In 1973, Universal Pictures released a film called The Sting. It was a complicated plot involving two grifters that successfully defrauded a mob boss. The film went on to win seven out of its 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Original Screenplay. The reason was not far-fetched. The film depicted the lengths confidence tricksters will go to to create elaborate schemes and build an architect around the plot to defraud people of their money. At the end of the film, even the room that the final scene took place in was an illusion. In Malcolm Gladwell's book, Talking to Strangers, he sums up the reason we get blindsided by people's behavior and actions by stating that you believe someone not because you have doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don't have enough doubts about them. And this is the case with victims of scams. Specifically, scams not targeted at a person's greed. Scams counts 419, as we call it on this side of the Atlantic, has been with us since Heaven knows when, and with each passing year, the sophistication in the game grows. I became a partner on the Booking.com site. With the downturn of the economy, we were all becoming more creative. Shortly, I had my first client. Something was off. And in a carefully crafted response to a follow-up chat inquiry by the client, I turned down the reservation. I went to the app to report myself and tell the reason I declined the reservation. Apparently, I was out of time to seek a cancellation. Boy was I in soup. His credit card was on the file and they would charge it if they were not informed. The reservation came with an airport pick up. Last morning, the day of the arrival, fleetingly, it struck me as odd that the client seemed blind to the fact that I had declined the reservation, even as I was relieved that he had taken no note of my decline. With a note of caution, I informed the transport company to pick him from the airport. At 2 p.m., as he was passing through immigration, he reached out to the transport company for help. He needed to make an online payment of $48,500 to immigration. The transport company had catered to similar requests in the past. The difference was that they knew those clients. This was their red flag. In the meantime, on the other side of town, I was sweating like a Christmas good. I had swept, scrubbed, cleaned at the house all in a mud rush because of the late booking. Within five minutes of seeing the alert, he had cleared out the account, thanked the driver and promised to tip him with $1,000 when he came out. Then the point he dropped. As the world is on a steady decline and as a matter of urgency, we need to deploy the same time, energy, smarts, patience, knowledge as much as the con artists have to sharpen our gut instincts. This is the key to our survival going forward. We all need to have our wits about us, not suspicious of everything and everyone, but tuned in and listening to ourselves. Over to the floor. Yes. Like rightly said, it's easier for us to complain than to face the fact that we have not done enough homework as the people on the negative side would do. You're talking about con artists. If you look at criminals, maybe armed robbers and stuff, they want to rob you, they can monitor you for weeks on end. Just so that they can get what they want. But for us as humans, when we go around and we submit a proposal and the person says they're not available, we get angry, who does he think he is?  So I think you rightly said that we're not really, we're not as tenacious as we should be at times. And I mean, since I like to look at Nigerian politics, maybe that's why political terrain is this way. You know, I always say, if it seems off, it is off. It's better to actually stall if you have any doubts about a particular activity. And I think we've had many years now of realizing that con artists are here to stay. In fact, it's almost the profession now for many people. It is. It's the easy way out because we believe that the people are very gullible, right? So on the one hand, we're supposed to be very smart people who can see through funny stuff. But at the same time, we're also naive because we are very careless. I find that the average, and I hate to put a blanket, but what I find is that we're not meticulous. We're careless in our documentation. We don't finish processes. And then we want to resort to the culture of shouting, right? If a mistake has been made. So you're supposed to do a cancellation. You don't do it. When they go ahead and initiate action, you feel like it's easier. If I shout, I'm going to get results. So that's the same persona we carry into every single thing. And that can get us into trouble more times than not. Con artists, right? I like the fact that said, if you can actually transfer this ingenuity and creativity, imagine the... I actually personally believe that they should be hired for financial services, right? And cyber security. And that's what a lot of organizations... Well, in the Western world, if you're very good in those kind of things, if you can crack a system, you should be hired. Because you know you can build in case studies and scenarios. Exactly. If you're able to crack a firewall of an organization, they should hire you to run their cyber security end because you can see all the different scenarios and things that can go wrong. But instead, we always criminalize things instead of creating opportunities where we can turn mischievous behavior into talent. Absolutely. A coach that just comes to mind, one of my favorite quotes is, the devil is in the detail, right? And it goes both ways in this case. So like I said, the con artist has an ulterior motive and he spends weeks on end and wants just studying you to be sure to find the loophole, right? But you as a person... I mean, he's concerned about the details. But you on the other side are not very concerned about the details. And more often than not, we just lack the discipline that is required. That's the word. Discipline. And I know Comfort said this is basically greed that is not targeted towards greed. But in a lot of times, there's also a greed element. I always say when I hear people have been con, that nothing can cheat a man when he's on the street. Somebody comes in here and says, I'll give you $1,000 if you give me $100 each. Or I'll give you $10,000 if you give me $500.  Then your greed takes over, more or less, and says, let me do the $1,000. At that point, this is a greed issue. And again, it goes back to discipline. So it's important that we're very disciplined about our systems, our processes. As a business person, it's very important that you have processes and systems in place that help you actually find those loopholes that you can get combined. Sorry. To clear that, the $1,000 offer came after they had collected the $48,000. So it wasn't put on the table before. And that's why the major thing for me is the, they say you don't disbelieve a person because you don't have doubts, but because you don't have enough doubts about the person. And so what was taking advantage of was the fact that they do that for their incoming clients. They've done it several times. I know that a lot of them, yes, they might know them, but you have one or two on the off chance. And so that's where we are careless. The trusting, because we are raised to be trusting. Because they're not giving you any reason to doubt. Exactly. Because we are raised to be trusting and so we differ immediately to that truth that, I mean, I'm not a cheat. So this person who is on the other side is most likely not a cheat. And that's the loophole. That's the psychology that is used. So they use that in route, playing on our psychology. But that's why we now need to be as smart. That's the advocacy here. We need to spend as much time owning our gut instinct. We come with that naturally. And I think which is said, once you have that doubt, just go with it. Don't do it. Just instinct. Walk with it. All right, Comfort. What next? After the break, Titi Lauper talks us through child maintenance.


Hello everybody, it's Dave Vellante back live VMworld 2011, and we are in day two in Vegas. I'm here with Stu Miniman. Stu, welcome. Dave? Now, as we've told you, we have these in-depth spotlights that we're doing this year at VMworld. Many of them are sponsored segments, not all of them. We have a spotlight, it's an in-depth segment on beyond storage virtualization. It's sponsored by HP, and we're going to go in-depth and look at storage virtualization, the impact that's had on the market, and what's next. And then we're going to bring in some customers. We've got an architect, CTO, we've got an independent panel, and we're going to look at this topic. I'm going to talk a little bit about federated storage, Stu, but what I'd like to do is just take you through some of the data that we've captured in the Wikibon community. First of all, around storage virtualization, and then set up a vision beyond that. You've been following this market a lot of networking activity, but you've seen what's happened in storage virtualization. Right, Dave. I mean, I think back on the trend, server virtualization really helped get greater utilization out of our resources, and it also broke a lot of the traditional infrastructure, like networking and storage. So we've seen a lot of the big vendors and a lot of startups trying to fix that solution, get greater utilization out of what they're doing, and fix, in this case, the storage problem. And what surprised me over the years was the degree to which servers were getting virtualized, but storage wasn't. So what I'd like to share with the audience, and we'll bring this up on a slide here, you know, let's talk about storage 101. And that's the utilization problem, and what we mean by that is traditionally spinning disks, some people call it spinning rust, have only been utilized at 20 to 40 percent. Now, Stu, we know why. There's a lot of reasons why, but the three big ones are that storage has to be allocated on contiguous space. You know, 30, 40-year-old sort of rule in storage. That's just the way, you know, it works architecturally. And so once you allocate that space, very hard to move. And because of that, what do people do? They over-provision, but you've seen that. So I mean, what kind of rates have you seen in terms of utilization over the years? It's awful, because depending on how the configuration, a lot of time for performance, we're short-stroking disks, so we've got a lot more capacity than we need, or, you know, I have to add frames because I don't have enough cache. So architecturally, things have been broken, and virtualizations only improved, only made that worse. So the analogy I use of this whole notion of needing to lay down contiguous data is, like, imagine if you're laying a wood floor. You ever do that in your home? No, I had a contractor for that with the whole separation. I've done it before, and I'm not that great at it, but one of the things that is key is you have a saw, and you can just fit whatever size board you need. If you have that much space left, you just cut that space and lay it in. Well, if you're laying a wood floor and you don't know, you don't have a saw, and you don't know what size is coming in, your floor is going to be filled up fast with a lot of empty space, and you're going to be in big trouble. That's what happens with disks. Imagine having to rip out the floor, reconfigure it. It's not worth it. So you just buy more disks, and so that's created this problem. So now what I also want to share with the audience, and we'll bring this up on the next slide, is that, as you pointed out, Stu, VMware and cloud adoption are really driving new storage requirements. It's taxed storage, and customers are screaming for simpler storage. So you saw in the early 2000s, you had a number of disruptors. You had three-part, compelling, equal logic, left-hand, and they really started attacking this problem. It was amazing innovation. You, at the time, were inside of EMC, right? EMC was asleep at the wheel with all this stuff. You had Joe Chuchigolo feature companies. Well, these feature companies have now been absorbed by these big wheels. We've seen that the big companies either try to be a fast follower or acquire that technology and bake it into their product, or in some cases still, they have external appliances and multiple product lines. And of course, EMC is sometimes attacked as to having too many point solutions and have to cobble it all together. Well, so what's happened is that we've seen these virtualized architectures were created. A ton of money went in, as I say, the most compelling and three-part, most recently, had huge exits. And you see that business growing very, very fast. HP announced at its last earnings, and we had Dave Scott on here before he said that the combination of store once and three-part was triple-digit growth. Now, store once is tiny. I say tiny, it's probably, I don't know, 10% of the market. Three-part is relatively tiny, but they're now both growing very fast. So three-part, let's say, was a $200 million company. Let's say they're growing at triple digits, talking about a four or 500 million run rate, getting to a billion a lot faster than they would have. I would expect the same thing is going to happen with Compalent at Dell, in fact, I have no doubt with that channel. So what it's doing is it's eating share away of that $20 billion external disk array marketplace. Now, this next slide, it's a little bit difficult for people to read, but the reason I put it up there is we did a study, David Floyer ran this, and now still what he did is he took metadata from the three-part phone home system. No customer data, okay, it was just the metadata on the amount of data that was allocated versus written. So you could see what happened previously with existing architectures and how much more utilization they achieved with thin provisioning and virtualization. And this slide shows that 97% of the customers saw some improvement in virtualization, and 51% of the customers saw more than 150% utilization. So those figures are astounding. Yeah, absolutely. So people took notice and that really began to change the business and others have sort of hopped on that bandwagon. And the last thing I want to share with the audience on this slide is the business angle. So Stu, we've seen since 2008, the installed capacity has been up about 3x within customer sites. And VMware's driving a lot of that. Virtualization, we know, is just the driver, it's the rising water that's lifting all boats. What's happened to headcount in that time? Yeah, of course, operational budgets are flat to negative, and we know we need to be able to manage a lot more storage with fewer headcounts. So is that imperative? We've got to do more with less. Everybody talks about it. Everybody hears it. And then you've seen strategic acquisitions by HP with left-hand and three-par, by IBM with XIV, by Dell with Equalogic, and now Compalent. And these companies are going hard after that opportunity. And so now, what about the title of this segment is beyond storage virtualization? Because we've kind of been there and done that, you know? Yeah. And that's been absorbed into a lot of different, you know, large environments. So what's new? What we're seeing now, and Dave Scott talked about this, is new forms of innovation hitting the market. Federated storage, right? We saw EMC V-Plex come out, which is a virtualization layer, allows for heterogeneous storage and movement. Yeah, so I mean, the interesting thing about federation is actually, I think the first time I ever heard the term was before I joined Wikibon, you had written a definition of federated storage. Well, and I have a subset of that here. Yeah, and what I found really interesting is I'd spent many years working on replication products. And federation kind of eats into some of that because the challenge that we had in the industry, we talk about low utilization rate, is when I'm replicating data, I've got one site that's active and the other site's that are not active, unactive, and there I have a lot of disk that just sits there unused. So for a lot of environments, what I want to have is especially in relatively close areas, I have two data centers, I want to use all of that capacity. So what we're talking about here is autonomous physical resources that are operated as a collection, managed as a collection, it simplifies migration, in which it's a big thing. This notion of perpetual migration without having to take the system down. I mean, so... And so we have to wrap, but so the use cases, you kind of see them up here.  Yeah, so just what I was going to say, if you look back, virtualizing storage isn't new. Rate itself was virtualizing a single array and multiple disk out there. Storage virtualization really takes that beyond the box and now stepping that over geography and eventually we're just stretching that over disk. So we're going to talk about that, we're going to talk to customers, we're going to talk to architects, have a good discussion around storage virtualization and federation, how people are doing that differently, what the use cases are, and we're going in depth. And I'd love to see the proof points out there. This is no longer a science project, this is the reality of what we're doing out here. Okay, so this is the storage spotlight on beyond virtualization. We're here, VMworld Live 2011. This is Dave Vellante with Stu Miniman and we'll be right back.


or data and evidence shows that there are five important drivers of displacement to disasters. Those five is climate and climate change. There is lack of governance. It's uneven development. It's development of cities in unplanned development of cities and development in hazard prone areas. Those five four are directly related to policies that you can change now. Poverty you can address. Lack of governance you can address. If you address those policies immediately, you will be able to reduce the risk for displacement by climate and climate change and disasters and disaster events. Both weather related disasters, but also your physical disasters. So as I was saying in my speech, it's not possible to say that climate change alone is the only driver of displacement. It's a multiple set of drivers. It's a tight connection of drivers. But we can address some of those drivers and some of those drivers are important because some of the drivers changes the quality of people also when they are not displaced. Lack of governance affects the lives of people also when they are not displaced. And even development changes the life of policy and provokes conflicts, provokes tensions also when there is no displacement. So when we address the common drivers for displacement by disasters, we will also reduce the risk of displacement and we will reduce the vulnerability of people. And that ultimately can improve the protection of those who are affected by climate and climate change. Climate, climate change, disaster, disaster displacement is a very complex thing or data shows that more and more people are increasingly affected by displacement and they are in huge risk of displacement in the future. How did you change this? You cannot change it by one actor or one government. You need to change that cooperating both with information, with analysis, with action and defining policies and funding policies for between, it requires an action, a cooperation between national governments, international actors, international banks, NGOs, IGOs, civil society. This is too complex for one person or one entity to change. The challenges that we have now requires that everyone do the best to reduce the risk for displacement. There is a debate about that migration can also be an adaptation to what is going on to climate change. In clinical terms, it's an adaptation to the reality which is affecting people. But the consequences is not an adaptation. It's the end of something. It's the end of the life they had before. It's a devastating situation for many small communities and small nations where they are physically and perhaps forever losing their land. It's not an adaptation. There is no voluntariness in that term, in that situation this is affecting them. There is a coercive factor and the coercion is by climate change. They have a gun in the neck and they need to move. Of course the solution for them at a certain point will be to adapt, to change, to move. It needs to be voluntarily and it needs to be also fully protecting the human rights and it needs to be in dialogue with them, with those communities. Where do you want to go? What will you do? When will you go to go? Will everyone go? All those questions and all those answers, they need to be responded in fully compliance with human rights and need to be in dialogue with these communities. What is already happening to them is devastating. We should not make decisions on behalf of these nations. The human rights system as we know it today was created after the Second World War, after a major crisis that happened to hundreds and hundreds of millions of people. The world said we need something different. We need to acknowledge that human beings have rights and the national governments are responsible for those rights. Now everyone, East and West, North and South, we are now in front of a new crisis. It's a new stress. We need to check. Do we have sufficiently strong human rights tools as we have them now, as they were envisioned after the Second World War? Or do we need to adapt, improve those tools in order to protect people to hazards that we have yet not seen how powerful they can be? The Refugee Convention only in 1951 was created to protect the refugees of the worst in Europe. Then in 1966, 1967, the international community said okay. There are more people than those who were affected in Europe who need protection. So then it was adapted. Protocols were made. We are facing the same challenges for international protection of human rights. We need to check in. Do we have sufficiently strong tools? Are all those political measures that we are now doing with the climate negotiations are also those taking into consideration the need to protect human rights? I don't know the answer, but I know that we need to check. And everyone needs to do that assessment. How do we better protect the human rights of people affected by climate and climate change?


Hello and welcome to another LPM unboxing. I'm Sergio Angelos. I'm here today with Tim Goldsrud. This is my first unboxing. I don't know. It's a lot of fun. And this is going to be a lot of fun. Yes. So tell us Tim. It's definitely looking forward to this. Tell us Tim. What do we have here? What are we going to unbox today? So this is an Allen and Heath SQ5 digital mixing console. So it's an audio mixer and it's going to be the new front of house console here in the big TV studio. Also, previously we've had another digital mixer in here, a Soundcraft UI24, which has had probably by the what, a year and a half of faithful service in here now. This worked well. It has worked well. This, though, is going to have some significant improvements over the UI24 and that it, for one thing, it's an actual physical console that has physical faders on it. Okay, nice. Whereas the UI24 only worked with an iPad, which is great because you can manipulate it from anywhere in the room. But sometimes, you know, Wi-Fi connections aren't the greatest. Sure. You want some levers. Sometimes it's nice to have a fader. You can put your hand on it actually. It's physical. Right. Cool. And also, this console will also still have the ability to be controlled from iPad. So they will lose that from it. Okay. Great. This console also, well, let's, let's unbox it. Let's unbox it first and we'll talk more about this. Do you want to cut the top and we'll get to it? See what the sucker looks like. Nice. With my Swiss Army knife here. Okay. Carefully. All right. Oh, I see it looks like it's nice. Here, maybe we should set it down so we can look it out. It's not too heavy. So what do we have first here? What is this? It's a light. Oh, it's a box. It's just a, it's just a, it's just a cardboard. Maybe? No, yeah. We'll recycle that one. We will. We will recycle this. Okay. Let's turn it around like this. Oh, wow. Wrapped in plastic. Very nicely wrapped. Wow. Looks like we'll need to register it with Alan and Heath. Yeah. Wow. That looks beautiful. As I mentioned, you know, physical faders and these faders are also motorized. So motorized meaning what? Meaning that one of the things we'll be able to do with this console is set up scenes for certain shows. Okay. And then as you flip between different scenes, the faders will are motorized so they'll move themselves to those preset positions. Gotcha. Very cool. Yeah. The other, the other thing that this console allows is that while there are these 16 physical faders plus a 17th for the master fader, there are these buttons down here which select different layers. Okay. So even though there's only 16 physical faders, there's actually, I forget the total number of actual inputs you have available, but it's something like 64, I think. Whoa. So as you flip between these different layers, then you can access the different inputs that are actually available on the console. So layer A would be 16, layer B would be another 16. Would be like maybe 17 to 32 for example. Gotcha. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. So then as you flip between the layers, you would see the faders will go ch, nice. Pretty cool. Yeah, that is cool. This, one of the other upgrades of this console compared to the Soundcraft is that it operates at 96K, 96 kilohertz in terms of sample rates. So it's a, whereas the old one operated at, operates at 48 kilohertz. So this is operating at a higher audio resolution. Okay. For all the internal signal processing and routing that it does. We can also record directly from the console that has a USB port here. And so by connecting a USB drive, we can do multi-track recordings directly from the console, which is, I think, logistically will be a big advantage. Yeah. Because then you can record something here and then just take that hard drive right on down to the studio downstairs and start mixing it. Cool. Nice. So this console is oriented towards live sound. Okay. Whereas the equipment we have in the studio downstairs is a little bit more oriented towards recording, as you know. Yeah. We flip around the back. This is where, if I come around this side, I can show you. So this top row, you'll see that there are 16 XLR inputs. So this is where we can connect either microphone level inputs or line level inputs, analog inputs, I should say. And then there are 12, so this row down here are the analog outputs. So 11 and 12 are set up by default as the main left-right output. So what we'll do for the setup in here is we'll connect those to our main PA speakers in here. So that will control the main stereo mix for what we hear in the space. But then we have the flexibility to set up an additional 10 mixes, which could be used in various ways. Okay. So I think one of the ways we'll probably use it in here is by sending a mix of the cameras, like these cameras we're using right now to record this. Since each of these outputs can have a totally independent mix, you set a mix for what you hear in the room and then maybe out of outputs 1 and 2 is what goes to the cameras, for example. And then so you can select mix 1 and 2 here and say you have one mix for the house, the sound, the house sound, and then you go to mix 1 and do a totally separate mix for what's going to the cameras, which is generally what you want to be able to do because what you hear in the room isn't necessarily what you want to send to the recording. Sure. Yeah, very cool. The other thing we can do with these multiple outputs is if it's a situation with maybe a band playing in here and we have some monitors set up so the band members can hear themselves, then another common use for this is to create separate mixes for each of those floor wedges. Okay, yeah. Another thing that this console is often used for and kind of out there in the larger audio world is running mixes for in-ear monitors. A lot of musicians use instead of floor wedges or in-ear monitors. Okay. That requires having lots of different outputs because each member of the band, generally speaking, wants to hear something a little different. Like the singer might need to hear a little more themselves. The drummer might need to hear a little bit more of the bass player. So you can customize all of that here. So you can customize all of that. Awesome. Which I think will be another big advantage. Yeah. It's going to greatly improve our capability for not only doing live sound but recording. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Then if you're doing a recording session up here, for example, another thing you need to be able to do if you're recording a whole band at once, each of those band members needs to hear what the other people are doing. Right. Yeah. Also just like a live performance. Sure. And in that situation, they're often wearing headphones. Okay. So with this, we could create customized even stereo mixes for each person. Wow. So, you know, we have 10 outputs here in addition to the main two. So you could have, if you can think of these as stereo pairs, sure. You'd have five stereo mixes, you know, so you could do a band of five people and use this to just do the monitor mixing. Sure. But really send the recording signals to the studio downstairs where you're actually recording downstairs. Gotcha. Okay. So. Nice. Looks like we also have like this S-link network. Yep. And then USB 2.0, which I'm assuming you could pull this into a computer and recognize. Right. It will work as a computer interface. Cool. So, yeah, we could set up a laptop here and you could record right to a computer instead of just the USB drive, which is another option. And this S-link port is actually pretty cool. One of the other, because now that we're kind of in this Allen and Heath ecosystem, there are a bunch of other kind of ancillary boxes that can work with this. And S-link is their sort of proprietary format. And what allow is a future upgrade is to get a stage box. Okay.  And that's where you physically connect all the microphones and also the outputs to kind of like the one we have over there. Kind of like that one, because that one's all analog. And so what this allows is that whole stage box to be connected over a single cap five cable. Wow. So it's all communicated digitally. Sure. To the console. Wow. Because this, I'm not 100% of the total number, but I think it's 64 input channels that it has.  Wow. For additional input channels. So there's quite a lot of flexibility and capability here that I think we can grow into. Very cool. Is there anything else you want to say before we wrap up this unboxing? Anything special or why we decided to choose SQ5 over some other ones? Well, let's see. That's a good question. For me, I think as a live sound engineer, I really like Allen and Heath consoles because the workflow is very fast. I'm very efficient. I'm going to turn this around again. There are these, there's a there are a lot of really key functions you can get to quickly. Okay. These single knobs, first one being preamp gain, which is the first thing you need to do to make sure you have the right signal level coming into the console. And so in this case, you know, you can just select the channel you're working on and then you have one knob that you can work with. So it makes setup very quick and efficient. And I think the ergonomics of this console are very, very well thought out and it's really designed for a situation where you have to be pretty quick. Like we often do for sound post sessions, you know, when we're, you know, we usually have a very limited amount of time to do soundcheck. And so you have to be able to get things set up and, you know, solve issues quickly. And so this is going to be a really game changer, I think. Awesome. For being able to do that. Great. Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm looking forward to learning how to use this and seeing it in action here in the studio. Yeah, absolutely. Anything else you want to say about this questions you have? No, I'm just excited. You've got to peel something. We've got to register it. No, I mean, it looks really nice. It feels, I mean, sturdy. And it looks like it's got a really good build quality. Yeah, I mean, obviously, as you said, an upgrade from what we have or what we've been using. No, yeah, I'm super excited to see this bad boy in action. There it is. Now it's fully unwrapped. Now it's fully unwrapped. There we go. Cool. All right. Well, thanks, Tim. Thanks for unboxing this SQ5. And thanks for watching. Yes. See you all later. See you next time.


Section 101 of English and Cantonese Dictionary. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. English and Cantonese Dictionary by John Chambers, revised and enlarged by Thomas Kirkman-Devy. Section 101 Worse 更不好 or 更不好 or 重弊 or 惡過 or 惡過 that it's even worse 果果更不好 that it's even worse Daily becoming worse 日重一日 Make things worse 割肉補充 Worship 崇拜 or 拜 or 品臣 or 行鄉 to offer in worship 上功 or 公然 Bright worship of her husband's ancestors 苗見 Go to worship 上妙 Worship Worship 上妙 Worship on the second and the sixteenth days of each moon. 造雅 To worship idols 拜偶將 To worship the lorries 祭奧 Official worship at the temples 拜妙 Worship heaven and earth at marriage 拜天 day Worship the inferior spirits 拜 sun Worship at the tombs 拜 sun or 拜 toy or 拜 fun To go to worship at the tombs 答腾 Worship at and repair the tombs 拜 soul Worship at and repair the tombs 拜 soul Worship of hill tombs is not right 拜山分不窒 The worship of idols is sinful 拜仆殺咒有罪 There is no need to worship your father and mother after they are dead 父母死後唔使拜佢 Worship the tablets on the third day of the moon. Worship the tablets on the third day of the moon. Worship the tablets on the third day of the moon. Worship the tablets on the third day after a death. 宋三 Worship as a major. 拜斗 or 朝斗 Go in procession to worship. 尊香 Your worship Title of honor given to certain magistrates. 唐庸 or 太耶 Worshipful 尊 Worshipful master 尊師 or 老耶 or 尊掌 or 尊兄 Worship her 拜者 or 崇拜者 or 鄉下 Worshp 自我 Worshp 自我 Worshp 果個字唔好嘅 Worshp Worshp 再極難 Worshp Worshp 難至極 Worshp 受最多害 Worshp 由你如何 Worshp 由你如何 To get or have the worst of it 拜 Worsted 容先 Worsted stockings 容物 讓無物 Worth 直 抵 抵當 抵直 抵得 Meaning virtue Worth it 真係抵嘅 Not worth a copper cash Not worth a father 唔抵錢 Or 唔直一個錢 Not worth a rotten orange 唔直個難吉 Not worth anything 1177 1177 1177 Is this worth it or not? 直唔直 Not worth bringing forward 不中台舉 Worth hearing 滾滾可聽 An expression used of anything worth hearing 聽出已有 An act worth recording 一場錄視 Not worth his food 食塞米 Not worth mentioning 悲不足道 What is that man worth? 嗰個人有幾多家財呢?  傷食恨慢 Would that he would come and eat 將其來食 Wound 傷 Wound Wound Wound 傷 Wound 傷親 或葛選 或人傷 或打傷 Wound Mortal wound 重傷 Wounded three times 受傷傷 Lips of a wound 傷口 Wound 傷口 Wounded affections 傷懷 Statements of the wrong which started like wounds in the flesh 復仇之 so Horribly wounded 傷得慘 Riggle 亂捐 或 鳥咯 Riggle as a worm 秒秒下 A wriggling reptile 軟線 To wriggle through 捐過去 To wriggle out 閃脫 Wriggling 銳低頭 或 鳥鳥 Wriggler 鳥諾者 Ring Ring dry 扭乾 Ring out 扭出 或 撚 或 撚出 Ring a napkin dry 撚乾手筋 Ring his neck 撚住他頸 To ring off 扭脫 To ring the hands 挪手 To ring from 壁粒 或 粒紗 或 粒紗 Wrinkle 皺紋 To wrinkle 皺埋 Wrinkle as the skin of an old woman 保持阿婆皮公潮 Wrinkled back Sign of longevity 台背 A wrinkled face 面皮皺 Wrinkles on the face 面皺紋 Wrist 手腕 Or 手眼骨 To hold by the wrist 握腕 To hold by the wrist 握腕 The pulse in the wrist 脈门 The pulse of the right wrist 位脈 Wristlet 腕爛 A gold wristlet 甘牙 Writ 索写者 Or peel Holy writ 盛京 To serve a writ 全票 To issue a writ 出票 Write 寫 寫字 Or 寫字 Write down 寫落 Write an essay etc. 作 Literally, wheel the brush 輝河 Or 落筆 To write a monogram 握花鴨 Write new year inscriptions Literally, to flourish the spring pencil These two characters are seen commonly towards Chinese New Year above the stores of roadside writers 輝春 Write back 覆書 Graven on the bones and written on the heart 刻光明桑 Write out the names 開名 Written documents 書開 Written agreement 開約 Write between the lines 家啦寫 Write from memory 墨寫 Writing by the sound only 寫白字 Write it in a book 筆記於書 Write a strict and even hand 寫字斷街 Write full hand 寫盡滾白 Write a strict and even hand 寫字斷街 Write full hand 寫盡滾版 Write brief forms that is short hand 撿筆寫 Or 撒書 Write a good hand 寫得好 To write over again 再寫 Write fluently 順筆寫 Write a petition 書品 Write with one's own pen 親筆寫 Write a preface 作一篇罪 Write out prescriptions 開約方 Respect written paper 競識自止 Writer 寫字人 Feeds to a writer 筆記 Or 潤筆 Official writer 筆貼式 Or 筆證 He's a mere writer Literally a pen-clutcher That is Quill Driver 佢係紮筆嘅 Writing 文字 Short hand writing 草書 Model That is modern style of writing 街書 Official hand writing 帝書 Leave a space in writing 公開寫 Memorized writing 墨書 Letter writing 寫索 Authoritative writing 帝筆 Labeled hand writing 公筆 Free hand writing 以筆 My own hand writing 親筆 Writing utensils Literally the four precious things Ink, paper Pen and ink stone 寫寶 Essay writing 文章 Get a living by writing 現間 Rabbit writings 刁筆 Rive 抽抽 Wrong 錯 Or 唔著 Or 差錯 Or wrong 錯晒 To wrong 損害 Very wrong 大差得差 Wait or wrong 清差晒 Then all together wrong 做壞鬼頭 To be in the wrong 理片 Don't give it to the wrong man 米弄錯比人 Oh wrong 唔著 Not one character was wrong 隻字無我 Bendy about right and wrong 搬是非 Avenged the wrong 洗冤 Partly wrong 有不事 Reckoned wrong 掃錯 Do wrong and cause evil 為非作歹 There is something wrong 有啲唔妥 Wrong must be amended 錯過必改 A wrong step is difficult to amend 錯腳難翻 Does not confess the wrong 不應錯 Completely wrong 錯晒 Agree with wrong 冤枉 Or 冤枉 The spirit of the wrong Finds no rest Until avenged 冤枉不識 Agree with wrong 冤枉不識 Agrivious wrong Not yet cleared up 不白之冤 Agrave wrong Remaining hushed up 復盆之冤 To put up silently With agrivious wrong 行冤 Tell him it is wrong to do so 話佢唔好做咁樣 Counted wrong That is mistaken Agrivious wrong That is mistaken 計唔真 One wrong move Loses the game 下錯一步 門盤輸 He who has never done wrong Is not alarmed If weakened at midnight By knocking at the store That is an honest man Fears not 平生不作輝 過虧心事 不惹驚 You must not rub him the wrong way Literally A cat wants rubbing with the hair 你應該貓毛要順點 Or 你應該貓毛要順裂 Wrongfully 錯 To kill wrongfully What's up Or 鬥獸 Section 101 Section 102 Of English and Cantonese dictionary This is a Librebox recording All Librebox recordings Are in the public domain For more information Or to volunteer Please visit Librebox.org English and Cantonese dictionary By John Chambers Revised and enlarged by Thomas Kirkman-Dilly Section 102 Wrongly 錯 Or 差 He blames you wrongly 佢反怪你 Guest wrongly 目唔中 Or 差唔中 With the tones wrongly 咬錯字陰 Don't do it wrongly 米做錯 Accused wrongly 賴錯 Wroth 憤怒 Right Why Or 米 Or 扯 To make a right face at 扯米面 A right mouth 米嘴 Or 嘲嘅嘴 A right neck 米頭 Wiven 非舍 無中 無從 Letter X X and Y Algebraic symbols 天圓 Or 天地 Santheum Somerium 蒼耳 Santhocitum Alatum That is red pepper 唇膠 Or 花膠 Or 春膠 Or 熟膠 Or 假胡椒 Letter Y Yot 快舟 Yek 泥牛 Or 無西 Yem The common Yem 大樹 Or 大樹 Or 泥凍樹 Or 泥凍樹 The Chinese Yem 山藥 Yama Yimluo Yaman 亞門 Yaman A lock up in a Yaman 班館 I live near the Yaman 遇暑前 The Yaman of Foreign Affairs 總理各國事務衙門 Yang Ziqian Yang Ziqian Or 長江 Or 大江 That is the river of the province of Yang Yang Ziqian Yang Ziqian Yang Ziqian Yang Ziqian The river of the province of Yang Or Yang Ziqian Yang Qi 美國人 Yat Yat of a ship Kong Meshe Yat Ma Chek Manua Yat Fun Dei An open God Yat Tian Zheng Tian gai Prison Yat Ganfeng Ji Wei A timber Yat Mok Liao Zhan Or Mok Liao Chong Yat Stick Liang Bu Ma Guan Yang Sa Or Xin Cotton Yant Mian Sa Linan Yang Ma Sa There is a good market for cotton and yarn 花沙好市 The regular gossip likes to spin yarns 專好行談者 終以自作是講 Yon Da Ham Lu Or Da Ho Or Ho Him To stretch and yarn Sun Nan Yuer Lin Or Sui Years That is age Lian Ci A year of death Fang Lin Or Heap Sui A good year Sui Lam Or Lam Lin A disastrous year Sui Ngok A year without the Lachun term in it Mang Lian Nearly 60 years old Mung Lu Or Fa Gap Nearly a year Tai Chi Yat Zai Kicks left over from last year That is old stock And old quarrel Gap Lian Zhin Du To wind up the year with festivities Tuan Lian A plentiful year Fang Lian Literally nine years on one stock Yat Huo Gau Sui A bad year Fang Lian Or Mung Ho Si Lian A fruitful year Hong Ling A sidereal year Heng Sheng Lian The tropical year Tai Yang Lian The first year of the year cycle Yin Fong Around year of 366 days Ge Yut A year's morning Ge Ji Song Or Ge Fu The last month of the year Ge Yut For many years Lv Lian Late in the year Man Sui Happy in the later years of life Heng Man Fu Advanced in years Man Lian Or Lian Zhong Ten thousand years That is forever Man Lian He who lives ten thousand years That is the emperor Man Sui Ye This year Gam Lian Or Yin Lian Or Wun Lian Last year Hoi Lian Or Gau Lian Or Tao Lian Next year Loi Lian Or Ming Lian Or Chu Lian Year by year Lian Lian Beginning of the year Lian Tao End of the year Lian Dai Or Lian Mei All through the year Chuang Lian To perform the new year rites That is celebrate the new year Guo Lian Or Zhou Lian New year congratulations Bai Lian Cyclic characters for the year Month Day And hour of one's birth Lin Gang Ba Ji The years of youth Lin Heng Xin Graduates of the same year Lin Dai Close to the end of the year Mai Lin The last day of the year Lin Sam Sok Man Or Lian Lian Or Tao Lian Or Tao Lian Or Tao Lian Lian Sam Sok Man New year Sun Lian Or Sun Chun Or Sun Hei I congratulate you on the new year's happiness That is I wish you a happy new year Gong He Sun Hei Jubilee year Hei Nian Good years Long Sui Years of famine Ji Sui The great year That is the imaginary planet By which the year is calculated Tai Sui New year's vigil Shou Sui A feast on new year's eve Fun Sui Or Bi Sui Or Chi Sui Presents given on new year's eve Gui Sui The year of the triennial examination Dai Lian The end of the year is close at hand Lian Man Zui Zik Handed down a thousand years Qian Zui Ha 60 years of age Lu Chom Many years ago Yun Lian It is leap year next year Ming Lian Si Yun Lian New year's day Zheng Sok Or Yun Dan Or Year of rain Yun Lian One year Yat Lian Half a year Boon Lian A year and a half Lian Boon Every other year Ka Yat Lian Young in years Nian Siu Striking in years Lian Mai Or Lu Mai Year Lian Nian Nian Or Mui Lian Labor under yearly contract Zhu Lian Or Zhu Lian Yun Tong Xiang East Gao Mo Bo Ben Or Zou Mo Or Zou Gao Or Gao Yeo Dai Ham Or Gio Ham A year of murder Fu Gou Ming Yellow Derived from Wang Di That is the Taoist priesthood Wang Guan The Yellow Gua That is the cucumber Wang Gua A small yellow squash Fan Gua A yellow gauge Or plum Lamua Li The yellow chrysanthemum Gamling Sparkling Sparkling yellow amber Laba Resonance yellow amber Ming Ba Pale yellow streaked amber Sui Ba Heavy yellow amber Xie Ba Amber with red and yellow streaks Fa Ba Rich yellow Piyu Xiang Yat Lian Yat Lian Yellow Piyu Xiang Bordered yellow banner Xiang Wang Qi The Bordered yellow Plain yellow And white banners Xiang Sam Qi Somewhat yellow Dai Huo Pale yellow Qian Huo Small yellow persimmons Niu Sim Chi The yellow hair And wistened face of old age Wang Gou The wearer of a yellow girdle That is an imperial Clansman Wang Dai Ji Decoration of the yellow Riding Jacket Wang Ma Gua Applicant yellow Hang Wang Light ivory yellow Ngao Wang Three yellow papers hung over the door For luck Wang Qin The yellow of an egg Dan Wang Yellow ochre Lewis Wang Tou Yellow arsenic Pai Wang Flaky opiment of yellow Socorrect of arsenic Chi Wang Yellow orange Yellow orange Yellow oxide of lead Wang Dan Yellow footed cock That is a hanger on Wang Ge Ge Yellow jasmine Ying Chun Fa Yellow as a guinea Literally face The color of earth Mian Yu Tau Sik Yellow literally Dragon tooth Plantain Plantain Long Ngao The yellow river Wang He The yellow carp Gim Li Yelmen Fan Fu Or Xu Men Or Tian Xie Yong Or Heng Si Or Fu Guan Yelmen of the gods Wei Si Or Wei Bing Yelmenary Tian Xie Yong Zhe Or Heng Si Or Di Zhu Zhong Or Yi Bing Qie Du Yes Hai Lo Or Si Yes Ah Ho Or Hai Lo Yes Or Hai Lo It will do Yes 做得 Have you any? Yes I have 你有冇 有囉 Yesterday 昨日 Or 昨日 Or 昨日 The day before yesterday 前日 And the day before that The day before that 帶前日 Yesterday That is last night 昨晚 He left yesterday 他昨日去 Yesterday night 昨晚 Yet 上 Or 中 Not yet 未曾 Not yet 沒有 Or 未曾 None yet 未有 Have you yet been there? 去到未 Don't go yet 傾來啲 And yet 卻也 And yet you come again 卻有來 And yet it is so 卻是 Or 卻係 Or 知知係 I have not yet asked your name 未請教你 The best is yet to come Literally, eating is came backwards 倒淡謝 腰 tree 肥樹 Or 水蟲 Yield Meaning submit 規復 Meaning bend What Meaning produce 產 Meaning concede 許盡 Yield up 養 餓 有耐 Or 順養 Or 順從 Yielding 欽養 Or 傷養 Yield up 退養 Yield fruit 結實 Fields yielding a poor crop 再填 Yield to good influences Yield to good influences 尋尋善有 Yield to one's desires 重心所欲 Yield to constrain 曲藏 Yield willingly 遠藏 Yield to circumstances 自屈 Yield up the ghost 斷氣 The hedgehog Yields himself disgracefully To the magpie to be eaten 餵肉與著 Yogurt Meaning abstract meditation 瑜家 The secret school of yoga That is mysticism 瑜家物教 肉 鴨 肉 of oxen 兑牛 To be under the yoke 餵肉 To be under the yoke 當老博 Or 當老 Or 為老 To be under the same yoke 銅牛 To put the yoke on one 家義鴨 Yoke fellow 銅鴨者 Or 銅牛 Yokeau 川夫 Or 田夫 Yoke mate 銅盤 Or 匹牛 Yoke 蛋王 Yonder 個書地方 Place it yonder 放在個書 Yore 古 Or 古時 Or 食 In the days of yore 古時 Or 食時 You 你 Proform 你地 Or 你等 User 國下 User did strenuously protect and assist me 國下人權招拔 For user to see 台南 Does you great credit 做得官免 Just like you 此足你 You and I That is both of us 我照你 All you gentlemen 你仲為 Or 你仲為 Or 你仲為 You are you And I am I 以為以 我為我 Thank you 有心 Your steps 欲報 You can do anything Literally You can hoop a boiler 你會哭和 May a lucky star Guide you the whole way 一路覆聲 Continue the luck and OH to you 添福添瘦 You ought to have more courage 俾翁光你做膽 俾翁光你做膽 They are not compare myself with you 唔敢晚陪你 唔敢晚陪你 Excuse my leaving you 歇陪 Thank you for buying the whole lot 照顧一切 Glad to see you 請啊請啊 resemble you 照你個樣 Let me hear from you 俾啲陰我 Do not recognize you as a friend 唔認你做朋友 See thee And accept the truth 唔認你做朋友 See thee See thee End of section 102 Section 103 of English and Cantonese Dictionary This is a LibriVox recording All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org English and Cantonese Dictionary by John Chambers revised and enlarged by Thomas Kirkman Dilly Section 103 young siew liin or siew luan or liin fu or liin heng or liin heng of animals zai a younger sister ah mui young and hell siew zong a young lady gu leo young cougumbus bak gua pickle made of young cougumbus zheng gua the youngest born lai zai young and pretty miew ling very young ling miew the young lady miew ling the young that is crescent moon omei yue teach the young qi mu o fun mu a young fox pei lii died young luan shang young in ears siew liin young and old young and old luo siew or luo liun the youngest son siew zi young gentlemen polite expression used when speaking to another office son siew ye a young scholar man thong respect the old and be kind to the young siew zi a young scholar and be kind to the young ging luo chi you both old and young are here luo siew gai zai young gentlemen ah guan mun or ah guan mun several young ladies qi wai liang lui the young fry yu miew or yu yang younger geng siew or geng yau younger sister mui or ah mui your younger brother leng dai my younger brother se dai or o zi dai my younger sister lü dai a younger brother's wife dai fu youngest ji yau the youngest of the three guai youngish lek siew or lek yau di youngster siew liin zi or liin yau zi or thong zi your ni ge or ni dai your sister liin mui or liin mui what is your name li gieu mud ming or gui seng le or gui seng le indebted for your great kindness liang lii long cheng your letter your letter siew si or do wan your answer lai si written with your hand su han your esteemed letter wua han your humble servant yu dai or siew dai said by an official bei jik your honor tai ga or zhun ga or dai lou ye your honors return weng gui or weng suan your honors going weng heo where is your honored post weng yim heo su weng yim heo su your honored style tai fu for your honors inspection tai zhao your good self chien gam gui thai your daughter chien gam or liin ai or liin ai or yuk nui or yuk nui your father liin zhun or zhun yong or dai chun or chun toh or chun ting your mother liin toh or liin chi your wife zhun nui your parents your parents chun huan your family bo guen your father-in-law tai san your mother-in-law tai sui your son liin lang your age gui geng or zhun geng or gui shou grateful for your liberal promises cheng mong gam lo your excellency chien thai or gui dai yun before your majesty yu wang chien your grace gong ye your worship dai ye your residence polite reference fu shang or gui fu or zhun fu what is the name of your shop lii bo hou ne what is office hai muc guan hai your pupil epistolary ha mzhang zi ha or hou ho or hok hai your handmaid chip san follow your example hok li gom zhou good your health gam an your precious words gam yuk zi yin your opinion guo gian please give me your instructions please give me your instructions please give me your instructions chien gian giao keep up your courage yang hyi sum gong by your leave zhe gong or thai pong keep your seat ni chow kindly keep your seat chien chow beg your pardon de chui ni yourself de chui ni yourself ni ji ji do it yourself ni ji ji ji zhou look out for yourself ni zhe mian cha have you seen it yourself kien chan hu chou youth time of youth lian heng shi a youth hou shang or yao tong or daiji a youth is to be regarded with respect hou shang ho wai a youth is to be despised or disliked hou shang ho wu still quite a youth mei sheng dang in youth xiu lian ji shi xiu lian ji shi xiu lian ji shi youthful tong lian or dang lian or miu lian or lian heng of youthful rigor tong sum mei li a youthful face tong an youthful sibodhiana wu tou yu luok wu tou yu luok seng dang yi zi luong ge dai mok yu tai ye shou seng dang yi zi zhuk zhi yun nan wun nan yun nan opium wun nan ba the linked provinces of yun nan and gui chao wun gui wun gui letter z zhen li xiu chou or xiu fa miin ziu yi li ji yi with ziu yi yi sum or fen li zilis fa fen or fen li or hapei or yui hei zilis li yi sum dik or fen sum dik zibra fu pan ma or pan ma or fa lei or tiao min ma zibra wood tiao min mok or pan mok zibu fong ou or pin or yin dou ou zedari ou lang jiang zhenif tian dang or tian sum or shang zhenif and nadir shang ha zhe ver shai fong or wo fong or mii fong mii fong zero ling or mau or hui zero on a steel yant ding puan seng zest ji mii both to give zest to your joint and to prolong your days chie yi hii lo chie yi weng yat ze hou or je hou the emperor's summer retreat yi ho zik zek ji ci or wan kuk or kuk zit this road is zik zek lei tiao lo hai zi ji yang zing pa yuen or wo zah oxide of zing pa yuen dan zing is not as heavy as lead pa yuen mii yau yuen ci zong ze ze ze zhu zhu ba zou ze ze ze zinesis seng seng dried drops of ze ze ze nam zou or zou pi zod yek wang dou or yat dou science of the chinese zod yek yi sap ba tsuk or chien dou the twelve signs of the zod yek sap yi suk seng zong dai dou the five zones wung dai the torrid zone yu dai the temperate zones wung dai the frigid zones huan dai zong zi yau dai geological seng mat dik geological gardens seng mat yuen or seng mat yuen geological office geological office po tai zoologist seng mat bok si or dung mat hok ga zoology dung mat hok or seng mat zong lung zuo fai zi zhik chong or se pha zuo tong mi got seng mat zi pha zai motik phat gao tik end of section 103 end of English and Cantonese dictionary by John Chambers revised and enlarged by Thomas Kirkman Lili


Hello and welcome to Under the Dome. My name is Bobby Lucier. We're here on the last day of the legislative session this year where legislators are considering a budget bill that does not include funding to continue the emergency housing program that was established during COVID that's currently supporting a little under 3,000 Vermonters and housing them in motels across the state. So we're going to be chatting with legislators today to talk about what the state could be doing to better support some of those families that are facing houselessness possibly this summer and what the state could do to support those families moving forward. So let's go talk with some lawmakers. Brenda, can you just tell us why you're here at the state house today? Sure. I'm here today because they are going to be voting on the budget. The legislature is going to be voting on the budget both the House and the Senate. Actually, they're going to be voting on the conference report, which is the compromise between the Senate and the House on the budget. And right now that conference report does not put the funding needed into emergency housing. There are 1800 households and 2800 individuals across the state who will be unsheltered on June 1st and July 1st and there is nowhere for them to go. Shelters are full. All of the other options are full and this is going to be placed in our communities, which is not good for communities or in individuals. This really is an abject failure of our legislature to make sure that we protect the absolute most vulnerable people in our state. Over the last few weeks, I have gone to 16 hotels and visited with about 1000 of the people in the hotels and motels. The people exited will include 500 to 600 children. It'll include people on oxygen tanks. It'll include people who are wearing defibrillators and need to be near a outlet. It'll include people who just had brain surgery. It'll include many single moms, people who have DCF involvement and a termination of parental rights will occur as a result of this. It will include many people in recovery and people with mental illness that are finally stabilized and those things are not possible to keep stable while on the street. So we are really putting a lot of people's lives at risk. I mentioned that it's a humanitarian crisis that we're dealing with. Why do you think that the legislature and the governor have not come around to funding the program? You know, I don't understand it. I'm going to be really honest and say when we're looking at 2800 individuals, 500 to 600 children being put on the street, I do not understand how you come to the conclusion that it's okay to unshelter people to the street. It is in my understanding of how we should operate as human beings from a moral perspective and also from an economic perspective.  So even from an economic perspective, I don't really understand it. I think one thing that does happen is that people in poverty are very easily swept under the rug. And so these are really the most vulnerable people among us. And so we're looking at a situation where it's easy to say to dismiss the humanity of the people who we are causing suffering. So this this is a humanitarian crisis and it is being caused by our legislature and the governor. So what are the options on the table for the legislature today to address the crisis that you're talking about? So there will be legislators that will vote no on the conference report, which is a really hard thing to do. And I want to really name that this is a really brave action. This is work that a lot of them have done, all of them have done throughout the legislative session that is important to them on a lot of other issues. But by voting no on the conference report, if it were to fail, then they'd have to go back and renegotiate that conference report. And therefore we'd have another opportunity to actually keep people inside. There's also a possibility for the two sides, the Senate and the House, to actually come together and say this is not going to work. It's not tenable. It's not politically tenable. It's not morally tenable. And so we have to fix it before we get there. I've seen that happen as well. I don't expect it to today. I expect us to walk out of here having made the decision to create a state sponsored unsheltering of nearly 3,000 people. And I think another point I really want to add is that Vermont has the second highest rate of homelessness in the country right now behind only California. And 80% of the people experiencing homelessness are utilizing the GA Motel program. So this state sponsored unsheltering is unsheltering 80% of the people in our state experiencing homelessness. You think you'll be done by the end of the day? I am crossing all my fingers and toes. However, I do want to say a big however, we need to do some good work. And so sometimes the thing I really hate about the end of the process here is we rush the work. I've equated it to being like a lab partner and showing up and doing all the hard work. And then someone shows up at the 11th hour, who's supposed to be 50% of the grade as well. And they didn't do very good work quality work. And I think that reflects on our policy sometimes. So, you know, one big example, which I'd like to switch to talking a little bit about is the GA emergency housing program and the struggle that many people have been in trying to really bring this forward in the budgeting process to name the fact that we have upwards to 2000 households about to be evicted by the state from the Motel program on either May 31st or July 1st. And it is it is a humanitarian crisis. It is it is a crisis that the legislature has a part in now because in the budget compromise that came out yesterday, there is a fraction of what is needed to actually support these Romaners. And as a representative from Burlington, just last night, I heard that there was a fire at a homeless encampment in part of my district. Just last summer, there were tons of people in Battery Park camping, which is an untenable situation. It's unsafe. It's not what we should be doing for our neighbors and community members. There's encampments all over the waterfront. I mean, just I'm a one member district and just in my district alone. And then if many people from Burlington will remember Sears Lane, it we're creating the same the same parameters that will repeat this and and blow that into a greater number of proportions of numbers of people just out on the streets. And the communities that are going to feel that impact are not prepared. Burlington, Winooski, Montpelier, Berry, these Rutland, these communities are not ready. And the small amount of money put into the budget is a drop in the bucket of what we need. So many of us are the shows like we had space and time to figure this out. We still have time and we need to there is no alternative. We need to call the governor to the table and come up with using our full process, which is calling us back for a special session if necessary to deal with this incredibly important issue. Otherwise, people's lives are on the line. And I'm sure you'll talk to more people about this as well. But I'll just speak for that house progressives were incredibly concerned also our Senate counterpart progressive because this will negatively impact people's lives. And you know, I fear about the outcomes of these these remonters in the coming weeks. House is or the legislature is considering a budget bill, which does not include funding to continue the emergency housing program that was starting during COVID. You're gonna just tell us a little bit about what you hope that the legislature would do or will do to support those families. Yeah, so when when the state shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic, we offered housing in hotels and motels for those who were unhoused in an effort to protect public health in order to quarantine people so people could be quarantined and be safe. And we essentially ended homelessness as we knew it at the time and we have had an opportunity to invest a massive amount of money and unprecedented amount of federal funds into housing, but we have not moved fast enough. And unfortunately, we've spent over $150 million on these hotels for the last two years without building enough housing for people in the hotels to move into on a permanent basis. And people are concerned about that ongoing expense. And so the general assistance program is being gutted in the current state budget without a plan in place to house people. And so as we end one public health emergency, we're about to create another one, because the mass eviction of 2,800 people to the streets is going to be a humanitarian crisis. And when the city of Burlington evicted the Sears Lane encampment, there were 30 to 40 people living there, but they had a safety net the state offered them hotels. In this case, we have enough people to fill 70 Sears lanes with no plan in place to keep people safe. And people are concerned about the cost of continuing the program, but they're not looking at the cost of the eviction that hospital room visits or over $1,000 a night, hospital stays, incarceration, all of these expenses will go up when we evict people from hotels because housing is a social determinant of health and it's a social determinant of crime. So we will see a wave of crime and illness spread through the community because of this mass eviction, not only impacting the individuals in the hotels and the families in the hotels, but the neighborhoods and the communities surrounding the hotels across the state. And what I would like to see us do is guarantee housing for the next year for the people in the hotels with an with a path forward to housing for all. So we buy as many of these motels as we can upfront. For example, one of the motels is for sale for 2.1 million with 77 rooms. That would that's going to cost us 4.1 million to rent. We save half the money just by buying that hotel and we have that moving forward as an emergency shelter. We can place people in mobile homes and mobile home parks where there's vacant lots with some of the money. And what we really need to do is identify public land near the hotels and rapidly develop it and build housing for three times as many people that are in the hotels. So we're not just rehousing people in the hotels, but we're building housing for people who want to move around Vermont or move to Vermont, because employers can't even find workers because there's no housing for people who want to move to Vermont. So I see what we can do is take the same amount of money we would have spent on hotels for a year and we can guarantee housing and rapidly, rapidly reinvest that money into permanent and temporary housing that includes supportive housing, transitional options. If there's a will, there's a way and we can do this instead of turning our backs on people and casting them into shadows and throwing away all the money we've spent so far guaranteeing housing. Also, what people fail to see is that it's not only housing, but other social determinants of health, like structural conflict, the stress that people experience when the system's geared against them, inclusion and belonging and discrimination and violence of the state. And because this is an act of state violence, we can't get around that. But also the increased violence people will experience from being unhoused and the increased violence in the community will see from the tension this creates that by investing in housing for all now, using this as a moment to turn the page in history, we can address multiple social determinants of health with the same cost. One of those things you mentioned in the budget bill, the budget does not include funding to continue the emergency housing program that is supporting almost 3,000 Vermonters at risk of losing their home in July. Can you talk about how the state government might support those folks or how the process could have unfolded differently to support those people? So again, I know the house had a very different sort of belief than the Senate did and I do not sit in on those meetings. I am a social worker by training. I have spent my entire career working in the non-profit sector, including working at programs that did transitional housing and a homeless shelter. So I know when people go into transitional housing, at the very day one, you're talking about this is temporary housing. Where are you going? I realized the Motel program didn't get set up because we as a society care about the homeless because this was federal money. It was about keeping people from spreading COVID, really. And we know that some people who are homeless don't necessarily want to be housed, but that is not the case of the people who are living in the Motel. So I have been on the phone today talking to the director of COTS, talking to some of the cap stone agencies and looking at could we, I mean, having that many people hit the streets in a two-month period is going to be extremely taxing on Vermont and I'm worried about that. The chair of Appropriations made a wonderful analogy today about how Vermont can come together. We did it with Irene. And so one of the questions I asked was, can we have a czar of smooth transition? I'm not saying we should keep people in motels permanently, but let's fan it out over four to six months so that we're not trying to find a good landing place for that many people. A lot of the people who are in motels are in recovery or struggling with recovery or struggling with other issues and it doesn't have to be a crisis. And so one of the things I'm trying to figure out again is how can we make things as smooth as possible? Can we designate someone in state government who's going to help pull things together? I was asking, does COTS need more money to keep the day station open longer hours? Can they be at full capacity? Do they have enough staff? What other things can we be doing? And I think all of us in the state house need to be advocating for people because I think a lot of my colleagues have not gotten to know anyone who was homeless and there are so many reasons why people are homeless and it's not about people trying to live off, you know, the government or, you know, I used to work with people who are on the welfare to work program and it's like they're on a gravy train. There's no gravy. It's not this people, we can't legislate to the lowest common denominator. These are our neighbors, our community members and any of us could end up in that situation and we need to show compassion and help people to land in a good spot and not just assume that, oh, they'll find a place. Maybe they were sleeping on their cousin's couch but like that's not, no one's gonna, that's not a long-term solution. There were 700 kids that we're talking about and we're, I moved here from big states a long time ago. We can, like, it's not that many people, we can figure out a way to help, you know, everybody land somewhere. I'm glad we're looking at permanent housing. I wish that the governor's office or the administration had negotiated a sensible rate with motels because having worked in the nonprofit sector, I know that like, COTS, I don't know if what the, this is a couple of years old now, but they hadn't gotten an increase in how much they were getting reimbursed in like 10 years to house somebody overnight and we're turning to the motels and saying name your price and we're gonna pay it while the nonprofit sector is struggling to, you know, pay the bills and give their staff increased wages and pay increased health care costs. So, so we, I think getting rid of the stigma that comes with being homeless, which again also goes back to people who struggle with addiction or any kind of mental health struggle are so important and sort of at the crux. It's easy for people to judge, but like we need to all show compassion and like walk. Let's, you know, think about what it's like for the people that are living in a motel room and now know they're, you know, where are they gonna go? Where's their stuff going?  Looks like the budget that's going to pass today does not extend the emergency housing program that has supported almost 3,000 folks through the pandemic being housed in motels around the state. How do you expect or hope that the state government will support those people as they potentially lose their housing in July? Yeah, that was a very sad and disturbing piece of news as we, as we went through these final weeks. Housing, if nothing else, is an upstream investment. If you can get folks housed, it saves you a lot of time, energy, resources, pain downstream. So I'm saddened that we weren't able to find or haven't found the money to house these folks until we have a solution. That said, I also have to listen to my colleagues who have said that a lot of the money that was going into this temporary program will be placed into wraparound services long-term housing solutions. But I wish instead of an and or it was an and and, you know, we're doing this and we're doing this other thing because I am very concerned and we received very compelling emails from a lot of folks who are in that program and I worry for their safety and their well-being.


I've posted a URL for the slides I was intending to publish. Then I remembered that, back in 2012... ...I discovered a bug in the wireless stack for free VSD. It turns out that I've completely forgotten about it... ...I'm still kind of bitten by it today. The URL is there, but I haven't managed to publish the slides yet. Excuse me. I don't know if you saw, I think it was yesterday, there was an IoT company that was making a juicer that announced that they were kind of closing up. There was a kind of a meme that started yesterday, but maybe it's to skewer a reference. I'm not really a hardware person, I like playing with hardware, but my background is open source software. I work with various open source projects from dealing with operating systems, from building the software or documenting it. I thought that it might be a good idea to run a workshop about this. This basically goes back, I realised actually back to Oshkamp 2012, all the way up to earlier this year. Oshkamp 2012 we actually had two talks, one from Melanie who was talking about dealing with ARM and building systems using Linux. I was kind of really outraged by the complications of the process, and I spent most of the day sitting over there trying to cross-compile my own free BSD image for Raspberry Pi, which I managed to do by the end of the day, and then the following day I ran a workshop on dealing with GPIO and how to get started. I've kind of completely long forgotten about this until last night when I looked at the slides, sorry not the slides, the website, and I realised that actually this thing did happen back then. Another event which had a kind of an impact on me was a chip hack back in 2013, which was just exposure to kind of closed tool chains which are forced on you and how brittle they can be and how you can just lose so much time trying to fight something that's put together quite badly. So back at Oshkamp number 46, Andrew asked me to give a presentation about the different operating systems in the BSD family and how they would be a benefit to someone. And I kind of did this all-encompassing talk about three or four different operating systems. And then Andrew asked me again to perhaps run a workshop, and for the workshop I've never done this before, and I thought it might be a bit much trying to cover three or four operating systems for a group of people and just focused on one being an FBSD. So the main reason that I thought I wasn't trying to kind of recruit new users but just to kind of plant seeds about what people could expect from an environment because a lot of projects are quite badly put together and especially in FBSD the tooling is quite nice that it could save you a lot of time. And because people are quite passionate about the project, the focus on technical correctness means that there's not that much, I mean there's bad code, but there's not kind of shortcuts everywhere and people pay attention to detail and that kind of feeds back in terms of respect for the user's time. So I was hoping to kind of demonstrate that to people. So in FBSD the ability to cross-compile is quite fundamental to the project. So you have these things not even for the operating system but you know like kind of bootloaders for Windows, you actually dynamically generate the visual studio configuration file using common Unix tools. And I didn't realise actually how bad things can be. So in this case like embedded visual studio you have this kind of GUI interface for setting up your software, you know where your dialogue boxes are going to go. Even the slightest movement of one of these dialogue boxes just renders your file completely corrupt and you have to kind of go back and start again. There's a gentleman by the name of Brett Victor who gave a talk called Inventing on Principle which was a few years old now but he talks about if you can reduce the feedback time between when you're experimenting with things, how that opens you up to kind of being able to explore new possibilities with these. So at the time this wasn't public but he was demonstrating a feature that's in Xcode as standard now which is dynamically as you're writing code the compiler in the background is experimenting with compiling your code so your mistakes are pointed out as you're actually introducing them rather than having this kind of long feedback time. And on the other extreme of it there's a talk from Usenix by Brian Cantrell which talks about before they had a detrace in Solaris where Sun had a very expensive computer by the name of the E-10000 and the average boot time for this machine was about 45 minutes and he was dealing with a customer where they misconfigured a system to be a router and they were doing SAP benchmarks and every so often it would stop processing the SAP benchmarks and start processing packets and then it would crash and then that was like 45 minutes again and so being able to kind of see that very quickly and flag it up is really beneficial for the operator. And so sometimes people don't find a solution and they kind of harbour or they suffer these environments people who fear restarting Windows because you're going to go through at least three reboot cycles and you're going to be down for about 30 to 45 minutes or you don't know what's going to be introduced when the system comes back up whether your machine is going to be actually operating still in the same way. And that kind of has other subtle issues as well where you're kind of fearful of being able to kind of test something out. A common issue is like in networking world where you're being sold in appliance and redundancy may not be an actual functionality that's available out of the box that's a licensed feature so which means once that thing is kind of live you're really fearful of making any changes and that's really sad because just because you put something out there doesn't mean that you got it right the first time for you to be in fear of making any further changes seems cruel. So I started thinking about for the workshop about what could I present my assumption is that you're all interested in hardware so how could I present this software project that would be appealing for someone who actually doesn't care about the software and just needs something to run on their hardware. And so this idea about saving time and the tooling that lets you kind of do things very quickly without having to do a whole bunch of reading up was on my mind. So some of the things that I decided to cover was the system is really well documented and the documentation is freely available and that's actually a part of the development project the development process for the project so you're not actually going around on a wild rampage trying to find a solution to the problem the implementation has the documentation with it. Cross compilation like I said is there out of the box and it's really easy single command and you're building your tool chain and you're building your operating system. In most of these cases there's a lot of expectation for knowledge about programming or system details but in the case of NetBSD there's a... the Lua language is embedded within the system so you have this kind of very high level interface 2D operating system so you can interact with it without having to know say C or C++. And then in an embed environment you usually have a slow board or you don't have much memory and your development time is quite slow so you can move away from that and actually develop on a desktop where you can build quickly and then make changes to production afterwards with a frump. Obviously security is a hot issue so a bit of tamper resistance with a subsystem that's built in so if there's any problems with a binary the system won't execute it for you which means that if you're writing badly written code which the system gets compromised you only get one shot at it once the binary changes the system won't run it for you. So in theory yes all of this stuff is there out of the box but the reality of it is is when you actually sit down with a group of people and try to work through your steps you actually realise the problems that are actually there that you assumed it was all perfect, right? On the previous slide. So in our case lots of the software relies on Otoconf. In this case if you take a modern operating system like Windows 10 Otoconf some of the stuff doesn't know about Windows 10 or even that there's a 64 bit version of Windows so that kind of blows up. It turned out that the images that we have for the things like the Beaglebone weren't actually bootable because we weren't marking partitions as bootable and it wasn't working. Various drivers weren't actually working either and there was actually differences in configuration so with someone with a Raspberry Pi there would have one result but someone with a Beaglebone would have a completely different result and for U-boot you can have different start-up scripts and they actually work in order and the firmware will try different boot scripts and depending on which board you have you have different scripts you kind of trip yourself up quite quickly because there's a mishmash of and not everything is in a single place. So those things were kind of fixed apart from the U-boot script which I'll come up to. The stuff that we managed to introduce into the operating system we managed to add more bits to Lua so you can do a lot more without actually having to know anything about the system details so things like adding users and things like that and moving out from the operating system we now actually also package up U-boot as well so you can take Windows or your Mac OS and within a couple of commands have generated firmware images for your board, be it a Raspberry Pi or a Beaglebone or things like that. Still to do improve the documentation I think trying to actually remove any background context and reduce it down so it's much more easier to get started. Some of the examples that I actually used were a bit too system-oriented and that also could be improved. We're planning to extend the Lua subsystem even more so you can do even more without actually having to write a single line of C or know anything about the system internals again. One of the problems that we have is like with Debian you have a hard-coded user by default and that creates a security problem because most people end up just pushing these images into public-facing devices and get caught out. So we were thinking of actually creating a mechanism where you would just create a file and put the user details in that and when the system boots up it would create that user for you but haven't actually worked out a way of doing that cleanly whether that's a one-time thing or if it's always going to be active so every time it boots up it will always perform this task. Also the organisation of the U-boot scripts it seems that though you have this kind of generic firmware environment the scripting for it is a bit of a mess because like I said the file can be named in different ways and depending on which file it is it will get picked first or it would be picked in a different order. That's all I have. So I ran this workshop at Oshoog and then also at B-sides in London and also in Cambridge as well and the responses were different I think like for the temper resistant stuff for the security audience it was kind of you didn't really have to kind of give much technical background it kind of just triggered light bulb of you can do this thing out of the box and you don't need to create a whole bunch of tooling for it. For the stuff in Cambridge we actually realised that there's still a whole bunch of things that you actually need to explain which is why I was saying about simplifying the documentation. Removing all that introductory kind of steps of this is how you get started there's still a lot of work to do.