Technology has come with a price. Electricity, Wi-Fi, even something like a space heater. All emit certain types of radiation. Commonly referred to as EMF, electric and magnetic fields, these types of emissions are not native. That means they're drastically higher than the natural environment we are accustomed to living in on this planet. And some people might say, oh well, the sun is stronger than everything else. Yes, but radiation is not comparative. It is cumulative. You don't want to add dozens of different types and just say, oh yeah, well, since those are lower than this, it's fine, no. Once you understand that everything is made up of energy, including the human brain, our thoughts are literally energy waves, it becomes obvious that this energy-altering, non-native radiation is a problem. Real quick, I have created wifi-shielding.com to provide you guys with protective clothing at the most affordable price online against the most dangerous type of radiation radio frequency. So definitely check out wifi-shielding.com. I'll touch on that more later. The general consensus on these devices is contradictory. Years ago, the average person would tell you that living near a power line or a cell tower is obviously not safe. There have even been blatantly obvious cases of cancer, leukemia from people living near these devices, yet the mainstream media, telecom companies have remained adamant in the safety of these devices. My video several months back titled Why Non-Ionizing Radiation is Dangerous covers this. And I also spoke about why microwaves are dangerous sometime before that. So the main focus here is not to explain why EMF is bad, how it damages the body. I already did that in those two videos. What we wanna do here is identify the three types of fields. And the reason I focus so much on EMF is every single one of my clients has drastically improved their health simply by reducing the exposure in their environment. A vast amount of symptoms can be caused by chronic exposure to these non-native frequencies. Sleep disturbances, insomnia, headache, depression, fatigue, tiredness, neurological issues related to concentration, especially memory, irritability, poor digestion, including candida, SIBO, loss of appetite. And those are just instances of direct exposure to EMF, what we could call mild symptoms of radiation poisoning. The constant oxidative stress can be a catalyst to just about any disease we have now, whether it be autoimmune or diabetes. Thing is, most people can't live without these devices anymore. Everyone is basically glued to their cell phone all day, entranced with social media. So unless someone is put in a dire circumstance, they would never question the safety of these devices. And even if they were, most of the time it can't be figured out.  For me, it was sleeping near a router for a couple of days. And I was really into gaming, League of Legends back five, six years ago. So I moved my family's router into my room. So I had a good direct internet connection. And after several nights of insomnia, which is something I never experienced at the time, something I'm very familiar with now, I pieced two and two together. I literally started Googling, does a router cause insomnia? And that's how I discovered EMF. I mean, after I moved the router out of my room, things returned to normal. But several years later, EMF was the catalyst for many of my current health issues. So I've made it a goal to reduce it as much as possible. And in order to do that, we have to understand what types of radiation there are and how to reduce, ultimately, avoid them as much as possible. There's three main types of EMF, electric fields, magnetic fields, and radio frequencies. Electric fields such as power lines, electrical wiring, all the stuff running through these walls, the lighting that's frying my face right now. Most electrical devices can be linked to adverse health effects. Although these are of concern and should be reduced, they're not nearly as harmful or invasive due to their close proximity requirement. You know, the electricity running through your walls is usually pretty far away from you most of the time. But if you take like a heating blanket, an electric blanket, and put that right next to you, that's a unique circumstance where you would have a problem with an electric field. It's pretty much impossible to avoid them completely without turning off the circuit breaker to your house. Magnetic fields are much less spoken about because their power dissipates very quickly. The main concern in the average household is a circuit breaker as well as where the power lines attach to the house. Ideally, you want most of your living and sleeping space as far away from those devices as possible as they cannot be efficiently shielded due to their incredibly high penetrative capabilities. That includes the actual like wooden power poles where the lines are coming from. So if your house is really close to those or close to the street, you might have a problem. They cannot be effectively shielded. They are too strong. They are too penetrative. This is precisely why high voltage power lines and towers are placed away from homes or residential living areas. You would literally have to encase yourself completely in like one foot thick lead which is too expensive and just not reasonable. By far the most dangerous radio frequency fields, cell phones, cell towers, smart meters, all Wi-Fi devices such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Netflix, microwaves, baby monitors, heart monitors, smart watches, Fitbits. The new five grams, the past three grams and four grams are the most harmful type of field as they can travel very far. There's a lot of these devices and they penetrate our cells in a different way. They cause massive amounts of oxidative stress and simply by wearing protective clothing and sleeping in a bed canopy, you're able to effectively reduce your exposure to notice a drastic improvement in your health. Pretty much no invasive lifestyle changes just by wearing clothing and you can effectively reduce your EMF exposure by over 70%. One thing that's really scary is that with every release in new types of technology, radio frequencies, whether it be radio, different upgrades to cell phone signaling, there was an accompanied sickness, some sort of mass outbreak. These people in charge of our world know these devices make us very sick through changing the native frequencies on our planet. So they need something to point the blame at when people do get sick from this infrastructure they set up. There's a reason the highest level elite people don't use cell phones. They live in isolated areas away from EMF. So as we said, electric fields can be avoided by having everything properly wired, unplugging things when you go to bed.  Magnetic fields, as we said, impractical to block. You'd have to be encased in lead or some sort of heavy metal. And radio frequency can actually be blocked by cinder block, brick, mortar, more easily metal because a much lighter, thin piece of metal like the silver line clothing I'm wearing can actually effectively block the radio frequencies. But you have to imagine this Wi-Fi, it's like the sun, it's like a ray of light beaming everywhere. Wi-Fi is coming at you from everywhere.  But I'll do an updated video on how to protect yourself from household Wi-Fi devices efficiently using various techniques. It's kind of weird how this worked out because I'm launching like three things this week. I did the fitness routine Monday, we did the best bars yesterday. Today I'm talking about my new Wi-Fi clothing that I will highlight tomorrow. If you wanna get a head start and order some now, you can check out the website. But I see, you know, protective clothing and shielding devices as necessities and you can't really fix your health in a lot of cases without doing that. I would say reducing Wi-Fi in the environment is more important than diet, more important than exercise. And the only real way to reduce the Wi-Fi for most people is to wear that protective clothing, t-shirts, underwear, head protection, even make Faraday cages to sleep in. So you can go to wifishielding.com, see what we have available and tomorrow I will do a video highlighting each article of clothing, explaining it a little more in depth and then maybe we can do some more videos this week clarifying some stuff depending on what you guys have to ask. So hopefully this gives you an understanding of the first steps you need to take to ultimately fix your environment so you feel better, you have more energy, you're a lot healthier from all points of view. So thank you guys for joining me today. If you could please like the video, definitely share it on social media if you have access to that and I'll leave you a comment down below. You can go to wifishielding.com as I mentioned several times and then frank-to-faraday.com to see everything else that's going on. So thanks again for joining me guys. I will see you for tomorrow's video.


Propaganda restricts speech more than censorship does. Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. The biggest impediment to free speech is people's belief that they have it. Not censorship, not refusal to platform critical voices, not the war on journalism. It's the fact that most people are propagandized into saying what the powerful want them to say, and don't know it. What makes our dilemma so historically unique is that we live under an empire which makes extensive use of the post-Bernet's science of mass-scale psychological manipulation to trick its subjects into believing that they are thinking, speaking, and gathering information freely. In this way, our rulers suppress any revolution long before it starts. Not by making people's lives better, nor by violent repression, but by manipulating people into thinking there's nothing to revolt against because they have no rulers, and they are already free. In our civilization, most people are thinking, speaking, gathering information, working, shopping, moving, and voting exactly as our rulers want them to because these mass-scale psychological conditioning systems have been imposed to keep human behavior aligned with the empire.   That's not free speech, that's deeply enslaved speech, but they can't see it by design. This problem can be addressed simply by bringing awareness to it in every way we can. Manipulation only works if you don't know it's happening, so drawing attention to it and describing how it happens in as many ways as possible helps people to start seeing through it. If the culture war looks like a Psyop to you, it's because it is. I've seen some people call it a distraction, and to be sure, it serves the powerful to keep everyone arguing about subjects that threaten the powerful in no way. But it actually goes a lot further than that. The Imperial propaganda machine uses culture war wedge issues to hurt us into mainstream political factions like a shepherd uses sheepdogs, always keeping us too evenly divided to accomplish anything and reinforcing echo chambers to aid in propaganda. There's a tweet by Caitlyn. You'll never convince me that it's an organic phenomenon that the population always splits itself into two equal oppositional political factions which always leaves them in a deadlock, unable to get anything done, and it always deadlocks in a way that benefits the rich and powerful. Culture war wedging is a big part of the way they herd people into the ideological funneling system I've been talking about lately, which keeps the overwhelming majority of politically engaged people thinking, speaking, and voting in alignment with the Empire. As many people as possible are herded into two mainstream factions of equal size, which both prevent all meaningful change and serve the interests of the powerful. Anyone who can't be herded into either of these mainstream factions is instead herded into fake populist factions, which eventually corral them back into the mainstream factions. Those few politically engaged people who can't be herded toward any of these groups are so small in number that they can simply be marginalized and deny a sizable platform from which to spread their ideas. And democracy does the rest, because the majority are supporting the status quo. Care about protecting trans rights? You get herded into this mainstream faction over here.  You get herded into this mainstream faction over there. In this way, people are corralled into political parties that are designed to serve the Empire. If you can suck someone who's critical of militarism and empire into the culture war, suddenly they start believing absurd things, like that opposing the woke agenda is as important as opposing war, or that electing Ron DeSantis would be a devastating blow to the deep state. Now instead of focusing on the US Empire's nefarious behaviors and critically viewing all mainstream politics, that person is focused on Dylan Mulvaney, and will throw their support behind any mainstream politician who says Target needs to stop selling rainbow shoelaces during Pride Month. You see people herded into both mainstream political factions over and over again with this stuff they keep hammering day after day after day, thereby bolstering the power structure the parties which represent those factions are designed to support. They do it because it works. None of this means the issues raised by the culture war sigh-up are unimportant. It just means it's a sigh-up. It's something the powerful leverage to their advantage, and it's important for us to be acutely aware of that and direct our political energy and attention accordingly. The fact that US presidents are always murderous monsters regardless of party or platform becomes less strange and mysterious when you stop thinking of the United States as a good or neutral player on the world stage and recognize it as the hub of an empire fueled by human blood. That's why I just ignore US presidential elections these days except to point out what a sham they are. A lot of well-intentioned people still hold out hope that the US can be made healthy by the right president, but anyone who would do so will never get anywhere near the presidency. The operation of a globe-spanning empire is too important to be left in the hands of voters. Nothing will ever be permitted to happen that could impede the operation of the empire as long as those who benefit from that empire are able to prevent it from happening. There's just too much power riding on it. It's so destructive and degrading how the products of mainstream culture, movies, shows, music, etc. are produced not based on how edifying, transformative, and adventurous they can be, but on how much money they can make. The arts, which get the most traction in our society, wind up being not those which call us into the higher aspects of our being and encourage us to explore the bounds of human experience and potential, but those which deliver a quick ego hit and pump the brain full of fast-reward neurochemicals. It's been this way for generations and it's all people know. That everything is confined in this way starves the populace of all nourishment of mind and heart, and it narrows the scope among artists on their ideas of what is possible and what's worthwhile. It has shrunk the confines of what artists have been willing to explore by orders of magnitude, and it's resulted in a mainstream culture that is shallow, power-serving, and uninspired from top to bottom. Humanity would look much different and the world would be a much better place if this hadn't been happening all these years. Capitalist culture is brain poison. Someday the leaders of ecocidal corporations will be put on trial for their crimes against our planet, and their defense that they did it to generate profits for their shareholders will be treated the same as war criminals, saying they were just following orders.


Seeing no further introduction of guests it's therefore time for a member of statements, the member from Simcoe Gray. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Speaker, my constituents, Al Saeed and his sons, Irby and MZ, have been doing something amazing, volunteer work in the town of New DeCombs in recent months. Irby and MZ both volunteered in the Canadian Cancer Society, CIBC run for the QR on October 1st. They've also been active in the community gathering signatures on my petition for the redevelopment of Stevens and Memorial Hospital in Alliston. Irby and MZ are only in grade 11 and 12 and yet they fully understand the importance of the hospital's redevelopment for the future of the community and they've taken time from their busy schedules to help build support for the project as a whole. It's wonderful to see my young constituents involved with important community initiatives and I thank them. Mr. Speaker, I know that these young men have a very bright future in front of them. Their mother is Dr. Shazia M. Breen, a physician in Anesthesis. It's the hospital in Alliston. Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of attending an awards ceremony with the College of Physicians and Surgeons. She received the Ontario College Award for 2017 for being a terrific doctor. Irby and MZ told us what motivated them into action. I quote, Alliston may very well be a small rural community compared to big urban cities like Toronto, but it sure has a big heart and a sense of a closely knit community where everyone contributes and looks after each other. Stevens and Memorial Hospital is not only not an ordinary hospital, it's the heart and center of this community. We are young students and we might not know many details, but one thing we know for sure, this community needs a bigger and up-to-date hospital to look after its growing population. Again, I want to thank this astounding family, very proud to know them and proud to serve them. Thank you for the members, the members from Winsor West. Thank you, Speaker. I recently took part in two ride-alongs. One with Windsor Community Outreach Team, or Outreach and Support Team, also known as COST, and the other with Assertive Community Treatment, also known as ACT. The COST team consists of a plain clothes police officer and a crisis worker from Hotel Dew Grace Healthcare. They provide on-site crisis and mental health assessments to vulnerable individuals in Windsor who are marginalized, have complex mental health and psychosocial problems, housing and financial issues, substance abuse, physical health care needs, and frequent contact with police and hospital emergency services. They facilitate access to community services and supports in order to divert from the criminal justice system and or hospital emergency departments.  They reach out to people where and when they need help in their home, at the ACT office, and in the community. They ensure a response for people who are in crisis, no matter what day of the week. They are referred to as a hospital without walls. In Windsor they support up to 200 individuals. Speaker, one in five people suffer with mental health issues in Ontario. Many people find themselves in crisis and don't know where to go for help, or can't access help quickly due to weightless and capacity issues. Windsor's coast and ACT teams are working very hard to provide support to those struggling with mental health issues, when and where they need it. Speaker, I can say without hesitation they are making an incredible positive impact on the lives of the most vulnerable in Windsor. Windsor is a better community because of our coast and ACT teams. Thank you for the member for Mrs. Saga Streetsville. Thank you, Speaker. Improvements to our GO stations in western Mississauga will continue in 2018. The Meadowvale GO station building will be completely replaced. First opened in 1981, the station building is showing its vintage. The rapidly growing number of commuters using the station building means that we need a bigger, more modern structure. Along with the new station building, which includes more accessible facilities, Meadowvale GO commuters will also see the parking lot reconfigured to make access easier and the layout more efficient. The passenger pickup and drop-off areas will be modernized. A better bus loop will both protect passengers from the weather and improve connections between the train and the bus. Some damaged and worn-out catch basins and storm sewer lines will be fixed. The Meadowvale GO parking lot will be improved. Meadowvale commuters will also benefit from better pedestrian connections and improve bicycle storage. A new station operations west facility will be built to accommodate future office, warehouse and parking needs for GO operations. The stations operations west facility will also be located in Meadowvale. Continuing improvements to all our GO stations represent action now to make commuting better, more frequent and more accessible at least through the first half of the 21st century. Thank you, Speaker. Treaties Recognition Week across the province. And I'm proud to share that the Blue Water District School Board and Here in Bruce participated in celebrating the history and culture of Indigenous peoples by incorporating a variety of activities in classrooms across the county. And Sogine District Secondary School, for example, orchestrated a school-wide art project and exhibit on the seven grandfather teachings. Bravery, respect, love, wisdom, honesty, humility, truth. They're all values that we can embrace and move forward on and hold near to our heart. Hillcrest Central School in Teaswater focused on the roles that the Indigenous peoples played in the two world wars during the Remembrance Day ceremony. And many schools had celebrations telling Indigenous stories through song, dance and art. Thank you to the many students who participated in Treaties Recognition Week. Continuing to build on these educational opportunities for its students, Sogine District Secondary School will also be hosting learning activities for staff during the November 24th Professional Activity Day. I look forward to continuing to see the wonderful activities our school systems across the province have planned that help celebrate all cultures and our Indigenous friends. And remember the seven grandfather teachings. Bravery, respect, love, wisdom, honesty, humility, and truth. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Further member of statements? The member from Canora Rainy River. Thank you, Speaker. Home care in the Northwest is in shambles. This is certainly the case in Canora Rainy River, where my offices have been hit hard by an alarming number of complaints in Canora, Dryden and Sulakout. The concerns are almost always the same. Patients leave hospital because the beds are needed and are assured that services will be available in their homes only to be discharged and to find out that nobody shows up or care is at best sporadic. In one case, a gentleman deemed high priority because he is paralyzed, lives alone and suffers from short-term memory loss. Regularly experiences days where his worker does not show up. Sometimes he is told that he is not even on the list of that day's visits. He is now at the point where he has said that he will stop taking his medication altogether because the workers are never there to help him take it anyway. And now many frontline workers are threatening to walk out because they say working conditions are so bad at Peramed that there is no way to administer proper home care to clients across the region. My offices have repeatedly sounded the alarm bells about home care needs in the Northwest and we continue to hear back from the ministry that quote the Linn is monitoring their performance on an ongoing basis unquote. Northerners cannot afford to wait while this situation is monitored or for this government to roll out some new plan. We need immediate action to improve the access and reliability of home care services in the Northwest. Thank you. The member from Scarborough Rouge River on a point of order. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm very, very happy to welcome their wonderful students, grade five and six from Tamlong Boat School from my writing Scarborough Rouge River. Welcome to our office. Thank you. Further member statements? The member from Ottawa, Ben-Yin. Merci, Monsieur. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also am talking today with the Indigenous Treaty reconnaissance week. We know the importance for the future of Ontario to recognize Indigenous populations and the great contribution to the province. The importance of this week is to get closer and impose and understand well and to inform. So I want to highlight in Otto Vanier the writing that I have the honour of representing many schools participated to this school to recognize treaties. Engage with this fully to recognize the importance of treaty for all Ontario and for all of us. The duty to reconcile with Indigenous communities starts with the duty to know, the duty to understand our history, to recognize its importance and to engage fully in on the path of reconciliation. Last week in the Ottawa writing, we had the chance of celebrating Indigenous culture and acknowledge the importance of treaties for the region. We are all people of treaty. Treaty people. Merci. Merci beaucoup. The member statements. The member for Whitby, Oshawa. Thank you, Speaker. Every day in Durham Region, a young person makes a positive difference within his or her community and doing good in one's community can take many forms, such as helping out, not only neighbour without any expectation of payment or making a local park areas more clean. One way to recognize these contributions speaker is through the Ontario Junior Citizen Award and this award is carried out through the Ontario Community Newspaper Association and sponsored by the TT Bank Group. The speaker, I invite all local residents in my writing of Whitby Oshawa to take a moment and take stock. Is there a worthy youth who deserves recognition? Is there someone you know who never fails to volunteer in the community? If there is a young adult who has taken heroic actions or a special young person who has contributed to their community while living with a disability, the nomination deadline speaker is November 30th and downloadable nomination forms are available online at www.ocna.org Junior Citizen. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you from Beaches East York. Well, thank you, Speaker. Now, two weeks ago, I was in Alberta shooting an episode of political blind date, a new TVO series that pitched two politicians on opposite sides of an issue against each other. The purpose of the show is to show that political opponents can have a reasonable debate on controversial issues while being respectful and enjoying each other's company. And I had the pleasure of debating carbon taxes with Shannon Stubbs, a conservative MP from the northern Alberta Riding of Lakelands. And Ms. Stubbs stonfully defended the oil industry seeing no merit in increasing the price of carbon, believing it would raise costs for consumers, cause job losses, and hurt the oil industry. Ms. Stubbs focused specifically on the $50 ton carbon price being imposed by the federal government. At home in Ontario, we have a carbon price under a cap and trade program that has a cost of only $17 a ton. And proceeds from our carbon auction so far have netted over $1.5 billion, all of which by law must be spent on programs to lead to reductions and on tariff carbon footprint. And while in Alberta, we were discussing how electricity is being generated, and I was surprised to learn that in Alberta, most of the electricity they generated is from fossil fuels. In fact, today, they're generating about 10,600 megawatts of power, and 48% of this is coming from coal and about 45% from natural gas. By comparison in Ontario, we are generating nearly 18,000 megawatts when just under 2.5% of power is being generated by fossil fuels, i.e. natural gas. So I believe that Alberta has lost an opportunity because their ability to use surplus clean power to offset carbon displacement fuels means that they're not able to get the advantages. And I'm very proud to be in a province which has made the right investments in electricity systems so we can lead us to a cleaner future. Thank you. Thank you for the member of students, the member from Burskery Owensouth. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. He shoots, he scores. Today I stand in recognition of a dedicated and truly talented young constituent who is living proof that any goal is possible with a lot of hard work and perseverance. Curtis McDermott, a 23-year-old from Salville Beach, has seen his hockey dream turn to reality as his dedication to the game earned him a spot on the LA Kings this year. He also made a splash in NHL when he scored his first career NHL goal on October 26th. I invite the members to watch for themselves as exciting milestone via YouTube or Fox Sports. Curtis McDermott has lived and breathed hockey since the day he was born, even having his own NHL legacy to look up to, his father, Paul McDermott. Paul played in the NHL in the Winnipeg Jets, Washington Capitals, and ended his career on the Corvette d'Ordeaks, proving himself to be the best coach and role model Curtis could have. Hockey runs deep in the McDermott family, as Lane McDermott, Paul's eldest son, played for the Boston Bruins scoring his first career goal exactly 31 years after his dad. They're only the second father and son pair to score their first career goals on their first day in the NHL. And Mr. Speaker, with Paul and his brother Peter being owners of the Onesound Attack, the hockey tradition will certainly continue in the McDermott family. Paul McDermott and his wife Pam also run and operate a campground in Soll Beach along with Paul's parents Georgina and Dawn, and his brother Peter and his wife Terri Lynn. The campground, Woodland Park, exemplifies Paul's strong family values, community pride and passion for his home, Soll Beach. Curtis McDermott's success in NHL is especially exciting to me as he played alongside my son Zach and novice in Shallow Lake, and the two continued on to become competitors and opposing teams for several years. Every young boy and girl growing up playing hockey dreams of playing for a professional team. It is extremely exciting and inspiring to watch Curtis grow up playing the sport he loves, and to see his dedication, hard work, and dream materialized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Best of luck, Curtis. Thank you. Point of order to the Minister of Education. Point of order, Speaker. Speaker, thank you so much. I just wanted to take a moment to welcome all the students who are in the house today, and this is certainly part of their civic engagement. I want to thank all the educators who have brought our students here today and parents as well. Thank you. Thank you so much. I thank all members for their their statements. It's therefore now time for reports by committees. The member from Berry.


Welcome back everyone and today's review I'm going to be discussing Dominator at Kings Dominion. Dominator is a B&M Floralist coaster which opened at Kings Dominion in 2008 but actually was originally at Geaga Lake in Aurora, Ohio from 2000 until the time Geaga Lake closed in 2007. Dominator is a very large Floralist coaster standing at a height of 157 feet featuring a top speed of 65 miles per hour, 5 inversions and 4,210 feet of track. This is the longest Floralist coaster and it's absolutely a massive ride when you're walking into the park you see this immediately and it looks absolutely great. Very nice looking addition for the front of the park for sure, a very nice front gate coaster. When it was moved to Kings Dominion they sort of redid the color scheme and they painted the vertical loop yellow instead of the orange that the rest of the track is so it kind of makes it stand out a little bit it's kind of cool. This also has a pretty unique layout for a Floralist coaster I feel like. Going into the ride experience here the gates open you do a little dip out of the station and you curve around here to the right. I was so excited to get back on this ride because like I said this was at Giago Lake from 2000 through 2007 and I actually was very fortunate and I had the opportunity to visit Giago Lake many times in the 2005 and 2007 seasons and I rode Dominator a few times at Giago Lake and I was always a huge fan of this ride. At Giago Lake I rode it and it was one of my favorite coasters and I was just looking forward to getting back on it seeing if it was as awesome as I remember it being. So let's go through the ride elements here and then we'll discuss my updated thoughts on Dominator. You go down this pre-drop and then you dip down to the right. This drop is all right nothing spectacular then you go through this massive vertical loop 135 foot tall loop it's absolutely huge and it's awesome. Go through this really quick turn to the right I love that rapid transition then up into a bank turn to the right and then you hit this huge cobra roll this is actually a pretty good cobra roll right here pretty forceful.  I had some really good rides on Dominator I thoroughly enjoyed my experience on it and this was a really intense ride actually and I was actually graying out a little bit on some parts of it which really surprised me. I didn't remember it being this intense but this ride was even better than I remember it being and a lot more intense than I remember it being from the times I rode it at Giago Lake it's been maintained very well there wasn't really any rattle that I experienced there was a little bit of headbanging on some of the rides I got that could be a bit painful at times specifically that section of the ride after the mid-course brake run where you have the interlocking corkscrews it gets pretty rattly there but as far as the actual track the track felt really super smooth and it was a very enjoyable ride experience. I got four rides all together on Dominator while I was at Kings Dominion and I enjoyed every single one of them I think there was one ride I got where I experienced quite a bit of headbanging it was a little uncomfortable but overall very intense ride very fun very smooth even a little pop of airtime you know like coming off of the mid-course brake run which was nice. One thing I want to note and this doesn't really have anything to do with the ride specifically but people when you go to parks please please please make sure you secure those loose articles I had a really frustrating experience on Dominator I went to ride it my second time right as I would have been getting on the next train the ride goes down the ride operator announces that it's down due to a lost article and then we seen a staff person walking a guest over into a certain area and it looked like they were pointing around looking for something so please when you get on these rides make sure you're secure in those loose articles it is so frustrating and it's it's such a big issue now it's so prevalent please make sure you secure those loose articles because there are a lot of people that go to these parks want to ride these rides and to have a whole ride go down just for a loose article it's it's really frustrating so make sure you're doing that for the sake of everybody and sort of to go along with that just last night I went to Cedar Point and I got on the train on Rugeru and they were just about to dispatch it actually they had dispatched the train already the gates started to open up and then we heard something drop and the ride operators said wait hold up and the gates closed really quick somebody in front of me had dropped a phone onto the lower part of the train so loose articles are definitely a huge concern as I'm sure most of you probably know so just really be careful about those loose articles secure them in cargo pockets or fanny packs or whatever you need to do getting back to a dominator here like I said it's an absolutely fantastic ride personally it's one of my favorite rides at Kings Dominion and for its score I'm going to give dominator an 8.5 out of 10 great great ride out of the 80 coasters I've ridden up to this point this is one of my favorites it probably falls in my lower top 20 somewhere if not then my top 25 for sure and if you're going to Kings Dominion definitely don't skip out on this ride it's pretty easy to get to anyway it's right at the front of the park so it's probably going to be one of the first things you're going to want to hit up anyway it never really had much of a line for the most part there was one point that I went to go ride this and it had a really long line and I decided not to ride it then and I just went back later and wrote it when it didn't have a line so let me know your thoughts about dominator in the comments below did you get to ride it at Giago Lake and what did you think about it then be sure to like comment subscribe and be sure to follow me on Facebook at coaster daddy and instagram coaster daddy official thank you so much for watching bye


I'm Jim Craig and I'm Senior Product Manager in Red Hat's global equipment team. And what I'd like to do over the next few minutes is share our vision for delivering smart city infrastructures in collaboration with the FIWARE ecosystem. I'd like to start by setting the scene, kind of sharing what we've learned working with customers in cities around the world and compare that with your experiences. Then I'll share the opportunities followed by some examples of cities that have embarked on this journey and close by considering what the next steps might be. So let's start with looking at the current outlook and then move on to what the future challenges might be. So let's set the scene from a global level. We're looking at a population growth from around 7 billion people in the world today to almost 10 billion by 2050. Also by 2050, 68% of these almost 10 billion people, that's almost the current world population today, will live in cities. Now as you might imagine, this puts a huge strain on an already stressed environmental, social and utility frameworks of the city and its broader ecosystem. These are just a few of the challenges that cities are facing and it'd be interesting to see whether these match your own experiences and whether we've missed any. But you can see there's quite a broad range right across a spectrum of environmental, social and of course utility frameworks as well. To make matters worse, we are in a climate crisis, which means we are experiencing an increase in the severity and the frequency of extreme weather events. So one such example is droughts, the impacts of a drought on the food system. So we're seeing a reduction in food production around the world. Drought increases the risk of wildfires and again in California this year we've seen some really severe wildfires.  And then warming oceans provide fuel for ever stronger and more frequent hurricanes and typhoons with wind speeds in excess of 240 kilometers an hour, that's over 150 miles an hour. This particular picture shows New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Increased flooding is occurring as well in coastal areas through sea level rise and coastal erosion and then along rivers and through things like rainfall and storm surges. The reinsurers with three have also identified over 600 metropolitan areas that are risk from natural catastrophes, mostly flooding with the high proportion in Southeast Asia. There have been numerous attempts at developing and deploying smart city solutions around the world with varying degrees of success. And this particular picture is Mumbai at night and it looks cool. It's modern, it's got skyscrapers and you can see all kinds of technology at play, you can see lots of building work going on. This is Mumbai from a different angle and by day. So you get this kind of tale of two cities and that exists in two different degrees in cities all across the world. So what it illustrates is that technology alone isn't going to address these growing problems, which is something we know quite a bit about from our own experience. It's not just technology that's going to solve these problems. What we've learned from past experiences working with public and private sector and not-for-profit organizations is a non-technical challenge, namely how organizations are structured and operated, which is often based on a traditional and rigid top-down command and control style. So this inflexibility manifests itself in a number of ways and typically creates a silo mentality with no or at best very limited cross-department, cross-agency collaboration. So the result of the silo mentality is you get the silo or vertical solutions. So from a smart city perspective, some of them may be Internet of Things, IoT-based solutions. And they might be fine in very small-scale solutions, but cities, even small cities are kind of well beyond this scale. And what you start to see is this kind of proliferation of these vertically integrated silos. And the downside is that they increase complexity, cost, they're very inflexible, and any efficiency gains that you make within an individual department can't be recognized across the entire city. So what's the opportunity? So we've learned that there's quite a few challenges around the world today, both technical and non-technical. What we'll do now is just spend a few minutes looking at an approach that's realizing positive results in different parts of the world today. So what we're doing really is working across the intersection of public policy, people and platforms. And what we're aiming to do is help public administrators and all the related stakeholders to realize their smart city, smart region objectives. If we take a moment to consider what a smart city is going to deliver to its citizens, we'll see a series of services which depend on a range of factors from your age, your occupation, your physical, mental faculty and so on. These services, what we call life events, hopefully occur over a long time horizon. We'd like to live a long and healthy life. So if you take me, for example, take you, for example, we were born, our births were registered and that typically triggered a health screening and immunization invitation. So your parents or your carers would take you to the doctor and they'd give you injections and check your health and so on, weight and all those kinds of things. And as we get older, we go to school, we go into education. So that gets registered that we've entered the education system. And then hopefully at the end of the education system, we get a job after registered for tax, unfortunately, and maybe we learn to drive a car. Again, these are all driving license tax registrations. These are all interactions with our public administrators. And then as we buy a car that has to be licensed as well, we decide that we want to leave home, we want our own home, so we buy a house that has to get registered. And maybe we meet our dream partner and get married and have children. And then that cycle starts again. So we have one cycle that's just started and running in parallel but slightly behind the first one. So these are just a few examples of life events that you and I as citizens interact with, or how we interact with our public officials through these services, which are increasingly delivered online. Now, in any given day, we experience these life events in a whole range of different ways. It could be taking your kids to school, it could be getting to and from the office, maybe a medical appointment or in sightseeing while you're on holiday. These are all possible interaction points with our public administrators. And we recognize in order to get the services delivered online and this overall smart city solution delivered, we need to take a structured approach. It's kind of broken down to these four steps. We look at the organization. So this is typically the non technical challenge that we need to deal with. And then look at how we can create common information models, deal with open data, work with open data and then create this data economy. And I'll touch on each one of these in a little bit more detail and we'll start with the organization. Now, you may remember a few moments ago I talked about the conventional, the traditional organization structure, which is top down. It kind of goes back almost to to Victorian times where people were managed like machines and they were kind of plugged in to do a specific repetitive task. Now the downside with this, it's command and control. It lacks any kind of flexibility. It's incredibly inflexible. And it also maintains this institution of silos within the organization and therefore silos within the applications that they developed as well. Now, to deliver a smart city, we need to break these silos down and promote collaboration. Now, the way we do that is through something we call an open organization. So instead of it being top down, it's bottom up and what do we mean by that? What it means that, you know, people join the organization for a kind of a shared sense of purpose. They want to engage with other people in the organization. It's really kind of built on collaboration. Collaboration is kind of like the currency in which it operates really. And from a city point of view, or any organization's point of view, we're talking about collaboration inside and outside of the organization as well. Typically, public administrators are dealing with NGOs, for example, and external service providers. So we need to accommodate that. What we found as well and what we've been told by our customers that have adopted this open organization approach is that they are incredibly, that they're a lot more resilient than their traditional more rigid structured counterparts. And that makes the organization more sustainable as well. And this shift in the organization structure is necessary to deliver the efficiency of the other steps that I'm going to talk about next. What we're aiming for really is, we kind of started the end in mind here, is really look at what we're aiming for here. We're looking for an organization that works to deliver integrated services with no information silos, no organizational silos. It needs to be able to pass, share and collaborate data right the way across the entire organization. It uses shared context data and standard APIs to achieve that. What we then get to is we enable this city level and increasingly regional level government solution. Common information models are really important. The benefits of developing with and working with common information models is the cost of adaptation to achieve this kind of full interoperability among the different systems in the city becomes almost negligible. This makes the system, the solution portable across different cities as well. And with the right policy levers like we're seeing in Germany right now, for example, smart city infrastructures can be deployed rapidly using tools like Ansible and then easily shared with other cities as well. So you can very rapidly scale up and scale out and share these valuable solutions to other cities. The context broker and standard APIs that have been developed by FIWARE allow these city systems to interconnect as well. So what you start to do is to connect cities together to create smart regions. Open data is kind of really key to this. What we're talking about here is pushing the right time open data to third parties. And what that helps to do is to create an innovation ecosystem.  We don't just give access to everything to everybody. And then we use tools like Threescale, for example, to provide the API management as well. What we start to get to is this idea of supporting a data economy and what the data economy allows us to do is basically create the city as a platform. So the city becomes a platform and it seamlessly merges open and commercial data together. Data is consumed by applications as part of an innovation business model. So you can get new applications, new service providers spinning up and accessing a combination of open data generated by the city and commercial data that's made available by third party data providers. So you can kind of mash up these different applications based on the different data sets that are available. So what we do now is just take a moment and have a look at some kind of real world examples so you can get a sense for what cities around the world have achieved so far. So we're going to start with Valencia in Spain and Valencia deployed a global platform called Platformer VLCI. And it's really about smart city management. It collects key indicators from a whole range of municipal services. And it's really about improving their efficiency, but also offering the performance of those services transparently to citizens. The benefits they've realized is that they've improved the quality of the services provided to their citizens. So the life events that I talked about earlier on, the services that are delivering those life or supporting those life events are delivered in a higher quality way. The environmental quality of the city has improved as well because it allows people to report issues that can be acted on immediately. And conversely, the city can also push out alerts and information about environmental issues in the city as well. It's increased the available information on additional services for citizens and businesses as well. It's reduced public spending, public sector is always under extreme pressure to keep an eye on the budget, keep both eyes on the budget. So it's allowed them to improve the quality of the services, make the service more transparent, but also reduce the cost of delivering those services, which is kind of really, really important for public administrators. It's also encouraged the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship as well. So it promotes the development of new businesses and local ideas and again, especially as we were looking at how we can support cities and entire countries to come out of the COVID pandemic. This is a great way of encouraging the development of new applications, new services, new job opportunities, new business opportunities for people in cities as well. And from a public administrator's point of view, what it's done is improved the decision making process for the administrators. Another Spanish city this time, Malaga, and Malaga started life as a, the smart city project there, started life around becoming an eco-efficient city. And it comprised of 11 companies headed by Endesa, the energy company. And it was really about rationalising the user's energy consumption and cutting overall CO2 emissions. And they've used some red hack technology to underpin that, so products like REL, which gives that kind of the resilience, the scalability and the robustness to support the city. But as you can see, looking at the slide here that not only sustainability, but also a whole range of other services have been made available to the citizens and to holidaymakers as well. So if you get a chance to have a look at Malaga Smart, then please do. It's a very impressive smart city deployment. We're going to switch to the other side of the world now. So we go from Spain to Uruguay to Montevideo and the system at Montevideo is around smart transportation. So the application is called COMOR AR and it's really started out to provide bus arrival, time tracking and information to more than 150,000 citizens who use the service on a monthly basis. And what they've been able to do is integrate real time data on private and public transportation using IoT capabilities there. And what that's done is improve the state of Montevideo in terms of decision making and also the traffic services for citizens as well. So the activity, control systems, geofencing, virtual mapping, the city's real world geography and vehicle information. So you can kind of overlay different bus routes, for example, on a map of the city and kind of plot your route. You can see the performance of the different routes. You can see, you know, how long it's going to take you to get from one place to another. And it's really improved the environmental status of the city, but also the ability for citizens to kind of transit around the city as well. Pitching back to Europe now and it's time to Italy. Brands Aqua is a water and sewage utility service in Italy and they provide water and sewage services to almost a million citizens. They also operate 69 cell service Casa del Aqua water kiosk so water houses and a further 62 water dispensers across the Monza and Brianza region. And they dispense still and sparkling water to consumers and their purchase through a rechargeable payment card. Now the smart kiosk as well as vending water. They also act as communal hub so they're kind of like modern day water and coals if you like. So citizens, when they go to the waterhouse to get the water, they meet other other neighbors and catch up with with with each other and how things are going. But the water company can also communicate directly with citizens through digital displays that exist on in the waterhouses themselves. And this is all delivered as IOT devices and it's managed on a common platform using a range of different microservices. Data is managed in real time from the kiosk to the head office and back to the public and making making the the water utility a lot more agile in how they bring new ideas to life. How they collaborate with partners and scalar services across the network as well. Going back to almost where we started really when we looked at the challenges faced with the climate crisis. You know, we've seen a handful of smart city deployments as well and looking just ahead slightly, you know, we've got this climate crisis. It's on us now, you know, what can we do about that? Well, what smart city technology can do and is starting to be used to do is to monitor for extreme weather events. It can alert the necessary actors. And if the city's got some adaptation or mitigation methods in place, maybe a flood defence, it can activate those as well. So we're seeing it being used to kind of proactively deal or manage the climate crisis. Now, in the true spirit of open source, we don't do all this alone. I mentioned at the start that we work with an organisation called FIWARE. We are a platinum member of the FIWARE Foundation. And FIWARE is both an open source technology platform and a not-for-profit organisation. So imagine the technology side of the organisation like a box of Lego bricks and what you can do is combine these together to build a range of smart solutions and services. And FIWARE as an organisation, it's not for profit foundation. It's based in Berlin in Germany. And it has a global reach through a partner ecosystem of over 340 members and partners now. And it's also spawned in excess of a thousand startups. Some of these partners include Red Hat partners such as ATOS, so a very big partner of ourselves, who are a founding member of FIWARE along with Telefonica and Trigen, NEC. We are a huge customer of us around the world and engineering as well. And so what we do is we work together and we collaborate to create innovative ways to solve the challenges that you've seen in the last few minutes. And also there are always new challenges coming up. So we're working together to solve those challenges, as I said, in the open source spirit of collaboration. So in terms of what does Red Hat provide to this overall solution? And if you like, we are a horizontal foundation, really, on top of which the smart city infrastructure or platform, if you prefer, can operate. So we are the foundation on top of which the platform is deployed. And what we bring is this open and interoperable nature. So it kind of future-proofs the open source architecture. Again, the open standards give this sort of deployment flexibility, which is really important in a fast-changing environment like we have with smart cities. We also bring things like end-to-end analytics. So being able to, you know, analytics the edge, really, and advanced analytics and machine learning so you can execute at the edge of your network. And also we bring control over the data as well. As you imagine, you're dealing with very, very sensitive citizen data. So it's important that that data is kept private and secure, and it conforms to all the necessary regulatory rules and guidelines. Also, again, incredibly popular and important is this idea of modularity, so avoiding lock-in. And it's something that public sector organisations are very, very keen on. They don't want citizen's data locked in a system that means it can't be moved somewhere else. So it's kind of one of the top priorities that always comes out in conversations. And what the modularity allows the organisation to do as well is kind of capitalise on the existing investments they have. We've got legacy systems that have been around for a very long time. They not only have a lot of data in there, but they also have a lot of business logic in there. And it's important that we can absorb them into this new world and kind of realise extra value of the data and the information that's in these legacy systems. What we also help do as well is reduce the risk and the complexity. So simplifying development, deployment and integration tasks, which not only reduce the time to market, but also save development costs as well. And as I mentioned earlier on, being able to deliver these things and reduce the cost of deployment is incredibly important in the public sector world. And end-to-end security, security across devices, access authentication and applications as well as data that's in motion and at rest. And a final point really on where do these things get deployed? Where do they play? What we're hearing from a lot of public sector customers or city administrators is that they want to deploy their smart city infrastructure on their own private cloud. Because of the sensitivity of the data, of the complexity, they just feel a lot more comfortable, a lot more confident that the data and the applications reside with them. So we give that option, but we also have the ability to run in a hybrid model as well. So if an organisation, if a city wants to run a mixture of on-prem and in a public cloud, then we can accommodate that as well. So that's been a kind of whistle-stop tour of smart cities and how we see in combination with a range of actors, how we can deploy them effectively around the world. I'd just like to thank you for your time and I hope you found it useful. And if you'd like to discuss anything I've talked about in more detail, please feel free to drop me a line. I'm Jim Craig at redhat.com. Thank you very much. Bye for now.


All right, okay. I think we're live now everybody And it looks like I've got a few people on on the hangout who managed to get the right place and Hopefully we've got some folks on on YouTube if I can get my mouse to work here. We go. I'm gonna Share my screen so today guy Yeah, you want to meet yourselves there folks Oh All right Everybody what we're gonna do today is we're gonna talk about analyst relations at Get labs. So this is kind of a Primer what we're doing how we're doing it what's kind of going on and then we'll be happy to take Questions you might have about this. So what I'm gonna show you here is this is the handbook page we've started a handbook page for analyst relations and Some of you have probably had experience with AR as it's called in the past others of you might not Analyst relations is generally a combination of corporate strategy Communications and marketing activity, right? But what makes it fun at get lab is everybody contributes so we consider the analyst community to be participants as well And product marketing is the primary relationship owner for analyst relations at get lab Because we're really in product marketing the conduit between Gathering all the product information and knowing who the subject matter experts are and being able to share that with the analyst community Now one of the other things I wanted to address here Because get lab has traditionally focused on the developer community, right industry analysts usually focus on Corporate or organizational buyers and their needs Rather than those of individual developers So if you're talking to an individual developer and analyst relations Or an analyst presentation may not be as useful to them because the analyst Audience is usually looking at the buyer who's trying to figure out, you know So this would be maybe a sale to an ultimate or a premium Buyer that would want to understand the higher level value They don't focus as much on the day-to-day activities of somebody using that, right? So it's a little bit different amplification of the message and use So how does one interact with the analyst community if you can see I got a whole bunch of bullets through you're welcome to read them out There's generally a couple of things that happen one is they produce research and they come to us to make sure they have a good understanding of our product and what we do and Pardon me. I have a hat of course because this is get lab pets are coworkers so The first thing I was saying is is they will write reports. They will come to us. They will look for information They will try and and find out all kinds of things about our product and has it work We do that through regularly scheduled briefings with them, but we also do that Through through very particular projects two of the more popular ones You might have heard of are the Gartner magic quadrants or the Forrester waves Where they will focus on a specific topic area, right? The other thing that we will do is we will engage them They usually have a market research arm where we can go and test out a hypothesis We can go dig deeper into some information and sometimes that stuff is is More particular to an entire market rather than an individual product or company So they can help us understand the trends of where the market is going What's the latest? Information how popular is kubernetes? For example, what is the deployment rate those kinds of things? They'll be able to tell us so those are some of the ways we interact then some analysts Get most of their revenue from customers. So the same customers we have so the IT buyers and they're trying to find out more about products and and Movements and strategies and what to do with things Other analysts the vendors so companies like GitLab are more of their customers And so that would be more like on the market research side because we're paying them to do research for us to help understand a market segment Or a technology trend better The next thing I want to talk about is using analyst reports because this is really really probably the most important thing for people to know so When an analyst produces a report If the market research analysts will frequently make their reports available for free on their website The vendor the analysts who sell to the customers. So the gardeners and the foresters You have to pay to get access to their reports Or as a vendor you can pay for reprint rights and make that report available To anybody for a period of time So if get lab purchase those as reprints then there will be a link on this page here Or in a subsection there will be a link on the analyst relations web page, which I'll show you in a minute and Then there will be a link to that report on the relevant product page And as an example for a stir just released their VSM wave this week. We purchased the reprint rights We wrote a blog piece. We sent out a press release and we put the link to that report on the VSM page It's not here yet because this is under construction But if you went to the VSM page you would see access to that report When we have those reports in those links, that's the right thing to share because it'll help us keep track of who's going to look at them But it also is completely acceptable to give them those reports, right and that's that's okay Now there are other companies that we work with that we don't or they do reports that we don't necessarily purchase access rights to To share but we purchase the access rights just for internal company use only and Sometimes that's very limited to a specific named individual But a lot of those times those reports can be shared within GitLab But not outside and so those reports you will find I will keep a folder link here And as a GitLab or you have access to that folder and you have access to the reports that can be shared with GitLab those reports cannot be shared outside of the company and We need to be careful with that because the analyst companies get very grumpy if they find out somebody has a report without paying for it So that's just the highlight there Final area I wanted to share with you is we're always looking at newer areas as we expand the capabilities of GitLab and All the different parts of end-to-end DevOps there become areas of focus Within the entire GitLab area that the analysts will look at so VSM for example, we're part of we're part of CI We're working on CDRA right now. So some of those you'll see them coming out Other ones we're keeping a list. These are some of the forester areas of Reports that we're going to keep an eye on and then here we have some of the Gartner reports that we're looking at If there's a report you see that you think might be interesting that you think GitLab should play in If there's an analyst company that one of your customers is is referring to that you want to know a little bit more about Please send it to me reach out to me Joyce Thompson and I will absolutely or really anyone in product marketing You can get anyone in product marketing and they'll get the information and we'll take a look and see what we can find And the other thing this is again the handbook page under product marketing there's analyst relations The other thing we're working on is the web page. So this is about gitlab.com analysts This is we're just starting to build it We're going to talk about on this one. Where does GitLab engage? So some of the areas that we're actively participating in We'll put some of the links to the recent reports here so people can go look at that And then there's another interesting thing we're going to do So let's take BSM for example in the BSM report that was just done by Forester They didn't name anyone a leader because they didn't think that anyone in this space met all of the capabilities They did however see six companies and GitLab was one of them that's a strong performer and so We have some areas where they talk about what we do really well and areas where we need to work So what GitLab is going to do as an open company where everyone participates We're going to take that report and use that as a launching pad To talk about ways in which we can improve the product So there will be links to open issues that we're working on in that area We'll have product management and product marketing involved there and it will be a way that you can show customers Here's how we're working on it. These are the things we're doing Here's what we do well and here's where we're improving and if a customer wants to see something specific in that area This would be a way that could come and look at that too. And as I said, this is this is under construction But that's where we are headed with the program So I'm going to stop sharing my screen for a minute so I can see everybody again Hopefully that will work soon There we go and what I would love to do is open it up for questions But do take yourself off me before you speak Joyce, this is John. I'm also tracking what's on YouTube. I'll let you know if we have any questions on the YouTube chat. Thank you Well, we're waiting for questions. I'm really curious So I have a question for you All of you is have any of you ever used analyst reports to talk to your customers before and have you used for example on the CI Wave that we have many of you use that stuff yet. Okay, I see one thumbs up. Thank you Hi, I mentioned it almost in every presentation that I make to customers and prospects Excellent excellent well then make sure you check back, you know every now and then to see if there's a new one out there We try we're gonna try and do enablements when we get a big one Like the VSM will try and do a sales enablement with the the product marketing people to really talk about it a little more So you guys are really equipped to know how to position the report what to highlight and what to what to focus on Thank you a quick question actually how how do we on our website? How do we point? Visitors to the website so that they can you know, they are quickly made aware that We are top of them For us the wave report and then anything new that comes out Gartner, etc Apart from maybe, you know flashing up as and when it happens Just something to make it really obvious to these large enterprises and so on they will often look for affirmation, you know that that It's it's good to go with GitLab and the analysts say so as well so one of the things we're trying to do is Create a Marketing plan for when we get one of those new reports out what will we do? So for example with BSM, we wrote a blog post on it we released a press release and We've also put it in a couple of different places on the web page ironically. It's not on the analyst web page Yet, but it is on the product Let's see if I go to Let me see I Can pull it up here So, let me see here Let me share my screen with you Here's the the BSM value stream management web page, right right here at the very top of it is That we got a strong performer in the Forrester new wave in Q3 2018 right there download the report And then we get back into the all the other parts So one of the goals of the product Marketing team is to make sure that as soon as one of those reports Is available that we're putting it out in several different channels if you have suggestions or ideas on ways? We could make that More readily available Let us know right We'll be happy to think of some other things Excellent Thank you Joyce question on YouTube from Paul Duffy yet. Do the analysts let us know if a company is looking at new SCM CI or security tools? So I guess the question is what sort of information do the analysts tell us about what customers are looking for right? That's a really good question. So They field Thousands of inquiries hundreds of inquiries a day So we're not going to hear about everything they do We do get contacted sometimes by analysts if they're working with the company We just got contacted by an analyst company the other day who was working with the company who? Was doing some advanced things and she wanted to make sure she understood From us how to do if she was helping the customer the right way if she had the right understanding of our product And how we work so we'll find out information that way There are some tools I have that can sometimes give me insight into mentions of us if if there's anything done publicly But one of the things by it when we talked to the Gartner and Forester sales rep So I have an account relationship with them Sometimes they are able to dig that information up and show What what people are asking? But that's generally sort of under client attorney privilege, right? We don't part of you know The customers being able to speak to the analysts is is that they're having a neutral conversation But the analysts will tell us in general if we ask are you you know, are you hearing us? What are you hearing about us? We can certainly ask those questions and get some answers back But they don't for example publish how many times customers ask about different companies now now something specific might be If there's something stirring in the market that will frequently lead analysts So as background I was an industry analyst for 15 years in in the infrastructure space And so what would happen is you'd start to hear people asking more and more questions about things We as analysts would then go to that company to make sure we were learning more and to kind of say hey We want to know more about you or you're starting to appear in this space when we want to know more so We're seeing a little bit of that at GitLab part of that was when GitHub got purchased people got excited about this space They saw us and they started to look at that right not just people who are on yet But maybe people who wanted to know what is this technology? I'm not familiar with it And then as we've started to move into spaces Our name shows up as as somebody that people are considering for a buy and so analysts are are asking us questions We just did a series of 11 dot o briefings for the analysts where we you know explained the significant release For several of those analysts they immediately turned around and required a second briefing that was a deeper dive Into some particular feature or aspect of the product So for example, we had a couple analysts in the security space who want to just sit down and discuss just our security We've had an analyst request to understand understand how we do scanning better for example So what happens is it really is a relationship the more you talk to them the more you interact with them the more you engage with them The more they begin to know you the more they begin to talk about you to their customers and the more they become Sensitive to your name showing up right? It's kind of like you know how it is you buy a new car and suddenly you notice that car everywhere Right, because everyone else who has one or if you're thinking about buying one It's the same kind of thing when you start to think about something and focus on it You begin to become more aware of where it is everywhere. So that's part of how you build that brand awareness Joyce a question from from Mark You know Joyce a question from Mark about the use of Analyst reports and campaigns. What do you see as normally best practices of Organizations using like a full marketing campaign around around analyst reports so That's a good question because we're in the middle of exploring that for a couple of reports right now The analyst companies themselves have gotten very good and the question becomes how much do you want to spend? Right, and they also give you ideas of things that you can do so a lot of them now are starting to create Infographics that you can use to place and there's no get it at scorecards and and cheat sheets and and things like that that really Can take the report and focus to the next level so the question is really going to be per report because For example in BSM We didn't get leader, but nobody did but it's a new space the question becomes hey in sales Are you seeing this? Is this something you need? Would this be something helpful for you? On the other hand with the last CI wave we came out number one We've got over four thousand hits to that through Forrester to download that report They tracked those numbers for us that would be something where I think we would absolutely want to spend a little bit more Money to create some of those graphics to pass them out the question I would put it back to all of you is Would you use those tools if you had them? Do you find them helpful? Is the report itself enough? Or are there other things that that you like? Analysts will also for example do a webinar so we could do a webinar to partners We could do a webinar to customers We're an analyst, you know kind of spoke about things now keep in mind No analyst is ever going to get up and say I love get lab They're the greatest thing that ever happens by get lab today You're not going to get that thing what they're going to do is they're going to support the messages that you are trying to achieve That and they're going to be most comfortable when you're using them as a proof point that what you're saying is the right thing Right, they're not going to pat you on the head and tell you they're your favorite student, right? So That's kind of the way you want to use it But when they show Statistics or information that backs up what we're saying that shows that we're on the right track. That's the best use of it So we've got some opportunities to do some of those things if you feel very strongly about something Please let us know because that's how we start to develop the tools that we can share with you That do help you really leverage that report Choice another question from YouTube David asked What would be the intent of your quote internal reports that you mentioned earlier that we couldn't share out? Is that solely for us to gather intelligence and understanding? Yeah, so Analysts write reports like waves and magic quadrants But they might write a lot of other reports that are talking about what the industry is doing For example, what percentage of people are using Kubernetes is Istio really taking off You know those kinds of questions what's happening? with Continuous CI CD right any of those kinds of things There are a lot of reports we use that we share with product management with product marketing With the executive staff that kind of give information on what's happening in the market because you need to understand The landscape that you're selling in and not just you know what features and functions people want There's some competitive information. They'll write a report about another company That's helpful for our competitive team to get information on the direction of Where everyone else in the market is going and where are the gaps that we might be feeling filling really well that? We're not messaging enough right so there's a lot of different bits of information They may not be useful. You might not want to present them in a sales situation They might not have that kind of information, but they're very helpful for people and trying to understand The overall marketplace that we're playing in and how it's shifting and where it's shifting and where opportunity might be That's a great question. Thank you Any other questions in YouTube land John? No, not now No, good There is a an analyst relations Channel in slack, you know feel I will every time we get something published I put it up there. Sometimes I put it in the sales slack channel But a lot of times there's stuff going on an analyst relations If you're curious feel free to check that channel out every now and then as well any questions You know where to find me. All right. Thanks everybody. Take care and have a good day


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Morning YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving with another video And another episode of NFL questions from subscribers. I mean this question comes from my boy Gavin Long time subscriber.  To the New York Giants for Eli Manning and a late draft pick Two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks two quarterbacks who sort of have a similar career with their inconsistencies To two quarterbacks who uh During their Super Bowls the defense was well Eli's defense was a little better Than Joe Flacco's defense well overall in numbers wise But I feel like Raven's defense had more big names on there and more playmakers. Either way, um That was his question or that is his question if you an NFL GM, would you trade? Joe in the offseason, would you trade Joe Flacco for Eli Manning and some late draft picks? Now um A couple of answers to that question but first before we get into it, let me introduce myself Me i'm engraving vids and this is my youtube channel engraving vids and i'm a ravens fan I'm not a ravens GM, but I am a ravens fan And on this youtube channel we talk about ravens all the time We also talk about all other 32 NFL teams or all 32 NFL teams not other because that would make you 33 um So if you're a ravens fan, you can subscribe if you a Giants fan You can subscribe if you the raven GM you can subscribe and if you the Giants GM too, you can subscribe I hope they watch the videos too. Maybe they get some insight from the outside um And after you subscribe make sure you turn your notifications on so you never miss a video I don't want nobody to ever miss a video and also um Leave a like on the video too because it's completely free So to get into this question and again, this is another episode of NFL questions from subscribers If you ever want to be a part of this Where you can ask me any question about the NFL that you want to and I make a my own personalized video for you Answering your question You hit me up on twitter instagram or snapchat Send me a dm on either one of the three my instagram twitter and snapchat is all three or engraving vids all the same Just like the youtube channel and you hit me up with your question and now answer it in the video so Again, uh the question for this morning was if you were the NFL GM Would you trade Joe flacco for Eli Manning in a late round traffic? Now when I first saw the question I was like, uh Nah, I wouldn't do that Because it would be no point Why would I trade flacco for? another version of himself with a less less A weaker arm And I think a little older Why would I why would I do that? But then I thought about another thing I said, um The only way I would do that trade Would be if the giants could take on all of flacco's contract And leave the ravens with no penalty leave the ravens with little to little to no penalty uh cap wise And it would also depend on Eli Manning's contract Now would I would I trade them? and and that's just The monetary side of it the money side of it Would not would I trade them because of play what I trade them because I feel like oh Eli Manning will be able to play so much better for us than Joe flacco Based on play. No not at all Not based on play If if I were to do that trade if I were a GM It would strictly be based on money and it would be it would not be based on the future because I would trade for Eli Manning only if His cap hit. I mean his contract was Smaller or lower than Joe flacco's That would be it and he would not be My starter He wouldn't be my starter. I would for the future If we drafted a quarterback, um, I would let that quarter get right get thrown right in the fire Um, because I and I've been hearing about uh, I've been hearing about the Jags A lot of people say oh, yeah Jags they should have uh, especially around the trade deadline, you know People start trying to make any story. They possibly came And and they'll make something that makes sense. They'll have some stories that makes sense Um, but one of them one of the big ones around the trade deadline this off season I mean not this off season, but during this season Uh, I was with the Jags. They were like, oh, and they were like, oh Blake Bortles He not getting it done. Maybe since Tom Coughlin. He used to coach Eli Manning and he got him two Super Bowls um, so that that comparison of that uh That um that rumor was understandable They're like, oh, maybe the Jags could trade for Eli Manning And the Giants were like oh and whatever at that time. Oh and six. I think uh, they were like, oh, maybe the Jaguars can trade for Eli Manning So he can come he obviously got a history with Tom Coughlin. He's won two Super Bowls. He owes what it takes But That died down rather quick so But yeah, again, like I said, if it was up to me Based on play, I would not do it, but based on pay Depending on pay I would do it and if Giants could really just consume flakko's entire contract And give us more wiggle room to start over as far as the quarterback position is concerned I would definitely do that I would definitely do that because that's Those are the times that we're looking forward to in Baltimore. Now. Hey, same for instance, they get in the playoffs and they make some noise with that change I don't think so It'll it'll let people it'll it'll buy some more time for some people with flakko um, not for me though not for me because His play In the regular season, yes, I know he's he's he's one of the best in the playoffs one of the best one of the best in the playoffs, but Just playing the regular season It doesn't help anything. So I would not mind if they started open so anyway Am I done with flakko? Well, I mean I would I would love for them to move on uh I'm not done with them because I mean I got no choice but to uh continue to be for flakko because he's a raven He's our quarterback um, and He gives us the best opportunity to win And especially if we get in the playoffs um But I would I would be more than happy if they were to cut them trade them Draft another quarterback and just get ready for the future.   They're bad That dude makes plays though now no flakko ain't as uh in the term they like to use When they talk usually when they talk about black quarterbacks, but the term they like to use is uh is athletic Um, I sometimes I just be thinking the commentator want to say fast Instead of athletic. Oh, yeah, Russell Wilson such an athletic quarterback It's fast and he can though. So yeah, I guess it's athletic. But anyway, um I know flakko is not as fast. He can't do every other things that Russell Wilson can but He should be able to do at least more at least more than half So yeah, he does make poor decisions basically, right? Eric said flakko has more upside than Eli. No way they trade flakko for Eli Raven should draft the quarterback Yeah, this was just it was just a hypothetical question What would I do if I was ravens gm would I trade Flakko for Eli manning and like I said, if it was based on play Then no, but if it was based on pay and I could Get some uh a lot of cap room and get rid of flakko's contract Then the giants would take over the whole thing and I would be all for in a heartbeat I would be all for So, yeah, that's that anyway appreciate y'all coming through Thank you for being a part of NFL questions from some from subscribers And again, like always say if you want to be a part of NFL questions from subscribers You hit me up on instagram twitter snapchat You give me your question and I answer it in the past video just for you I appreciate y'all coming through. What's up, Katrina? I'm good. I'm good. How are you? Ravens get cousins. Oh, I wouldn't be opposed to that either, but he would come in a lot of money A lot of money, but Anyway, appreciate y'all y'all make sure y'all have a really good Tuesday And I will see you all Later on not sure if it's gonna be Before after I get off work, but I'll see y'all when I see y'all appreciate y'all and I'm going