How's it going folks? This is Jacob and this is Bessford. We have the Dow down 960, we have the NASDAQ down 476 and we have the S&P 500 down 132. Big, big down day. Might see if we rally Monday, who knows what's going on. There's always these kind of strange reactions when Powell speaks and then we kind of see it flip immediately. It seems like every time they go up in rates, the market goes up that day and then the next day just drops. As Tom says, it's a little bit deviant. So it's like, I don't get this, it's kind of wild. You even have rallies on rate hikes because you have the market think they can't go any higher. We'll see what happens with that. Let's see here. We have Tesla closing at 415, we have Tesla closing at 269. I know some of our people in the Tiger's Den are a little bit keen to sava here. It doesn't seem, let's see, strange on thinkorswim. And what kind of company is this? See here, sava sciences at 2939. Let's see what else we got here going on. Someone else talked about Nike as well, closing at 108. So I mean, this is pretty, I mean, this is pretty consistent with the whole market.  I mean, that's at 7.73% up on the day. Yeah, with this market, trying to predict the future. We'll see how it goes. You know, I realize we didn't buy anything for today. Yeah, I guess we'll wait till next week. Yeah, definitely. Tom, I'll give you some better, you know, maybe get in one of those fortune tellers. Do you think of that? We'll see. I think the technical analysis will kind of yield a little bit better on it, honestly. I'm going to have to convince you of steel dynamics. Yes. That's the number one. I'll do some research on that and maybe next week. Yeah, we'll see how it goes, right? Yeah. I think I'll brush my portfolio. I think the only thing that's done well today has been Raytheon and I don't even know where Disney finished. Well, the canopy stock seems like it's doing pretty good. The same. Yeah. That has been a wild ride. You're down 10% of it. Yeah. That's been a wild ride of a year, I suppose. Yeah, the people. All right, folks. Thanks for joining us today. We hope you have a wonderful weekend. Come visit us Monday. Tommy's on at 9 a.m. Have a great weekend. Stay safe, folks, and we'll see you soon.


الله يسوى بقية الوقت بجانباً. أخرى يقولوا لا، هذا ليست it is specific, it is restricted to what day. It is restricted to what? To the evening. The evening. عصرتها ببسيك. Which of those two views are right? The second of the two is right. The reason is because when we look at a word in the Quran, we have to observe two things. Number one is that when the Quran, if the word has many meanings in the language, in order for us to choose one of those meanings, what we have to do is two things. Number one is that has the Quran previously used this word? نعم. And when it used it, what did it mean? Does it have a particular way that it uses this word? So we observe the custom of the Quran in this matter. We look at the عرف الشرع. We look at the custom and the usage of the Quran for this particular word. And the Quran, when it uses عصر, what is it talking about? If somebody said to you today, أخي تعال I'll meet you at a certain time. What would you understand it as time generally? Or would you understand it as a specific time? You would understand it as a specific time because this is عرف الشرع. The Sahab has also understood the word عصر to be عصر time. So it's the خطاب, the usage of the word should be always restricted to the meaning which the Quran generally uses it for. And also the usage that the companions also used to use it. Because when the Quran was coming, the Quran was observing what these people are using. This سورة, it mentions that the people are in a state of loss. They are in a state of what? Loss. Except those who are متصفون باربع صفاتين. Except those who have four characteristics with them. Anyone who has four characteristics with them, then they are not in this. The first one is إلا الذين آمنوا, those of you who believe. إلا الذين آمنوا إيمان. This is the evidence that the author is trying to use for the first one he mentioned which was what? Knowledge. Are you with me brothers? How is he trying to take the evidence from this? Because إيمان's foundation. إيمان's أصل, the أصل of إيمان, the foundation, the existence of إيمان will not be except if you have what? Knowledge. Because الله says in the Quran and the author is going to bring the evidence. Pay attention to this. A person can't come with even the foundation, the essence of إيمان unless he has knowledge. صح? Let alone the كمالو that which makes the إيمان complete. Are you with me brothers? That's why that's the way he's trying to get the evidence from that. The second characteristic that's needed from a person. So they are not from those who are upon a state of loss. Is وعمل الصالحات come with righteous actions. And this is the evidence for the second point that he wanted you to know which is العملو به implementing that knowledge which you have. الله سبحانه وتعالى in this verse what does he say? وعملو they do الصالحات righteous deeds. Why would Allah use righteous actions? Because Allah doesn't want from you just actions. Allah wants righteous actions from you. An action which is righteous is an action that fulfills two pillars. خالص لله وفق هد يد نبي صلى الله عليه وسلم. It is done with sincerity and it's in accordance to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم's path and his way. That's a righteous action. A sincerity alone is not enough. And following the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم alone is not enough. They both have to be there. That's called a righteous action. As for praying a prayer with no sincerity in it is called an action not a righteous action.  You're still in a state of loss. Third is واتواصع بالحق. And they advise each other with the truth. It's a term that's used for something that is obligatory. And it is required from everybody. And this is the evidence that the author is trying to use for what? A دعوة to إله calling the people to. The شيخ رحمه الله. The ayah that he's using here is more specific than what he stated. Because you're not going to only give دعوة. That دعوة has to be what? حق. You can't just give any random دعوة that you like. And we mentioned what دعوة is حق. The one that follows the three pillars that we mentioned. The دعوة that follows the three pillars that we put in place. This دعوة is حق. And it is called what? It is called دعوة to نبي. The Prophet's دعوة. ألام ينهجي النبوة. It is in accordance to the manhood and the methodology of the messenger. The fourth characteristics that's needed to become those who do not become lost. Is واتواصع بالصبع. And they advise each other with patience. Those are the four characteristics whoever comes with them. They are not going to be in a state of loss and destruction. And إن شاء الله تعالى in this world he's going to live a happy life. Prosperity, joy is what he's going to live. And the day of judgment إن شاء الله تعالى جدنة الويتم. Then the author brought the statement of who? محمد ابن غدليس الشافعيو. ألمام الشافعيو was born. ألمام الشافعيو was born when the year was 150 هجرية. That was the year that the Imam Abu Hanifa died. The scholars they say مات إيمامون وولد إيمامون. One Imam died and another Imam was born. Someone even to the extent of saying he died. Abu Hanifa died the month in which ألمام الشافعيو was born. But that is far fetched. The year is proven. And ألمام الشافعيو then died at the age of 54. So he died the year 204. This great Imam died at the age of 54. Does it not amaze you? It was a madhab followed. And that is why عبد الملك الأصمعي رحمه الله. الأصمعي. Do you guys know him? He was an Imam in the language. He was a proof. He was a proof enough. He don't need to ask more. He was an Imam in the language. أصمعيو said I came to a young boy. Imam الشافعيو was only 16. He said I came to a young boy, young boy, kid. And he said I wrote from him the أشعار of the people of Hudayl. I wrote it from شافعيو. شافعيو memorized poetry. When he was asked why did you do that? He said لأخد ملفقها. So I can serve فق. The reason I'm learning the language is I want to serve فق. And insha'Allah تعالى we're going to be speaking about that more in our شرح of the كتاب تعظيم العلم. Learning the Arabic language and studying it properly is what allows you to have فق of the religion. Because Allah سبحانه وتعالى He said the Quran in what language? In English? When you close your library contains English books and you're reading English books you're still distanced from the understanding of the religion.  The Arabic language is the key. And anybody who tells you that you don't need to learn the Arabic language nowadays all of the books are translated and has fooled you and has lied to you The Arabic language's translation is not fully submitted fully passed on to the person who's reading the book This is a rich language Allah chose it from all of the other languages specifically because it was the only language that could convey the message of Allah سبحانه وتعالى correctly The Arabic language is not owned by Arabs The Arabic language is owned by every Muslim that's your language Urdu is your second language Somali is your second language Arabic is your first language We've been fooled to believe that that's not our language This is your law talking to you today If today somebody wrote you a message in a language that you did not understand and they had to give you money and they couldn't speak English you try to look for somebody who can translate this for you and say what does he mean tell me what does he mean here I really want to know because he's giving me back my money and how much does he give me back you want to know Allah is telling you جنة and how he can take you to جنة and the path to جنة and everything and you're reading it you don't even know it it's gathering dust it's a problem he has to come to شافعي at the age of 16 and he took it from him وليداريكا لمام الشافعي who's also a حجة in the language if you look at the تعليقات that the لمام أحمد شاكر has on the كتاب الرسالة by مام الشافعي whenever he comes to points that شافعي uses words that he uses in a particular way if it seems like no one knows where he got this from people just say شافعي and you say شافعي he said it خلاص no one should ask him more after that because he stood over at نوابر شافعي would use rare things to bring it back to life to show the people that it's used but it's just become it's become what it's become rare on the people's tongue so it's a حجة in the language قال الشافعي ورحمه الله لمام محمد وليداريس الشافعي who said هذه الصورة لو ما أنزل الله حجة على خلقه إلا هذه أما إلا هي لكفته إذا الله لم تقرأ أي صورة في القرآن إلا هذا سيكون لديهم ولكن مالذي يعني عبد العزيز المباز عبد اللطيف عبد الرحمن عبد الحسر عبد العبد الوهب وشيخ الإسلام وإبنه تايمين يقولوا ما يعني أن سيكون لديهم سيكون لديهم صورة العصر سيكون لديهم حجة حجة even if you don't know many more other messiah in the religion صورة العصر is enough as a حجة against you a proof against you قيام الحجة وقيمة عليك الحجة you want it to prove to be established against you صورة العصر is enough for a proof to be established against you and it is enough for you to know that you need to follow and submit to Allah's laws سبحانه وتعالى the Haqam of Allah whether they are حكم شرعي which is خباري that's what Imam he meant by it but he didn't mean that صورة العصر is the whole religion if any no other sura came down and you just read صورة العصر you will know how to pray and fast it doesn't mean that صورة العصر is a comprehensive sura it's enough as a proof against you حجة against you that's what it means and the first thing that this sura had in it is what العلم and knowledge brothers and having knowledge then the author رحمه الله he brought the statement of an Imam البخاريه رحمه الله the statement of who an Imam محمد ابن اسماعيل ابن إبراهيم ابن المغيرة البردزبة بسبب البخاريه زنين بسبب البخاريه صحيح he said بابون the knowledge قبل القول والعمل المعرفة تفكير تفكير and the Imam البخاريه تبويبات his chapterings are his fiq بخاري فيق البخاريه the Imam البخاريه his fiq is connected to his chapterings he's trying to give you a fiq from it are you with me brothers is every time فيق البخاريه في ترجمه is it every time I've explained that in an explanation I did that it's not always the case there's a detail that's needed here you can find it there العلم قبل القول والعمل that knowledge precedes what it precedes speech and action don't talk and don't act if you have no knowledge a person who's giving دعوة who can't even read صورة الفاتح who doesn't know anything about the religion goes against this دع with no knowledge has no proof you have no proof of that you can't be a دعي whilst you're ignorant أبداً if for example you say أخي you drink with your right left drink with you drink with your left drink with your right that's right you can do that even if you don't have no knowledge but you just know this حكم you're allowed to but to set yourself as a دعي and say call in the people to Allah and guide in the people and you have no knowledge of the religion this is opposing the part of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام عليك دعوة على بصيرة we just mentioned that if they do it inside because the reality is brothers and we can't fool one another is that I just recently the other day I went to Bristol I had خطبة in Bristol I prayed I did the خطبة just for last Friday when I did the خطبة a man came up to me after the صلاة الخطبة came up to me he was crying very emotional I asked him brother what's the issue is that I have a family problem my wife and I there's a conflict between the two of us I need you to help us you see when everyone when you set yourself as a دعي that comes with it the one in the poet say إذا لبس الحبار ثياب غزن if the donkey was a a ghaz and dresses himself the people are just going to look at يا لك من حمار حمار شيخ حمار how you doing if you wear that that's the reality of our time if you say يا لي three times we are student of knowledge that's the kind of society we're living in so to say I'm a دعي I'm just going to stick to my path it goes against the reality you're telling us about we know the reality does that make sense people are going to set you at as a مفتي and ask you questions that are above your head I just gave خطبة الجمعة how does you know what I know I could have just this is all I prepared he wants to take me to a قضا قضا between two married people and say you're right you're wrong sister he's right give me قضا he doesn't know my capability and my credentials he's an army he's general master this is what it brings being an Imam today brings that problem صح so دعوة requires knowledge if you don't have knowledge sit down and educate yourself leave the مجال for somebody who has knowledge what did the Imam وإبن حجر say he said من دخل في غيره من دخل في غيره وينهه اتا بالعجايب جغل من لن يجاته وانا ذالك يولفت من دخل رحم الله مرئ النعرا فقدر نفسه فوقف عند حدده ما اللحب فموضع مرسي ويجلسسر jobs cái لا يجبه تعرف يجب أنه تجر لشده ويجب على ماهو بحاج then he brings أليمام وبخاري and والدنيل وقوله تعالى فعلم فعلم means what فعلم means know, have knowledge أنه لا إله إلا الله that there is none worthy of worship except Allah واستغفل لذنبيك and ask forgiveness for your ask forgiveness for what for your sins asking forgiveness for your sins is a what it's a speech أنا it's a speech and an action both of them are you with me brothers فعلم came before it that's the which of Dalala and how the author is trying to take the evidence from this which author am I talking about الامام البخاري الامام البخاري this is how he's trying to take from the ayah فعلم أنه لا إله إلا الله and also محمل عبدالله is trying to use the same evidences as الامام الامام البخاري which is that لا إله إلا الله when it takes presidents of any speech or actions of forgiveness that you need to ask for who are you asking forgiveness for what are you going to ask him in forgiveness for how are you going to ask him forgiveness all of that is it's a sub branch from what? knowledge scholars have shown that this statement of الامام البخاري was already taken استمبات of this was already done by who? his own teacher سفيان عريان already did this راذا بخارس باب هيا what for what he took from سفيان عريانا he took from who? سفيان عريانا أبو نعيم الأصبهاني ونريتن الإسكتاب حيلة الأولياء وطبقات الأصفياء that سعيد المصيب said باب العلم قبل القول والعمر كارلو أنه يجب على كل مصيب مسلمة انتعلم ثلاثة هذه المسايل والعمل بهم أن الله خلقنا رضقنا ولم يتفنى هملة برص بها أصل إلينا رسولة فمن أطاعم دخل الجنة ومن عصار دخل النار والدليل قوله تعالى إن أرسلنا إليكم رسولا شاهدا عليكم كما أرسلنا إلا فرعون رسولا فعصا فرعون رسولا فعصا فرعون رسولا فأخذنا وأخذوا المبيلة الثانية أن الله لا يضى أن يشرك معه أحد في عباده لا ملكم قرى بلانب المقسل في في عباده في عبادته ولا ملكم قرى بلانبي المقسل والدليل قوله تعالى وأن المساد لديك فلا تدعو مع الله أحدى الثالثة ولو كانوا وحد الله لا يجوز لهم ولا تمنحاد الله ورسولا ولو كان أقرب طريب والدليل قوله تعالى لا تجه قوم يؤمنون بالله واليوم الآخري وادجون منحاد الله ورسولا ولو كانوا أبا أرم أو أبناء أرم أو إخوان أرم أو عشيغاتهم أولئك كتب في قلوبهم وإيمان وأجدهم ويدخلهم جنات من دليل من دحل الأنها وخوان دي دين فيها رضي الله عبن مرضوعا أولئك حسب الله لا إن حسب الله يجب المفتوح دي أوثى رحبه الله دي أوثى رحبه الله يجب أن يتكلم ثلاثة مسائل أننا يجب أن نعرف مجموعة وفيمة ثلاثة مما يجب أن نعرف ونعرف أول one is أول of them is that it is obligatory to obey Allah سبحانه وتعالى and his messenger يا إخوة we have to obey Allah and his messenger and that is because أن الله خلقنا ورزقنا ولم يتركنا هملا and that is because Allah created us الله سبحانه وتعالى He provided for us هملا هملا means what محموليني إلا نؤمر ولا ننها that we are not going to be commanded and we are not going to be prohibited الله did not leave us like that we are going to be commanded and we are going to be created that's what we are going to be commanded and we are going to be prohibited because it goes against Allah's wisdom are you saying Allah was playing about when he created you that he just brought you that he just brought you you are belittling Allah سبحانه وتعالى the wisdom of his actions you are trying to say that he is سبحانه وتعالى he just does something just like a person who is writing somewhere and he is just playing around these are the ones who believe that right now these are the ones who believe in God right what is it that what are those who believe that God created us this right yeah this these are the ones who believe that الله تبارك وتعالى created us he brought us into this world but then he left us he doesn't want anything from us he doesn't command us nor does he prohibit from us this is what this is a group that is lesser in Sham than the atheists who don't even believe God's existence those are dimwitted debating with them and arguing with them I believe itself is giving validity to the discussion a person like that needs a medical check and that's the way you should deal with them bring a medical report with you you have to get checked because if I was to argue today and say brothers it's night everyone it's dark night pitch black outside will you open a debate with me on that brothers will you have a discussion with me you would laugh at me and walk away right you would be dimwitted if you had a discussion with me regarding it and it really shows that you're slightly tapped as well to open a discussion with me regarding regarding the day so I believe a lot of people have given these people some form of validity in the discussion at hand Allah didn't give them that validity and that's right in the Quran Allah doesn't deal with atheism in the Quran no where in the Quran Allah only starts from ربوبيا ربوبيا is where Allah starts from سبحانه وتعالى because that's what an insane person argument can start from sanity reaches ربوبيا from that point okay let's have a discussion how do you not believe did he create you did he sustain you did he provide from you yes okay so why are you worshipping alone that's the one you discuss with and man the one who doesn't believe it is going against basic instinct and sadly enough as you can all see brothers it's gone to another level that the debate has been pushed so much that they question your existence he's talking to you do you exist prove that you exist I'm sitting in front of him and he says to me prove to me that you exist do you brothers think I'm not telling the truth in this out there this exists it's become what it's Junoon the way it's everything and that's what and there are going to be people who are going to make this into a debate now and set a debate table for it and say we need to discuss have an argument whether I exist or not yes give it time how many things did we think will never happen happen in front of our eyes a believer says my time is more important for me to waste with you proving God's existence it is your existence is a proof of God's existence خلاص I'll just leave it out there this is not true that you can't prove anything multiple the sun and then he said no that would mean what do you mean by the sun in front of the class and then he said no I'll just leave it he could very closely because he came he started talking about a system an Arab system when I said this that you can't prove everything there was a sister he didn't say this there was a female student from Saudi Arabia so indirectly he is saying that the Muslims don't listen to the logic and she didn't like it she was shocked when I said that you can't prove anything you or students you are learning here and you have to be skeptical you can't prove anything proof is not used in science this is not true they are all things that can prove what about the sun for example just a simple example he said no that would mean what do you mean by the sun he said no you have to leave it it's not even sad you guys are all aware of Lara's crowds right the Majnoon he wrote a book talking about basically he is redefining what nothing means nothing that we used to know has now become something nothing by time as time went on I tried to read his book that he wrote and I thought when I was reading I thought to myself I'm probably going to be asked the day of general why I wasted my time لا يزولوا قدمية عبدين يوم القيامة حتى يسأل عن 4 that the person's legs will not move from his place until he is asked about 4 questions and I will be asked what did you waste your time it's a waste of time and honestly it's better playing call of duty than reading that the book nothing is something the universe is from nothing to extend the other day in the group they sent to read the article on it they said let's redefine what it means to be a human being or animal let's define the word animal so we can bring the monkey in because what they want to say is pictures that have been taken from monkeys copyright are you with me brothers so hello brothers I'm telling you it's a headache that the body can't take a picture from you because we need to open the score what is human and what is animal what are the definitions in my linguistics class that I study we were doing what is known as gender sexuality when you use the word he or she in class so the teacher said now it's a bit weary of using the words he and she so it's generally better as time goes on we await for words to come out that can be used for male and females simultaneously in other words it gives it when people are born now you don't have to take male or female anymore they don't say that anymore where the person there's a blank part where he chooses when he grows so in the class I said then I found the illness where it's from they divide between what is known as sexuality and gender is what the body parts of Allah gave you and how you look downstairs where sexuality on the other hand is something different now so when you're using language and whatnot this is it so when we say for example male and female in the class there's feminists in the class their face turns blue, red, orange, purple all the different rainbow colors just because of the word that we use in the book so I'm thinking about feminists must like the clothes because in the class a discussion came up man and women should wear the same clothes so a lot of people looked at me because I was in a class but we should not be stopped and everybody should be going to we should be going to the same toilets we should be everything should be made the same and the point is it's just Junoon and this is what it's a revelation from Shaytan وإن الشياطين لا يحرون إلى أولياء يجادي لكم Shaytan has said revelation on these people and they have a preconceived notion they're coming to you, made their minds up and they just want to argue with you so they can strengthen their argument even more that's what they really is they go into 10 different debates tackle different people go home, what mistakes they did how they need to rectify it what shortcomings they came with what they shouldn't say next time that's all they're learning they're just learning the art of argument some of them are even learning English on you they're not speaking English properly so they just want to learn English and strengthen their English you're giving these people chances to learn I'm not an ESOL class to debate with you or give you a one to one course that's the truth of the matter he's not coming for you to be accepted plus it is wrong when a debate's happening that a minority debates with a majority but Islam is more in number today than atheists not that I'm saying because Islam is the most I'm not saying that but what I'm saying is that atheists are being given platform by us we're giving them platform to spread what they believe you get my point brothers so debates I don't personally this is my personal belief that this shouldn't be taking place but when you debate with a Christian or they're more in numbers so you're taking their followers but when it's the opposite then that's not the case


by prioritising that. I will write to the member with more detail on that particular issue. Thank you. We now move to First Minister's Questions. Question number one, Kezia Dugdale. To ask the First Minister what engagement she has planned for the rest of the day. First Minister. Later today I will have engagements to take forward the Government's programme for Scotland. The Government is also today setting out details of the £379 million contribution we are making to a £504 million funding package to help boost economic growth in Aberdeen and Aberdeen Shire. Kezia Dugdale. That is investment, the Labour Party very much welcome. The NHS is our most precious public institution. The dedicated staff who work in our health service help to bring us into this world and they care for us in our time of need. The delivery of NHS services depends on having motivated and well-supported staff. But this week the scale of the pressure on our NHS because of SNP cuts and mismanagement was exposed. The Royal College of General Practitioners warned of a deepening GP crisis and the RCN said that there needs to be a change in the health service and quickly. Our NHS is at breaking point. Hardworking loyal staff are crying out for help. I wonder if the First Minister can tell me how many days were lost in our NHS last year due to staff stress? First Minister, I agree that the NHS is our most valued, most cherished, most precious public service. I also agree that it couldn't and wouldn't be delivered without the dedication and the contribution of the staff working in our national health service. I am very proud that since this Government took office in 2007, we have seen an increase in the number of people working in our health service of 10,000 and a half thousand people. We are also increasing the budget of the NHS next year by £500 million. Of course, as well as that investment, we have set out very detailed plans about how we want to reshape and reform the national health service to build up social care, so £250 million of that investment will be invested to increase social care, how we want to improve primary and community care to keep people out of hospital, but also when people do have to go into hospital, we plan five new elective treatment centres to make sure they can get that care quickly and efficiently. Finally, I notice that Kezia Dugdale mentioned comments from the Royal College of GPs and the RCN, and we listen very carefully to what both of these organisations have to say. I notice, though, that she omitted to mention the comment from yesterday of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine which said that the UK has the best performing A&E services in the world, and Scotland has the best performing A&E services in the UK. I think we should say a massive thank you to our NHS staff for that. Kezia Dugdale. I asked the First Minister about the stress that NHS staff are under and she just clapped herself on the back as a result of all of that. She did. And yet again, that was a long response but not actually an answer to the question that I asked. So let me give her the answer. Figures obtained by Scottish Labour show that last year, NHS staff lost more than 287,000 days because of stress. That's an increase of 21 per cent to just two years ago. And this really matters because it puts vital NHS services facing SNP cuts under even more pressure. One of those services is the children's ward at St John's hospital in Livingston, which is currently under review and potentially under threat of closure. Now I know the First Minister will tell us it's a decision for the health board but she has overruled officials before and she should do so again now. My constituents would like a simple yes or no answer to this question. Can the First Minister confirm once and for all that she will not allow the children's ward at St John's to be either closed or downgraded? First Minister. First, can I say in response to the point about stress of people working in our NHS, I started my answer to Kezia Dugdale by recognising the contribution of those who work in our NHS. I also said, and this was a point that Kezia Dugdale clearly chose to ignore, that since this Government took office there has been an increase in the number of people working in our NHS of 10 and a half thousand. Yet again, what we have in this chamber is a divide between the Labour Party who come here and present what they describe as problems and an SNP Government getting on with the job of delivering the solutions for our NHS in public services in Scotland. On the question of St John's hospital, interestingly, Kezia Dugdale's first question was asking me to listen to the Royal College of GPs, to the Royal College of Nursing which I said we always do, but her second question was asking me to say now before an independent review has concluded that I will ignore any recommendations for the Royal College for Pediatrics which is the organisation carrying out the independent review that she talks about. I will take absolutely no lectures from Scottish Labour when it comes to St John's hospital in Livingston, because when I took office as health secretary in 2007 Labour had taken away from St John's hospital services like trauma orthopedics and emergency surgery there were concerns locally that St John's was going to be downgraded from being an acute hospital, possibly even closed as a hospital. Since then this government has protected A&E services of St John's with consultant cover extended. We've invested £3 million in a new MRI scanner at St John's. We've invested £7 million in capital funding for short stay elective surgery. There's been a £300,000 investment in respiratory services at St John's. We've refurbished Labour ward and the special care baby unit. We opened a new laboratory medicine training school. We've invested £3.3 million in an endoscopy unit. We've opened a regional eating disorders unit and of course of the five new elective treatment centres that we plan over the next Parliament one of them is planned to be at St John's hospital. This government has protected St John's hospitals from the cuts that were imposed on it by the former Labour administration. Kezia Dugdale Miss Dugdale Miss Dugdale Is she so good at protecting services at St John's? Why can't she protect the children's hospital? Perhaps the truth is that St John's isn't being reviewed or closed it's just being reprofiled. People can see that this government is pulling the wool over their eyes because it's just this week. That's the reprofiler in chief parking from the sidelines. Just this week we had emails uncovered by my colleague Neil Findlay revealing that the health secretary had been pressurising officials to delay a decision into St John's until after the election and now we know the First Minister won't guarantee that the children's ward will stay open. Kicking unpopular decisions into the long grass is becoming a hallmark of this government and it's not just in the Lothians. We know that NHS Glasgow and Clyde is preparing for budget cuts of up to £60 million including the closure of services and cuts to staff numbers. The First Minister has it within her power to stop this happening. She can save the light burn hospital and protect the children's ward at the RAH. She can secure emergency care at the Vale of Leven and protect NHS staff numbers in Glasgow. Can the First Minister give today a 100 per cent guarantee right now that all of these services will be protected in their current form? I hate to be the bearer of more bad news, certainly bad news if you happen to be Kezia Dugdale. I was the health secretary that saved light burn hospital in Glasgow. Possibly one of the many facts that has just escaped Kezia Dugdale's preparation for today's First Minister's questions. Can I give her a tip? It is really good when you're asking questions to be able to adapt the questions in response to the detailed factual answers that you get. The truth of the matter, Presiding Officer, is that this is the Government that has protected St John's hospital. Protected St John's hospital from the cuts that were planned to it by the last Labour administration. We will go on taking the decisions that protect St John's hospital and hospitals right around our country. Finally, Presiding Officer, this time last week, if memory serves me correctly, Kezia Dugdale was asking me to invest more money in local authorities. Today she's asking us to put more money into the national health service. She's yet to tell us where any of this extra money is coming from, so I will issue an invitation to her today. Here's the draft budget. It is a draft budget. I'm happy to pass it over, and if Kezia Dugdale wants to send it back to me, marking where Labour wants to cut things in this budget to pay for the extra money that they keep talking about, I'll be happy to listen. The fact of the matter is, Presiding Officer, we don't get any ideas from Kezia Dugdale or Labour, we just get whinging from the sidelines. The focus group that was published this week said that Labour tried to suppress voters recall Labour trotting out. It's okay, Presiding Officer. I wasn't going to quote this. For Scottish voters Labour is indistinguishable from the Tories just less competent. I wasn't going to quote that. What I was going to quote was this one. Voters recall Labour trotting out a long list of policies with no conviction that they could deliver them. Nothing, absolutely nothing is changed. That shower is not fit for opposition, let alone Government. Kezia Dugdale. Ms Dugdale. She read one quote there from my focus group, Presiding Officer. The only person acting like a Tory in this chamber this week is John Swinney, using force in her strategy. Again, Presiding Officer, any very specific question about services in our hospitals across the country, there was no direct commitment to save these services and that will be noted by everyone. Because the First Minister had a chance to provide much needed relief to thousands of staff and families across the country. She could have guaranteed that the proposed cuts to NHS services would not take place, but she didn't do that today. So let that message go out to people across the Lothians, to patients in Glasgow and in Paisley, to families in Dumbartonshire and to people the length and breadth of this country. It is not the case that, whilst the SNP say they will protect our NHS, the reality is that they are threatening our local services with the axe. First Minister. Yet again, we have from Labour wondering about what the SNP in their view is doing wrong with no concrete proposals for what we need to do differently. I am going to be asking Parliament, John Swinney is going to be asking Parliament in a few weeks time to vote for a budget that delivers extra funding of £500 million to the NHS. Next year, for the first time, the budget for the health portfolio is going to reach £13 billion. I think that when we took off it was £9 billion. There are 10,500 more people working today in our NHS. We have protected local services that Labour were planning to close. Does anybody remember Monklands and Ayr accident and emergency units that were facing the axe under Labour that are still open treating patients today because this SNP Government saved them? I am more than happy to put the health record of this Government to the people of Scotland in a couple of months time and ask them to judge it against the woeful record and the woeful present record of this Labour opposition. Question 2. Ruth Davidson. The long-anticipated Aberdeen city region deal will be signed today, paving the way for a £250 million investment package in the Aberdeenshire economy. It is good to see the north-east getting the help that it needs to support jobs. I welcome today's deal and I hope it holds out for a brighter future for both the city and the shire. On top of that, the Scottish Government has announced extra infrastructure funding including £200 million to increase capacity on key rail links between Aberdeen and the central belt. That work has been on the books since 2007, the entire lifetime of the Scottish Government. Can I ask the First Minister to confirm that this money is new when it is being released and when the work will be carried out? All the money that we have announced will be available to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire to benefit those areas over the same timescale as the city deal. To recap, there has been a funding package of £504 million provided for Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire today. £125 million of that is coming from the UK Government and we are very grateful for that. £379 million is coming from the Scottish Government. There are many transport projects that we want to do and we have to prioritise them and find the money. What we are doing today is committing the money for the improvements that will speed up rail links between the central belt and Aberdeen. I would hope that Ruth Davidson would warmly without any equivocation welcome that. In addition to that, we are announcing money for trunk road funding including the Lawrence Kirk junction that has been required for a long time. We are also giving certainty to Aberdeen at which other councils don't have money about their housing investment over the next five years. We are announcing money for housing infrastructure and additional money to help with digital connections in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. That is a good package. I will be in Aberdeen on Monday making further announcements about how the Scottish Government will focus on helping the oil and gas sector in particular. Ruth Davidson. I would like to thank the First Minister for that reply. Our party has always been for healthy competition with the Scottish Government trying to outdo the UK Government today. It is important that our two Governments work together. That is exactly the kind of partnership that I believe most people in Scotland want to see. However, I cannot let this moment pass without raising one key point. If the First Minister had her way we would right now be eight weeks away from separation. I would like to ask her in all honesty what situation she thinks is better for Scotland today. The one we have with our two Governments with all of the resource stepping in to support the north-east at this time or the one that she hopes for preparing for a life outside of the UK with oil at $30 a barrel and Scotland's finances about to be blown to pieces? There is no difficulty in answering that question. I think this Government, this Parliament this country having all the powers we need to grow our economy is by far a better position for us to be in. Given that the Prime Minister is going to be in Aberdeen today perhaps this is a moment I cannot let pass either because there is a lot of focus understandably so on what the yes campaign said about oil during the referendum. Much to my regret and it is to my deep regret the yes campaign didn't win the referendum. The no campaign won the referendum. Maybe we should look at the no campaign said about oil during the referendum. Cameron said in February 2014 £200 billion oil boom if Scotland votes no. Maybe when he is Aberdeen today he can tell us what happened to it. Order. Constituency supplementaries. Firstly, Kevin Stewart. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Without knowing the welcome additional funding from the Scottish Government the press and journal today described the £250 million Aberdeen city deal is slightly underwhelming. Ammuntz to only about one third of the investment that has gone into the AWPR. Does the First Minister share my view that Aberdeen deserves more from the UK Government than the 125 million they have allocated particularly considering that the Treasury has benefited from over £300,000 million pounds of North Sea oil revenues that have flowed from Aberdeen to London? First Minister. I think Kevin Stewart makes a very, very good point indeed. Nevertheless, today I think is a good day for the north-east of Scotland. As I've already said I welcome the city deal agreement which is seeing both the Scottish and UK government commit £125 million pounds to support infrastructure and innovation in the north-east. However, I do know that the investment that Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire asked for was more significant than that. That is why we have taken the decision as the Scottish Government to today confirm £254 million of additional support for key infrastructure in the north-east. Of course, as I've already said, that brings the total amount of Scottish Government support announced for the north-east today to £379 million. Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure did invite the UK Government to match that additional commitment and we'll continue to discuss with them increasing their contribution. Lastly, as members will be aware, the Cabinet discussed the challenges facing the north-east earlier this week and I'll make further commitments to support the industry when I visit Aberdeen on Monday. Thank you, Mike Neil. The First Minister will be aware of the announcement made yesterday by Texas Instruments that intends to cease production as greener plant and relocate to America, Japan and Germany potentially with the loss of 365 jobs. I'm sure the First Minister will agree that this would be an undeserved fate to the highly skilled and committed workforce at the plant and indeed to already fragile, inverclyde economy. A glimmer of hope, of course, does exist and that we still have time to attract a new owner to the plant. Will the First Minister take this opportunity today to commit to the Scottish Government and its agencies to play a full role in the task force set up by Inverclyde council leader yesterday, Stephen McCabe in order that we can attract a new owner to secure those jobs and indeed address the underlying fragility of the Inverclyde economy? First Minister. Yes, I will give those commitments in full. I appreciate that this will be an extremely worrying time for employees of Texas instruments and their families. As Duncan McNeill rightly points out, Texas have made clear they want to sell the plant as an ongoing concern, saving as many of the jobs as possible and they've also made clear that they wouldn't anticipate any jobs in any event being lost until late 2017. So that does mean we have an important window of opportunity to work with the company to do everything we can to help the buyer that will maintain jobs in Greenock. Scottish Enterprise are fully engaged. They will work with the company to explore all possible options for supporting the business and retaining jobs and the Scottish Government will be fully engaged in that work as well. I can tell the chamber that Fergus Ewing has today written to the leader of Inverclyde council saying that the Scottish Government will support the task force in any way we can and suggesting a meeting on Monday of next week. We will do everything we can to preserve this company and the jobs in it and no stone in that regard will be left unturned by this Government or our agencies. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the Committee on Climate Change's concerns that its spending on climate change is set to be reduced in 2016-17. We continue to spend significant sums on climate change mitigation with budgets totaling more than £100 million over two years supporting progress towards our world-leading targets. The UK Government, of course, is, and I think this is a widely recognised fact, is hampering the renewable energy sector and putting at risk millions of pounds of investment in the Scottish and UK economy. If they had kept their previous commitments, the viability of many projects would not now be in question and Scottish Government support would have been maintained. In addition, of course, the Scottish UK Government's decision to cut the Green Deal home improvement fund directly led to a £15 million cut in consequential support for energy efficiency. Scottish Government will continue to argue against the UK changes to energy policy as we have done consistently and, of course, across other areas, we have seen an overall increase in our budgets of £13.3 million. The question was about the Scottish budget. Everyone who has looked at her budget can see that climate change funding has been hammered £50 million less in 2016. The Green Energy budget has been the victim in 2013. It was released for other projects. In 2015, funds were reallocated to other priorities, and in 2014 it was not cut. It was re-profiled. So when the First Minister got off the plane from Paris and said the rest of the world should be like her, did she want them to hammer their climate change budgets too? First Minister, if Jim Heum had been listening, he would have heard that my answer was actually about the Scottish Government budget. If you exclude the changes to the Scottish Government budget that have been necessitated by the changes to UK energy policy, we cannot spend money on things that UK energy policy do not allow us to spend the money on. If you exclude those changes, Scottish Government budgets in this area have increased by £13.3 million. That is the reality. I would hope that Jim Heum, notwithstanding his previous coalition with the Conservative Party, would join the Scottish Government in arguing that the UK Government's changes to energy policy are wrong-headed. They are harming our ability to meet climate change targets and to discharge our obligations to the environment, but they are also harming not just the Scottish economy but the UK economy as well. I look forward to having Jim Heum's support in future in that regard. Brief supplementary, Patrick Harvie. Thank you. The First Minister once again describes Scotland's targets as world-leading, but the world is leading to a new-degree threshold to a 1.5-degree threshold in the Paris agreement. The world is leading toward greater ambition and the Scottish budget seems to be leading in the other direction. Why on earth can we take that seriously? As I pointed out, that is not the case. If we take out the impacts of UK Government policy, we are increasing our commitment to the environment and to meeting climate change targets. I am absolutely convinced that we have a responsibility to do that. Interestingly, when I was in Paris, it was not just me that was talking about not just Scotland's targets but Scotland's performance as world-leading. It was other countries that were describing Scotland's targets and performance in that regard. I recognise that we have a responsibility over the lifetime of the next Parliament to intensify and to accelerate our work if we had to play our part in taking the world to a more ambitious place on climate change. I am determined as are my fellow ministers to take that seriously. To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will provide an update on discussions on the fiscal framework. Deputy First Minister met the Treasury again to discuss the fiscal framework last week. Discussions between respective officials have been on-going all of this week and the Deputy First Minister will meet the chief secretary to the Treasury again next week to try to get a fair deal for Scotland on the fiscal framework. I want a deal on the fiscal framework. I want Scotland to get the additional powers that were promised to Scotland, but I will not, as First Minister, sign up to an agreement that is unfair to the people of Scotland. Kenneth Gibson. I thank the First Minister for that answer. Does she agree that it is of crucial importance to get the balance right in these negotiations to ensure that the Smith principle of no detriment to either Scotland or the rest of the UK is embedded in the fiscal framework? Does she share my astonishment that Tory MSPs have been urging her to sign a deal regardless of whether or not it is good for Scotland, showing once again that the Tories always put London's interests first rather than the interests of the people of Scotland? First Minister. I agree with that. Let me make very clear that the Scottish Government is working in good faith to try to deliver a deal that is fair to Scotland and indeed fair to the UK on issues such as the block grant adjustment, set-up costs, capital borrowing, dispute resolution. All of those issues are important, but we will not sign up to a deal that systematically cuts Scotland's budget regardless of anything this Government or future Scottish Governments were to do. The big question now is whether the Tory Government in London is also going to act in good faith to try to get that deal. I am not sure that I am astonished that Labour appears to be asking us to do that. This is a negotiation between the Scottish Government and the Tory Treasury and it is astounding how quickly Scottish Labour defaults to take the side of the Tory Treasury. It seems the better together alliance is alive and well. Question 5, Cary Hilton. What action is the Scottish Government taking to ensure that every foster carer receives a minimum allowance? First Minister. We are planning a national review group with representatives from COSLA, Social Work Scotland and Fostering Network. The group will agree a methodology for calculating allowances based on the needs of children living in fostering kinship care. What the minimum rates of allowance will be and a suitable timetable for their introduction. The group's work will begin early this year and will conclude as soon as possible. Implementation of a new system will of course take account of any new welfare powers accruing to the Scottish Parliament. The preliminary step towards a fair and transparent system of allowances for both kinship carers and foster carers, we are providing £10.1 million of funding per year now to councils to ensure kinship care allowances are set at the same level as foster care allowances and that will improve the lives of around 5,200 children. Can I thank the First Minister for that answer? Research published last week by the Fostering Network revealed a wide variation in the payments that foster carers receive from one Scottish local authority to the next where the allowance is varying by as much as £127.31 per child per week. 88 per cent of Scottish local authorities pay less than £159 a week, which is the national minimum allowance that foster carers in Wales receive. Last year, more than half of local authorities in Scotland froze fostering allowances mean that a real term is cut. It is nine years now that, since the Scottish Government first proposed to develop a national minimum allowance, I can hear the promises today, but nine years on I think that foster carers remain short changed compared to the rest of the UK, and 5,000 children a year continue to be looked after without the security of the national minimum allowance. Foster carers need more than promises, while the First Minister asks now to end the postcode lottery and deliver a fair deal for Scotland's foster carers. First Minister. I might interest Carahelton to know that one of the local authorities that pays under £100 a week is Fife, which is a Labour minority council. The key issue is more important here. Scottish Government guidance already recommends that councils use the fostering networks annually reviewed recommended minimum allowances. The fostering network, and indeed Carahelton, is right to raise this issue because we need to see a national level of caring allowances so that foster carers, kinship carers are treated fairly in every part of Scotland. That is why the work that I have described is so important, and I hope that it has helped Carahelton and, indeed, the rest of the chamber. To ask the First Minister what role the Scottish Government considers that cadet forces play in society. First Minister. There is a long tradition in Scotland where the army cadets make a contribution to youth work. This work provides structure and support, as well as interesting and challenging activities for the young people who choose to become involved. The cadet forces in Scotland, along with other youth uniformed organisations, contribute to the implementation of a youth work strategy. We know and welcome the contribution that army cadet forces located in communities across Scotland makes to improving the skills and abilities of our young people. Given the First Minister's very positive reply, will she confirm that the completely unacceptable description of the UK cadet recruitment process as cannon fodder, which so angered all our cadet forces, is not the official view of the Scottish Government? Has she asked the spokesman to apologise for those comments? First Minister. As this Smith knows, I immediately said that that was not appropriate language to use about our cadet forces and I have made that clear to anybody and everybody who is willing to listen and I do so again. As I said, in my answer we appreciate the contribution that cadet forces make and of course all of us across this chamber appreciate very deeply the contribution that all of our armed forces make to Scotland and to keeping all of us safe. Thank you that ends First Minister's questions. We now move to members' business. Members leave the chamber should do so quickly and quietly.


Okay Minecraft lovers, I have a super exciting video for you today. I had a friend email me this trailer and I am so very glad that he did because I would not have known about it for Probably a really long time if he hadn't. Mojang and Telltale Games has had the amazing idea to create a role-playing based story game and the game is called Minecraft Story Mode. That's the crowd going wild because we're all very excited. Minecraft Story Mode is an adventure game set in the Minecraft world. It is a five-part episodic series that will take you into the nether, the farlands, the end, and beyond. You will drive how the story flows through each and every one of your choices. What you say to people and how you say it and what you choose to do in moments of thrilling action. In the game you will play as the main character Jesse, Guy Jesse. I don't know if there will be an option for Girl Jesse. Mojang, I want to be a lady. You fight alongside your group of friends in the search of the Order of the Stone, which is a legendary group who you believe can help save the world. The game will be focused far less on the creating and exploration like you are used to in regular Minecraft, but instead you will have these elements incorporated into the game based on the choices that you make. So if you have ever played a choice-based game much like Life is Strange, I would say Telltale's other games like Walking Dead and the Wolf Among Us, but I have not played those so I do not want to steer you wrong. Then you will know how much fun and exciting it is to see how the story goes with each choice that you make. I personally think that this is going to be an amazing game for people who love Minecraft and also people who like interesting story-based games like me. I think that it's going to be such a blast to be able to navigate the Minecraft world with an actual end goal in mind that isn't just slaying the Ender Dragon. I say that like that's just some super easy goal to achieve. You know what I mean. It obviously gives it a purpose by fighting off things and making lots of choices. Guys, it's gonna be so great. This episodic series game is also going to be for all ages. Of course, because Minecraft is for all ages. So if you like to play Minecraft with your grandpa, go ahead and let him know that you'll be able to play Minecraft story mode with him as well. While the game isn't multiplayer, you can play together by watching each other play and enjoying the playthrough much like its own little TV series. The five episodes will be released periodically until all five episodes are out and that will complete season one. And the website did save season one. So if this game goes well, which I'm highly expecting it to based on Minecraft's popularity, then there might be more seasons in the future. Head on over to the website which is linked below where you can watch the epic trailer and read all the frequently asked questions and learn all about the game. The trailer was released early and it just says that it'll be available for download soon. So I hope that really means soon and not like two months. Because I don't think I can wait that long. I'm a Minecraft lover so needless to say I am beyond excited for this.  There's also a really, really cool series coming to my channel you might like to check out, especially if you like fairytales. My channel is Brit's Games, that's my name, and it's linked below too. And you better believe that when this game comes out I will be playing it, if you couldn't guess. Don't forget you can find the link for the website which leads to the trailer below and the links for me. And thank you guys so very much for watching and I will see you next week. Goodbye! Impulse is produced by the Freedom Network. Ever wanted to earn revenue from your videos? Freedom offers a great partnership program which includes access to hundreds of thousands of audio tracks, sponsorships with great partners, and most importantly a no lock-in contract. You can leave at any time for any reason. We accept everyone, both big and small. For more information click here or visit the link in the video description.


So last night, the Destiny community was turned upside down and the results are somewhat surprising for a couple of reasons. Today we check out what actually happened with the reaction both good and bad where I also give you guys my opinion on this whole matter. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed this video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. So trials is here this weekend and to be honest although I haven't played and posted Destiny for a long while consistently I have still kept up with all the goodness in terms of news and what's been going on. This week within trials the adept hand cannon is the flawless weapon reward and well with 120 hand cannons being top of the game and this specific hand cannon being top of the pile trials is literally a horrible place to be right now. For reasons such as all the best players are playing together farming these hand cannons trying to get that best role shitting on the likes of me and you who just don't stand a chance but even worse than that is the amount of hackers that are currently playing. Trials is overrun by them so even if you do manage to get to that lighthouse there's a good chance you will have come across a hacker. Now I know people will state well that's a PC problem only. On console it's mainly the dusting that's the problem. Now I'd agree with that too but let me tell you hacks are also making their way onto console. This clip by a side cat was shared with me on twitter and shared to him for a limited showcases here but it shows what seemingly looks like a speed hack. And the thing about this one people is it's playstation footage and also within the same game his teammate got d-dust so there are problems within PvP no matter what platform you play on and more of the story is PvP is in a bad state it's full of hackers cheaters people using glitches and exploits and even under all of that we have stasis spamming going on ruining it for a lot of people. Now the PvP community have complained to bungee about cheaters for a long ass while and I mean a long ass while they've also complained about stasis in PvP and have complained about stasis in PvP since stasis was introduced with beyond light and with it just taking the fun out of it so with most of the PvP community complaining about hackers cheaters glitches stasis spamming and much much more it seems we've fallen on deaf ears in regards to how bungee have responded it's like they don't really care. Now last night a clip was shared to the world via twitter by a young man known as Khan who is only 16 by the way he uploaded this clip which showed him using a tight and stasis ability to fly around the map which I will add anyone can do no hack required so he's flying around the map lands takes out one with a snipe and then takes out another one with a tasty mid-air snipe he then proceeds to tea bag this dude so hard there was reports his mrs could taste pools on his lips the thing about this is tea bagging is a part and part of this game I can't remember the last time I played PvP and didn't leave stinking of ass I laugh at it for the most part I give some I take some it's just a game people it's just a game people now why this clip kind of went viral was due to the fact the person that got teabagged in this clip was one of the community managers for destiny who goes by the name of dmg because this was dmg and the owner of this clip Khan uploaded it to twitter and said get fucked nice shit game and tagged dmg in it people lost their shit like literally to the point of people spam reporting the tweet so this dude lost access to his twitter that's how petty some people are a lot of people are coming out and saying this is harassment I mean harassment people you folks talking this nonsense would not have survived the modern warfare 2 lobbies teabagging is harassment have a day off will ya bungee ready inventors of teabagging from the good old halo days it was part and part of that game too people that state that this is harassment need to consider the people who actually get harassed on a daily basis this isn't anything but banter and the only harassment I've seen that's come out of this clip is the harassment a 16 year old dude has received I 100 guarantee you if this was me joker or wish on the end of this teabag on the end of this clip no one would give a crap but because it's the bungee community manager the world around this game just seems to fall apart now I will admit the text around this tweet did come across as kind of toxic I would agree but what else can be done for bungee to listen because all of that constructive criticism I have seen over the past many months bungee haven't seemed to take much notice of it and a clip away and exploit on a map which has been used on a bungee employee is a perfect statement to make in showing just how broken things are yes I doubt he thought it would blow up on Twitter and just wanted to share this with his friends just to show them what happened tagging dmg in the tweet was just a part of the fun I mean he just killed and quite tastily killed a bungee employee but because he bagged dmg in his clip after using exploits this game is riddled with is more of the point here hence the nice shit game a part of his tweet let's not lie to ourselves these instances of exploits are shit for the game and make it third like but people calling this harassment are doing nothing but harassing this young dude he bagged dmg what he fucking do no one would give a crap if it was anybody else and for people saying it isn't dmg's job to fix the game nobody is his job no doubt to forward the complaints of the players to the devs who are responsible for fixing the issues people have the issues people have been having for a long long time yet nothing has been done and with dmg and cosmo being the community managers it's where people are direct to blow off that steam I mean yes it was kind of a shitty post I agree but that doesn't condone adults attacking a kid for something so petty and if you are one of these people who think what this kid put on twitter is harassment give your head a wobble anyone would think he's shouting a bag and threw through his kitchen window he teabagged him that's it at the end of the day I'm pretty sure we all want what's best for the game and for the game itself to be in a much better state whether you showcase this by hatred towards bungee or whether you showcase this via hatred towards those who hate on bungee I honestly just think this has all been blown at a proportion no matter your opinion on dmg on destiny or on the younger generation the world we live in has told many bigger issues going on can we all not just get along no well I guess not but yeah guys this is just my thoughts on the whole thing let me know your opinion on this down below in that comments section do you think this was toxic do you think it's just a little banter but ask yourself this what was you like when you were a kid because when I was a kid I was outside falling out of trees said different world we live in nowadays people it's all tech based and people have a much different approach to life so just keep that in mind but I'm not guys the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here and want to see more destiny be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Hello, and welcome to theCUBE's coverage of Open Source Summit North America 2023. I'm John Furhosa, because we have exclusive news coverage here with Amazon Web Service AWS, David Nally, director of open source marketing with AWS here. Got some breaking news we're releasing today. David, thanks for coming on. I appreciate your busy schedule and thanks for coming on. Thanks for making time for me. I appreciate that. You know, open source has been a great driver of innovation. We've seen it time and time again. Just every year it gets better and better. Now you're seeing cloud scale going next generation. You got a generative AI, foundation models, creating more and more innovation. Open Source is going to continue to grow. You guys got some news. Let's just jump into it. You got Cedar announcement, and you got Snap Change. Two big news items here in open source. Let's get into it. What is the release? What is the Cedar product that you guys are launching? So Cedar is essentially a modeling tool. And so we're releasing both an SDK and a language for modeling permissions. And so you can do very fine-grained permissions. You can do role-based access control. You can do attribute access control. And this allows you to separate your authorization layer from the actual application code. This is something that we're already making use of in Amazon Verified Access and Amazon Verified Permissions. We're open sourcing the same tool that we're using internally for that. We're doing that for a couple of reasons. We're really excited for folks to make use of it. We think that this idea of having a platform to actually manage access and authorization is very powerful. But we also wanna make sure that people can go look at how we're doing things for both Amazon Verified Access and Amazon Verified Permissions. And that they can inspect that for themselves so they'll have confidence that it actually is working and is working well. So authorization policy language, love the word policy, makes everyone knows what that means. You're taking an open source project, open source on the project. And you said it's used by AWS and your customers for the what, AWS Verified Permissions and Access to manage services, is that what it is? Yes, the two services that are already making use of this are Amazon Verified Access and Amazon Verified Permissions. And we're open sourcing it because we think that a lot of folks will be interested in that as well. So on GitHub, SDK, what's the transparency? Can you give them more detail around what's being released? How do people get involved? What's the next? Sure, so it is on GitHub, both the SDK and the policy language itself. And yes, we welcome pull requests. We welcome folks playing with it. We've got some demos scripted in the blog post that's going live, I guess at the same time we're talking now. And so that blog post has some sample code that you can actually run. We've done it in Python and Rust. So you can even start to try it out right from that blog post. We think that folks will start to place that, use that as a policy or controlling authorization. And specifically we think that because this gives you that separation from application code that it allows you a much more rigorous and easily verifiable way to control authorization to be able to do specific things or to access specific things. Part of this comes out of our automated reasoning group. And we think a lot of automated reasoning because it's fine to put things down in code. And we think that you can look at code and you can audit code and verify what's happening. But in addition to that, being able to use logic, use formal methods to verify what is actually going to happen is very powerful in getting assurances about how your code will actually operate in the real world. And especially on some of those fringes. David, this brings up a conversation we've been having on theCUBE, great length from the super compute layer to the cloud layer to the app layer around this next generation architecture. You said a couple of things, fine-grained permission, access and control. You got the decoupling from the application code. And yet it's going to actually provide more value on the independence and auditing and analyzing things. I get that. What does that mean when you say it frees up the fine-grained permission? What kind of permissions are different with this? What are some of the benefits? Can you explain some of these fine-grained permissions and what's different than what's out there now? So specifically, people tend to hard code into their application. The access, control and all of the permissioning logic tends to go into the application. And that may be an ideal place for it to be in some cases, but we think that a more rigorous way of thinking about that is to have a dedicated policy that you can apply across a number of resources that you can then go use some automated tooling to verify rather than trying to rebuild that every single time. And so this allows you to model what you think your permissions and your authorization layers should look like and then actually go verify it against your application so that you can have some type of assurance. You can essentially test lots of scenarios against this modeling and policy language to see if the policy actually holds true. So decoupling from the application also probably what frees up the application too because that doesn't take overhead involved. Is that benefit too? Is it just a benefit of the decoupling? It's a benefit of the decoupling, but the primary benefit is really the fact that this is something that is easily auditable. You can prove out that regular user does not have a way to get to administrative access via some logic law in your application. And being able to audit that over time and verify that especially as applications change as new features are developed that that remains the case is very powerful. We just came back from RSA, big conversation around security, supply chain security. Developers are making the choices at the point of coding in the CI CD pipeline, whether it's auditing for cost management with hearing a lot of FinOps conversations, also auditing from a security standpoint. All good, we love it. So that's the cloud, that's what cloud does. The fact that it's open source is even better. So cool, check. The question that developers might have is what assurances can you give the developers that the authorization decisions will be correct? What's some of the things you mentioned, automated reasoning, what's going on behind the covers? What do you guys have learned at AWS that you're open sourcing and give the developers the confidence that the decisions are going to be good? So I think one of the challenges that we have at any scale, and I mean that even at today's laptop scale, is that the potential combinations of any set of logic that appears in code can really be hard to exhaust all of the possible combinations. And so the idea behind automated reasoning is to use formal methods to use logic, much like you would in a mathematical proof to essentially prove out that things will operate as intended and to do so with a degree of mathematical certainty or tell us that we can't be mathematically certain about it and highlight areas of risk that way. And so being able to use a lot of these formal methods to actually verify that applications are going to work the right way, the way that you intended when you wrote them, we think is very powerful. We use that a lot internally. You'll see that operating at the scale that AWS does brings lots of interesting edge cases. And so we use that to create greater assurance that our services are going to work in the right way. And that's not just security, that's also that when you write a file, the file's going to be there. It's going to be the way that you intended it. And automated reasoning essentially gives you a shortcut instead of testing every single permutation which could take ends hundreds of years that you can look in a mathematical sense and prove via logic, prove via formal methods that the behavior of the program is going to be as expected. I love the term automated reasoning, but the first thing that jumps in my head is AI, right? Cause I think reasoning, I think all the buzz around large language models, foundation models, multimodal, lot of AI machine learning being used in configurations, automation, like you said, takes years to do things with a lot. And then you got logic, I think metadata. So is there any AI in that? Or is it just more the term automated reasoning is more of an internal process to the Steeder engine? So automated reasoning is actually a term of art around the specific type of logic proofs that's going to happen. So certainly not artificial intelligence in the way that you would typically think about it. This is all about mathematical proofs and using logic to verify that code behaves in an expected way. On the AWS side, what did you guys learn? Obviously open sourcing something that has significance here, big news. What's the learnings at inside AWS that you're bringing to open source? And how do people get involved? You guys looking for contributors, I'm assuming AWS will have some people work in the project. Can you take us through some of the mechanics of what will happen post launch? What's the tactics, what's the plan, what's the goal? Sure. So obviously we are happy to have folks contribute, play, file bug reports, help us even improve documentation if they want. In many ways, we continue to develop this and plan to continue to develop this going forward because it's a crucial part of our infrastructure. But this is really just a part of our supply chain security perspective. We're making some tools that are available inside AWS and we're making those available outside to the public as open source. We certainly care about continuing their development. We would welcome other people to join us. We think that this is a really interesting and compelling space to work in right now. And we're focused on delivering this value to our customers, but we'd certainly welcome folks dissipating from the community to help drive what's important to them. We actually think that that will, seeing what is important to other folks, listening to our customers is kind of core to how AWS operates and getting involved in the open source project itself is one of the fastest ways that we can collect feedback from our users and our customers. So you're investing in the software supply chain and other areas. Can you share some points of investment that AWS is doing in open source foundations and projects? We're here today and it's open SSF day at open source summit. And so we're certainly a large investor in open SSL. We contributed $2.5 million to the Alpha Omega project. We're spending money focused on improving some of the package managers. So we've specifically recently engaged with the Rust Foundation on improving the security of crates.io, as well as the Python software foundation or their security efforts around the Python package index. So we're working on a couple of different angles. Some of them are improving the existing ecosystem. Some of it is releasing tools that we're using internally so that the rest of the world gets access to that tooling. And we are all just like everyone else in the tech industry. We are all greatly indebted to open source and we have a vested interest in making the open source landscape far more secure. And there, and talking to the people out there that say that Amazon is not investing in open source.  You guys are doing a lot of work.  What would you say to those folks? You know, the reality is that everyone benefits far more from open source than they could possibly ever give back. The world, the technology landscape that we have today simply would not exist without open source. And that's true certainly for AWS. Well, I will tell you personally, you know, our generation, my generation, I remember when it was no open source, you had to steal software and to deal software. You got that copy of Unix. I mean, there was a doubt and there was a time when software wasn't free. And so- There was, you know, but the reality is, is that we are all today standing on the shoulders of giants. And that's certainly true. AWS certainly benefits from that. We're contributing in a lot of places where it's important to our customers. We're doing a lot of work in container D in the cloud native computing foundation, spending time there. We recently contributed Finch as an open source project and spent some time building up some of that ecosystem that we depend upon like Lima and Nerdcuddle where we're investing developer time there. We're spending a lot of time in databases. So we've got a number of folks who are working in and around the Postgres community. And you'll see things like the trusted language extensions for PostgresQL, which we recently open sourced. So I think there's a lot coming out of that. You know, there's entire dedicated teams who are focused on specific upstream projects. We have folks who are working on Java and OpenJDK, where there's an entire two pizza team that's doing nothing but working on upstream. And we've got a number of those sized teams doing upstream work. We don't spend a lot of time promoting every single commit that we ship. And so it may seem like we're a little quiet, but... It's hard when you're running the biggest cloud out there. With all that work you guys do and Amazon's web services cloud is massive. Its services are great growing every day. The fact that you're open sourcing all your jewels, it's phenomenal. And by the way, the shoulders of giants is now the industry. And I think now more than ever open source is the industry. You got business models, you got great licensing, it's permissive, you've got more transparency than ever before. This is the industry. It's almost, you don't want to bet against open. That is now a fact. Startups are coming out of it. So, you know, a testament to everyone involved. And again, I'm always sharing that news. It's only getting better. We need it more than ever. With AI now coming in, it's going to be interesting to see. So we'll get to that in another segment. I want to get to the second part of the news, if you don't mind. The SnapChange is a first open source project that come out of an internal team at AWS called Find and Fix, full-time research securities. Take us through this announcement. What is SnapChange and take us through the story. Sure. So first, this came out of an internal team that we call Find and Fix or F2 if we're trying to abbreviate them. And the Find and Fix team is essentially proactive security where we're going and looking at open source projects that are important to AWS or its customers. We're doing security audits. We're trying to find problems in that. And one of the things that really sets these folks apart is they're not just trying to find problems, but they're also trying to submit patches back upstream when they find the problem. Because they know that maintainers have a lot on their plate and the last thing they need is someone dropping a list of security vulnerabilities that have been found and then they need to go scramble to figure out how to patch them. And so they're doing both sides of this. They're doing some initial remediation work to hopefully speed the security response from the open source project along. They've been doing that for a while, the teams existed for a while. A lot of the things that they're uncovering have taken a while to get fixed. But in the course of this, as part of their security research, they've had to build a lot of tools. And the first one that they're releasing is SnapChange, which is a snapshot-based buzzing machine. And buzzing is essentially a really rapid testing of lots of inputs into software to see where you can break things. And that's been responsible for the finding of a lot of security vulnerabilities over the past couple of years. It's basically a zero-day tool, isn't it? Almost, you know? Any security tool can certainly be used offensively as well. Explain fuzzing, I think that's out of my pay grade. So I have to ask, what is fuzzing? And take us through that, because that sounds like it's really cool tool. Sure, so fuzzing essentially submits lots of different things into inputs into a program.  It is submitting untested strings. It's submitting interesting data, trying to change the way that the program operates. And it has been responsible for finding a lot of security vulnerabilities of late. And because you can automate it to a degree, you can specify inputs, you can specify coverage. Fuzzing is a way to really scale what used to be a very manual process in terms of testing applications. And this has been used internally at AWS for the find and fix program. And you guys are open sourcing this as well. We are open sourcing this tool. Couple of the interesting things, there are a number of fuzzing tools out there today. Some of them require that you run an application inside KVM and you have to use a modified or patch KVM or you have to be running special kernel modules. This works with a vanilla KVM and with a vanilla kernel. So you can basically spin up an Ubuntu image, run this and no modifications required. And so we hope that that makes it easier and more approachable, certainly faster. We've also focused on trying to help parallelize this. So a number of the tools that are available today, they only, they're really focused on running on a single core or a single set of cores. And this is designed to be able to scale out a little more broadly. And we're hoping that that starts to speed some things up or makes testing a little easier and less time intensive. That's great. I really appreciate taking the time to come in and talk about the news exclusive here on theCUBE. Final question to wrap us home, bring us home and wrap it up. What do you hope the outcome is from the open sourcing of these projects? See there and snap change. What do you hope that has, what's the outcome you're looking for, David, in the community? You know, specifically, I hope that as we release open source tools that people take advantage of them, I believe that a rising tide raises all boats. And so, you know, this is, this is additional tooling that people can make use of and in this specific arena to make them more secure. We hope that this helps the open source supply chain landscape be more secure. I really appreciate it. Great stuff. Bringing in the Amazon, AWS, Amazonian Way, the internal team, fix and find, love that story. Open sourcing verification and fine grain access and control. Certainly there's no more perimeter. The cloud models here is only growing. So having those access authorization and verification controls is key. David, thank you so much for sharing the news here on theCUBE. Thank you so much for having me. I was really excited to tell you about these things that I appreciate the time. Yeah, we'll see you around. Thanks for coming. Check it out, Open Source Summit 2023 coverage. I'm John Furrier, the host of theCUBE on the show floor in Vancouver for three days of wall-to-wall coverage. Thanks for watching.


Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Walsh and Institute of Technology, Solapur. In today's session, we will see the regarding the project network crashing or compression. At the end of the session, the learner will be able to determine the direct cause associated with the particular activities as well as the indirect cause associated with the particular activity which will help to define the overall direct cause and the indirect cause associated with the projects. And he will able to determine the extra cause associated with the particular activity if they are going to be compressed. And finally, with the help of all this cost, he's going to determine the total project cost. Now the total project cost, the total project cost is nothing else. It is a particular summation of the direct cost as well as the indirect cost. As we observe in the project, there are n number of activities, or you can say the activities which are there in the particular project, they consume the resource. And this resource are finally termed in the term of the cost. So the total project cost is nothing else. It is a summation of direct cost plus indirect cost. When we see this flow chart, in the indirect cost, we see the overhead causes and the outage causes. Now, what are the direct costs? If I take the particular activity in the project, the direct costs are nothing else. The manpower, material, machineries and tools, finally, which are all, which are defined in terms of cost, or that is money. Yeah, there is a graph which is showing you the particular representation of the direct cost between the duration and the cost. Yeah, in initial stage, the particular cost of the, when we observe the direct cost of the project, it's at the higher level. As the execution goes on, the particular cost reduces. But if there is delay, again, it will be increased. Now, let's see indirect cost. The indirect costs are nothing else. The charge costs, which are associated with the office setup at the site, all the temporary facilities, like you can say, electric city, telephone bills, stationaries, and the equipments or construction machineries, which are required for the offices, like you can say, printing machines, fax, et cetera. And the cost, like project manager, like you can say, the insurance causes of the constructions, it may be related to the various resources which are involved in the projects. And finally, you may observe the indirect cost due to delay in the project also. It may be in terms of penalty, as the project has been delayed. Now, some of the points which I mentioned in this slide, which shows that these are some overrated costs associated with the particular project. As their main offices expenses came, the site office is different and the main office expenses is different. And other than that, the equipments and the vehicles and all the services, office services, which are not directly related to the particular project, but they are required like a lawyers or you can say accountants, et cetera. Now, when we observe this particular graph, the direct cost is a linear one. And when we sum the overhead cost plus the outage cost, we get the total indirect cost, as shown in the second graph, okay? This is the overhead cost. When we add the outage cost says with the particular indirect cost, we'll get the total indirect cost, which is in the curve form. But most probably it is considered as a linear one. Now, the cost loop is a point which helps us to determine the cost or you can say the extra cost to the particular activity per duration if we go for the compression of the activity. See, the direct cost time curve is actually the particular straight line or you can say the multi-straight lines or you can say segments. The cost loop is nothing else. It is, as I said, the particular cost associated with the activity per unit duration. These are the terms which are required for the finding out the cost loop of each activity. The first one is a normal duration. The duration required to finish the activity under the normal condition or you can say ordinary conditions or circumstance. And the normal cost, the cost associated with the particular activity, which is executed during the normal duration and the crash duration, that is the least possible duration required for the activity to complete the particular activity as well as project. And the crash cost is nothing else that is the particular cost which is determined as we crash the activity. And this is nothing else that is the additional cost which is associated with activity as we are crashing the or as we are reducing the duration of the activity. Some extra resource should be assigned to the particular activity. So that extra resource means what? Extra additional cost for the activity to complete or to execute. Now the formula for the cost loop is nothing else. It is equal to crash cost minus normal cost divided by normal duration minus crash duration, which is helping to make a decision regarding the selection of the activity for the crashing one. Now this is a particular direct cost curve as we have seen in the earlier slide. As I explained that in the initial stage, the direct cost of the project is at the higher level as the execution goes, as the time passes, the particular direct cost goes reducing. It reduces at a certain level, but if we delay the project, its cost increases. Now here we are observing that that this is a particular initial stage of the project. Okay, the curve starts reducing at a certain point, but if we delay the project, its direct cost increases. And here you observe that there is a particular point, the normal cost, normal duration, a crash cost and the crash duration. This is a total project cost. When we add both the direct cost as well as the indirect cost curves, or if we represent both the cost on the single graph, we get such kind of a graph. Here the blue color line is, or you can say the curve is nothing else, it's a direct cost and the brown color is nothing else indirect cost. And in the second graph, as we know the total project cost is nothing else, it is equal to direct cost plus indirect cost. So this is a direct cost curve plus indirect cost curve. This green color is nothing else, that is the curve which is representing the total cost or you can say total project cost. And here you are observing that this is a point at which there is an intersection of both the direct cost and the indirect cost. And this is a point from which we get the optimum cost as well as optimum duration of the particular project. Now let's see the steps involved in the particular crashing of the project. Here, the overall particular crashing of the project is carried out with the help of the critical path method in which we all the earliest starting times are assumed for the determining the project duration as well as critical path. The first step, once we know the overall particular project, we have to determine the particular, or you can say you have to go for the construction of the normal network diagram, that is AOA network diagram, with the earliest starting times. With the help of that, we will come to know the critical path in the overall project. And with the help of this critical path, we construct the time scale diagram. This time scale diagram is nothing else, it is a representation of the particular normal network diagram in the time scale with the scale I can say. Second step, find out the crash cost per unit time, that is nothing else cost loop of each activity in the network diagram, which can be calculated or which can be determined with the help of this formula, that is cost loop is equal to crash cost minus normal cost, normal duration, minus crash duration. Step three, once we get the cost loop of each activity, the step three says that you select such a activity which is having the least cost loop per unit duration or you can say per unit time. Producing the duration of activity means we are assigning some extra resource to the particular activity. So as we are assigning the extra resource, there will be extra expenditure of the money. But keep in mind, the particular activity can be crashed up till the crash time only. Below that, we cannot crash it. So even though we have more money or amount or some resource, we cannot reduce the activity duration below the crash time. Now, step number four. Once we come to know the particular crashing, we go for the number of steps, we select the activity, we go for the crashing. Again, we see the what is the total indirect cost, what is the direct cost and with the help of this both, we go for the defining the total project cost. We try to crash the particular project till the level where the particular optimum duration and optimum cost has been reached. Now crashing of the activity when it is done, they may also, there may be a arrive of new critical path or new critical activities. Okay, finally, we will reach to the stage where we will get the optimum cost as well as optimum duration. And as I said, a time scale diagram is nothing else. It is a scalar representation of the normal network diagram. And the longest path, which is involved in the network diagram is selected as a baseline for the time scale diagram. This is the MCQs. Select the correct answer for this particular. And so you have selected this answers as shown in this particular slide. And these are the references for today's session. Thank you.