Winston Edmonton here with Studio B at IBM Edge 2013. Got a very special guest, Joseph King with CAS7. Now, Joseph just got a very prestigious award from IBM. Tell us a little bit about this recognition. Well, thanks, Winston. CAS7 was awarded the Winning Edge Award for storage sales in the East. And I'd just like to say it's our second year winning this Winning Edge Award. Last year we won it in federal, this year in the East. So I guess we're really executing how IBM would like us to. No stopping you guys. Absolutely. And you take a look at that Winning Edge Award and the awardees that I'm sure you've been talking with, it really comes down to how are they doing in the market? How are they growing their business? But let's really get down to it. It's how they're executing with customers. And how are they really using whatever area they want, whether it be storage, pure system, system X, and transforming their client's business. And in a way that really makes an impact on a day-to-day part of that client's IT business. And in the end it really goes to their bottom line. So I think it's very important. Now one of the factors that I've noticed throughout with some of the companies that have gotten recognition is their mastery over the topic, the subject. Absolutely. They're able to really just relay all the information. So tell us a little bit about the expertise that you guys bring to the table. Well, I think if you take a look at CAS7 is, we'd like to say is we'd like to do the hard work in the heavy lifting.  I mean, doing delivery, let's be honest. That's not the hard part. Really making this integrated into a customer environment is really what's important. So let's talk about, for instance, we're working with a regional hospital role in Maryland, creating what they're calling the medical grade infrastructure, or MGI. Now what are we trying to do with that? So the MGI project was around a couple things. Meaningful use stage two, they needed to encrypt all of their hospital data. They didn't want to have to pick and choose. So we came up with a solution on just encrypting everything. That's encrypting data at rest. That's encrypting their primary data. And then they also said like, we want to get away from things like, you know, an active passive data center. We don't want to do disaster recovery. We want to have our data available to us, no matter whether we have a data facility failure or not. So we worked with them using IBM technology, virtual storage center, IBM DS8870s, and we created this medical grade infrastructure with them that's going to allow them to transform their business. So if you take a look, what is that going to do to patient care? So, you know, storm rolls through the area, might knock out that primary data center, you know, maybe someone's having surgery. Maybe they need to be able to take a look at what medicines is that individual allergic to? You know, what were some of the previous work that's been done? It's going to impact patient care. And I think that's just one example of the type of project that we do at CES Severin. That, you know, really, it's not fulfillment. It's really developing a solution that has a profound impact on a client. And that's really what we do. That's powerful. And it, you know, kind of hits right at home. We're from Dallas and just not too long ago in Oklahoma, you had the tornadoes that came through and leveled some hospitals. And so just like you said, you're talking about solutions that really empower these facilities to continue to operate because of these hybrid systems that kind of keep all this information, this data available. Oh, absolutely. And it's that impact that's important. And it's not, as we say in the industry, it's not the lead speeds and feeds, you know, of these products that's important.  And that's really what we strive at CES Severin to do. You know, so again, you know, that's the second year in a row winning the winning edge award for storage. I guess we're must be executing pretty well and we're, I mean, we're just really happy. It's quite an accomplishment. It really is. So in a couple of years, they're going to have to give you a special ring to signify your consecutive wins. Absolutely, absolutely. Now, when customers come to you, I would imagine a lot of times they don't know exactly what they want or need. They're coming to you for guidance.  Walk me through that process. Well, I guess that's really the fun part of the job and quite honestly, why I do what I do. So you take a look at what's my role as I'm the vice president of pre-sales consulting at CES Severin. I mean, I have a top notch team. I have a top notch team. Average tenure on my team at CES Severin is about, is about 10 years. Average tenure of my team in the industry is probably closer about 15. Wow. All right, so you take a look at, and these folks are trained skilled individuals. They understand the technology, but they really understand business. Most of my folks that are solution architects for me, they came from running an IT business. So they're able to go into a client, take a look at, you know, what are your challenges? What are you really looking to do? Let me relate to something in my background that I was able to do. Now let's take a look at what we're able to do with great technology, like from our friends at IBM to really, let's solve that problem, to get that profound impact that we talked about with the medical grade infrastructure. They can immediately kind of just connect the dots of all these. Absolutely. Interesting, I like that. So I guess that would be the best practices. Have a team like yours. Have a team, if you know you go and you find the best and you really, it's a culture. So our culture at CES Severin is really to provide, we like to call it the intelligent answers. Provide those intelligent answers that are going to have that impact on your customer's business. They're going to have an impact on whatever their business is, whether that's healthcare, whether that's be manufacturing, distribution, insurance, and really just getting down to that intelligent answer that has that impact, and that's what's really important. So you guys are out in the field, you're getting firsthand these topics and these recurring problems that customers are bringing to you. What are some trends that you're able to identify as you solve these problems? Well I think one of the ones, so let's talk about one in particular. So we like to say in this, and with IBM one thing we like to say is, let's try to just store less. So data, just the amount of data that an average organization has is just exploding and I'm not going to go into all the IDC numbers or all the Gartner numbers on all that. I mean they can go on with, here we know, it'll always be growing and it's never going to stop. So what are we doing from an IBM technology standpoint? Things like real-time compression. So we're able to go into a client and this is going to have a profound impact on them. What's it going to be able to do? We're going to be able to reduce their data load by 60% just by using IBM's real-time compression. Now you take a look now, what does that do? Now that's going to be able to sit there and tilt a cost curve for them. So maybe instead of them making that next large investment, having to make that next large storage investment, maybe in three months, maybe we're able to push that to nine months, 12 months. Now what are we able to do with that? We're able to use that capital that would have been tied up with that investment, use it to another part of their business in order to have innovation in another area. So maybe we're able to take that compression savings then use that into maybe data analytics. Maybe taking a look at, let's take a look at your organization and let's see you want to have more intelligence in your market and you really want to be able to squeeze that and that's what a lot of what you've seen folks like today, Jeff Jonas was doing a talk in the main tent this morning on that fact. So there might be like a direct impact where really what we're trying to do is we are free up that money for innovation. Try to get folks off that maintenance cycle, trying to get to where they're able to really innovate. For Mark, well that really is. So let's talk about savings as far as personnel because a lot of these solutions I would imagine enable customers to rely less on actual people sitting there and doing a kind of a mundane job. You're able to kind of have the software do that. Tell me about what you've experienced. Let's do a specific example on that. So around let's say virtual desktop infrastructure. So we've teamed with IBM and some of the great reference architectures that they've done in that virtual desktop space. Now what we've been able to do, we've been able to take a headcount that might be sitting there replacing PCs relatively mundane task and again, let's get to them for innovation. So we've been able to retask, retrain those people that might have just been delivering PCs, delivering monitors and gone to where they're really working in the data center, creating those virtual environments. Now what they're able to do, not access that data just from their desk, access that data on an iPad, on a tablet, maybe at home. Now, let's be able to do that where it's encrypted, protected. And now, if a laptop gets lost at an airport, maybe we're able to not have such a profound business impact and they're not gonna end up in the newspaper. So again, we've taken a headcount, retrain them into something that's innovative instead of mundane, again, profound business impact when you do that. This is real important business strategy. I mean, a lot of people I think, imagine IT as just kind of a necessary, the computer geeks in there doing the necessary. No, but this is so strategic because like you said, you're freeing up resources, you're able to advance areas that, prior to this, have not had the funding or had the manpower to move forward. Absolutely, Winston, and you take a look at is again, going from IT as being a cost center, as being a part of the innovation of an organization. And I think we really believe strongly at CS7 and when we talk with our clients about that, what we're talking about there is that business impact. The product will happen. It's defining what that business impact is going to be. And that's really how we, let's be honest, I think that's one of the things while we're executing that I think IBM saw in awarding us that the winning edge award two years in a row is that impact, so. So I know you have to run, but let me ask just a few more questions. When you talk to your customers, do you get the sense that you're still having to talk them into these things and really put it out there in a way and sell them? Or are they the point where it's pretty well known that these opportunities are out there and you're just making yourself available to implement these things? Well I think it starts, I mean there always has to be the first one. So Winston, there always has to be that first person that has to take that big step. Now at CES Severn, we've garnered through having project success after project success is having a customer base that's willing to take that first step with us. So we're typically able to find, someone was that first person who decided to take a look at encrypting their tape storage so they didn't end up in the Wall Street Journal when a tape fall off the back of the truck. There was always that first person who did that. But again, being able to show success in that track record and in there again, because CES Severn isn't looking at doing fulfillment, we're looking at providing those intelligent answers, those real solutions that have that profound impact. They'll go on a journey with us, a multi-year journey that we're really working together striving to hit those business goals that they're using, getting IT from being a cost center to being an innovator in business. I love that. So let's, for the folks that are watching and they want to do business with multi-year recognized IBM partner, what's the best way to get more information or get in touch with you guys? Absolutely. Our website's probably the best place to look, www.CESsevern.com, that's www.CESsevern.com. Perfect. Thanks Winston. Joseph King, appreciate it. Absolutely. Winston Edmondson Studio B, checking out.


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Welcome to The Journey. Today we're going to talk about how to start your service business. Let's go! Hey, I'm Emma, your GoDaddy God, and today I'm super excited to be joined with my co-host, Justin Nealy. Hey Justin, what's up? What up? How are you? What are we going to talk about today? Starting your service business? Exactly. We're talking about starting your service business. I'm already like dying to know where do you begin because there's a lot of things that I'm sure you have to do, but what's first and foremost? Right. And you have to take that first step of really figuring out what you want your business to be, right? You can't just go, I want to be a service-based business. Well, what do you want to do? If you want it to be something that you're actually passionate about because you're going to get a lot of the things that you don't want to do, like the admin or just the runaround. And if it's not something you're really passionate about, it's not going to last. I love the passion component.  You're 110%. Absolutely. You're going to do the best work. Right. It's your why. It's why you do what you do. Yeah. So what do you need? Where do you start? Probably step one, just to make sure that you're productive is to buy a computer if you don't have one. If you're watching this on a computer, then just disregard this. Move on to step two. That's going to be step one. Move on a smartphone though. I feel like I do everything on my smartphone. You can do a lot, absolutely, but it's all about being productive. You can flip two different tabs, to go different screens, do a bunch of stuff that you potentially couldn't do, or if you have to go and type everything out on a smartphone, it's going to take you a lot longer than on a computer. It's good to have both though. That's a good point. Okay. So you have a computer, got it. Then what's next? I'm thinking social media, but that's just because I'm obsessed with it. Domain, like where do you go from there? So probably the next step is to figure out what your name is and buy a domain name and get your social media handles. We've got a couple of videos that we talked about really diving into Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook in the links or descriptions below. As soon as you have that domain, then you need a website. Social media is great, but you can't always control social media. Do you remember Vine? Yeah. Yeah. It was a super popular platform, right? Everyone invested all their time and it's gone. So all those followers went with it. And with your website, it's there to help you generate leads and you control it. And it'll, it's there for as long as you want it. And then you piggyback into social. Another thing, I'm so just wrapped up in the digital world. Absolutely. But I was at a trade show recently, walking the floor, networking, and I forgot my business cards. And it's easy to do because I do so much in the digital world. Right. So I just, but I got by. I got by. But I'm just curious as a small business owner and the local heroes listening in, are business cards still an important thing? Absolutely. It's, it's absolutely relevant. In fact, I got a business card today. And it blew my mind. The quality of it, right? Look at that. Super cool texture with the font. It's something tactile. And if you're on the go, sometimes you might not remember the domain name or the handle or things like that, but that business card is just something to really make yourself stand out. And especially if you get a cool one like that, that it's different. It helps. Did you want it back? I mean, I might. I'll get it later. I didn't even notice you put it in your pocket. So some places you get business cards, there's places like mood.com. That's pretty cool. There's Vista print. They've been around forever. We talk about Canva a lot. You can create your own business card on there and they can print it off for you. What do you use? I use Canva because I like to really design every part of it. And there's a couple templates, but to each their own. Now when it comes to getting your actual work done, I imagine you need to have what? Office space, workspace, space in your home. It's going to vary, right? Is that important? It's somewhat important. It depends on where, what type of service you provide. If you don't ever really talk to someone face to face, you don't need an office. But if you want to be able to have meetings with people, things like that, you don't have to invest in an office space. There are a ton of just co-working spaces popping up all over the country. Some are free, some are freemium, some are paid. It just depends what the budget is. But with those co-working spaces, what I love about it is it's not only a place to work, but it's a place to... Free coffee? There's free coffee too. It was coffee and kickflips, but it's a great place to network. You get all these like-minded people around you that you can piggyback ideas off of or find just complementary businesses that maybe I'm a web designer, right?  You start sending me web design leads, I start sending you graphic design leads, and your service just builds and builds and builds. Or work at home, have a little office space, something that's just yours free of distractions. I know I'm like a squirrel, I'll just get distracted all day. I'm working and then Netflix will pop on and my dog runs by and I get distracted.  I love the working at home. It's not for everybody, but... Not for everyone. It is if you like to work in your PJs. That's how I do my web apps. Okay, so one more question for you. How do you stay productive doing this? That's tough, and it really depends on the type of service business you provide. There's not one answer fits all, but I'll go over some of the things that helps most people. First off, you need some type of productivity suite.  I would almost caution people to have basically get a second number. And what I mean by that is not going to get another phone, right? Get another... There's lots of digital services where you can basically have another number on your phone.  Is it business? Then it gets confusing. Separate the two. Absolutely. And then you don't answer like a weirdo and like, hey, this is Nealey's web design and it's your mom, right? You want to make it professional so you have that difference. She'll be happy to hear that you're always working and working hard. She's so proud. And just separate your personal life from your business because otherwise it's going to start getting overwhelming. I say the same for social media. If you have a business, go and get a business page. Don't use your personal page. Absolutely. All right. And then let's talk about getting paid. Like your service business, right? All right. You want to get paid. You're not doing this. It's not a hobby. Not just a hobby. We all got bills. Yeah. Passion that pays. Yes. Lots of tools out there. If you're going in person, probably square or something like that. So you got that little dongle and you can swipe that credit card. Get that money. Venmo is probably my favorite just to read the comments personally that people talk about. But quick and easy way to get paid. Otherwise, there's PayPal and Stripe for your website and things like that. Sounds like a lot of options. We got options. All right. That's a wrap. I want to thank my co-host Justin for being here. It's been awesome. You're the expert. And we learned a lot about how to start your service business. But I'm sure you have questions, so go ahead and drop them below and be sure to subscribe to our channel for more videos like this. See ya. Bye.


What's up, everybody says fan here and in case you guys hadn't already heard Blizzard just announced they just released the 2018 blizzcon schedule and I have it loaded up right up here and Let's be honest, you know, there's a lot of good things that you know, Blizzard does you know, that's fine but this is what we're all excited about and that is a this guy right here on November 3rd, so Saturday the second day of blizzcon they're going to be having a Creating wow classic panel from 530 to 615 here from the world of warcraft developers as they discussed their journey To recreate the classic wow experience. I would say the majority of people who watch my channel This is kind of the main thing that they're hyped up for the main thing that they'd be excited about is while classic We already knew this is gonna happen. Ian has a coach that said there's going to be a demo And there's going to be a dedicated panel for while classic having having the the panel isn't necessarily news In and of itself, but since I guess the the date and time and everything is set and official now I kind of wanted to share with you guys some kind of some footnotes some things that I expect to see at this panel what I would like to see I guess and We can go from there. Well first off, let's talk about this. We know we know that it's going to be on patch 1.12 They've talked about this before They they think that patch 1.12 is the most complete version of vanilla and it's the version that They think will represent or they think it'll be the best fit for while classic So we know that they might talk about that a little bit more, but we already know that I would like to see how they Treat the raid content and the itemization and I mean that in terms of progression The concept of progressive raid content It's pretty well received that that is the best way to approach the game if they were to release the game and to put Nax out right at the beginning. I think the game would just be straight-up dead on arrival I think and I don't think I really don't think they're going to do it, but I would just would like to see some confirmation I expect to see some confirmation of that something that I think it's very important, but not quite as important as Progressive raid content is progressive itemization I actually made a video about it in the past if you want to go back there and you want to check that out And there's certain items that you have early on in the early patches that get changed later on it Actually changes how you approach certain situations how you play your class and and really the I would say the difficulty of the things that you encounter in the game So I would like to see progressive itemization as well. Also It says hear from the world of Warcraft developers as they discuss their journey to recreate the classic WoW experience This leads me to believe that we're probably gonna get our first chance to officially meet the team I think that's something that's going to be really really cool to finally be able to put a face on On the people that are making this there's also kind of been like, you know There's been some some rumors kind of going around You know not to get too conspiratorial or anything Whether whether it was the leaks that anybody can go on the internet and post or the fact that you know tips tips did an interview with Nano from the Strout Nostalrius and he said that nobody has heard from Damon or Viper in about a year and a half Jay Allen Brack said in a Forbes interview that they would be willing to Kind of consult with them to kind of take on their expertise So I don't know not not to get too conspiratorial. We don't want to do that But but I think that'd be something in interesting to watch for as well the next thing that I would like to see are Plants for a beta period there is going to be a very small testing period for the week after blizzcon We already know about the demo. I think that we could possibly get a beta close to the end of the year Maybe even early next year. I think we're really not that far off from a beta period I'd be very excited about a wild classic beta. I might make another video about that The next thing that I would like to see is gameplay footage And more specifically, I want to see Some comparisons if they have higher resolution textures if they have higher resolution spell effects I actually want to see them and I want to judge for myself I want to judge my own eyes instead of my imagination running wild and like how could this be? How could that be? I think it'd be cool to if they are if they are gonna tighten up and increase the Resolution of these textures I don't know at least be able to see them and instead of just kind of hey, we're doing this or we're not doing I mean, I'd like to hear if they're doing this or not doing this, but I'd like to actually see it as well I'd also like to see how we'll actually access the game if it's going to be a part of the retail client Or if it's gonna be a separate button on the battle. Net launcher. I expect it to be a part of the retail client You know again, we talked about the Jay Allen Brack Forbes interview He has said that they don't necessarily want to worry about managing two MMOs at the same time Maybe what he was alluding to was that you you access the game through this and we also know in the Wow classic develop the developer water cooler that came out a few months back that They were going to strip down the original game And work backwards basically like reverse engineer the game to classic as opposed to try and like spaghetti code it together And make it work that way another thing I think a lot of people are Wondering about a subscription model. I hear it all the time on my streams Do I think it'll be the same subscription? Do I think it'll be a separate subscription? Do I think it'll be the same price or I think it'll be cheaper or whatever? I fully expect Blizzard to have one subscription that's shared between Classic and the live servers and especially if they're a part of the same client, right? This kind of this kind of goes back to that especially if they're part of the same client I do expect it to just be the one subscription. So you just you pay for wow you get wow I think that'd be cool. I think that's great. And from the Blizzard side of things They might see it as a way to get People who are mainly focused on live Wow to maybe try classic and people who are mainly focused on classic Wow To try out live Wow. So we'll see just from like a business standpoint. That's what I expect them to do I'd also like to hear about how many servers they plan on launching I think how many servers and the cap size of those servers kind of go hand-in-hand to kind of Give us an idea they might not tell us this because if they tell us this this Inadvertently gives us information about what their expectations are for how many people are going to play classic off-launch And they might not want to say maybe I don't entirely expect them to but I think that'd be something cool to hear from them and Also something that I've talked about for a really long time is the implementation of battle net I would really like to hear about how they're there want to do that because battle net is very different I know there's discord. I know there's there's different means things have happened over the years People people having a much easier time communicating outside of their Their their smaller network than they did in 2004 battle net is one of those things that's been implemented in the post that Could have adverse adverse effects in the game particularly on PvP servers and stuff like that as far as like Cross-faction collusion goes and just being able to right-click somebody the opposing opposing faction Like you can and retail wow and add them to your friends list I think stuff like that probably shouldn't be implemented But I would like to hear it from them and see kind of where they're at with that how they want to implement battle then Anyways guys, thanks for watching This will be my very first blizzcon that I'm going to myself Stay safe and tips are all getting to go together and we're incredibly incredibly excited Class class crew is gonna be there I'm sure we'll have a lot of stories to share with you guys and make sure to check out my streams on Twitch Follow me on Twitter as fan TV on every platform. 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The next item of business is this statement by John Swinney on Scotland's redress scheme. The Deputy First Minister will take questions at the end of his statement. Therefore, there should be no interventions or interruptions. I call on Mr Swinney for around 10 minutes, Deputy First Minister. As a Parliament, we have pledged to keep the promise that all of Scotland's children grow up loved, safe and respected. But a rightly ambitious future ddechrau'r bwysig i gaelio i ddweud yn y tfyniadau diwyllu yn y past. Yn 11 maen nhw'n gyllidiaeth, rydyn ni'n gwybod, rydyn ni'n ddim yn ei ddweud y dyfodol yn cymryd gyda'r Sgolton Cair 2021. Rydyn ni'n gwybod i'r sgolton yw ymddangos i gaelio i ddim yn ei ddweud i gaelio i ddweud i'r pethau sydd yn ei ddweud, ac yn ddweud i'r sgolton y rydyn ni'n gyd yn ei ddweud i'r sgolton datblygu o'r y cyntaf ar y peth hynny. Felly, cim�u bach eu caleon, a oedden nhw i mewn cwmysgol, a chwsdo gy乎eimniol hwn hynny o fod o gyllid ein bod yn cymrydol iawn. Mae Faherdoddau yn cychwyn dair i'r ddweud agor dess i allu o'r ystod yn dweud i'r cyfrifiad aír cael ei dweud, oedda i dweud i ddweud, a i ddwy o ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud a ddweud i ddweud.—nid o'r cyfan menthau. Mae'ch angen i ddechrau i wneud â nifer o blynig ni. Ych ymdweud armaiol wedi bod ni wedi bwysig i gadegau'r broses yn gorffs ac yn y ddych chi'n ffordd o y ddefnyddio'r gwneud ysgol. Fy gennymai bwysig i gael am gweld, ac mae gennymai'n gweithio'r ffordd o'r cael ei g dingflaenau ond rhai. Maen nhw'n fawr i gydag rydych chi'n mynd i gael i'r rhai amlaen i gael i gael i'r rhai amgylchedd by offering redress to survivors through Scotland's redress scheme. As a nation, we are taking the step together to acknowledge and address the injustices of the past. I hope that survivors and the families of those who are no longer with us, whose tenacity and determination have led us to this milestone, can feel a sense of justice today. Out of the horror that they endured, the silence that they were forced to keep in childhood and beyond, they fought for recognition. Part of that recognition is delivered today by this scheme. In September this year, Lady Smith, chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, said that, for far too long, survivors' voices were not listened to nor heard. They were treated as if their views did not matter, and as if they were not worth listening to, just as they were when they were abused in care. We accept that the steps taken by Government to respond to survivors between 2002 and 2014 are periods in which spanned different administrations happened too slowly and did not go far enough. During that period, a significant number of survivors of childhood abuse in care in Scotland died. Lady Smith said that, for them, justice delayed was justice denied. Today, the Scottish Government apologises unreservedly that it did not respond more appropriately and sooner to the concerns of survivors of abuse in care who called for a public inquiry. We apologise to the families of those survivors who died before the inquiry began its work and before the redress scheme opened. We know that many survivors are advancing in age and see their health decline. That is why we launched the advance payment scheme in April 2019, which has now made payments to more than 700 survivors. That, too, is why we have worked as hard as we could to open the scheme as soon as possible after the legislation passed. The scheme will be delivered by the Scottish Government, which will be the main point of contact for applicants, and by Redress Scotland, the new independent body that will make decisions on eligibility and levels of redress payments to be offered to applicants. Everyone involved in both organisations carries with them a commitment to ensuring those who apply to the scheme will be treated with dignity, respect and compassion. Those three principles will be the hallmark of Scotland's redress scheme. I invite all survivors who are eligible for the scheme to consider applying if it is the right choice for them. There is a personal choice and there is funding for independent legal advice to help survivors to make the right choice for them. Support is available at every stage of the application process. Caseworkers in the Scottish Government have been carefully recruited and understand that applying for redress is not an administrative task. It will, for some, be deeply emotional as they come to terms with their childhood and navigate the sensitivity in disclosing to others what they endured. Caseworkers will offer help on how to obtain supporting documents, they will give advice on completing the application form and answer any questions that applicants may have. We recognise that some people may decide that they need additional emotional support or feel that they would benefit from additional practical support, such as specialist help to access records. In those circumstances, caseworkers will be able to refer applicants to the redress support service, a new bespoke service that can provide access to external specialist services using existing networks developed by the In-Care Survivors Alliance. We also recognise that some applicants will want the independent support of a solicitor of their choosing. The redress scheme will pay fees for a solicitor to support applicants with their application. There has been a strong survivor voice throughout the process of designing and developing the scheme.  Their input has been crucial in so many aspects, in developing the service, testing application forms and other materials, and in helping in the selection of panel members for redress Scotland. The first 20 panel members for redress Scotland have been appointed through the public appointments process and come from a range of diverse backgrounds. Each panel member has undergone training to build on their experience and to apply it to redress. A huge volume of work has been undertaken at pace to open for applications today. As the scheme becomes established in the weeks and months ahead, we will continue to work with survivors, listening and responding to the experience of applications and refining and improving how the scheme operates. A new survivor forum will be established early next year to ensure that applicants have a mechanism through which to continue to provide feedback and to make recommendations for improvements. There have been a number of opportunities for survivors to contribute their thoughts and ideas on shaping the survivor forum, including through workshops and a questionnaire. Everyone who applies to the redress scheme can, if they wish, become a member of the survivor forum. It will be inclusive and accessible to all, offering a range of ways to participate. The scheme will be open for at least five years, and we will ensure that we raise awareness among survivors and their families so that as many as possible who are eligible have the opportunity to apply. That will build on the work that we have done to involve and engage survivors so far, and on the learning gained and connections that are established with relevant organisations and survivors through the advance payment scheme. As of today, the advance payment scheme will close to new applications. Applications that are already received to the advance payment scheme will continue to be processed. Organisations that were responsible for the care of children at the time of the abuse have been asked to participate in Scotland's redress scheme and to make fair and meaningful financial contributions to redress payments for survivors. That is what survivors have told us in successive consultations that they want. Those with a responsibility for the failings of the past have a responsibility to do the right thing today. That is a national endeavour, and it is morally imperative that collectively we join together to believe and support those who were not believed and not supported in the past. The statement of principles according to which fair and meaningful contributions are assessed was published last week in preparation for launch. I welcome those organisations on the list of scheme contributors, which is published on the Government website today, and those who are finalising participation and will join imminently. Discussions with other organisations continue. I am confident more will follow in addressing their legacy by joining our collective response in the days and the weeks ahead. The redress scheme is now open. Those who want to find out more can find application forms and guidance online at mygov.scot.com. From 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, phone lines will open for those who would like hard copy application packs posted to them. They can call 0808-175-0808 for survivor applications or 0808-281-7777 for next-of-kin applications. A team of specially trained caseworkers working on behalf of the Scottish Government stand ready to help all applicants at each stage of the application process. The lines will be open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday to Thursday up until 21 December, when we will close the lines for the Christmas and New Year break and reopen on 5 January. Finally, when I announced in the Scottish Parliament that there would be a financial redress scheme, I also offered an unreserved apology on behalf of the Scottish Government to everyone who suffered abuse in care in Scotland. Today, I reiterate that apology to survivors and their families. While we know that we cannot fully make up for the harm that was done and for our failure to take action sooner, we hope that this acknowledgement goes some way to redressing those wrongs. Survivors of childhood abuse have had to endure unbearable pain. Today, as a country, by opening the redress scheme, we take a further step in addressing that suffering in the hope that our actions now begin to address the failings of the past. Thank you very much, Deputy First Minister. The Deputy First Minister will now take questions on the issues raised in his statement. I intend to allow around 20 minutes for questions after which we are willing to move to the next item of business. I would be grateful if members who wish to ask a question could press their request-to-speak buttons or, as soon as possible, a place and hour in the chat function. I thank the Deputy First Minister for advance sight of the statement and add my absolute support that we, as he mentioned, on a cross-party basis remain committed to the on-going success of the redress scheme as it opens, an issue that rightly brought us together as a Parliament and legislation that I am proud to have played my own small part in, meaningfully. There is much to welcome in the statement, which I think reflects the calls and asks of the survivor community. Next is kin payments, funding independent legal advice, the promise of the survivor's forum and a commitment to those underlying principles of dignity, respect and compassion, but more importantly, a reiteration of that apology, one that I add the voice of those benches to as well. Let me ask a few specific questions to the Deputy First Minister, which I feel we are not addressed today. What forecasting has taken place regarding the potential scale and volume of the levels of financial redress that may be sought and paid out, given that the Government will underwrite the majority of the low-band payments? Of those who have committed those organisations, who rightly should participate, what level of funding has been committed by them to ensure that they pay a fair and meaningful share of redress? May I ask who, or indeed how many, have failed to rise to the occasion and shamefully refuse to participate in the scheme? Lastly, I can ask more about the nature of local authority participation, because many will be wondering the effect that that might have on them. What discussions have taken place with local authorities about their participation in the scheme so that they can meaningfully participate in it, but do so without jeopardising their ability to provide vital services to young people today in our communities? I thank Mr Greene for his questions and acknowledge the enormously helpful role he played in the passage of this legislation through Parliament earlier on in the last parliamentary session, which I think was appreciated, certainly by me and by all members of Parliament. In relation to his specific questions on forecasting, we haven't changed our position from the material set out in the financial memorandum for the bill, which gave estimates, which, by their nature, will always be rough estimates of the volume of investment that will be required. However, he is correct that the financial approach is that we will pursue contributions from organisations, but the Government expects to make a substantial contribution over a number of years to the scheme. In relation to the contributions achieved to date, more than £115 million has been committed to the scheme, 100 million of which is coming from Scottish local authorities, and I welcome the contribution that local authorities are prepared to make to the scheme. The list of contributors is published on the Government's website today. We will continue to update that because there are a number of different examples that are specifically being negotiated at this present time, so I expect that list to change and develop over time. I think that some organisations will have waited to see this getting off the ground and to see others being prepared to take the decisions to contribute. I thank those who have made that contribution already and obviously will pursue those further discussions with individual parties. In relation to the impact on local authorities, local authorities have been very constructive about the issue in their discussions, and we have come to an agreement that the local authority contribution will essentially be top-slice from the Government's contribution to local authority funding over a number of years to spread that burden appropriately. Mr Greene makes a very valid point, which he will know from the legislation, was an issue that we wrestled with at length in the legislative process, that we must take care, and that is where the thinking around fair and meaningful contributions comes in, to ensure that, although we pursue legitimate contributions for the past, we do not jeopardise the ability of organisations to provide vital service upon which young people depend today, and that sensitive balance will be applied by the Government. Michael Marra Thank you to the Deputy First Minister for an advanced site of his statement. I would like to associate those benches and the Labour Party with his eloquent and heartfelt words and reiterate the importance of the apology that has just been made. I hope that survivors may now feel, in part even, that they have been listened to and that they have been heard. Today marks welcome progress in redressing the abuse that survivors have suffered and that the scheme is now operational, as welcome news indeed. What actions are being taken by the Government to further publicise the scheme to ensure maximum participation? I thank Mr Marra for his comments. I think that he is right to characterise this in the hope that survivors will feel listened to at this stage. Obviously, I have placed on the record the answer—if my memory serves me correct—to Pauline McNeill when I answered an urgent question on this point some weeks ago. The report from Lady Smith and the paragraph that I quoted is one of the most uncomfortable paragraphs that I have had to respond to in terms of being written about by the Government. I hope that survivors feel that we are now properly addressing the issues that they have raised. In connection with the issue of publicising the scheme, there is an awareness campaign that will be rolled out as part of the launch of the scheme to maximise the understanding and the awareness of the existence of the scheme. I am heartened that we had 700 applications in the advanced payment scheme, but that suggests to me that word was able to get out, because obviously the advanced payment scheme was only available to a limited proportion of the survivor community. The fact that we had 700 applications that were successful gives me hope that we can get the messages out, but obviously we will put a great deal of effort into ensuring that. I would invite members of Parliament to support us in that endeavour as well, because it is vital that individuals are aware of this and that they make applications as appropriately. Clare Adamson, to be followed by Mekin Galla. Thank you, Deputy First Minister, for your statement, not just for its content, marking the milestones in the Redress Scotland applications, but also to reiterate that all-important apology to victims of historic child abuse. What measures and reassurance can you give to historic child abuse victims that they will be treated with dignity, respect and compassion throughout the application process? I am not in any way surprised that that is the question that Clare Adamson puts to me, because it was an amendment from Clare Adamson in her capacity as the convener of the Education and Skills Committee in the last Parliament that inserted the words dignity, respect and compassion into the legislation as part of the founding principles of Redress Scotland and the Redress Scotland scheme. I said at the time that that was an important addition to the bill, because essentially it gets us off an establishment scheme on exactly the right footing, whereby every individual will be treated with dignity, respect and compassion. I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago to meet with the staff who will be administering the scheme. I was making the point to them that, from the first moment, a phone is answered in a Government office, which is a call made by a survivor. That survivor must feel dignity, respect and compassion in the answering of that phone call. I know that, having spoken to the members of staff, I know how committed they are to that work. They view it as an important task. I have set out the importance that the Government attaches to that being done properly, aided by the wording that Clare Adamson inserted into the legislation to ensure that we have the right values and ethos underpinning the scheme, and I am confident that that will be applied by our staff. The Deputy First Minister's previous update on the scheme in June set out that 25 per cent of applications to the advanced payment scheme had been rejected. How will the Government continue to support survivors who struggle to access the appropriate records? Does the Deputy First Minister expect that the rate of rejected applications will continue? The issues that we have wrestled with in the advanced payment scheme are slightly different simply because of the eligibility criteria that were involved in that scheme. I certainly would assure Meghan Gallacher and Parliament that we will be supporting individuals in the accessing of records, because I recognise that to be a significant and potentially very stressful experience for individuals to minimise the risk of records availability being an obstacle to individuals being able to access the scheme. That support will be there. There will also be wider wellbeing support, which is available through a number of channels. I recounted a number in my statement to make sure that we recognise that individuals may need support, which is not financial support, to enable them to navigate their way through what I recognise to be a very challenging period for them. To ask the Deputy First Minister what legal advice will be available to applicants going through the process. Applicants will be able to obtain independent legal advice. We have set out the framework basis in which that will be available to enable individuals to be able to make a judgment about the scheme. As I have indicated in my statement, and it was an issue that we wrestled with at length during the legislative process, that scheme is not for everybody. That scheme may not be appropriate for certain people, but individuals must be able to make an informed judgment about whether that is the case or not. That is an important part of the availability of legal advice. I welcome the statement, and in particular the apologies that have been made by the Scottish Government to survivors. Does the Deputy First Minister agree that, for many, the additional practical and emotional support will be even more important than any financial compensation? Could he outline what work is being done to establish the redress support service, how much it is likely to cost and how we can ensure that it is properly resourced? I accept the point that Katie Clark makes to me. For many individuals it will be the surrounding support, which is just as important in some circumstances possibly more important than the financial support that is available. I hope that the move today is viewed by survivors as another means of helping to try to address their suffering. I do not, for a moment, believe that financial compensation does that. If the wider support can do that, we will have helped people in a way that is meaningful. Those services need to be supported financially or on an on-going basis. The Government has arranged schemes available, but I do not have the sum of money to hand with me, but I will confirm it to Katie Clark in writing. However, we have a range of support schemes that are financially supported, where individuals are able to access that support and they are able to get assistance in coming to terms with their suffering. The Government has given a long-term commitment to those endeavours. To ask the Deputy First Minister what steps the Scottish Government has taken to ensure that the waiver scheme is fair. The waiver scheme is a sensitive part of the scheme, and it was sensitive during the passage of the legislation. However, in the Government's view and ultimately in Parliament's view, the right measure to enable us to secure contributions. We obviously have to make sure that, when individuals are making applications, they are doing so with a full knowledge and a full understanding of the issues with which they have to wrestle. The taking of independent legal advice is crucial in equipping individuals with the ability to make a judgment as to whether the waiver scheme is appropriate for them to sign. I am pleased that the Scotland's redress scheme has been established so quickly since the passing of the historic legislation at the end of last session. I also want to acknowledge the Deputy First Minister's apology, which he has repeated again today. We all agree that applicants should be treated with dignity, respect and compassion, and it is important that survivors have access to the survivor forum. I wonder whether the Deputy First Minister will indicate how redress Scotland will ensure that applicants are not re-traumatised and what plans the Scottish Government has to continue raising awareness among survivors and families of the scheme during its lifetime. There will be an on-going campaign to make sure that awareness is high. We will obviously be monitoring the pattern of applications. We have a good benchmark from the advance payment scheme of what may well be a reasonable expectation of applications to come forward. We have to make sure that the work that surrounds the survivor forum is inclusive and that it gives a platform for survivors to have their input. I hope that what I have said today gives reassurance that the Government is interested in a continual basis to listen to survivors and to understand how we can support the enhancement of the delivery of the scheme to make the maximum impact on individuals who have suffered in the past. James Dornan, who joins us remotely, is followed by Maggie Chapman. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I would like to start off by thanking the Deputy First Minister for all his hard work in getting us to this place, along with the work of many others, of course. However, can I ask how the newly appointed panel of 20 experts were selected and what steps were taken to ensure a rigorous recruiting vetting process? I thank Mr Dornan for his kind remarks. It prompts me to thank a whole range of civil servants who have worked extraordinarily hard since the passage of the legislation in March to make sure that we are at this moment. There is a huge amount of very complex work that has been undertaken. I gave Mr Dornan a timescale, which I suspect in civil service parlongs was described as heroic. He has risen to the heroic challenge, and I am profoundly grateful to all of him for what he has contributed. In relation to the panel of experts that have been recruited by Redress Scotland, those individuals were recruited through the normal public appointments process of the Scottish Government, so they were subject to a range of scrutiny. I had the pleasure of meeting the first group of the panellists in the course of the last couple of weeks. There is a very broad and diverse range of skills, experience and perspective, including lived experience, which has been brought into the panel. I think that we will be well served by those individuals. Can I thank the Deputy First Minister for sight of his statement and welcome the opening of the scheme this week? I would also like to associate myself with my group with his heartfelt words, and I hope that survivors will continue to feel heard throughout the operation of the scheme. Can I thank him too for the recognition of the importance of providing non-financial redress, such as emotional and therapeutic support? I too would be interested in the information that he has agreed to provide to Katie Clark. Can I ask for further details about the arrangements for reviewing the impacts of the waiver during the first 18 months of operation of the scheme? What I should probably do is write to Katie Clark and I will place that letter in Spice just so that all members can have access to that information. In relation to the review of the waiver, I committed during the legislative process to that being undertaken. Indeed, it is part of the legislation. Over the course of the 18 months, we will be gathering information and evidence to support that review on an on-going basis. We will learn from the experience of individuals about the effect of the waiver and we will be keen to make sure that we understand and apply that in the review that is undertaken. I will be very happy to update Parliament about the progress of that review in due course. Alexander Stewart, to be followed by Cokab Stewart. I welcome the fact that a survivors forum will be established early next year. Can I ask what mechanisms we have put in place to ensure that their views and opinions will be acted on along with any recommendations for improvement? Can the Deputy First Minister provide any further information on when the forum will actually be launched? The forum will be launched very swiftly once we begin to build up the engagement with survivors. I want to assure Mr Stewart that the forum will be able to have access to submit its thoughts and views to Regis Scotland and to the Scottish Government. We have to make sure that, on an on-going basis—we have backed the point of answer to Mr Marat earlier on—we have to make sure that the voice of survivors is heard loud and clear in this process. If we have failed on that in the past, we cannot fail about that in the future. So that is uppermost in my thinking about how we engage survivors to learn of their perspective on those issues. Cokab Stewart, to be followed by Sarah Boyack. Thank you to the Deputy First Minister for the clarification on the selection of the panel. Can I ask the DfFM how the newly appointed panel of 20 experts will aid in delivering the redress scheme? There will be essentially two elements to that. The panelist will be independently determining the applications, independent of government. The Government will do a lot of the work to prepare applications and to support individuals to be application ready, but the decisions will be taken independently of government in redress Scotland. The second area is that I think that they will be able to bring a really fantastic range of expertise to a number of disciplines, social work, clinical psychology, legal services and lived experience to the operation of the scheme, and it is important that we hear and understand those messages. Deputy First Minister, is it possible to outline how constituents can apply for support from caseworkers and independent legal support mentioned in the statement? It would be very helpful so that we could signpost that to our constituents. The contact points that I gave in my statement will be available for individuals, but what I will do is I will write to all members to provide the necessary information that Sarah Boyack requests. It is alongside the point that Mr Marra made about the importance of their being wide awareness of the scheme, so I will write to all members very shortly on all of that detail so that that can be shared widely by members of Parliament in their local interaction. That concludes this item of business, and we will now move on to the next item of business.


Okay. And the Jaguars are visiting the Colts this weekend. Colts, you know, being at home favored by three points. This one could go either way, but what are you feeling about it, Gabe? You know, this is a really, really tricky game in the sense, is, you know, a lot of people think Jacksonville are going to show up. Jacksonville season is on the line right now. You know, they're going to turn on, you know, flick the switch, so to speak. Sometimes you can turn, you know, turn the lights on, but there's no light bulb plugged in. I'm not sure right now, and pardon the pun, if there's a light bulb plugged in with Blake Bortles. You know, the Jags had a great year last year. Great defense, but they weren't nearly as good as a lot of people said that they were, or at least the Jalen Ramsey was telling people that they were. Last year, Andrew Luck did him play. Last year, Deshaun Watson got hurt early in the season. Last year, the Jacksonville Jaguars were playing an extremely weakened AFC South, and they talked a lot. Now the AFC South is starting to get stronger once again. You know, while it's not reflective in the one-loss record, the Indianapolis Colts are going in the right direction. To me, I just think it's a, you know, to me it's a success this year for the Colts. If Andrew Luck can get through the year healthy. And then they have something to build on in Frank Reich's second year. They've done a nice job by drafting. They're changing the culture and the dynamic of the type of players that they draft the Indianapolis Colts. They're a more physical team than they have been in past years. Their offensive line still isn't great, but it's better. I'm going to take Andrew Luck at home in this spot. I love taking the Indianapolis Colts when they're underdogs. And Andrew Luck is one of the best ATS quarterbacks in the National Football League, all right? Especially when he's coming off of a loss. But at home here with the Colts getting healthier as the season progresses, I think they can outscore the Jacksonville Jaguars. I think the Jaguars defense is a little bit, they're a little bit stretched out right now because the offense has been in and out. I'm aware about Lennifer Net being backed, but sign me up for the Indianapolis Colts to win a higher scoring football game. You know, I think the, the over and the Colts are in play here. Was last year an anomaly for Jacksonville. That still remains to be seen, but at least for this weekend, Gabe is leaning toward the Colts.


When you're filming in the streets, it's teamwork. But we need a couple fourth line guys, you know, the filmers, somebody that's going to work hard. And Marcus Skin and Russell try to fit that bill perfectly. What's up, my doggy? Good to see you. It's been a long time, buddy. Arrowetla, he is like our childhood hero. It's a real treat for him to be on this trip. That's definitely an interesting kit. Gore-Tax, you don't see that in the street that often. The street doggies are wearing just soaking wet clothes. Yeah, you guys, they're soffing. I can go to dinner after this. Russell, you ready? Ready. Don't mess it up, OK? Oops. Creeped out a little bit. I might have missed. It's my first day on the job. Russell, stuff it up. Russell, stuff that? Yeah. Fired. He's gone. You have to bring Instagram film wherever we go now. We film snowboarding for a job, I guess. Yeah, get a channel around, follow these guys and other pro snowboarders where they go and get to do this. Film stuff for people's Instagram. Times have changed, man. It's not the same anymore. Am I on the clear? Yeah, you're on the clear. I'm going to give you a super whip. Three, two, one. Fuck, it's not hurting my shoulder. Yeah. If you're urban riding like this, it's sometimes even more relatable to the kids than going ride a resort. Because even the tickets at the resort are pretty expensive.  All right, ready? Drop it. I would be hyped to have this grown up. I'd be very hyped to have this here. I'll just follow you. I'll just do a front nose breast, dude.  Well, then I'll over you. Yeah. You ready? If I don't set goals. I'm never disappointed. I don't know, maybe I should try that. Caballario. Yeah, I'll give it a try. The boys are watching. I'd pull myself. Nah, just kidding. These are showing, dude. Yeah, dude. So there's not that much snow here. Do you want to stay in the house? Take care. Do you want to go somewhere else, too? I would go to Umascula. There's, like, twice the amount of snow. It's only, like, three hours away.


So it's already bad enough that Joe Biden is even considering and may still be considering Rom Emmanuel of all people for a spot in his administration. For those of you who don't remember, Rom Emmanuel as mayor of Chicago literally covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald.  It's a slap in the face to all of the black voters who were crucial to Joe Biden's electoral success.  And I am not saying this just because I'm bitter because this individual, Nira Tandon, has me blocked on Twitter, but because this individual is not just the centrist, this is a right winger who is openly hawkish, who is hateful of individuals like Bernie Sanders who Joe Biden should theoretically be embracing if he wants to unify the country. But what's really alarming to me is that Nira Tandon, like Joe Biden, has been a longtime advocate of cutting Social Security and Medicare, which is a very big red flag. So as Walker Bragman of Jacobin reports, President-elect Joe Biden will reportedly nominate a White House budget director who has been one of the country's most prominent critics of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and who has previously backed Social Security cuts. Biden, who has repeatedly pushed for Social Security cuts throughout his career, announced his election of Center for American Progress President Nira Tandon as his choice to run the powerful White House Office of Management and Budget. A longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, Tandon touted her think tank's 2010 proposal to reduce Social Security benefits in 2012 as Biden was pushing for such cuts in the Obama administration. Tandon's Social Security push followed the 2010 midterms during the deficit reduction negotiations between the Obama administration and the new GOP Congress. Change drew a hard line, but Obama sought a middle ground, central to the administration's efforts, which were led by Biden, was a plan called the Chained CPI that would have slowed the rate at which Social Security benefits increase over time, which is a cut. Sanders led the fight in the Senate against the Chained CPI, while outside groups were divided over whether to line up behind the president. Some, like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, vocally opposed the cuts. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank, found that the Chained CPI would cut Social Security retirement benefits by about 2% on average. The organization, nevertheless, said it would support the concept under certain conditions. Tandon's Center for American Progress, at the time considered to be the largest liberal think tank in Washington, also supported the idea and was a significant voice in favor of the administration's plan. Now, you don't have to take my word for it or Walker-Bragman's word for it. You can hear it straight from the horse's mouth. Jared Tandon wanted to cut Social Security. And I think that there's other, you know, there are progressive governors like O'Malley and Cuomo who've taken a much more balanced approach on budgets, where they've looked at taxes as well as reforming programs and cutting programs. And so I think that's the approach the American people are supporting. There's a viewer here who wants you to take us deeper into entitlements by Twitter. Ms. Tandon, do you know what the president means when he says entitlements are on the table? Any specifics and anything you would endorse? Yeah, I mean, so there are a range of entitlements that, you know, I think when we're talking about entitlements, we're talking about Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid. These are programs that people receive support because of the status that they have. So when after 65, you get funding from Social Security and Medicare. Actually, it's going, it's getting older for Social Security. And, you know, the president has $300 billion in his budget in cuts in Medicare that comes on top of cuts in Medicare from the Affordable Care Act. So he has put specific cuts in the budget already in Medicare and they had savings and Medicaid in the past. I think the question really is if we're going to have a deal to address long-term deficit reduction, we need to put both entitlements on the table as well as taxes. It's unfair to ask only middle-class Americans to bear the burden of our deficits. Middle-class Americans actually didn't create the deficits. So I think the challenge is that we should have entitlements on the savings, on the entitlements and the Center for American Progress has put forward ideas and proposals to reform the beneficiary structure of Social Security, some of our progressive allies aren't so, aren't as excited about that as we are. But we've put those ideas on the table, but we only, we think that those are legitimate ideas that need to be put part of a proposal where everyone's at the table. We don't let, we don't just ask middle-class Americans to sacrifice. We ask all Americans and especially, you know, I think it's not unreasonable to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay simply what they were paying in the Bush years. Now, if you're new here and you're wondering why someone who is a progressive like Joe Biden would nominate someone who wants to cut Social Security when Joe Biden has repeatedly stated he doesn't want to do that, well, let me refresh your memory. This was an ad that Bernie Sanders ran during the Democratic Party primaries of 2020. Well, we've got some bad news for them. We are not going to cut Social Security. We're going to expand benefits. Now, Bernie, it looks like we will in fact be cutting Social Security.  Liberal media, MSNBC attacked Bernie Sanders claiming that he lied when Bernie Sanders literally used what Biden said against him. But nonetheless, someone who has long time advocated for cuts to Social Security, which has changed CPI, which is a cut over time to Social Security, to be putting someone like near attendant in his administration. This tells us what Joe Biden's intentions are. He wants to cut Social Security.  Great. Now, that's just one of many reasons why near attendant is a terrible choice. Additionally, she is a warmonger. She also hosted war criminal Benjamin and Yahoo at the Center for American Progress and then silenced staffers who dared to speak out against him going there. And in a leaked email to Fah Shakir, she said this about Libya, quote, we have a giant deficit. They have a lot of oil, which is basically the same exact thing that Donald Trump has been saying about other countries such as Iraq. And after the Union of Think Progress, which was an outlet owned by the Center for American Progress, got into a dispute with them and threatened legal action. Guess what happened next? The entire outlet was shut down. This is what we'd refer to folks as union busting or perhaps union nuking because rather than trying to negotiate with the Union of Think Progress under the leadership of near attendant, cap just shut it down entirely. And in addition to terrible politics, near attendant is just a shitty person. So she literally outed a staffer at cap who came forward with charges of sexual harassment against another staffer.  And in a report for the New York Times, journalist Kenneth Vogel details how she physically assaulted Fah Shakir. And he was a journalist at the time he was an editor for Think Progress. And she punched him because he dared to ask Hillary Clinton a question that she thought was a little bit too pushy. And on top of that, she's not only against Medicare for all a policy that would literally save thousands of lives every single year. She has repeatedly lied about it, saying that it doesn't have majority support. And she said this long after it was overwhelmingly popular.  She has terrible politics. She's basically a Republican. But Biden is choosing her. And with this nomination is a declaration of war against the left. Because that's what this is. Someone who's openly antagonistic towards the left and is also functionally a Republican. That tells us that Joe Biden is not open to appeasing progressives, which isn't necessarily too surprising. But I hope that folks who had the blinders on for Joe Biden, acknowledge that he's not on your side. He's not your ally. He's your enemy. And he is to be opposed. Now part of the reason why I think that near attendant hates leftists so much is because she was basically assured a spot in the White House had Hillary Clinton won back in 2016. She wanted that cushy job in the White House. And I think that she blames Bernie and the left and for it, she's been lashing out on Twitter like constantly and she's been purging her Twitter feed a lot since she was nominated. But all she had to do was be patient because she's still getting that cushy job in the White House. Now what's interesting is that you have Republicans who should take this as a victory speaking out against near attendant. Meanwhile, leftists or I should say, so called progressives in Congress who theoretically should be against someone who was functionally a Republican being nominated to be the director of the OMB basically praising this decision. So the spokesperson for Republican Senator John Cornyn said that there's no chance that she'll be confirmed, meaning that he will be fighting this nomination. But meanwhile, Democrats who should theoretically know better like Barbara Lee are supporting this saying such a great choice to lead OMB near attendant will bring the experience and humanity that's hilarious urgently needed in this position. Congratulations. Sherrod Brown tweeted out near attendant is smart, experienced and qualified for the position of OMB director. And Elizabeth Warren quote tweeted Sherrod Brown saying I agree to which I responded by saying snake emoji, snake emoji, snake emoji, snake emoji, snake emoji. So in a surprising turn of events, the left is now in a position to where we are rooting for the Republicans to win on this battle and we're rooting against leftists or I shouldn't say leftist because I don't think Elizabeth Warren is a leftist. But people who are like, not as shitty as the other Democrats like Elizabeth Warren is measurably more progressive than someone like Joe Manchin, of course, the bar is really low, but people who in theory should be better who should oppose a neocon who wants to jack the natural resources from other countries who's against policies like Medicare for all, you would think that there would be more outrage from Democrats who aren't as bad as other Democrats, but that's not the case. So we're in this weird predicament where we have to form this unholy alliance with Republicans and hope that they are successful at obstructing the confirmation of near attendant. And it's just it's it's a sad state of affairs.  She is functionally a Republican. I've said that how many times now three times.  But I don't know what's more them fighting someone who supports their deficit hawk agenda, who is pro austerity who wants to cut Social Security like they do, or so called progressives like Barbara Lee and Elizabeth Warren, who is supporting someone who has fought against everything that they supposedly stood for.   What a weird world that we live in. But nonetheless, I don't care who makes this happen. She has to be defeated. And if Republicans do that, great


Non-Makovian systems a lot of none Thank you everybody, thank you to organize this nice conference. Yeah, that's the topic of my talks Yeah, I will start to say some motivation why we are talking study The mean first pastime. So as a first things quite a lot of natural system can be a then rescale a study in One deep potential in particular as a barrier crossing in particular some rare events as chemical reaction and protein folding and another Motivation is that's a normal the system arm are not that the equilibrium and in particular from that's article from boost a month where they are study some folding of proteins they So some delay in that's folding and in particular that's delay time is exponential so here from the dots the data and The curve is some exponential fit and from the dash line is the line that they expect if the system is fine That's the equilibrium. So I will introduce my system as we already Here a little bit during today I will use a general I Lunge of an equation where we know that the random force is correlated with the kernel and in particular I will use Decay exponential kernel where gamma is the friction and tau is the memory time of our system and My potential as I say in the introduction it will be a double well Symmetric potential, but as I say in my title we are interested to study System that are out of the equilibrium and to do that one we violates the fluctuations dissipation here And for that reason we use two different functions tau V on gamma V on gamma R They function have the same Yeah, the function They function have the same Shape but two different memory time and When we are out of the equilibrium tau V is different or why we change only the tau and we don't scale for example the friction Coefficient because we know that every time that we rescale the friction coefficient We can always redefine easily effective temperature that's taken count of that Difference and bring back our system at the equilibrium. So starting from that Generalize Langevin equation we Fourier transform the autocorrelation function and here we introduce approximation. So we will not consider our double well Potential my simple Quadratic potential so we Fourier transform we calculate the autocorrelation function and We observe that the two memory time that we are interesting tau V and are In function of gamma V and gamma R that are in our Final expression in fact we put all the terms that we know inside and we arrive at that expression That's the special it looks a little bit ugly But we can rescale and find some effective parameters so we go to rescale and we We call the new parameter as a new effective friction new mass Effective mass a new Effective temperature that inside the beta F That's the effective parameter that we We investigate and it's nice at the beginning to see how that's effective parameter are changed when we are in a new Markovian system because respect at our normal Oscillating dump our oscillating model that's effective parameter are already Changed where we introduce the memory, but our effective temperature is changed only where we are out of the equilibrium because it's depend on the the two memory time to R and to V that's C1 is our only our constant that we will fit with our simulation to take account That's the model So the analytical calculation that we are doing we are doing for a quadratic potential But in our simulation, we will use double wall potential and in total we will have three constant parameter Yeah, the equilibria is already say beta effective is equal the the temperature effective is equal our temperate of the system at the beginning so Mimi's Mimi means I the denominator of Of the autocorrelation function we studied the two limits of the gamma effective so we have a expression for low friction limits and Expression for high friction limit as I say before also in that two case we add some constant that we will fit so now that we know the our Effective parameter we can come back A Markovian system and we can find to So our goal is to looking for a special or me first for such time but no Markovian and non-equilibrium and to do that we start from the much covina system Well, we know that the the memory current the memory time is equal to zero and we know the two exact expression from Kramers and for high friction and Low friction in the plot we see in with the red curve the two limits that Dershow with the law the yellow line is Mexico Formula that's a little bit complicated formula. I would like to see something More easy and with the star our simulation the dash at the black line is the is a formula that we obtain were Simply we sum the the two limit and we add the Intermediate limit the a cross cover Markovian term That's our data to memory time that I use a mess system That's our day in Asia and diffusion time that they used to rescale my time So starting from the Markovian system we can go to Check the no Markovian system where we introduce a Instead of the normal mass and friction our new effective mass a Effective friction and we obtain this formula here still we are at the equilibrium So to V is equal to R. So we have only one memory time for that the beta Coefficient it doesn't change the temperature doesn't change and we also have that formula fit Fit very good with our data in particular that's is the expression when we consider the term and my effective of a gamma effective and And then the effective Friction at a high friction limits we can consider as gamma because fitting the third Parameter so C3 we observe that has a very small value So I would like to point another a couple of things Yes, the first things is that's equation that we found out from Analytical collation is have as exactly the same shape of equation that was found in a more heuristic way from Julian coupler in XPST in our group and Other part is that this term the negative term That's the last term This come from omega Mass effective of a gamma effective It's a negative term that I would like to don't have so to avoid any problem to obtain Negative time and we sum with the high friction Term for that we have this expression one over and that's term is the responsible of the speed up regime so the regime where the memory brings the memory Brings the memory the mean first past the time be be smaller respect the Markovian limit Okay, that's all the parameter that I use for for that slide so now that we found our Expression for the no Markovian system we will go to consider the no Markovian system as non equilibrium and Also in this case we consider the two limits when we are in a low friction and the high friction limits And we observe that at the end we found that in Some limits that are True in our system. That's the two expression of more or less the same behavior and for that We will all introduce one new Effective temperature that that's better than an equilibrium that is equal at our over to be square to check if that's parameter exactly It's a good parameter for our system we will consider the position distribution The the position velocity distribution in that spot. I show the position distribution So in a there is the position distribution from our simulation Where in B? I rescaled for that's effective parameter and in C and D. I plot that's effective parameter respect our respect Toby and we observe that the in the star with the star which we plot exactly the Rescaded parameter and all the line that Describe that show this three different functions are perfect agreements With the data and also perfect remit with them and we do the same things for this velocity distribution And we found the same as we expected the same result so at the end we insert that's better non-equilibrium inside our formula and We observe as the line that show the formula qualitative qualitatively describe our simulation and the nice things to observe is in this case We are not only to modify the constant after the Arrhenius term We modify the Arrhenius term and in particular they have exponential sorry The exponential behavior so when we increase our we observe a very large increase of the mean first passage time Then the same result that I show in the motivation motivation at the beginning so in conclusion We found out some effective parameter friction mass and temperature Solving the non-equilibrium non-arm non-marcovian harmonic oscillator We found out a formula for the mean first pass time where the non-equilibrium effect strong strongly the The time because it's changing the exponential part and for that's the Arrhenius constant and in conclusion We observe that that's effective temperature describe the position at the velocity for a system For a barrier cross-system stem re also really far from the equilibrium. Thanks Thank you very much for the talk Are there any questions in the audience? So I have a question about the So generally with these with these problems when you study these mean first passage times Often they turn out to be quite untypical for the within the distribution So my question is can you say something about higher moments or about how the distribution? Changes when you increase memory in the system Yeah, in particular. Yes, because if you watch that so actually that says We immediately see how the memory and non-equilibrium going to change also the distribution but yeah We can see but Qualitatively does it spread or does it start? so so So we observe from the distribution that I show how they change but always we can rescale it So at the end of we know how they change the Distribution Yeah, I think also we can find out I think how it's so I didn't check Precisely, but I think it's possible to observe. I think that is the second part or next step That's also we have to investigate After that Yeah, so you showed that there is a regime where memory can speed up the barrier crossing, right? But that wasn't the equilibrium case if I'm yeah, okay You go to the non-equilibrium case. I assume that you can like enhance this effect. Have you looked at this? Were you interested in that? so not because to be honest we We thought so that's the most interesting party was that really we changed that arenas fact and Yeah, yeah, that's Because we more or less we observe more how the non-equilibrium brings a higher Level, but sure probably here we see because if we observe the scale Probably when we are a smaller scale, we observe also the speed up. Yeah Yeah, I was wondering if you could find the regime where you have like a very No, I don't I don't think so to be honest. Okay. Okay. Thank you because if we assert also here It's quite interesting, but it's quite as more regime and yeah, probably but I don't think that's it's and then it's really Important as a factor respects the fact that we see has they really Modified I don't know. That's my impression, but I don't know There's a question online So I'm just gonna read it out in principle You could map your system to my curving one in an extended state space. What would I predict for the mean first passage time? Yeah, so injera to be honest, I don't know but Yeah, I always remap with some mapping but predicts So we already know which is the normally that's the point that we compare how that's the mean first time They know Markovian and the non-equilibrium change in respect of the Markovian time. So that's I think it's really a Yeah, we can predict how Quite change the the parameter that we are in our in the Markovian. I think that's more or less the deal But I don't know Did this address the question? I don't think so Not me. Okay in that case. Thank you very much