person who is deeply insecure and has an inferiority complex. They believe that they are not meant to be loved. This is what was programmed into their minds as children by their narcissistic parent. This later developed into an inner dialogue or inner critic. For more information on this please watch my video trying to explain to the narcissist. The way that narcissists think is that if they cannot be loved they better be hated. By being hated they can still be the centre of everything. They don't consider how this might affect you, they are self absorbed and lack empathy. They only think of themselves without the feelings or desires of anyone else. This is why you will see a lot of attention seeking behaviour from them, doing anything they can to get your attention at all costs and they will intentionally try to hurt you. The way they see it is that if they have to experience daily misery, pain and suffering from their inner dialogue or inner critic, if they have to experience daily dissatisfaction and unfulfillment when nothing is ever enough for them then so should you and that's why they will go out of their way to hurt you. They will go out of their way to ruin whatever it is you've got going on. They know that they are doomed. They know that they are predestined to experience nothing but misery, pain and suffering. So what motive or incentive do they have to act right for? They want to experience happiness, satisfaction and fulfilment. This is why they become so parasitic, they are like buckets with a leak at the bottom and yet they expect you to fill it for them. Impossible, no matter how much you try to satisfy the narcissist it will never sustain them like parasites they attach themselves to you the host and use you to regulate their self-worth, self-esteem and emotions but this is supposed to be regulated from within. Narcissists don't want to look within, they don't want to self-reflect. They are doing everything they can to avoid doing that because it's too painful for them. They are shame-based individuals trying to dodge the shame, trying to avoid reflecting on the shame which they feel. This is why they are so persistently pursuing people to obtain narcissistic supply or a sense of worth, a sense of power and control. They will engage in escapism daily, they have a tendency to seek some form of distraction from their undesirable reality. You will often see them seeking entertainment or engage in infantasy as reality and the truth of the situation is too painful for them to deal with. They will also have an addiction to something whether it's prescription drugs, gambling, shopping, pornography, sex, social media, video games or food. Narcissists always have some form of addiction, for more information on this topic please check out my video Narciss and Addictions. The comparison of narcissists to parasites doesn't stop at feeding. Parasites can alter the brain and the behaviour of its host to help fulfil vital parts of the parasite's life cycle and it's exactly the same with narcissists. Narcissists will control the brains of their victims by devaluing and degrading them, publicly humiliating and exploiting them, using manipulative tactics such as denial, projection, blame shifting, gas lighting and the double bind. Over time this will alter your brain and your behaviour, it will affect your thought process and your emotions which will then affect your actions and behaviours, your self-worth, self-esteem, self-assurance, self-belief and self-respect. As the victim of a narcissist you can expect your reality to be distorted, narcissists are skilled at orchestrating the reality around them by enforcing fly monkeys and creating smear campaigns. They only associate with people who are dysfunctional just like them. People who will support their delusions and distorted perceptions of you, anyone who does not comply to this distorted way of thinking will be rejected. So over time the narcissist ends up with a team of like-minded, dysfunctional people whose only purpose is to target you. For more information on this check out my playlist of videos, fly monkeys and the smear campaign.  These nutrients are used to nourish them and they do initially but over time it has a negative effect as it never sustains them and they soon realise that they cannot possess the nutrients which you possess. They cannot sustain the same level of self-worth or emotional stability, they cannot possess the same qualities, talents or positive traits as you and this is where their pathological envy and jealousy comes in. As everything good about you triggers them to reflect on all of their faults, mistakes, flaws or imperfections, their weaknesses, vulnerabilities or insecurities, this is when the relationship will move from the love-bombing phase to the devaluation phase and then you will see the real person beneath the mask, the weak, miserable person who can never be satisfied or fulfilled. This is when they will begin to project these feelings of misery or weakness onto you, they will try to restrict or limit your satisfaction and fulfilment in some way. I could go a lot deeper into this but I think this is enough, I think this is enough to help you to understand the similar aspects of a narcissist and a parasite. Thank you for watching, please like, comment, share and subscribe, click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos, if you would like to donate, my paypal link is in the video description, coaching enquiries please email me at narksfivercoaching.com and check out the new narksfiver merchandise, the link is in the video description. Thank you all for watching, I hope this video resonated with you, remember to like, comment, share and subscribe and I will talk to you soon.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late in sports guards, we're from 22, 23, Penini Prison Basketball, hobby floor box break, number 13, pick your team style, read off a list of our names and our teams. Alexandros S. Pistons, Anthony C. Kings, Bohia B. Hawks, Brendan M. Jazz, C. Wong with the Warriors, David G. Sixers, Dennis P. Knicks and Bulls, Derek L. Spurs, Enrique G. Mavs, Eric W. Thunder Magic, Eric P. Lakers, we've got Ink UK with the Heat, Yon S. Sons, Jeffrey H. Rockets, Jeffrey C. Grisly's, Joel B. Bucks, Costa K. Raptors, Lursak Y. Pacers, Melod F. Celtics, Fatenan N. with the Nets, Robert S. Nuggets, Sean M. Pelicans, Tom B. with the Cavs, Weiming H. Wizards, Wenschen S. Timberwolves Blazers, Yaron Y. with the Clippers, and Zachary W. Hornets. Good luck everybody, that's pretty funny, Joshua. Man, my knife's gone. We're sold out on the night everybody, thanks again. Pumped, it's grind through the rest of these breaks. We got a Mojo Auto, first pack. Silver, Luck of the Lottery, Osmayne Jinn. It's gonna be Tim Hardaway Jr. Six of 25 for the Mavs. This one there, Dallas. Grats on that. Yonis with the Hyper, B. Wade, Mobley, Magic. One of one Kenneth Lofton, that'd be sweet. Jalen Turin, Blue Ice, to 125. There you go, Pistons, like this. That's awesome. Grats on that, Detroit. Zach Levine, Silver Jalen Smith. Team A. J. Griffin, Rookie. Dallin Terry, Hyper Rookie. Blake Wesley, Bryce McGowan's. Zion Williamson, Redway. Braun Fireworks, Andrew Nemhard, Hyper. Shade on the Sharp. Kyle is also live over on Drip right now, if you guys want personals. There's Carmelone, Orange Wave, for the Jazz to 60. Holiday, Chet Rookie. Jeng, Allen Iverson. Silver, KD, Fireworks, Jaw. Pulsar, Mobley. Knots, Kenneth Lofton. Silver, Widescreen Dane. Hintman, Zion Silver. Yovitch, Tim Duncan. Silver, Trey Young, Prismatic. Auto, David Roddy. There you go, Jeff. Nice one there, buddy. Got yourself an auto. Chris Middleton, Hyper. Vonte, Grant. Ewing, Scotty Pippen. Silver, Bradley Beale. Silver, Jaden Ivey, Rookie. Nice. Pistons doing very well. Walker Kessler, Rodman. Get Palo coming up in one of these next packs, I believe. Hyper, John Wall. There it is, Palo. The Cell, Coloco. Yeah, Kessler and Palo. Time to be in the same pack most of the time. Walker, if Kessler's the first Rookie, then Palo will always be the second, which is pretty nice. It's a good run. Silver, Lutort. Let's pack a box one. Red Wave, Harrison Barnes. Jabari Smith. Silver, Pat Connaughton. Round, Jabari Walker. Bullock Island now. See the follow there, Vaderman. Hyper, Scotty Barnes. I was gonna save all players to have their own Island. March on Bochamp, Jaden Hardy. Reggie Bullock. Two, Laurie Markinen. It's a 199. We've got Otto Jalen Green for the Rockets. Sensational six. Big girl, Ladeepa. Tyus Jones, Caleb Houston, John Stockton. There should be a Sohan coming up too. Red Wave, Duncan Robinson. Silver, Ant-Man, Gary Payton. Down Terry, Shaq. Luck of the Lottery, Jalen Duren. Silver, RJ Barrett. Shade on Sharp. Brandon Ingram, Chet Holmgren. Got Red, Ochaic Bahi to 299, Rookie for the Jazz. That's gonna be Otto Wally-Serbiac. There we go. For the Timberwolves. Love me, some Wally-Serbiac. Very nice. Jalen Duren, Max Christie. Red Wave, Tony Parker. Obi-Toppin', no stoppin'. He put the autos on top. Me? No, but. Jabari Smith. Red Power for the Rockets, 59 of 75. There we go. Congrats, Houston. Nasty color match there. Get that magged up, that's fantastic. Oh, like on the top of the car. I gotcha. I gotcha. On the bottom, right. It does throw you off a little bit. I'll give you that. For sure, it doesn't look right. Julius Randall, Red Wave. Hyper, Ishtray Jones. What's up, Jeremiah? Ochai Gpahi, Kendall Brown, KG. Mojo again. Come on, baby, give us somebody big. Give us somebody big. Lakers. That is LeBron! Prismatic Mojo, 11 of 25. There you go, Lakers. Congrats on that. You're like the only one of those, one mag. Sohan. It's actually a good break so far. Really good four boxes. Really good rookie color come out of this for sure. Blue, Jalen Green, second year. The 199. There's a Hyper, Victor Ladifo. Laurie Smith, rookie. Silver, Nicola Jokic. Silver, Bryce McGowan's rookie. Duran Rookie. Metheran Rookie. Silver, Fearless Dame. LeBron, Silver Blake, Wesley Rookie for the Spurs. Ty Ty, Herbert Jones. Spots coming in for tomorrow as well. Thank you everybody in a forest. And Penzi'll appreciate that. And Matt as well. We got three different segments of live streams tomorrow. Red Power is Max Strux, 275 for the Heat. Silver, Jalen Smith, Silver Sticks. Terry Eason, rookie. Red, Dirk to 299. Pulsar, PJ Washington. Jalen Williams, Jeremy Sohan. They might, Mike. At this point in time, honestly, they might. Evan Mobley, Red Wave. Carl Malone. We're all kind of hoping they lose though, so Jake has to cut his hair. Malachi Brando, Sean gets it. It's so funny how mad Sean gets at that. Silver, Yannis Fireworks. Silver, Keegan Murray, nice for the Kings. Aaron Gordon, Hyper. Quiet Leonard, Silver Fearless. Luck of the Lottery, Keegan Murray. Dana Green, Silver. Keegan Murray, Rookie. Pau Kuzma, Red. There's Mack McClung, nice one there. Rookie Otto for the Warriors. Mack McClung, Jalen Suggs. Really, did you? Would you want a D-Bax game? Silver, Dilo. Wesley McGowan's. Red Wave, Shade On, Sharp. The Trailblazers, Jalen Suggs. Piper, Dominique Gilbitch, Duncan at Devontae Graham. Red Wave, Russ. Ooh, nice, Sun's Clippers, that's awesome. Silver, Robert Williams, there's J-Dub, Rookie. It's two packs left for last over there, Kyle. Blue, Nikola Busevich for the Bulls, two 199. We've got B.J. Armstrong, Bulls, Vet Auto. Got Chicago, David Robinson, T.J. Warren. Yeah, Paul, K.D. Book, eight and all set out, true, true. Still cool that you got to go to a game, though. Orange, Luca, 49. 16 of 49, there you go, Mabs. Very nice, you just, Shade On, Sharp. Silver, Justin Holliday. I think my prediction is they either get swept or the Celtics win in five, one or the other. They have no shot against the Celtics. The Celtics are way too good. Silver, Lucka, Lowry, Benedict Matheran. Dame, Silver, McDermott. J-Nivy, Rookie. I'm not the biggest Luca fan in the world either. Red Wave, Ty Ty Washington. Devontae Graham. I'm kinda with you on that, Jeremiah. Jalen Williams, Rookie. Oh yeah, and I'm not like, when it comes to my teams, I'm pretty realistic, I have to say, I'm a pretty realistic fan. Silver, Lucka, Lowry, Hallow, that's Auto, Blake Wesley. Silver, going to the Spurs. He's such a complainer. Max Christie. Jabari Smith. Like I always get clowned at like the Hawks lost that trade, but it's also like, Tray's been just as far into playoffs as Luca has, you know? Blue Ice, Drew Eubanks to 125. Silver, Chris Middleton. Jalen Green, Prismatic Silver. Man, AJ Griffon, Hyper Rookie. Terry Eason. But I will say I genuinely don't think there's a worse front office in sports than the Dallas Mavericks. They are horrible. It's getting up there.  Luca complains a lot. Silver, Diallo. Like Jeremiah said, he's obviously, he's a top five player in the NBA probably. I think that's probably a fair assumption. Silver, Giannis. Who is that? Cole Swider, Rookie Silverado for the Lakers. Oneyaka O'Connor. Oh, exactly, exactly, Russel. Silver, Devin Booker, Fireworks. Jock, Gary Payton. Malachi, Branham Rookie. That is a Orange Wave, Shade on Sharp. Go into the Blazers. There you go, Portland. 50 of 60. We'll get that magged for you, congrats, Portland. That's awesome. Silver, Isaac. Yeah, the roster wasn't great last year. I don't know what happened this year, why they were so bad. It was weird. Bradley Beal, Keegan Murray Rookie, David Roddy. Oh, true, true. Clint Capello, Red Waves. I kind of agree with that, that Jason Kidd's not a great coach. Jalen Williams, Tony Parker. Red Wave, James Wiseman. Yeah, Kidd is, that was not the answer. Bones Highland, Heels, Carl Malone. Let's do a quick recap here, everybody. Icebreak overall, for sure. Orange, Luca. Cole Swider, Blake Wesley. B.J. Armstrong, Mack McClung, Jalen Green. Wally Serbiac, David Roddy. Tim Hardaway-Mojo, 225. We had a Blue Ice, Jalen Durin, 2125. Orange Wave, Shade On Sharp to 60. Mojo, Prismatic Lebron, 225. And Red Power, 59 of 75, Jabari Smith. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, number 14.


All right, good morning. Hi, everybody. I'm Robert Cathy, and I'm here to talk about OpenStack Momentum, what's happening and why it's important, or if you get the reference, how OpenStack got her groove back. You know, I want to start off by talking about how we all love open source. We wouldn't be here if we didn't love open source, but sometimes this is kind of what open source feels like. You have an idea. You want to solve a problem, and you want to solve that problem with your friends. You go talk to them, and you share ideas.  You start getting really excited about that idea. So you take it out to the community, and lo and behold, you find out another group of people with a pizza and a dry erase board have been working on the same problem, and they've come up with a different way to solve it. Maybe different technologically, maybe different architecturally, but the ideas might not be compatible. So this process of conflict, this process of advocating for how you want to solve the problem is core to what makes open source work. And when you, you know, you can try to persuade people, but at the end of the day, this conflict is just going to be a part of the process. And of course, it's really not like that fist fight. It's more organized than that. Conflict is a good thing. Conflict requires that you advocate for your idea, and in that process, the best ideas usually come forward. And a good analogy here is a rock polisher. You take some relatively ordinary-looking brown stones, you pick them up and put them in the can, and you close it up, and you run that rock tumbler for five or six hours, and lo and behold, what you find when you open it up is these beautiful polished stones. That process inside the can is kind of like what happens in an open source community that's functioning properly. There's friction, there's conflict, ideas banging against each other, and what comes out is something that's better than what came in. So the process might not be pleasant, but if it works correctly, it provides value. Now, that all may be true, but at some times, it kind of feels a little bit like you're in a tunnel. You engage with your group of people trying to solve a very specific technical problem, and you can get kind of lost in that process sometimes. Do we go forward, do we go backwards? Which way do we go to try and get where we're trying to get? And of course, as your world is kind of small inside the tunnel, and you're hearing from the same people over and over, maybe you're hearing the same ideas echoing off those walls, and you can lose sight of a broader perspective, and the fresh air that comes from being outside that tunnel, and once, of course, once you get to the surface, things feel a little bit better, and so that's what I wanna invite you to do with me today is kind of come outside the tunnel, come up to the surface, we're gonna look around at a broader perspective of what's happening, not just with the open-stack project, but with the open infrastructure community broadly defined. The specific things I wanna talk to you about, innovative technologies are happening within our community. These applications that are being built on top of these innovative technologies are delivering real value in production. Businesses are relying on them. There are massive scale deployments of these technologies pretty much everywhere you look. If you notice from the keynotes on Monday, it was one user after another user after another user who are running 100,000 cores of these technologies in production, 200,000 cores, or even brand new technologies, or relatively new technologies in open infrastructure, like Cota containers, Baidu's running tens of thousands of cores in production. There's a growing market opportunity here, and I'm gonna argue with you that the growth rates that are being estimated for open infrastructure are comparable to the growth rates that we see in hyperscale proprietary public clouds. That's a good thing. And when you look at open-stack specifically, you're seeing a highly trusted piece of software that's running real infrastructure in production for business critical workloads. And then you also see technologies like Bare Metal that are making the promise of delivering technologies like Kubernetes on premises much more palatable and easy to deploy and manage. So the community is what's driving this. That process of those rocks banging into each other, of conflict is what is making all of this work, and I'm gonna show you how the open-stack community is open-source done right. But first, I don't know if you get this reference, but Conor McGregor is a mixed martial arts champion from Ireland, and during a pre-show press conference, a challenger was really smack talking to him, and he just turned around with his microphone and said this. So I am certainly not the Conor McGregor of open-source, and there are any number of people in this community who are more qualified than I am to give this talk, and some of them I put some names up here of folks that I've reached out to during the process, and I just wanted to say thank you. So if I've left somebody out, please forgive me. But alas, you don't get to hear from any of these great people, you get to hear from me today. So who am I? So as I said, my name's Robert Kathy. I have a consultancy called Kathy Communications. We've worked with the Open-Stack Foundation for a number of years, trying to help with getting the message right and understanding how to engage with communities and build the kind of conversations we need to build. We work with a number of companies both in open infrastructure broadly, infrastructure technologies, developer tooling, things like that. We've been a member and me specifically have been a member of this community almost since the beginning. This is actually my 15th summit, and I've helped a lot of different people put talks together, develop abstracts, build slide decks, but this is the first time I've actually given one. So be nice to me. So I want to go back to the beginning, not all the way to the beginning. It turns out we only need to go back about 10 years, and let's talk a little bit about how all this started. So if you're not familiar, and many of you of course are familiar, it's important to get this context of where all this started so we can kind of take this journey together over the next 30 minutes or so about how we got where we are today. When Rackspace got together with NASA, and Rackspace said, hey, we've developed an object storage technology called Swift, and you've had Anzo Labs, who is a contractor to NASA, build a compute environment called Nova. We could put these together and create an open source, an open source cloud infrastructure software project. Now curious thing in the United States when a government agency builds a piece of software, unless there's a specific national security interest or something like that, it is by law open source. It has to be available to the taxpayers who paid for it. So this worked out great. 2008, 2009 timeframe, things started. In 2010, the OpenStack Foundation was formed to create an entity to hold the intellectual property that represented the code and the trademarks, and also to create a governance process and a licensing model that allowed people to have confidence about contributing to OpenStack and consuming it. And the goal was simple. We wanna build an open source alternative piece of software with which you could build and operate a public cloud. So what happened? I mean, that was where we started. Where did we end up? Well, as we all know, you start on a journey and the road has twists and turns and it winds around corners and you don't always know when you start out what that road is gonna be like. But as you go through the process, as you go down that road with your friends, you discover that sometimes the destination can be more rewarding than maybe you were even thinking when you started. It's gonna be different, but it can be more rewarding. And that's what's happened with OpenStack and Open Infrastructure. It's really important to, as you look over the broad landscape, remember, OpenStack is the most widely deployed open source software for building and operating infrastructure clouds, full stop. 75 public clouds are running OpenStack today. Now of course, none of them are at the scale that Amazon and Azure and Google are at, but they're out there and there's very specific reasons why organizations might wanna build their public cloud based on OpenStack. But even setting that aside, the private cloud applications and the new applications and Edge and so forth are equally exciting to that. And some of those, you think these are things that we didn't anticipate when OpenStack started out. We weren't thinking about a bare metal provisioning environment management system. We weren't thinking about GPUs. So these are all things that happened along that journey that have gotten us where we are today. So there's some things we learned in this process. As we walk down this road. First thing, and this is really instructive and it's something that I think a lot of us knew intuitively, but didn't fully appreciate. And it's the fact that just complicated issues create an environment where things can be easily misunderstood. And more specifically there, infrastructure software, we'll talk a little bit about infrastructure software being hard in a moment, but there are a lot of details and complexities that had to be explained to a broader community about how OpenStack worked. And when you're talking about details, you're not talking about big picture. And sometimes that creates challenges and it did for OpenStack. Another important learning, change does not happen continuously. Change happens fitfully. There are fits and starts. There's go back to square one and start over. It's this, and another thing, change happens asynchronously with other change that's impacting what you're trying to do. These things happen to OpenStack. Another important thing that we learned along the way, value for business happens up the stack. Value is created where the application developer lives. And early on in OpenStack, the model was, well application developers are going to consume these infrastructure primitives using the APIs and Nova and Swift and Cinder and Glance and they're gonna go build their applications on top of that. Well then this different abstraction technologies came along and could sit on top of OpenStack or could sit on top of some other infrastructure software. The developer started to move away from the infrastructure. And it's important and instructive to remember that if you're running a business and you're trying to build a product in a service, the value is close to the developer. This is what I was alluding to a moment ago. Infrastructure is hard. People have said throughout time, well OpenStack is hard. Well yeah, it is hard, but infrastructure is hard. It doesn't matter who's running it. You can pay someone else to run your infrastructure for you and consume that as a service or you can learn it and have your own team that will go deploy that for you. You can hire, you can license a piece of software that can manage your infrastructure for you. You can have a managed service on your own premises. But it doesn't matter who's running it. It's difficult to do. Another important thing that we learned, and I think we knew this intuitively again, but if you look at how Amazon Web Services became successful early on, they did it by having a laser focus on the developer experience. When Amazon launched, you have to remember this. They only had three or four services. You could get EC2, you could get S3 and maybe two or three other things. Nobody was seriously running production workloads on early Amazon. They were using it for development and testing environments. And it was great for developers because rather than filling out a ticket with central IT and asking them to go buy a rack of gear and waiting for that to be provisioned and shipped in and then racked and cabled and lay down an operating system, six months goes by and you finally have your environment. No more. With Amazon, you take a credit card and in five minutes you have what you need in order to go do your work. It fundamentally changed the way developers did their work. And Amazon understood this and they focused on those developers, not the CIO. And then finally, we really learned that you have to be careful about listening to your own press. Technical reality is seldom reflected by what you hear being said by pundits and thought leaders and subject matter experts because going back to the beginning, complicated things are easily misunderstood. And if you're talking about details, you're not talking about the big picture. So these are all the things that we learned but probably most importantly, we learned that community when it's done right is a powerful tool for transformation within an open source project. And it can help you take the technical direction and the application directions in places that matter and deliver value for the people in the community. All right, so those were some of the things that we learned along the way in this process. There was a time in OpenStack where OpenStack was the coolest kid in school. Everybody wanted to be OpenStack's friend. And just like it's the case in high school, a lot of the people who wanted to be OpenStack's friends weren't exactly sure why they were there but they knew that something cool was happening and they wanted to be a part of it. So you saw summit attendants going way up and you saw media buzz being super positive about OpenStack but the key thing, there's nobody wanted to miss out even if they weren't sure how they were gonna monetize it, how they were gonna contribute to it and be a part of it. Now this is probably familiar to a lot of you. Just show hands how many people are familiar with the Gartner hype cycle. Okay, so Gartner put this together to try and simply and graphically explain the process by which new technologies are introduced to a market and then how users interact with those technologies to try to get to the point where they deliver some business value. Now this one I think is maybe last year and it's just emerging technologies. And so you can see some of the early technologies. These are the very early stages and as people get more and more excited about it, the expectations go way up and then time goes by and pretty soon people realize wow this doesn't work like we thought and you can see as of last year Gartner had augmented reality at the bottom of the trough of disillusionment. But then hopefully over time people keep working on these technologies and they listen to the people who are consuming them and it gets to the point where business value is created. So Gartner created this and it's just like any simplification. It's never really this simple in real life but it's a good way to think about how technologies are introduced and OpenStack followed a curve that looks a lot like this. So I wanna now talk a little bit about each of those major sections for OpenStack and how we went from OpenStack to open infrastructure and what happened along the way. Now I wanna do a disclaimer here and a qualifier. This is just for context. The history of OpenStack is one of those things people like to get beer and argue about and I would be happy to buy you some beer. The restaurant next door to the Yangtze Hotel has a deal where you can get 100 pints of Kirin for less than 200 RMB. So it works out to about 25 cents per beer and if you wanna argue with me later or have a conversation about the history of OpenStack I'll meet you at the restaurant and I'll buy you a beer and we can argue. So let's start with the early days of OpenStack. It was very straightforward. The message was you get compute storage and networking infrastructure primitives, API's. Your developers can go consume this in an open source software where you can control your destiny and you're not beholden to proprietary license software models and you can come and engage with the community and tell us what features and services you want throw some developers at it and we're all gonna go build this together. Startups were everywhere. You had Piston and Nebula and Cloud Scaling and MetaCloud and there's Gary down there. Hey Gary, I'm giving MetaCloud a plug. There you go. And it's important, you think about this for a minute. OpenStack was so hot. It was so popular that there were arguments about who got to claim to be a founder of OpenStack and these weren't friendly arguments. People got really animated about what their role was in starting OpenStack. So enterprise software vendors wanted to get in on the action and a lot of these software vendors and by a lot, I mean almost all of them made their money. Their business models were built around proprietary commercial off-the-shelf software that's licensed and you pay a license fee per CPU or per node that's running your software. So they didn't really understand open source and how you make something work with open source. Now Red Hat was an obvious exception to that. Red Hat obviously had a deep understanding of open source but most of the companies early on in OpenStack didn't and they had to learn that. That was a hurdle. The rallying cry that you heard pretty much everybody saying in the early days of OpenStack was we're gonna make OpenStack easy for you. We're gonna make OpenStack easy by doing one of several things. We're gonna take the code and we're gonna create a distribution on that that you will then pay us a support fee to make sure that it runs properly and do all the updating and so forth for you so you don't have to do that. Very similar to how Red Hat Enterprise Linux works. That was one model. Another model was we're going to run it for you on your equipment. Another model was we'll allow you to consume it as a service in a public cloud. So there are lots of different ways but the consistent message was we're gonna make OpenStack easy. And the other thing that was happening at this time is the community was forming. The community was trying to figure out how are we going to govern ourselves? How are we going to organize? How are we gonna make decisions about which pull requests get merged? Who's gonna lead the projects? How are we gonna decide who leads the projects? All of that had to be figured out in those early days. So by 2013 to 2015, the hype had really gotten heavy with OpenStack. And at the same time, some of the very real challenges were starting to become evident. We saw big names like Walmart and AT&T and Deutsche Telecom and BMW stepping up to say we're using this software to solve business problems. That was huge. As these new companies came in and started contributing to the integrated release cycle to two releases per year, as more companies started doing that, that early presence of rack space in the community while they were still there and doing great work to support the project by proportionately, it was getting smaller. That was a sign of health. Lots of companies participating and helping to build the software. Frustrations were starting to grow, however, over just how challenging it was to deploy and operate and upgrade OpenStack. Now the community was well aware of these concerns because they were consuming the software. They were using it. So every release cycle, new innovations were being brought into OpenStack to improve that process and improve that experience. So much was happening within the community and so many new projects were being created that we had to answer some fundamental questions about what is and is not OpenStack. If you're not running Swift, if you're not running Nova, is it an OpenStack cloud? So today we don't talk too much about these things because those issues have largely been resolved, but we had to put together a group called Defcore early on to try and deal with that because everybody wanted to say we're OpenStack and somebody had to say, well, are you really running OpenStack? Do you get to say that? So we had to deal with that. We also had to deal organizationally with what do we do with all of these projects and 20 and 30 projects that are now part of OpenStack? How do we organize that? And the compromise that was created was called the Big Tent. And it largely didn't work. It was just too unwieldy. But these were all symptoms of a growing community that had to figure out how to manage itself. Also at this time is when Docker came into the picture. And this is a really interesting example of one of those learnings I mentioned at the beginning about how stay close to the developer because that's where the value is. Well, Docker knew this. And by taking Linux containers and saying, we're gonna put an orchestration environment around that so that application developers can code on their laptop and push to production much more simply. And you don't have to worry about all those infrastructure primitives. There was a big value proposition there and Docker took advantage of it. This was also about the time you started to see acquisitions happening in OpenStack. So you had cloud scaling getting bought by EMC, now Dell EMC. You saw MetaCloud getting bought by Cisco and let's see, Piston got bought by HP and Plumgrid got bought by VMware. Bluebox got bought by IBM and probably one of the biggest acquisitions in the OpenStack space. And the other thing that started happening at this time is consolidation started happening. Remember those distros I mentioned? At one point there were close to 20 OpenStack distros. Now by comparison, I think there's something like 80 Kubernetes distros right now, a Kubernetes distros a fundamentally different animal than an OpenStack distro is. But there were a lot of choices out there. If you were an enterprise and you said, we'd like to do on-premises infrastructure as a service so that our developers can consume it and we wanna use OpenStack. You had a lot of choices for how you were gonna do that and those choices confused the market to some extent. This consolidation of people getting out of the distro business got it down to a manageable set. As we turned into 2016 and 17 however, things started to get more complicated for OpenStack. And as those storm clouds, if you wanna call them that, began to collect on the horizon, we knew things were gonna get interesting and we knew that we were gonna have to make some choices. We could stay the way we were and let the inevitable happen or we could adapt. We could try to find a new environment. We could look for new opportunities for what can be done with Open Infrastructure. All right, so as things started to get more complicated, what happening? What are some of these gets? Kubernetes got interesting. Kubernetes became something that was so exciting to this Open Infrastructure broad landscape that people started to say well, so if I've got Kubernetes, do I need OpenStack? Do you, what's the relationship between these two projects? And from a technology standpoint, how do I deploy them and use them together? Of course, Kubernetes is very useful if you're in a public cloud setting where someone else is managing the infrastructure for you. So early on, that was a big challenge that we had to work through. This was also at about the time that proprietary public hyperscale cloud became about more than AWS. This was at the time when Azure started to come onto the scene in a strong way as well as Google. Enterprise CIOs finally got cloud. They finally started to understand, oh wait a minute, this isn't just an annoyance, this isn't just a headache for my purchasing department who has to deal with developers using their credit cards to get infrastructure, shadow IT, this is actually a point of differentiation for my company. If I can figure out how to deliver software faster, I can build competitive differentiation that's actually sustainable long term. So CIOs got on board. Pundits got down on private cloud. This was also at about the time that people said everything's moving to public cloud. There's no reason to run your own infrastructure. Why would you do that? That's commodity. Focus your differentiation, focus your engineering talent further up the stack where the application developers live. And this was also the time that the enterprise hardware and software vendors were gonna get focused further up the stack and support developer environments and support hyperscale public clouds. All right, so at this point it was time for OpenStack to get on with it and figure out what was gonna happen in the future. We had to make some choices and we realized that those choices were gonna have implications for how people use the software and interacted with the community. But this was a case where the community was gonna lead the way. The community was gonna make the difference. So if you, we're now getting close to the present day and last year was when we started to see some really interesting things happening. So these other projects that came into the OpenStack Foundation, these projects were very carefully curated and selected because they played an important role in open infrastructure. Now with one exception and that exception is Zool, these three projects, Coddic Containers, Starling X and Airship were new technologies that were contributed to the OpenStack Foundation to solve a specific set of problems. In case you don't know, I'll put in a plug for Zool here. Zool was the continuous integration environment, multi-repo gating that was built to help us build OpenStack. So the community created Zool as a way to solve a problem that there wasn't a good solution for out there. And what's happened is Zool has become a really great tool for large organizations who are trying to build software globally with big development teams. It's perfect for microservices the way so many applications are built today. This was also about the time that the community realized we need to be talking about open infrastructure not just OpenStack because there's other technologies that need to be a part of this. And we'll talk about that even more broadly. But these six areas were for purposes of just getting organized and focused were the areas that the community decided to focus on and the foundation. Another thing that happened is the community really embraced the notion of open collaboration, cross community collaboration. The focus was on the user. The focus was on what do we need this application to do? What do we need these infrastructure services to do to support the applications that are important to my business? And we don't care where the technology comes from. We don't care. We can have arguments about the licensing model. We don't care where they're hosted. We don't care if they're not hosted. We simply want the best technologies. And today when you come to an open infrastructure summit you don't just see five projects being talked about. You see 30 projects talked about. You see 40 projects talked about. And they get together and figure out how do we integrate these technologies to solve specific problems. The other thing that happened at this time is when OpenStack became more than VMs. The OpenStack started life as a VM. The compute instance you got with OpenStack, NOVA, was a VM. And with containers, the notion of running on bare metal is really attractive. Of course the issue with bare metal, if you're not running in a hosted public cloud environment, the challenge there is you have to really work at it as an infrastructure team to make sure that those bare metal instances you're providing to your developers are secure and fast and reliable. So this was at about the time that the Ironic project finally got to a level of maturity that you could say I'm gonna deploy Ironic and perhaps you might not deploy any other elements of OpenStack to run your cloud. Or to run the compute environment in your cloud. So OpenStack became about more than VMs. And the other thing, the four opens really came out as an organizing concept, as a philosophy to say this is how we're gonna run our community. When you participate in an Open Infrastructure community, these four opens are gonna guide how we do business together, how we interact, what's important to us. So as the calendar turns into 2019, you find that this Open Infrastructure community is massive, it's global, it's 100,000 plus members across 200 countries and 700 organizations. Another thing is you see a community that's achieved a measure of balance. And if you go back to 2015 and you were to go into a summit in 2015, you would see that the vast majority of the participants in that summit had non-technical roles. They might be marketing, they might be IT leadership, they might be executive leadership, but they weren't engineers, they weren't cloud architects, technical. Today, when you come to a summit, it's just the opposite. You see more technical people who understand how to design, build, and operate the software than you do people who have non-technical roles. And as you walk around and talk to vendors who participate in these events now, you hear consistently saying things like, you know, there may be fewer people here, but we're having more conversations that are of quality. We're talking to people who are actually trying to solve problems, and that actually makes it a more pleasant experience. So that balance is useful. You also can't deny, in 2019, open infrastructure means performance. Some of the biggest brands in the world are running software built on open infrastructure technology to support important critical business applications at massive scale. You see a community that is highly engaged. In the last release that pushed last month, the train release for OpenSec, there were more than 25,000 changes accepted. Now, what's important to notice, to note here, if you dig into that 25,500 number, you find that about one third of those changes were submitted by people who were new to open infrastructure and new to OpenStack. That's a healthy community because it's not just the same organizations contributing over and over. You have a balance of people who are committed to the software and continuing to improve it, as well as new people coming into the community who are contributing upstream. You see opportunity in open infrastructure. 7.7 billion dollar market is estimated by 451 research to be where we're gonna be in just a few years, products and services in OpenStack specifically. This doesn't count all of open infrastructure. If you add Kubernetes to this, it, the number almost doubles. Oh, and by the way, let me go back to that for a second. This 30% compound annual growth rate, and that's again a 451 research number, that's similar to, it's in about the same ballpark as you see what Amazon's growth rate, compound annual growth rate looks like now. Now, obviously it's a much bigger number than 7.7 billion dollars, but if you're looking at growth, opportunity is there. And this is a community that is delivering consistently landing releases on time with the features and services that the users need in order to go support those business applications we were talking about earlier. All right. So open infrastructure starts with OpenStack. It all started with the community, and I wanna talk a little bit more about that now. Okay, so, hang on just a second. Feel like, nope, sorry. All right. So where we are, and the journey that we're on now is very different than what we thought it was gonna be or very different than many of us thought it was gonna be, but we have this powerful community that's helping the software adapt and be applied in new ways, in ways that we didn't imagine when we started out nine years ago. The ability of the projects within open infrastructure to integrate new technologies is key to this. You see a global footprint and you see very interesting problems being solved at massive scale. These are a couple of places, if you wanna learn more about the Four Opens, you wanna get news updates about OpenStack and open infrastructure, those are some places you go. I hope that you have a great, have had a great week here in Shanghai. It's been an awesome summit and we'll see everybody next June in Vancouver, I hope. Thank you.


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It's now time for our member's statements. I recognize the member for University of Rosedale. Thank you, Speaker. A Harbour Collegiate, Central Tech, Central Toronto Academy, Palmerston, Rosedale, Montrose, Kensington, Charles Fraser. These are just as few of the many wonderful schools in the writing of University of Rosedale, a writing I'm proud to represent at Queen's Park. Our school community, our parents, our teachers, our children, the teenagers, we believe in building a quality public education system right here in Ontario. And so many in our school community are angered by the Ford government's cuts to education. The decision to drastically increase class sizes in high schools to slash up to 10,000 teaching positions, to ignore the repairs that are begging for attention at every school across our province, from the two hot classrooms in summer to the broken washrooms to the aging boilers, and then to the constant threats to the future of JKSK, which are such critical learning years for our kids. There's this feeling that this government doesn't care about us and the quality of education we want for our children. And so many of us are standing up to say, no thank you, there's a lot that we can fight for that's better than this. We encourage you to join us, to join the high school students at a Harbour Collegiate that are organizing a school-wide walkout on April 4. The teachers and parents who are organizing a family-friendly rally at Queens Park at 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 6. And to join us on a community canvas on Sunday, April 12 at 12 p.m. in our writing to talk to residents about what's at stake and what we can do to fight for our kids' education. Thank you. Point of order, the member for Ottawa West-Napien. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I apologize for being here a little bit late for this, but I just want to introduce a very special pair of guests we have. We have Senator Jim Munson and his lovely wife, Jeanette, here in the gallery today. Jim is a champion for individuals with developmental disabilities, along with his wife, and wonderful to have them here today. Welcome. Member Statements, the member for Markham Unionville. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Recently, the Premier and myself attend a site tour of the IBM Toronto Software Lab in my writing of Markham Unionville. We were given the chance to see and understand the current endeavor being pursued by IBM, like self-adternment vehicle technology, and was personally amazed by their work. Following the tour, the Premier and I participate in a round table discussion with IBM executives regarding the benefits of a continued and steadfast relationship between their company and our profits. Besides being a well-renowned company, IBM has a strong presence in my writing, along with many other high-tech firms. These companies chose Markham and Ontario as their venue for their business because of our intelligence and extraordinary skilled workforce. Mr. Speaker, our government has recently announced reforms to education in the province, which will not only enhance the learning capability of students from kindergarten to grade 12, but will also set up our children for future success. Helping our young students develop a better grasp on mathematics and understanding the vast potential in STEM sectors at an early age. This will give them the tools and information they need to excel in the workforce. Our global competitiveness is something that we have to continue to work on and not take for granted. And I'm proud to stand by our Minister of Education, recent announcement, which I believe, helping us to maintain and surpass the goal. Thank you. Member Stateman, Member for London North Centre. Thank you, Speaker. I'd like to acknowledge that this Sunday marks the International Trans-Day of Visibility. This day exists to celebrate our trans friends and amplify their voices. Unfortunately, the government is making it harder and harder for the trans community to be seen and heard, given the many barriers trans Ontarians face, particularly in our healthcare and education system. Matt is a 16-year-old student in my writing and is struggling to pay for the costly surgery he requires. Matt's mother, Tara, was shocked to learn they would have to travel from London to Mississauga and pay $9,000 for his surgery. LGBTQ students are dismayed that this government has delayed teaching gender expression until grade eight, when we know our trans students need support and acceptance from their peers long before that. The cancellation of the basic income pilot project and new difficulties for accessing OSAP have affected constituents of London North Centre, like Jay. The trans community has to face these financial and social barriers far too often, including your preferred pronouns, such as he, him, or his, on a name tag is a simple way to let the trans community know you stand with them. As the Trans Day of Visibility approaches, new group Democrats vow to continue to fight for trans-affirmative healthcare and an inclusive curriculum that acknowledges and celebrates Ontario's vibrant trans community. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for King Bond. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I rise to recognize two historic events that are set to take place on April 1st that will drastically have drastically different effects on the people of this province. On Monday, our provincial government will celebrate the end of Ontario's costly burdensome and ineffective drive clean program. Announced in September, this change will put $40 million back into the pockets of Ontarians. This is the mandate our government was elected on and we're going to see it through to make life more affordable for working families in this province. Moreover, and to contrast, Mr. Speaker, on Monday we'll also see the introduction of a punishing and regressive Trudeau carbon tax. This tax will raise the prices on everything, from gas you use to heat your home to the fuel you drive, you use to drive your kids to hockey practice. Mr. Speaker, this is a tax that will raise the prices on everything. Now while our government is taking action to support the climate of jobs and growth and create prosperity for families and workers in this province, in contrast, the Trudeau Liberals are raising taxes, creating more red tape and impeding the job hopes of young people in this country. So colleagues, we are working under the leadership of our premier and this cabinet and the entire progressive conservative team to put the province back on track, to create better jobs, to grow this economy and to make life affordable for every single Ontarian. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Member Statements. The Member for Algoma, Manitoula. Well thank you, Speaker. I want to thank the staff and management team at the North Shore Health Network and the Northeast Linn for their tireless work throughout the evacuation situation at the Blind River Hospital. Over the span of two weeks, these individuals quickly coordinated plans to relocate patients and residents, organize snow removal efforts, and ensure patients and residents could return to a safe Blind River Hospital. Northern Ontario winter conditions can lead to many unforeseen circumstances. This is especially true this year with the multiple roof collapses and near collapses in many communities across my writing and across Northern Ontario. When a concern was flagged at the Blind River Hospital, efforts began to ensure patients and staff were safe. I would like to thank the hospitals and long-term care homes that lent a hand, welcomed those relocated from Blind River and ensured they received proper care from Little Current, Espanola, Elliot Lake, Richards Landing, and Sault Ste. Marie. You continue to demonstrate how compassionate our communities are. No one should have to worry about their safety when entering a hospital, restaurant, community center, and we must work together to ensure situations like this do not become a regular occurrence. Northern infrastructure faces unique challenges, and this winter has offered us many learning opportunities in it, reassuring to know, it is reassuring to know how diligent the North Shore Health Network and its allies, and what I mean by allies is community members that open up their homes and taking their loved ones as well responded in this challenging situation. Je salue. I take my hat off to you. I congratulate you. Member Statements, Member Statements, the Member for Carlton. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, March 23rd, I had the distinct pleasure of welcoming the Premier of Ontario to the beautiful riding of Carlton as he joined me for a tour of the Osgoode Care Center in Metcalf. I want to thank Lori Norris-Dudley, the President and CEO of the Osgoode Care Center, Dave Eggett, the Chair of the Osgoode Care Center, and Geno Malito, the Chair of the Osgoode Ward Business Association, for helping me organize a fantastic visit of their facilities for the Premier. The Osgoode Care Center is a not-for-profit, long-term care home in the riding, often regarded as one of the finest in the province, and it is one of the jewels of Carlton, Mr. Speaker, a place that becomes a new home for residents and their families, where they and their family members are welcomed with open arms. It was so great to see the joy on the faces of the residents, frontline workers, volunteers, staff, and key community stakeholders who have been involved in the Osgoode Care Center for decades when they had an opportunity to speak with the Premier and grab a few photos. I particularly like the photo that I took with Vera Mitchell, who I've adopted as my grandmother and the Premier, one of us flanking her on either side. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the Premier for coming to Carlton and joining me for a tour of such a great facility. Since his visit, I have been receiving a seemingly endless flow of support and appreciation for the Premier from my constituents. So to the Premier of Ontario, I just want to say thank you so much and please come back to Carlton. You're welcome any time. Thank you. Thank you very much. The member for Parkdale High Park. Thank you, Speaker. Imagine a child is sitting in a classroom on a cold winter day with 40 other classmates. It's crowded. It's hard to learn what the mittens and the bulky winter coat they're wearing because the school furnace broke down again. They're thirsty but forgot their water bottle at home and can't drink the water from the fountain because the school pipes have lead in them. They're trying hard to concentrate. They're trying to listen to the teacher and understand the lesson. It looks fun, but they just don't quite get it. They tried raising their hand, but they sit at the back of the room in the middle. The teacher tried to get everyone, but they didn't see the child. With thousands fired, teachers are stretched thinner than ever. Students just don't seem to get the one-on-one support anymore. The bell rings, classes over. The child still doesn't understand the lesson. They used to be able to go to after-school tutoring program, but that too has been cut like many other supports that were available. Speaker, this will be the reality for students in our public schools under this conservative government. Instead of investing in our children, the Ford government is making deeper cuts. They're taking a billion dollars out of our public education system and giving it as tax cuts to big businesses and the wealthy. We need to give our children more opportunities, not less. Public schools are a public trust. It belongs to the people of Ontario, not Premier Ford. Parents, educators, students, and people across this province, we stand together. We will not allow anyone to destroy our public education system. Thank you. Thank you very much. The member for Atopical Centre. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And on a more optimistic note, every year on April 2nd, Pope John Paul II Day is celebrated throughout Canada. Pope John Paul II, born Carol Joseph Wojtyła in Poland, served as the pointiff of the Roman Catholic Church from October 1978, until his death on April 2nd, 2005. He was wildly recognized as a leading figure in the history of the Roman Catholic Church and in the world and played an influential and vital role in promoting international understanding and peace. Pope John Paul II loved to travel to spread that message. He visited Canada for the first time in 1984, later in 1987, and again in 2002. His last visit to Canada was dedicated to the celebration of World Youth Day that was held here in Toronto. That year, my family and I travelled from Ottawa to see the People's Pope in Toronto. John Paul II visited many countries, promoting international peace and interfaith dialogue and played one of the key roles in helping to dismantle the grip of communist regime, regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, in his memory and to celebrate his life achievements, together with other MPPs, we held a ceremony here in Queen's Park, unveiling his portrait. I would like to take this opportunity to thank former Member of Parliament, Vadoslav Lizon, Ted Opitz, and of course, Chris Corwin-Kinchitski for making John Paul II day in Canada a reality. The legacy of John Paul II will never be forgotten and his life will continue serving as an inspiration for generations to come. Thank you very much, Member Statements, the Member for Mississauga, Aaron Mills. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the weekend, I was a guest speaker in the ninth International Coptic Convention hosted by the Dutch Coptic Association in Amsterdam. Some of the topics discussed were integration of newcomers, second-generation identity challenges, and terrorism against minorities. I was proud to present our Canadian model, to present how Canada and our great province of Ontario are a good example of effective integration of newcomers by embracing multiculturalism and the acceptance and respect of all cultures. Mr. Speaker, one of the main challenges the world faces today is tourism. It is an issue that we need to tackle with care and robustness as it affects the lives of all of us. Every necessary step should be taken and all actions should be adopted to eliminate the threat. We have to keep our province safe, not just for us, Mr. Speaker, but for generations to come. And it must start with each one of us Ontarians, how we view each other, how we respect each other, and how we treat each other. At the end, the goal is not to tolerate one other, but to love and live with one other under one country and one province. Mr. Speaker, I'm honoured and privileged to be part of this great government that works diligently, itched, and every day to make our province the best place to live in, not only in Canada, but in the whole world. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much. Reports?


So, we are back with another HowlDivers 2 patch update and this one is pretty big, people it's patch, 01.000.200, Liberty Freedom Democracy, so let's go guys. Now the winner of my previous 2100 super credits giveaway you're seeing on screen now, if this is you, hit me up on my discord link down below to claim your winnings. Now do you guys want to win 2100 super credits or a copy of this game? It's real simple, liberate this video with a massive thumbs up, let's try and reach 35 likes, that'd be unreal, make sure you are subbed with those post notifications turned on and do drop a comment down below, I'll pick a winner from the comment section and announce them on tomorrow's HowlDivers 2 video, so good luck everybody. Okay so let's go again, patch 01.000.200, good day HowlDivers, today we have a slightly bigger update for you all to assist in the liberation efforts of our galaxy as well as some new environmental threats to watch out for, may liberty guide your path. Overview, this update includes balance changes to missions, stratagems, weapons, enemies and HowlDivers, general fixes and stability improvements, okay so start with gameplay, these are basically new planetary hazard additions, blizzards and sand, stars pretty cool, okay so balancing missions, retrieve essential personnel, move the enemy spawn points further away from the objective to give players a fairer chance of defending their location, there are a few civilians required to complete the mission and higher difficulties, okay, destroy command bunkers, okay so this now has more objective locations, the mission was too easy before compared to other missions, it can now appear in operations from difficulty 5, half the negative effect of operation modifiers that increase stratagems cooldowns or calling times, okay so now we move on to primary, secondary and support weapons, the arc thrower, fixed charging inconsistencies, it will now always take one second to charge a shot, arc thrower, reduced distance from 50m to 35m, arc thrower, increased stagger, force, guard duck, narrow stores full ammo from supply, boxes, anti-material rifle, damage increased by 30%, wow not a bad change, breaker incendiary, damage per bully increased from 15 per pellet to 20 per pellet, fire damage per tick increased by 50% from all sources, liberator, penetrator, this now has a full auto mode, the dominator increased damage from 200 to 300, dominator increased stagger, diligence counter sniper, increased armor penetration from light to medium that's a good change, the slugger reduced stagger, slugger again reduced damage from 280 to 250, slugger reduced demolition force, slugger, fixed armor penetration tag in the menu, okay so the slugger, liberator, conclusive, senator, and these are fixed incorrect armor penetration tags in the menu, okay so the recoilless rifle increased the number of rockets you restore from supply boxes from 2 to 3, good change, the spear increased the number of missiles you restore from boxes from 1 to 2, good change, heavy machine gun, the highest fire rate mode reduced from 1200 rounds per minute to a more moderate 950 rounds per minute, okay so onto stratagems, Patriot Exosuit rockets will now penetrate armor only on direct hit, okay interesting, enemies, balancing adjustments have been made to chargers, normal melee attack now does less damage against exosuits, the bile spewer and nursing spewer do less damage with their puke, the bile titan can no longer be stunned, wow, trikes no longer create bug breaches, trikes hit you while they are dead now significantly does less damage, okay that's pretty cool, okay so onto howdiver, so balancing adjustments have been made to, heavy and medium armor protects better and you now take about 10% less damage than before, while wearing that heavy armor and about 5% less when wearing that medium armor, 45 commando and light armor is unchanged, okay so that's actually a decent change I'm not going to lie, okay so onto fixes here, a fixed issue where safe settings for ps5 would be reset when a game is rebooted, causing things such as loadout and hint settings to reset, this is a massive massive change that we have called for for a long long time, pretty good, enemies now properly target exosuits, previously many enemies effectively ignored exosuits if a howdiver on foot was available for them to target, okay so fixed exosuits being able to fire their weapons while opening the minimap, the howdiver and the exosuit both had a bug that made them sometimes take explosion damage multiple times making things like automaton rockets be too deadly, this is now fixed, great great change and fixed there, automaton enemy constellations that prefer to spawn more other certain devastator types did not work and are now functioning as they should, this means that sometimes when playing against your automatons you will face more devastators instead of other enemy types, okay so we now move on, we have improved this system that prevents howpard steering close to large or important objects, we have solved issues where the effective area around objects was a lot harder than intended, we have reduced the number of objects that prevented howpard steering, note the system is intended to prevent sufferlocks where players can drop on important interaction points or drop into unintended places, we will continue to monitor the state of the system after the update to see if additional tweaks are necessary, okay cool, so they fixed cases where the grand under somersaults could be bombed causing them to float, okay so we move on to ballistic shield changes, collision mesh has been slightly increased in size for more forgiveness, okay cool, change shield poses so that less of the howdiver is exposed, address the bug where parts of the howdiver will become vulnerable while using the shield in the first person, okay so known issues, these are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on or are from a previous version that have not yet been fixed, a game might crash when picking up a snowball or throwing back a grenade, okay so previous issues involving friend invites and cross play, cross platform friend invites might not show up in the friend request tab, players can not in friend of a players be friended via friend code, players can not unblock players that were not in their friends list beforehand, players can not be friend players with steam named short and three characters, explosive weapon stats include only direct hit damage but not explosive damage, explosions do not break your limbs except for when you fly into a rock, planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every defend mission, drowning in deep water with a vitality boost equipped puts howdivers in a broken state, strategy and being might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location, some player customization like title or body type may reset after restarting the game, so again those are issues that were either introduced with a patch or have been here for some time now like the friend request issues we have seen, I mean I'm surprised they have not been fixed yet, but there we have it guys that is the end of the patch notes, patch of 01.00.200, some great great changes here I'm not gonna lie, a lot more nerfs and a lot more balancing buffs than I expected but it's good times people it's good times, but there we have it and let me know your thoughts down below, guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you feel like what you're seeing want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one


I like a nice iris. Some of my favorite iris fragrances. Welcome to the channel where fashion needs fragrance. My name is Kevin Samus. I got filed those style and guides in today's video. We're gonna talk about one of my favorite fragrance notes and some of those fragrances. If you like this kind of video, cool. Go ahead and subscribe and drop a like down below. Shout out to the CIA. Gentlemen, how are you doing today? You all know by now my favorite fragrance notes are Rose Amber. You also know I dig incense, patchouli, iris, and honey. And today I wanna focus on some of my favorite iris fragrances. Now, before we get into this, understand there are plenty of iris fragrances out there to choose from. But I like my iris to be a certain kind of way. I don't like it overly powdery. I like it to lean a little bit more sophisticated. To have a little bit of class, if I'm at, you know how we do. An iris fragrance to not only gets noticed is signature scent worthy. That being said, let's get into the video. Shout out to the CIA. You wanna love FBI? You wanna become part of the movement? Make sure you join me on Patreon for exclusive video and live stream content. Join me on that platform for things you will only see there. Details down in the description. First up on the list, we have none other than Prada Lom. Prada Lom, guys, is a simple, clean, dumb-reached iris fragrance. This is a great office-based iris fragrance that I think belongs in almost any gentleman's wardrobe. Dior on O is also a great alternative, but honestly, I think Prada Lom did it better for most guys, for most guys, and it fits the Prada spot. Prada Lom starts my list off right. Since I already talked about Dior, let's go with Dior-Om. You know how I feel about this fragrance. Love it, can't get enough of it. Honestly, I think it is criminally underrated in the fragrance community, and Dior-Om is the fragrance line that's based all around the iris. DHS, Dior-Om Sport, actually is based around iris, but in 2017 they pulled that note out, putting it in blood orange, so if you get anything before 2017, it's an iris-based fragrance also. So many in this collection, but this one right here takes the cake for me, and will always be in my collection. Dior-Om, iris masterpiece. Next up from the house is Sergio Toms, we have Shirgi. This is a tobacco iris fragrance, but for me, the iris done in here is just so masculine, so good, and I love to wear this on a warm summer evening because it catches the wind and cooks so good on my skin. Shirgi, if you haven't smelled it, do yourself a favor, put your nose on it, just test it. Test it, try it, you might love it, then buy it. Sergio Toms, Shirgi, heavenly fragrance. What iris list will be complete without Valentino Uomo Intent? Now, sure, Dior-Om Intent, I dig that overall, but for the iris note, this does much more for the iris. Dior-Om Intent has much more of the cacao sweetness. Valentino Uomo Intent, in my opinion, is a masterful creation, and a great representation for a romantic, sexy iris fragrance that I think you need in your collection, especially if you love iris. Next up from Conor Barcelona, we have D600. Yes, D600, and this is one a lot of people don't know much about. Think of Dior-Om, but actually amp up the iris note and make it a little bit more sophisticated. This stuff is cool in a bottle. Cool in a bottle and a great iris fragrance, especially if we transition it to fall and winter. This will be one, if you're an iris lover, you definitely want to think about adding to your collection because it smells fantastic and it smells familiar like Dior-Om, but it is very different. And so don't think you need one instead of the other. Both are great in the collection. Conor Barcelona, D600, iris goodness. Next up from the Dior line, we have Bois de Argent. In my opinion, a signature fragrance that lasts all year round. This gets a lot of talk in the fragrance community. Some people prefer it in the warmer months, some people prefer it in the cooler months. Me, I just prefer it all year round. If you want to smell niche in the office, this is it. If you want to graduate from the Prada Loam and smell a little bit more upscale, that's this fragrance right here. Bois de Argent. Fantastic fragrance and a great blending fragrance if you like to mix and match. Me, I'm a purist, I tend to prefer letting things be what they are and this one is so good, I just let it be, I just let it do what it does. Next up from the house of Chanel, we have 31 Rue Cambon. Yep, 31 Rue Cambon. The iris note in this fragrance is one that many people tend to overlook.  Two, because it actually comes out in the mid. For me, it's a very noticeable iris and a completely different take on it. This fragrance in my opinion is refined sophistication at its best. Chanel does fragrance is right. 31 Rue Cambon is definitely one you need to put your nose on, try if you're an iris lover. Also, you'll have the uniqueness factor because not a lot of people wear it. Next one I'm going to go over real quick, YSL Trench. Why am I going over that one quickly? Because I'm out of it now. Just used the last little bit of it two weeks ago, had to order me another bottle. Trench is a great iris fragrance, especially for the warmer weather. Trench is when you definitely need to put your nose on if you're an iris lover and you kind of lean much more towards that clean office friendly version of iris. But I gotta tell you, on the top of my list for iris, I love Florentine Iris from Zania. From the first time I smelled this fragrance, I was transported. I was hooked. And I'm surprised more people don't talk about this. So good, so sophisticated. It's a manly take on iris that just, in my opinion, is masterful. Now the only downside for me, it is an odor toilet. And honestly, I think too many people look past Zania because they released everything in one shot. People kind of gravitated towards the ones they like and they tended to be the fresher ones. But this one, this one, in my opinion, masterpiece. Masterful fragrance, my favorite iris fragrance. And one I will always have in my collection and I'm so glad that they're a fragrance reduction or trimming their line down that they didn't take it off the market. Oh man, there you have it. My favorite iris-based fragrances. Do me a favor, let me know what your favorite iris fragrances are down in the comments section. Did you like my choices? Have you smelled them? Did you like them yourself? Cool, if not cool. But keep it cool, keep it classy. As usual, if you like this kind of video, share it out to anybody that you think can use the information. Thanks for watching. Thanks for subscribing till next time. Talk to you later. Godfather of Style, out. 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