Angry Kaido. Happy Kaido. Sad Kaido. Drunk Kaido. High Kaido or Haido for short. No matter what iteration we see of this man beast, one thing remains universally true, which is that Kaido is a stunningly unpopular character. Hello and welcome to the groundline review or source for everything one piece. My name is Liam and up until today I had no idea that nar walls are like real creatures that blows my mind. But today we are here to talk about something I did know, something that has perplexed me for as long as I've known about this particular thing and that particular thing is Kaido, specifically the incredible unpopularity and perhaps even failure of Kaido as an antagonist in one piece. Now that might seem like a bit of a harsh thing to say but let's remember that Kaido is a big boy and I'm sure that he can take a bit of criticism here and there and if not then I won't be alive much longer anyway so let's all just enjoy the video while we can because the fact is that Kaido is not a popular villain and we can empirically prove this using official popularity polls which is specifically designed to measure the metric of popularity. In the most recent globally conducted poll Kaido ranked in 65th place, which to be fair out of over 1000 characters to choose from honestly that's not too bad. However and you knew there was a however coming otherwise this video wouldn't exist, however it's far from great and even good considering his role in the series as some sort of ultimate antagonist guy helming an entire saga which has spanned over a decade at this point. To put a character in that kind of position you'd probably want them to be more popular than say a polar bear, a koala or even men in boxes which Kaido is not. So today we're going to figure out why Kaido hasn't quite landed with the fan base as well as how that's affected Wano and whether or not that can be salvaged going forward. And it's all going to begin with a quick round of Kaido or some Gaido, a very simple minigame the rules of which are as follows. In an alternate universe the straw hats arrive at alternate Wano and are about to encounter their main arc villain. But your job is going to be to guess whether that villain will be Kaido or just some guy. Because according to a lot of the data available that's how we tend to view Kaido. He's there. Should you guess incorrectly then your punishment will be to subscribe to the ground line review resulting in consistent injections of one piece culture administered directly into your youtube feed. And if you do guess correctly then you will become the main antagonist of Wano.  So who will it be? Kaido or some Gaido? Choose now and we shall reveal the answer in three, two, one and bam it was some guy. I think his name is uh I don't know Chris. Sure that'll do. So if you guessed incorrectly then you know the thing to do and please do say hi in the comments below if you are a new member of the Grand Fleet. Welcome. Now to further emphasize Kaido's unpopularity I think that a comparison is in order. Like I said before Kaido is very much our king daddy villain of this whole new world saga. Everything in every one we've done has been leading straight into his dragon roost. And in an ideal world that would involve a steady incline of quality antagonists that lead us to this ultimate of destinations. In our case those quality antagonists include other names such as Don Quixote Doflamingo and Charlotte Cardacuri. You may have heard of them because in the world top 100 character poll Doflamingo is 20th and Cardacuri ranked in absolutely absurd 14th. Which is amazing for our blonde and our redhead but it does leave our brunette fairly overshadowed. And yes the male adjective is also brunette albeit spelled differently but pronounced the same way which is not confusing at all so thank you English. But ideally what we would want is a situation where Doflamingo was a great villain with Cardacuri being a step above him and Kaido managing to outshine both of them. Instead what's happened is that after Cardacuri we've had a bit of an accident fall off the stairs landing straight on the flight below us. Because according to all data Kaido is a fair few steps down. And you might at this stage be asking but Grandline Reviewman is it really fair to compare Kaido when his story hasn't fully been told yet and I would answer yes yes it is. If only for the reason that we are roughly 100,000 chapters into one right now and I do think that by this point we should have a solid sense of our main antagonist. Which is actually something that both Doflamingo and Cardacuri excelled at. Long before their stories actually concluded or really got fleshed out at all giving us that full picture of them they still managed to garner absurd popularity. And I'm certain that our opinions of Kaido can and will change in the future due to that missing information. But one who is now officially the longest arc in one piece and evidently Kaido still has yet to really surpass the antagonist that were meant to build up to him. It's a very bizarre situation. So let's see why Kaido doesn't quite stack up. Now I'm sure that everyone has their own criteria but for me there are four things that I look for in a solid antagonist. The first of which is it's admittedly extremely shallow but it is design. A good antagonist is visually arresting and compelling without being over engineered. For example Doflamingo is our obvious success story here. The components of his design are deceptively simple. Big fluffy pink feathers and some schmick sunglasses. Add his eternal smile into the mix and he will instantly take command of any scene he's featured in. The same thing goes for Cardacuri I mean yes he is a bit more ornate with certain features but he's basically an imposing tattooed guy in tight black pants who hides his mouth. And just to dwell on that last feature there that creates a glorious amount of intrigue. In very much the same way that Doflamingo always hiding his eyes adds a wonderful layer of mystery to his character. So I'll definitely say right here and now that that sort of mystery is definitely something that Kaido's raw aesthetic is missing. Not that it's essential but it's an advantage that the other two have. When we look at Kaido in theory he does follow the simplistic yet cool design idea but I do think he suffers from a couple of aesthetic issues. One of which is that he is a clear case of big dude syndrome. His combined height and width don't produce that same sort of schmick feel that classically popular villains tend to embody. And not just Doflamingo or Cardacuri either you can look all over one piece. Crocodile, Rob Luchimi, Hawk and L, any of the marine admirals. Whoever it is most of the characters that tend to soar in popularity share the slimmer more human physiques. As Lady Gaga would say, walk, walk fashion baby and then other things. The characters that don't follow this model of fashion however creative they may be tend to sink to the bottom of the popularity bucket and it is in the depths of this bucket that we find large mothers, phallic, vampire, neck, things and of course the Hody Joneses. And Hody Jones by the way is a perfect example of failed villain aesthetics. Something that Oda and all his editors realized which is why Hody Jones went through a radical redesign right before the climax of Fishman Island. Not that it helped much but it did help some. But back to Kaido, I love his design, I love it so much they even have this fun figure of him which never quite sits right on its base which really annoys me but I'm not gonna blame Kaido for that because he does admittedly look pretty damn cool. But if we're talking about setting someone up to be a top tier memorable villain then whether we consciously realize it or not this design is going to be more of a roadblock than others and when we're talking about others they specifically mean others like this. This is a good example of other. Alright now let's make them fight. Of course design is far from everything and the second thing I look for in a great antagonist is some kind of profound feeling. I want to look at an antagonist and feel something. With Crocodile during alabaster that feeling was one of disgust and hatred to the point where I needed to see him get whacked in the face, chest and balls approximately 5,600 times each. Meanwhile with Carter Curry that feeling for me tends to be one of empathy. At his call Carter Curry is not an evil man and so I end up sympathizing with his situation. Then with Dolph Lamingo it is pure intrigue. I don't understand him, I can never predict him.  And this is actually kind of why Rob Lucci doesn't do a whole lot for me in retrospect because he's such a blank slate of a character. The person I really hated during any sobby was Spandam and Luchi was more of a punching bag style main antagonist. And right now I feel like we're in a very similar situation. The antagonist on Wano I have a strong feeling about is Orochi. I am heavily invested in causing him as much pain and suffering as possible. But Kaido is tricky. Like he does despicable things but he also has a strong coat of honor. He's not entirely stiff and stoic but his other emotional ranges are well like quite limited. So it's hard to truly hate him but it's also hard to really like him because it's hard to you know feel anything about him. As it is I just feel like I don't know him. Kaido is something of a stranger, a big vat of neutrality that I'm consistently waiting for him to break in some way shape or form. However there is one thing that Kaido does excel at which is the third feature I look for being fear. I've kept this separate from general feeling generation because I think that no matter who you are an antagonist in this context needs to be capable of conjuring fear. As for why you need such a thing let's take Caesar Clown. He has a cool enough design and he elicits a very strong emotion from all over the spectrum from utter disgust to his kind of glorious hilarity. He's funny. Clowns are funny. What Caesar does not have though is fear. At no point was I ever afraid of Caesar Clown which negates any actual power he may have had as an antagonist and thus kind of makes me feel like parts of Punk Hazard were a bit of a waste of time. But Kaido excels at fear. At this stage it's what sustains his role in the series. He is a brutal all-powerful seemingly immortal force that no individual can take down. He is unstoppably ruthless and that is terrifying. Whenever one of our good dude guys is on the same page as Kaido I do legitimately fear for them because chances are it's not going to end well. So Kaido does genuinely have that factor going for it. But our final component is motivation.  In the end what he wants to do is cause a big old war, do general bad things and yeah look I know it's a bit more complicated than that. But what it boils down to is bad guy doing bad things for the sake of being a bad boy. Compare that to someone like Carter Curry whose actions were all committed to protect his family. That sort of motivation is easily identifiable to most readers or watches which automatically makes Carter Curry more compelling because you understand him. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that's the standard for all of One Piece though. Most major antagonists tend to share the Kaido style goals like Crocodile who wanted a big super weapon to take over the world and such. Dolph Lamingo sure he's slightly more interesting because he's sort of like the middle management equivalent of a bad guy constantly juggling the world government and Kaido so that he can survive and thrive. And actually just a warning I've got some Hody Jones praise incoming so just be prepared for that because I would actually say that by far the strongest aspect of the Hody Jones character was his motivation of being a racist zealot. It's not at all empathizable but it's something that we know and face in reality thus making it more understandable and allowing us to have some sort of stake in whatever it is he's doing whereas Kaido's plunge the war into world ambition is so far out of the realm of what we know that it does fall a little bit flat as do the goals of many other One Piece antagonists mind you but for our ultimate saga bad guy antagonist dude I think he needs a bit more than that. Like an MCU Thanos sort of drive something not justifiable but at the very least comprehensible and I don't comprehend Kaido's war desire because this does have a massive effect on Wano as a whole because this is his story. The narrative of Wano is not about Luffy or the straw hats it's about Kaido in addition to other things of course like it's about Odin the vassals the nation's citizens but the only reason why any of that story is important at all or needs to be told to begin with is because of Kaido. He is the fearsome man creature at the helm of everything and that means that he needs to command this story but right now he feels like more of a side character caught up in crazy events like he just sort of accidentally found himself in the role of main antagonist. He doesn't have the same weight that Dolph Lamingo did on Dressrosa or Crocodile on Alabasta or even Carter Curry's position on Hawkeye Island. There's a lot of factors that are currently missing from Kaido that his more successful predecessors managed to carry and even embody. Yes I fear Kaido he is a big scary dude bro his design helps a lot with that but it's not as effective as the design of others have been and other than fear I don't have any strong feelings regarding Kaido whatsoever. I do like those rare moments where he reveals a sliver of personality but those are few and far between and as for why Kaido is doing what he's doing I can only say that I care so much as it affects other characters that I actually well do care about and that's just not a great position for this grand antagonist to be in and once again this is all liable to change with a very simple flashback at some point. In fact Kaido could even go full senor pink and become the most sympathetic man baby who has ever lived in the span of a single chapter but I do think it's a big ask. One that Oda is fully equipped to pull off and who knows a year a month maybe even a week from now I do expect this video to be peppered with comments like lol this didn't age well but this is the state that we're in right here and now. Over 100 chapters into an arc well and truly into the action packed climax and our ultimate enemy to overcome is still such a neutral existence and it shows not only in popularity polls but every time I make a video focusing solely on Kaido it heavily underperforms which tells me that people see Kaido as a topic and a lot of them just choose not to click. Now that could also be an issue with me not making the titles and thumbnails appealing enough but at the same time what exactly is it that I'm supposed to sell you? Kaido as a character currently just doesn't have access to the full narrative arsenal the previous antagonists have had at their disposal meaning that there is very very little for me to be capable of selling about him. It's hard to create an intriguing title involving Kaido because he is fundamentally a sort of plain entity right now so I haven't made it yet but I fully expect to make this video a bit more appealing by adding Dorflamingo, Kartakuri or even both into the thumbnail because Kaido cannot carry this on his own and that's also potentially an issue with Wano as an arc. It's very much carried more by the lingering presence of Kozuki Oden at this stage than it is by our primary antagonist and I do think it's about time that Kaido started to put in his fair share of heavy lifting. So all I can really do is look forward to the day when Etrura Oda decides to reveal a little bit more about Kaido thus making this video entirely pointless. But for a video that will never be pointless do check out this discussion about how Ace ruined everything and I mean everything in one piece. Who would have thought that one man could have screwed things up so astoundingly so I look forward to seeing you there.


One of the members in our community, I was just speaking in bolder ways. One of our members has had two levitation experiences. And she wasn't even really impressed by that. Levitated.  But the stillness is more important than the levitation. We've had symptom removals, raising the dead. And the things that actually come about that we hear about from Jesus, and people say, did those things really happen? But those are just reflections and witnesses and demonstrations. And you are entitled to miracles, so when you're doing those lessons, it didn't surprise me when those things started to happen. It didn't surprise me when revelatory experiences happened, because he starts right off at the beginning of the book, and he starts talking about miracles and revelation. Miracles are the means, and revelation is the end. It shows you a glimpse of what this is all about. It's all there. And the book is there, I think, to assure us and reassure us to not be frightened of love, to not be frightened of the light when we have those experiences. The ego may shudder, and the ego may tremble, but you should not be afraid if you experience angels. Daily angels. I think a lot of us are starting to feel we have daily angels showing up. I find myself saying that in my mind. Angel, angel, angel, angel. So we're here really to accept the Atonement. That's our sole responsibility. Sole responsibility means it's the only responsibility. We were joking earlier about responsible for the heat. Cheryl and Bara were coming in there apologizing for the heat. We may think we have financial responsibilities. We have relationship responsibilities. We have responsibilities to family, friends. And the Holy Spirit is very practical. Jesus is very practical.  But there will be an unwinding. There will be an exchange of self-concepts for who you believe you are. You'll have an exchange, she tells us, in the self-versus-self-concept section of concepts. And you'll just go seemingly higher and higher up the ladder as you have more expansive identity concepts. Where you just have these aha moments and these oh, so glorious moments where you do not feel you are the same as you were. You just gasp, oh, I have so much more than I thought it was. Wow, just keeps happening, keeps happening, keeps happening.


The year has been incredible. It's been an excellent opportunity to live in a place like this and learn from some of the most world renowned surgeons in orthopedic surgery and in their specialty. Professionally, it gives me a chance to really make sure I'm mastering the techniques that these guys are teaching and learn the principles of orthopedic surgery are really the highest level. And personally, my wife and I both just love living in Vale. It's a pretty awesome opportunity to be able to do clinic in the morning, ski in the afternoon, do research in the Canaveralab in the evening. It's a pretty remarkable place. I couldn't have done any of this year or really residency without my wife, Molly. We've been to Moab to go mountain biking. We went down a telluride. We've done all the hikes around Vale. We've conquered a few 14ers and try to be as active as we can in the Colorado lifestyle, a lot of cowboy hat. What I would tell the incoming fellows is try and really maximize your opportunities of this year. Any research questions you may have, this is really your opportunity to delve into your interests and try and research the things that you think are valuable to you and to patient care. Being able to see how these physicians take care of patients and diagnose patients is really something that very few fellows get to take advantage of and is something that all of us will definitely take into our careers.


President Mohamed Ruhari has directed the armed forces and other security agencies in the country to ensure that nothing stops the November 6th governorship election in the number of states. This is as the National Security Advisor, retired general Babagana Mongono, said the new leader of the Islamic State of West African province, Iswab Malambako, was killed by the military two days ago. Now, the chief of the defense staff, Lucky Irabo, had told state house correspondents last week first day that the Iswab leader Abu Mos'ab Al-Baghnawi was eliminated by the military. A briefened journalist after the meeting of security chiefs presided over by the president, the NSA said, Ruhari gave the armed forces the march in order in response to the heightened security challenges in a number of states. We talked about the Anambara governorship elections, which is coming up on the 6th of November this year, and we want to assure the people of Anambara state and indeed all Nigerians that the government is committed to conducting those elections and it has to be free and fair. We are going to put every machinery in place to ensure that people are well secured and we are going to dominate the place to ensure that this place is calm and quiet, to provide for free and fair elections and that is the only way to ensure that we promote democracy and good governance in this country. Primarily the elections in Anambara state, which will be held on the 6th of November. People observed recent trends in which a lot of violent activities had been taking place and council is desirous of seeing a hitch-free election being conducted by next month.


I'm a big fan of the Shure products, I always have. I use the Shure MVI as my mic interface, and I am standing here with Laura Davidson from Shure right now, and she's going to talk to us about a mic for the iPhone. Yeah, so this is the MV88 Plus video kit, so it comes with everything you see here, except the phone of course. By the way, this is audio and video, so describe what you're showing. Oh great, so this is a stereo condenser microphone in a shoe mount. It has the phone clip and a Manfrotto Pixi tripod, so it's really versatile for content creators, podcasters, vloggers, and it also has a headphone out on the back, which is really, seems like a kind of silly feature to have, but it's amazing and indispensable once you start using it in the field because... So that's to monitor the recording to make sure it's not horrible. Exactly, because how many times have you recorded something, gotten back home to edit it, and no bueno, so... Have to monitor the audio, yeah. You have to, so we've made that easy for you. So by the clip she means she's got, it's basically mounted in a C-clamp here that's holding the phone and mounting the microphone up on top, and then she's got, as a handle, this small tripod from Manfrotto. Right, and then you can also do it in a number of different configurations. If you wanted to flip this into what we call field recording mode, you can flip that C-clamp and attach it directly to the tripod itself and have more of a horizontal aim for your microphone, which is nice. But one of the main features about the MV88 Plus and our mode of products specific to this microphone is that you can switch up your polar patterns, which I love. So if you want to be able to capture the sights and sounds of CES, go into stereo mode, then switch it up to mono cardioid mode, do a quick vlog, and then you can switch it to mono bi-directional and get a great interview where it disables the front mic, opens up the two side mics, you got two channels of audio, sounds killer. Now when you do that, do you point the mic straight up when you, in order to get the side to side? No, so what you would do is you could keep it just like this and I'm here, you're there, kind of thing. Oh okay, so it's on the left and right sides, gotcha, gotcha. Okay, oh now she's showing the microphone inputs on the sides. Yeah, so this comes off. She pulled off the little puffy thing. My windscreen, yeah, the windscreen comes with it, but and we recommend using that in any situation, unless you're in a perfectly quiet environment. So yeah, so you can see the microphones, it's a stereo condenser, so you have that nice stereo pattern, but it will disable that front mic, open up the two side mics, so I'm here, you're here on either side. Oh okay, okay, so it's got a front mic and two side mics. Correct, exactly. So this is what she's been showing us is very graphical, you can see exactly what the pattern is going to be, so there's no guessing of what that's supposed to look like. Now you've got it at a 135 degree angle, can I grab those little dots and move them and make it smaller? You can. Only if I'm not lame. Only if I'm not lame. There we go, she just switched it to 60 degrees, that's pretty cool. Yeah, and then you can also do some compression, limiting, five band EQ, all within the app, and when you go into the recording option, once you've recorded, you can store it within the app and then do a little bit of light editing, like trimming, adding a fade out, and then share it directly from the phone. But you don't have to use our app, if you want to use the app to configure the microphone and then use your favorite audio app, you can do that as well. Okay, and you can do this while recording video as well, of course. Exactly, we actually have a video app as well called Motive Video. I didn't know that, had never seen that, there you go. Yeah, and so this, you still have that great interface where you can change the polar pattern, but you also have some great features, like controlling your mic gain on the fly from within the app, controlling your exposure level right within the app, and your frames per second, audio file type, and audio resolution. Oh, that's really slick, so that the Motive software comes with the MV88 Plus as well, right? Correct, so when you plug it in for the first time, it'll prompt you to download the app. Very good, so how much is the MV88 Plus with all of this stuff? Two hundred forty nine dollars. Well, that's not bad at all. Not too bad. Not for a great mic. Well, thank you very much. I love Motive, and the Sure Products, I'll keep coming back. Great, thanks so much.


The president's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action.  Clayton Castle caught up with the Rangers today at their final practice before heading down to Minneapolis. Ask any basketball coach and they'll tell you it's not easy to go 28 and let alone make it to the state tournament in Minneapolis. But for the Crosby-Irenton Rangers they did just that after beating last year's section champion Esco. We knew we'd have to go through Esco. They had won the section tournament four years in a row and they were the favorite this year but we weren't that far behind and fortunately we played well enough to secure the victory. The Rangers are riding an eight game win streak going into tomorrow night's state quarter final match up against Breckenridge and the guys are pretty excited to have gotten to this point. Just ask seniors Jack Siljan and Noah Gendorf who have been to the sectional finals the past three years but are making their first trip to Minneapolis. It's incredible. Our team everybody is stepped up when the lights are shining and after a couple years coming up short it's it feels really great to finally come out on top. Definitely a really good feeling after losing section finals the past two years and to win in the fashion that we did it was it was a really good feeling for us. Coach Galevich says in order to win tomorrow night his team will have to stay focused and just keep doing what they've done all season. We got to get scoring inside as well as from the perimeter defensively I think we've been pretty good all year we our teams have averaged 46 points against us so it all revolves around our team effort. Galevich also says he's not the least bit surprised his team is headed to state. I'm really happy for our guys they've been an outstanding group of guys to coach just been a joy all 13 of them the whole year especially led by four seniors. Now the Rangers will head down to Minneapolis tomorrow and take on Breckenridge at eight o'clock at Williams Arena from Crosby Ironson High School Clayton Castle Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Okay, good afternoon is this is the afternoon media of the house appropriations Wednesday, March 16th. And we are joined here by representatives of the human services committee to hear of age 7 to 8, which is an act relating to opiate or dose response services. And and and Wittman and small, if you would like to join us down at the table, please do. And we are also joined by. Oh, and line well with and we have a fistful now. So, let's hear the bill first and then we'll hear from Mr. mine well and have a conversation about the bill. Uh, we could take a half an hour, no more than a half an hour. We're managing our time as everybody is doing and so you can give us the high, the high level overview and then bring us down to the money and the reason that you're here with us today. So, thank you for joining us and we'll turn it over to you. Hey, great. Thank you all for the record representative gain Whitman I serve on human services. Thank you again for having us here today to talk about age 728. So yeah, to put this bill into context. Looking for a response essentially to the sort of second epidemic that we're experiencing as we've described it, which is sadly continued rates and fatal overdose largely related to opioids and specifically fentanyl. Just to kind of put this into context. Over the last three years we've seen rates and opioid fatalities increase dramatically in 2019 we had 114 fatal overdoses and in 2020 that jumped up about 25% to 157 fatalities and now in 2021 we're looking at 181 fatalities. So that's almost another 2530% jump just over, you know, each year for two years really concerning the median median age for a fatal overdose is 40 in 2020. So we know that, you know, half not more than half of these deaths are young, young people. So this is a really concerning public health issue and just want to thank you all for your consideration. Of the proposals in here as well, recognizing that this isn't the whole picture that you've also looked at our recommendations within our budget memo and everything along those lines. So I would just like to say that essentially while the budget memo look to sort of fill gaps and strengthen a lot of our existing systems. This bill really sets the stage for more innovative initiatives so that we can adapt to sort of the current day nature of the opioid and specifically the fentanyl crisis that we're experiencing. I'll just go through a large walkthrough of the bill. And sort of the way that I think of it is that there's three main policy initiatives and then three sorts of pilot appropriations. So the policy initiatives are related to expanding who can be designated as a syringe service provider. The current health department language is pretty prescriptive about that and that it needs to be a service organization or a health care provider and we're just looking to open that up so that if there are opportunities to designate other organizations that come into contact with people who are injection drug users that we have that flexibility. The sort of section second section of the bill is related to prior authorization for medication assisted treatment. I think we will return to this component as we've kind of received some new information about the potential fiscal impact of this. So I think we'll sort of save that for last if that's OK. But the sort of third policy committee I'll turn it over to representative small as she's been involved in the overdose prevention site working group component. Good afternoon everyone representative Taylor small for the record overdose prevention sites also known as safe injection sites are a program that we've seen internationally and now growing recognition here in the United States. We've done similar research into overdose prevention sites but the difference now as compared to the past is that there are actually two areas within the state of Vermont and Burlington and then in Brattleboro who have significant interest in upstanding an overdose prevention site within their communities but need better guidance from the state to recognize whether there is legislative barriers to implementing these sites or whether it is putting that on us back on the municipalities of localities to be able to to understand such a service. What I will highlight as we just covered the immense increase in overdose deaths here in the state of Vermont is that the prevention sites is that internationally you've seen zero deaths within overdose prevention sites which is the goal I believe here is reducing our death rate for folks who are using drugs. And so I know that working groups are not your favorite option when looking at options for investing funding but it seems integral as a next step in the direction of being able to to understand those prevention sites here in the state to put this working group into action. So moving on the sorts of three pilot programs that we have included are related to a mobile distribution of medication assisted treatment. And as well as recovery and treatment for justice involved individuals and the third being kind of facilitating warm handoffs and greater coordination within our treatment and recovery system. So to go into mobile MIT. A lot of this comes to need for greater access to specifically methadone which is one of the medications provided within our hub and spoke system. Currently it's being limited to the hubs that we have around the state which mostly requires in person visit during a very narrow window of time that doesn't necessarily work for everybody based on geography based on work schedule things along those lines. Fortunately the federal rules around methadone distribution have changed recently to allow for mobile distribution of methadone. So this is looking to sort of pilot within one district you know van if you will that will with the purpose of expanding that access to previously underserved regions of a district for a hub. We do know an example of the Howard Center has an existing van that's limited to group or northing prescription so we're able to see a lot of their costs associated with that which is how we've sort of based this number here for 450,000. I'll move on. The second point of this is supports for justice involved for monitors. We have seen over the past several years some really tragic gaps and the continuum of services for both for monitors within our criminal justice system within prisons and especially upon reentry or leaving prisons. We have had a few tragic incidents I think specifically with the chin and women's correctional facility where there is a really devastating loss of life following the release of several women and the goal here is to build those supports for both substance use disorder counseling and recovery while people are incarcerated, as well as to create that continuum that upon read entry that they are again I'll use this term warm hand off that they are immediately connected to the regional existing resource that is available via a recovery center via a hub and spoke provider but that somebody is not that somebody is fully aware and connected to the to the resources available and the third component of this is looking at kind of opportunity to facilitate a peer network. You know recovery centers have their role as far as peer support peer meetings and this is maybe looking at an opportunity to create that network among justice involved people in recovery or seeking treatment. You'll notice that we have given the department a great amount of flexibility within this to award one or more grants. You may be aware that there was a previous request for a specific recovery center dedicated to justice involved for monitors and that is sort of within the purview but we also wanted to recognize the work that's happening around the state existing where this need may also need to be met. So that's why we sort of didn't choose to spell out to a specific organization or recovery center within this language as is going on to the final bit, which is the warm hand off component. This is actually something that has been implemented in a few parts of the state. I can speak for Bennington County having an example of this through their overdose outreach project and essentially what this involves to put the language here clearly is that emergency medical responders first responders are constantly doing now to respond to overdose and resuscitating individuals sometimes multiple times and a single tonight. And we're really trying to see upon that point of contact with an individual how do we make the most of that moment, especially when it may be a point in time where an individual is open to engaging in treatment or recovery after having that life threatening experience. So, again, I think this creates flexibility of how an organization could propose facilitating these warm handoffs but the example that we have in Bennington is for an on call recovery coach to be able to accompany a first responder. So that when that person is resuscitated the recovery coach is there to have a follow up with the individual, if possible, even make a direct referral to a treatment provider. And so that is essentially what this is seeking to accomplish. For some context there, the grant awarded in Bennington was $45,000 to make this possible and so the $180,000 that you see here is essentially looking at expanding this to four districts as a start. I think within all of this we want to see these as sort of pilots right within within a limited capacity, but that may provide information about the opportunities available, safer when the opioid abasement advisory group is looking at what are the options for investing resources in the future. So that is that and then going back to what we've sort of tabled the fire authorization component. So basically to provide all over the context and this front, there's currently about 9000 Vermonters receiving medication assisted treatment. And we have reason to believe that that's only about half of the Vermonters with opioid use disorder that would benefit from receiving treatment. So we're interested in seeing what sort of barriers to treatment may exist and how can those be alleviated so that people are more comfortable engaging in treatment. One of the interests that really brought my attention to prior authorization was first hearing from a provider within our committee that they saw this as something that could hold it off their prescription plan and their treatment plans for hours. Well, while an insurance company needs to sort of sign off on whatever medication they prescribed and also a pretty significant study of almost a million people within Medicare. Medicare removed prior authorization for MAT and for this group saw that people engaged in treatment. More so, there's an uptake and people engage with treatment and a decrease in costs. Other healthcare costs such as emergency room visits inpatient treatment. So seeing that this policy as a whole is sort of we're spending the money where we want to be spending it right as opposed to on the other end. But to give a little bit more context here. In 2019, we passed law that basically created for non Medicaid insurers that as long as it was within the FDA's recommended dosage that there was no prior authorization. We've looked at applying that to Medicaid now after receiving reports over the past three years that show that about 95% of the prior authorizations that take place the vast majority get approved. So each one of these is taking 30 minutes up to 12 hours, but the vast majority are getting the green light eventually and we're wondering part of these additional wait times, deterring people from engaging in treatment. We've also learned that Medicaid really prefers a treatment plan that is focused on their preferred medication, which in this case would be. They have a few with on the list but predominantly we'll see is Suboxone, which is a buprenorphine and naloxone kind of combination. What we have found is that there are other treatment options that may work better for some patients. But this prior authorization process is a bit of a way that. Medicaid or the or the treatment providers I'm not exactly sure who the noun is acting in this case, but patients are being directed into a certain lane, right. They want to be prescribed Suboxone as opposed to other treatments that may work better with their physiology. Right. So we saw an interest in relieving a lot of these restrictions. We tried to curtail to the best of our ability, things that we thought would make it sort of a negotiation between the two. But just yesterday, we received further information that really the amount of dedicating towards their preferred medications. And there are a couple of different things that go into this. I don't want to get too technical, but really, you wouldn't think that a brand name medication is going to be the most financially beneficial for the medication spend. But in this case, it is. And looking at people having say the choice to pick something such as an innovative medication such as sublocate, which is much more expensive. The projections from diva for the changes as included within this bill were anywhere from 17 to $35 million if I'm getting that correct. So we are definitely willing to acknowledge the many demands for resources that the Appropriations Committee is receiving right now. We believe that this work is still important and we're gathering more information from providers and we're happy to say that this has expressed willingness to sort of meet again to find something that may work to bring these costs down while still eliminating some of the barriers but as it stands right now, this prior authorization piece as presented to you would be even just for sort of moving outside of the current terms of their negotiation with distributors and providers that alone would be a $4 million hit to our sort of rebate agreement is my understanding. So I hope that I can only imagine how much information you are all taking in at this time. I hope that enough of that got across and really would be happy to hear any questions unless a representative small has anything to add. The only other piece that I will add to it is really recognizing how fundamental has changed the landscape of the treatments that are needed here in the state of Vermont, which is why we're looking into the prior authorizations piece and hearing from spoke providers that the preferred medication is actually causing really intense withdrawal symptoms for folks that is help not having them maintain on MIT and instead going back to using instead. So really encourage that we're going to continue this conversation and understand that there might be a whining of the eyes when you look at the estimated fiscal impact as currently presented. Is your recommendation here that we strike the prior authorization from the bill. There is one component that includes them to continue reporting on their prior authorization. We would hope that that stays within the bill. You're going to have to tell us exactly what that is. Oh, those reports. Yeah, you said the reporting aspect. So I'm actually looking at the and I just just to finish this conversation briefly I'm actually looking at the the Divas report for pharmacy claims and prior authorizations for calendar year 2021 on the sublocate that you mentioned. They had 584 claims that they paid for prior authorizations approved was 254 number denied was 24 so that was a 91 points 4% approval rate so I don't know what's good what's bad there but you know, 91% seems to be a good number. I don't know. But anyway, and hence the reason why you're going to want to continue to explore and again just to reiterate as you said, wait time for authorizations 30 minutes up to 11.95 hours. So, that's have a day at any rate. So you're going to let us know which of these sections exactly would need to be struck in order to have to have done what you have said you want to do, which is continue to look at this number one. Number two, can you prioritize your entire request for us please. These are the things that we want to this is absolutely must all the way down to you know something they're all need to do they really are just in a prioritize for us please what. What our committee would like to see done because you have no money you have no money. And I hope that is understood. We are underwater with the budget requests that we have. We are cutting very significantly into. Important programs. I'm really excited and wish that I had more time to understand this because I can see there's huge potential here. And a bit of what I'm wondering about also is, are there opportunities within existing programs within the office so can be moving somebody around, et cetera. And you know, if we have another week, right bacon has has your portion of this portion of the budget. And you could put you had, you could think about it, but we don't have another week. It's frustrating because I can see the great value and what you're trying to do here. And then I have one follow up. I like the idea of the mobile hub. It's mobile hub and spoke essential mobile hub rather. So, the only the only issue of course with that is that it needs to make the same ground I presume, every day, right. It just so that everyone understands that they need to go see all the same patients on a daily basis because typically the patients go to the hub every day. I just wanted to make sure, you know, yeah. And to put that into context, I think the current method is that there are times Medicaid funded transportation have an individual and then bringing them back. So, I think that the efficiency of the transportation is something to. I can also see the real worthiness of doing it this way, because there are probably people that would prefer not to either camp or don't want to be seen doing it. And this way, or are very uncomfortable doing it. So this way, we can get them on the free plan. There's a lot of reasons to do it. They were a bunch of Jim and my problem, I haven't had lunch. This is scary for everybody. Yeah. Jim Robin day. And then we have to get them. Yeah, I just want to make sure I understand at the $880,000. That's one time. That's not going right. So all of these are considered. Okay, so just one time. Okay. Secondly, what was the vote in your committee 11. Thank you. Thank you. And so there's 880 and then I figured around 10,000 for per diem, but 890,000. Because you have of the 11 people on your working group and I'm thinking that that nine people need to get paid. So I could be wrong about that. I'll go fine. So anyway, I was just guessing. And when you're talking about some of these other things, has the health care committee seen this. We're planning on a drive by. Okay, is it in our committee now we have it. Okay, so also need to do a drive by with corrections and institutions. If you're talking that justice involved. Yeah, we have connected actually sorry, I don't want to speak. I can't confirm whether or not we're doing a drive by health care. I was speaking off the cuff. We have, we have communicated with the chair and vice chair of corrections institutions and they have no issues. And similarly, we have had conversations with the house health care committee, specifically looking at the diva section, the prior authorization that support and they were pending the fiscal note, which we have now received. Okay, so they're aware of this bill. And we will continue the conversations as our amendment. Okay, okay. Did you have any testimony as to whether the general fund could match Medicaid and any of these instances. No, we were really hoping to leave that to your expertise as far as whether some of this could be applied to a global commitment. Okay, so we did not receive testimony. And then just to clarify, so if we did this divas as any increased costs of 12 to 30 million in the Prior authorization that's what the cost would be that my understanding 17 to 35 million. Correct the 35 million. And that's rather significant. And they're saying, without the prior authorization. It would increase the amount of unnecessary, not necessarily the best choices. I think maybe the specific term would be preferred versus not preferred. And that that's sort of a free utilization of non preferred medications. And that's we don't want that. So the technical current about preferred versus non preferred has to do with their negotiations, as it relates to cost. I think that has more to do with that. Yeah, thank you. One more question from red. Thank you. And then let's turn to Mr. Mike Wilde. Okay, then I have one question with two parts on the substance use support for justice involved for monitors. The turning point style concept up there in the county area. And of course, you're aware, I believe that under the 1115 negotiation, they are negotiating to get that day into the 1115 waiver, the turning point concepts into the 1115 waiver. So it's not currently eligible, but it could be eligible under the assuming we get a new 1115 waiver under the one correct for magic. And then on the on the overdose emergency response support. Isn't that expert. Isn't that expert expert expert expert. It's a referral treatment screen brief, a brief intervention referral treatment. And I believe that that most health and human services offices have been trained. But some staff people have been trained and expert and I believe I know our hospital has a expert clinician or had an expert clinicians as committee funded one in the emergency room. So I'm wondering, you know, where's the where's the linkage without that concept. Yeah, well, I will say that one of the main. Let me answer your first question, whether or not these will be recovery coaches. Again, there's flexibility and I would say it could be either a certified recovery coach, which would fall under the 1115 waiver doesn't necessarily need to be within Chippin County, obviously. But that it could be either that or say licensed alcohol and drug abuse counselor. Let me ask it another way. Did you take any testimony that refers this screening brief intervention referral treatment concept that the state was using four years ago and I don't know the current status of so I'm asking you with the current statuses of that. Yeah, we did not receive testimony on that and I think that's your, your second question as it relates to the sort of 180,000 for warm handoffs. Yes. Yeah, so my understanding is that one component of this is. Sort of developing the memorandums of understanding between various stakeholders. Typically, if an emergency first responder is going to go to the site. That medical information can't really be readily spread to all the other available stakeholders. So that's one role of these on call recovery coach is to walk through that process. I, the expert is new information to me. So I'd be happy to look into that. Let me know. Thank you. I'm sorry, big important. We should talk for an hour about this, but we can't. So I'm not seeing more questions from us and I'd like to get your line while down here to talk to us about the system. So, if perhaps you'll wait and see if there's more conversation, but it's my understanding that you're going to come to us with a proposal of amendment. We're going to need to see where we're comfortable. Thank you for the question about prioritizing a question that I have is also can this be fit into existing budgets. Is there something in ADAPS that we're not doing when the mention was made with regard to the mobile that, you know, not as many people are going to have to be transported up to the hub. You know, is there a bit of savings there that we could book legitimately? I mean, so let's do some really creative thinking. And I'm sorry, I keep looking at here because this is his and we don't have any time. But let's let's try to see if there are opportunities there. So no one come on down. Thank you very much for the record. No line while joint fiscal office. Let me just touch upon quickly some of the questions that were asked for deals. I started with that. Six thousand dollars estimate. That's the high end. That's not low. I just say can be absorbed within existing budgets. I don't think it needs an appropriation is so small. So I wouldn't worry about an appropriation for that. I wouldn't recommend that one's needed. The question about one time Harrison. I wish I thank you for that clarification. I will put that in my next version of this will know to make it clear. And then to represent the questions about F map Medicaid match. Great question. I'm going to follow up with the department on that. That said, I suspect it would be have to go under investments. And we all know what the problem with investments are. So I'll follow up, but I suspect that would be an investment issue and given the current state of unknownness and local equipment. That would be a consideration. Now I'll guide you to page three, the fiscal summary. Discussed there regardless of what what happens with the prior authorization conversation. There's still, you know, $880,000 in grants. So there is still an appropriation of 880 in the current version. As to the prior authorization stuff, you know, we did hear testimony earlier from D of explaining it and the pieces I will highlight are one that prior authorization is to represent the act of owns point is a tool used to control utilization. And so the sense is without prior authorization they will have control over utilization to push to guide people to the therapeutic equivalent that's a preferred drug that would their theory do the same thing. That said, most of that this is the thing I found most compelling. Most of that money that the 1230 was for one drug. Supplicated, which costs over $20,000 per year per patient. So that's that's where a lot of that estimate came from. In terms of the impact the other piece we've heard that would affect about 4 million would be supplemental rebates and that's because when they negotiate with them pharmacy manufacturers. They're required to have a prior authorization policy and they don't have a prior authorization policy. As I understand it, they're not eligible for rebates. That's why there's the loss of rebates. So that's the two big pieces of where what their estimate. So that's my answer I want to because when I first heard that my job at the ground to I was represented Fagan at the time. And we could both of our job tables so hard. Everyone love. So, so I just want to just sort of explain sort of like my understanding of from conversations from the testimony we heard why that number is so big. I don't have anything further to. Let's see a question. Peter, thank you clarify question. If I may, the prior authorization regarding the rebates, as you said, a prior that needs to be in place in order for the rebates to exist. Does a removal of it one prior off effect all rebates or is it just limited to the specific drugs. I don't know the answer to that. The great question that that's a question I have to defer to the Medicaid. Robin. Yeah, so who pays if there's a 17 to $35 million. So that would basically mean that the Medicaid costs would increase. That's what I wanted to know. That's the effect of what happened. Yeah, so, and so we would have to cover that expected increase in utilization in the budget. Even budget would go up by that by that amount of money. By the way, I should have clarified to you that's gross. Okay, that's gross. So we don't know what the number is that would be. Well, I mean, we would if we were going to do this policy, we would put a number in. Yeah. And then I have the gross and that it's 40, you know, on the state shares 44.2%. So basically half almost. Even 44% of $17 million. Very much never. Any more questions for. Not seeing any. So work is being done. At some point we have to say all our income free on all of the bills. If this needs to get done. Tomorrow, tomorrow being Thursday, because we are running out of time. So. Work harder work faster. That's what she said. Thank you.


It is projected that in the next couple of years more than two-thirds of the Indian manufacturing sector will embrace industry 4.0 and that means integration of automation, other technologies such as cloud, IoT in the operations. As the businesses in India are accelerating towards this shift, how can leaders capitalize on new digital tools to manage teams and also at the same time prevent creativity from turning into chaos? Let's put Bosch in perspective. Our parent has more than 50 countries manufacturing footprint. Bosch in India has 18 manufacturing plants. We have been doing make in India for the last 70 years. So it's very important for us to actually not only retain our strength in manufacturing but reinvent manufacturing and not look at manufacturing as make but look at the source make deliver. Now that's where industry 4.0 comes in and having spent a sizable portion of my own career in plants in Bosch, both within India, Turkey and Germany. I say with some conviction that it's very important to have the clarity on the storyline of the overview. Business requirements is key for source make deliver. Second, you have to have a clear definition of what is connected industry and not try to do the whole value chain without knowing what steps at what depth. Third, digital competency is a must. You have to do the base work of understanding where your people are on digital competency and how you train them and how you upskill them. And lastly, it's a mindset and a culture, a data driven organization. How do you arrive where decisions are taken not on emotions but on data. And then of course, industry 4.0 allows you to innovate through interventions based on data driven and on many cases, even when you start on preventive.


Item number SCP-1125 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-1125 is kept within its original packing, including styrofoam padding and an isolated room measuring 15m x 15m x 15m at Site-37. SCP-1125 is kept in a lock stainless steel box on a concrete pestle that is protected from the elements, in a 25m x 25m roofless containment area open to the air in at least a 180° arc. On less part of an experiment, no sealed or closed containers are allowed within the containment area, including pockets in clothing and end caps on pens. Personnel should spend no more than 60 minutes per 24-hour period within the containment area. Description SCP-1125 is a spindle-shaped glass ornament, with a small loop at the top allowing it to be hung from a hook. When hung on a tree, bush, or other woody plant, it initiates a process of accelerating decay and aging in any closed containers within 4m of it. The contents of these containers will change so as to reflect the signs of typical wear and tear that the object would acquire over the course of several years. Textiles, clothing, and stuffed plush animals become faded and threadbare, often with ripped seams and missing or broken fasteners. Solid-state metal, plastic, or glass objects will display chips, cracks, scratches, and heavy corrosion similar to acid burns. Electronics display both hardware and software problems, sufficient to cause fatal shutdowns within a few minutes of use. Foodstuffs will become stale or moldy. Dating organisms do not die, but display health problems consistent with age, as well as extended malnourishment, neglect, or abuse. The decay process is rapid, with affected objects displaying approximately one year's worth of aging within the first 24 hours of exposure. However, the rate of decay slows over time, and asymptotically approaches a maximum of approximately 10 years worth of aging over the course of three weeks. Addendum 1225-D Study of SCP-1225's pre-containment circumstances, as well as experimentation regarding the aging effects of long-term exposure to SCP-1225 indicate that SCP-1225 is a secondary effect. Any individuals that spend more than 4 hours per 24 hour period within 10 to 12 meters of SCP-1225 begin to display increased levels of aggression, anger and irritability, decreased patients of frustration tolerance, and exaggeration of negative or annoying personal traits, such as overeating, alcohol consumption, snoring, and unpleasant body odor. This effect persists even when the affected individuals are no longer within range of SCP-1225, but gradually fade over the course of 8 days. This increase in aggravating factors typically results in heightened levels of interpersonal conflict, most commonly expressed by severe verbal or physical fights. When more than one individual affected by SCP-1225 interact with each other, the effects are much more severe and escalate much faster. In 27.5% of cases, this results in serious injuries or fatalities. Addendum 1225-H Due to a statistically abnormal amount of equipment failure, structural decay and interpersonal conflicts requiring administrative action at Site-37, more in-depth studies were performed on SCP-1225. The current prevailing theory is that SCP-1225 still operates, even when not placed on a plant, but much slower and less intensely. It appears to treat enclosed structures or buildings containing it as if they were containers placed beneath it, and will affect them as well. Whether or not the containing structure includes a roof, trellis, or other overhead cover appears to most strongly determine whether or not SCP-1225 will affect the structure. The acquisition of D-Class personnel from SCP-784 is currently under consideration due to the fact that these personnel are less prone to equipment failures caused by SCP-1225. Whatever research is required in order to determine the exact nature of this effect. Containment protocols have been updated.


Well, good evening and welcome to the session on pure functional programming on JVM with Freak. My name is Nareesha and I work for a company called Channel Bridge. Well, Freak, you can call it as, you know, I mean there are two ways to look at it. One has Haskell on JVM and another one is somebody who is working on the JVM and want to want a tool or a platform where you can do pure functional programming, then what capability do you have or what are the options available. So I'm mostly presenting from the second point of view because that's my background and especially because if you're already in Haskell programmer then you'd have a certain existing code. So you want all those code exactly to be run on JVM etc. But as you wouldn't have that constraint if you are on JVM and you want a better tool for functional programming. Before I get started I just want to get a feel of how many are actually already programming in closure Haskell anything of that sort. Many are mostly new to functional programming or programming in functional style. Well, I'll mix up that. Well, so interestingly the reason how I got led to this is can we do functional programming or with discipline essentially something like immutability versus when it is enforced by the platform. Some of the typical perceived benefits like ability to keep on changing the variable. When you sacrifice that obviously you are forced to think in a different direction and you get a lot of benefits for your programming. With that effort, I mean as a platform for platform sensor tool on JVM for programming in pure functional way got discovered free which is interestingly initially it got started as if I use the way back machine on June 1st, 2014. So it's a programming language in the spirit of Haskell but if you today it's mostly free is Haskell for JVM that's the kind of evolution it went through. With that I'll straight away get started. So let me start with the simple program first. Let's get started. So this is my structure right now I just have a hello and a leap. So I'm going to compile my free program. Let me show the structure before. So I created my program in hello.fr and when I compile essentially which will call you know there is no free C as such executable available but it's calling Java program which Java intern we will use the free library which will internally call the Java compiler to translate this. So what you see is that a file called hello.java got created and which then got compiled into hello.class and then I ran hello.class so that essentially that's the structure. So if you just want to take a look at our site work see so that's the generated Java code which then gets compiled into byte code. So essentially the way Freak works is unlike many of the languages on JVM first it compiles into Java source code then it you know using the typical Java compiler it gets compiled into byte code and from there you run it that's how it's going to work. It comes with the REPL there are quite a few options for the for the REPL. So we have the you know REPL which you can download from the Freak GitHub page and you can use that that's one option. You also get Java effects REPL. So if you want you can use that. Also there is online REPL available at try.freaklang.org so you can use any of these options. So for most of my talk I'll stick to the REPL what I have which is simple idea. So any questions so essentially I mean if you look at the Java code it has a lot of it can have other classes also. So a lot of things are created by Freak itself. So your class files would represent that structure. All right. So if you look at the structure so in my file I gave fc.hello. So under my build you would see fc got created directory and hello.class. So the last part will be converted to your class file will be named the last part. Previous will be your package structure. Okay so let's get it to REPL and let me create a function. So you would see Freak is a statically compiled language I mean since it's an implementation of a scholar that would be obvious but for somebody who is coming from any other Java or any other dynamic languages on Java background. So it's a statically typed and it's the type you don't have to specify the type you know the compiler can infer the type here. So you would see it inferred it as a number. So let me just call say 1020 that's going to work and say so that's essentially going to work. So having said that if you want to specify the type you always have the option to specify that say add int right. So I can say it's from int to int I can say yeah now it's going to give a compilation error because it has to be an integer. So you have the option to specify it or a compiler can infer that. So next one of the very important you know part for somebody who is coming from any other functional style language could be about the purity. So let me just create one more file let me create same then I'll create one more function here I would say which I would call from. So by default I mean it will not allow you to introduce side effects in your code if you want you have to enforce it explicit explicit about that you want your function to have side effects. So yeah now it is compiled so I can so by default you know functions cannot introduce side effects so which will give you additional advantage you know to make sure things are. Now let's get back to the repel so we have already wrote the function add you know you can call something like this and interestingly if you call the function just with one argument instead of multiple one it's going to you know create a function I mean it's a partial application of function so where you just specify you know single argument is going to create on the function so I can just create say add 10 now I say add 10 and say 20 so by default even when I wrote add 10 20 so first it's going to apply add on 10 so right as a result you will get a function which will be then applied to you know 20 so function application will have a higher precedence so if you want to change it you will have to you know explicitly you can use so parents is for example say now I want to add this to one more right so instead of you want to say add 10 result or there's another way to I mean if you go on doing this the code will not look very good so instead of that you can be you know use a dollar same result a bit wherein you don't have to really specify that parents questions yeah I mean they have implemented the whole you know the since JVM by default doesn't have way to lazy execute and all those things they have implemented in Java then again they have implemented preload in the language it's free itself yes it is lazy you know there's a basic implement implementation of the language in Java the libraries are implemented in the language free case yeah mostly yeah they implement Haskell 2010 report but it may not be hundred percent compatible with GHC as of now so if you go to the GitHub there's a page where they list these are the differences so especially for Haskell programmers okay so let's get into function of composition maybe let's make another function all increment 10 11 so now say I want to increment twice right increment of increment so if you want to create a function by composing two functions in this case I can just use the same function twice it's going to give me another function now to 10 that will give me so you can take two functions composed to get another function which you can then apply that's how you would do composition so we have seen the current so interestingly the name free girl you know it's a it's named after a German mathematician called Gottlob Freak who was the first one to you know propose some Korean well so let's get into working with the list so which will also explore a bit laziness and we would see laziness in detail also so now say you can always give the complete numbers like this specify list 1 2 3 4 or say I just want now specify a range and you also have the option of you know having infinitely so if I don't use it nothing will be evaluated so this are lazy similarly you can specify say so if you just want even numbers first in this way I'm not pretty sure what is the implementation whole languages so so again I mean as the function previously we have seen any of those functions so let me just do this that will give me the Java code so you would see final lazy being used so to implement that essentially some of you know these are some of the structures they use so you would see there's a lazy interface so you know most most of them are it's smaller so you would see the same you know you should see that the method signatures it would have all of them so it would not be a you know your regular int or that's because it has to be lazy okay so let's just combine some of these principles and let's say we let's do the famous fizz bus in a smaller way so I mean I hope you know every third word will be fizz and every fifth word will be buzz and wherever you know they combine will have fizz bus that's how the pattern again so we can start with the same fizz and it will be of the pattern fizz so I can generate you know that pattern make it infinite by saying cycle similarly buzz I can create say and bus so still nothing has happened so now I want to create fizz bus so I can do say combine these two together with zip what I want to do is concatenate those two into one and so that will give me a list so now so you would see the third one is fizz fifth one is buzz and 15th one is fizz bus so next level would be you know putting a number instead of empty so essentially we have combined you know these things together okay so having since Frig is running on JVM an important aspect for the language is to interoperate with the Java language so if you have a Java library how do we use it from Frig and the way also so let's explore in an example on that create that's a very simple class which I mean which I mean rather a function increment which we want to use from Frig so here now you would see the helper class is available so let me write the free code so essentially say I want to create increment just want to use that assets so here I'll how to define that Java function or the signature which takes an integer and returns integer so since you know the function doesn't have any side effects let me put it as pure so let's assume the exact exactly I'm coming into that so let's let's I mean instead of writing on the function let's assume that it's having a side effect so I am not giving it as pure I'll go back and try to compile that so it's not having to do that because it's a IO unit right so if you're integrating with Java there is no magic way to figure out if the function is pure or not so it's up to the developer to specify that I'm writing a pure function or not writing the pure function and rest of the system will go with that whatever increment has illegal yeah that's error E no it is here right I can see it's directly assigned so I mean if I have to use it I have to use it in a context where all right yeah that yeah that seems like a good idea I'm not sure I'm not a hard of any implementation of that such I believe from the effort wise that will be more or less same I mean you have to specify it somewhere that this is a pure or not well interesting I don't try it out I think some but essentially if it doesn't return I mean it can be and now you know I mean IO unit it can't be a pure function so that's some IO unit yeah so this is about you know integrate using Java functions or Java code in from your free programs the other way is also possible but still the lot of work is going on so if you look at the so there are two versions of you know calling free code from Java you would see from 3.24 onwards they have something new and so essentially it will not be very straightforward you should be aware of some implementation or typically they call it as a free run type system so these type systems you need to be aware so that you know instead of passing simple types you would have to use wrap them in lazy and all these kind of implementations but yeah so with that effort it would be possible so mostly if your free implementation I mean whatever code you have written in free if you want to use it typically would require some sort of you know wrapper being written that is going to be extensively used so I think that would be the approach for yeah so I was talking about the differences yeah so here you have the difference between friggin has come so just mainly for people who are coming from the Haskell background kind of let me show that is what yeah you will have to use so you know Gradle or something like that so this will you know spit out I mean create Java files and then the class files then finally you can create a jar of it which can be done through Gradle yeah so essentially you know what I'm using you know is I mean this is the jar file so along with this jar file whatever jar file you have created if you can put that so essentially from Java you are accessing these things or at least Tomcat would have the bootstrapping code that's how it works by default so the whole the approach they have taken is your free code gets converted into Java code which you can it is possible but it would require some sort of boilerplate code as of now you will have to you know adopt those free type systems yes it's a jar since it gets converted into Java there should be binary combined yes because entropy at the Java level well some function signatures got changed or something like that right but but Scala doesn't go that way so since this is going through Java so that has to be maintained I mean unless you change the whole library definition itself different versions of Java or then you would have the new jar integrated I mean mostly if you have a jar that should be pretty much compatible I don't see any issue why because Java version has changed it will not become uncomfortable compatible but if a free version has changed and you are writing new code then obviously unless there is some breaking changes also well so the this repel what you saw this is written in freegeson with some JavaScript front-end so sometimes in case of errors you may get some jQuery errors I'm not aware of company who has I don't think anybody has admitted we are using the free but I believe you know the way to go would be to start a small since it digits well with the Java that we approach before going for a full flash oh yeah so I mean in this so see the it's essentially immutable so you can pass the same structure to any number of threads I'm not sure you know Haskell is just a can layer on Java I mean sort of not Haskell free or you can use Java I'm not sure Haskell directly I believe yeah so it's already using some sort of I mean laziness means you may not have to create a lot of things first of all the case would be if you you know do not have a structural sharing then say you take an object you try to change something so essentially it will create a new object that case but I mean there were some you know you know numbers on the garbage collection we showed is very less there should be some reference within I think so not really but that would also depend on the implementation so just because of language unless your implementation is good that there may not be 100% accurate but yeah that's I'm not sure yeah in terms of maturity I think it's already there for a few years and been slowly evolving and I think people are more confidently saying that it's a Haskell implementation on JVM than just saying that okay it's influenced by Haskell so I think yeah mostly it is compatible so that should be possible I'm not sure so I mean I'm focused on that so this page should list differences I'm sure that gap has reduced over a period of time and there are some additional things like I mean if you have so instead of seeing length so this type of notation supported here a lot of suggestions etc. this one? like this? yeah so I think there's already a plugin for Eclipse right now and there is a feature request on IntelliJ which has been recently accepted so maybe an year back or so there may be 10 or 20 people who might have voted for that it's crossed 100 and sure yeah so I mean in terms of the one limit I would see is there you can have only 65k methods per class so if you know this auto-generating stuff is adding more to that then that could be a problem but I mean the same problem exists in Android also and they use that you can use where some of the functions can be inlined and also I'm not sure of the complete feasibility because it's lazy and all but that's one option to make it feasible even after that well so yeah so essentially I want to end with saying that by you know sacrificing some of the perceived conveniences like you know mutability and all we are able to explore the whole new world which can lead to a lot of innovation and with the JVM being a proven target so you can always have the convenience of programming in the tool you want and finally run it on your preferred platform so that's all what I had for today thank you


Aaron Boone said maybe your staff was a tick down from your start against the Dodgers But still managed to get through five innings allowing just two runs. How were you able to do so? It's just keeping my aggressive approach, you know, I kind of lost the handle there walked a few more than I wanted to They just battled, you know, I thought Gary did a nice job behind the plate mixing it up And I think as we're making the plays in the field behind me Mentioned lost the aggressiveness a little bit. Why do you think that was? I mean I was trying to be aggressive. I was just having a hard time finding the zone there a little bit You know and Was trying to get in the zone But then I was able to correct it in the fifth inning and get those out So we needed to prove something to you that even though you don't have your best staff You can still give them a pretty good start. Yeah, absolutely. You know, it was good to see You know feeling that way and being able to Go out there and give that kind of effort kind of just shows myself what I can accomplish You know with like you said lesser stuff. Um, so that was uh, that was great Does it help when you have guys like Gary Sanchez, Aaron Judge, Mike Ford on the other side putting some runs on the board? Absolutely, you know, those guys have been fantastic the last few days putting a lot of runs on the board Fun to watch watch those guys hit. It's been it's been really great Talked to you the other day about pitching here for the first time since being traded Were there any added emotions on the mound? It was definitely weird For sure, um, you know a new experience facing the team that I was with for such a long time Was just trying not to think about it and just going out and doing what I do What have you learned about winning with the Yankees? Your next win will match your career high or things like that Well, these guys make it easier on me when they're scoring these many runs, you know, it's uh, That's awesome when they're they're putting runs on the board like that, but uh, Me personally, it's just uh, the approach of being aggressive and taking a one pitch at a time Not focusing on the the end result and uh going out there and battling It was five innings. It wasn't as electric or dynamic as his last start He didn't have that nasty knuckle curve that he displayed against the Dodgers But there will be some starts where you don't have your a plus stuff and you have to figure out a way to get through I think that's what paxton did today He only ended up allowing one hit in the game And I think it was a smart move by boon with the Yankees leading and a day off tomorrow Go to the bullpen after five innings and even though this start was not a la the Dodgers You've been pointing it out along when he got on that first good run to start august This is the guy they dream on even if it's not the great stuff and it's five walks You want the guy that can grind out wins. Yeah for some reason today. He didn't have his command He was scattering his pitches a lot Sanchez actually saved them not only with his bat the two are at home But by throwing out two base runners at second base But major league pitchers talk about this all the time and david cohen talked about it during the broadcast You're not going to have your best stuff every time out there So figure out a way and that's what james paxton did he got the win and his last six starts He's now six and oh and he definitely is a more versatile pitcher in terms of using all of his stuff And not just being a guy who's only going fastball cutter hard slider. It's working in that curve ball too


So after the events in Manchester, these horrific attacks earlier in the week, I thought it was worth talking a bit about British foreign policy in the Middle East and the relationship between that and the terrorist threat that we face. So in the next few days, weeks, we're going to hear from a lot of very serious people, very serious MPs, very serious newspaper columnists, very serious think tank people and all these very serious people have a very bad record when it comes to analysing the effect of foreign policy, analysing the terrorist threat. So I'd encourage you to ignore these people because I broadly don't have any credibility. And we don't know enough about what happens a few days ago, so I don't want to talk too directly about that in particular, but we do know who the big threats are at the moment in terms of international terrorism. It's ISIS and it's al-Qaeda, so let's talk a little bit about that. Specifically with regard to ISIS, where did ISIS come from? Well ISIS grew out of a group called al-Qaeda in Iraq. That's a distinct separate branch of al-Qaeda that really emerged, grew out of and flourished in the chaos created by the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the British and American invasion of Iraq. ISIS grew out of that group and then exploited the civil war in Syria to gain territory, etc, etc. So we have to recognise the role that our invasion of Iraq played in the growth of ISIS and understand the fact that this shows that this war on terror that we've been pursuing is not making us safe. Let's give another example of how British foreign policy isn't helping in the fight against terrorism. The Saudi-led intervention in Yemen at the moment, which the British and the Americans are giving a huge amount of material support to sending bombs and missiles for the Saudis to drop on Yemen, that's created a chaotic situation in which the local branches of ISIS and al-Qaeda have flourished and the Yemen branch of al-Qaeda is probably the most dangerous in terms of international terrorism, so that's not helping either. Another situation is Egypt. In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood government was overthrown in 2013 by the military. There was then this vicious crackdown which amounts to state terrorism, the liquidation of the Muslim Brotherhood, the killing of its civilian supporters by the hundreds in the Tiananmen Square style massacre in Cairo, imprisonment of their supporters. All of this has been a great big gift to jihadi fundamentalist groups in Egypt. It's been a message to Muslim fundamentalists of a more Muslim Brotherhood kind, the kind that participate in elections and that don't embrace jihadism. It's been a message to them, forget about electoral politics, al-Qaeda and ISIS are the people you should you should join. So Britain and America's support for that coup regime is not making a safe either and then take Libya. Well with Libya it's hard to argue that the situation would have been much different whether or not NATO would intervene, I mean either way there would have been chaos in that country when the regime fell apart, but what we can say is that the NATO intervention in 2011 didn't help matters either way, we're not better off as a result of it. Again none of this is making us safer. Cracking down on Muslim communities, alienating those communities in the West, that's exactly what the jihadists want, that's exactly what they're looking for, that's what their recruitment sergeants are wanting us to do. That creates Western recruits for ISIS, people who go over to ISIS in Syria and Iraq and volunteered with them, that's what they're hoping happens when they bomb targets in the West. So cracking down on Muslim communities that doesn't make us safe either. Generally our ongoing long-term material support over decades for all these corrupt authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, regimes are prone to collapse and the collapse then creates a space for groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda to flourish, again none of this is making us safe, these are all key parts of British foreign policy that don't make us safe. It's difficult to talk about solutions because these are very complex issues and it's not as though British foreign policy or Western foreign policy just created the terrorist threat out of nothing, but there are some things that we can do or should do differently which might at least produce the terrorist threat or at least not make it worse. So let's talk a little bit about those. Number one, leave the fight against ISIS and Al Qaeda on the ground in the Middle East to local forces that have popular legitimacy in those areas. That's absolutely key that second part, make sure that the people who are fighting against those groups have legitimacy within the communities that ISIS and Al Qaeda are working within. The second thing is to de-escalate conflicts, don't escalate them. ISIS and Al Qaeda, they love the chaos created by conflict, that's where they thrive, that's where they operate, that's where they exploit people's grievances. So don't escalate conflicts, de-escalate them, don't start wars, that should be clear by now after the last 15, 16 years. In terms of those communities in Syria, in Iraq, which ISIS have exploited, they've exploited people's grievances, their alienation, they desperately need to be a settlement, especially in Iraq for that Sunni community which was alienated, marginalised after the intervention. So there needs to be a deal broken between the central government and people in Anbar province and places like Fallujah and Ramadi, etc, etc. And finally in terms of what we can do in this country, show love to Muslim communities, not just because they're our friends and allies in the struggle against terrorism, against domestic extremists, but also because they're our friends full stop. I've taught many young British Muslims over the last few years in my world teaching at SOAS and I have this stunning revelation to bring to you, they're normal human beings and we need to treat them as such and give hell to anyone who says that we should do anything else.