It's now time for Member's Statements, the Member for Muskegawak James Bay. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in this House to express the feelings of distress of many seniors in my riding. They're facing a crisis. Conservatives announced 15,000 new beds for long-term care, but the reality is that there have been not a single bed in the service center in the northwest. Muskegawak Bay James Bay is a far-flung region in which there's an aging population, and the waiting list continues to increase. There's over 1,000 people waiting on the wait list, and our centers are full. There are 78 beds. There's hundreds of seniors that are waiting on the wait list, and in Hearst, they can wait up to three years in order to have access to a bed because we've seen the wait list double under the Liberal government. The Conservatives have nothing concrete to offer to us. They're working on short-term projects. There are 20 beds that are available, but we're still waiting for an answer from the minister. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Member Statements, the Member for Carleton. Merci, Monsieur le Président. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To congratulate Chief Peter Slowly, who was sworn in as Chief of the Ottawa Police Service on October 28, 2019, I was pleased to see that the Ottawa Police's draft budget for 2020 prioritizes a return to community policing, as well as a commitment to member wellness. Supporting Ottawa's police officers was also discussed at length by everyone attending this year's Ottawa Police Service Gala. I'd like to thank Deputy Chief Uday Jaswal for inviting me to join him at his table this year. I'd like to take this opportunity to also thank all police officers and professionals in law and order that are working very hard and doing great work in our communities. They're working every day to ensure the safety and the prosperity of our great province. Our Deputy Chiefs, the Ottawa Police Association, and the rest of the hard-working men and women of the Ottawa Police Service, and in fact, all first responders across Ottawa, including Fire Chief Kim Ayotte, Paramedic Chief Miles Cassidy, Ottawa Professional Firefighters Association President John Sobey, and the Professional Paramedic Association of Ottawa to promote not only the safety of our communities, but also the health and well-being of our first responders. I'm very grateful for everything that police officers do, and I'm looking forward to working with them. Member Statements, the Member for Waterloo. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Ms. Abigail Lobsinger has been fighting neuroblastoma and aggressive childhood cancer for most of her seven years of life. I call her Ms. Abigail because she has been fighting cancer with grace, strength, and courage. Her parents, Leanne and Kevin, her sisters Faith, Ashley and Sam, are all on this journey with this brave little girl and have been so strong. It's been tough on everyone, especially Waterloo's toughest cookie. On Sunday, her folks put out a call for love, prayers, and good vibes and positive thoughts as Abigail enters the next phase of treatment. When families face a cancer diagnosis, it doesn't take long to realise that friends, family, neighbourhood, and even their city can make a world of difference. Abigail has had excellent care at sick kids, and this week she's at McMaster's Children's Hospital, and I want to thank the exceptional doctors, nurses, and support staff who are in this fight with Ms. Abigail. Abigail has a favourite band, the Foo Fighters. Her favourite song is Learn to Fly out of courtesy to Abigail because I like her, I'm not going to sing it, but I do want to leave you with these lyrics. Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone, try to make this life my own, looking to the sky to save me, looking for a sign of life, looking for something to help me get things right.  Go Abigail! Thank you very much. Member statements, the member for Haldeman Norfolk. Yes, thank you Speaker, and I rise today to celebrate and remember Dave Dillon, a member of our large political family. Late last week we learned of Dave's passing. He would have celebrated his 55th birthday next Tuesday, and if we counted Dave's life in relation to campaigns and conventions and association meetings and events, and certainly friends, it would indeed be a full life and one resembling that of a man twice his age. Born to the late Maggie and Mike Dillon, Dave grew up in Wortley Village in London when friends came to visit his parents. Dave was caught on a number of occasions sneaking from his room to sit on the staircase so he could eavesdrop on political conversations. Politics was indeed in Dave's blood. He was a dedicated assistant to former London South MPP Bob Wood for many years. Aside from this, Dave worked on countless campaigns at all levels. Recently, the federal election as a regional organizer for Andrew Scheer, and when he was not out knocking on doors or attending meetings, he enjoyed readings in a good Western. Friends young and young heart will miss this quirky fellow as quick, wet, known through as many emails and phone calls, and he had a way of making people smile and laugh. There's a hope that Dave's friends, they didn't say goodbye, and he's departed our great Earth knowing he was loved and valued far beyond the political arena. Dave leaves behind his daughter, Morgan. Thank you, Speaker. Members statements? Members for Oshawa. Thank you, Speaker. Todd Burgess was a tow truck operator. He lived in Oshawa but worked across Durham region on our roadways. We knew him in our office, and it was Todd's job to help people out and get folks moving. On November 7th, he was helping a car out of a ditch and tragically was killed doing his job at the side of the road, helping a neighbour in need. His recent funeral was attended by many members of the community, and hundreds of tow trucks drove in convoy to pay respects to one of their own. And sadly, Speaker, tow truck operators are all at risk. Tow truck operators have started an online petition calling for the use of blue emergency lights. In a very short time, the petition has garnered over 25,000 signatures. Blue lights are more visible. The government needs to look at improving protections for tow truck operators who are in a high-risk occupation. Our roadways are their workplaces. And as critic for highways and transportation, I know that safety is paramount, and if we can make people safer as they do their jobs, then why wouldn't we? This government should also take another look at the Vulnerable Road Users Act put forward by the member from University Rosedale and recognize that any worker who is working on the road should be considered vulnerable. Speaker recently, I called CAA and got a tow from Queens Park back to Oshawa, spending quality time in traffic, riding shotgun, talking about some of what trucks see every day on the roads. We talked about safety. We talked about drivers on the roads who won't put down their phones. And while we can't solve the problem of distracted driving today in this legislature, we can start the conversation about visibility and protections for tow truck operators and workers on our roads. Todd's death was a tragedy, and tow truck operators deserve to be safe while they do their jobs. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member from Milton. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank two of my amazing constituents, Bridgette and Sean Sonier. Originally from the East Coast, called Campbellville, their home, and work hard to support many great causes and community organizations in my great riding of Milton. They have been the proud owners of Mohawk Inn and Conference Center, which has served as hub in the local Campbellville community. It has hosted many United Way events, including Destination Campbellville Community Association meetings and many other gatherings, Mr. Speaker. In the 2013 ice storm, Sean and Bridgette opened their doors and provided food and shelter to anyone who needed it. They were recognized as entrepreneurs of the year in 2014 and were also tapped to be the honorary mayors of Campbellville in 2017. They are truly community leaders and business leaders, Mr. Speaker. This past week, they announced that Mohawk Inn and Conference Center is going to transform into a much larger and modern hotel and event center. No doubt this new space will allow them to continue their tireless community work. I would like to thank Sean and Bridgette for their leadership in the community and congratulate them on this new chapter for the Mohawk Inn. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Number four, Hamilton Mountain. Thank you, Speaker. This week is Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, a week set aside to promote a safe, inclusive, and positive learning environment in our schools. Youth experience bullying every day in our schools and on our playgrounds. Research shows that one in three young people report being bullied at school, and it's happening online, too. One in five teens say they've experienced cyberbullying. Along with the physical scars, students who are bullied can develop deep psychological and emotional scars. In my home city of Hamilton, we recently saw the horrific, worst-case scenario of bullying. A 14-year-old named Devin Selby died at the hands of his bullies. I cannot even imagine the anguish that his mother feels, and I offer her my deepest condolences. No mother should have to experience this, and no young person should be tormented at school. The reality is that all of this trauma is preventable. We simply need to do better to support Ontario students. We must provide them in-school resources that they need, such as counselling and safe reporting mechanisms. We need to support our teachers and education workers as well. Cutting resources in our schools will only make bullying worse. A safe and positive learning environment is essential for students to succeed. Government can help by providing schools the resources they need to tackle bullying. Thank you. Member Statements? The Member for Glen Gary Prescott Russell. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This summer, I was honored to be elected Global Chair of the International Network of Young Parliamentarians of the APF, the Assembly Parlementaire de la Francophonie. Mr. President, the network ensures a better representation of the successes from other parliamentary systems and to share the challenges that we all face. Since I've been nominated, I've participated in a number of meetings where I had the opportunity to represent the network, but also to represent Ontario and share our successes. I went to Washington to participate in the World Bank Conference and the IMF Conference in Paraguay. I shared all of the success of our concrete measures for youth that provides youth with all the tools necessary in order to improve health indicators, education indicators, and to improve belonging within community. I call on all, and I mentioned how governments at all levels have contributed many efforts to ensure that youth are better supported. I call on all parliamentarians to continue to be a model for other parliamentary systems throughout the world. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Member Statements, the Member for Burlington. I'm pleased to rise in the legislature today to let you know about an online exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary this year, the Ministry of Labor, Training and Skills Development. The exhibit is posted on the Archives of Ontario's website. I would like all Ontario residents to know about the exhibit. I believe it will be a great interest to educators, students, and the general public, as well as employer and labour groups and everyone in this workplace. The exhibit is a remarkable telling of our ministry's history, how it began as a small government department focusing on workplaces, standards, and safety, and grew to become an essential organization for Ontario workplaces. It contains stories of key figures, ministers, deputies, and labour relations people, as well as ministry staff. Our ministry didn't just adapt to this to its environment. It helped shape it by laying the groundwork for safer, fairer, and more harmonious workplaces. I want to thank the ministry staff who were involved in putting together the history. The exhibit gives us knowledge we never had before. I'll help you all take a look at it and enjoy it. Thank you so much, Speaker, for the opportunity to speak on the 100th anniversary. Thanks so much. Member Statements, still one more? Okay. Member for Scarborough Agent Court. Mr. Speaker, today I stand here to speak about my recent trip to Armenia and Artsakh. In October, I, along with three other elected officials from Ontario and Quebec, had been invited by the Armenian National Committee of Canada to attend cooperation for justice and peace conference in the region. The conference, which was attended by parliamentarians from 30 countries, was a great forum for dialogue and an opportunity to learn about Artsakh. During our visit, we also had meetings with the President of Artsakh and the Speaker of the Artsakh Parliament. The conference showcased the commitment of the Artsakh people for democracy and human rights that I know they share with Canadians. I am very much looking forward to continue the cooperation and the conversation that began at the conference in October to ensure that the peace and democracy are the whole mark of politics in the region for generations to come. Mr. Speaker, during the Canadian delegation visit to Armenia, we had a productive discussion with members of the Armenia-Canada Parliamentary Friendship Group. We examined Ontario's and Canada's bilateral relations with Armenia and the possibility of cooperation between our two countries. Armenian officials expressed interest in growing the already strong economic and social ties between Ontario, Canada, and Armenia. I believe this cooperation spirit of the official Armenians speaks strongly to the government's agenda of ensuring our Ontario is open for business. Thank you. And thank you very much. That concludes our time available for member statements this afternoon. Reports by committees.


So, when you get a piece of salmon like this from Alaska, very often what doesn't happen is the pin bones aren't removed. So what a lot of people do with their pin bones is they use pin bone pliers, they are just needle nose pliers, and if you've used much with the needle nose pliers, you'll know that they really gum up really easy. The better solution are these pin bone tweezers. Now you can get these on Amazon, five, six bucks. What they have on here is they've got kind of a sharp teeth on here, and they grab the pin bones. So these are pin bones right here, this little ridge right here, you can run your hand along it and feel it. So if you take your pin bone tweezers and pull them out like that, that works so much better than if you were to use your needle nose pliers like you've always done. These grab much better, they come out at a certain angle. You don't have to do, what a lot of people will do is they'll take a knife and they'll just cut out that whole ridge of pin bones, but really the pin bone tweezers.


What would you tell the February version of yourself to get you through what was about to happen? That's a very interesting question because I like a lot of sci-fi fantasy movies. To be more prepared to do more online than anything else. America has always been associated with making it, but is this opportunity accessible to all? Atlanta was built to include everyone, but so many people are still being left behind. I'm Scott Shigeoka, GoDaddy's entrepreneur in residence, and I'm on a journey across the country meeting the people who are building it. I want to break that stereotype. I want to see this through for the sake of my family. They're defying the odds and their stories show us what it means to be made in America. I think gone are the days of like the shark mentality and entrepreneurship. In fact, entrepreneurship and small businesses can be seen as a community effort. It can be seen as a collaborative effort where we work to support each other. I think that's what the pandemic is showing us. That we are so much stronger when we have a community that we can grow alongside of. And that's what I've seen in Atlanta. Atlanta is a city of opportunity, but it's also a city of economic and racial disparity. And it takes a community effort to bridge that divide. It takes working together and looking forward. And both Yolanda and the Robinsons are in this moment of growth. They're both pushing their plans forward despite all of the obstacles and enlisting their community to help them succeed. You know, so much of what it means to be an entrepreneur is to see the fear, to acknowledge it, and then to be courageous and walk through it. I'm so excited. It's such an exciting moment. Today we are finally opening the Oasis. Yes. You've worked so hard and you have hustle to get to this point. I have to pat myself on my back because I did good, Yolanda. Yes, Yolanda. And how are you feeling about your website? Oh, I like it. It looks so fresh and so clean clean. I like how the flowers look alive. That's actually a real flower. I love that because it is what it is and it's alive.  I love it. I love the nature. Yeah. So people can connect the dots, you know, to see that farm to skin. It looks like it's easy to navigate and that's very important. And that was our main point was easy to navigate user-friendly. So it has definitely solved that for sure. I am so proud of you. This is a moment where you are just transcending. Like that's the word I would use. Yeah. What I've learned in this journey is that what you put out in the universe is really what you get back.  What would you tell yourself? Quit. Turn your resignation in early. I waited too long. I still remember our conversation where she was getting emotional and talking about how there are young girls in the area of Atlanta that she is running her business in. And she wants them to know that this is possible. Like this can be a future for you. You know, it's important for me to facilitate this opportunity for other people in my community because it's not about me. It's bigger than me. It's bigger than me. It's for all of us. Atlanta is at a crossroads right now. There's a reason Atlanta is home to over 25 Fortune 100 companies. This is where I will caution. Because of our accelerated growth in technology and in innovation, we're now moving into a new era where a lot of people, particularly minorities, are not being included. And where you have innovation density, you have increased poverty. And it's because if you don't bring along the poorest of those, which in Atlanta disproportionately are black, then those people become left out. And so if they're not exposed to opportunities or realities, they won't pursue them. How do you create something where the next generation looks to it and says, I see myself in that? Today, we are going into one of our first stores. Very excited about it. Very charged. And we're just ready to get it in there.  So for us to be our first new store and they want us is very humbling. And we'll be on some shelves very soon. Do you all feel like this is a major accomplishment? Yes. Good. So this is just store number one of many. Our goal is to go big, real big. Goal is to be all across America, where Moki Pops is a household name. Big box stores. And so this is just the beginning. Our hard work that we've been doing is paying off. And we now are starting to see and feel the fruits of our labor. Yes. You know, it was a little uncertain in the beginning of the pandemic, you know, but we're like, look, we still can do it. You know, people are still buying food. People are still buying treats. We're like, we fit into this and we're going to ride with it right now. So I love your teamwork. I love how you guys are still supportive of each other. The vision coming in through the training, the G-Men, taking what you needed, all the nuggets and the strength you guys had already. That's what people need to see. This is how it's done. This part will be my teacher, y'all. You made the class so fun.  Yes, ma'am. And you gave it to us. Yes, ma'am. And we learned something. Yes. So thank you for coming out today. You're welcome. Come on in here. This is the rainforest area. We have yoga, reiki, yoni steam, reflexology, body scrub, all of that's happening on the first floor. Then on the third floor, we're doing mental health behavior. And then we have our manufacturer up there. So each sub-leaser gets to come in and decorate it and do what they want to do to it. So this is it. This is it. Oh, daddy did a website for us. That we saw yesterday for the first time. Can I see that? I'm excited on just starting a fresh, clean slate. And it's all part of your launch. Yes, it's all part of our launch. I'm excited. I saw when you guys first came through and you know you have this vision of what you want to do and you feel like you're there. Then you have this aha moment. Wow, I couldn't have been doing so much more.  Right.  You know, it's like whoa. All right.  And I'm like, okay, we're going to get through this. I don't know how, I don't know when, but we're going to get through it. Right. Right, we did. Right. The internet has really managed to circumvent some barriers to entry, including first and foremost capital. In many cases, small businesses no longer need as high amounts of capital to create a business environment. It's just easier for the customers and us instead of having to say everything by word of mouth. They can just research us and be able to read our story and be able to access our deliveries. And it just has to be interesting. A lot of colors, a lot of nice pretty fonts update always until I met the Robinson's. I had never thought of this idea of bringing your kids along the journey of being entrepreneurs. We do know that fresh air being outside is something that you don't have to be contagious or have to shy away from. We just got to do it in a responsible manner. So how are they making it socially distant? What's the setup like? We're curbside. The children are working the booth a couple feet from us right now. You coming to get a mokipap? Okay. These are our flavors here. The great thing is, since we're at a neighboring garden, they have kale plants set up beside our popsicles. So people can come and get a popsicle that is homegrown somewhere and they can get a plant. So making a connection is that the food that you're eating from the popsicle had to come from a garden somewhere. We did a presale and they bought 600 pops from us and we wanted to make sure that we got that to them before the close of 2020. So we didn't have to carry that as a debt into 2021. I'm really impressed by the way that they're honoring their pre-COVID orders because if you don't have your integrity, what do you got? Saying what we do and doing it and following through with it. I love that. I feel like the pandemic came through and you all are finding ways to navigate through that and to do it in a safe way and continue selling products. Do you all feel proud of your ability to do that to make this all happen? Oh, definitely.  They take these really catastrophic moments and they turn it into gold. They're alchemists. The Robinsons, I think the dynamic of them as a family, they are holistically the whole vision of what partnership, teamwork and family and community is really about. They were able to take that and push it to the next level.  It's very heartwarming. It makes it all worth it. How did it feel to see Yolanda's new space? Did you check it out? Oh my god, to persevere the way she has and gotten through a pandemic and still do the shift. So to come here and to see the vision unfold from all of the people that she has already beginning to have space, which means she's opened up a door for other entrepreneurs. It literally blown my mind. I'm super excited that you guys are part of this movement because that's really what it is. It's a movement for us to be able to bring healing and wellness to the community. When she first got here, it looked nothing like it looks today. You couldn't even see what she was talking about, but she had the vision. It's a great example to so many that it can be done. We're at a point of history. We're resetting, you know, we're resetting society. Like right now we're focusing on racial equity in Black communities, but we've got to deal with poverty everywhere. Whether it's Adam's Reel or Appalachia. So if you are inspired and become passionate about solving a problem in your community, in your industry, in your ecosystem, by all means, I think you should take the first step towards becoming an entrepreneur. You should be able to wake up one morning and say, you know what, I want to start a business and I'm going to start it. Thank you guys for being a part of my dream come true. Thank you very much. Thank you.  That's what she did. She is now marching towards these large industries and saying, make space for me. When you're an entrepreneur, you never stop fighting. And that's exactly what Yolanda and the Robinsons did. They put in the work to pivot to delivery to get their products on shelves or to open up a new space safely. And the thing is, you don't have to do it alone. This work is all about having community. We have to remember that no one created their small business by themselves. I think the reason why there's a huge movement is because it's time. For me, I have seen so much support, so much love from black people who are being very intentional on coming out and supporting my business. There's so many different forms of protests that are required to create change. And I believe that entrepreneurship is a form of protest. If everyone plays their part, entrepreneurialism would allow us all to experience the concept of the American dream and truly experience freedom inside of the American construct. Tune in for more seasons of Made in America where I cross this country and meet the people making moves against the status quo. And every story is so unique and nuanced. And it's a reminder to us that we have to do everything we can to empower others because everyone deserves a right to make their own way.


Well, hi there. My name is Sandy Almak, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm going to do another in my series of holiday backgrounds with Santa is Stuck.  This is a Copic Multiliner. If you're coloring right up to that line, it's helpful to do that in Multiliner so your pen doesn't bleed. But if you do what I end up doing at the end of the video, you won't actually need to do that in anything more than pencil because it turns out by the time I did this, I changed my mind on what I was doing and yeah, that's a thing that happens to me when I'm doing my coloring. I wanted to have a moon where that sentiment is, so I wanted to have the light shining from there. That's where my light source is and a lot of the coloring on Santa and on the chimney is going to be based on that strong lighting source since the moon is going to be right up there. So you want to have just a little bit of the super highlight facing the moon like up in that upper left-hand side. I even left a little tiny highlight on that poof in his beard.  And even though most people would just leave the beard white, I don't do that. Most white objects have a little bit of color in them and since this is a nighttime scene, I'm going to add a whole bunch of this B6 color. This B6-0 is very light. I'm also going to combine it with the next one in the series, which is a B6-3. And now he's going to look like Santa with a purple beard and hat. And I know hang tight, stay with me, don't panic. I'm going to add more shadows so that I can emphasize where those highlights are going to be. Now, sometimes for some people it's going to be easier to do your background first because then you can tell how dark to get with your image. And I want you to compare at the end of the image and at the end of the whole card, whether or not he looks like he has a white beard on or not. And I believe you will agree with me that it will look like a white beard when it's all done. But sometimes the background, if you do the background first, that can help you to determine how dark to make the colors on your image itself because everything looks different based on what's near it. So you can see I'm creating some real dimension on there, so getting some shading, even though right now, since he's only against white, it looks like he's got a bluish purple beard. So now I'm going to add all the colors into the suit that he's wearing.  And when you're coloring with reds, I've done a lot of videos on reds because reds are what scare people the most. And every time I do classes, I always find that people freak out with the reds. But one of the things that will help you is if you find a red that is actually a red to use as your lightest color, I'm using R24. A lot of the reds that are in this kind of general light red before you get to pink are going to work about the same. And if you have the hex chart, which is available on my blog, the hex chart shows you comparison of all the reds. And you can see on there how similar lots of the different reds are. There are some that are a little more on the purplish side, little more some a little more on the tomato red, orangey side. But for the most part, they all work really well as light reds and you don't actually have to own them all. And the hex chart will show you that difference. The darkest red that I like and I've promoted this this happy little marker. I love this R89 with pretty much any of the reds works really well as a really dark red color. And then R37 is very typically most of the time used as my mid tone color, no matter what that light red is. I'm not worried about natural blending groups or anything because this color combination just works very, very well to to give you some roundness in your reds.  So I was thinking, how am I going to add a little bit of texture to his gloves and his hat to make it look like he's got a fuzzy outfit on. And to do that, you can go a couple of different ways. You can either go with a light color in your race out some little texture or what I did was take my darker color and add in some dots of a darker color. And sometimes another coat of the same color is enough so that you have a difference in the color without having to switch to another shade entirely.  And I considered leaving a highlight on it. I decided not to. But since it is pointing toward the light, you could actually leave much more highlight on there than that I'm doing. But I didn't want his foot to be a big focus in this. Next up is the chimney. And I colored the grout first with an E4 to any kind of a light creamish light brown kind of color would work for the grout. I just wanted some kind of color in there. If you wait until afterward to do that, after you have all kinds of red in there, you may bleed your red into that by just touching the marker to it. And so I find that it helps to do the grout first. And then I picked an E07. E07 is a brownish red color, and it gives me a good color for the bricks. But I wanted these to look really realistic. And I also needed them to be darker than his gloves, because now they're starting to look about the same. The color is different, but the value of the red in the bricks and the red in his gloves is pretty much the same. And they if you squint, you can't really tell the difference between them. So I started by going in with a dark shadow color and adding some shadow underneath of the gloves first, because I knew that would be the darkest color. So I'm adding it right over top of all the area. I'm giving a little extra shadow underneath where his foot would stick out. And then from the right hand side, I'm adding some shading across the whole thing just to give my even my grout a little bit of shading. And I start to develop a little roundness in the whole chimney with the highlight on the chimney being off to that right hand side. And of course, went out of the lines, had to go get the zero marker to fix that. Next up, I did some shadows directly on the bricks themselves. And I went for a number 10. And yes, I know that's a really strong color for a lot of people. You can go lighter than I'm going, of course. But you'll notice that some of that E07 when I put the gray over top of it started to kind of fuzz out and it looks a little grayish and and modeled. But don't worry, I'm going to be adding things to fix that. So I'll add a second color of gray to add a little more depth to those bricks. And I'm going to get my shading done first before I fix that that modeling on the the bricks and then color over them one more time just with a quick coat of the E07. And again, you don't want to scribble over top of it. You don't want to pour a lot of color in it. Just want to go and pull that brick back together where it started to fall apart.  But maybe I'll do that on something else someday. But I decided for this one, it was looking pretty darn good. So far. Next up with some mad fussy cutting, I have a duplicate image so I can use that for the background. But the fussy cutting, I've cut out my little hillside and my Santa so that I'll be able to pop those on top of my image.  And I'm just going to start spraying my background. I'm using the B63, which is the same darker color that I used on Santa's beard. And you can see when you airbrush, it comes out really light. And I was like, OK, well, I guess that color is not going to be enough. Airbrush puts out color in a very light fashion. It's very soft. So you can use really dark colors and get really pale shades, even though the marker you're using is extremely dark. But I'm going to add a little bit of purple to this because I wanted it to be sort of a, you know, those skies that you see that have a little bit of glow coming up from the ground and then it gets darker up in the sky portion. I wanted this to be a really soft kind of pastel color. So I'm using the B69 color, which is, of course, related to the B6 as I've already used on the card for this darker bluish purple at the top section. And then I'm going to add a little bit more of the V04. I wanted a little more of that purple color in there so that I would have a little little difference between that and the next color because I wanted to have that glow from the city down below. But I needed to have a good transition into the sky. And I thought this purple would do it. Almost is going to feel a little bit like doing some northern lights. And here we go with the yellow. And I'm just my hand is actually there. It's just off camera so I can get it down just at the bottom section. And you can see how easy it is to do the background when you don't have to mask out the entire image. I could have stamped and cut that out of the masking paper as well. But it was a lot more fun to just pop that on top. Before I do, though, I like to put a little bit of the color underneath, especially when I have the image stamped underneath, just in case somebody peeks underneath of there, that they do see a little bit of color along that edge. You don't have to color the whole image just a little bit around the edge of the darkest areas will help to make it look a little bit more, I don't know, more finished as a completed card. So next I'm going to add some stars or snow. You can think of it in either way. I'm going to think of it as stars because when I do stars, I do them just in the sky. When I do it as snow, I actually do it over the image as well. So I would put snow over top of Santa and the chimney if I were going to make this look like snow. Next, I'm going to add a little shadow underneath of the chimney so that the angle of it you can see is off to the right because the moon is off to the left. And just doing a very light coating, you could make it a lot stronger, that sort of thing, but it's going to add just a little bit of reality. So it looks like this is the roof of the house. And over top of it, I'm adding a little coat of clear wink of Stella to make my snow sparkle. I know you can't see the sparkle there. Trust me, it does. And then a little B60 and colorless blender to add a little texture to my moon by going over it about three quarters of each one of those dots with the colorless blender, makes them look like craters. So here's the finished card and I challenge you to think of that as anything but a white beard and hat on Santa. Even though we know it has all that bluish purple color in it, when it's surrounded by other colors, it still pops and you still get some dimension in those white areas. If you'd like to see more videos, you can click on any of these that are already live. I've got one more, I believe, to go on this month. And then throughout the fall, I'm going to continue doing my series on holiday backgrounds for card makers. So please feel free to hit the subscribe button and make sure you click the little round button next to that so that you have all of those delivered to your inbox and you don't miss any for your holiday card making inspiration. And again, I apologize for starting holiday cards so early, but I wanted to get these backgrounds out to you. So you have plenty of time to practice them. All right. See you next time. Bye bye.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here So we need to talk about Chucky season 3 in this video here again today So despite Chucky season 3 being paused or shut down due to the ongoing WGA and SAG strikes the Season itself is still going to debut this fall on the USA and sci-fi networks and on a third Platform which is a shake up from what they've been doing from the past two previous years for the first two seasons and An announcement we got this morning from sci-fi and entertainment weekly picked it up and reported it bloody disgusting has reported it Chucky season 3 is coming this fall on USA sci-fi and will be available on peacock the next day Which is again something they did not do for the first two seasons Before I get into the other goods, I'll start with a quote from bloody disgusting from their Twitter page Need a friend to the end text Chucky to or text Chucky at 201 533347 if you text this number what's basically going to happen is this foul mouth little jerk Will send a selfie of himself and a few text messages at least that's what happened to me I don't know what he could end up sending you guys So this series is going to debut this October the 4th at 9 p.m. Eastern And I think that's a Wednesday making the switch from the Tuesday nights that we've been getting from the past two years sci-fi dropped an announcement video 18 hours ago or so over on YouTube and Chucky is at a press conference here Confirming that the DC setting is actually what we will be getting like I was reporting on or speculating on a month ago At this one because I haven't done a Chucky video in a month Jennifer Tilly of course will be back he confirmed this in during the press conference in this announcement video There's some lighthearted shade at Devon saw all who I was confidently say doesn't seem like they will be back for the upcoming season and Chucky gave this statement to the press to describe the season. He said all I'll say is that DC is gonna get chucked up Now he had some other comments. I'm just gonna leave it at that. He said DC is gonna get chucked up See here's my comments or my thoughts about the DC thing During the audition tape that I pointed out These were the keywords or phrases that I was highlighting to you guys to kind of indicate that we're going to DC The Capitol Police was mentioned America runs on secrets not Duncan and an election was happening So this was the ammo for me to already be confident that we would be going to DC in some capacity The Capitol Police being the biggest one However, I do also know that I've also gave put out a video and reports have come out that they wanted to have a Episode shot at a jail setting at one point. So we know we're gonna get a jail-centric episode We know that I'm starting to think that this season is gonna be split into a lot of different stories going on We're gonna have Tiffany being hunted by Nika With Lexi sister I can't think of her name right now I think it's Caroline and then Chucky is gonna be off in DC since the plan with the dolls and taking over the world Didn't work out the next best thing of course would likely be taking over from The Capitol or from the state Capitol or the nation's Capitol at the White House and getting your influence out there in some capacity by corrupting political officials getting them on your side and Maybe blackmailing them with these secrets that we're hearing about because again the bits of dialogue that are in this in this audition Tape go off of the fact that America runs on secrets So it's Chucky going to be manipulating people to get them to make sure he has some sort of control over the country Because we know that's what his plan was with his doll takeover that didn't go as planned in the first season We know again that production was shut down due to the strikes and a crew member did suggest that half of the season was shot But how many episodes will actually be dropping this fall? Could we be seeing a stranger things approach four weeks of Chucky instead of eight means we'll be rid of the little twat sooner rather than later before But I hope it is somehow more than just for Episodes I hope it's somehow five episodes maybe six episodes because what they could easily do is Finish up those last two episodes and then drop them on peacock respectively and let us finish the season that way Because I don't think they finish filming. I don't think they finish filming at all According to the crew member they only shot half of it Could this bit could this have meant a literal half for episodes if so again That's why I said could they be taking the stranger things approach drop four episodes this fall and then finish filming the other four and Shoot them sometime next year, which I don't think anyone will be against because we understand they aren't going strikes It's it's reasonable But I know a lot of us do want to have that full load of Chucky like we've been getting for the past two years But again circumstances are gonna have to make us be patient We could get four episodes this fall and then another set of four in the spring or the summer of next year And then that'll be the wrap-up for season three Which I wouldn't mind and then of course on top of that who's to say that they don't start Simultaneously filming season three and then finish season four back to back I know that'll be a lot of work for them But again, they're trying to fight a good cause right now. We just have to be patient with them So here's a recap of the alleged episode titles for Chucky season three Episode one apparently is titled 1600 episode twos title Jennifer's body episode three is titled let the right one in episode four It's titled halloween three season of the witch episode five is titled anger denial bargaining depression murder Episode six still missing Episode seven there will be blood Episode eight final destination for clarity. I'm not saying that episode six is titled still missing The episode six title is just still not present So we know that we can expect a halloween episode Because episode four is titled halloween three season of the witch And if we have only gotten or if we've only been able to complete half of the season Maybe the halloween episode will be the last episode we get this fall after the series debuts on October 4th But we'll just have to wait and see and be patient I again hope that they are somehow able to shift back into the film series That is my hope and wrap this up some way However, I'm not against them also wrapping up Chucky in its current phase With this TV show Because it also came off from this press conference from Chucky's comments. If you want to go watch the whole thing I'll leave a link to it in the description. Also, you can check it out on my Twitter It would appear to me that there might be no Intent to actually shift back to the movies just yet They intend to keep on producing Chucky as a TV show for as long as it's able to be a success Which I don't mind. I just want to see a conclusive end in sight If you know what I mean I don't want to see Chucky just keep on returning and returning and returning and returning and returning and Then of course along the way the quality is diminishing People are losing interest of course the interest of some people is always gonna still be there I myself will still watch it But I will point out if the quality is being diminished and that it's time to wrap this up I hope they have an end in sight. That's all I really want I don't want to just keep seeing it produced over and over back to back and then we end up in a scenario We're like, okay, this show should have ended seasons ago But you guys can let me know what you think about this down in the comment section below Are you looking forward to Chucky season three? Why are why not? What do you think is gonna happen with Tiffany and Nika? What do you think is gonna happen in that jail episode? How many episodes do you think we're even gonna get this fall because apparently they didn't even get to finish Filming the whole season. Let me know down below if you haven't already, of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notification numbers video in the description. I will have links on my social media accounts I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course, let me see movies news reviews let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


Hello, welcome to the Daily Decrypt, as good a home as any for currency competition. I'm your host Amanda B. Johnson and today's episode is brought to you by BitShares. You may have heard of the Internet of Things or IoT, which is a burgeoning reality in which our devices are internet enabled and they can be controlled remotely. Slocket is a project working to take the IoT a step further, creating the software which enables physical locks to be open and closed upon receiving cryptocurrency payments executed by smart contracts. Here to tell us more is Slocket co-founder Christoph Gents. In short, we are creating locks which can be opened by paying money. We are of course using the blockchain for doing so by connecting the blockchain to Internet of Things devices. So basically any smart device out there which has an open API and if they don't have an open API then you can connect to the manufacturer to get one. The reason why we are doing this, there are several reasons. One of course is the sharing economy to make it possible for someone to rent out a property by locking it with a smart lock and then people can open it by paying money. So for example a door lock which could be implemented in an Airbnb so people could pay to open it. We also work with spike locks and padlocks, power outlets, so all sorts of things which we connect to the blockchain. A long-term vision is much broader, thinking about machine to machine communication. So for example we work together with a German energy company called RWE. They are building a charging station for electric cars. So we are connecting them to the blockchain so cars can pay their energy themselves. Even to the step when you're waiting in front of a red traffic light, your car could be charged by induction and there is no time for swiping a credit card or anything like this. It's only like 5 or 10 seconds so you only pay 5 to 10 cents for the energy you get there. So this is where the car needs to pay for the energy. So making it possible for things to pay and receive payments is something we aim to do. Neat. And now how long has this been in the works? Is this something that you thought was possible as early as a few years ago? Thinking like with Bitcoin or did you rethinking of this even before cryptocurrency was invented or? So my first notes I found in my notebook about this was about August 2014. So actually when I started working for Ethereum but I know I would need Ethereum to work for this. So I worked full time for Ethereum and sometimes I did on the weekend or on the evening I did some working on prototyping and prototyping some small contracts for this and I think in summer 2015 I built a prototype together with my brother, the door lock. And then I think it was August or September 2015, Stefan tool joined to work full time for Slocket and then I'm working full time for this now since beginning of the year before this I also work for Ethereum. I still do but not as active as I have been before. So it has evolved. And now you is Slocket, is it intended as would it be correct to say it would be an Ethereum based DAP? Is that correct? Yes. Yes you could say this. It's a decentralized application because the locks we are building of course completely decentralized and autonomous meaning they all work without us. It's a completely decentralized application and it's actually open sourcing for anyone free to use and build on top of this. And we will add services around this which is the way we make profit as a company but the core product is open source and free for anyone to use to copy, adopt, change whatever they want to. So the Slocket software has it been deployed as a DAP on Ethereum yet? Can I use it? Only for testing. So there are no slots out there which are used in production. Got it. So I would need an actual lock. And yes I have one example here, I show this to you. Yeah. Do you see this? Yes I can. This is a lock made by Fast Designs. It's called the Nokey. Okay.  And they have a developer version of it which they made available to us and so we are putting our software on top of this and so you will be able to pay to open the lock. Yes, then we have door locks and power outlets and other things but all of them, so you could say you work as we have each lock has their own contract so we have a lot of smart contracts actually on the blockchain but we only use them for testing. So right now we are not in production mode and you cannot buy them on Amazon or anything like this but we have them working in our lab basically. Neat. So you are testing the software and you have people manufacturing these locks with chips in them that will work with your software and so is it expected that once the locks are finished and shipped then this locket will be usable? Yes. So basically those locks you can buy them today without our software. Okay. And use them with Bluetooth. So the lock you have there can currently be used with Bluetooth and when people unlock it with Bluetooth are they sending an actual payment to it in some form of cryptocurrency or... In the current version like this product it works without blockchain without payments you can just buy it and with your app only you can control it but it just will add the ability to it that you can also allow other people to open it when they pay money. So basically add the ability for the lock to receive payments but this will be live you hope end of the year we will have some products you can buy on Amazon maybe where this is already implemented. Neat. Yeah. That's exciting. And now could locket live on any blockchain or is there something that makes it Ethereum specific? Well of course in Ethereum you can make the smart contract because the smart contract behind the lock it's actually a simple one but I cannot do this on the Bitcoin blockchain currently. Okay. The smart contract just says the following there is a deposit and a price and those two numbers are set by the owner of the lock. So let's for example say I use this as my lawnmower and say I want to have $50 as a deposit and $1 per hour to use it. So then the user would come and check the scan the QR code his app would show him this he would say yes I accept it I pay the deposit so then I can use it for as long as I want to. When I return it it just counts the time on the blockchain and gives me the deposit minus the costs back and the costs go to the owner. This is the smart contract which is implemented on the Ethereum blockchain where this lock is connected to. And now just for my own knowledge you said that the smart contract that that lock requires to work is not currently possible for example on the Bitcoin blockchain. What is it that Ethereum has which Bitcoin does not have which make the lock possible? The two incomplete programming languages which which can observe the state can store some data which belongs to a certain account. So maybe that you could do it in some way on the Bitcoin blockchain I would have need to check maybe it's actually possible but not in this current form in a much much simpler version maybe. But why should we do this? If you can do it much easier on the Ethereum blockchain and then there comes the next thing which is definitely not possible on the Bitcoin blockchain. We are building a DAO a decentralized autonomous organization which we use to fund ourselves and they actually will get a reward each time a lock is used. So we have implemented as a fee currently 1% so when someone is using it 1% of this costs which user has to pay goes to this DAO and this DAO is a completely autonomous organization where anyone can send money to to buy tokens of this DAO and in the DAO they can vote to send us money so we can build a product in this product if implemented this reward rule the DAO gets rewarded when the products are used and such a DAO could not be implemented on the Bitcoin blockchain it's way too complex. So people using the Slocket DAP would have a certain amount of Ether that they are charged to use the DAP and 1% of that Ether would go to the Slocket decentralized autonomous organization account DAO is that right? Yeah just about correct yeah okay I would say it like that. Sponsored shout out from ChangeTip the popular social tipping service which is soon to be a wallet. ChangeTip is also a sponsor of the upcoming blockchain madness student tournament which will be a live global game show style competition among the crypto savvy students at six universities. You can learn more about it and other projects which ChangeTip finds most tip worthy at changetip.com slash tip worthy. I just wanted to ask your opinion because I didn't know that you had been an Ethereum developer just for the sake of Ethereum before Slocket so that's interesting and I wanted to ask you okay so with the with the nodes with the Ethereum blockchain that is going to be hosting the data for lots of DAPs potentially including at least the Slocket DAP. Are we talking a super large blockchain and have you given any thought to what the incentives will be for people to run a blockchain as potentially large as Ethereum's? So the incentive currently is of course the mining they get either when it comes to the size and first of all not everything needs to be stored on the blockchain when you create a decentralized application you need to be very careful about what processes are critical to be run on the blockchain in a smart contract which can be run off-chain with other techniques. For example for this slot there are only two transactions actually on the blockchain when you're renting it then you're returning it to transaction that's it anything in between open and closing it just send signed messages not on the blockchain so we actually do not store that much data on the blockchain only the most crucial and important data so therefore we are not filling up the blockchain this data is a slot all the opening and closing messages are just messages sending peer-to-peer without touching the blockchain actually they're just weeding from the blockchain to see who's currently allowed to open the slot that's all what they need to do so for incentive yes they might not get it we want and currently this works just fine but of course the blockchain will grow and we need a long-term solution for scalability so we will not have a problem with scalability for the next couple of years I guess like one or two or three years depending also on which application is running on it but I think Vitalik's solution of sharding is the one we will use in a couple of I don't know how many how much years he needs to implement it or we need to implement it but let's say one two or three years most and then I hope you'll have a scalable if you're in blockchain and in right yes and in that same vein do you have any thoughts on the planned but indefinitely timed switch of proof of work to proof of stake within Ethereum yes so this will happen and it has to happen because we have something I call it a difficulty bomb or there you could call give it different names but in the current Ethereum blockchain there's a rule implemented the difficulty will grow exponentially at a certain time this will make the blockchain unusable because it's too hard for any miner to find a block so therefore there needs to be a hard fork on the Ethereum blockchain when this time comes the Ethereum foundation will offer a fork or new client where proof of stake is implemented proof of stake is superior to proof of work in the sense that first of all it's good for our environment it saves a lot of energy and second it allows already to handle more transactions so it's actually the first step towards scalability it's not the final step because it just gets better maybe by one order of magnitude it's not completely scalable but we need it at the first step and I am very convinced that all the miners or all the people will update to the new version there it comes in about one year I guess all right well I think that that is just about all of my questions do you have I guess as a closing question do you have any sort of wild sounding predictions for what what smart objects you know the internet of things or whatever in which objects can pay one another do you have any sort of predictions of how this can or will be used in the future that maybe doesn't get discussed a lot elsewhere well I think of completely autonomous objects for example think about a drone a drone could receive payments to pick something up and deliver to a place with this payment the drone could fly to a charging station to charge himself even if it needs with replacement of need to be repaired it could fly to someone to repair themselves and they have money to pay so I you could think about a completely autonomous drone or completely autonomous car that a car manufacturer still owns it and makes money but because people are using it but the car could yeah could pay for its electricity could pay for it needs to be repaired and the user paying it and they use it so I think this machine to machine communication will end up in you kind of a new level of interoperability between objects and of course also between humans because we can interact with those objects that's what I see in the future and that's I think the exciting thing that the blockchain technology enables those objects to enter into agreements to receive payments to send payments this is a complete new level of IoT because currently IoT is just about a lot of data and making sense of data but this is a new level and they are able to do such things so that's what I what we hope to do but of course I think the first use case is decentralizing the sharing economy and I hope everyone is and I invite everyone to participate in our DO and because it's actually the first real DO which will hold hopefully a consip considerable amount of money and if you participate in this DO you can vote on what we do which projects we work on and send us money to do certain things and you will get rewards when all those things are used so I think it's also you need a unique opportunity for everyone how does somebody participate in this Locket DAO do you have your own tokens within Ethereum yeah so we will very soon announce the starting date when we make a sale that basically can people can put ether in the DO and get DO tokens we also work together with exchanges like shapeshift to accept almost any cryptocurrency but it's it's not just like a token sale a classic one where we just get all the money because we actually get none of the money the DO keeps the money and the one sending buying DO token stays in control of the money they then after they have funded the DO they then will vote who to give money to so they actually could say we don't like Locket and give the money to someone else to work for us but we of course hope we make the first offer to the DO but we will build for them and hope they will give us money but the unique system of raising funds by creating a really a decentralized autonomous organization but so it will start very soon and then those tokens have the potential to pay dividends on DAO earnings is that correct yes you could say so basically because if they accept our offer then we would include this reward system which gives them something like dividends and would the dividends be issued via human like would it take someone on your team to pay out dividends or would that all take place on the blockchain and whichever ether had been paid to use the slocket DAP a percentage of that would automatically get kicked out as dividends exactly they mean if our company would not be around anymore that the lock is paying the DO it's completely happening without us so that's I usually don't call it shares and dividends because we don't set any shares of our company our company is not paying our dividends it's just the DO makes an investment into a product and this products will pay them and this product will continue to pay them as long as the product is alive or not destroyed but not depending on our company so we are not paying them at all the product is doing so we just implement the rule in this product if each time it is used the DO gets paid well that is fascinating Kristoff do you have do y'all have like a Twitter account or something like how can people's basically how can people stay updated for when those locks actually come out and our user first go to our website slock.it and there's a mailing list you can contribute we have a slack there you can go on discuss you have over a thousand six hundred people on our slack to discuss those things so a lot of people there and on Twitter we have a slocket project you can follow our tweets very good all right well thanks for your time Kristoff have a lovely day thank you yeah have a good day too today's episode is brought to you by bit shares a currency whose wallet comes with a decentralized exchange where user-issued assets can be swapped and you can even try issuing your own user-issued asset yes I am not kidding whether the tokens represent tickets to an event shares in your company or membership in your club you can learn more about how to do this and get your own bit shares web wallet at openledger.info and we at the Daily Decrypt both the man servant and I would just like to give a hearty thank you to those of our viewers who we notice are tipping us in various cryptos some of which we 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