Live from Midtown Manhattan, it's theCUBE covering Big Data, New York City, 2017, brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media and its ecosystem sponsors. Okay, welcome back everyone. Live in Manhattan, this is theCUBE's coverage of our fifth year doing Big Data NYC, eighth year covering Hadoop World, which is now involved in Distrata Data, which is right around the corner. We're doing that in conjunction with that event. This is, again, where we have the thought leaders, we have the experts, we have the entrepreneurs and CEOs come in, of course, the who's who in tech and my next two guests is Jigain Sundar, CUBE alum that was on yesterday, CTO of Wendisco. You know, one of the hottest companies, most valuable companies in the space for their unique IP, and not a lot of people know what they're doing, so congratulations on that. But you're here with one of your partners, a company I've heard of called Microsoft, also doing extremely well with Azure Cloud. We got Pranav Rastogi, who's the program manager at Microsoft Cloud Azure. You guys have an event going on as well, Microsoft Ignite, which has been creating a lot of buzz this year, again, as usually we have a good show, but this year the cloud certainly has taken front and center, welcome to the CUBE and good to see you again. Thank you. All right, so talking about the partnership, you guys, Jigain, are dealing with all the cloud guys. You're here with Microsoft. What's going on with Microsoft? Obviously they've been, you know, you may look at the stock price, I mean, from 20 something to complete change over under the leadership of Satya Natala, that the company's mobilized. The cloud has got traction, putting a dent in the universe, certainly the Amazon is a little bit of pain there, but in general, a lot more work to do. What are you guys doing together, share the relationship? So we just announced a product that's a one-click deployment in the Microsoft Azure Cloud of Vendisco's Fusion replication technology. So if you've got some data assets, Hadoop or cloud object stores on-premise and you want to create a hybrid or a cloud-to-cloud environment with Azure in the picture, ours is the only way of doing it active-active. Active-active, and then there is some stuff out there that's looking like active-active, data planed by Hortonworks, but it's really not active-active. We talked about it yesterday. Microsoft, you guys, what's the interesting about these guys beside the active-active? So it's a unique thing, it's an ingredient for you guys. Yeah, so the interesting thing for us is the biggest problem that we think customers have for big data perspective is, if you look at the landscape of the ecosystem in terms of open-source projects that are available, it's very hard to, A, figure out how do I use the software, B, how do I install it? And so what we've done is we've created an experience in Azure HD Insight where you can discover these applications within the context of your cluster and you can install these applications by one click install, which installs the application, configures it, and then you're good to go. And we think that this is gonna sort of increase the productivity of users sort of trying to get sense out of big data. And the key challenges that we think customers have today is sort of setting up some sort of a hybrid environment between how do you connect your on-premise data to sort of move it to the cloud. And there are different use cases that you can have. You can move parts of the data and you can do experiment easily in the cloud. And so what we've done is we've enabled Vandesco as an application on our HD Insight application platform where customers can sort of install it using a single-clip deploy, connected with the data that's sitting on-prem. Use the active-active feature to sort of have both these environments running simultaneously and they're in sync. So one benefits, the one-click thing, that's on your side, right? You guys are enabling that. So okay, I get that, that's totally cool. We'll get that in a second. I want to kind of drill down on that. But what's the benefit to the customers that you guys are having? So I'm a customer, I one click, I want some Vandesco active-active. Why am I doing it? What is the cloud change? What is, how does your cloud change from that experience? Yeah, so one example that you can think about is going to change is in an on-premise environment, you have a cluster running. But you're kind of limited on what you can do with the cluster because you've already set up the number of nodes and the workloads you're running is fairly finite. But what's happening in sort of reality in today is lots of users, especially in the machine learning space and AI space and in the analytics space are using a lot of open source libraries and technologies and they're using it on top of like Hadoop. They're using it on top of Spark. However, like experimenting with these technologies is hard on on-prem because it's a locked environment. So we believe like with the cloud, like especially with an offering like Vandesco on HDN site, once you move the data, you can start spinning up clusters, you can start installing more open source libraries, experiment and you can shut down the clusters when you're down. So it's going to sort of increase your efficiency. It's going to allow you to experiment faster and it's going to reduce your cost as well because you don't have to have the cluster running all the time. And once you are done with your experimentation, then you can decide like which way do you want to go. So it's going to. What's your experience with Azure? I mean, a lot of people have been critical. I mean, rightfully so. You guys are moving as fast as you can. You can only go as fast as you can but the success of the cloud has been phenomenal. You guys have done a great job with the cloud. Got to give you props on that. Your customers are benefiting or Microsoft's customers are benefiting. What's that? How does it, how does it relate? You're getting more customers through these guys do you bring in customers from on-prem to cloud? What's, how's the customer slow going? So almost all of our customers who have on-prem instances of Hadoop are considering cloud in one form or the other. Different clouds of different strengths as they've found. And different technology. Indeed. And Azure strengths appear to be the HD insight piece of it. And as Pranav just mentioned, the cool thing is you can replicate into the cloud, start up a 15 node Spark cluster today to run a query that may return results to you really fast. Now remember, this is data that you can write to both in the cloud and on-premise. It's kept consistent by our technology. Or tomorrow you may find that somebody tells you Hive with the new Tes enhancements is faster. Sure, spin up 100 node Hive cluster in the cloud. HD insight supports that really well. You're getting consistent data and your queries will respond much faster than your on-premise. We've had Oliver Chu on before with Hortonworks. Obviously they're partnering there. HD insights have been getting a lot of traction lately. Where's that going? I mean, we've seen some good buzz on that. Good people talking about it. What's the latest update on your end? HD insight is doing really good. The customers love the ease of sort of creating a cluster using just a few clicks. And the benefits that customers get, you know, clusters are optimized for certain scenarios. So if you're doing data science, you know, you can create a Spark cluster, install open source libraries. We have Microsoft R server sort of running on Spark, which is a unique offering to Microsoft, which lots of customers have sort of appreciated. You know, we also have streaming scenarios that you can do using open source technologies like we have Apache Kafka running on a stack, which is becoming very popular from an ingestion perspective, you know, folks. Has the Kubernetes craze come down to your group yet? Has it trickled down? It seems to be going crazy. You hired an amazing person from Google, Brendan Burns. We've interviewed before. He was part of the original Kubernetes spec. You know, it works for Microsoft. What's the buzz on the Kubernetes container world there? So in general, Microsoft Azure has seen sort of great benefits out of it. So we are seeing lots of traction in that space. So for my role in particular, like I focus more on the HD insights, sort of big data space, just kind of outside of what we do with the Kubernetes. Right, and the relationship going strong with Wendisco? Yes. So we just like launched this offering just about yesterday is what we announced. And we're looking forward to getting customers onto the stack. That's awesome. And what's your take on the industry right now? Honestly, the partnerships are becoming clearer as people can see their swim lanes and you're starting to see the notion of infrastructure and services are changing and more and more people want services. And then you've got the classic infrastructure. It looks like it's going to be hybrid. That's pretty clear, we see that. Services versus infrastructure. How should customers think about how they architect their environment so they can take advantage of the active-active and also have a robust, clean, not a lot of re-skilling going on, but more of a good organization from a personnel standpoint, but yet get to a hybrid architecture. So it depends. The cloud sort of gives you lots of options to meet the customers where they are and different customers have different kinds of requirements. Customers who have specialized some of their applications would probably want to go more of an infrastructure route. But customers would also love to have some of the past benefits where I have a service running where I don't have to worry about the infrastructure, like how does patching happen, how does OS updates happen, how does maintenance happen. They want to sort of rely on the Microsoft Azure Cloud provided to take care of it so that they can focus on their application-specific logic or business-specific logic or the analytical workloads and sort of worry about optimizing those parts of the application, because that is the core spread. That's been great. I want to get your thoughts real quick. Let's share some color, what's going on inside Microsoft. Obviously, open source has become really big part of the culture, even just at Ignite. More Linux news is coming. You guys have been involved in Linux. Obviously, open source with Azure, a ton of stuff I know is built in the Microsoft Cloud and on open source. You're contributing now, as to Kubernetes I mentioned earlier. Seems to be a good cultural shift at Microsoft. What's the vibe on open source internally at Microsoft? Can you share just some anecdotal, kind of like insight into what's the vibe like inside around open source? So the vibe has increased quite a lot around open source. You rightly mentioned, like just recently we announced SQL Server on Linux as well at the Ignite conference. We can also deploy a SQL Server in a Docker container, which is quite revolutionary if you think about how far we've come. And open source is so pervasive, it's almost used in a lot of these projects. And Microsoft employees are sort of contributing back to open source project in terms of bug fixes, feature requests, or documentation updates. So it's a very, very active community. And by and large, I think customers are sort of benefiting all up because there's so many folks working together on like open source projects and sort of making them successful. And especially around the Azure stack, we also ensure that you can run these open source workloads lively in the cloud. So from an enterprise perspective, you get the best of both worlds, you get the latest innovations happening in open source, plus the reliability of the managed platform that Azure provides at an enterprise scale. So again, obviously, Microsoft partnership is huge, you've got other clouds as well. Where do you want to take the relationship of Microsoft, what happens next? You guys just continue to do business, you're like spec'd in and the one clicks nice, some questions on that, but what happens next? So I see our partnership becoming deeper, we see the value that HD Insight brings to the ecosystem and all of that value is captured by the data. At the end of the day, if you have stale data, if you have data that you can't rely on, the applications are useless. So we see ourselves getting more and more deeply embedded in the system. We see ourselves as an essential part of the data strategy for Azure. Yeah, we see continuous integration as a development concept, continuous analytics as a term that's being kicked around. We were talking yesterday about here in theCUBE, real time, I want some data, real time IT goes back, here it is, it's real time. No, but the data is three weeks old. So I mean, real time is a word that doesn't mean it. I got to see it really fast, low latency response, well, that's not the data I want. I meant the data in real time, not you giving me a real time query. So again, this brings up a mind shift in terms of the new way to do business in the cloud and hybrid. So it's changing the game. As customers scratch their heads and try to figure out how to make their organizations more DevOps oriented, what do you guys see for advice for those managers who really are getting behind it, really want to make change, who kind of have to herd the cats a little bit and kind of maybe break out security and put in its own group or you come in and say, okay, IT guys, we're going to change into our operating model, even on-prem, we'll use some bursting to the cloud. Azure's got 365 on there, a lot of coolness developing. What's the advice for the mindset of the change agents out there that are going to do the transformation? So my advice would be, if you've done the same thing by hand over two times, it's time you automated it. But two times, no three rule, three strikes are out, you're saying two, contrarian. That's a casual statement because if you try automating something that you've never actually done by hand, that's a disaster as well. Couple times so you know how it's supposed to work. Get a good groove on it, yeah. Then you optimize, you automate, and then you turn the knob so you try 100 node cluster. Maybe that's going to be faster. Maybe after a certain point you don't get any improvements so you know how to turn the knob. So take some baby steps and one easy way to do is, automate something that you've done. Yes, exactly. That's almost risk-free. Yes. Relatively speaking. Thoughts on advice to change agents out there. This is your industry hat on, you can take your Microsoft hat off. Baby steps. So you start small, you get familiar with the environment and your tool sets are provided so that you get a consistent experience on what you were sort of doing on prem and in sort of in hybrid space. And the whole idea is like as you get more comfortable, the benefits of the cloud will sort of far outweigh any sort of cultural changes that need to happen. Guys, thanks for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate it. Thoughts on the big data NYC this week? What do you think? I think it's a conference that has a lot of cloud hanging over it and people are scratching their heads including vendors, customers. Everybody's scratching their head but there is a lot of cloud in this conference although this is not a cloud conference. Yeah, they're trying to make it an AI conference. A lot of AI washing certainly we're seeing that everywhere but again, nothing wrong with hyping up AI. It's good for society. It really is cool. But still, that's talking about baby steps. AI is like, I mean, still not there. It seems like AI from when I went to got my CS degree in the 80s. Not a lot of innovation. Although machine learning is getting better but a lot more way to go on AI, don't you think? Yes, and a few of the announcements that we've made this week is all about making it easier for developers to get started with AI and machine learning. And our whole hope is with the set of investments that we've done in Azure Machine Learning improvements and sort of with the companion app and the workbench. So it allows you to get started very easily with AI and machine learning models and you can sort of apply and build these models. Do I CI CD process and deploy these models and be more effective in this space? Yeah, and also the tooling market has kind of gotten out of control. We were just joking the other day there's a tool shed in my mindset where everything's in the tool shed and people bought a hammer and turned into a lawn mower. So this is like, you got to be careful which tools you have. Think about a platform, think holistically but if you take the baby steps and implement it, certainly there. My personal opinion, I think the cloud is the equalizer. Cloud can bring compute power that changes what a tool was built for. Even go back six years.  So, okay, that resets a little bit. You agree? I do, I totally agree. Who wins, who loses on the reset? You know, the cloud is an equalizer but there is a mindset shift that goes with that. Those who can adapt to the mindset shift will win. Those who cannot and are still clinging to their old practices will have a hard time. It's exciting. If you're still reinventing Hadoop from 2011 then probably not in good shape right now. Not a good place to be. Using Hadoop is great for batch but you can't make that be a lawn mower. That's my opinion. Okay, guys, thanks for coming on. I appreciate it. He's smiling. You got something that you agree. No, thank you so much for that comment. Yeah. Toolsheds are out to be careful. Guys, do your job. Congratulations on your partnership. Appreciate it. Thank you. It's theCUBE live in New York. More after this short break. We'll be right back.


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First day I took office in 2017, the first resolution that the City Council passed connected us with other cities around the planet through the International Charter for Compassion. That resolution named us and invites us into an ethical identity, Compassionate San Antonio. It claimed our community was already compassionate and challenges us to be even more compassionate. To become more of anything of true worth requires commitment and learning. I began with myself in my office. We were some of the first of San Antonians to take the Compassionate Integrity Training. This institute was also the first among all of the 450 compassionate cities. The question for Compassion Education was and remains, where do we begin? For the last year plus, the Compassionate Essay Action Team struggled with this question. Do we begin with children, teachers, universities? When COVID struck, the answer became very clear. We started at all levels. The team is a highly skilled group of volunteer San Antonians, university educators, administrators, community organizers, communications, metrics and tech gurus all committed to the bottom line basic of Compassion, the ethic of reciprocity, also known as the Golden Rule in all the world religions, to treat others in ways we wish to be treated ourselves. The intensive training includes Compassion Skills for self, others and in systems, all systems, government, education, health, our own bodies, our family, name any system and Compassion Skills are applicable. The San Antonio Compassionate Institute is year long and continues through the 2021 academic year. Institute fellows began working together last night as cohorts within their own institutions, supporting each other, creating opportunities, strategizing the integration of compassion with their institution systemically. The institute is not necessarily the application of a curriculum. It is the strengthening of compassion as a systemic and culturally planted ethic. Providing and teaching is how the institute began this past June. The training curriculum is the same as Mayor Nuremberg and others who participated in about two and a half years ago. The curriculum is known as Compassionate Integrity Training from the Center for Compassion Integrity and Secular Ethics out of Life University in Atlanta. The desire is now more than ever before and needed more than ever before in our lifetime at least to recognize this interconnectedness, this interdependent collaborative approach that we've seen in San Antonio over the past number of weeks. This project gives me hope, this initiative gives me hope not only for young people but for everybody. We need to see cities like San Antonio doing it, walking the talk first and not so much without fear but actually recognizing potentially what could go wrong but instead of saying no, we won't do it, walking ahead and feeling and owning that realistic fear but doing it anyway. And for me that's what courage, that's what bravery is and also that's what true compassion is. I truly believe that right now in history, I'm a U.S. history teacher so I look at things in the perspective of history. We are at a crossroads between compassion and understanding and hate and bigotry and that's what makes this Compassion Institute programs like this extremely important because we see how a social, political, and economic system that lacks compassion affects families, how it affects our students, how it affects our own close relatives and is through having compassion we can acknowledge that, understand that, and look for ways to change it. The Compassion Institute has given me the skills to help foster that compassion among my students. Something that I always say in my class is if you can make someone's life a little bit better, why wouldn't you? Because we're all living in a hard life. We can all acknowledge that life is hard but we don't have to be alone in this hard life. We don't have to be isolated in this hard life. If we have that compassion, that understanding, that shared collectiveness as human beings we can come together to form something beautiful to push us to greater heights. In the end we are family and we are what makes this city strong and if we do not lift each other up then we're just breaking each other down and that is not what we want. And so is it going to be hard to continue pushing forward to compassion in a system that lacks compassion? Yes, it will be hard but another thing I say is the mountain may be high but the cause is righteous. Hi everyone, I'm delighted to share my experience as a participant of the Niagara World Compassionate Institute in San Antonio. My name is Viri Carrizales and I stand here today as an immigrant and as the co-founder and CEO of M-Schools. M-Schools is an immigrant-led nonprofit organization that partners with K-12 educators to transform our schools into safe, welcoming, inclusive places for undocumented students and families. Working as an organization, working at the intersection of immigration and education, compassion has been our compass. I came to this country when I was 11 years old with my family and navigating K-12 as an undocumented student I experienced discrimination, experienced xenophobia. I remember feeling othered and unwelcome and in those moments the words from Maya Angelou resonate so much with me. I've learned that people will forget what you say, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel. I still remember those emotions and those feelings and I have vowed to myself that through my work at M-Schools I hope to you create the world that my parents dreamed for me, that every parent dreams for their child or for their children. A world where our immigration status does not determine our worth. Participating in the Compassionate Institute has highlighted for me how compassion and its true form, recognizing the needs of others, showing empathy and taking action, can provide the principles or the foundation that we need to not just transform ourselves but to transform the world around us. And the amazing thing is that compassion is something that we can do every day in our daily lives. So I want you to ask yourself, when was the last time that you practiced compassion, that you cared and did something for someone or for others? And when was the last time that you practiced compassion, that you cared and did something for you? I hope that immigrants who make San Antonio home and those who are passing us by, never forget how the people in San Antonio made them feel. Never forget how welcome and embraced it felt by your city. And I hope that they never forget that in the midst of so much pain and rejection, San Antonio is a place that they can always call home. At San Antonio, we have been fortunate to be in a city where people rise up in times of challenge. The most clear example of that to me was the first experiences with the doubled food bank food lines, which happened literally overnight when the pandemic really gripped everyone and we had massive unemployment. The food bank lines doubled and there were those famous aerial photographs. I went out to one of the coordinated drives and I'm not kidding you, the cars were outnumbered by the volunteers. The same is true whenever we have a massive blood drive downtown. But I like to think of smaller acts of compassion that mean a lot. Every time I see someone walking down the street wearing a face mask, I think that that person is acting out of compassion because it's truly a sign of respect. It's protecting the other person, not necessarily yourself. Everyone who comes into the city, they have to be part of the culture and it means that we're constantly trying to take this philosophy of compassion out to our communities and as leaders, as members of the Institute, we're now ambassadors for that movement and have the responsibility to take that training.


Gael ddigonwch ddislogio'r byddau yn Comunicorau ac yn bwysigol, mae Gareth Mawr yn fawr bawb am rhefyd yn cael ei sleiddoch chi. Fy varlywch â'r byd. Felly, os ydych chi'n gwybod chi, rwy'n dai ddim yn cymdeithasol eich bobl offensive ac mae'r rhaid i'n femnig o'r cymunig o ffordd i'r Llywodraeth yn cael ei wneud o'r ffordd i'r byd, fyddai ddim yn cyd- cricket? I declare an interest in saying that I have a niece and two cousins who both have Down syndrome. I would like to begin by thanking those who have supported this motion and members' debate from across the chamber. It has been great to see support from almost all parties, although I am disappointed that the Greens decided not to support it. I find it sad that we couldn't bring themselves to put politics aside for the sake of a Down syndrome community. I would also like to thank Dr Liam Fox. His bill has long been anticipated and sends a clear message to the community in this country that for a long time has felt left behind, undervalued and ignored. I am no way saying that the story ends with a passing of his bill, because it is clear that it is still a long way to go, but it is certainly a large step, right step in the right direction. I have to admit that this is not the speech that I had planned to give, nor the speech that I particularly wanted to give. My original speech was going to extol a virtue of the bill. I was going to describe how placing a concrete responsibility on local authorities to accommodate those with Down syndrome will create a much less hostile environment than what we have been used to. Deputy Prime Minister, I was going to petition with the Scottish Government to adopt this bill and allow it to be a UK-wide piece of legislation. The bill was drafted, extended to England and Wales, although there was a possibility for the people of Scotland to benefit. The Downs community in Scotland could have had the same protection as England and Wales. I was hopeful, given the fact that the SNP-NP had publicly supported the bill. Mr Chapman, in the second stage debate, said this. I hope that, should it be passed, our colleagues in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, will look at it sympathetically and introduce equivalent measures across the UK. I wish the bill Godspeed, but it is now too late. The bill has passed through both the Commons and the Lords and is awaiting royal consent. To the delight of those with Down syndrome in England and Wales, new protections and rights are only a signature way from being a reality. Those in Scotland, however, are left with a hollow feeling of wondering what possible reason there could be for the SNP to refuse to support them in this way. The answer, Deputy Prime Minister, is that there is no good reason. That has been a political decision taken by the Scottish Government, but it is so caught up in a constitutional battle and grievance politics that we cannot even support Down syndrome community. The fear of saying that Westminster is bad will overrule even things affecting roads with disabilities. The whole of Scotland has suffered over the past 15 years from the SNP dropping the ball. However, I have been on the constitutional obsession. Drugs death, A and E waiting times, educational standards but with disability community who uniquely cast aside. Let's have a look back at even just a couple of years. During my pandemic, face masks presented a great problem for those who were hard of hearing because muffling of voices made it impossible to those who rely on lip-reading to interact and participate in society. However, health boards around the UK approved clear face masks that the Scottish Government dragged their heels and it wasn't until December 2021 that any Scotland provided doctors with them. Almost two years after the beginning of a pandemic, the SNP refused to prioritise the disability community yet again. Another prime example is with the unfroding ferries in Fiasco. While it is undeniable that there have been lots of mistakes made, the one thing that could have happened was that we could have seen changing places toilets put in the design. Those toilets have a gold standard of disabled facilities that provide all needs that a disabled person might have. More than that, we send a message to the disabled community that you are welcome in a place and you can travel freely. A colleague of mine, Jamie Harper Johnson, asked the Scottish Government whether a plan for the two new ferries included a change-in-place toilet. In short, the answer was no. If it included no such toilet and the iron system to infer for the transport minister, it did not understand that a change-in-place toilet was more than just a disabled toilet with change-in-facilities. Once again, the SNP refused to make the inclusion of the disabled community a priority. There are just two examples, but that shows us the attitude and the reason behind tonight's debate. There was no good reason for the Scottish Government to oppose the bill. It will tell us that it is planning something bigger, better and more tartan, but that is simply an excuse. The UK bill does not need to be exhaustive and has no way to prohibit the Scottish Government going further in future legislation. That was a political decision that uses Down syndrome as a pawn for the sake of scoring seat points against another Government, and that has taken the issue seriously. The result is that, even if the SNP does not bring forward its own bill, those with Down syndrome in Scotland will be forced to wait on a necessary length of time. Unlike those in England and Wales, when I have these rights, they do not occur in Scotland. Stronger for Scotland, I think not, and certainly not stronger for the disabled community. We now move to the open debate. I first call Stephanie Callaghan, who joins us remotely, to be followed by Paul O'Kane for around four minutes. I would like to thank Jeremy Balfour for bringing his motion to the chamber. I must also give a wee shout-out to an inspirational family member with Down syndrome. I will call him Mr T who can will you with his music knowledge and make you smile every day of the week. I want to offer supportive comments in the Down syndrome bill for England and Wales. The bill sets out to destigmatise Down syndrome, improve services and deal with issues that long-term care. It will require the UK Government to publish guidance on the specific needs of people with Down syndrome and how those needs should be met. With legal protections in place, it is hoped that the bill will make it easier for people with Down syndrome and their families to secure the services that they need and to challenge authorities not acting on their duties. However, although I support the intentions behind the Down syndrome bill, I believe that the approach that is laid out by the Scottish Government has clear advantages as we look to secure and sustain the transformative change that is overdue for people with Down syndrome who are living in Scotland. The Scottish Government is committed to introducing a learning disability, autism and neurodiversity bill as part of the programme for government this year. In addition, a very welcome learning disability commissioner role will be created. The bill and the associated commissioner will ensure that the rights of people with Down syndrome, among others, are respected and protected. Being close to a rights-based approach under being Scotland, i.e. a pan-learning disability, autism and neurodiversity approach, is attracting a lot of attention from other parts of the UK. That is because it avoids a situation where one group is singled out and prioritised over another in the delivery of public services. Instead, our approach recognises people's distinctive needs, plus protecting the rights of all those with learning disabilities. Organisations such as Down syndrome Scotland have told me that they are encouraged by the timetable to develop and introduce the learning disability bill in Scotland and are equally impressed by the determination of the Scottish Government to ensure that people with lived experience are fully and meaningfully engaged in the consultation on the bill's scope, ambition and policy provisions. Their voices are so important. The Scottish Government programme provides the community with parents, carers and adults with Down syndrome, with the time and the space to meaningfully express their views in ways that are inclusive, accessible, respectful and rights-based. When I spoke on International Day of People with Disabilities, I focused my speech on the importance of the words, nothing about us without us. One of the criticisms of Dr Liam Fox's bill is how few people with lived experience were included in its development. I applaud the Scottish Government for taking an alternative approach, one that champions the voices of the community. Given the Scottish Government's more inclusive approach that embraces the rights of people with all learning disabilities, it will be crucially important to recognise and explicitly identify people with Down syndrome within the definition of learning disability set out in the learning disability bill in Scotland. The sign officer gives new powers and provisions, guild and work already under way in Scotland to bring about lasting change for people with Down syndrome and their families and their carers. Eddie McConnell, chief executive of Down syndrome Scotland, believes that we are opening a new chapter with the learning disability bill in Scotland, and I wholeheartedly agree with that. I hope that the Down syndrome bill also heralds a new chapter in the UK Government approach in thinking, one that is far more centred in lived experience. As I said earlier, nothing about us without us, Presiding Officer. I thank Jeremy Balfour for securing this evening's debate on the Down syndrome bill, which has passed its stages in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. As the motion states, Dr Fox's bill received cross-party support across the house and has moved through stages, allowing, I think, for important debate and discussion about the human rights of people who have Down syndrome and, indeed, their family and carers. That is what is important today. I do not want to get bogged down in a constitutional debate. I want to talk about the important lived experience of those people that we are talking about. Indeed, my Welsh Labour colleague in the House of Commons, Ruth Jones, spoke very powerfully at stage 2 of her experiences as a paediatric physiotherapist. The work that she did, particularly in supporting children and young people, and I believe that many of the issues experienced by those people and their families were heard perhaps for the first time in the United Kingdom Parliament, and I think that that was crucially important. Although the provisions of the bill relate to England have been welcomed by charity here in Scotland, Eddie McConnell, who we heard in the previous speaker's contribution of Down syndrome Scotland, said that the Down syndrome bill has the potential to be a landmark moment in advancing the rights of people with Down syndrome. He went on to point about the important collaborative work that is already being done here in Scotland to move forward the rights of people who have Down syndrome and people who have other learning disabilities as well. I am proud to have already played a small part in that journey in my working life prior to becoming an MSP, and I hope to continue that work in this place. The Down syndrome bill seeks to remind public bodies of their duties and gives legal weights to the rights of people and families who are fighting to get the support that they need. That is so important for so many people who describe trying to access the right support and services as a daily battle. Although I have already said that the bill has been broadly welcomed in England and indeed by organisations here in Scotland, I think that it is fair to say that there have been some divergent views around how far the bill has gone and the fact that the bill could go further. Indeed, Mencap, for example, has said that they would have done things a bit differently and that they would have been more involved at an earlier stage in the development of the bill. For example, they would have made the bill applicable to everyone who has a learning disability and framed it in the language of a social rather than a medical model, going to greater lengths indeed to engage more people with a lived experience. Mencap has of course acknowledged that rather than oppose that progress, it has looked optimistically at what it could lead to in the future in England. To be honest, Deputy Presiding Officer, I think that that is where we find ourselves in Scotland. I think that we have a very clear opportunity. I have already alluded to my previous work. I had the great honour at Enable Scotland of working with people who have a learning disability, their family carers and other organisations such as Scottish Autism and the National Autistic Society to secure a cross-party commitment to a learning disability, autism and neurodiversity bill with the introduction of a commissioner to advocate, support and protect the rights of people across Scotland. I know that the current Minister, Jerry McBalfour and colleagues across the chamber share the passion and concern that we have to get that right and to work with people across the country to listen to what they need and to deliver that bill here in Scotland and to deliver that commissioner with a robust set of powers to make a real difference. Now, in this Parliament, as convener of the cross-party group on learning disability, I will seek to act as a bridge between the many people who have a learning disability and this Parliament as we work to deliver a bill that will deliver for them. Of course, the work of Dr Liam Foxx and the Down syndrome bill is an important start and we can draw inspiration from it, but I believe that we can and must do more for people who have Down syndrome and people who have other learning disabilities and autism across Scotland. I really look forward to that work. Of course, it must be done at pace, because we do not want to be left behind here in Scotland and we do not want to leave behind those people who really need that bill. However, I am looking forward to the work, the discussion and the debates that we will have across this Parliament and across our country, and I am sure that we will all want to undertake to ensure that the voices of those who are all too often not heard in this place are indeed heard. Thank you very much indeed, Mr O'Kane. I now call on Stephen Kerr for around four minutes. First of all, I thank Jeremy Balfour, my good friend, for bringing forward this important debate today. I would also like to start off by paying tribute to Dr Liam Foxx, our Conservative colleague in Scotland's other Parliament, for the excellent work that he and colleagues across all parties in House of Commons have done in bringing this bill through all of its various stages to legislation. When I think about the issue that we are debating today, uppermost in my mind is a firm friend of our family, a young lady, not so young now actually when I think about it by the name of joy. She is not that much younger than I am, truthfully, but we have watched her through all the decades how her mother has devotedly looked after her, met her needs and frankly the whole of both her mother and her life is an inspiration to my family. I do not think that anyone could be more appropriately named than this lady joy, because that is exactly what she exudes and love, a kind of a pure love that is very rare. I can say in all honesty that her life has touched and is touching ours for good. One of the great strengths of the devolution settlement is that parliaments around the United Kingdom can learn from each other and indeed push each other on. I remember well when the smoking ban was first introduced, this Parliament took a lead on that issue and very quickly the rest of the United Kingdom followed. Now that the UK Parliament has taken the lead in championing and enhancing the rights of people with Down syndrome, we in this chamber and those in chambers in Cardiff and Belfast should be passing identical legislation to ensure that everyone with Down syndrome, regardless of where they live in the United Kingdom, have access to equal rights. I honestly am saddened that the Scottish Government has taken the approach that they have to Dr Fox's bill in the new law. Families that have a child with Down syndrome find themselves fighting on several fronts to get the quality of care and support that they already should have the right to. Within the NHS parents are fighting ever-increasing waiting lists and fighting to be regarded as sufficiently urgent. Within the school system, parents are constantly seeking additional support for learning disability. Within our care system, parents are looking at the increasing pressure and are worrying about how their child will cope in the system when they are no longer there to provide support. This law, Dr Fox's bill, makes it a priority for the UK Government to address these issues directly, and we should make it a law in Scotland to make it a priority for the Scottish Government and all levels of government in Scotland. The law also enhances parliamentary accountability, rather than simply granting the Minister power to issue guidance to local authorities. The bill ensures that guidance would be laid before Parliament, and it allows Parliament to look at guidance in real time, allowing parliamentary scrutiny to determine how the guidance is working and if it can be improved. The law also requires a named individual within a health board to be responsible for the application of this legislation, resulting in parents and families knowing who is directly responsible. That is another positive step in improving transparency and accountability within our health service. I say again that I am sad when I talk to Jeremy Balfour about the response that he has received from the Government to his advances that this legislation should be introduced as it stands through this Parliament. I am afraid that sometimes one is left with the conclusion that the Government simply looks at everything, even the chanting of disability rights through the prism of the constitutional debate. Even in a bill that enhances the rights of those with Down syndrome, the SNP is refusing to budge from its set and repetitive narrative of Westminster bad. Those constitutional games by the SNP and Greens will see Scotland being left behind the rest of the United Kingdom in the protection and enhancement of the rights of people with Down syndrome. I urge the Scottish Government to grow up, follow the example set by the UK Parliament and implement identical legislation to empower the lives of those with Down syndrome in Scotland. I recognise their right to respect independence and dignity. I call on the minister to respond to the debate for around seven minutes. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank all colleagues who have contributed to today's debate. I am very pleased that we will be able to discuss folks with Down syndrome this afternoon and move that even further forward to discuss learning disability, autism and neurodiversity. Let me just start off by saying that, in all of this, I certainly won't be playing any constitutional games when it comes to bettering the life of folk with learning disabilities, autism or neurodiversity. That is not what I am about. I am a bit sad that there have been accusations today about the constitution. I would also say that, as Mr Kerr has mentioned, why do we not have identical legislation? Quite simply because we want better legislation. As Mr O'Kane pointed out in his speech, there has been criticism of Liam Fox's bill because it has not been as inclusive as it should be and it has not listened to the voices of lived experience as much as it maybe should have. I agree completely with Mr O'Kane that we should be looking at all of that in terms of a social rather than a medical model. What I will commit to do, Presiding Officer, is to continue to listen to the voices of lived experience as we move forward in all of that. I give a commitment here and now to work in tandem with the cross-party group on learning disability because those voices of lived experience are heard there, as well as in other places. I hope that we can work across this Parliament to get that absolutely right. I will take Mr Balfour. The minister will know that I am introducing a consultation for a disability commissioner for all disabilities in the next couple of weeks. In principle, it is the Government's support of not only one for a certain area but to cover all disabilities and will the Government support my consultation document? First of all, I have not seen Mr Balfour's consultation document and we will look at what responses come back. Again, as Mr O'Kane points out, there was cross-party agreement in all of the manifestos that a learning disability, autism and neurodiversity bill should be introduced to this Parliament. The Government will keep to that commitment. If I can make some progress and I will take in again, Mr Balfour. The Scottish Government is pleased to see the commitment from the UK Government to the Down syndrome bill. We recognise that people with Down syndrome face a range of challenges at all life stages. It is encouraging to see that the UK Government is exploring how best to meet the needs of individuals. The Government here shares the ambition to improve opportunities outcomes and support for people with Down syndrome, and we will continue to do that. We are aware of the cause to extend the application of the Bill to Scotland. However, our position is that we take a wider view of Down syndrome within the right of people with all learning disabilities. The value of that approach was highlighted by Baroness Sal, Brinton, during the Bill's third reading in the House of Lords in 1 April. She said that, if the Bill had the powers that its promoter suggests, there risks being a hierarchy of learning disability. That has already caused a split between families with learning disabilities, all of whom still need to fight for the limited resources to which the law says they are entitled. We have always taken a wider view here in Scotland, where people with Down syndrome are included in current policy work on learning disabilities in a second through the keys to life and towards transformation plan and our work on learning disabilities, autism and neurodiversity Bill. I will return to some of those points later. I will take Mr... Jackson Carlaw. Jackson Carlaw, sorry. Two weeks off. Jackson Carlaw. I knew I was gone, Deputy Presiding Officer. I didn't know I was forgotten. I have known Liam Fox for over 40 years and I am quite sure that everything he has done in relation to this Bill has been completely sincere. I also think that the minister is a man of his word and I have listened with care to the argument that he has undertaken to put to the chamber this afternoon. I am my concerners with those constituents and those people I know who have Down syndrome and have carried with this across their lives. In what he is saying, can he give an assurance that the protections that he expects will emerge out of this for those with Down syndrome, which he has lined with other conditions to, will be no less robust, indeed will be more robust and that he can anticipate and expect this Bill to be forthcoming and to deliver to meously for those people with those conditions. I think that that assurance would be very welcome. Minister, I can give you the time back for both. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I haven't been critical of Dr Fox's Bill but I think that we can go much further and we can do better by listening to the voices of lived experience. We are delighted that Down syndrome Scotland has been very supportive of our work, led by Eddie McConnell, mentioned earlier, who has done a huge amount for people with Down syndrome in Scotland. I will give you the assurance here and now, Mr Carlaw, that we will do our level best. When I just be this chamber that I will be held accountable by, it will be the likes of Eddie McConnell in Down syndrome Scotland. We intend to get this right for people as we move forward. I appreciate that he has not seen my consultation for a disability commissioner, but he will recognise that the disability community across, whether it is physical, mental or other conditions, has been deeply affected due to Covid. Imprinciable, without committing to every detail, is the Scottish Government in favour of not just the commission of renewal, diversity and Down syndrome, but for all disabilities, whatever we are. I will have a look at Mr Balfour's consultation and the responses to it, but what I am speaking about here today and what we are discussing here today is Down syndrome, and what I do give a commitment to here and now is that in our manifesto and in the manifestos of many others, there will be a learning disability, autism and neurodiversity bill during the course of this Parliament, and that will ensure the rights of people with Down syndrome, amongst others, are respected and protected in law. To help to make sure that this new legislation is championed when it is implemented, we plan to create a learning disability as autism and neurodiversity commissioner through that new law. The Government committed to this bill when the First Minister announced it in the Scottish Government's programme for government on 7 September, and we are currently pursuing it to provide and improve support for people with Down syndrome and other learning disabilities. The Government has set out its commitments to people with a learning disability, including those with Down syndrome, and their families through the 2013 keys to life learning disability strategy and the implementation framework, which was refreshed in 2019. No, I need to make progress. Do I get the time back, Presiding Officer? Yes, but briefly, Mr Balfour. This will be my final one, I promise, to the Presiding Officer. Can I seek clarification? Does the minister expect the bill that he is talking about to be presented in September of this year, or will it be beyond that? What date are we looking at? I am not going to give a timeline for this bill because we have to listen to the voices of lived experience in order to get it right. It is not me who will set a timeline for the bill. It will be those voices of lived experience. We know that there are some polarised views around about some issues. We have to iron all of that out and get this right for folk right across Scotland. I am not going to be pushed in the timeline because we need to continue to have conversations. I talked about keys to life in the implementation framework. Additionally, we have published our learning and intellectual disabilities in autism towards transformation plan in March 2021. The plan looks at the actions needed to shape, support services and attitudes to ensure that the human rights of autistic people and people with learning disabilities, including those with Down syndrome, are respected and protected. They must be empowered to live their lives the same as everyone else. The actions in the plan cover all aspects of life. To address health inequalities, the Government has commissioned the Scottish Learning Disability Observatory to undertake research on health outcomes for people with learning disabilities, including people with Down syndrome. Additionally, we are exploring a national roll-out of annual health checks for people with learning disabilities. We are finalising the review of supported employment and implementing the action plan on the recommendations of the additional support for learning review. Finally, the Scottish Government provides funding to Down syndrome Scotland to support people with Down syndrome and their families. That includes family support, speech and language support for children and peer support for adults. In summary, the Government welcomes the UK Government support for the Down syndrome Bill. We will strive to support the needs of people with Down syndrome, their families and people with learning disabilities more broadly, including via the learning disability autism and neurodiversity bill. We want the rights of people with Down syndrome and all people with learning disabilities to be respected and protected. That is what I will strive to do. Hopefully, we can do that with cross-party support. I hope that that is the case as we move forward. I am sure that we all share the view that we need to do our best for people with learning disabilities, autism and neurodiversity in our country. That will take a fair amount of work as we move forward, but I am absolutely adamant that we get the bill right.


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical over low here who talked about a few different horror topics in this video today We'll be talking about scream 7. We'll be talking about saw X. We'll be talking about the nun 2 Sharing a little theory about the nun 3 as well And I'll be ending this by just briefly discussing a quiet place day 1 now Just to start it off here with more comments from Kevin Gruder to we knows returning to the wreck saw X more comments from him in the latest edition of the SFX magazine that came out recently and and several I'll have these several new images that came out recently as well from IGN coming across the screen as I go over these Comments from Kevin, but upon reading the saw X script Members of the production crew who are not previously part of the saw family kept saying they didn't realize the series was this emotional and I'm like well normally it's not it really is a good story and Tobin's character John is more empathetic It sounds crazy because he does some pretty horrendous things But that's the magic of saw that we can have a protagonist. That's that out there Tobin saw X performance is an extension of everything. He's done before He had a really big role in the script development and even brought a lot of that into the film after it was shot Adding some additional ADR lines that were really helpful to us saw X will also explore a question of how did Amanda go from this person Who would do anything for John who would jump off a cliff for him to turning against him as much as she does in three. That's dramatically The material we were working with so these comments, of course Again more things to get you excited Hearing about how people react it to the screenplay in this capacity because it's doing things that many people Don't associate with the saw franchise again growing up as someone who would always watch those sequels Every year and they would drop the consensus around saw was It's just torture porn and even as someone who would watch those sequels I wasn't someone who was rather quick to revisit them and I can honestly say I've probably seen each sequel minus spiral and The one prior to that jigsaw. I've probably seen each sequel. Maybe two not two, but like five or six times at best There is that the consensus around it just being torture porn now The original one I've seen that a handful of times I've seen that seen that about as much as I've seen scream or some of these other horror classics So it's nice to know that we are going to see a side of saw that we know could have always been present Consistently throughout it instead. I think they sacrificed a lot of that for yes relying on Selling the movie for what's the twist gonna be this time and I get it It's been very effective for them But it's gonna be a nice surprise and change of scenery to see this emotional edge to a saw film That has been missing you could argue since that original movie now diving into scream seven Kevin Williamson seems very hopeful about Neve Campbell returning to scream during the happy horror time podcast He had this to say about Neve's absence in six. I totally respect her opinion. I know exactly where she's coming from I know her well. I love and adore her and that's what she did. It's right for her I love everyone involved in scream and all I can say is pay her the money. That's what I would do I would give her the money. I'm sure there's a num a number they can agree on that will make them both happy So hopefully one day they will figure that all out now. I will say this Some people need to keep in mind those of us Who are on the outside looking in we have nothing to do with the pay and a lot of people Involved with these productions have nothing to do with the pay It is not up to Kevin Williamson if Sydney Prescott or if Neve Campbell can get paid or not He can only do so much sure he can advocate for I have no knowledge of if he advocated for her I have no doubt that he probably did though. And even if he didn't That's that's really not any of our business outside of the fact that we're just fans I will just say that for anyone that wants to come down on Kevin Neve has already been More cryptic about her involvement this time and since Kevin is involved with seven and she was negotiating prior to the strikes I'm hearing Kevin's words and going he obviously knows more than he can say that's my thought process right now Plus major outlets are running it as he wants her to return and that's not what he said But enough is aligning right now for me to believe Neve will return in some capacity in scream 7 and that They have started to figure it out as Kevin put it that they should figure it out I think they have started to figure it out and I think Kevin knows that they have Beyond just paying her we again need a quality storyline for miss Prescott give her something to do make it worthwhile Don't just have her here for the sake of hey, you know, we need it Nostalgia bait and you know, we're not gonna really give you anything to do We're just gonna Ellen bursting you into this film But diving into the nun to the nun to mid credit scenes What was it if you don't want to know click away come back in my thing like a minute or two But I want to discuss this and speculate on what happens in the nun three possibly So many of you might have noticed that I lied in a tweet I put out last week or sometime earlier this week Because I caught on to IMDB and other sites and some of you even sent something to me Putting listings up of certain cast members that shouldn't have been there And I wanted to try to preserve the surprise as much as I could for people who just follow me See my tweet see my post on YouTube. I want to try to preserve that surprise for you But yes, Ed and Lorraine Warren are in this movie as a mid-credit scene I have found out about this in July or June, but the scene shows the Warren mailbox Ed answers the phone And I think he's like how can we help father? So what I'm assuming is happening here is Maurice must have married Sophie's mom But Valak of course is still inside of him And the nun three will show us a full feature film of the Warrens encounter with Maurice and how they got Valak removed from him once and for all simply simple theory not too complicated and the reason I'm assuming Sophie's mom is his wife is because Maurice was said to have had a wife in the very first conjuring film and This sequel does a much better job again Like I said that convinced me that Frenchie is Maurice because it started laying the groundwork for at least one of those bits That Ed mentioned about Maurice in his description of him in the original film We're starting to see groundwork being done for a wife to appear at some point in another sequel with Maurice We don't have anything though on this molestation that apparently went on with Maurice From his father in the first nun. He's actually talking very Proudly about his father more so than negatively Then again, I don't know when the molestation occurred, but that's neither here nor there Since I ended my video prematurely I'll just inject it here But the next thing I want to touch on actually is gonna be the strangers the trilogy coming from Lionsgate because we actually have had a Rescheduling of this panel that was supposed to happen this past summer. It's now gonna happen this fall according to Comic-con New York Comic-Con that being there'll be an exclusive first look at the Strangers trilogy Taking place on October 12th at New York Comic-Con the description here reads director Renny Harlan and producer Courtney Solomon will discuss the Strangers and will provide an exclusive first look from their new horror trilogy releasing from Lionsgate in 2024 now we know Madeline Pesh will be starring as the Protagonist the main protagonist I can only assume of this trilogy.  You can do anything, but They're gonna give us our first look this fall this October at New York Comic-Con Someone apparently will be in attendance with them. I can only assume it will be Madeline Pesh That's why I can only assume it will be it could be someone else Maybe it's someone who is associated with the previous entries that they're gonna have brought in to confirm that they're gonna also be in the movie as a way to Show us that this is still within the same universe because we know it is in the same universe according to one of the cast members But it's been described as this remake and this reboot It's more so a reboot if anything if it's still set in the same universe And I'm curious if yes They will give us some type of cult angle where they'll loop in that the people from the first two movies are associated with these new People because there's a cult of these type of people individuals that go around and maybe they have some type of connection Offscreen that we don't get to see their interactions, of course, and maybe that's how they'll weave it all together But you'll get your first look at the Stranger trilogy this October. I want to share that with you guys now. We'll jump into the last topic here Jumping into a quiet place a quiet place day one had a test screening last night The first one ever and it seems to have went rather well for the most part I can say that the biggest issue I can see myself having with this movie might be the pacing if they don't trim things Although I'm sure a lot of this is going to be trimmed down Lupita Nyago and Joseph Quinn apparently do a wonderful job in their roles And the ending can be one of the most moving Finalies of the three films so far depending on how it's executed on screen I'm going to do a separate video to talk about this more But Joseph Quinn seemed to be praised by most people in attendance at this screening They did have some gripes with the character, but overall the consensus with that he did a phenomenal job So for all of my Stranger Things fans out there This might be another major performance on his resume. The mystique of these creatures seems to also not be squandered But we learned more about them in a small degree. I'd say and there's a nice callback to the original film involving a Waterfall so I will have a separate video up talking about that Let me know just think about this down in the comment section below if you haven't already course make sure you subscribe turn on Post notifications video in the description. I'll have links on my social media accounts I'm on Facebook turn Instagram you can message me there of course Let me do any movies news reviews let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


Hello Freedom, today I'd like to talk to you about writing a proper sponsorship letter. People have been asking me for a very long time how to do this. So here we go. The very first thing that I tell anyone who wants to do this to do is to set up something on their Gmail called canned responses. Canned responses is an awesome tool that you can use for a lot of things, especially if you receive and respond to a lot of emails. But also if you're sending out a lot of emails, you can use it as well. So very first thing that we need to do is we need to go up to the gear here and we need to go into settings. And here you can set up in labs, just search for canned responses right there. You can see I have it enabled. Now that we have canned responses enabled, we can use them. So when you're writing a new email, you'll notice a little box here. You can go to canned responses and it will actually give you all of the different ones that you've set up. You can either insert, you can save or delete. Here you'll see that I actually have one set up for a software review. So go ahead and get rid of that. Alright so this is actually a very basic template that I use. Of course every time I customize it, but as you can see it's very short, it's very succinct. It's just very simple. My name is Anthony Smith. I run a YouTube channel and I link to the channel that focuses primarily on gaming, gaming related content as well as software tutorials and reviews where I have around at the time that this was written. It was 7,000 subscribers. That channel is now at about 10,000 and about 2,000 daily views. I'm contacting you because I would love to cover your program, whatever it may be, now that it's come out on Steam or whatever I would probably change that to if it were not a Steam program. I would love to know if you would be as so kind as to provide a review copy of program so that I can compare and contrast it in review. And also a second paragraph describing the kinds of things that I do and the kind of things I would love to do for them. It's very simple. The main thing about writing a letter like this is that you don't want to tell people your life story, though it may be tempting to tell someone that you do videos after school or that your father just died two weeks ago or that you come from a bad neighborhood and that YouTube helps you stay out of trouble. These are things that you definitely want to talk about to your friends, to your fans, but they're not relevant to what the company wants from you and what you're offering to them. Here you'll actually see an older version of much the same letter that you just read, except this is actually a follow-up email that I would tailor to whatever it is that I would send out. So for instance, the very first sentence is simply, I recently attempted to contact you about reviewing your game. I wanted to try again just in case I mistyped the address or the message was somehow lost in spam. Here's the thing. These people who make these decisions about sponsoring you with products, games, review units, whatever it is, they get a lot of these requests. The key to your success is to stand out amongst the crowd. This is a letter that you would send about seven to ten days after your initial request. If you send it, say, the following day and people do recognize you and they see that you're being pushy or overzealous, they're going to dismiss you immediately. However, if they do remember you vaguely and maybe they just didn't get back to you, this will actually bring you a lot of respect. It's also important that I note here linking things is going to be a huge success to you. So for instance, here I linked the YouTube channel that I'm talking about and here I actually linked to SocialBlade so that they can see that I'm not bluffing about my numbers. When you write a letter like this, it's going to be selling yourself. You also want to make sure that you read over everything. If you customize something between sends, make sure that it's spell-checked. For instance, here you'll see that the word let's play. It's not necessarily a word that's recognized by dictionaries, but it is properly spelled. You want to make sure that you have everything set and set properly, otherwise you risk making a bad first impression. Funny story, I actually sent one of these letters to Mojang, but didn't customize it for the game or for what I was asking for. Lydia Winters emailed me back and basically said, yeah, next time you might want to maybe fill in what it is you want. That was kind of a learning experience for me. In the description below, you'll find a copy of my letter. Now, this is the same basic letter that I've been using since around 400 subscribers or so. I will leave a copy of this so you can copy and paste it, re-work it into something that fits your channel. And hopefully you can have the same success that I've had over the years. There's actually a second method that you can use and it involves trading services and favors. So for instance, let me pull up a very, very old email. So here you'll see a support ticket. I couldn't actually find an email for this particular company, so I decided I would open a ticket with their support. And I simply told them that I was a YouTube commentator looking to do more tutorials and looking for a small scale sponsor to create some tutorials for their Minecraft servers and the like. And believe it or not, at my very small size at the time, which was about maybe 800 or 1,000 subscribers, because I was doing tutorials for them on my channel, they gave me a server that I could play with, play on, collaborate on, and work with. 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The Manjoon Center for Disease Control and CDC has announced 137 additional coronavirus infections with two deaths across eight states in the federal capital territory, FCT. The NCDC made the announcement via its verified websites late on Saturday. The 137 new cases indicated a decline from the 269 cases reported the previous day in Africa's most populous nation. The public health agency notes that the new infections have raised the total number of infections in the country to 207,616, stating that the country's total death toll now stands at 2,745. The center noted that 195,132 cases had been cleared and discharged while 9,741 were still down with the disease across the country as at October 9. NCDC added that in the latest states, the epicenter of the disease was leading in the latest tally with 46 cases followed by the FCT with 35 cases while Cardinal State in North West recorded 20 cases to rank third.


Backwind of our media in the same pub after the same Croydon canvas. I'm delighted to be joined by everyone's favorite Can I call you comedy writer Satire, isn't it Satire in The Independent? Yeah, don't call it Satire Comic call me a comic a comic. All right mark steal mark steal people. All right I want to ask you how has as a comic This election has provided quite a lot of material, right It has provided material, but I don't think I mean my mate Jeremy Hardy says that he gets fed up of people saying Oh, Donald Trump must be marvelous for you Providing all this material and he just goes. Yeah, but I have a human being as well I don't think oh, I'd rather the world didn't explode in the next four years. Just so it gave me a couple of jokes Uh, so I you know, I am the human being as well And I'd really really desperately want labor to do as well as possible in this election Even more in this election than any other election because of more votes it gets the more people have put their name to A world in which we at least try to look after each other rather than just go Get out. It's not I'm not why should I pay for something that I'm not using Why should I pay for the L service? I'm not ill If you want to if you want to have a fire brigade you pay for it. I'm not on fire Why should I pay for it just because you want to be carried down a smoky alleyway on someone's shoulders? Have you always been a labor man? Well, I've always been on the the left. I haven't always supported labor necessarily There were there have been elections where I've supported All right, I don't want to get you in trouble with the uh With what they're caught. He's always I've always. Yeah. Yeah, I've always wanted I've always wanted labor to win an election In Navarra media, we haven't always supported labor. We're we're we're Corbyn converts Although I think we're probably in it for for the long haul now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No excellent and uh I don't know. I think we just got to do as absolutely well as possible the more votes There is for Corbyn the more people that get out the more the more chance there is that there's a That there's the more chance that there is that there will be a a significant body of a political Opinion in this country that says we have to change a society where a handful of people of greedy people at the top Just swipe everything and that's the only way that things can work and If he gets no votes Then the considered opinion will be there'll be no project that says we can oppose that if he gets all the votes Are probably there ought to be a recount No, I like I kind of feel like this election more than any other is a bit of like a referendum on can we live in a civilized society? That's it. It's a referendum on can we live in a civilized society? That should have been the slogan at the beginning. That's brilliant. That's brilliant. That's brilliant I must admit one one because this is my manner. We're in I know one uh, you can quite it. Yeah, I'm very much crystal palace. Yeah So I I knocked on one door at one point tonight the guy said, yeah, yeah, all right Mark still with it I'm voting like a mate Jeremy Corbyn. Love him. I'll see you down the palace. Oh, yeah I'll say you season ticket. Yeah, I'm a season ticket holder. We spent 20 minutes talking about the virtues of wilfred zahar crystal palace his magnificent winger and uh Probably wasn't time best spent was it? I don't know. It's not about burning relationships, you know We can't be instrumental about the whole thing. It's about human relationships. It is brilliant Zaha, yeah, I don't know enough about foot. I don't know about enough about foot. Well, that's one of my flaws as a camera He's very very good So this is going out on election day We are selling for it before I want you I want you looking into the camera I want you you get you telling people what they need to do today why they need to do it What's your hopes and fears? Right?  Thank you so much for joining us mark still Uh fingers crossed for tomorrow I've said it before I'll say it again after you've done everything you can possibly do To get a socialist government by tomorrow morning get home Relax tune into navara's all night live coverage of the election results. See you then


Time for the Laun Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour brought to you every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A presentation of the Laun Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Laun Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Laun Jean. Good evening. This is David Ross. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Laun Jean Chronoscope. Mr. William Bradford Huey, editor of the American Mercury, and Mr. Henry Haslett, contributing editor of Newsweek and editor of The Freeman. Our distinguished guest for this evening is the Honorable James G. McDonald, former United States Ambassador to Israel. The opinions expressed are necessarily those of the speakers. Well, Mr. McDonald, it's a very great pleasure to have you on the Chronoscope program this evening, and it's especially a great pleasure to me because I remember our friendly association on the New York Times when we were both editorial writers there and had adjoining rooms. Well, I think you left sometime in about 1938, and a lot of things have happened since then. The whole face of the world has changed, and you in particular have added a very rich experience. And you have been our first ambassador, this country's first ambassador to Israel. And you have been also one of the foremost Americans in support of that country. And we'd like tonight to discuss some of the problems of that country and some of the progress that it's made. So I'd like to begin by asking you the question which it seems to me most Americans are interested in and are most troubled about. And that is, do you think that Israeli, Israel and the Arab states will be able to work out a real peace? I think there will be no war between Israel and the Arab states. The situation now as an armistice is that what? There is an armistice with each of the four immediate neighbors, with Egypt, with Jordan, with Syria and with the Lebanon. But I do not anticipate that these armistices will actually be transformed into treaties of peace in the near future. Why is that? Because the Arabs, for the most part, see no reason for making peace, their standing path. And they, I think mistakenly, hope that Israel will fall in its own weight because of the vast number of Jewish immigrants that have been coming to the country and because of the economic burdens which the new state now bears. Well, they think that preparedness, a constant state of preparedness on the part of Israel will force those economic burdens to be heavier, is that part of what they're... Well, the preparedness burden is across one thing. But beyond that, the Arabs feel that the Jews, by having brought into their country nearly 700,000 refugees, when there were only 650,000 Jews there to begin with, have taken on a burden which will be too heavy for them. Now, sir, can you explain quickly for our audience just what the economic problem is in Israel? First, how large is Israel? Is it the size of one of our states? Well, about the size of New Hampshire. About the size of New Hampshire and what is the population? About a million and a half. And that, of course, has been a rapidly growing population. It's doubled in four years. And what type of industry there? What do the people do to earn? What is the national product? Well, the product which is best known is citrus. The Israelis claim that they have the best oranges and the best grapefruit in the world. I understand that the California and Florida do not agree. And they export citrus products? Yes, that's their largest export. They export certain other specialties. But the measure of their economic, what you economists call imbalance, is the fact that their exports are only about one-eighth of their imports. Now, and since they are now importing eight times the value of their exports, how do they make up the difference there? Well, they don't make it up at present because these imports are in large part loans or gifts. And so far as they are loans, they constitute, of course, obligations which Israel will sooner or later have to meet. And isn't that one of the things you're interested in now in helping to promote the sale of the bonds of the country? Yes, one of the methods which Israel is using now to meet this imbalance is to try to sell in this country a total of $500 million worth of Israel bonds over a period of three years. The proceeds to be used to buy American tools, machines, supplies of all sorts to undergird the economy of the new state. Has there been any criticism to the effect that Israel has been trying to industrialize too fast? It's the most industrialized country in that area, isn't it? Yes, there has been that criticism. But you see, if you have 650,000 Jews in Israel, as was the case, to start with, you bring in within four years 700,000 more. Well, there has to be something for them to do. Agriculture is not sufficient and it's too slow. Can't employ them, yes. Can't employ them. And then they have to begin to do things for themselves, make their own shoes, make their own clothes so that not everything has to be bought from the outside. Well, do you know offhand what the percentage of the national income is from industry now as compared with agriculture or the percentage of employment in the two? A rough idea? I'm afraid I can't give you the figures which would be nearly enough accurate to justify presenting them here. I'm sure so that our audience should be interested in the approximate value of the American investment in Israel over the four years that it's been a nation. How much American money has gone into the Israel experiment? Well, American money has gone into Israel in various forms. First place, there have been substantial United States government loans to Israel. First, a loan of $100 million from the Export-Import Bank, subsequently a special agricultural loan of $35 million, and more recently a grant in aid of some $60 million, thus making a total of over $200 million of American governmental funds, loans or grants. In addition to that, there have been over this period of years substantial philanthropic gifts from the so-called UJA, the United Jewish Appeal in this country, totaling well over $100 million. Plus that, there is the proceeds from the bonds. The total sold up to date is about $125 million. Perhaps Israel has received as much as $70 million from that proceeds. In addition, you have, of course, private investments, which have also total a large sum. Well, of the contributions and investments all together, about what percentage has the United States furnished or has come from the United States, both as compared with the rest of the world? Well, I've never seen the figure put down in black and white, but it must be very large. It must be 90 or 95 percent. And we Americans then have about an excess of $500 million, you would estimate, now invested in Israel. Yes, that and more. Now, could you tell us just something about these 700,000 people who've come in?  What type are these sick people, old people, skilled people? They are all sorts. The Israelis did not discriminate as nearly all countries, including our own do, against old age, against invalidism, and so on. Israel took them all. They came from about 60 different countries. And the other day, well, I say the other day, about three weeks ago, I was in Bereshiba. You remember the old biblical saying from Dan in the north to Bereshiba in the south? A few years ago, there were only a couple thousand Arabs in that town. Now there are about 20,000 Jews. I went to the school, talked to the director. He said we have 22 languages in our school. That's a measure of the diversity of the people who have come. The official language is now Hebrew, isn't it? That's right. But how many people actually speak it or are able to speak it? Well, the children speak Hebrew except the children of new immigrants, and they learn it very quickly. They learn it so quickly there was very discouraging to me. The child who's been in the country for six months will chatter Hebrew on the street like a sabra. That's a native born. But adults are more polygons. Well, adults, many of them speak their own languages. But the educated Israeli, the government official for the most part, will speak five or six or seven or eight languages. They're not illiterate linguistically as we are. For instance, the other day I met a young child in Jerusalem, and I said, what languages do you speak? She was 10. She said, I speak Arabic and Hebrew and French and German and Italian, and I'm learning Spanish. What language did you ask the question in? Well, I asked you. I asked it in English. As a final question, Mr. McDonald, I'm sure that our audience would like you to tell us something. What is the morale in the country? Has there been any disillusionment? Are the people still enthusiastic over their efforts to create a new nation? The people are still enthusiastic and confident. But as you know, it's easier to be unqualifiedly enthusiastic in time of war. Now has come the hard economic pull, and inevitably there has been and is a measure of disillusionment. But as a supporter of this human experiment, you yourself are still confident that it is going to work out satisfactorily. I am, and I'm confident that it will be a civilizing and modernizing and democratizing influence in the whole of the... And you regard it as one of the hopeful developments in the world today. One of the few hopeful ones. Yes. Well, thank you very much for being with us tonight, sir. The editorial board for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope was Mr. William Bradford Huey and Mr. Henry Haslett. Our distinguished guest was the Honorable James G. McDonald, former United States Ambassador to Israel. Next to the class pin or ring, the most wanted memento of graduation is a fine watch, and for most graduates, that means the world's most honored watch, Lawn Jean. And do you know you may buy and proudly give to your favorite graduate your choice of any of these Lawn Jean watches for exactly $71.50, and no other name on a watch means so much as Lawn Jean, the world's most honored graduation watch. 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