The final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 4277, in the name of Beatrice Wishart, on protecting marine life during unexploded ordnance removal. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put. I invite members who wish to participate to press their request-and-speak buttons now as soon as possible. I call on Beatrice Wishart to open the debate for around about seven minutes, Ms Wishart. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and thank you to members for taking an interest in this debate tonight. I also thank the minister for attending on behalf of the Scottish Government. I would like to thank her for her time when we met a few weeks ago to discuss this matter. Whether through the provision of food, energy or fascinating wildlife, the coast and seas of Scotland have for centuries been bountiful. As we continue to expand the use of our seas, we are met with increasingly difficult challenges that not only risk human lives but the very environment that we rely on. There are an estimated half a million unexploded ordnance items, or UXOs, in waters around the UK, many in the areas designated for offshore wind farms. Those munitions have posed a risk for decades, with numerous examples of unexploded bombs, torpedoes and shells being hauled up in fishing nets. I well remember an incident many years ago, when a trawler hauled up a torpedo off Fair Isle and came into Lerwick Harbour, and I am sure that the crew of the Lerwick Lifeboat remember it too, because two fishermen were lost as a consequence of dragging up a torpedo. As we continue to build more infrastructure at sea to help to meet our net zero targets, the sea bed must also be surveyed and cleared, and encountering those UXOs increases the risk to us and the environment. They are usually cleared by high-order detonations, where a counter charge is placed next to the unexploded munitions, and both are exploded, creating a large underwater blast. High-order detonations are thought to be responsible for affecting the auditory system of marine animals, and that can impact animals up to 30 kilometres away from a blast. The explosions also leave craters in the sea bed, where the remnants of toxins and explosives scatter through the water and can enter the food chain. However, there are alternatives to high-order detonations at sea, and militaries and navies across the world use low-order detonation by deflagration processes. Indeed, the Royal Navy has used the technology since the early 2000s. The alternative low-order detonation is less disruptive, reduces acoustic output by 20 decibels, and the affected area is reduced to 750 metres. After the UXO is made safe, what is left can be removed from the sea bed by remotely operated underwater vehicles. The Scottish Government is awaiting analysis from a Danish navy trial of low-order deflagration, which was conducted earlier this year. I would be grateful if the minister could let us know in her closing remarks what the timeline is for the findings to be known, and if policy changes are envisioned how long they will take to put in place. I became an orca species champion when I was elected in 2019, and I am pleased to say that I continue to be the champion in this Parliament. We learn more about fascinating animals and other marine mammals every day, not least through the many reports on Shetland orca sightings Facebook page. What we do know is that marine mammals rely heavily on their auditory systems and that their intelligent and social creatures harm to those auditory systems can disrupt navigation, feeding and communication, while noise trauma can cause permanent hearing loss and is thought to be responsible for leading to mass strandings. I am very grateful to join the member's contribution. Has anyone studied the impact of exploding ordinance on commercial fish stocks or spawning grounds this year, where, in any event, would the minister address that in closing? I think that there is concern, although I have focused this debate primarily on orcas and citations. A report into the 2011 incident at the Kyle of Darnes, where 39 long fin pilot whales became stranded, led to 19 deaths and revealed that noise from munitions and disposal operations in the area at the time was the probable cause of the strandings and deaths. As we see the stress, climate change is placing on our natural environment, is it not our responsibility to ensure that, as we develop more at sea to tackle the climate crisis, we also ensure that the same expansion is not further damaging populations of marine mammals and other sea life? Could the minister confirm if it is the Scottish Government's intention to end the use of all high-order detonations for UXOs discovered? I appreciate that emergency situations can suddenly arise, but new ways of clearance should be the preference for the environment and human safety every time. I believe that the minister is aware of my concerns about ensuring that Marine Scotland is well resourced in order to carry out its pivotal role in safeguarding what happens in our seas. Along with many other responsibilities, the body issues licenses for the clearance of unexploded munitions in Scottish waters. Will it be able to fill this role, as well as ensuring that those with licences are using the least damaging methods? If Marine Scotland is busy now and with offshore wind developments rapidly advancing, how can the Government ensure that it is keeping pace with developments and new technologies, as well as ensuring enforcement of UXO licences in real time? Transparency is vital in a regulated approach to new technologies and without it, how do we advance or improve them? The expectation of the Scottish Government and other UK regulators who signed up to the joint position statement last November is that developers prioritise low-noise methods, but that statement is non-binding. I believe that Scotland could lead the way and be at the forefront of new industries and the associated novel techniques to mitigate impacts to Scotland's marine environment. I would be keen to work with the Scottish Government to create a position that is binding and enforceable to help to protect sea life and marine mammals. In concluding, I would like to thank the stop sea blast campaign for the resistance and for coming to Parliament last month to hold an event to highlight this important topic. I would like to thank the MSPs who came along to find out about UXOs and their impact on the marine environment. I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate and congratulate Peter Swisher on securing it. Increasing development in the marine environment is leading to the discovery of a greater number of undetonated munitions. Clearance of unexploded ornaments is commonly undertaken by high-order detonation, as Peter Swisher described. It is a controlled explosion. It leads to loud blasts and it disturbs protected marine mammals. I agree with Peter Swisher that those blasts cost a huge welfare concern to marine life and to our natural marine environment. Since 2019, I have been raising my concerns over levels of unexploded ornaments that are washing ashore across beaches and coastal areas in Dumfries and Galloway. Although exact figures are not available, the Coast Guard and the Royal Navy Bomb Disposal Unit has reported that the number of unexploded ornaments that are washing ashore is increasing. While the exact reasons for that remain unclear, there is expert opinion that suggests that it may be due to a combination of sea levels rising, increasing offshore projects such as the construction of offshore wind projects and increased marine traffic. Bofors Dyke is a national deep water trench located in the north channel of the Irish Sea between Ireland and Port Patrick in the south west of Scotland. It is also widely understood that at the end of the Second World War, instead of taking the surplus unexploded munitions to dump them directly in Bofors Dyke, which was approved as a dump site, often the weapons were dumped outside or around the Dyke site to save money and time. It is therefore a little wonder that we are now discovering more unexploded ornaments washing ashore. According to the MOD, over 50,000 tonnes of explosives are disposed of in Bofors Dyke just off the coast in the Irish Sea. In July 1945 alone, 14,500 tonnes of five-inch 130mm artillery rockets filled with phosphine gas were dumped. In addition, according to documents from the Public Records Office, approximately two tonnes of concrete encased metal drums filled with radioactive laboratory waste and luminous paint were dumped in the Dyke during the 1950s. I have previously contacted the UK Government's Secretaries of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Defence to ask whether a risk assessment of the stability of Bofors Dyke and around the site has been carried out so that constituents across the region can be assured of its safety. I have sought assurance that there are no future plans to use the Dyke site as a dump site in the future. Unsurprisingly, other than one response from the MOD indicating that they believe that Bofors Dyke is to be safe and that it poses no threat, I have had no response from the Scottish or defence secretaries and therefore repeat my calls for Bofors Dyke to receive a full safety inspection. That would not only reassure constituents, it would also protect our marine environment as RSPB's director and McCall has herself shared concerns over the impact of undersea explosions on sea life. Alternatives to high-order detonation are now available to the commercial market. Some have developed in a military context or they have been developed in a military context but not used commercially while others have been developed purely for industry use. Those alternatives do require the use of explosive material to effect clearance but in much smaller volumes compared to the donor charges required for high-order detonation. Alternative methods cause lower noise levels, including reducing the impacts to the marine environment. I agree with Beatrice Wishart that her use is welcome and I would ask the minister to do all she can to press the UK Government to make use of these alternatives a standard practice. I repeat my calls on the UK Government to carry out a full safety inspection of Bofors Dyke and ask the minister to press the UK Government to use proven alternatives to high-order detonation as well. I thank Beatrice Wishart for bringing this matter to the chamber and giving Parliament the opportunity to speak on the subject. We absolutely should do all we can to protect the welfare of our marine wildlife, which is subject to so many challenges at this time, including from the impact of unexploded bombs. As we have heard, it is estimated that there are around 100,000 tonnes of ordinance in UK waters equating to almost half a million bombs, mines and shells left over from the first and second world wars. Interestingly and worryingly, much of this ordinance lies buried in areas that are now being designated for potential offshore wind construction, something that the Scottish Government is anxious to develop and expand in the coming years if we are to meet net zero emission targets. It is welcome news that some wind farm developers and energy companies are seeking alternative methods to clear unexploded ordinance, and many require contractors to offer low-order defligration as a process that can burn out a bomb and the likes without detonation. In this process, a magnesium cone is fired at the munition, causing explosive content to ignite and burn out from within without damaging explosion, which results in significantly lower noise emissions. It is a largely unknown fact that noise levels are only dependent on the size of the counter charge and not on the size of the explosive tested. However, low order is not standard practice, and the high order method is still commonly used. Of course, it is worth mentioning that marine planning and protection is a devolved matter to the Scottish Government, which means that if it falls within the responsibility of ministers in Scotland to regulate on this issue, the use of explosives within the UK marine licensing area requires a licence under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, part 4. In Scotland, the body responsible for licensing is Marine Scotland. In November 2021, Marine Scotland signed a joint position statement, which included the line, low-noise alternatives to high-order detonations should be prioritised when developing protocols to clear UXOs. However, as we have already heard, it is non-binding, and high-order techniques are similar and are still very likely to continue to be used to clear unexploded ordinance. I recognise the significant impact that underwater noise from ordnance clearance can have on vulnerable marine species, which means that we have to tackle the matter delicately and with great care. Campaigners such as Stop Sea Blast Group have rightly highlighted that. As I understand it, Crown Estate Scotland operates under a framework document that is set out by the Scottish Government, and among other responsibilities, manages and leases the seabed within 12 nautical miles of Scotland. Under taking surveys of potential sites for offshore and wind development, I know that unexploded munitions are often found, which need to be cleared. To clear such munitions, developers must apply for a licence from Marine Scotland. Specialist companies are then hired to carry out the work within the terms of the licence granted. We should all agree that any clearance methods used have to be saved and effective without causing any damage to marine wildlife. The UK Government supports the development and use of lower-noise alternatives than the high-order detonation, which is a traditional method. That is something that campaigners want to see happening in Scottish waters. The decision to prioritise the use of low-noise alternatives is, I believe, a welcome step forward and something that I hope the Scottish Government will take into future considerations. Previously, it said that it is awaiting the results of trials conducted by the Danish Navy before deciding on any future legislation. While it is important that all scientific data is taken into account, it is clear that alternatives such as low-order detonation, which can reduce noise output by several hundred times compared to the large blast, should be encouraged. Everything possible should and must be done to protect our marine wildlife and environment as a matter of course, in order to avoid a repeat of the incident that we are aware of with the Kyle of Dunes in July 2011, when 19 whales died. We must do as much as we can as soon as possible. I thank Beatrice Wishart for securing this important debate today on protecting marine life during unexploded ordnance removal. I also want to pay tribute to the work that stop sea blasts continue to do to raise awareness of this issue, including the informative event that they held in Parliament last month. It is clear that the scale of this issue should not be underestimated. As a result of the two world wars, there is now over 100,000 tonnes of unexploded ordnance in the UK's waters. As we continue to develop our offshore energy infrastructure, there will be a greater need to remove unexploded ordnance from the seabed. However, as we have already heard, unexploded ordnance is currently removed in a highly disruptive way to marine life and habitats due to the use of high-order detonations. As others have already explained, this is having a particularly harmful effect on marine mammals who rely on sound for navigation, communication and feeding. It is not just wildlife that is affected. The use of these high-order detonations also harms marine habitats, with explosives leaving craters in the seabed and damaging the seafloor. That is why we must urgently look at the use of low-order technologies in unexploded ordnance removal so that we can protect marine life and habitats. We know that these low-order technologies work. A UK Government-funded study found that low-order technologies reduce noise emissions and physical damage to the seabed. Crucially, those technologies are supported by a range of marine protection organisations such as Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Given the damage caused by high-order detonations and the evidence of viable alternatives, I believe that the time is now for concrete action from the Scottish Government and Marine Scotland. The Scottish Government has a national marine plan. That should be updated to include support for a shift to the use of low-order technologies in unexploded ordnance removal. Marine Scotland has signed up to a UK-wide regulatory statement. That signals a shift towards favouring the use of low-order technologies, but it needs to be made binding. Marine Scotland already has licensing conditions for ordnance removal, but they are outdated. Those conditions must be updated to ensure that developers prioritise the use of low-order technologies and ensure that high-order detonations are subject to tighter restrictions. I believe that there is another issue that must also be addressed through a change to licensing conditions. Most unexploded ordnance removal work is carried out by private companies on behalf of offshore developers. Given the risks associated with the use of high-order detonations and the removal of unexploded ordnance, I believe that there should be a clear obligation on employers to guarantee workers' rights and safety. I am calling on the Scottish Government and Marine Scotland to commit to exploring the introduction of a new marine licensing condition that ensures that employers adhere to established employment rights and health and safety legislation. Today's debate relates to the role that Marine Scotland plays in managing our seas. I would like to conclude by touching upon an on-going dispute involving its fisheries protection fleet. Up to 80 marine Scotland workers face the prospect of having a below inflation 2 per cent pay rise imposed on them by the Scottish Government. As Unite the Union has highlighted, imposing a pay award against the wishes of a workforce could constitute an illegal inducement and leave the Scottish Government in breach of collective bargaining arrangements. As well as taking the urgent action that is needed on the issue of unexploded ordnance removal, the Scottish Government must also engage with Unite and the Marine Scotland workers to deliver the fair pay rise that they deserve. I thank Beatrice Wishart for lodging this important motion and securing this afternoon's debate. I also thank her for hosting the parliamentary event on this topic last month. I was not able to make that, but I did have some very interesting and helpful follow-up conversations with EODEX and others about the Stopsea Blasts campaign, hearing about the pretty catastrophic impacts on citations and other marine life that most current commercial disposal mechanisms have and the alternatives proven low-order deflagration that Beatrice and others have so clearly described. I appreciate that in this chamber we are used to, or at least getting a little more used to, a fair amount of noise and disruption during business. Sometimes some of us might struggle to hear because of this disruption, but mostly we deal with it. Imagine if we used our auditory systems for navigation, for communication, for feeding, for staying alive. Without the system we would be completely cut off from our fellow creatures. We could not eat, we could not travel anywhere safely. In fact, we would have no idea where we were, what dangers or threats were nearby or anything about our surroundings. We would be essentially helplessly vulnerable. What if we were near an explosion that took out our auditory system completely? Within two kilometres of the blast it is almost certain that we would die because of the pressure waves caused by the explosion. Research shows that a complete kill zone of between zero and 50 metres, but an almost certain death zone of up to two kilometres from the blast site. Up to 10 kilometres away we would suffer permanent threshold shift, PTS, or permanent damage to our hearing. Up to 20 kilometres away we would suffer temporary threshold shift, TTS, temporary hearing damage. That might be enough to distort our feeding and communication to such an extent that the trauma is overwhelming and the consequences result in permanent damage. Beyond 20 kilometres there may still be some long-term behavioural impacts as a consequence of the trauma. To put this in perspective, if we were all citations in this chamber today, a blast at Haymarket station would kill us. A blast at Edinburgh airport would render us all with permanent hearing loss. We would become disoriented, hungry, traumatised. We would likely die. That is exactly what happened to the 19 pilot whales who beached themselves and died at Carl of Dorness as Beatrice Wishart and others have highlighted. We have a responsibility to act to ensure that we are not complicit in the deaths of citations and other sea life, to ensure that we do not just stand by and accept the release of toxins and the destruction of our sea beds that result from high-order deflagration. I am interested to hear what the minister will say in her closing. In addition to the questions and points raised by others this evening, I hope that she will provide an update on what requirements the Scottish Government is able to make of BP, Shell, SAC and other energy operators who undertake deflagration in Scottish waters now, especially in the north-east coast. That is perhaps especially important given the Scotland licences that these companies have and the work that they need to do in preparation for the development of the offshore wind farms. As part of that, I would also ask the minister what, if any plans, there are in place to ensure that proven alternatives to high-order deflagration will be used. The stop sea blasts campaign and others are clear. The so-called low-yield deflagration is not the same. It must be low-order deflagration and it must be proven to work, not hypothetical. In closing, I thank Beatrice Wishart once again for bringing this important topic to the chamber and thank the stop sea blasts campaigners for all that they are doing to raise awareness and act to protect marine species and ecosystems. Thank you very much indeed, Ms Chapman. I now call on Mary McCallan to respond to the debate minister for around about seven minutes, please. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. My thanks as well to Beatrice Wishart for lodging this motion on what her and I both agree is an important topic. As she said, Ms Wishart and I met to discuss the issue some weeks ago. I know that it is one that she cares very much about in his campaigning for it and I was sorry that I was not able to make the parliamentary event regarding it. I also thank members for their contributions this afternoon, many of which have focused on the importance of a healthy marine environment. The Scottish Government's vision for our marine environment is a clean, healthy, safe, productive and diverse one that is managed to meet the long-term needs of nature and of people. As members have pointed to today, our marine environment is increasingly important to our environmental, social and economic wellbeing. We must manage this increasingly busy space fairly and crucially safely, and I think that Ms Wishart referred to how dangerous this challenge can be, indeed fatal in some circumstances. We know that offshore wind in particular will be critical in our journey to net zero. We must seize the opportunity for our climate and for our green economy of the future, but we must do so in a way that predicts our waters, our marine wildlife, which ensures the health and safety of maritime workers, as Mercedes Valalba rightly pointed to. As members have said, the vast majority of unexploded ordinance is discovered when offshore wind developers come to prepare their sites for development. They have to be safely disposed of to allow construction works to commence. It has to be effective, it has to be safe and it must be as environmentally unobtrusive as possible. I know that Liam Kerr asked about commercial fisheries. I will focus my remarks on offshore wind as the motion does, but I would like to reassure him that licence conditions require that, if any dead fisher reported from the activity that this comes and is reported straight back to Marine Scotland. We are taking action to meet those objectives of safety and effectiveness. We do that through licensing processes and by collaborative working with other regulators and statutory nature conservation bodies. I would like to highlight exactly what the Scottish Government is doing today, as a number of members have asked me to. As regards licensing, in line with policies set out in our national marine plan, we are committed to reducing the effects of man-made noise and vibration on marine species, especially those that are sensitive to such effects. Before starting any UXO clearance on an offshore wind farm site, a developer must apply to Marine Scotland for both a marine licence and for a European protected species licence. Those two licensing regimes are underpinned by legislation and they require offshore wind developers to use UXO clearance methods, which produce the least underwater noise. When applying for those licences, developers must consider any satisfactory alternatives to meet their objectives of clearance, and they must have the least environmental impact. To further reinforce that commitment, the licences that we issue contain the binding conditions that I have been asked about, which mean that all possible opportunities to undertake UXO clearance using low-noise techniques must have failed before licences can consider the use of a higher-order detonation. Of course, we know that, as evidence develops, higher-order detonation is still sometimes required for human safety reasons, although we are watching as evidence develops on that. The robust framework that I have set out today will give members assurance that low-noise techniques are prioritised where practical, effective and safe. Beyond what we are doing in the licensing space, we are collaborating. We know that, to make the challenge of reducing underwater noise resulting from increased development in the marine environment, we must work with other regulators and statutory nature conservation bodies. We must do that to support the use of alternatives to high-order detonation. That is all of our goal. That is why, together with colleagues in DEFRA, in Bays, in the marine management organisation and NatureScot, we have signed that joint interim position statement, which sets out our collective position. Put simply, that position is that low-noise alternatives should be prioritised over higher-order detonations. However, clearly, as contributions have made clear today, those are serious matters with substantial safety and environmental implications. Moreover, alternatives to high-order detonation are a relatively new approach in a commercial context, and because of those two factors, we have to be sure that they are effective and safe. Early trials of low-order deflagration techniques show that they can result in much reduced underwater noise, which brings obvious benefits for acoustic impacts on marine wildlife. Further trials of techniques have taken place off the coast of Denmark. Those trials commenced on 22 January this year, after a slight delay owing to Covid, and six World War II mines have been cleared. Measurements were taken at a range of distances during this project to characterise sound outputs, and seabed and surface samples were also collected. I am particularly interested in the findings of this report, because, importantly, they took place in North Sea conditions and have a really strong applicability for us in that regard. The data from this trial has currently been analysed by scientists and will be made available as soon as possible. Of course, when that information is made available, it will inform our decision making and decision making across the UK, I expect, on alternative technologies. Beyond the scientific research that I have just outlined, the Scottish Government takes an active role in developing an evidence base to ensure that best available science will always underpin the planning and regulation of developments that are contributing to our low-carbon future but are doing so in a sensitive environment in which we must protect. Our Scottish marine energy research programme is playing a significant part of that. We also operate an array of acoustic readers across the east coast of Scotland, which, for almost a decade, have been measuring underwater noise before and during offshore wind farm construction. I am glad that the motion highlights and that members have asked for a call for new guidance from Marine Scotland. I am pleased to say that a review of our current consenting and licensing guidance for offshore renewable energy is being undertaken and the updated guidance will reinforce our position surrounding that effort to reduce underwater noise levels. However, mindful of time in conclusion, the Government is committed to ensuring that the deployment of Scotland's huge offshore wind potential materialises in a way that is sustainable and respects the marine environment and which, crucially, is safe to those people working in our marine environment. Our on-going evidence-based collaborative work, including with regulators and nature conservation bodies, will help us to deliver that. We have a robust framework that already prioritises low-impact clearance of UXO, and we are committed to considering evidence of new techniques as they emerge, always being sure that they are effective, safe and as unobtrusive in our environment as possible.


Next, I'd like to welcome Joe Lust with one of our partners, Mabel. Mabel focuses on intelligent testing automation. Application security testing isn't the only type of testing that software factories want to shift left, and Joe is going to show you how quality testing can also shift left. By using a review app, kind of like what we do with dynamic application security testing, Mabel has used GitLab to shift quality testing earlier, delivering results to the developer before the code ever leaves their hands. We invite you to engage with Joe in the chat anytime during his presentation or after. Thanks for joining our session today. We'll be talking about ubiquitous quality and how you can achieve that with continuous testing. I'm Joe Lust, an engineer at Mabel, where we build testing software solutions. I've been building for the cloud for the last 10 years, for the web for about 20, and if you'd like to keep up with me, check me out at Lust Coder on Twitter. But enough about me, what about our talk? We're going to talk about three ideas. One, I'm going to convince you that you need continuous testing. Two, I'm going to convince you that you can achieve that on GitLab, and three, I'm going to show you how to do that. Let's jump into it. So continuous testing, what is it? Continuous testing is testing at all levels of your code life cycle, not just testing the code that went out to production, not just testing in QA or in your CI CD pipeline, but testing at every commit in every merge request. Continuous testing is pervasive testing, and as we chase the ideal continuous testing, we have to understand why we haven't gotten there yet. To understand that, we need to look at the pre DevOps era. Most of you here today, you're DevOps experts, but you can remember the way things used to be. Before DevOps, we actually didn't test that often. We might have worked at companies where testing occurred monthly or quarterly, and oftentimes, this testing was paper-based. It was manual. Somebody followed the script, and this meant we didn't really get a lot of coverage because it was tedious and costly to do that testing. And the places we did that testing, those were sparse. Maybe we had a UAT environment or a QA environment, but there weren't many of them, and we had to be careful not to break them. And the result of all this testing was often reams of log output. Maybe we've talked with many testing professionals. I remember one call with Sarah, and Sarah's story was about how her typical Monday was getting to work, getting her coffee, opening Jenkins, and just looking at logs for several hours to figure out if the tests were good or bad. That's the way in the pre DevOps days we did testing. But now, in the post DevOps days, harnessing the skills you have with serverless in the cloud, we can do continuous testing. We can test instead of every quarter or every month, we can test every commit that's thousands of times a month. And we can use fancy new automation tools, self-healing tests, end-to-end coverage, all of the cutting edge tools that are now available. And these can harness, as I said, the cloud and the serverless tools in your toolbox to give us unlimited test environments. And finally, with the new insights we get from AI and ML, we can boil down Sarah's reams of server log outputs and Jenkins and give you the developer just the correct insight you need to fix that bug. As we move into that post DevOps period of testing, we move closer to the source of the bug. And I admittedly must say people like myself, developers, we are the source of bugs. And so we need to shift left. We need to get closer to the development life cycle to the source of those bugs. We don't want to catch the bugs out in production. We want to catch them where they're made. We catch them before the merge. We get the greatest savings. And I won't get into the details, but as you probably have already heard, there's tons of research that shows that further towards production, you get many fold increases in the cost. And now when you and your developers are no longer fighting fires, you can actually get more work done. You've probably come to work on a Monday. You'd have that list of things you're going to achieve and you don't because of all the fires you have to fight. Well, we can get rid of this whole section of fires. And finally, your QA team, when they're no longer chasing the silly bugs that I created, those regressions that have been broken four times in a row, because we've got better automation that catches them at the source at each commit. They can actually focus on the needy, hard to solve, hard to test business logic problems that you've got. All of this because we're shifting as far left as possible. So that was continuous testing. How can you implement it at GitLab? I'll show you. First, we're really going to need two things. We're going to need a way to scale our application under test. We've got to deploy that code somewhere to test it. And we have hundreds or thousands of these applications to test for each commit you made. Then we need to use something highly scalable, for example, like GitLab or VWAPs. And second, once we've got our test code out there, we need a highly scalable test running solution. Now you can go with a SAS solution like Mabel, which we much prefer. Or if you feel very proficient using tools like Kubernetes, containerizing browsers, things like that, you can also use these modern tools like Puppeteer, and you can combine them in your own cloud skills, and you can self host.  So a quick word. What's Mabel? Well, Mabel is an intelligent test automation platform. Our core tenant is we want to make everything easy, make offering tests easy. So we use a Chrome extension, when you can click around and you've got your test and now it can be replayed on many different browsers and very easily retrained, maintained, auto healed. Many features come from that. Second, you make a unified platform because testing touches many areas. It's not just the tests that you use developer right, but it's your CI CD pipeline, your source control management, your test tracking tools, your bugs and JIRA. All of that can be brought together in one voice, all its touch points with Mabel. And when you run those tests, you get tons of output. Honestly, Mabel, when we run one of your tests, we actually instrument everything and get almost gigabytes of data. Well, I won't get into the details, but just check it out. You'll see it's all there. And finally, we want you to create customer centric tests. We're not just loading a silly little react button and clicking on it in a test harness. We're actually running the entire application, hosted on a server, going through your auth, clicking on it in a real browser.  That's what you can do with Mabel. Now, you mentioned the second piece. You need a place to host that code, the code under test. We believe the solution for this at scale of preview environments. What is a preview environment? It's a on demand, short-lived environment. That means we're going to make it, use it, discard it. That's why we got this no recycling icon here. Because you might have worked at some original organizations that I have in the past, where the QA environment was sacrosanct. And if you broke it, 10 people told you broke it. Well, with on demand preview environments, everybody gets their own environment. Thousands of environments, doesn't really matter how many you have. Finally, I would just note, if you haven't heard of preview environments, you might have heard them as your view apps, ephemeral apps, preview apps, there are many names, but they all mean the same thing, that place that you're testing your code. Let's look at an example of a real world preview environment in MergeQuest and GitLab. Here we can see that our famous 10x developer, she's been busy, and she's got MergeQuest we need to review really quickly. So let's say it's really important, and it's for a major customer, need to do an ASAP. So we can see here that it's only CSS. So what could go wrong?  I don't really know that much about CSS3. So I think I would be inclined, given how important this customer is to just go down here and click approve. But what if there was a better way? What if I could really understand what these few lines of CSS really meant? What if I could show, rather than be told what it is? Well, you can do that in GitLab using review apps. So here, it's the same MergeQuest, but there is a review app here. And we've been told it's been deployed to review docs, this URL. And we can actually click the button right here to go and look at that app. So let's do that. Oh, my goodness. That, that is not right. Now, you might not be familiar with the Mabel homepage, but we are not a candy store. We don't sell candy canes. So this, this is totally unexpected. And we might not have caught this with a typical Selenium test. And if somebody didn't go in and actually look at it, we probably wouldn't find out until our customers were tweeting pictures of it to our detriment. So if we went back, and we gave everybody this button, we would democratize and enable testing across our organization, because you would not have to understand CSS 3. You could actually just go in and experience the application as a user would. And that's something that almost everybody can do. So with review apps, and these sorts of buttons, we really empower everybody in your organization to contribute to swashing bucks. So since you're DevOps experts, you're probably thinking, there are some challenges here. How are we actually going to operationalize all this? For example, you might be saying, all these servers, they're going to cost me a ton of money. And all the networking, the VPC, the firewall rules, and all the DNS entries and domain changes I need to make, this is going to cost me a ton of money and time. However, if we use your now post DevOps era cloud skills, we can use serverless to get rid of the servers. There isn't a server problem. And the networking problem, let's just outsource that as serverless solution, it can take care of that for us. When we push that lambda out, Amazon will route everything for you. What about all those domains and how do we set up DNS? Don't worry, we can use path routing or a wildcard. Now you don't need to make those, you know, dangerous changes to your DNS entries. And finally, cost isn't really a concern, because these new serverless solutions, they all scale to zero. They cost micro cents per request. It's a new way of thinking of things. But basically, it means that cost is no longer a challenge. So how do we go about making such a serverless preview environment? Well, I want to show you a simple case for the typical single page application we see today, or SPA, those are the sorts of applications you probably have in your organization, things like React, or Angular, extension JS. All you need to do is take the static content, mostly HTML and JavaScript, and drop it in a bucket. As we see here with these logos, it could be in any one of these cloud vendors, it could be in the buckets that you have an S3 and Google Cloud storage, the blob storage that you get at Azure. And finally, you might have some dynamic pieces of your application, we can drop those in a container, and we can run them on, for example, AWS Lambda, or in cloud functions, Google, or in Azure functions. Now the dynamic parts and the static parts are hosted, but they're all on highly scalable solutions. For example, at Mabel, we've gone in and looked and seen places where Google Cloud function might have scaled up to 25,000 parallel instances. But it's not a problem. It doesn't cost much and just scales. It's not something that you and your DevOps team has to worry about. So let me give you a detailed example of preview environments that we use here at Mabel. So every time we build one of our apps at Mabel, we take those HTML and JavaScript outputs that React compiles for us, we go and put them in a Google Cloud storage bucket. And that sits behind a CDN, a vanity domain name. So all that routing and networking is taken care of for us. We take the dynamic pieces, maybe some path rewriting that has to happen. We place that in Cloud Run, which is a managed container runtime, similar to AWS Fargate. And now we just keep scaling.  In the last quarter, so we've got 1000 preview environments, for about $1, really is that easy. And you might be wondering the details of how do we route all of those different application versions? Well, very simply, we can take our base URL, we can use path routing. So we give it a name, the pet store app, and then the hash from the commit you made. And now that will route to that specific version. And that domain can have many thousands of different versions on it. Similarly, you can use more complex mechanisms like wildcard domains, we've got an article here for you. We actually go into the deep details. We have code examples of doing this in Amazon and doing this in Google Cloud. Really is that easy. So now you've got preview environments, you've made them scalable, but we still need to make them work for you. As we mentioned earlier, we need to take those tests, those complex end end tests you've got that really test the entire swath of your application. We need to point them at your preview environment, each of those commits. So we can get that instant feedback back to the developer who's making that change. So she can know that she needs to pause and fix that problem before it gets any further. Further, we need to have that in your merge request, as we showed in that example, to democratize that testing across your organization so that anybody in your company can now go in and see what the change looks like. They can be shown, not told what it looks like. And that really enables people across the board to contribute. And finally, you can use some tools you've got in GitLab Pipelines, for example, merge trains to further take this to the limit. You can take main before you merge in, and you can deploy that to another environment. So you can be very sure when you merge to main or master that your tests, your code are all functional. Here, for example, we have what Mabelbot does for us. And every time we make that new commit, bam, we get a link that says, here's the preview environment, you can come and check things out. So you've gone through what this looks like and how you build it. Let me show you brass tacks of building preview environments and scaling them out in GitLab. So in GitLab, you're probably using CI CD pipelines. And there's really two components you need to use here. One, you need a review app. And the review app is that placeholder that tells the pipeline that you have deployed something somewhere. It gives it a name. It's the placeholder for that application that you just hosted. And two, we need to use the dynamic environments. Once you've deployed that out there, that concept of the dynamic environment is going to let downstream consumers in your pipeline use that application you just made. It's going to let them test against it, view it, do anything else they might need to. And this is by passing different environments in the URLs that are passed into the environment variables. Excuse me. So let me show you the YAML because as you all know, we are these days YAML programmers. I went to school for programming, but YAML is where it's at these days. So let's break this down. Here we have a stage in the pipeline. And we're just using Node.js because this is going to be a react app. And so we use the base node image. This is deployment stage. And now we're just going to run the build command. We're going to make the artifact that we would deploy for a single page application. Now we're just going to use gsutil because in this case we're going to Google Cloud Storage. And we're going to say make these files public from our build directory and go and drop them into our bucket. And we're going to call it app name, whatever your application's name is, and we're going to use the commit shot as the unique identifier board. And here's the magic. We're going to define an environment. We're going to give it a name. So now our environment is preview slash our shot. And we're going to tell it where that URL goes to. And now everywhere downstream from here can use the environment variable to get the environment. That's a mouthful. And they can test whatever they need to by hitting this URL. And finally, what do we have here? Well, we only want to do this for merge requests and for branches because that's where we're giving people that instant feedback. We're going to exclude me because you're probably going to use that in a different way. You're probably going to have other tools to take care of that. So that in a nutshell is the YAML. Now, one thing we're announcing today is our Gateway app pipeline integration. We want to make it even easier for Mabel customers on Gateway app to use us as that SAS provider to scale out the testing phase. And what we're going to want to do is run all of our intelligent tests on the Mabel cloud, which is going to help with scaling because maybe you've got one test you recorded in Chrome, but now you want to run it in Chrome and Firefox and Safari and Internet Explorer. And we want to parameterize these. So maybe there are 10 different permutations. So 10 times four, that's 40 tests. So we're going to instantly parallelize and launch all those containerized browsers right when you made that commit. We're going to get all the answers and then we're going to tell you if this passed or didn't pass right there, right away for you. So you don't have to worry about all the operational headaches that cause. And that test status update is going to pop right into your merge request as we see here, including links to the rich test outputs. So you can rapidly drill down, say, why did it break? Okay, here's the trace from Chrome's memory. I see the exact problem. So I don't have to go and make my own test harness. I can now change that line of code. I barely broke my workflow. I stayed in my flow state. Now, when I mentioned the live results, you can go view. This is an example of what you'd get in the Mabel app. If you're using that as your SAS provider, where we actually see all the deployments, how well they're running, and you can actually click on any of these runs, drill deeper, get the screenshots. As I said, Chrome traces, you can dump the HTML from the page. You can look at the actual network traffic that went back and forth. Many, many different outputs in there. So you don't have to go and try to find a copy of Internet Explorer 11 and figure out what went wrong. Let me show you again in the YAML how this would work. Here we've got a build stage. It's the Mabel test running stage, and we're just pulling in the pre-made Mabel Docker image. And in our test image here, we're going to pass this argument line. And all we're saying is A for the application ID. So this would be the ID of the application you want to test. And then we're passing in the URL. And here's that tongue twister environment, environment URL I mentioned earlier. And this is just being pulled in because we created a dynamic environment for our view app. So this would be passed down through our pipeline subsequent stages. And finally, we're using the built-in line to run the script execute Mabel tests, which is actually going to call Mabel, go out to our API, launch, as I mentioned, those 40 parallel browsers, get all the results and it's going to emit a good or bad zero over non-zero exit code. And it's going to do this for all of your merge requests. So what does this let you do? Well, it's going to let you not worry about how you scale those tests. Now, since you're all DevOps experts, we've got even more treats for you. If you like COIs, we've got the Mabel COI. Once you roll up your sleeves and dive right in, anything you could do on our UI, excuse me, most things you could do on our UI, creating, listing, editing a lot of our entities, you can do that right here with a single line of bash so you can stay in your most productive state, the command line, and tie this into all of your bash scripts so you can easily insert it into your other pipeline workflows. And using the COIs, you can see here, you can actually get the real-time test outputs from those tests you're running. Of course, you might be even more comfortable with the curl, some people, so we actually have an API. If you don't want to use the COI and you don't want to use pre-built integration, you can just hit the API directly for test results and creating deployments, all those sorts of things. So let's zoom out for a moment. Our core takeaway here is that you, as DevOps professionals, are critical enabler in your organization to bring continuous testing to the forefront. You can use your skills with serverless and with cloud to shift as far left as possible, finding those bugs in your organization and empowering many people that couldn't contribute before to contribute to the quality and the pace at which you are shipping product. If you've got any more questions, you can ask them below. I'll be listening during this talk or you can see our references we've got here. We've got some blog posts that give you the details of how you can set up serverless environments on other vendors like Amazon or GCP. We've got this slide deck and if you'd like to learn more about our integration, it's right here. And finally, Mabel is actually free as in no credit card.  You can do a free trial there. If you'd like to keep up with us, you can check Mabel HQ or West Coder on Twitter. Thanks a lot.


Building a business Oh wow, you've got a great idea So what next? Raising the capital to start up? Hey, don't be in a hurry Having a great idea does not equal having a successful business A lot of people, especially young folks, get so excited about their plans that they immediately venture into executing them Well, who wouldn't want to be the next celebrated entrepreneur on Facebook and Forbes? All over the internet we reach stories of successful entrepreneurs and assume that the only thing needed to build an empire is an idea We look at the glamour covering our faces from reality their failures, mistakes and years it took them to get to where they are now There is a need to learn that success is not an overnight journey Venturing into a business just because you have an idea will undoubtedly cause you to fall in a pit hole Before you start up that business, take your time to ask yourself vital questions like if that idea aligns with your passion and future goals if you will be able to stick to the venture in turbulent times Also, you ought to learn more about your proposed business network with other people in your niche and work on building quality services and products before starting up 2. Marriage Walking down the aisle with someone to spend forever with them isn't something to be rushed into It is a critical life decision Most people allow the pressure from family and friends to make them dive into marriage Marriage is a sensitive aspect of every human's life and you must be sure to be ready before you commit Being in your 30s does not make you prepared for marriage This relationship goes beyond age Besides, even if you are prepared, is your intended partner willing? No doubt it is not possible to fully understand someone But then you must take your time to study and notice certain behaviors of your partner Always bear in mind that being married does not mean that a person will change or drop certain characteristics If your partner does not change before marriage the chances are that they may likely not change even after marriage Therefore, you must endeavor to carefully decide whether or not you will be able to cope with the flaws of your supposed partner In all, don't rush into marriage, else you will most likely rush out 3. Large Financial Commitments The inability for people to think through and weigh options often lead them to get into substantial financial obligations that they cannot handle So, maybe you just got some considerable amount of money on your list is buying a car or you got a coupon for a house and you are thinking of acquiring a bank loan to purchase it though getting a good ride or home of your own is lovely Do you think you can manage them based on your present financial level? Have you thought of the fact that the value of cars and houses do not appreciate? A massive windfall of money is not best spent impulsively but after thorough research and careful considerations 4. Relocation Relocation is a huge deal Be it moving to a new town, moving to a new country or moving in with someone or just moving out on your own Many individuals especially in their 20s fall into the temptation of running out of their parents' house Many times their relocation is because of influence from peers Guess what? In most cases they come back home Also, when a relationship is at a rosy state ladies find it exciting to move in with their boyfriends However, in just a few months they tend to move out of the house and out of the relationship When moving out of a place to a new home specific considerations are to be made and arrangements put in place Do you have plans of relocating to a new country? Great! But be sure to research the culture whether opportunities and so on You want to move in with someone or you want someone to join you? Well, do well to make or know your boundaries You think it's time to part ways with your parents? Awesome! But don't forget to draw out your survival plan 5. Making a promise Promises mean nothing without the accompanying action No matter how small you may think of promises it has the potency of causing a massive hurt to others if not fulfilled To make a promise is to put your reputation on the line Your integrity is a valuable asset that you should not trade with on kept promises One reason why people make promises and fail to keep them is that the promises were made hastily Hence an anonymous writer wrote Don't make a promise when you are happy People don't respect you because you made commitments They do when you keep your commitments For this reason you should be careful when you give your words to others 6. Accepting a new role at work Getting a promotion at your place of work could be exciting What's better than more comfortable office space and a fat salary and allowances? However, you ought to put outside the benefits and ask yourself if that is the direction you want your life to take Indeed, money is a necessity for sound leaving But money alone cannot suffice for the unhappiness derived from a job role that doesn't bring fulfillment Understand that getting a new position at work will undoubtedly bring about new changes in your daily life Changes you may not be prepared to face This is not to say that you should say no to an offer But when offered a new opportunity make sure you carefully think it through and weigh all options before jumping into it 7. Making your relationship public How do you feel about celebrity breakups? Well, many a time the primary cause of those breakups especially the fresh ones is the media and publicity Too many eyes on a relationship are bad enough and worse when the relationship is a new one Often people get carried away by the sweetness of the early stage of their relationship that they hastily start expressing love in public social media especially Whether it be to your family or friends it is essential to understand and appreciate your relationship before you blow it open It is imperative to make sure you're well committed to your partner before introducing him or her to other people in your life Allow your relationship to stand firm first A relationship that is made up of many third parties is likely to be filled with pretense and partners may tend to stay in situations that are not right for them because of the pressure on them Also the opinions of others which are mostly filled with lies may pull down the relationship if the foundation is not strong enough Although we know that good things take time we get carried away by our desires that we end up rushing through things However to savor a delicious meal it is much better to eat it gently


Item Number SCP-807 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-807 is to be kept in a locked safe deposit box at Site-19's high-value item storage facility. Standard positive action defenses, explosive chemical, biological, and memetic are to be in place at all times, according to standard operating procedure. SCP-807 may be removed from its storage container with proper authorization for experimentation. All personnel working around SCP-807 must be well-fed and should wear oral restraints to prevent accidental ingestion. Description SCP-807 is a salmon-colored ceramic dinner plate 20 cm in diameter, with the words Last Chance Diner, printed on the edges in white. A small piece has been chipped out of one edge of the plate, just above the letter D. There are no manufacturer's marks, and to date, all efforts to find the restaurant in question have failed. SCP-807 transmutes any food served upon it into a variation of its original form, with high concentrations of fat, sodium, and cholesterol. Once transmuted, the food in question is enhanced in flavor and aroma to preternatural levels, to the point where the desire to consume said food becomes nearly irresistible. Anyone who does consume said food, however, will undergo cardiac arrest within five minutes of finishing their meal, due to sudden and massive fatty build-up in the major arteries. In some cases, immediate bypass surgery has been shown to be effective in saving the life of a subject. Addendum 807A Recorded Transmutations Cucumber sandwich made with fresh cucumbers, white bread, and 2cc butter. Fried Egg Sandwich Vegetarian Patty with fresh lettuce, tomato, and onion, with 4cc ketchup, 4cc mustard, and 2 slices dill pickle on a whole wheat bun. Luther Burger served on two Krispy Kreme donuts, with 3 beef patties consisting of a total of 0.5 kilograms of beef, served with lettuce, tomato, onion, 8cc ketchup, 8cc mayonnaise, 8cc mustard, with a fried dill pickle on the side. Luther Burger Data Expunged Further testing of high fat foods with SCP-807 has been suspended due to the high number of casualties. Lesson Complete If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-806 Resurrection Projection right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week my clients coming from California to get a cover-up done when she was 16 Years old she got this moon tattooed on her shoulder that she's no longer feeling anymore So with that being said let's get this day started. Let's go Tell me the story how'd you got that tattoo with detail, please? I want to hear this okay me my brother We wanted to get like matching tattoos, and we didn't think about it a lot, and I went and I got mine first He has the son it's not as good as mine mine doesn't look that good But his is a lot worse Wow, and I go into this tattoo shop. I just walk in I don't know the guy I don't make an appointment. I'm like give me a tattoo artist. Give me a time. I want a moon. That's it He's like how are you? Oh, it's like 15 or 16 and my mom had signed for it Does he just wow say it's like holding up pretty good for a tattoo that's like four or five years old Yeah, I mean the lines are really good. It's a well done tattoo Yeah, it's $60 Sitting there didn't take long at all like Maybe half an hour to an hour like it really wasn't long And it was after hours because his his books were closed so it's after hours I went at like nine o'clock and That's it got tattoo. I don't even remember his name I don't remember the name of the tattoo shop is somewhere in Ohio Shout out to that guy in Ohio. I don't know it's Ohio in general. Sorry. I'm getting it covered up But it just looks awkward the ideas that you had throw me everything you have God I don't even know like I'm the most uncreated person in the entire world. I literally had like one idea Let me see throw and I'll help you out. We can branch out of that Goddess of war and wisdom nice, and then I just looked it up, and I found this okay on Pinterest Okay, perfect. I'm gonna have you a drop this image in my tablet with my tablet Have you ever tried a dropping things to random people? In my fiance, we're going to Hawaiian and we're like, you know what I'm feeling so great Let's just drop some like nice quotes to people like some inspiration of quotes, you know, good Yeah Let's get this day started What you guys look comfortable as a Hey, it's gonna be what seven hours. I'm getting Heard him Sound like an old married couple I'm a shopping list that I want to get done by the end of this year. All right.  It better not be a small tattoo, bro Okay But is it an all-day thing are you leaving early a portrait Yeah, yeah, yeah Garatina satisfying Yeah Perfect perfect stencil. Thank you Man this tensor is crazy. I really like it a lot. He landed right where I imagined The line on the moon landed right where the crown ends or it begins Perfect sense. I'm gonna have you check it out on that mirror make sure you like the placement.  Oh, I'm excited now. Let's go. It's real now. You want to be in the video Kenny? I'm gonna have you sign a consent form real quick Any permission unlimited Jesus. There you go Shit Four years later, right now is it Is it like how you were expecting it to feel Running it at 5.0 voltage with my 27 curved Mac medium tone making sure that my background looks Looks very different that way. It's not boring. Just think black across the whole thing if you are planning on using this cartridge here of 27 curved Mac make sure that you know your hand speed and you know your Voltage you're comfortable with your technique Because it is very easy to irritate the skin especially with such a big Mac But once you get the hang of it, it is a lot faster to do backgrounds less irritation And here I'm just I started off with my solid black and slowly dipped it into my medium gray And fading it out that way it has, you know, it's fun to look at how I'm moving to my lightest gray So start fading it out to this area here. That way it's a smoother transition So right now, I believe it's been no more than three minutes and I'm already I'm moving I'm moving fast Thankfully For you Break time. Yep. I'm gonna start with my solid black The reason why I'm starting on these areas because I really want to test how dark The line work on the moon really is Once I figure that out, I'll make I'll adjust my tones and making sure that I navigate through it nicely To make sure that it's not just dark, you know, I want to be able to have dimension to it I want to be able to add dimension and Texture details, let's see. There you go. The reason why I'm using a 14 mile liner to To do the texture inside the crown it makes it way easier to pack in this to pack it in and Do up the easier cover up The Mac is more forgiven with the skin. So what it does it just bounces back So it makes it a little bit harder to pack in the color And with the liner, it's much easier As I get closer to the wings, I'm gonna keep making it darker To give it that illusion that is curving So what I did right now since it is painful. I added I sprayed a back team on her or a latikine To numb her skin that way she's able to continue and put it through a whole bunch of pain for no reason Did it help absolutely, I don't feel that that's good It's a cool if I include the part when you were cussing at everybody.  So it cancels each other out. They just cancel each other So it definitely helps to to have Blue ink on skin if it was red You got to use some dark colors Because red is so powerful that it's gonna overpower any great tone How's that? I didn't even know you started nice Five stars. Oh, yeah, five stars on Google. Did you expect it to hurt that much? This part hurts the most. Yeah, but you were fine throughout the whole session, huh?  Yeah Thank you guys for coming back and watching this brand new video I really appreciate it. See you guys next week and if you're a tattoo artist I hope you learn something from this video and if you're a tattoo enthusiast, I hope you're very entertained Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you guys next week. Peace


Actually, my name is Benjamin Arazu, I'm the local leader of TechSoup in New York. And I will share my screen, I don't know, are you seeing my screen? Yeah, sure. Awesome.  It has to do with technologies that helps non-profit. And TechSoup also is a non-profit that help other non-profit get in, they get, implement and use technology effectively, you know, in the next slide. So, we have values, you know, and we maintain these values. You know, we welcome everyone, everyone is welcomed and we put community first. And we are here to support each other like, you know, like what we're discussing earlier alone, you know, we're here to support one another, you know, and that support can be through the experience you have, you know, knowledge you have, you know, ideas you have in wanting or the other, you know, can be of help to someone, most especially the non-profit. The next value is that we build strong non-profits and technology is one of our tools. You know, TechSoup has a lot of technologies that help non-profit like, you know, organization where using some of those softwares and, you know, discounted tools from TechSoup. So, we invite participants, like everyone has something to learn and to contribute. We talk about that, you know. Everyone has something to learn and to contribute. We actually emphasize that so much because being a non-profit, you know, the areas that some of us will have knowledge on and that knowledge can be of good help to some people that did not, you know, have such knowledge. So, we invite everyone to participate in that. We teach order with kindness and respect. We teach so little stuff now. Okay, so this is who said that we'll need your help. You know, this is exactly what we were talking about before, you know. Like, anyone can plan events. You know, you can come up with anything that can benefit non-profit like this TechSoup non-profit program. Some leaders in my area actually did not know much about it. And some of them are leaders in non-profit organizations. So, I have to, you know, bring them into that and let them know what TechSoup can do for them. TechSoup connects you with donated and discounted products. You know, there's a lot of products that TechSoup can connect to non-profits. And I believe you said that your organization is using software from TechSoup. Is that what you said? Yes, that's correct. Yeah, likewise our organization. There's a lot of organization that is actually doing that. I knew some, a lot of churches in, you know, in Mohawk Valley in Utica area in New York using TechSoup products. So, software, hardware, projector, hospital, internet hospital, refurbished hardware and so much more. So, TechSoup connects you or connects any non-profit with donated and discounted products. Now, these are the companies that TechSoup will help non-profit to get affordable prices.  Actually, our church uses Zoom and the mobile, big corner church use that. And most of these companies, you know, the non-profit can get a very discount rate and affordable prices. You know, because of the relationship, you know, TechSoup have with them. With TechSoup, a non-profit with 10 staff saves. Now you look at my screen, you'll see that, see how much, you know, a non-profit can save from these products and fees, some of their demonstration fees, actually I hear it, crowd suspicions.  They have questions about digital engagement, design and web building, plus everything else, all from a non-profit perspective. And you can get most of those questions from the site address below, forums.techsoup.com. There's a lot of actual, there's a lot of information, you know, you can get as a non-profit from TechSoup, Tech Group, you know, they are knowledgeable on helping, you know, people and they can also schedule time, you know, to talk with a non-profit and help them to, you know, build some things out. And TechSoup also have a kind of a course, online course that they can teach non-profit, you know, there's a non-profit that don't have basic knowledge on computers and everything. In the god of technology, they will be able to help. Now, you know, so I don't think also that will help the non-profit when it comes to knowledge of many things, you know, TechSoup encourage non-profits to join events and connect with others. There's a lot of non-profits, change makers who are using technology for social good, you know. So, one of the things also I have liked also in TechSoup is that it connect you with non-profits organizations that are doing something that someone can learn from and also, you know, make use of their ideas in their own non-profit. And some of this, some of this event are actually beneficial for non-profits. So, they actually connect you, like if you go to event.techsoup.org, you'll see a lot of events scheduled to take place even to 2022.  The presenter was doing, you know, teaching how to design flyers and for non-profits. So, you know, some of these events enables you and help you to learn some things that ordinary, you may not have knowledge of. Okay, I, sorry, actually, this is where we're stopping for today, you know. So, I don't know, do you have any questions or contribution in what I just said? Well, now, we've taken advantage of licenses for some of the applications that you show there. Okay. And depending upon the product, we've done Adobe Premiere Elements as well as Adobe Acrobat. And we've used, I'm not sure we've gotten licenses for WordPress. Okay. That might be handled through the people who actually are hosting a couple of different websites that we have. So, they may be providing that part. But we've done a fair amount of video editing of classes that we've had given. And so, we've had to use a number of licenses of Premiere Elements. So, I've used, from my personal standpoint, have my own license of what's called the Adobe Creative Suite. So, I use the full version of Premiere and do that. I've looked into hardware. Okay. But unfortunately, the products that I'm interested in are really a small scope of what we really would consider. And the configuration of those products just are not strong enough that we would want to use. You know, the computer systems, for example, just aren't powerful enough to really provide the level of capability that we really need. So, you know, hardware we've not really purchased at all from TechSoup, whereas the software licenses have been a big savings for us. Yeah, that's been a big plus. And, you know, to be honest with you, I looked at some training that TechSoup had offered and the training was just so basic that really wasn't any benefit for me. So, that's not really something I'm considering that much anymore. If the training was more in-depth, more of a technical nature, then, you know, I'd strongly consider it. And as it stands, the other training just was not really any big plus for us. So, that part I'm not really concerned with. Well, thank you for your feedback and really appreciate that. And in regard of the training, you know, yeah, it's basic. But I think, you know, TechSoup can improve, you know, and on the in-depth. But I think for now, you know, they're doing it to help those that does not have a basic knowledge. Right. Yeah, so, and I believe they are listening to us right now. I believe they're actually going to have a program probably on that aspect that they will be able to go in-depth. And that will be awesome. You know, and so once again, I really really appreciate. You say you are using Zoom? You have used Zoom? Yeah, we've really expanded with, we're at the, I think it's enterprise level at Zoom. Wow. With the licenses that we have. We have close to 10 hosting licenses for meetings and what, two or three licenses for a webinar. Wow. And we can host a 2,000 webinar and 300 at meeting level. And we're running often, well, I myself, you know, often when we're in term for classes that we offer, I will manage three Zoom classes a day. Wow. Monday through Thursday. And then Friday, there would be a couple. And we have as many as about five or six people who are doing the same thing, hosting that many. So. What's the name of your nonprofit? We're called OSHA, lifelong learning. Institute Institute. At George Mason University. Okay. Ocean. Yeah. Oh, it's O S H E R. Oh, sure. Okay. Lifelong. Learning Institute. Okay. And we're, we're part of an umbrella organization. There are about. I think about a hundred and 20. Osher locations across the country. All meant for training. For training slash education for. Mainly retired people. Okay. And we're often. Affiliated with a university. Or college of sorts. For us. We're with George Mason University, which is a. State-sponsored school here in Virginia. And we're not actually part of the. University, but we get our logistical support. Okay. From the university and some administrative. Although we do have our own administrative staff as well. So, that's great. So, how long have you been working with them? I've been with. We call it Ali for short. Oh, I've been with Ali since. January 2017. I had a short break for. About nine months. Where I was working with another. Consulting firm. And then came back to, to. Ali. We're. All of us on staff are. Theoretically. Part time. With the exception of the executive director, who is. Full time. And we also have a board of directors that is. Elected. And they are all members of. Ali. Awesome. Well, I really, to be frank, to be honest with you, I. I really appreciate. I appreciate you being online today. You know, and. You know, listening to you also is an amazing. What you are doing. You know, and. I don't know if it is okay with you. You know, we'll be glad to. Allow it to, you know. Talk to us in the next meeting. You know, share your experience.  You know, sharing your experience and work and learn from. From. From you, how do you navigate. How do those.   Some people may not actually have. Have a way of relating, you know, and. We'll be glad to, you know, we're living there with the what is. You know, there's a lot of things going on in this war right now and. We should be able to learn from how what, how, how do you navigate from one.  How do you relate with people? I think the, the, the, the team may be relational, how, you know, how to relate in a place.  Navigate there. So I don't know if it will be okay with you. I'm scared of the meeting the next, you know, the next meeting will be holding. You know, ask you to just. Talk to us. Right. Well, you have to be honest with that. I would have to basically. Put everything through. You're my supervisor. Whether or not. I could speak for the organization. Okay. You know, just for whatever, you know, legal issues there may be. Okay. Now I'll, I'll send you my email, you know, so that you can let me know when. Okay. When you want to do that and we'll get you. Going. And I'm not thin also if. Even if, if the, if you cannot speak. You know, for organization. You know, if they are not, their policy did not allow that. Right. You know, you can speak as an individual. I don't know if that is okay with you, you know, because. I stronger believe that, you know. The amount of experience you have. Thank you, sir. Generation. Younger generation. Need to. You know, green from it. You know, and. I somewhat believe in learning from the elders. Right. You know, it's, it's going to help us because sometimes we may think that we know it all, but the elders that have been ahead of us. Have some wealth of knowledge that if we follow the full style. You know, we'll not make mistakes that we are making. I will make so. You know, based on that will really be grateful, you know, if you can. Help out on that area. And also, I also want to let you know that, you know, but what it's going to be recorded and, you know, sent to the tech super. YouTube channel. So what you said can benefit anyone. Anywhere in the world. You know, because I have come to realize that. Principles walk. You know, it's like a lot. A lot of gravity walk everywhere. In respect of a way you leave. Walk everywhere. You know, and I look at that's how I look at some. Look at advice from the elders and principles. So we'll be very great. We'll be very glad to allow you to. Address us and get ready for some questions because you know, during the presentation, you know, that may be. That may be some question of which I like asking questions. You know, my teacher told me when I was in school that the more you ask questions, the more you learn. You know, so, so that would be awesome. Do you have anything to say before we close the day? No, I don't think so. I'm just making sure I have your. I saved the chat locally and just making sure I have the information from the chat. So, yeah, I do have your email address. Do you know about when something would be scheduled? You know, we can schedule something by December, if you want, if it's okay with you. Can do December last, last Saturday of December. If that is not okay. Well, just choose, you know, let me know. Choose any Saturday in December that is okay with you, but we usually will go for last Saturday of the month. So that will give people enough time to. I'm looking at my calendar here. So that would be the 26th of last Saturday. Last Saturday actually is Christmas itself. Oh, no, wow. Okay. We'll do it. Oh, sorry. December. Oh, okay. We'll do it. Can we, what of January? If it's on a Saturday, I probably would be okay. That would be the 29th. Okay, we'll do it. But I'll have to check with, you know, again, my management to see whether or not, you know, I would be able to. Do you always look at 10 o'clock? Yeah. Yeah. Is that time okay? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I don't think I have right now. I don't have anything else scheduled. It's okay, sir. I have a couple of different computer groups I meet with on Saturdays, but. Right now there's nothing scheduled with them. So that's fine. It's okay. I really appreciate it. So I'll be. Looking forward to hearing from you. And I'll just get it going. You know, schedule it. You know. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Thank you so much, sir. I really appreciate it. Okay. Well, um, and as I'm great, I'm very grateful that, uh, the product you got from tech soup is, um, is helping you and helping the organization. And, um, like this is about the training, you know, what I believe they are hearing now, so now they can update it. So, you know, I try looking through it by myself and I know that, uh, it's just basics. So, but as I believe it can be updated, you know. Okay. Okay, sir. Okay. Nice. Having a good time with you, sir. Thank you, sir. Yeah. Bye bye. Bye bye. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.


Welcome to ToffeeTV It is Everton in reserve episode number five. The show where we sit down and we talk about Everton's Academy Their results, their performances and all of the latest news regarding the Academy. My name is Cameron I am your host for the show as I've been for the last four episodes. I really really hope you have enjoyed the previous four Big big thanks for all of the support on those really really do appreciate it. We'll start with Everton's under 23s first They did lose their game against Arsenal 1-0 Unfortunately an early goal by Emile Smith-Rowe within the first 10 minutes of the game Ended up resulting in an Everton loss. Arsenal did see a red card on the 62nd minute However, Everton were unable to get back into the game despite Arsenal being down to 10 men. It puts Everton 9th in Their league they've played a 1-3 draw 1 and lost 4 They were 7th and the next game is against Black Bay and actually today in the next 25 minutes 7 p.m Kickoff as of filming this so not a good result for the under 23s again Sort of in that level of form where they're winning up the you know the winning one They're losing one and just can't find any real consistency at the moment. They've got good quality there We saw that you know last time out against Chelsea big big win against Chelsea last time out So they have got good quality. They have got You know ability, but they just need to add that consistency to the you know to their performances because they are unfortunately Picking up defeats every now and then and ultimately in order to you know being that top bracket of the league They do need to add that consistency currently sitting ninth, which isn't the end of the world But I really really disappoint and defeat last time out and we do hope that they bounce back tonight Against the Black Bay and hopefully when we're sitting here next week talking about the under 23s It's a much much more positive result and a much much more positive performance Well, he did have the share of possession in that game And you know they have 52% of possession 11 shots same as Arsenal and two on target So he won more shot than Arsenal and the same amount on target to and just the game of Arsenal Converting their opportunity in the first 10 minutes and Neil Smith rose a play that's played First team football for Arsenal He's been in around the first team as well So he has got a lot of experience himself and ever and we're just unable to get back into the game from that point Which is very very unfortunate, but look we hope that that can be sorted out within the next couple of weeks or so And hopefully and you know we start to see more consistency from the under 23s the under 18 They'd have a big big 3-0 win against Derby County goals from Lewis Warrington Lewis Norman Dobbin and Thierry Small helped Everton to a 3-0 victory over Derby County They stay 6th in their league 1-4 drone 1 lost 3 their next game is against Leeds United away from home That is on Tuesday a 6 30 p.m. Kickoff and a very very good win for the under 18s Thierry Small popping up with another goal He's in absolutely fantastic fantastic form He really really is he such a good young player And he's even caught the attention of a couple of big European names which we're gonna talk about in just a second But good to see the under 23s and you know keeping up their performances Did go on a bit of a bad run of form after that defeat to Liverpool They were on a really really good run of form and then they did lose the Merseyside Derby Unfortunately, then they did have a couple of games where they just couldn't quite get their feet together And they picked up a couple of defeats But now they are back in winning form with a really really big 3-0 victory over Derby County Like I said, they play Leeds away on Tuesday another big big game for the under 18s Hopefully they can turn up and continue that run and go out and get another 3 points Which will be a really really important 3 points as well for the 23s And the bigger news about Thierry Small is that according to the mail and various other sources as well The young left back is being linked to Bayern Munich and Juventus Bayern Munich has said to have concrete interest in the player and have compared him to their left back Alfonso Davis A reporter apparently come out of Bayern Munich stating that they believe that Small is the best left back in the world Currently for his age group so big big big plaudits for Thierry Small Lucky he's been absolutely fantastic for the under 18 so far this season Not only defensively but he's getting forward, he's scoring goals, he's creating He's getting himself on the score sheet and he is a very very very good young player And ultimately Everton are going to have to do an awful lot to be able to keep a hold of him in the near future He's a good young player, still quite young 16 17 years old to be playing in the under 18s And I dare say that if he does stay at Everton for the foreseeable future He'll make that step up to the under 23s very very soon And then you know maybe even potentially into the first team within the next few years And so obviously the massive bit of news regarding Everton Football Club Is that defender Luca Dean has picked up an injury And he is set to be out for around two to three months according to Carlo Ancelotti Which is absolutely devastating because he is one of our best players One of our key players and young left back Niles and Konku Will fill in that position and maybe you know Thierre Small is looking at that And thinking you know what maybe that's somewhere I can fit in in the future He's a very very good young player and he seems to have solid concrete interest From some of the biggest clubs in Europe So Everton are going to have a big big job on their hands to be able to keep a hold of Thierry Small But hopefully they can do so We've got a really really good talent on our hands As well as some of the other players in the under 23s No Lewis Warrington popping up with another goal Lewis Norman Dobbin as well with it with another performance So the under 18s genuinely in quite good form at the moment He did have a little bit of a payable patch But you know this season they've been very very impressive And they do seem to have that consistency That maybe the under 23s are lacking at the moment And maybe just maybe David Unsworth will call upon Thierre Small to make that step up into the under 23s If need be before the end of the season But one thing is for sure is we're going to have a real job on our hands To keep a hold of him if sad like Bayern Munich and Juventus are sniffing around But that's about it for this week's episode of Everton in reserve Just one game each since the last time We spoke for the under 23s and the under 18s Like I said the under 23s play a game today in the next 20 minutes So against Blackburn away from home So hopefully that is a positive one We'll be keeping an eye out on that one A big big thanks for watching If you haven't enjoyed this episode Please do hit that like button It does only take a second Don't forget to get in the description Go over and follow us on Patreon as well It only takes a second and it costs less than a couple of shots of that I'll also go over and check us out Once again a big big thanks to Baz and 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