It's D.K. now back today with another spark video. Huge shout out to everybody tuning in. If you want to subscribe, make sure you subscribe. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. And it's July 1st and it's time for us to get to this back before we get to the video, guess what? Did you pay that mortgage today? Did you pay that rent today? Did you pay the credit card bills? Make sure you pay the bills, bills, bills and we try to keep it real. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Also, in this video, guess what happened? Walmart was so backed up because of the fortune of our weekend. I'm talking about backed up. We had to place 30 plus minutes multiple times to get on the ground today at the time, baby. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Make sure you subscribe and make sure you give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. And before we go, if you want to buy some of the merch or you got dudes email me at wrongsonsofvjv.com and let me know what you're trying to do by flow sick like the flow. Let's go. 6.3 miles for 2,980. I'm gonna keep on grinding even though they're trying to play me. Let's go. Order number one is time to get it done, baby. We're gonna get on the run. Guess what? We are way, way behind Walmart. Literally took over 30 minutes for us to get this order, baby. So I now saw like most of the drivers in our area over there. So maybe we have a good chance to get another order but it's already like 8.15 past 8.15 now. Just because they want to come out here right in that door, but just because we want to come out and get busy. We about to move, trying to move, trying to shift. This is a huge order to get the order, baby. We gonna get an order, baby. You know what I'm talking about? They got two cases of water. They got the whole back filled up. They about to get busy. They gonna get ready for the 4th of July. It's the first of the month. Comment below and let me know if you paid that rent. Did you pay that mortgage? Did you pay that rent? Did you pay them credit card bills? Did you pay all your stuff and you did pay? Make sure y'all do that today. We gonna keep on moving and keep on moving, baby. We gotta take too much credit. Maybe not, maybe not. Look at that boy. Look at that. Look at that.  Drop it right there. Step back into the photos. Let's go. Just like that, we are here to drop off order number two. What to do?  Sick like the flow. This one specifically says do not. When they do it, just gonna chop it like it's hot. Chop it like it's hot. They got some monsters, some Coca-Cola for y'all and some milk, some other items. Try to drop these real quick and get busy because we're behind now because it took three years at Walmart. Step back. Hey, what's the photo? You already know it all? Let's go. Order number two. Y'all know what it's time to do. Walmart tour is 11.4 miles for 24.99. We ain't stopping until we shine. Look, this is not the greatest of orders but baby, we gotta do what we gotta do because we ain't getting no other orders. So I hope you guys are enjoying this video. Make sure you give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. We about to put up to Walmart and get to this bag. Let's go. That's here. That's over here. He needs to wait. Ah, wait. Yeah, I'm gonna put it, you can put stuff in here. Yeah, Austin, you should probably go home.  It's already been super towed out, ready since earlier today. Guess what, guy? He put the order in the wrong car.  Alrighty, we good to go? Bob, Bob, it's okay. No problem, Bob. Thanks for showing the thing, sir. That's where I went. Very much, sir. Put this right here. Damn. Yeah, let's make sure. We are here to drop off order number one. It's time to get it done. Hopefully we have some fun. Guess what happened, baby? We was at Walmickley, right, gettin' busy. Well, we wasn't gettin' busy. We was waitin', baby. We waitin', we waitin', we waitin'. We was literally there for like 30 minutes, waitin', right? So my guy, Austin, he used to sell us a Stone Coal. He brung us the order, right? He said, yeah, they said that you guys had the other order. We never had the other order. Guess what? The other guy took our order to the other house. It's this order we're taking the wrong one. He took our order to another driver's car and put it in there already.  It was out of control, baby. They've been goin' very slow at Walmickley this morning, but you know, it is what it is, baby. Someday it's gonna be good, someday it's gonna be bad. Either way, bro, we gotta get to this bad. And the sad thing about this is I got your stuff all the way sparked up, so now it's like we can't do the double bubble at the same time. At the same time. At the same time. It is what it is, baby. We gon' keep on movin', we gon' keep on movin', baby. We gon' keep on gettin' this money. No, and don't just get too much money to get busy. And hopefully we'll lose them. Guess what? We win and we ain't never lose them. You know what's goin' on? They be hatin', they be snoozin'. What do I have here? I put all this back right here. Ah! Make sure there's no glass in these y'all. Step back. You already know what time it is. Hit it with a photo. Let's go. Order number two. It's time to get busy, baby. This house actually does not have a front door that we can see, so I'm gonna put it by the sliding door over here. I usually came to this house before we put everything by that gate right there, but I don't know how I'm about to put it over here. This joint is called Suspect. Oh, this joint is definitely suspect. It gets watered, dammit, just up on it. This joint is cleanin', boy. If I fall in, guess what? We about to get paid. It was about, we about to get paid. We got to fill up a new escalator, you know, like this stuff. Jump like this high. Jump like this high. And you can say lead by the gate, but it doesn't say that on this one, so I'm bringing it over here. So I'm gonna make sure to get it. You know what I'm talkin' about?  Hit it with a photo. Smack! Let's go. Order number three. It's time to get busy. One by two hours, two by three miles for 37, 24. It's time for us to go. Let's go. Oh, I just been kicking me off a spark. Yeah. Who you on my heart right now? As you can see, her name keep on poppin' up. They kickin' me off. Yep. They kickin' me off, but I don't know why. They didn't tell me why. They don't even know why. And if you watch the video, I explain what happened. I actually called them and everything, and they didn't, they said they don't know why. So I gotta- Is that gonna be today's video? Yeah, it's on there today, yup. Cause I switched the videos. I was gonna put, I put tomorrow's video today. So it's gonna be switched. But yeah, they kickin' me off, man. They hating on me. Still on cold. They don't want to see me shine. It's all good though, man. It comes to territory. It's always gonna be somebody trying to stop you from doing something. So this is what it is. You gotta keep on moving and keep on grooving. Jump on order number one.  They got the trunk full. They got this joint full, but it's actually right around the corner. So I'm gonna take, let's see. I'm gonna take this one first.  If I just don't know, put it on my arm. Ski, ski, trying to get busy. Ski. Hope y'all are with me. Ooh, I'm trying to do too much. Look at me, trying to do too much. Squeeze that joint out. I'm just gonna take these two bags and I'm gonna come back and get the rest. Forget the rest. We're trying to get blessed. Hello. How are you? How you doing, man? Good. We got that right there, ba-ba. They helping us get busy too. Oh, I didn't even have my thing. That's why I photo up like that. Get this right here. Wham. I'm gonna try to put this in the index finger. I'm putting it on the arm. Then we got the doughnuts. We got the gold nuts. Let's go. You guys have a great day. Enjoy. Happy holiday. Let's go. Order four and five. It's a great time to be alive. Oh, that's got two orders. 6.9 miles for 44 and 60. We about to get busy. Order number five is, look at it. It's the card. Two orders, 40 items. 8.5 miles for 48, 68. It's time to get this cake. Let's go. I'm gonna move all this stuff away. This joint part is super big. This is a large order. We got large and a medium order. So hopefully, I got hopefully a better one. Wake up. Wake up. Y'all been super busy. Okay. Appreciate it. So it's two separate orders. Yeah, I'm gonna grab that. Oh, this one right here. I don't want just six items. All right. I'm gonna take this to the car. Monocled winch ski. That's me in France, ski. Pull up in the bed, ski. Look at the apron tree. Yeah, baby. They got me ready. They got all my stickers right here. I'm gonna put all the stickers on this tissue. They don't want no issues. We leave them with tissue. Had your mama crying. She missed you. I don't want no issues. They just can't need joints. Scan. Come on, come on, baby. Stop playing game, baby. Let me just hit them with the scan, ski. Okay, scan. Come on, man. Two. I keep on trying to stop me from going that last one.  I don't know nothing about it. I don't know how to do it. There's only one left. There you go. I'm gonna throw this in the trunk. Get that off right there. Right here at the first order, we gotta hit him with the scan, ski. Got the one. This joint was tweaking at the Sam's Club. Two, that's me, that's three. Or the number four was the one that was tweaking. I had to keep on skinning it a thousand times. I had to put my hand on this joint. Maybe I had to throw it off a little bit. Come on, man. Stop playing game, baby. Stop playing games with me, girl. Come here. See, you wanna keep, you wanna keep bled. Come on. There we go, baby. There we go. That's not so bad. Okay, we're gonna just start taking stuff. It's a lot of stuff, so we're gonna get busy. I hope you guys are with me. We're about to move kind of shifty. I'm gonna say this tissue to last. We'll have a blast. So I do the dolly. Let me try to see if I can do the dolly for the ollie. He probably can. Trying to get these men, do you understand? Okay, pop, dolly down. Man down. Stop by the man down. Okay, we're gonna put that right there. Bam, we're gonna put this right here. The first thing we're gonna get is the Agua, the 40-bopper. One 40-bopper, right there. Two 40-bopper, right there. Then the third thing we're gonna do is we're gonna get this big box. Put that right there, bam. And then I'm thinking about putting the fourth box. First thing, oh yeah, I'm gonna put that right there. Put it right here, bop. And then, I'm just gonna take this right now, because I don't wanna put too much stuff on here because we're already going downhill anyway. So I gotta make sure I, you know, be careful, baby, because I don't wanna drop nobody's stuff. You know what I'm talking about? I don't feel like I'm getting busy, baby. Trying to join around, like it's hot. What's the first thing right here? Bop, knock on the doorbell.  I'm about to move kinda shifty, I hope they with me. I'm done bopping this right here. Don't get me, dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly. Drop it like it's hot, that 40 bopper. Got the other one, drop it like it's hot, bop. Take this, dolly. It's a very nice day outside. It's got the wind blowing, that sun ain't beaming. Yeah, I'm gonna try to do this. Put this one last trip on the rip. Then we're gonna jump up to order number two.  I thought y'all knew. Let's go. Time to get busy, baby. I thought I was getting busy. So I brought it here, thought that there. Step back, get in with the photos. Let's go. We're gonna jump on order number two. Hit him with the scan ski. We're about to get these band skis. The last time I came here, that door was vicious. It was negatoric. Get y'all to get busy on me. Maybe it's inside, I don't know. I'm trying to get this stuff together. Let me run up this chatter. We're in bed, y'all. Come to the other side, at least the door right here so we can get busy real quick. Got the plates, and then we gotta get that charcoal back in. I think about to have a barbeque. We got the plates and bowls and everything ready. Ready to go. This one, keep on tipping over.  Then we got the charcoal right here. This one right here. Back. Lean it back like Fat Joe. Step back, get in with the photo, y'all already know that. Back, let's go. This is the part I'm leaning in, got busy. I went to get up to order off, and she came and she got done, like right when I pulled up, she said she can pull up and come get me. She's about to move kind of shifty. We're about to get busy, baby. Come in below and let me know how it's going in your area, because it's going pretty good in our area. This is not this order, but we do have an all the way sparked up order. That's our last order. Imagine if I still had my all the way sparked up how fast we've been doing already, baby. But it is what it is, baby. Come them up. Put that in there, they got that bread. Oh, man, it's so sort of moldy. Let me get it out the way. Thank you. Sweet. Right there. Ba-ba-ba. The egg right here? Ba-ba-ba. Put that milk right here. Man, let's go. Last one, let's get it done! Oh! For 2841, we about to pull up and get on the run. Let's go! We're here to get it done and get on the run, baby. Grab this, John. Grab this, John. Then we gotta go, drop order number two up, then go get the all the way sparked up orders to get it in order, baby. Then we done and get it on the run, you know what I'm talking about?  I wish it was going the other way, but it is what it is, baby. 10.5 miles, we bought the milk like a cow. You know, with the doorbell, just because you wanna come over here and get busy, so I'm gonna jump these stuff and move kinda shifty. Jump like it's hot. Jump like it's hot. Jump like it's hot. They didn't have that many bags, but there's a lot of items in there. This. Ba-ba-ba. Put that egg, put the egg right here. Ba-ba-ba. Put that bread right here. Let's go. Order number two, we here, baby. They only have a few items in this one. Ba-ba-ba. Put that right here. Ba-ba-ba. And then one more bag, kick it back. Drop it like it's hot. Step back. Ain't no doing no stepping back. Put that right there. Hello, how you doing? It's telling me to put it on the table by the garage, in the garage, but... Oh, I'm sorry. It's probably staying on there. No, I was selling something on Facebook, and I thought you were him. Oh, that's what you're selling. I'll bring it to the door for you, man. Okay. Oh, that's what's going on. How you doing this morning? Oh, pretty good. I'm doing great. I can't complain. Thanks so much. You're welcome. You did it. Thank you. Yes, man, you're welcome. You're gross for you. You don't want the photos? Mwah, let's go. One second, look what happened. I didn't put this stuff in the bag, baby. So, we gotta drop this stuff in the bag, because she's out here waiting for it. I'm glad she is, because it's the apartment, too. So, we're gonna grab this, then we're gonna grab this, and we're gonna get busy. How you doing this afternoon? And that is everything. You have a great one. Enjoy. And just like that, it is the end of the video. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. Today, we made 21585. It's a great time to be alive. We came and got busy. I'm glad you guys are with me. Make sure you subscribe, make sure you give me a thumbs up, and do not skip those ads. Also, if you want to buy some merch, all you gotta do is to email me at wrongsonsofusageenway.com and let me know what you're trying to do while flow's sick like the flu.  I'm glad we are done. Hey, we got done in 1235, too. I'm glad we are done. It's gonna be a lot of cars out here, a lot of traffic, people coming out here to shop and everything, and I'm ready to go home and get it in. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Make sure you subscribe, give me a thumbs up, and do not skip those ads. Lock in tomorrow, cause we're getting back to this bag. I'll see you guys on the next one. We're going, we're going, we're going, we're going. You already know it is DDK, and I'm on my way.


Thanks, Lex. And thank you so much for having me along today and enabling me to help celebrate National Volunteering Week with you all. It's great to be here and looking forward to having a cup of tea with everyone afterwards as well, I hope. I've been asked to speak really briefly about volunteering Victoria. I'll give you a bit of a snapshot of what's going on in volunteering Victoria. Obviously, you're all across what's happening in terms of CFA and probably a bit more around emergency services, but more generally. And finally, to talk a little bit about National Volunteering Week and do that in five minutes. That's me. Volunteering Victoria, we're the state peak body for volunteering. So there's an equivalent of us in each state and also there's an Australian body called Volunteering Australia. We also, as well as working together as a group, work with local volunteer resource centres which are scattered around Australia in regional and metro areas. So all those groups work closely together to promote volunteering. In terms of what we do, there's lots of stuff volunteering Victoria, a small organisation with just, I think we have about four and a half full-time equivalent staff which is all part-time except our CEO. And then we have a bit over 20 volunteers who volunteer with us regularly. We do a range of different things including professional development and support to our members who are organisations that are everything from a really small neighbourhood house to really big organisations like the Red Cross, lots of different members, to the kind of advocacy work that Lex was just saying that I do as a general basis and work with Kate and her team on that type of work as well and research. But what we like to think about the most and especially in weeks like this is our work trying to lead a movement around volunteers and volunteering in the state and being really passionate about it. And so it was great to hear what Mick said about volunteerism at the CFA and share a lot of those sentiments. Volunteering Victoria, one of the things that we have really recognised is that volunteering makes such a huge difference both in people's individual lives, so for the volunteer and also often for an individual they might be supporting or working with as part of their volunteering. But it also makes such a huge difference for the community. So we like to think of volunteering as a really practical form of social inclusion. It's really like a form of community development but one person at a time through their act of volunteering you know building a sense of community, working with each other. And we do believe and you all have seen and experienced it in your work that it has the power to transform people's lives and to transform community. So we just really like to talk about it a lot. So thank you for having me and it's great to hear about what you do. In terms of what's what's going on in volunteering I'll talk about some of the key data and just for those of you who are interested pretty much all of this is from the most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics report. They do a report every few years called voluntary work and the last one was done in 2010. So in terms of what's going on in Victorian Australia 35% of Victorians and 36% of Australians are pretty similar volunteer and that equates to 1.5 million Victorians and 6 million Australians. So that's the kind of the raw data. Some of the there's so many things you could say in that one of the things I find very interesting is you're much more likely to volunteer as an adult if you volunteered as a child and similarly you're much more likely to volunteer if your parents volunteered. So that's something you know when I think about communities and what we all do as volunteers that's really heartening when you think about the future. It probably won't surprise you that the volunteering rate in our capital cities is lower than in regional and rural areas and that's pretty much Australia-wide state-by-state breakdown that's the case and the highest number of volunteers in Australia come from the 45 to 54 age group so the sort of I like to think about as middle age age group and more women than men volunteer and in fact the highest volunteering age group are women who work part-time with young kids which is me and probably quite a few of you in this room. Busy people busy that would be part of that. Then in terms of other information about the impact that volunteering has there was some work done using some of the ABS data by Melbourne University last year and that was to kind of try and understand the economic value of volunteering in Victoria and it was estimated as being 4.9 billion dollars so huge and while that's really important and I guess you'd all know this too we like to think about the fact that volunteering also has such a much bigger social impact so the economic impact of volunteering really amazing but there's a social impact which is even greater. Where people volunteer mentioned some of our memberships people volunteer in all different sorts of ways. Parents with young kids volunteer the most at sporting clubs and in their kids sporting activities which makes sense everything to volunteering at tourist information centres, historical societies, the traditional idea of meals on wheels and of course all the fantastic volunteering that happens in the emergency services space and here at CFA so it's everything. One of the things that we think about often at volunteering Victoria is what would happen if we didn't all volunteer like we do and the truth is that there wouldn't be enough money around to pay for the things that we do as volunteers interesting to see if there was but much more importantly or more realistically what would happen if some of those things didn't happen I mean the very fundamental work that CFA does every day would not be able to happen in the way that it does now. All those community support services that we expect that people rely on wouldn't happen a lot more people would be lonely and isolated and unsafe without the experience of engagement with volunteers or the opportunity to volunteer themselves and get out of the house which is a huge benefit that older people particularly get out of volunteering that social engagement and making friendships and community sport as we know it would grind to a halt so a lot wouldn't happen if there wasn't volunteers and so it's really good to have times like now to celebrate and National Volunteer Week is one of many great opportunities to do that we've been really busy I was telling some of the others out in the kitchen before it was crazy last week and it's crazy but fun this week lots of things are going on including this morning T one of the things we've been doing at volunteering Victoria is asking leaders of organizations to sign on and say thank you to their volunteers and that's been it's just it's gone viral it's we're up to 189 CEOs or leaders of organizations have signed at this point in the week early in the week and I'm pleased to say that Mick Burke and Ewan Ferguson signed on at number 33 so they were very early adopters of the trend and to say thank you to all their volunteers so that's that's good and there's morning teas and other celebrations like this happening everywhere so thanks for having me I'm really looking forward to hearing from the CFA volunteers and hearing their stories and a cup of tea cheers


Solve a little bit more extensive than normal. Yeah, all right. Okay Thank you So, hello everyone. My name is Marcus Niterer from coming from Bonn, Mondialis We have a startup existing for now almost five years. I'm original coming from research in Italy and I'm the Project coordinator of the grass. Yes project and also co-founder of OSG of foundation Yeah, we thought to bring grass GIS to the next level in the last years working on that The main author is Zürn Gebert He spent most of the time initially on it and yeah, we are Working on this software. This is our very outdated company picture. It's Let's say an approximation. We have more people now But maybe giving you an idea River Rhine in the background. So we are near Cologne and Interestingly and we are in an open-source context here. You can make a living of open-source software in case you didn't know The entire company along with our sister company terrestris Which exists much longer since 2002 is our full open-source companies and This is something Which I still touch try to repeat everywhere where I can because Yeah, it's an it's an interesting way of Developing software and offering services. So What I'm talking about we had some idea It's a bit small. I hope you can read it. I wasn't really prepared for a low resolution But I can tell you what's written there bring the The algorithms to the data So we heard in the previous talk that data can increase and do increase non-linearly and In our case we are dealing with geospatial data including Copernicus data. So also there are petabytes of data everywhere and those have to be dealt with somehow and everybody is dealing with IO problems and disk storage and so forth and why not go where the data are but this also implies kind of Bringing the user to the data. So this paradigm you have probably heard of already several times And it's still valid We wanted to check how to exploit The grass GS software particularly but not only purely grass, but all the related ecosystem with G dial Approach if is our snap included as well and whatever you want to deploy yourself How to get this into some kind of cloud context? So the original name was grass grass as a service G G RAS Which is not so intuitive probably to pronounce for marketing reasons. We then called it actinia Actinia is a sea creature which is like having tentacles and filtering the water So now we consider like something like data lake or the flood of information or whatever you want up to you and so with our Analysis software we can go there and fish the relevant information and go for processing that of course core element here is grass GIS And this software is if in case you are not aware of it under development since 1982 so way before I left school I joined in let's say as a Shy user in 1993 and then moved on to basically you are more or less coordinating it, you know, it's a Duocracy means who is working Can move things and I thought to contribute to that Yeah, if you are not familiar with grass itself we have something called grass database that is more or less a file based system With SQL database in the background as well, but there are a few particular things One thing is called location and there are inside websites That's more or less for the organization of the data You could also consider this as a workspace or as a project and subfolders. So nothing dramatic But there's something related to that because this brings the possibility to Offer user management. So probably you do not want to share especially in a cloud context You don't want to do that share all data with everybody, but you want to have a restrictive User model there and this is coming kind of implicit here Then we have lots of algorithms. We are talking about 500 plus Methods available Majorities in the core its vector analysis rust analysis volume so volumetric data analysis Time series, which is not so in terms of grass age. It is new, but it's already existing for seven years or something So we have space time cubes and you can go and analyze things With Algebra as well and all this is already there You have image processing which we use for the Copernicus data processing or Metrological data interpretation and so forth and what you can do here since we are in a GIS context You have the full integration between image processing and GIS in one shell. So it's not two distinct words I'm not interested in that. I'm a geographer myself so I like to get things together and Here you can do that and you can just smoothly go from one to the next So now the question is how to get this into the cloud and cloud means we want to have a restful API on top Maybe to start with to list what data are there What does belong to whom space space your temporal data set is offered as resources? So you can then go there and do not naturally Computation on top of that enable usage of grass GIS modules and they already mentioned user management So define different roles, but in a cloud context where you pay as you go also for the resources You want to have some control over what you offer to the user for example? You offer to the to the user being a provider a kind of flat rate But flat rate doesn't mean unlimited of course, but it means flat rate in the context of What they want so you can go there and say you're restrict to a it's like geofencing To a particular area of the world where you can compute things or amount of data volume and so on there are different possibilities and you can also expose the methods you have or the modules called in grass language Selectively to the users and say okay, we offer you this tech of functionality and if you want level 2 then you can also Access the other one Interestingly, you want to avoid that one users overrides things of the others who have to have kind of data locking also Natural, but you have to implement it and this is also coming already with grass GIS itself so if you take Upget install grass or DNF install grass or whatever you do Docker pull grass Yeah, then you have the possibility to already use a network drive and using the Unix or Windows user management Yeah, to have access or not and all this is now exposed through Actinia itself as well We have two kinds of storages. We have the persistent read-only Storage where you offer base cartography for example like the original data like What it is? Elevation model Copernicus data land use map whatever it is you already provide to your users It would go there because you do not want that anyone modifies them But the users through the computation here are different workers or nodes They want to write their own stuff and so that goes into the user space and this is also Connected to kind of garbage collection for example in ephemeral processing You say the data the results are available for whatever you put there 24 hours and they are deleted automatically Just housekeeping in order to avoid that too much storage is used So in the end you have this grass database over there, which is the data storage can be Whatever I come to it later And you have the different workers equipped with grads. Yes, also G dal P dal P dal as well. I forgot to mention before Whatever you put there basically the user management is done in in Redis and There we can we have from in Redis instance and the systems are communicating to each other and So forth everything then can be deployed on different cloud infrastructures. So this is all Docker based We have running instances in OpenShift kubernetes and OpenStack And also others we are using Terraform in order to deploy machines So kind of if Actinia wants to scale up we can say, okay You can order new machines by yourself and after consumption means the finishing of the process The machines are destroyed in order to not generate further cost Then we need a load balancer So the incoming requests are coming here from through the API But you want that let's say the cloud resources are optimally used for that There's an a load balancer then sending stuff to the different workers and ideally Well, the data are visible anyway, but you also in case you have a heterogeneous You have heterogeneous cloud resources like these instances with different flavors You want to send them to the right? Worker in order to be able to compute the job, okay now how to control all this We are having Jason files here. We have the rest API So there are requests like get location. So that is you can use curl Or we have some other interface or the web based system or maybe in the future also qjs based one You can call it from grass command line. So different ways of retrieving information you can query the system and ask, okay, what data set are already there and There could be yeah, there's for example the global in our system the global SRTM model Elevation model that is a 300 something gigabyte geotip file and In case you are working with elevation model I think most of you will only be interested in a subset, but each of you in a different subset So the idea of cloud is we offer it once and then you can just operate on the area of interest and which which could be change dynamically and Then as it is rest style you chain more stuff there. You'll say kind of zooming into North Carolina that is our some was geo sample data set What is inside so we're in North Carolina here? And then you see what data sets are there and you can go on and you can go further Look into the maps and you see there's also already a render Endpoint which means if you query the system and by the way, this is online reachable under Actinia Mundial is D You can go and play. There's the demo user available Yeah, then you can go into the dive into these data and also use them for computation Now user defined processing in this case You don't retrieve but you send something to the system and say please do this and that is a post request you see over there post request and You say I want to compute the slope of Some map and I want the result as a geotiff, please and what's also possible by the way you can also give it a URL It's not shown here because too long, but you can specify URL in this case. This data set will be retrieved first and then Computation being done on top of that or you intersect with data already there or you fetch different from different data sources and compute stuff And eventually you treat retrieve either vector file or raster file or you dump it into a post GIS database or whatever you prefer and Through this in Jason style you can write custom process chains Already mentioned grass modules are there importer exporter is there and then you can also bring in your own Python scripts And those can be whatever and if you say oh, but Python no idea I still have my good old 90th shell scripts. They work so nicely No need to rewrite them. You just wrap them into a Python script and hang them in and you are done So it's not that you have to rewrite everything, but you can just Make it appear a Python script and the system is happy with that We have also wrapped you find this on github and docker hub snap is a snap We made a docker image out of that by the way, it's a fraction of the original size There are some funny things in the original like full Java and so forth. This can be heavily reduced and Through that we built up the entire stack. So how does a curl request look like? So there's of course curl then demo user, please steal the password. It's public You send a post there a process chain. It's only written like a variable there This is essentially a file a json file or maybe you put it into a variable up to you And this is then sent to this endpoint here and it will do in this case asynchronous processing That means with synchronous processing You say okay do that and I wait till you are done and it comes back to me But in case the job is something complex and it would run for several hours You don't want to sit and block your terminal with that you use the asynchronous endpoint And then it is sent there and you have URL with a resource of status and you just ping it from time to time this you can automate of course If you have a web interface, then it would Notify you once it is done So both options are available Which means polling in this case so you'll get the status and once it is done you'll get the resource URLs back Which is the geotiff or whatever it is and then you can retrieve the map and you are done What else is there? We have been implementing processing chains for Sentinel one and Sentinel two data also for Lanza not written here There are endpoints like NDVI. So for example, you have a certain you're interested in Normalized differences vegetation index a very common index in Houston agriculture and elsewhere Also to find green areas in urban In urban areas you can use that you just say, okay I want to analyze in this area and maybe for the year 2018 from 1st of April to end of June Search something a scene with less than 1% cloud and do the NDVI So this is more less one endpoint and then you say just these few metadata send it to the system and you'll get stuff back We have connectors to is our API hub. That means there are the Sentinel data retrieved from one way We are in discussion also because we are involved in the open EO project which was mentioned earlier To connect to the Diaz platforms that are Copernicus platforms for Sentinel processing The Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Storage. We have also some deployments there Advantage is of those the Sentinel data already unpacked there. You do not have to retrieve the entire Full zip file of one gigabyte size if you are only interested in two channels Yeah, then you can switch to that provider You can see It's flexible. Yeah, our idea is to not be locked into one single platform, but to have the possibility to Well to deploy it here and there and use the best so example here Sentinel to process is the endpoint compute NDVI and use this scene the scene I got the scene name I got from somewhere But you can also search for it and then as before you can pull for the result And then you'll get the NDVI back and this you'll get like a screenshot So previews that you will need see what you have done plus the GOT file as well, which is of course a bit larger Okay, some more features you can also write you can write to Google Cloud Storage You can write to your own if you deploy actinia Yourself could be your laptop even Then you can naturally write also there or to S3 buckets Then we have edit For the grass users here at the possibility of a grass. Sorry often actinia Command execution that means you have one grass command You just write a CE in front of it Of course, you need to have the credentials and then the same command is sent to the cloud So not locally executed but in the cloud so you can play around prototype on your laptop And once you know you set the resolution This is one of the nice grass features to the original resolution and do the heavy computation in the cloud itself As mentioned we have an open EO support there. We are one of the back end providers We will probably not fully implement everything but no back end implements everything but the the relevant parts and You find on GitHub the related information also on open EO or G site That's a horizon European project by the way If you haven't been here this morning You can see in the video archive of today the related talks and then eventually something very interested Interesting called actinia algebra. That is something to do massive computation in parallel Since we are on cloud We also want to make good use of that and imagine you want to compute or something of an entire country Watersheds vegetation index run off whatever you can imagine as I mentioned can be GIS can be earth observation Then all this stuff is parallelized and executed in much faster time Of course, you need to have some more resources for that so What's upcoming We are almost through with implementation of process self-description. That means what you saw This is almost last slide what you saw That we can see what data are there we also want to have what methods are there Yeah, a kind of catalog and if you want to maybe then wrap around something like WPS style. Yeah, then you can make you


That require discussions with the contract winner. We are in the process of going to financial close and it is true that in that process we can have the discussions with the contractor to see which parts of the project may be brought forward. Of course, there should be the iron airport in the Dice area. We now move to First Minister's question, 1. Johann Lamont Thank you very much Presiding Officer. To ask the First Minister what engagements he has planned for the rest of the day. OK. Engagements to take forward the Government's programme for Scotland. Johann Lamont A chfaisiwr, the Government of the Bank of England said yesterday that uncertainty about currency arrangements could raise financial stability issues. The First Minister isn't getting his currency union, an option that Jim Sill called stupidity and stiltz and is now implying that he will use sterling without agreement. John Swinney hints at a separate Scottish currency, while Denis Canavan specifically backs one. ymlwg Ffmryd、 Ffmrwmaeth, Joe Kae gymaintadwyl i chi ei fod eich Halladau i dwylliannol yegol. Ond ddod yr aelod ddechexisting ar gyfer y cyfnodau, ar gyfer y prifysgwr, rymdyn nhw ddweud y prifysgwr sydd oedd y virus i gyrnau hyn? Yr ateb gyffin? Fy fydden nhw, rwy'n hyrch chi fyddai gafodd ar gyfer yr aelod ddech binsgliad yr aelod ddech elvesgwr. It was a very effective statement to calm the financial markets and speculation. We should all appreciate the fact that the Government of Bank of England fulfilling his responsibilities made clear that the duties of the Bank of England would be fulfilled—I think that that was excellent. Secondly, I also welcome the fact that he reiterated yesterday that the suggestion by some in the no campaign that he was against the currency union was not true, ond, a pob ammlygwch ddifudio'r ddaf ar gael i fod yn mythal gwybod a maith o bwysig i ddweud ddim yn ddalfarlusoedd. Felly, i fod, i ddim nid i'n mythal, yn fawr, fel yr unrhyw ysgrifennidau Northwyr ac yn ddifu dicynig iawn yn ei ddaf, ond mae sefydlu bach yn ei ddalfariad roi gweld sy'n i gael i fod ei ddalfariad ar gael yn fawr i'r rhan o bwysig i'n mythal, ond mae'n gael i'n ddalfariad all the subjects, where they said they would not pre-negotiate. Why has the combination to rule out the proposal for a currency union come from? Was that not about trying to create uncertainty and, thankfully and welcome, the fact that the Bank of England Governor has moved to put an end to the unionist campaign's plans? The First Minister, as usual, may impun the motives of the Westminster parties, but it's not the leaders of the Westminster parties that the women of Scotland are describing as dishonest.  When the First Minister needs a reality check because he welcomes a statement but he doesn't listen to what the statement was saying. Let's look at what was actually said yesterday. The Governor of the Bank of England made it clear that a crucial element of sharing a currency is sharing fiscal risk. He said that there needed to be, and I quote, some form of fiscal arrangements. In response, the First Minister told Jackie Bird last night what we will control is 100 per cent of our fiscal policy. That is simply not true. No, we wouldn't. Mark Carney says we wouldn't. Isn't the First Minister deliberately misleading the people of Scotland on the fundamental issue of the currency? First Minister, in terms of the suggestion that I made that the unionist parties were trying to create instability, I cite Professor Anton Muscatality at McKelley, the principal university of Glasgow, quote, in terms of an article in the Financial Times. The most damaging prospect to the rest of the UK from rejecting a sterling currency union is that it will do to its own trade and business activity. Wherever the political tactics involve, it will be tantamined to economic vandalism. It is not just the yes campaign that detects from the behaviour of the no campaign a deliberate attempt to create uncertainty and fear. The academic observers who have set impartiality on these matters in commentary cannot be impugned and detect exactly the same thing. As far as the surveyion poll is concerned, I suppose that we have a chance and opportunity each month to look at the surveyion poll and to find out what did not seem to, for some apparent reason, get into the record poll. I think that the answer this week might be in page 10, because the poll asked the voting behaviour of the 1,000 women that they polled. They found that the Scottish National Party could expect 43 per cent support from the women polled. The Labour Party, 27 per cent. I have to say that many people consider to be unlikely that the SNP could ever repeat the landslide of 2011. According to the surveyion poll that Johann Lamont seems to be so pleased about, the SNP support among women over that period has increased. The Labour support has declined. On the basis of a poll, it is only one poll of women voters. A very, very important part of the population of Scotland, if there was an election now, the SNP could expect to have even more members and the Labour Party considerably left. Johann Lamont I wonder why people call the First Minister arrogant. He did not answer the question he was asked on a serious question of the currency. The First Minister quotes one person. I would be here all day quoting all of those independent experts who say that his lack of a plan B is creating grave, grave uncertainty for families across this country. John McFall, former chair of the Treasury Select Committee, will only allow us to, we are only supposed to quote people who agrees with the First Minister, but sadly for the First Minister, in a democracy the rest of us are entitled to an opinion. John McFall, former chair of the Treasury Select Committee, and I said that Governor Kearney was asked specifically about the potential of capital flight in the event of independence and said his contingency measures. He continued, It is clear that the Bank of England is putting plans in place to prevent a run on Scotland's bank that would be caused by Alex Salmond's complete failure to set out a credible position on currency. That would put the livelihoods of millions of Scots at risk. Does the First Minister care that his plans for separation could lead to the devastation of the Scottish economy? Is Andrew Larch, the former deputy governor of the Bank of England, right when he describes the First Minister's currency plan as a huge deception? Rather than quote John McFall, estimable man, though he is, but a Labour politician about what Mark Carney said, why do we not quote Mark Carney directly? I welcome what Mark Carney had to say yesterday, because he was fulfilling his responsibilities in an impartial way as Governor of the Bank of England to calm financial markets. John Lamont seems to suggest that all this uncertainty has got nothing to do with the better together campaign, and she did not like the quote from Professor Anton Muscatelli, the principal of Glasgow University. Then, perhaps, shall we take a quote from the better together zone website? The people who, of course, have no interest in creating instability, no interest in fear mongering, no interest whatsoever in project fear. The better together website says that financial market speculation could lead to capital flight and higher interest rates. Ultimately, if markets weren't calmed, Scotland would have to adopt its own separate currency in time of crisis. You and the better together campaign are involved in trying to create uncertainty. They tried to create uncertainty on inward investment, but unfortunately that has moved to an all-time high since 1997. They tried to create uncertainty on jobs, saying that jobs would be lost because of the referendum. However, what we found is that we now have record employment in Scotland and record women employment in Scotland. Just as the attempts on inward investment in jobs failed, so the attempts to try and generate instability in the financial markets will fail as well, thanks to the resolute intervention and action of the Governor of the Bank of England. The person charged with responsibility who has fulfilled that responsibility, and I welcome Mark Carney's intervention. Johann Lamont Minister, as to understand, his prospectus of independence without knowing what the currency is, is what creates uncertainty. Only the First Minister would blame those who point that out to him as being those who are causing the uncertainty. For the rest of us, we want the best option for the people of Scotland, keeping the pound in a currency union with economic stability and political representation in the United Kingdom. That is the best option. That is why the majority of doctors, the majority of women and the majority of people of Scotland are proudly voting no to protect families across this country and in the future. The Governor of the Bank of England was answering a question about savers, taking their money out of Scottish banks and investing it in other countries, because Alex Salmond cannot tell us what Scotland's currency would be after a yes vote. Mark Carney clearly thinks that the risk is real because he has revealed that the Bank of England has contingency plans for it. Before the financial crisis hits, shouldn't the First Minister you know, if it were only your own future you were putting at risk, we would expect that kind of answer. This is a risk for families and their future across the whole of the rest of the United Kingdom in Scotland, and it deserves better than cat-calling from back benches for the SNP. So let me ask this question again. Before that financial crisis hits, shouldn't the First Minister end the currency uncertainty by simply telling us what is his plan b? The point about scaremongering has just been made for me by Johann Lamont's question. Of course, we should all bow to the Labour Party's expertise in financial crisis hitting. If we remember, the financial crisis that was analysed by the former Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, who said that it was the failure of the Labour Government to act made the financial crisis much, much worse. The financial crisis has brought the strongest suit of the Labour Party or Johann Lamont. However, what is certain is that the Governor fulfilled his responsibility yesterday, seeking to make sure that he was doing his job, doing his responsibility, and stopping the instability that I believe is caused as he delivered a campaign tactic by the Unionist parties. I pointed out that he said that inward investment was going to be the term that it has not. Jobs were going to be lost were it record job numbers, and just as these tactics have failed, so have they, well well, the tactics. Johann Lamont says what currency will we use, we shall use the pound. That is why we have made it clear and adamant. That is why we are saying that, not because we want to get drawn into the game of the Unionist parties in attempted great instability. I welcome the intervention of the Governor of the Bank of England and what another of the Unionist campaign's foxes has just been shot. Ruth Davidson To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland. No plans in the near future. The First Minister has heroically tried to spin the Governor's words as a win for him. It is not. We are the side that is advocating the best solution for Scotland, which is keeping the pound in its current stable form. We are the side that backs our banks having a trusted lender of last resort. We are the side that knows that you cannot get divorced and still keep the joint account. He is the one who is throwing a hand grenade into this mix. He is the reason that the Governor is now being forced to prepare contingencies, and he is the reason why the headlines this morning are talking about capital flight and chaos. He demands independence. He claims that nothing will change, but when there is a fallout he protests that somebody else should have to clear it up. We know that the First Minister hates taking responsibility for anything, but is he really suggesting that this is the fault of everybody else? The First Minister? No, I am suggesting that it is the responsibility of the no campaign, who is deliberately trying to create instability as a campaign tactic. I am not blaming other people. I am allocating that responsibility to the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and their alliance in the no campaign. I am applauding the action of the Governor of the Bank of England fulfilling his responsibilities, recognising that those responsibilities continue after September 18. That is exactly what a Governor of the Bank of England is meant to do, but for the Unionist parties to deny, given the evidence that I have quoted, that they are engaged in trying to engender fear and instability is extraordinary. Why did the Chancellor of the Exchequer say that there will be no inward investment? Why did the Conservative Party say that there was already loss of jobs? Isn't the evidence that that scaremongering has been confounded just as the attempt to create instability in the financial markets will be confounded as well? The issue for the First Minister is that he knows the currency union that we have right now, one that works only because we are part of the United Kingdom, is the very best option for Scotland. The stability and the security of the UK pound is trusted and understood the world over, and it is why he is desperate to salvage as much of it as he can. The First Minister's problem is not that he does not get it, it is that he cannot sell it. Every option that he has on the table from a currency deal without a willing partner to sterlingisation to an 18-month transition to who knows what is something that is less than we have now, and that people of Scotland understand that. Why should we settle for second best on the currency when a simple no-vote lets us keep everything that we already have? I have to say that the people of Scotland watch will not believe that David Cameron's Government is worth keeping for Scotland. We have had substantial evidence on the social attitude survey that having a sterling union is the overwhelming choice of the Scottish people. We are advocating a currency union because we think that it is in the best interests of the people of Scotland. A majority in that survey also believed that that is what will happen after independence, and that they are right to believe that. Why are they right to believe that? Because we know the consequences of the unionist parties attempting to keep all of the financial assets of the United Kingdom for themselves. If they keep the financial assets, they end up with the liabilities, they end up saddled with the UK's debt, and it is incredible, as we discussed last week, to believe that George Osborne or Ed Balls want to say that we are not going to take up to £5 billion a year that the Scottish Government has said that we will take our financial share of the UK debt. We do not want that. We are going to saddle that on English taxpayers the inevitable consequence of the refusal to countenance the currency union. Then we come to where people will say that the decision should lie. I thought when we had the Jackson Carlaw manning the barricades, when we had the comment from Ruth Davidson, which we all know incidentally, went into saying that she would support a currency union if it was in the best interests of the Scottish people. I thought that we did acknowledgement from the Conservatives that they regarded the vote and verdict to the Scottish people as important. Let me say to Ruth Davidson on September 18 that the people in Scotland vote for what is in the white paper and the proposals to keep the pound. That is exactly what will happen. Any Scottish politician who does not recognise the sovereign choice of the Scottish people will pay a heavy price. Incidentally, that is something that the Conservatives are long used to in political campaigns in Scotland. To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the cabinet. Meetings will discuss matters of relevance to the people of Scotland. Bank of England Governors tend to be cautious. Bank of England Governors tend to be cautious, so Mr Carney being open about crisis plans for a run in the banks is serious. The First Minister has, as usual, spent the last 20 minutes ducking and diving, so let's see if he can give a straight answer to this. Can he confirm that only with a vote to leave the UK will those crisis plans be needed? I could do better than that, because the Governor yesterday said that his plans were in place, regardless of the outcome of the referendum, because that is exactly what the central bank will do and its continuing role. It makes his contingency plans to stabilise financial markets. It is quite simple. I could put it this way to Willie Rennie. The unionist campaign, better together, Labour and Conservatives, is trying to destabilise financial markets. That is why it is on its website. The Governor of the Bank of England is seeking to stabilise financial markets. Let's hear the First Minister. That is his responsibility. That is why people in Scotland, like myself, will welcome the actions of the Governor of the Bank of England and deprecate the politics of Willie Rennie and his colleagues. Willie Rennie. Only the First Minister could claim a warning on the run in the banks was a triumph for his cause, yet claiming credit for a crisis he caused makes him look like they all pretend it. The Governor of the Bank of England is a cautious and learned man who the First Minister has just praised. The Governor has been open about his crisis plan B. Isn't it time that the First Minister tells us his? First Minister. Of course, the Governor was asked to contingency plans and said that it would not be helpful to spell out what the contingency plans were, because that is because he is a responsible Governor of the Bank of England. In terms of what Mark Carney said when he was shooting down the fears, if Willie Rennie could just accept that the Governor has done a very effective job in stopping the instability that Willie Rennie and his colleagues were so interested in creating. However, as I said, in terms of the financial stability questions, this is the Governor, I will reiterate whatever happens in the vote, the Bank of England will be a continuing authority for financial stability for some period of time. He was making the obvious point that they would discharge their responsibilities. I know that the campaign and the let's all enjoy the next five weeks that we are going to take part vigorously. However, there is a responsibility, a responsibility to explain to the people of Scotland that everybody in this chamber should be acting in Scotland's best interests. That is what this Government will do. I really wish and hope that the unionist parties can bring themselves to believe that this prosperous independent nation is well capable of independence. We have agreed unanimously in this chamber last week to let it be reflected in the campaign rhetoric. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reports that an independent Scotland will not be able to support the state pension. First Minister? Well, as one of the richest countries in the world, there is no doubt that independent Scotland could afford a high-quality state pension system. Social protection spending as a percentage both of GDP and tax revenues is lower in Scotland than the rest of the UK and has been for each of the last five years. I was interested in the responsible comments of the UK Pensions Minister, Steve Webb, who confirmed that state pensions built up prior to independence would continue to be paid to the people of Scotland. On 6 May, he said, it is what you are putting into the national insurance system prior to independence. It is entitled to that money. For the First Parliament in independent Scotland, existing pensions were the state pensions updated by the triple lock. That means that pension will increase by 2.5 per cent in line with the increase in inflation or in line with the increase in average earnings, whichever of those free is the highest. I hope that Christine Grahame welcomes that reassurance. As we seek to explain to the people of Scotland that yet another of project fear's favourite stories is based on no foundation whatsoever. I have to say as a pensioner that I welcome that assurance and I thank you for a comprehensive answer. However, there remains the issue of private pensions paid now or in the future, which many pensioners fear will be under threat with independence. Does the First Minister agree with me that these are a matter of contract and payable under the terms of contract whether in an independent Scotland, are UK or elsewhere, and that, with a yes vote, we have an opportunity to use Scotland's wealth to develop sustainable and better pensions for Scotland's pensioners now and in the future? I think that I can claim an unimpeachable authority for that point. That, of course, is the Daily Mail newspaper. There has been a number of speculations in that and other newspapers about the position of private pensions. One of the yes campaigners, who wants to remain anonymous, probably because he is an ex-employee of the Daily Mail, wrote to the Daily Mail pension provider asking about such claims and received the following reply from the pension provider DMGT. I can confirm that, should there be a yes vote in the 2014 Scotland referendum, the benefits that you have accrued in the scheme will be unaffected. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to telephone me. I think that we should all telephone the Daily Mail why their own pension provider is giving the reassurance to their pensioners, which unfortunately, as yet, they are not prepared to give to their readers. Whatever the Daily Mail said, we have all read what the Cabinet Secretary for Finance said to his cabinet colleagues when he warned that the volatility of oil revenues would compromise the affordability of pensions in an independent Scotland. Yesterday, we saw that oil revenues for last year were half what the Scottish Government had told us they would be. Does not that just show us how right Mr Swinney was to flag up the threat to pensions from a yes vote next month? First Minister. If an erring sense of timing Ian Gray has managed to make that point on the day that Sir Donald Mackay, 25 years adviser to successive Labour and Conservatives Secretary of State for Scotland, the YIN of Oil Economists in Scotland has described the OBR figures as precisely wrong and produced forecasts which back the Scottish Government's assessment of oil revenues. Therefore, I welcome the fact that Ian Gray would wish to mention oil and its forecast. The difficulty for the unionist parties is this apparent suggestion that oil and gas is some tragic burden on the people of Scotland. When, for every other country in the world, it is a substantial asset, that substantial asset will continue, and the best thing about it is that, at last, the resources of Scotland will go to benefit the people of Scotland, not the London Treasury. The official Scottish Government pensions paper has 30 key proposals, but only four of those proposals are costed. Given the importance of pensions to the people of Scotland, will the First Minister agree to update his pensions paper and put costings next to all 30 proposals? I do not accept the premise of the question that the white paper was quite specific about our proposals on pension. The guarantee that pensions would continue to be paid and why they would continue to be paid is the explanation of affordability, the proposal for the triple law and the consideration of the retirement age consideration, because that is an important aspect to meet the Scottish population. That has been a significant body of work, and I suggest that the member re-consults it, because he will see that the Scottish Government's proposals on pension give more guarantees, more assurance and, above all, more fairness than anything that has come from the Tory Labour Government. To ask the First Minister whether there will be food banks in an independent Scotland. We will seek to eradicate the need for food banks. As one of the wealthiest nations on the planet, the powers of independence can shape a fairer welfare system and ensure that many more of our people feel the benefit of that wealth. Is Jackie Baillie aware that the Trussell Trust has seen a 400 per cent increase in people using food banks in the last year? That includes more than 22,000 children, yet Labour on Sunday suggested that when the Deputy First Minister raised this hugely important issue, she was just creating a distraction. I saw today that another well-known Labour commentator described the debate on national health service and independence as another distraction. Has Labour really got to the point that they can't face issues like food banks in poverty in Scotland without calling them a campaign distraction? Address the issue, because what it tells you is that thousands of our fellow citizens are suffering and being covered in poverty by policies of Westminster Government that we did not vote for. Can I thank the First Minister for his response and just point out to him that, rather than just talking about it, we on this side of the chamber are engaged in doing something about it? On Monday morning, Nicola Sturgeon in an interview with GMS acknowledged that there would be food banks in an independent Scotland. By lunchtime, she said that there wouldn't be any food banks at all if people voted for independence. Isn't it the case that countries like Ireland have food banks when one in 10 people are living in food poverty despite being independent, demonstrating that it is in fact a matter of political will rather than constitutional change? Isn't it the case that, while the SNP offers vague and uncosted promises on welfare at the same time as giving tax cuts to big businesses, Nicola Sturgeon's first answer is the right one? We are meant to say that a policy over a period of time to eradicate the need for food banks in Scotland has criticised by the Labour Party. I suspect that that is the position that the no campaign has got themselves into. Let me quote from better together Aberdeenshire. Food banks are Scotland becoming a normal European country. Far from being a sign of failure, they are an enriching example of human compassion, faith and social cohesion. Everybody salutes the work of those who are going to the assistance of their fellow citizens, but are those on the yes side of this campaign do not believe that the huge growth in food banks in Scotland is a sign of Scotland becoming a normal European country? We seek an aspire to have a society where justice and fairness is at the centre of our social policy. We know that that will not be implemented from Westminster, not from the current Tory Government and certainly not from a Labour Party, which has already said that it will accept the Tory Party's spending plans. As the Labour Party is so far gone in this debate, you are prepared to defend the expansion of food banks as a sign of success of this union. Question 6, Liz Smith. To ask the First Minister how many two-year-olds from work-less families will receive free childcare at the start of the new school session. Around 3,400 two-year-olds from work-less families will take up their new entitlement to a free nursery place this month. Indeed, the first two-year-olds to benefit from this policy started in Renfisher nurseries on Tuesday of this week. In total, we expect more than 8,000 two-year-olds from work-less households will benefit from the free nursery place over the course of this year, giving them a better start to their education and their parents a much better chance of finding work. Thank you First Minister. I think that every political party in this chamber is on record supporting improved childcare provision. It is very clear that the Scottish Government has now had to admit that several local authorities cannot deliver the full commitment of two-year-olds from work-less families in the timescale that they were promised. Can I therefore ask what information process is being used to advise those parents who were expecting to access those places just now? I do not agree with Liz Smith. She said in her press release on 4 August that she claims significant problems in six councils, Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Angus, Aberdeen, Midlovia and Murray. In every one of those councils, there is not a lack of capacity. Edinburgh and South Lanarkshire have the capacity they need. Angus, Midlovia and Murray will be using private nurseries to deliver the places. Some councils have already done that. There is no requirement to use their own facility and Aberdeen is using family centres. Facilities, in my opinion, are perfectly suited in particular to vulnerable young children. Liz Smith has raised a number of issues concerning education and the role of a spokesperson for education. She said that the curriculum for excellence would be a curriculum for confusion. Two months later, the curriculum for excellence was successfully introduced. She doubted whether the examination diet this year would be a success. She wanted to have the two diets of exams running simultaneously. As she might have noticed, the exams went forward over this summer with some considerable success. I know that she has been replaced as education spokesman by Mary Scanlon's sunny optimism. We all welcome that replacement, but given that she was wrong about curriculum for excellence and the examination diet, is it not possible that she is also going to be wrong in her predictions about lack of nursery places? The councils of Scotland are working hard to fulfil their statutory responsibilities, and that is exactly what they will do. Let us welcome the significant substantial expansion of nursery places to the people of Scotland. That is our first question. We now move to members' business. Members who are leaving the chamber should do so quickly and quietly.


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We have Silver Flat, $16.83 an ounce, LightSuite Crude off 33 cents, $56.91 a barrel, notes and bonds, markets closed, they traded earlier. 128.13, the 10's out right now, $156.20 is the 30, King dollar, King dollar down 158 ticks, trading $98.195, the euro's at 110, the yen is at 109 and the pound is at 128 to one US dollar. Our phone number's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call folks. Wanna know what's going on in your world in the world with the S&Ps? Let's take a look at them. What do you have? You got a flat market out here. Basically, you got a sideways market. You're not gonna have any volume. It's Veterans Day. You get the banks closed. You're up 20, you're down 46 cents. You get 25 million shares traded. Bottom line, I don't expect much happening here coming into the close. NDX 100, same type of setup inside the NDX 100. NDX 100 right now trading down 27 cents. You get 7 million shares traded. Yeah, it's anemic volume. You're going into 17 million, which is anemic volume at its highs anyway. Dow Industries, inside the Dow Industries folks, it's all about Boeing. Boeing saying that they think they're gonna start delivering their 767 Maxes in December. And God bless them, man. I don't know how they're gonna do that, but that's their claimant. And what you had when this thing come out, of course, Boeing shot up like a jackrabbit, 124 points. The Boeing itself is putting 124 points inside the Dow Industries folks, and the Dow's up 12 and a half points. Walgreens is putting 18 points, Apple's putting 11. Taking away from it, you get Goldman minus 25, you get 3M minus 22, United Health 20, IBM 17. So some big numbers right across the board. Gold contract, what do we have with gold? Gold contract out here. We had some nice volatility also in the gold market out here, actually all day. And gold right now, it hit a low, let me go, hit a low out here today of 1448. That 1448 bottom line, where was it going? Right to its breakout area. It's pretty amazing, actually. We went to 1448.90, and the breakout area from August 5th is 1448.80. What we did have here is that you, and I'll put this up so you can see how this traded out. From 10 to 10.30 this morning folks, bottom line, you had basically 3 million ounces of gold sold. Someone was either liquidating the margins, call who knows, or just selling it to the marketplace. That being said, guess what? The gold contract took it, ate it, spin it out and bottom line, what are you doing up here? You come back to the breakout area. You had lighter volume than a 1448.80, wants higher price. If we go over and take a look at the GLD, you're gonna be able to see it inside the GLD. GLD out here, coming back into 27 million shares and you're talking about 5.8 million. Yeah, big number. The GDX, we go take a look at the GDX, you're gonna see inside the equity futures, the gold equity futures in general. Bottom line, same type of setup, rejected lower price. Tremendously lighter volume. We're talking about 21 million going into, my God, 101 million. You're talking about some big numbers out here. Huge numbers actually. IWM, the small caps. Small caps are still the weakest indices out here. The small caps last week failed on price, failed on volume on the weekly basis. You're going sideways out here today, 6.7 million shares down 37 cents. I don't expect a lot of action there. Some of the higher volume equities, and this will be a low volume market of course, because we have the holiday happening. What we have is that you have advanced micro is up 15 cents. Chesapeake Energy continues low at straight in 81 cents. Walgreens, Walgreens is in play out here. It's gonna be pretty wild. If Walgreens, if KKR actually pulls this off. You remember, KKR was one of the first firms that ever did the largest transaction at that time, which was the Philip Morris ones. It was a big movie. Bottom line is that it was big money at that point.  So we'll see whether they can pull it off. Same firm though. Roku, Roku is up by $7 out here. We got Freeport-Mac-Maran down 43 cents. Bowling's the big one. Bowling's up by $18.16, no doubt big dollars up there. Oil, let's go take a look at the oil market out here. Oil right now, let's get the active contract. Okay, so the active contract right now trading down 33 cents, $56.91 a barrel. And it's hanging up here. That's the real bottom line. The swing point that you gotta keep your eye on is the $56.92. That being said though, guess what? The bottom line is that over that level, you're backing down today. This back down does have lighter volume. So we'll see if we can get a juice to the top side. Silver, we gotta take a look at the silver market out here. Silver rejected lower price out here today. And bottom line, we get down to $16.63. $16.58 was the breakout area in silver. That was the August 7th low. The high of that was $17.39. Bottom line, we'll see whether we can get some juice going to the top side. Silver has to get back inside $17.94 in order to get back inside its larger range. A lot of talk out here today about John Legend from Sprint. From Sprint, well from our first team mobile actually, about being the CEO of WeWork. Now it's gonna get intriguing there folks, no doubt. It's that they're still trying to put together the Sprint team mobile deal. But I can see how this came up because the bottom line is that if in fact that deal still goes through, that made SoftBank, that was a huge problem for SoftBank for years. And he fixed it if it goes through. Bottom line, maybe he's gonna be the fixer for WeWork. Stay right there folks, come right back.


It doesn't hurt that the morning starts out every day with a sergeant at arms warning you that if you don't you will be in prison Don't choose imprisonment instead of anything further Three of them will be in the slammer right now if John Roberts actually enforces Well, seriously, they're talking in the chamber period. I mean you're hearing the whisper and they're leading over each other They could be thrown behind bars by the rules of the Senate I Said for years that one thing that makes the left particularly dangerous is their ability to rationalize just about anything Not only do they want to stigmatize and I think even criminalize their political opposition I also never doubted that they would come up with some way to imprison them as well in my opinion The republicans are right not to take any of this impeachment seriously Does anybody have any doubt that the media would be dismissing all of this if the roles were reversed? What are they impeaching them for exactly supposedly abuse of power and obstruction of Congress? But what laws were actually broken when you ask what laws were broken the pro impeachment crowd will typically respond By pointing to the GAO report that showed Trump broke the law by withholding Ukrainian aid If that's impeachable as abuse of power under Trump Why wasn't it even a scandal during the Obama administration? And don't even get me started on these Democrat claims that we're fighting Russia in Ukraine So we don't have to fight him here. It isn't just our national interest in protecting our own elections It's not just our national interest in making sure that the Ukraine Remains strong and on the front line so they fight the Russians there and we don't have to fight them here Moreover as one witness put it during our impeachment inquiry The United States aid Ukraine and her people So that we can fight Russia over there and we don't have to fight Russia here You were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America. You said Russia Not al-Qaeda you said Russia in the 1980s are now Calling to ask for their foreign policy back and these ridiculous claims that somehow Trump is putting America at risk by withholding that aid when Russia invaded Crimea the Democrats and Obama did nothing and they Refused to give Ukraine lethal aid to fight back against Russia who ended up doing that Trump and the Republicans the Obama administration didn't even want to send lethal aid to Ukraine saying quote the fact is Ukraine Which is a non-nato country is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do Can you even imagine the uproar if Trump said anything like that more over it turns out that four of the Democrat house Managers that have been lecturing Republicans on support for Ukraine for the last three days Didn't even vote for legislation that would have provided the aid that they're lecturing about What I find very interesting now is that the house managers are very very Centered on the fact that Russia was invading Ukraine and military funding to Ukraine When did Russia roll their tanks into Crimea? That was 2014 Obama administration How did the Obama administration react to that invasion of Ukraine? They reacted by sending blankets This administration President Trump provided lethal aid to the Ukrainian people How many times have you heard somebody in the media or a Democrat claim that the Obama administration was scandal-free? Nothing like this even remotely close ever happened in that administration But you know I completely scandal-free. I think you know the talking points that many times we hear on Fox News You know the president was eight years scandal-free. No scandal. No nothing y'all Been scandal-free frankly in the White House we haven't had that for a while It's a really strange claim to make because we all know that the immigration problems that exist under Trump Existed under Obama as well. Ah, but the media never reported it as a scandal And in fact most of his supporters don't even know any of that stuff went on during his administration We also know the GAO found that the Obama administration broke the law seven times yet It was never a scandal in fact at the time the media claimed that it was just a partisan stunt by the Republicans Even will be in the slammer right now if John Roberts actually enforce the rule seriously. They're talking in the chamber period I mean you're hearing the whispers and they're leading over and talking to each other They could be thrown behind bars by the rules of the Senate So the obstruction of Congress is supposedly Trump withholding documents ignoring subpoenas and withholding witnesses yet during the Fast and Furious Investigation Obama ignored subpoenas withheld documents and withheld witnesses Barack Obama's attorney general and wingman Eric Holder ignored subpoenas to testify when Republicans attempted to hold Eric Holder in contempt Democrats actually walked out of the vote to the drooling applause of the media single Republican voted to hold the attorney general in contempt over this crazy Conspiracy theory tell the Republicans to stop this witch hunt now. He's right. Why go ahead with a contempt vote Look, there are certain internal documents that are not Congress's business Why it just looks like more of our broken politics and vicious fights now out in the open a party in the Congress That does just about nothing to create jobs or to help people without jobs Decided the best way to do their job is to shower the Obama administration with subpoenas There were none of these calls for imprisonment There were no calls to impeach Obama for obstruction of Congress and in fact It was never a scandal that brings us to today where the standards have now changed because it's a Republican president and Trump Is being impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress the only supposed laws that were broken were those that were pointed out by the GAO report, okay fine But if Obama was scandal-free then how is Trump now being impeached and not only are they impeaching him But they want him removed the president's misconduct Cannot be decided at the ballot box For we cannot be assured That the vote will be fairly won you see it's just like I told you They're setting up the narrative that the election is only legitimate if Democrats win Which is just another mind-blowing hypocrisy because it wasn't long ago that they said Trump was attacking democracy for Hypothetically questioning election results. They said questioning election results would irreversibly damage the integrity of the voting system And yet what are they doing right now? What have they done since day one as always? Thanks for watching. I had a lot of feedback telling me to bring back the Bolo t-shirts So if you head on over to my teespring store, we've got a couple new designs and I think you'll like It's a great way to support this channel and actually get something for it And by the way, if you'd like to support this channel, you can do so on patreon subscribe star or paypal You can find all the links in the description and pin comment. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back


Daniel, an important win with the black pieces in a crucial round. What happened today? Well, he played some extremely stolen line and somehow yeah, I thought it will probably go home I mean somehow yeah, even in the morning. I had a feeling since Things will not go my way cause I mean well, I tried to you know, I tried to complicate somehow but then I realized it was probably stupid when I Played the stuff with the 5 and so on When he took the spawn on a 5 I think I mean probably objectively I'm more or less okay But it's like black has to be extremely precise not to lose and white You can do almost anything I thought and then suddenly he played this cxf5 rook takes knight d4 and yeah, I mean even Without rook takes f2 it would be quite nice for a 4 black I think and then I realized I have this yeah rook takes f2 and my regional feeling was like Well, you know, it's too nice to be correct. So, I mean I normally calculate yeah a lot of such stuff and it never works Basically, and then I started yeah started shaking it and yeah, I realized it's kind of a reward, you know for For being ambitious till the end and then I realized it works a bit strange game and probably Well, he's only 15 I guess or 14 or 15. I mean obviously he's a very good player, but he still lacks Some experience, I guess Yeah, absolutely young lands from Spain. He just completed his international master title last month Now you were mentioning that You were either expecting to play against levon or against lands In today's round. So were you happy or were you relieved when you saw the pairing? No, I was actually I was quite unhappy because You know live and me we have some uh, yeah Some harsh story of relentions because I was actually the one to you know to let him win the world cup because we we played in around four, I guess And as the first game was a draw and then in the second one I had black So I was much better.  I mean obviously now gary killen is just a legend But uh, yeah before this game. I don't think you you heard about him. Yeah Well, that brings me to my next question.  You're in five and a half You scored five and a half out of the next six games What's going on? No, but I mean I've always been you know, streaky players. So I don't know. I mean it's Quite normal plus You know here, especially after losing in the first round. Well, I understand that why wins in a row or almost In a row. Yeah, I mean it looks impressive that actually You know being one of the favorites. I obviously I'm obviously facing well, I mean generally a weak opponent so obviously Everybody's quite strong here, but still yeah, I was much higher rated in all the games. So I don't think it's kind of Yeah A sensation or something. I mean it's just normal. It happens. Yeah, right now You won your game Levan also had a crushing victory against Nigel looking forward. You might be playing him tomorrow Are you looking forward to that? Well, yeah, no, I mean, obviously I'm always happy to play Any strong player. So I would love to play in Nakamura or Aronian or I mean Any top guy. So yeah, it would be nice. Right. Well, we're looking forward to seeing that. Thank you very much. Thanks


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with a 2020 Panini Mosaic Football Hobby Pack, Random Team Break No. 161, giving away six of those obsidian football spots. So we'll do that randomizer at the end. So there'll be two dice rolls. First dice roll will be for the break itself, names and teams. Big thanks to this group for making this happen. There are the teams right here. And then the second dice roll will be re-randomizing your names and giving away those obsidian spots. All right, but first the break. Six and a four, ten times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and tenth and final time. Ten times for the teams, two, nine, and tenth and final time. Got Washington down to Atlanta. All right, so here's the first half of the list right here. And then here's the second half of the list right there. No trade windows in these filler breaks. It's just a little pack break anyway. Let's alphabetize by team and let's just print and rip. I suppose that it could be a surprise in this hobby pack. We'll see. All right, so here's the final printout, hot off the presses. Thanks everyone for watching and for breaking with us. Appreciate it. And here's the hobby pack. So we got an autograph, Gino Atkins. There you go. Anna Mahomes. Not bad for a hobby pack. The Gino goes to Cincinnati. That's to Wilhash. We're on Cincinnati. And here's a Mosaic Mahomes. That's pretty sharp too. That's also for Wilhash and the Chiefs. Not too bad. Let's flip back to this screen right here and now let's give away those spots. Just grab everybody's names. There's the dice. There's the list. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names one and a six, seven times. So it'll be top six after seven. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time after seven. So from seven on down, it's going to be sad times. This spot's the worst. Sorry, Wil. A close but no cigar spot. Hey, thanks to everyone for giving this a shot. I appreciate it. There are going to be multiple opportunities to try to win spots, so keep tripping away at the next filler and the next one after that. All right. Congrats. Happy time for the top six. Sean A., Carlos, Joshua, Carl, Carl, and Nark. Congrats to the top six. You are in. That obsidian break. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com, and we'll see you for that break a little bit later tonight. Bye-bye.


Hello. Welcome to this ELC video. Today, you're going to find out about using effective voice stress and intonation in presentations. Okay. During a presentation, you do not want to sound like a robot. A robot sounds flat. There's no intonation and no word or sentence stress. Instead, it's just a flat delivery. My name is Roger, the robot, and in this presentation, I'm going to talk about drug problems among teenagers in Hong Kong and related solutions. Boring, right? No delivery and as a result, a very low grade. So what should you do instead? Well, first of all, you need to stress key words. My name is Roger, the robot, and in this presentation, I'm going to talk about drug problems among teenagers in Hong Kong and related solutions.  My name is Roger, the robot, and in this presentation, I'm going to talk about drug problems among teenagers in Hong Kong and related solutions. Okay. We have a great video about this on our YouTube channel. Have you subscribed, Jed? And remember, indie work. Make sure you finish it before the deadline. Okay. That's it from me. If you have any questions, please ask your class teacher. Thank you very much for listening to all these videos. I hope you've enjoyed studying with the ELC. See you around.


Hi, what's up everybody? Once again, it's Brandon Shawn and today we're gonna go over how to create your own hyping Accelerate into the big leagues the Playboy Cardiway And I'm doing this video because somebody asked me to do a Playboy Cardi video But I can't remember who it was if you don't know who Playboy Cardi is He's the artist currently associated with ASAP worldwide, you know ASAP Rocky ASAP Barry and all them number one Confidence, I know this sounds a little weird But if you hear a lot of people talk about Playboy Cardi the first time they met him even years ago He had a lot of confidence when he walked in a room You can feel it you can see it and that's kind of a part of that X factor that I went over in one of the how to get Signed videos legitimate confidence is such a rarity that people are actually able to sell it If you think about Rihanna the core of her brand is actually confidence not this whole bad girl thing But she exudes this confidence this X factor thing that so many artists Don't really have I'm not trying to compare her to Beyonce But even in comparison she just has this thing about her this aura that's just larger than life And it creates that X factor confidence creates an X factor feeling That could open some doors for you because people can't figure out and they just want to be around Number two is the most important though connections and associations Playboy Cardi he's known Ian Connor for years back when he was in like high school He'd known people in awful records if you don't know awful records They have big artists like like father. He's the biggest name There's also Abra and although he probably didn't you plan to use these relationships for rap at first when he first started To know these people but fortunately for him He had that great fortune of being around these people and two systems that were actually already Winning when he was messing with awful records heavy He was basically like the little brother and all these artists that are already winning or the systems moving and taking off And all some people already have millions of views, etc When that system's already moving and you're around that and you have these people Teaching you the game or helping take care of you and also around you So they're basically giving you additional credibility. It creates this additional aura around you This additional branding around you that makes you look official Once again, it's organic and kind of like chance for him But if you can find a group that you really mess with you like the way they move And you can be around them because they already have a system that's already winning It can do wonders for your brand and help you get past a lot of the bs But number three have a legitimate hit song and broke boy playboy cardy had a legitimate hit song Whether some people like it or not, there was a huge following and huge Liking for that song. So if you can have this confidence to self-fulfill in prophecy that make people feel and think you are a star You can get around the right people and hang around them And then on top of that Actually have some legitimate great music because he had all these great things going before He really put his music out. He started leaking and putting some things out here and there But the fact that a huge part of it was he was around awful records And then you had you added to the fact he had a homie and ian connor the guy who put little yaddy on and brought him to Kanye's fashion show and he's already connected with the asap mom who's that connected He had known him already and then he brought him over to asap mom He had the good graces of really being able to be a part of two crews Established systems that were already moving because he didn't really do a huge independent grind like that If you compare it to most artists He kind of jumped in some systems and they built his clout and then he capped off of it, which is I mean Which anybody should do if they had that opportunity if there's one huge takeaway if you can find That group an established system that's already winning will Incredibly increase your chances of winning as well and it will take away a lot of the groundwork that you have to do for yourself I don't know what city and place you are in but if you have that opportunity take advantage. That's it Hit that subscribe button