A good business person's like a general. You got a retreat from the battlefronts where you could lose. Hey, I can win on that hill. Retreat and regroup and reinforce the hill you can win on. Everybody can win on a hill. My grandfather, I always knew I could not be as good at him as chess. He had massive spatial IQ. He can remember the rotation of three boards, three chess masters playing against him. That's something you're born with. You can't develop that. I mean, no people argue and say you can develop it. But if you put equal time into it against somebody who has natural capacity and puts equal intensity, you'll lose. Yeah, theoretically you could win, but you only have one life. So if you lose on the battlefield, it's game over.  So it's a matter of a battlefield general going, but everybody can win somewhere, but not everywhere. And that's the narcissism to think you can win everywhere. And it'll be an IQ, narcissistic, or an aptitude.


Today, more than ever before, organizations are striving to gain a competitive advantage, deliver more value to customers, reduce risk, and respond more quickly to the needs of businesses. Now to achieve these goals, organizations need easy access to a single view of accurate, consistent, and very importantly, trusted data. If it's not trusted, nobody's going to use it. It all in near real time. However, the growing volumes and complexities of data make this difficult to achieve in practice, not to mention the organizational challenges that have evolved as data becomes increasingly important to winning in the marketplace. Specifically, as data grows, so does the prevalence of data silos, making integrating and leveraging data from internal and external sources a real challenge. Now in this final segment, we'll hear from Joe Lichtenberg, who's the head of global head of product and industry marketing, and he's going to discuss how smart data fabrics can be applied to different industries, and by way of these use cases, we'll probe Joe's vast knowledge base and ask him to highlight how inter-systems, which touts a next-gen approach to customer 360, how the company leverages a smart data fabric to provide organizations of varying sizes and sectors in financial services, supply chain, logistics, and healthcare, with a better, faster, and easier way to deliver value to the business. Joe, welcome, great to have you here. Thank you, it's great to be here. That was some intro. I could not have said it better myself, so thank you for that. Thank you, well, we're happy to have you on the show. Now I understand, you've made a career helping large businesses with technology solutions, small businesses, and then scale those solutions to meet whatever needs they had.  We talked to Scott earlier about data fabrics, how it relates to data mesh, big discussions in the industry, so tell us more about your perspective. Sure, so first I would say that I have been in this industry for a very long time. So I've been, like you, I'm sure, for decades working with customers and with technology really to solve these same kinds of challenges. So for decades, companies have been working with lots and lots of data and trying to get business value to solve all sorts of different challenges. And I will tell you that I've seen many different approaches and different technologies over the years. So early on, point to point connections with custom coding, and I've worked with integration platforms 20 years ago with the advent of web services and service-oriented architectures and exposing end points with WisDL and getting access to disparate data from across the organization. And more recently, obviously, with data warehouses and data lakes and now moving workloads to the cloud with cloud-based data marts and data warehouses, lots of approaches that I've seen over the years, but yet still challenges remain in terms of getting access to a single, trusted, real-time view of data. And so recently, we ran a survey of more than 500 different business users across different industries, and 86% told us that they still lack confidence in using their data to make decisions. It's a huge number, right? And if you think about all of the work and all of the technology and approaches over the years, that is a surprising number. And drilling into why that is, there were three main reasons. One is latency. So the amount of time that it takes to access the data and process the data and make it fit for purpose by the time the business has access to the data and the information that they need, the opportunity has passed. It lapsed time, not speed of light, right? That too maybe, but it takes a long time. If you think about these processes and you have to take the data and copy it and run ETL processes and prepare it, so that's one. One is just the amount of data that's disparate in data silos. So still struggling with data that is dispersed across different systems and different formats. And the third is data democratization. So the business really wants to have access to the data so that they can drill into the data and ask ad hoc questions and the next question and drill into the information and see where it leads them rather than having sort of pre-structured data and pre-structured queries and having to go back to IT and put the request back on the queue again and waiting. So it takes too long. The data is too hard to get to because it's in silos and the data lacks context because it's technical people that are serving up the data to the business people. Exactly. And there's a mismatch. Exactly, right? So they call that data democratization or giving the business access to the data and the tools that they need to get the answers that they need in the moment. So the skeptic in me, because you're right, I have seen this story before and the problems seem like they keep coming up year after year, decade after decade. But I'm an optimist. As am I. And so I sometimes say, okay, same wine, new bottle but it feels like it's different this time around with data fabrics. You guys talk about smart data fabrics. From your perspective, what's different? Yeah, you know, it's very exciting and it's a fundamentally different approach. So if you think about all of these prior approaches and by the way, all of these prior approaches have added value, right? It's not like they were bad but there's still limitations and the business still isn't getting access to all the data that they need in the moment, right? So data warehouses are terrific. If you know the questions that you want answered and you take the data and you structure the data in advance and so now you're serving the business with sort of preplanned answers to preplanned queries, right? The data fabric, what we call a smart data fabric is fundamentally different. It's a fundamentally different approach in that rather than sort of in batch mode taking the data and making it fit for purpose with all the complexity and delays associated with it with a data fabric, we're accessing the data on demand as it's needed, as it's requested either by the business or by applications or by the data scientists directly from the source systems. So you're not copying it necessarily to that, to make that, not FTPing it, for instance. I've got it, you take it. You're basically using the same source. You're pulling the data on demand as it's being requested by the consumers and then all of the data management processes that need to be applied for integration and transformation to get the data into a consistent format and business rules and analytic queries and what Jess showed with machine learning, predictive, prescriptive analytics, all sorts of powerful capabilities are built into the fabric so that as you're pulling the data on demand, all of these processes are being applied and the net result is you're addressing these limitations around latency and silos that we've seen in the past. Okay, so you talked about, you have a lot of customers in our systems does it in different industries, supply chain, financial services, manufacturing, we're from just healthcare. What are you seeing in terms of applications of smart data fabrics in the real world? Yeah, so we see it in every industry. So inner systems, as you know, has been around now for 43 years and we have tens of thousands of customers in every industry. And this architectural pattern now is providing value for really critical use cases in every industry. So I'm happy to talk to you about some that we're seeing, I could actually spend like three hours here right there but I'm very passionate about working with customers and there's all sorts of exciting- What are some of your favorites? So obviously supply chain right now is going through a very challenging time. So the combination of what's happening with the pandemic and disruptions, then now I understand eggs are difficult to come by, I just heard on NPR. Yeah, and it's in part a data problem and a big part of data problem, is that fair? Yeah, and so in supply chain, first there's supply chain visibility. So organizations want a real-time or near real-time expansive view of what's happening across the entire supply chain from supply all the way through distribution. So that's only part of the issue but that's a huge sort of real-time data silos problem. So if you think about your extended supply chain, it's complicated enough with all the systems and silos inside your firewall before all of your suppliers, even just thinking about your tier one suppliers, let alone tier two and tier three. And then building on top of real-time visibility is what the industry calls a control tower, what we call the ultimate control tower. And so it's built in analytics to be able to sense disruptions and exceptions as they occur and predict the likelihood of these disruptions occurring and then having data-driven and analytics-driven guidance in terms of the best way to deal with these disruptions. So for example, an order is missing line items or a cargo ship is stuck off port somewhere. What do you do about it? Do you reroute a different cargo ship? Do you take an order from that's en route to a different client and reroute that? What's the cost associated? What's the impact associated with it? So that's a huge issue right now around control towers for supply chain. So that's one. Can I ask you a question about that? Because you and I have both seen a lot, but we've never seen, at least I haven't, the economy completely shut down like it was in March of 2020. And now we're seeing this sort of slingshot effect, almost like you're driving on the highway sometimes.  Do you feel like you guys can help get a handle on that product, because it goes on both sides. Sometimes you can't get the product, sometimes there's too much of a product as well and that's not good for business. Yeah, absolutely. You want to smooth out the peaks and valleys and that's a big business goal, business challenge for supply chain executives. So you want to make sure that you can respond to demand, but you don't want to overstock because there's cost associated with that as well. So how do you optimize the supply chains? And it's very much a data silo and a real-time challenge. So it's a perfect fit for this new architectural pattern. All right, what else? So if we look at financial services, we have many, many customers in financial services. And that's another industry where they have many different sources of data that all have information that organizations can use to really move the needle. If they could just get to that single source of truth and real-time. So we sort of bucket many different implementations and use cases that we do around what we call business 360 and customer 360. So business 360, there's all sorts of ways to add business value in terms of having a real-time operational view across all of the different geos and parts of the business, especially in these very large global financial services institutions like capital markets and investment firms and so forth. So around business 360, having a real-time view of risk, operational performance, regulatory compliance, things like that. Customer 360, there's a whole set of use cases around customer 360 around hyper-personalization of customers and in real-time, next best action, looking to see how you can sell more, increase share of wallet, cross-sell, upsell to customers. We also do a lot in terms of predicting customer churn. So if you have all the historical data and you know what's the likelihood of customer's churn and to be able to proactively intercede, right? It's much more cost-effective to keep assets under management and keep clients rather than going and getting new clients to come to the firm. A very interesting use case from one of our customers in Latin America. So Banco de Brazil, largest bank in all of Latin America and they have a very innovative CTO who's always looking for new ways to move the needle for the bank. And so one of their ideas, and we're working with them to do this, is how can they generate net new revenue streams by bringing in new business to the bank. And so they identified a large percentage of the population in Latin America that does no banking. So they have no banking history, not only with Banco de Brazil, but with any bank. So there's a fair amount of risk associated with offering services to this segment of the population that's not associated with any banks or financial institutions. Yeah, there's no historical data on them. There's no... So it's a data challenge. And so they're bringing in data from a variety of different sources, social media, open source data that they find online and so forth. And with us running risk models to identify which are the citizens that there's acceptable risk to offer their services to. It could be a huge market of unspiked people in Latin America, wow, that's interesting. Yeah, totally a vision. And if you could lower the risk and you could tap that market and be first. And they are, yeah. Yeah, so very exciting. Manufacturing, we know Industry 4.0, which is about taking the OT data, so the data from the MES systems and the streaming data, real-time streaming data from the machine controllers and integrating it with the IT data. So your data warehouses and your ERP systems and so forth to have not only a real-time view of manufacturing from supply and source all the way through demand, but also predictive maintenance and things like that. So that's very big right now in manufacturing. Kind of cool to hear these use cases beyond your healthcare, which is obviously your wheelhouse. Scott defined this term of smart data fabrics, different than data fabrics, I guess. So when we think about these use cases, what's the value out of so-called smart data fabrics? Yeah, it's a great question. So we did not define the term data fabric or enterprise data fabric. The analysts now are all over it. They're all saying it's the future of data management. It's a fundamentally different approach, this architectural approach to be able to access the data on demand. The canonical definition of a data fabric is to access the data where it lies and apply a set of data management processes, but it does not include analytics, interestingly. And so we firmly believe that most of these use cases gain value from having analytics built directly into the fabric. So whether that's business rules or predictive analytics to predict the likelihood of a customer churn or a machine on the shop floor failing or prescriptive analytics. So if there's a problem in the supply chain, what's the guidance for the supply chain managers to take the best action, right? Prescriptive analytics based on data. So rather than taking the data in the data fabric and moving it to another environment to run those analytics where you have complexity and latency, having all of those analytics capabilities built directly into the fabric, which is why we call it a smart data fabric, which brings a lot of value to our customers. So it simplifies the whole data lifecycle, data pipelining, the hyper-specialized roles that you have to have. You can really just focus on one platform. Exactly. Yeah, and it's a simplicity of architecture and faster speed to production. So a big differentiator for our technology, for InterSystems Iris, is most, if not all of the capabilities that are needed are built into one engine, right? So you don't need to stitch together 10 or 15 or 20 different data management services for relational database and a non-relational database and a caching layer and a data warehouse and security and so forth. And so you can do that. There's many ways to build this data fabric architecture. InterSystems is not the only way, but if you can speed and simplify the implementation of the fabric by having most of what you need in one engine, one product, that gets you to where you need to go much, much faster. Joe, how can people learn more about smart data fabric, some of the use cases that you presented here? Yeah, come to our website, intersystems.com. If you go to intersystems.com slash smart data fabric, that'll take you there. I know that you have probably dozens more examples, but I think you're cool. If people reach out to you, how can they get in touch? No, I would love that. So feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn. It's Joe Lichtenberg. I think it's linkedin.com slash Joe Lichtenberg and I'd love to connect. Awesome. Joe, thanks so much for your time. Really appreciate it. It was great to be here. Thank you, Dave. All right, I hope you've enjoyed our program today. You know, we heard Scott now, he helped us understand this notion of data fabrics and smart data fabrics and how they can address the data challenges faced by the vast majority of organizations today. Jess Jowdy's demo was awesome. It was really a highlight of the program, which she showed the smart data fabrics in action. And Joe Lichtenberg, we just heard from him, dug into some of the prominent use cases and proof points. We hope this content was educational and inspires you to action. Now, don't forget all these videos are available on demand to watch, re-watch and share. Go to thecube.net, check out siliconangle.com for all the news and analysis and we'll summarize the highlights of this program and go to intersystems.com because there are a ton of resources there. In particular, there's a knowledge hub where you'll find some excellent educational content and online learning courses. There's a resource library with analyst reports, technical documentation, videos, some great freebies. So check it out. This is Dave Vellante on behalf of theCUBE and our supporter, intersystems. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.


Yes, sir. I can't see. Somebody go get my glasses. Somebody go get my glasses. Somebody go get my glasses. I can't see. Somebody go get my glasses. Hey, man. Time to get back focused on that jam. Y'all been having way too much fun, and the people don't even know. That the black market is open. The black market is open. The black market is open. So it's a lot of money in here. Yes, sir. Come on, man. I got my notes, man. I see you prepared. You got a lot of notes. I got your whole body. I got your whole body. When you fell down the steps at your girl in my house and you was full. Did you know about all that? My team goes deep into the research, man. But first of all, welcome to the black market. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it, man. Appreciate the opportunity. Now, see, that's how you know you got to do product. Because your product made it to the show before you even made it. Wow. That's true. Yes. Word travels fast. You're right. So today, on the black market with us today, we got none other than Justin James and New Vintage in here with us. Thank you. How you doing? Doing well, man. Just came from L.A., just came to ATL for this, and I'm super appreciative of the opportunity. Word. How did all this come about? Wow. Started from music. I had a brand prior to this called Jimmy Swag, and we just started from a song that had like a nirvana sample. It was like an eclectic song back in Long Island where I'm from. And we started with T-shirts. Boy, I'm from New York. I'm going to let you know that from New York. Oh, for sure. For sure.  It's so slick. Yeah. So we had T-shirts that had shades on it. And one day, like, yo, God spoke to me. He was like my older brother. He was like, bro. God? Yeah. Like, God talks to me? He's like my older brother. You got to write that book. Yeah. That's an interesting perspective. So he was just like, bro, if shades is a logo, just make shades. So I started taking shades from Chinatown back in New York in the city, Pat Prenton in Brooklyn. And then I would show it to people. And people would be like, yo, I like these shades better than Ray Bands.  You said it because it's like, you've done it. So it sounds so simple. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go back one step. You getting shades from Chinatown. So I was getting, I was curating at that time. I wasn't designing. So kind of like collecting and studying. Yeah. I was just getting popular shade styles that I thought would be hot. But I put my logo on it and I saw how powerful a logo can be.  No, no, no. They didn't care. But it was just, it was baffling that people just like didn't care about the quality at the time, they cared about the style. The brand. You wanted support. And I guess the vibe behind it, you know, the energy behind it. Yeah. You've made it to a major level as one of them guys. Yeah.   But do you have vintage? And I kept on. It was nauseating. Keep on hearing it. And I was, you know, I'm in New York. And so I was like, you keep asking for that. We're going to find a way to get it. And then God owe me. He spoke to me again. He was like, if it's vintage and you want to make it yourself, just make it new. Yeah. And I came up with new vintage like that.  Oh, yes. He's heavy into the. Oh, he's, I work, even before, you know, I was super familiar with him. I could just tell he's just a big, I would kind of soar and know his quality stuff for sure. What's your favorite style? My favorite style. I mean, I would have to say it's mine now.  My favorite style is what I'm wearing right now. These are the infinity wave sins. Yeah. And as you can see, we use holistic gemstones on the side. How would I know those are holistic gemstones?  Yeah, I'm just saying. I'm like, if I was just on those holistic gemstones, what are you a fool for the holistic gemstones? Bro, you got to, it's energy, you know. So, you know, we just use high quality materials and stuff like that. So that's one of my favorites. And obviously the ones that Snoop was in Super Bowl and he wore it in a few Corona commercials, the Aunt Viv's. Yeah, those are my favorites for sure. Word. Yeah, yeah. That's what's up, man.  I'm screenshotting. I'm screenshotting it. How would you go about creating them, though? Well, I find out that. What's your process? The elements of what I like about the frames. And then I just redraw it. And then I put my own accoutrements on it, my own elements on it. And then I just send it to my manufacturer. They give me a blueprint. I say yay or nay. I get a sample. I say yay or nay. And then we into production. That's what's up, man. Like, how's your journey been? Like, is it like from where you started? Yo, wow. Tonight it's like we're looking at real quality right now. Quality, man. I mean, even my optician back in Hollywood, she always says like, yo, this is cardiac quality. Like, no cap. So it's been a journey, man. I started with $5 glasses from Chinatown. And now I got glasses one at the Super Bowl. We just had Jazz Chisholm from the Marlins wearing it on the cover of MLB The Show, like a baseball game. I used to play this game growing up and now my glasses on it. So it's a testament to hard work and just believing in yourself, not giving up, being consistent, being persistent.  What would you say right now to those people who just, who all, you've heard this in the business. They always say, man, I just can't wear glasses. Oh, yeah. I ain't no glasses type of person. Yo, Mike Tyson told me that, too. I was trying to give it to him. He was like, I don't wear glasses. And I was like, it's cool. And he was like, nah, I'm just letting you know it's not your glasses. It's just that I don't wear them. He really was trying a hard body to not make me feel good. So shout out to Mike. But there's a glasses for every face. There's a glasses for every face. So I would, if I see your face, I know what glasses can fit for sure. Do you sell a lot of glasses to people who like prescription? Prescription. 100%, that's 35% of our business. That's why I stay at the optician in Hollywood. Yeah, getting prescriptions. Yeah, because at the end of the day, they really, it's either Cartier or New Vintage, honestly. So that's, especially that we're black-owned. You know, I feel like, you know, the community wants to support. And so it's a beautiful thing. Bro, drop the web site, because I feel like you got a high product and wherever they can get it.   Yeah, man. The product came for itself. Everybody was coming over here and putting the mind. I mean, it's a beautiful thing, like something that you just thought of now people like. So it's beautiful, man. Name some of the people that you think that are known, like, for having some dope-ass shades. Who are your lists? Two chains, for sure. Two chains, I would say. Who else? Drizzy. Drizzy got, you know, when he puts it on, Drizzy. Who else? Yachty. Yachty has a good eyewear game. Yeah, then those ones that come to mind, for sure. Also, Nicki. Yeah, Nicki Minaj has a good eyewear game, for sure. Yeah. Coolmodeed made this. Oh, Coolmodeed.  Yeah, I remember, yeah. I wasn't there, but, you know, I watched VH1. Of course. Young dude. Yeah, yeah. All right, bro. If Morgan Freeman was in here right now, what would you suggest to him? I would say, with his skin tone, I would probably say these right here. A little sophisticated. It also has the Sistine Chapel on the side. Yeah. It's a Wayfair traditional look. I think that would be the way for him. Bro, that's hard. It also has Labradorite gemstone over here. That's a big thing. You know, the holistic gemstones. Come on, man.  You know, give you another reason to rock the glasses. Besides, it's looking good. Now you filter it, too. All right, you got Snoop out the way. Yeah. Shout out to Snoop, too. Shout out to Snoop, too. Who lived on your list of dream clients? It necessarily had to be celebrities. Just dream clients. Yo, honestly, Viola Davis, yo. I love her. I want to do it for Viola Davis, for sure. Viola Davis. Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi. Whoopi. I mean, me and her got the same birthday, too. So that's my social strength there. My social strength there, man. Everybody here who was born should have clapped. But that's how I...  Who else? Trav. Trav Scott. I thought you were talking about Travis Porter.  Yo, yo. They was originators, for sure. You know, Offset. Old school. Throw some old school in there. Okay. Old school. Dapper Dan, for sure. I love to see him.   Hmm. Damn nice. I mean, that's not... I mean, that's no old school, new school. He both. Yeah. That's what happened when you had a career. That's new vintage. Yeah. You could be... When you could go... Either way, that's how you know it's a career, man. Who else? All right. That's him. I know how to go home. Like, ah... Beyonce. Beyonce, yeah. Beyonce, Rihanna. Her. Her. I mean, well, her wore them already. Yeah. Yeah, her. I'm leading it. Oh, okay. Oh, my God. Put me out. How this happened? How you make this play? Oh, shoot.  And I just pulled up with the shades and she wore them the next day. So it's a beautiful thing that, you know, people that you look up to and you appreciate they work and they appreciate your work back. So it's dope. Well, look, man, I can't let you leave with none of these. Okay. They're too dope. Yeah, I appreciate that. Here on the black market, it's all about creating a platform where our voices can be heard, our products can be seen. Yeah. And people can go out and support. So we got to buy all these brothers. We already had everybody come up here. Yeah. Keep looking forward to it.  All right, yo. Me. I got y'all. You're a man. You're a man. I don't need. You're a man right now. Turn this in. She wanted these. Taylor. I'm doing this in the order of people that I like.  Okay. Yeah. I want to know if he's like. Marcos definitely likes. We know that. We know that.  Because this is my dog. He be holding me down. No, for sure. I see that. He been there a hundred shows.  That's love.  You wanted these, right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's me right there. No, that's real.  That's love. That's love. That's love. Who else was in? Yeah. Oh, Reese. Reese. She know her spot. She know her spot. This is like graduation day. And another thing I want to say that I'm starting out is called class glasses. What you doing? I'm disrupting the market, bro. Instead of class rings for high school students. Yeah. We're doing class glasses. Oh, like you could get all your whole class. That's hard. And it has your name inside. It has your football. If you play football, your number. Just a way to commemorate your high school experience. So, yeah, we just disrupting the whole game.  Get with us. Hold up, my boy. Cam guy, you wanted these black ones, right? He ain't even in here. Who was? She about to go out. All the importance is out the way now. All right.  Who had these? Okay. Marco, what did you have, buddy? What color those? These right here. You got a good taste. You got a good taste playing for you.  I'm not. I'm not. You do have a good taste, though. I just made those. Those are not even on the site. Oh, wow. Okay. All right. You do customs as well? Of course. Yeah, we do, for sure. Nice. So, if I wanted something inspired by Bootsie Collins, you could... See, that's why he was going to be laying there. Leave! Go! But the manager could make it. We could do it. We could do it. That's why I wanted him to be laying there. Because I knew he wanted one of those.   Do me one more favor, man. Drop the site one more time. Drop the social media. For sure.  Yeah, man.  NewVintage.com, you spell it N-O-U-V-I-N-T-A-G-E. NewVintage on Instagram. Also, we have an app on the iOS app store. And if you want to reach out to me directly, just Justin at NewVintage.com. You wanted these, right? The black ones? Yup.  Those are the Sistines right there. All right. I appreciate it. Oh, man. I appreciate you, bro. Y'all don't want the box. That's the best part. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did I say? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I appreciate it, man. What? Which one did you get? Let's go. Yeah, man. You got, yeah. That's every day. You can wear a job interview, date, church, whatever you want to do. Oh, you wanted these? Oh, you wanted the blinged out? Yeah. He's like... This is my dog, too. Nah, man. This lady right here is something else. There you go. Gotta take care of the people that take care of you, man. Massage lady wanted these. This you, right? Yes. All right. And who had the crib blue? That's Kat. Kat. All right. Okay. He ain't here right now. I had to get you. Then the Dave East joint? Yeah, man. Shout out to Dave East, man. Shout out to Dave. You know, Dave really was a catapult for the company really becoming a business, you know? So I'm always indebted to Dave and to Dan Solomon, I don't know who I put it together. So I'm really appreciative of that. Oh, man. I see you had your other homeboy over there, too, who's you're acting like he don't do on camera. Is this your partner? Yeah, he come to me. It's my boy right here. Yes, sir. Is this your boy? Yes, yeah. Like best friend, grew up. Nah, we just... We getting into it. We getting into it. Nah, but I'm saying like... Yeah, nah, nah. We met like a year ago, but it's, you know, energy don't lie, you know? Yeah, that's why I tell people all the time and they think that I'm crazy, man. If you don't have them type of friends that you can fall out with and fall back into, it's okay to disagree with motherfuckers, man. For sure.  People that keep you accountable. Right. And make sure you get it done. Right, yeah. You out here in the morning. What the journey been like, man? Man, the journey been great, man, to be honest. Just like me coming from... I used to sell glasses before. Right. And then when I seen his brand, I was like, man, I said we could do something. So he said he's on his way, on his way to Atlanta. I made five stops. What? Five stops before we got here. Went to Icebox. Icebox. We went to Pure. Yeah. We got some things cooking up. We got some things cooking up for sure. For sure. I'm working on all the marketing. The marketing and, you know, the brands and the collaboration. So, you know, the 85 South, new vintage. Yeah, that's insane. We definitely need to lock in. 100%. And just get us a nice little pair to put together for the, you know, just be at the, something at the merch stand. Exactly. Exactly. You feel me? Design the merch.  Holistic rubies or whatever. You know what I'm saying? I'm really trying to buzz into the trinket market. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Trinkets, accessories. Yes.  It's a difference, man. When you see somebody, when you see a friend, somebody that you're close to that's doing something. Yeah. All it takes is just like a, let's go. Yeah. Let's go get it done. Well, yeah.  We definitely need to get your info. You got to send us a couple more. We'll look, we'll few pairs short. And I know it's a few people in here who, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, facts. You know, so we definitely got to make sure everybody gets there. No, I appreciate it, man. I appreciate it. I'm going to just throw these on. Yeah, man. I appreciate you guys having a segment like this, you know, giving back to the community.   I didn't even mean to say that. I didn't mean to say that. But I did. The lashes just made it happen.  Too clean, bro. Too clean. Bracket went up. Bracket went up. Want to stand here? Feel me?   But she can't have anything. Wow. It's going to be dope, man. We love what y'all do. Yeah, we really do. I noticed y'all first time stopping through here on the black market. Yeah.  But please don't let this be your last time. I won't be. Make this be one of your stops. For sure. When you pull up, pop, just pull up outside and pop the trunk. I'm like, come on, man. Back. Do what you want for. We hit these streets with it. You ready? No, man. So. Man, well, we definitely appreciate y'all. And I got to let the people know. Yeah. The black market is yours, man.


In my old school, I played forward. No hard feelings, kiddo. It's all about teamwork. All right, Cassandra.  Guess old coach Cruncher was wrong about who the real team players are. Great teamwork, girls. Melanie, why'd you do that? Can it, Cassandra. That's poor sportsmanship. Melanie, let's start off the game with you as team captain. Start your picks. Out of the exclusive Cassandra's circle. If you say so. Hey, thanks for saving my tail when I messed up in science lab. That was nothing compared to you saving my nose in soccer. Guess we make a good team. You helped me in science. I helped you in soccer. As coach Cruncher says, it's all about teamwork. Hey, I want you to meet my friends. No thanks. I've already met them. No, not those friends. These friends. KB, these are my friends, Raven and Lassa, my real friends. Hey, KB, what's up? KB? Hey, Mom. KB, I've been thinking about things and, well, I want you to know you can always talk to me. Oh, okay. Or if you want, I could talk to someone at school. Mom, what are you talking about? Honey, I saw how those girls were treating you at school. Nobody should be treated like that. And even though I believe in keeping your commitments, I also don't think you should have to suffer, so... Mom, you're not going to make me quit soccer, are you? You can't. I love soccer, remember? What, quit? No, KB, it's just... Okay, so there's a couple of bad apples on the team. There's some good ones too, like me. And hello, in case you didn't notice, the team kind of needs me, you know? Yes, I... I think I do. But, Mom, as long as we're being honest here, I'm not so crazy about some of those new outfits you bought me. I knew that.


Efforts are increasingly being made to classify the world's wetland resources, an important ecosystem and habitat that is diminishing in abundance. Non-parametric machine learning algorithms such as Decision Tree, DT, Rule Based, RB, and Random Forest, RF, have been used to classify these wetlands. High resolution satellite imagery can provide more specificity to the classified and product, and ancillary data layers such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and Hydrogeomorphic Layers such as Distance to a Stream can be coupled to improve overall accuracy, OA, in wetland studies. In this paper, we compared three non-parametric machine learning algorithms, DT, RB, and RF, using a large field-based dataset, and equals 228, from the Selengah River Delta of Lake Baikal, Russia. We also explored the use of ancillary data layers selected to improve OA, with a goal of providing end users with a recommended classifier to use and the most parsimonious suite of input parameters for classifying wetland-dominated landscapes. Though all classifiers appeared suitable. This article was authored by Tedros Embarhani, Charles Elaine, Chosheng Wu, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Activity for teaching modal auxiliary verbs, group discussions or debates. Whilst this may not be suitable for lower level students, it is a great one for pre-intermediate level and above. Set students up into groups and give them a question to discuss and report back about. It's best not to have groups larger than four students, so that you help maximize individual student talk time. You can also encourage quieter students to contribute during the feedback session. This works particularly well for should or advice. Give each group the same question from an Agonyette column, and allow them a few minutes to come up with some advice. Discuss their suggestions in the feedback session, and then repeat with another problem. This repetition should help students improve the use of the target language each time. Other suitable topics are can or possibility. Set groups up as travel agents, must, obligation, or prohibition, strictest company rules, and will or promises, create an incentive scheme. Learn to teach English abroad and online.


What's the most excited this is kind of they may use this for b-roll, but so we're not gonna start yet What is the most exciting thing that? You've seen so far Where blockchain is applied the sector the sector Like so what is the most exciting for me is what blockchain can do for the poorest people in the world It comes to financial inclusion that for the first time ever everyone in the world can be a part of the global economic system and Financial exclusion is one of the biggest factors that contribute to poverty So by increasing financial inclusion we can take many many people from party also corruption will be decreased by blockchain and by cryptocurrencies because suddenly you have an immutable decentralized database and I think it will be used it will be a standard for Governments to use it the UN or the international community will just tell countries that do not use blockchain Why don't you is blockchain for public records because public records should be public? There's no reason to not have them on a blockchain So corruption is another huge huge aspect of it and hyperinflation if you live in In Singapore or in Sweden or in in the US you might not have experienced hyperinflation But if you talk with people from New Zealand from Belarus from the above they know how it's like to wake up and suddenly your Value in your currency is not worth anything But now those people have an option to store them in cryptocurrencies instead where you know how much is printed where you know How the currency will develop because it's coded


When it comes to style, you've got three basic archetypes. You've got rugged, refined, and rakish. Now the way that these work is they're dependent on the way that you interact with the world around you. And what's really fun about this is you're not all one type or the other. Now look at this guy, Jack Donovan, right here. He's speaking to us tomorrow. I had a great time getting to talk with him last night. Jack epitomizes the rugged archetype. He does things with his hands. He lifts heavy weights. He builds buildings like he homesteads. He does stuff physically. He exists in a physical world.  You don't look like this on accident. That is not average, right? Jack absolutely cares. Each one of those patches, it means something. That cut that he's wearing on, he had to earn that. He had to go through initiation rites and go through other things in order to actually be able to earn the right to wear that and represent the group that that belongs to. That is style, but it's not suiting. And if you were to see Jack up here presenting tomorrow in a suit, talk about incongruence and inauthenticity because that's not the story of who he is. This is my buddy, Derek. He runs a company that I used to work for called Beckett and Rob and these men very much fit within the refined archetype. Now, if you fall within the refined basically rather than dealing with the world physically, you are someone who fits within the world within social networks or finances or your actions.  You like traditionalism. This is this is my primary archetype. I'm more refined than anything else. I like rules. I like structure. I like civilization. I like those things. And this is a demonstration of status and accomplishment and all these other things that come through that. And now in the 21st century, as it's been for the last 100 years within the West, this is typified by a suit. Doesn't mean it always will be. Doesn't mean it always was. You look at people like George Washington. He was refined. He would not be wearing something like this. Right. Those archetypes can continue throughout different cultures. Genghis Khan, you know, like still cared about what he wore. In fact, one of the things that's interesting about Khan is that as he became a bigger conqueror, he and his people stopped wearing coats made out of the skins of field mice and actually started embracing some of the gold and silver and these other things, these fine robes of these civilizations that we conquered. And there was a schism that came from that because it was a way for them to demonstrate that they were getting soft and they were losing their barbarian virtues all over things like clothing and status displays. And then over here we've got Kanye West is the personification of the Rekish archetype. Now, if you fill within the Rekish archetype, the way that you primarily interact with the world is by giving it the middle finger. You don't like to follow the rules.  You like to be an iconoclast. You like to go against the grain. And so one of the ways you can leverage that is by dressing in a way that polarizes. A lot of people do not like the way that Kanye West dressed, but whether you like it or not, the man is a kingmaker. He can wear a pair of shoes to an event and all of a sudden they are completely off the shelves for weeks. And then being resold on market. I mean, his Yeezy line that he sells with Adidas, they sell for about 350 bucks and whenever they do a new drop, they sell out within a matter of seconds. And then you have to rebuy them from resellers for thousands of dollars on these different markets just because he's been able to build that hype and he does that because he's such a rebel. Now, what works for you guys is that you're not all one of any of these. We all have components. So I'm primarily refined with a little bit of rake-ish and then a small dose of rugged within there.  If you want to know what your primary archetype is, go take this quiz.


But let's talk about the market for a second. Let's talk about the repercussions of if all these Airbnb's hit the market, what that would actually do to the market. A massive Airbnb liquidation is about to hit the US housing market where we see hundreds and thousands of Airbnb owners be forced to sell their property. With the central issue for these Airbnb owners being something that's called Airbnb bust, the new trend where the revenue and profits for Airbnb's are collapsing with the average Airbnb owner in America earning 21% less revenue this year compared to last year. With those declines reaching as high as 50% in certain cities. Situation that's going to cause a flood of inventory onto the housing market because we're in a very interesting situation right now in America where the number of rentals on Airbnb and Verbo totals nearly one million according to data from all the rooms. That's 65% higher than the number of homes for sale according to realtor.com. Now that graph probably looks discouraging to a lot of you home buyers out there to see that so many of the houses that you could have bought over the last couple of years ended up as an Airbnb. However, we're going to see the reverse of that trend occur into the future now that Airbnb bust is here and the revenues are going down. And ultimately, I think this situation could be as bad as the subprime crisis in 2008 for some of these cities because people don't understand just how much shadow inventory is lurking in these housing markets from all the listings on Airbnb. I mean, let's just take a look. Okay, man, let's just stop it right there to compare anything in today's market to the subprime crisis of 2008 is absolutely dramatic.  And this is coming from a guy who back in 2018 and 19 said that the market is about to crash. Real estate prices are about to plunge and double digits. And anyone that he was advising at the time who took his advice, I feel like it's extremely bad for because they lost out on about 50% increase in prices since then, 2020 hit, boom, prices are going to crash. 2021, they're going to crash. 2022, they're going to crash. Now he's saying they're going to crash. And a couple of months ago, actually, he came out with a video that said that there's 14 million second homes in the market. And if only 5% of those second homes hit the market, it's going to flood the market with inventory. And this is going to be the reason why we see a massive crash in the housing market and prices plummet. And even if that were to come true, which it didn't at all, there was no data behind it. There was no trend that said that that was what was fixing to happen. Even if it did happen, 5% of 14 million is 700,000 homes. At the time, we had about 700,000 homes on the market. So that would have put us at about 1.4 million if in fact, 5% hit the market on the same day. You see, that's the problem, ladies and gentlemen. All these situations that he's saying could happen would be based on the amount of people that he's saying would sell, would have to decide to do it on the same day and actually move forward to do it on the same day, forward to actually bump the inventory up to the levels that he's talking about.  And now at this point, we're about to hit all-time highs when it comes to home prices in America.  So you gotta be really careful with this. All right, so let's dive into this Airbnb revenue collapse debate that's happening right now, on the internet, this guy put out a tweet about this and it went viral, it had 40 million views, crazy. But let's dive into this a little bit because according to him and data that he collected from a company called All The Rooms, Airbnb revenue in certain cities are down 40 to 50%. And he says that because of this collapse in revenue, this is gonna cause so much inventory to hit the market that he literally compared it to 2008, the subprime lending crisis. Now, don't you think that's a little bit dramatic? Let's dive in here. Here's the article here. Let me get it pulled up on my end. And so basically, right here he says, revenues per listing in the San Francisco-based company have dropped nearly 50% in certain cities. This is according to the recent data from All The Rooms, comparing Airbnb revenues per listing in May, 2022 and May, 2023, all right? And this was, after this, he puts out this tweet, okay? And this could trigger a housing market crash on par with the sub of the 2008 subprime crisis. Now again, this is just incredible to say, but look at what AirDNA said and also Airbnb theirself, economist Jamie Lane, Senior Vice President of AirDNA, a company which tracks performance and monitors trends in the short-term rentals, argue that the data from All The Rooms is inaccurate and that while the revenues per listing are down for Airbnb in 2023, they have not dropped 40%, but just above 3%. Okay, that's a big discrepancy, all right? And a statement to Newsweek, okay? Airbnb theirself said the data is not consistent with our own data. As we said during our Q1 earnings call, more guests are traveling on Airbnb than ever before with Knights and Experience book growing 19% in Q1, 2023 compared to a year ago. And so when you think about this, okay? AirDNA says that Airbnb revenue per listing is down little over 3% compared to the 40 to 50% that All The Rooms and Nick from Reventure Consulting is saying. Now that's a big, big, huge discrepancy. And what AirDNA said is that yeah, we're down Airbnb is down a little bit, but that's kind of to be expected seeing as how we had had such a surge after the pandemic of people traveling on Airbnb and wanting to stay in rooms and different things like that. They had a surge, okay? And to only be down a little over 3%.  Let's talk about the repercussions of if all these Airbnb's hit the market, what that would actually do to the market? Cause I think that's what's really key here because whether the data from All The Rooms or the data from AirDNA is correct, okay? It doesn't really matter. Let's talk about what would happen if in fact Doomsday, which is what they're saying would happen, okay? Comparing it to 2008. Let's talk about that work through that for just a second. Now, so according to the video that you just saw at the beginning of this video, and according to all the articles and all of the All The Rooms data out there, there's a million Airbnb's. And it's not just Airbnb. It's Airbnb and for rent by owner, a vacation rent by owner, Verbo, as they like to call it. So Verbo and Airbnb total have a million listings in the US, okay? That's a million properties, okay? So think about that for a second, okay? There's around 500,000 listings. And that's what Nick was talking about. There's 62% more Airbnb's than there are listings. And if all these million Airbnb's hit the market, then it's gonna be Doomsday and the market's gonna crash and burn like we've never seen before. But think about that for just a second. Going back to what he said last time, okay? About the 14 million second homes, if only 5% hit the market, then we're dead in the water. Well, that didn't happen. This is the same exact scenario right here.  And if they hit the market, then we're gonna be dead in the water. But why would they hit the market? Well, they're saying that revenues are down 50% when in reality, I'll let you decide. We have discrepancies in some reporting. Another company says around 3%. However, let's think about it for a second. Even if all million of these, again decided on the exact same day to list their property, okay? It would have to happen on the same day. They would take action on the same day and put their properties on MLS on the exact same day. A million plus the 500,000 we have brings us to 1.5 million listings, okay? That's if it happened all at once, the same day, everybody came together in unison and somehow decided to sell the properties every single one of them. Now back in 2008, we had 4 million listings, okay? So even if all these Airbnb's decided to sell at the same time, we'd have 1.5 million listings that day. That doesn't even get us halfway to where we were in 2008, okay? That's one point. The next point is let's talk about the fact that all million of these would never in a million years decide to sell their property on the exact same day. What do I think? I think the normal amount of Airbnb's will continue to sell. You know, I'm sure these things change hands, what, 5% of them change hands every year, 5%, 10%, something like that, something extremely low. I think we're gonna see that same trend continue and guess what? That 5% to 10% is not gonna happen on the exact same day. It's gonna be staged out over the course of the year or maybe even several years, which won't even put a dent into the inventory problem that we have on our hands right this second is the reason why prices are about to hit all-time highs. That is the single most reason is inventory, no inventory. So interest rates, mortgage rates have depressed buyers, but there's still enough buyers for the amount of inventory that's out there and these buyers are very serious buyers to be buying in this higher mortgage rate environment. And so they're buying, they're not just looking around, they're moving forward. They need to buy for whatever reason and they're making it happen. And that's what's causing prices to go up. That's why we're seeing a surge in new construction home sales. We're seeing a massive surge there because existing homeowners won't put their house on the market because they're sitting on such low interest rates and builders aren't able to keep up. So there within lies the true problem is inventory and that's what Nick is trying to solve here. He's trying to come up with anything he can come up with to solve this inventory problem because he knows that that's gonna be the reason why if in fact prices do ever go down because we have an oversupply and under demand. The problem is you just can't out chase the current demand versus the current amount of supply and it's gonna take, Nick, just so you know, it's gonna take years and years for this to flush out. We will get to a balanced market but it's gonna take a long time to get there. What I foresee happening is prices continuing to go up. They will level out because this just can't go on forever. We're hitting, getting close to historic highs when it comes to affordability, right?  Now, what I see is that we're just lining up with the 1990s, a level of affordability. However, as prices continue to increase, we're gonna see that change and we're gonna see possibly some historic highs when it comes to affordability with it being maybe the toughest ever to actually own a home. So we'll have to wait and see how it all plays out. You know, I don't have a crystal ball. All I can do is show you the data and tell you what I think. But nevertheless, this Airbnb thing is something that I feel like is a non-issue. And if anything, it's gonna add inventory to a market that needs inventory.  So anyway, that's my update for today. I hope you enjoyed. Let me know what you think in the comments about this Airbnb thing. And I'll see you on the next video. Let's go.


i ddysgust o'r cymdeithasol i ddweud hynny oherwydd i gael peth i gael ein proses. Y next site of business is a statement by Michael Matheson on the Bonomy review. The cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of his statement, and there should be there for no interventions or interruptions. I call on Michael Matheson, cabinet secretary around 10 minutes. On 23 April 2014, my predecessor, as Cabinet Secretary for Justice, announced agreement across parties that stage 2 of the Criminal Justice Scotland Bill should be deferred until after Lord Bonomy's post-corroboration safeguards review completes its work. The Scottish Government initiated the Bonomy review after listening to views expressed during stage 1 of the bill about the impact of removing the general requirement for corroboration. I have said since taking up post in November that I would await the outcome of the review before reaching a decision on how to proceed on this matter. Lord Bonomy has now completed this review and has provided recommendations on what further safeguards would be required following the removal of the corroboration requirement. Lord Bonomy's reference group, comprised of 18 of the most knowledgeable and respected representatives from across the justice system, including key figures from victims and human rights groups, from academia, from the legal profession and judges. Those experts have given this issue thorough and careful scrutiny, undertaking a substantial academic analysis and public consultation exercise. I, Presiding Officer, am very grateful to the work that they have undertaken and for the considered and collaborative manner in which they have taken it forward. The group's proposals are substantial and complex. Taking forward all of those changes would have a considerable impact on our justice system. One key finding is that research on jury decision making in Scotland is required before fully informed conclusions can be reached on issues relating to juries. In particular, the report concludes that without research it is not possible to reach a definitive position on jury size or in the not-proven verdict. The report gives provisional recommendations on jury majorities, but argues that that should also be subject to research. The issues that Lord Bonomy has raised are of crucial importance, and we should take the time necessary to consider them fully. The Scottish Government will look at Lord Bonomy's detailed recommendations as a package, alongside the corroboration requirement itself and form of view on the best way forward. Our justice system must provide the appropriate balance so that the rights of the suspect, victims and witnesses all get appropriate protection. It must, as far as possible, be fair to all. That is why I want to take a holistic approach and look at those issues in the round. This Government will now work with stakeholders during the remainder of this Parliament to develop and seek a consensus on a package of proposals for criminal justice reform, including a full response to Lord Bonomy's recommendations. Given that approach, I do not consider that there is sufficient time to complete the work this work before the Criminal Justice Scotland Bill resumes its parliamentary passage. On that basis, it is clear to me that proceeding with the removal of the corroboration requirement in the bill would be neither appropriate nor feasible. Therefore, I am making this immediate statement to inform Parliament of this development. The bill should proceed with amendment to remove the corroboration provision from the bill and also to remove the related increase in the jury majorities that are required for conviction. Removing the corroboration provision from the Criminal Justice Bill will allow the other provisions in the bill to go forward as soon as the parliamentary timetable permits. Those include important reforms to police procedure and practice, as well as strengthening rights to legal access to suspects and improvements to sheriff and jury trials. The Scottish Government still believes that there is a case to be made for the abolition of the corroboration requirement, but we will now consider whether to proceed with it as part of a wider package in the next parliamentary session. We should not forget the original motivation behind the proposal to remove the general requirement for corroboration. It was to improve protections and access to justice for victims of crimes committed in private, including domestic abuse, sexual offences and abuse of older and vulnerable people. The Scottish Government remains committed absolutely and unequivocally to improving protections for victims and tackling inequality. We all recognise the added difficulties of prosecuting crimes committed in private, and we all share the belief that victims of crimes deserve access to justice. Despite that, it has not been possible to build a consensus around the corroboration rule at this time. Strengthening access to justice remains a key priority for this Government. I believe that the jury research could play a valuable role in developing a way forward, and there could be merit in looking at wider issues through this form of research. I will therefore look at Lord Bornymi's proposals in this area, and I am open-minded about taking them forward. Lord Bornymi has indicated that some of his recommendations would be worthwhile improvements, independent of corroboration reform. I will consider whether it is appropriate to take forward any of the review's recommendations in this parliamentary session. I will be very interested, of course, to hear the views of others within the chamber on that possibility. In the meantime, the Government is already making real improvements for victims, strengthening legal protections and providing direct support towards access to justice. We are making progress in addressing domestic abuse and sexual offences. Although overall crime rates, including violent crime, have fallen, more cases involving domestic abuse and sexual offences are reaching our courts. During 2013-14 alone, there was a 50 per cent increase in the number of charges with a domestic abuse background sent to court, and the number of people with a charge proved in court for sexual offences, including rape and sexual assault, increased by 22 per cent. Those increases reflect more proactive policing, better evidence-gathering and consistent marking by procreator ffiscals, as well as greater confidence among victims in coming forward. We are extending the rights of victims through the Victims and Witnesses Scotland Act 2014 and the Police Scotland pilot on domestic abuse disclosure, known as clear law, is due to be completed in May of this year. We launched last month a public consultation on a range of proposals to help victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence, including seeking views on specific domestic abuse offences, measures to tackle the unauthorised publication of intimate images and directions to juries in rape trials. The First Minister also announced funding of £20 million over three years to help to speed up the process of cases through our courts, support for victims, through our criminal justice process and to address perpetrator's behaviour to prevent further harm. Those measures have been widely welcomed by victims' organisations and we will continue to work with them to support victims of crime. In conclusion, I want to express my thanks to Lord Bonomy and his reference group for their hard work on this substantial review. Their findings will be valuable in ensuring a clear, fair and coherent justice system for Scotland. I will now take the time to consider the review's recommendations in detail. The Criminal Justice Scotland Bill should proceed without the abolition of corroboration and I will consider corroboration alongside Lord Bonomy's recommendations. This Government still believes that there is a case for abolition, but I have listened to the range of views on the issue. I will continue to listen to all who have an interest in our justice system to work collaboratively towards a fairer Scotland for all. The cabinet secretary will now take questions on issues raised in his statement. I intend to allow around 20 minutes of questions, after which we will move to the next side of business. Members who wish to ask a question of the minister should press the request-to-speak button. I call Hugh Henry. Can I join with the cabinet secretary in praising the work of Lord Bonomy and his reference group? They had a very specific remit and they have worked within that remit to come up with a very thorough and sensible report. However, today is not a debate about whether there should be corroboration. That will be for another time, but I think that it is right to contrast the discussion today in the cabinet secretary's comments with those that were made 14 months ago. What a difference 14 months can make? On that occasion, the cabinet secretary for justice told Graham Pearson that the Labour party's view that it did not make sense to go forward with corroboration was selling out its principles and that Labour had sold its soul and was in danger of selling out the victims of crime. However, today, I think that we have heard a very measured and considerate and mature response from the cabinet secretary and is to be commended for that. We will work with him in trying to move this forward in whatever way we can. He asked whether there would be some agreement for taking forward some of the issues. If we can reach consensus, then yes, we will work with the Scottish Government to see where that is possible. There are a number of things that I might want to put down just now for the cabinet secretary to consider. There is a debate to be had about whether the waiver of legal advice is in fact informed consent. Will he consider that issue carefully? Will he ensure that, if there are any changes to that, there are adequate resources for video evidence? Will he ensure that, in any changes, there are adequate resources for the hard work to overpressed fiscal service? Will he give some consideration to the issue that Lord Bonomy has considered about the Lord Advocate's guidelines and whether those should be published? Will he consider whether or not the publication and consultation on those guidelines would prejudice the independence of the Lord Advocate and the Crown Office? I think that my primary focus, as members will appreciate here, is to move the issue forward. My focus in doing so is about improving access to justice for those individuals who continue to have difficulty in having cases brought before the courts, particularly for crimes that are committed in private. I believe that there is common ground across the chamber in order to achieve that. With regard to the specifics that the member raised, particularly in relation to the recommendations that have been made by Lord Bonomy, I believe that, for the very reason that he raised those questions and the points associated with them, that is why we need to take time to consider them to look at their implications. For example, if we were to move immediately to the introduction of all police interviews to be recorded in an audio-visual way, there is a significant resource implication for that and there is a procedural implication for that as well and training implication for the police. Although those are issues that would be worthwhile taking forward, outwith the whole issue of corroboration, we have to look at them in the round. That is why I believe that the best way in which to deal with Lord Bonomy's recommendations, along with the rule of corroboration, is as a package and to take the time to engage with stakeholders to get their views on those matters and then look at what is the best approach in moving forward, with again that primary focus about improving access to justice for those who feel that they are being denied justice as a result of the present arrangements that we have within our criminal justice system in Scotland, and that is the approach that I intend to take forward with the report and the recommendations. Margaret Mitchell I thank the cabinet secretary for the advance sight of his statement. I very much welcome his confirmation that the abolition of corroboration will be removed from the bill. That is most certainly the right thing to do, especially given the Bonomy's review recommendation that the requirement for corroboration should be retained for hearsay evidence and confession evidence. In his statement, the cabinet secretary seems open to the implementation of the third way, which the Scottish Conservatives have called for since it was omitted from the Carlyway review and which Lord Bonomy was not allowed to consider in his remit, namely the retaining of corroboration but including it in a wider review of the law of criminal evidence. Given that, will he now look at some of the helpful and effective recommendations of the review group, for example in relation to the judicial institute clarifying and simplifying the language used in jury directions and varying the means of communication of communicating directions to juries? To address the cabinet secretary's specific question, I do believe that those are recommendations that could be taken forward in this parliamentary session. One of the reasons why I want to take time to consider those as a package of measures is to ensure that we make sure and to ensure that the balance within our criminal justice system is one that is fair and reasonable. That is why I want to take the time that is necessary in order to do so. I am open to the views of other stakeholders around some of the specific recommendations that Lord Bonomy has made that could be introduced as part of the criminal justice bill at a later stage, if there is a consensus on how that should be taken forward. I am open to considering those issues but we have to look at them as a package on their overall impact in our criminal justice system in Scotland. The member made reference to the idea or the issue of jury directions where we have just started a consultation on jury directions for rape cases, which is part of the domestic abuse and the proposals that we have within that consultation. I think that there is scope to look at taking some of that work further forward. What I do not want to do is to get into a situation where we start to have a piecemeal approach to some of the recommendations that Lord Bonomy has set out. We need to look at those as a package and to consider what impact they would have on the overall balance of our criminal justice system in Scotland. That is the approach that I intend to take forward again with that very specific focus on improving access to justice for those who experience crimes in private that continue to feel that their cases are not being given the right hearing in court because of the present arrangements that we have in place. We are due to finish this session at 2.50. I have 10 members who wish to ask a question, so I urge members to keep the question brief. I thank the cabinet secretary for his statement. I refer him to the justice committee's report last year at stage 1, in which we said at paragraph 27 that the majority of committee members are of the view that the case has not been made for abolishing the general requirement for corroboration and recommend that the Scottish Government consider removing the provision from the bill. Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that sometimes the committees in this Parliament are told that they are not doing their job? In this case, the justice committee did its job and, thank goodness, the Government listened. Having spent almost seven years on the justice committee, I think that there is a very good job. As a justice secretary, who has appeared at it on a number of occasions now, I think that they are always very diligent in the way in which they scrutinise both the decision making and the actions of the Government and its ministers. I recognise the role that the justice committee has played in considering this whole issue around the abolition of corroboration and the concerns that have been raised in relation to its proposed abolition. As I also made the point in my statement, I recognise that a consensus has not been leached on this particular matter, that there are views that are polarized on this particular issue. However, it takes us right back to the original purpose for which its abolition was proposed and that was about improving access to justice for those who experience crimes in private. I have no doubt that the justice committee in moving the issue forward with the general justice bill later this year will be interested in how we take forward the recommendations from Lord Barnaby as a package of measures and how that sits alongside the whole issue of the corroboration rule. I have no doubt that in due course we will want to scrutinise any proposals that come forward from Government. In my closing speech on 27 February last year, I pleaded with the then cabinet secretary to remove the corroboration provisions from the bill for further consideration and was met with what would seem to be a very hostile response. I am very much welcome the statement that the cabinet secretary has made. Lord Barnaby's review group identified significant issues around the issue of dock identification. I am not sure that the final year of this term of Parliament would be sufficient time, but I wonder whether that is one of the issues that could be examined separately, both the case for ending dock identification and the means to do so. The member makes a reasonable point about the issue of dock identification, however. Removing it from the court process places a significant burden on our prosecutors and the police in the process that they have to put in place prior to a case getting into courts. That is why, on the surface, some of the issues may appear as though they are fairly straightforward initiatives to take forward, but the potential resource implication in other parts of the justice system could be very significant. That is why it is important that we do not just jump ahead and decide to select one of those particular recommendations or a couple of them without considering in detail what the full impact of that will be further into the system, including for prosecutors and for our police service. It is worth keeping in mind that the primary focus of the Bonomy Review Group has been on protections for the accused. We need to make sure that any of the measures that we take forward are ones that do not make an imbalance in our system that could be difficult to justify. That is why I do not want to at this stage give a commitment to any of those specific recommendations until we have worked through the full practical implications of them. However, I am more than happy to make sure that, as we take that work forward with stakeholders, we will inform Parliament as to what we believe is the best approach. I argued for and secured the suspension of the bill until the outcome of the Bonomy Review and Lord Bonway's report today indicates that approach, because it exposes the scale of the task that the Parliament would have faced had Kenny MacAskill had his way and if the bill was already law. However, we should not forget that he was backed by the entire Cabinet, and I do wonder if the cabinet secretary regrets his Government's obstinacy on that. On a more positive note, I share the cabinet secretary's wish to secure a better conviction rate for those crimes committed in private. Research into jury decision making could be crucial to finding a way forward. Can the cabinet secretary explain his thinking in that regard in terms of taking that forward as a matter of importance? The first thing that I should say is that what I am very proud of in this Government is its determination to try to improve access to justice for those who are denied access to justice. We will certainly make no apology for that, and we will continue to take forward an approach that we believe will deliver that particular objective. On the specific point about jury research, I am conscious that that is an issue that has also been raised by a variety of stakeholders in the past in looking at the potential benefits that could come from jury research. There were concerns about its potential impact on the content of court provisions, however, as Lord Borramey has set out, there is a mechanism and way in which he can do that, which would overcome that particular obstacle. That is why I am open-minded to the issue of the research. However, I am open-minded to not just on the basis that it will allow us to look at the issue of jury size majorities and also the three verdicts. I think that there may be some other wider issues that that research could consider. I want to look at it on that basis, not just on the specifics that Lord Borramey has recommended it for, but on whether there could be value in looking at some other wider issues within our justice system. That is again something that I want to consider as we move forward as to what that could potentially look like. However, that is why I am open-minded to it and open-minded to it in such a way as it would go wider than what Lord Borramey has recommended. Roderick Campbell, for by Jim Baxter. Cabinet Secretary, you will appreciate that there remains widespread public concern about the historically low prosecution and conviction rates for victims of sexual offences and domestic abuse. Is there anything further that you can offer in the interim to address those concerns? As I set out my statement, there has been significant progress made in terms of domestic abuse and sexual offences cases reaching our courts, with the significant increase that we have seen since 2013-14. We want to continue to see that work being taken forward. One of the benefits that we have had from Police Scotland is a specialist investigations unit, which has been able to give much more focus and dedication to those types of crimes, which has allowed a much greater level of expertise to be deployed in tackling domestic abuse and sexual offences cases. The other aspect is about the additional £20 million that the First Minister announced several weeks ago, which is about looking at how we can improve the way in which our criminal justice system is operating by cases getting through the system quicker by the type of support that we provide to victims in the course of a particular case going through the courts, but also looking at how we can speed up the intervention methods that can help to reduce those types of offences from occurring in the first place. That is from the Caledonian scheme, right through to some of the violence reduction programmes that we run in our schools. All of those measures, I believe, will continue to allow us to improve the way in which people experience our justice system and to reduce the levels of domestic and sexual violence that take place within our society. Alongside that, I intend to work with stakeholders on the recommendations from Lord Bonomy to look at which of those measures could assist us and help them to improve further access to our justice system in Scotland. I note from the cabinet secretary's statement that the police Scotland pilots of domestic abuse disclosure, known as Claire's law, are due to be completed in May. Could the cabinet secretary give some indication of whether resources are to be made available to roll out this good practice, and will we see progress on this in the life of this Parliament? We have already saw progress in this area in the course of this Parliament with the pilots that Police Scotland has taken forward. The additional £20 million that we have announced will allow us to look at some of those other programmes that can be taken forward. The feedback that I have had around the domestic abuse notification scheme that the pilots are operating is a very positive one, where people value it. Police Scotland believes that it is valuable, so I am very sympathetic to that. Again, that is some of the work that we will be looking to take forward and to see what we can learn from those pilots to consider how that could be applied on a national basis. Given that the motivation to remove requirements for corroboration was to improve access to justice for victims of crime, I am very much supported at the time and still support what steps has the Scottish Government now taking to help victims? One of the areas of work that we are taking forward is the Provisions within Victims and Witnesses Act in order to improve the way in which victim rights are promoted and supported within our criminal justice system. Alongside that, since we announced additional £20 million for domestic violence organisations, we have been engaged with the Scottish Court and Tribunal Service or Crown Office, Scottish Women's Aid, Rape Crisis Scotland and Assist, all looking at how we can take forward more proactive measures in order to support individuals who experience domestic violence and how we can improve the system with the use of those resources. Alongside that, as I mentioned earlier, one of the other aspects that I am keen to see being developed is the preventative measures such as the Caledonian model, which has already been rolled out in some parts of the country and which can help to reduce the risk of perpetrators of domestic violence from committing similar offences again in the future. That additional resource will allow us to look at how we can scope further work in this area and for that to then be rolled out into other parts of the country and, in doing so, help to support victims much more effectively. The cabinet secretary will be aware that, on two occasions now, I have consulted on the reform of the three verdicts and on the jury's majorities, notwithstanding the report of Lord Bonamy's group. Does the cabinet secretary recognise that the consultations that I have undertaken show that there is widespread support from the legal, academic professions and the public for progress on the three verdict system? Given that I have achieved the necessary support from colleagues across the Parliament to take that bill proposal forward, will the cabinet secretary meet me to discuss how we can progress that issue? That is an issue that has been hanging around for far too long and now needs to genuinely be addressed. I recognise the work that Mr McMahon has taken forward in this particular area over several years now, and I would, of course, be more than happy to meet him to discuss it. I am mindful of the recommendation from Lord Bonamy on this matter, in that the review group does not feel that they can come to a recommendation on the three verdicts that we have at the present time until that jury research has been undertaken. That is why I am open-minded to undertaking that particular type of research. Of course, that is an issue for the member to consider and how he wishes to pursue his own member's bill, but I would be more than happy to meet the member to discuss that further. I have three further members who wish to ask a question. I intend to take them all, given the importance of this, but can I ask that the questions are brief? Christian Allard, followed by John Finnie. Thank you, Presiding Officer. As a member of the Justice Committee, I would like to say that I regret that we did not manage to build the consensus around the co-operation rules, but, in light of the question today and the reaction of different members, I would ask the cabinet secretary why he could not provide clarity as to why all Lord Bonamy's recommendations cannot be taken forward in this parliamentary session. Can I say that, as I have mentioned in a couple of my responses so far, there are a number of significant complexities to those recommendations? If I can, for example, I will make reference to the issue around the jury research, about verdicts, majorities and the way in which we operate our jury system. It has been indicated that that could take some time to undertake that work over a period of time. It could take more than a year, possibly two years, to complete that type of detailed work that will be necessary in order to form the right type of decisions on this matter. It is simply not possible to fit that in in this parliamentary term. Again, the issue around dock identification, although it appears straightforward, there are potential other consequences that come from that, which have to be considered in great detail. Again, for example, the audio-visual recording that I mentioned in response to Hugh Henry's question. Again, the potential resource implication for that and the practical implication for the police are considerable as well. In order to consider those issues fully in this parliamentary term, there is insufficient time to allow us to progress the criminal justice bill as it stands at the present moment and to look at all those issues and to consider them in sufficient detail before we can arrive at a final decision in this parliamentary session. John Finnie, then finally, Christine McElvie. Thank you, minister, for the statement. You rightly referred to the report as a protection for the accused, and there is a reiteration in the report of a concern already picked up in a report delivered to you a number of months ago by HM. I see the concerns about suspects not waiving the rights to legal assistance at police stations and the implication that the costs of that are a factor in it. Will you lay before Parliament regulations disapplying the provisions of the Legal Aid Scotland Act 1986, which causes a suspect to pay for the cost of legal assistance provided to them at a police office? That is something that you could do to enhance the conditions straight away. I am conscious of an issue that has been flagged up by Lord Bonomy in his review, and, as the member will be aware, there are provisions already in the criminal justice bill for those who are vulnerable adults in terms of waiving their rights to legal representation, but I will consider all those recommendations, including the one that the member has highlighted, and consider what is the best approach to go forward. I will consider the views of those such as the member and the Justice Committee and other stakeholders before we come to a final decision on which of the recommendations will take forward in the criminal justice bill. The cabinet secretary has mentioned a lot in his contribution today about those crimes committed in private, and he will know many of the organisations that are involved in the cross-party group's men's violence against women rape crisis, women AIDS and zero tolerance. We are very supportive of the measure of withdrawing the need for corroboration. If the corroboration form is not to go ahead at this time, what steps can the cabinet secretary tell us that he will take to address those concerns, and would he consider meeting with the cross-party group, for instance, to help to address those concerns? I should say that, as part of our response to the Bonomy review today, we have been engaging with stakeholders who have a particular interest in the matter. A range of those stakeholders have expressed their views in the past around the whole issue of the abolition of the corroboration rule on relation. I will continue to do so, and I will, of course, be more than happy to engage with the cross-party group at some point on that particular issue. As I also mentioned, we have also got a specific consultation on a domestic abuse offence, and also about using the resources of additional £20 million on how we can improve support to those who are victims of crimes of domestic abuse within our court system. The provisions within the victims and witnesses act are there to help to support the needs of all victims, including those of domestic violence and of sexual violence and rape. All the measures that we have taken forward that are leading to improvements within our criminal justice system, we will continue to move forward alongside that, looking at what aspects of the particular package we can take forward and to help to improve the way in which individuals access our justice system. The member can be absolutely assured that this Government's commitment to improving access to justice for those who continue to experience crimes in pilot, part private. The experience difficulty in getting justice through our court system will continue to be a central focus on how we want to improve our justice system within Scotland.


I'm Deborah Borchart and this is your Marijuana Money Minute. The state of Michigan began sales of adult use cannabis on Sunday. People waited in long lines in cold weather for a chance to buy legal recreational marijuana. Now there weren't a lot of dispensaries open on the first day, but the state's regulatory agency said that $221,000 was spent on day one. Four government agencies teamed up this week to make a statement regarding banking and hemp growers. The key takeaway was that banks would not need to fill out suspicious activity reports. These are known as SARs for companies engaged in the growth or cultivation of hemp. Now the narrow interpretation of that is that it only applies to farmers. But many in the industry believe that it applies to all hemp producers and brands. Rapper Lil Wayne announced this week that he was launching his own cannabis brand called GKUA. If you're wondering what those initials stand for, well, it doesn't stand for anything. They just like the letters. Suniva continues to spiral downward, unfortunately. The company is being sued by Matrix Ventures who is claiming that they defaulted on a loan and they want the Okanagan Falls facility as repayment. Suniva says it's going to fight the lawsuit, but they did concede in a filing that they were in default. And there's another financial instrument that the company is also in default on. Now you may recall that the C-suite has been in a lot of turmoil with this company as the CFO and others have departed. Cresco Labs entered into an at-the-market agreement with Canakord for 55 million Canadian dollars in shares. We have a lot of earnings still to go over this week. Indus Holdings reported revenue of $10 million for its fiscal third quarter, still though they had an EBITDA loss of $16 million. For Front Ventures reported third quarter revenue of $16 million, but they had a net loss of $7 million. Solg Global reported a second quarter net loss of $51 million on no revenues. Isodiol reported revenue of $1.8 million for the second quarter, but they had a net loss of $3.2 million. They also said that they would be rebranding and restructuring its product lines. We have some stock moves to go over. Willow Biosciences received approval to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The symbol will remain WLLW. Juicy Holdings received approval to trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange using the symbol JUSH. They will leave the NEO exchange. And that's it for this week. I'm Deborah Borchart reporting for the Green Market Report from a very chilly Times Square.


Welcome to late night in studio. Yes I'm wearing pajamas and a robe. I have been at home painting all weekend and having a really great time. I hope you've had a great art weekend yourself. I have a couple things to share and I'm gonna get started but I'm gonna show you a painting that I made this weekend while I am chatting. First announcement is that I have chosen the winners for the 24 tags of Christmas. Those names are scrolling across the screen if you see your name there and go to my blog and click on the contact link and send me an email with your address. I have lots of people who send me hey I'm I want I'm so excited without their address so please do send your address. I have your envelopes ready. I just need the address to put on them and the Colorado Craft Company winners. I apologize it did not get to the post office last week. It was so crazy so I'm gonna do that this week and get everything out in the mail. Second announcement is I have some new classes that I'm working on and that is taking up tons of time and creativity and excitement and I think you're gonna be excited. I'm trying for a variety of new classes launched all at once on Black Friday. Why? All at once because it's Black Friday and I'm having a sale. I want you to take advantage of that if you can and in addition to which I want you to be able to send that to Santa Claus and have Santa Claus send you a class or some supplies that you might need etc just in time for Christmas. Okay so keep an eye out for that on Black Friday. The third announcement is that I have made more Christmas cards than I have names to send. On my current list I was not keeping very good track and I had had cards laying all around the studio. I found extras and what I'm going to do is choose from students who sign up for classes anytime in November. So if you had a class burning a hole in your pocket that you wanted to sign up for please feel free to join in and go get one of those. You can do it on Black Friday but I might be sending cards out before Black Friday. I don't know what will be left by then but I'm going to try to keep sending cards out throughout the month so there you go. I also wanted to let you know that in December I'm going to be bringing the studio to here on YouTube. I always take a break from my regular YouTube schedule in December because the onslaught of all of the Christmas stuff is exhausting and I give myself December to just play. In the past I've done maybe one video a week or something. I'm not really sure exactly what the plan is except it's fine art all month. I don't know how many videos that will be. Some of them might be live videos and if you do like live videos you can check out my crowdcast as well. You have to be a patron at even minor level which is like a buck a month if you want to participate in the crowdcast. But I'm also going to maybe bring a few of the lives during the month of December here to YouTube. I don't really know how all that's going to work out but it's bouncing around in my head as maybe part of the plan to share a little of the studio and the work that I'm doing with you. And then I'll be back to regular card making when January gets here. But for the time being I still have card videos this month in November. I'm going to have I hope kind of a wish list video for art supplies that you can send to Santa Claus and tell them the stuff that you need on it. And I think that's about all I have to tell you today. I hope you have a really great day. I've got another video for you tomorrow because I promised you the new Colorado Craft Company so stay tuned for that. It will be coming your way very shortly. I'll see you guys later. Bye.