Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Tender is the Flesh by Augustine Basterica. I think I got that right. If not, I'm sure you guys will let me know. This book came highly highly recommended by my friend Tracy Robinson. Everything she suggests I absolutely adore. I don't know what it is about. Now we tend to disagree on things we dislike sometimes, but everything that she has enjoyed, I have enjoyed. The... This book is no different. It's absolutely fantastic. I... I want... I don't know why I want to say this. I want to put this up front. This is kind of like Soilent Green. But you know right up front that Soilent Green is people. It is a book about legalized cannibals. It has loads and loads of gore and violence and very disturbing stuff. But before we get into the body of the review, I'm going to give you trigger warning for rape and animal abuse. Let's get on with the review. Okay, so we in this book we follow Marcos who works at the local processing plant and his father has dementia. His wife left him. He's in a bad way. But on top of that the world has gone absolutely crazy. Not like roving bands of maniacs or anything, but they have legalized cannibalism because a disease has made animals inedible. So they have gone to human beings that are now being farmed. I guess it is.  They're treated like cattle. The women especially are treated absolutely horribly. There's a darkness here that I enjoy and that I appreciate. So that I don't want to give away too much. There's so much great stuff in this book. And it's harder for me to review the books that I love. I absolutely love. I'm giving this one five stars if you couldn't tell already. It's harder for me to talk about these books because I tend to focus more on criticisms. Here I have absolutely no criticisms whatsoever. The book is fantastic from beginning to end. It has the best final line I have read since Pet Cemetery. My jaw hit the floor. Now Pet Cemetery isn't really a twist ending. It's just a wonderful, wonderful final line. In this one it just hits like a brick. The very last line of the book is just way, what? It completely changes the tone of the book. In fact, I'd love to reread it to see. You think something specific about the main character. Like we're following this dude and he's going to do these things or do certain things and it's the complete opposite. I really, really enjoyed that. As far as the dread, pacing, and characters that I look for in every horror novel, the dread is great. I had no idea what was going on. I was on the edge of my seat all the time. The characters were fantastic, especially the father, Marcos himself. Everybody that you met, you could care about or you could at least understand them. I like that. I like even the supporting characters. It'd be just as important as the main characters. I know I'm weird in that way, but that's how I feel. The supporting characters should feel just as real as the main character. The pacing, I didn't want to put it down. It's fantastic. Also, this book is unscribed. If you're a subscriber, if you're not a subscriber, grab a free trial down there in the doobly-doo. I get a free month. You get a free month. Everybody's happy. In fact, I think you might get two free months. I don't know. Whatever. Anyways, put the links down there. The audiobook, which I tried out also is fantastic. I enjoyed that as well. It's a very, very short read. It blows by very quickly. Like I said, the pacing is great. That's all I really have to say about Tender is The Flesh. Once again, man, it's hard to review positively for me because I focus more on criticisms with this channel. But have you read Tender is The Flesh by Augustine Bestedrica? If you have, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. Let me know whether you loved it, whether you hated it. If you loved it or hated it, let me know why you loved it or hated it so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have an E. You have been U. This has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.


Hi, my name is Mark Collier and I'm the COO of the OpenStack Foundation, Sparky Collier on Twitter, if you're into that, and I would like to tell you all about OpenStack today. Hopefully you already have heard of it and you know some things about it, but I thought I'd give you a quick overview of what the software and the community are all about. And also dive into the foundation we recently established and really try to give you a sense for how the foundation's structured and what the mission is and how you might get involved if you are interested in being part of the foundation in some way and helping to shape the future of OpenStack. So OpenStack is cloud software. It's really many different things. It is a community of many thousands of participants, both users and developers and business folks who are thinking about how they can solve business problems with OpenStack and is of course code, which is the basis of the software. And when we think about what problems OpenStack is trying to solve, the easiest way we've found to describe it is to call it a cloud operating system. And the reason we use this term is if you think about an operating system in a traditional sense on a single machine, whether it's a server or a laptop, it's really kind of there to keep track of all the resources that you're trying to access, whether it's the storage or the computing resources and so forth or the network, which is something you're trying to manage. And when you think about putting together a large pool of resources, for example, many thousands of servers in a data center, you really want to get to a point of automation orchestration where you can keep track of all of those different resources, the physical as well as the virtual. As you virtualize, for example, a server with a hypervisor, you want to be able to look across all of those different machines and understand where all the work's getting done and really abstract away a lot of the hassle of managing a lot of equipment by abstracting that by having this cloud framework that takes a look at all those different resources and pools, both compute networking and storage and oftentimes, of course, in combination. And the way that you would interact with a system like this, once you've used software to really kind of automate your data center, is through either applications of your own that might talk to the APIs or a set of tools you may use. So there are many management tools, for example, like RightScale and Stratus and others that work with the OpenStack API and give you another level of insight into what's happening in your cloud and managing your workloads as you want to move them in and out of this cloud or other OpenStack clouds, et cetera. And so you may see, for example, a spike in traffic to your website and you get that monitoring alert and your system is able to autoscale by talking to those APIs and provisioning more resources. So that's just a very basic explanation of where OpenStack sits in your data center. But another way that people frequently engage with it is through the dashboard. So there's a web dashboard, the OpenStack dashboard that has both an administrative view as well as an end user view. So as an end user, similar to engaging with any cloud out there that you may have used, you can log in, you can provision different resources, you can spin up a virtual machine, for example, of different sizes, four gigs, eight gigs, whatever flavors your particular OpenStack cloud is configured to support. And the administrative view, on the other hand, is actually a higher level admin perspective on that OpenStack cloud where you actually define things like the number of flavors. So whether there's a four gigabyte instance that has a certain amount of storage attached to it, all those different allotments that kind of customize the cloud to the users you're trying to target, those are all controlled through the administrative view on the dashboard. And this is really just a kind of a bulleted list to give you some examples of what the capabilities are within OpenStack. And the compute is really kind of the most self-evident when you think of cloud computing, you think of computing. And that's exactly what this is. It's provisioning pools of resources, typically a virtual machine that's like a physical server in the way it behaves, but it's actually virtualized. And then from a storage perspective, we support both object storage and block storage. Object storage is really meant for very large quantities of data that you want to reliably store, typically at very low cost, not as common for performance application, although oftentimes it's paired with a CDN in a public cloud setting, where you can push objects to a CDN to get that performance you're looking for, for example, images and so forth, that you might have large libraries of stored in an object store, but you want to give performance to a web client and then you would use a CDN. Block storage, of course, is very traditional. Storage has been around quite a while as a format, but there are a lot of different ways you can do block storage. And OpenStack Compute has always supported block storage, but recently it's really been broken out as a separate project or separate effort with a dedicated team, primarily to bring more innovation and faster innovation to play by having a team of subject matter experts, domain experts from across the storage industry. And one of the core tenants of OpenStack is it's very pluggable. It's designed to work with the systems that you want to plug in. So it's not overly prescriptive about a specific type of technology, whether it's on the hypervisor side where with the Compute you can choose to plug in different hypervisors or in this case with block storage it works with NetApp, SolidFire and Accenta. And actually just in the last few days, EMC announced that they are now a sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. So when you look at the who's who of storage out there, there's certainly many ways you can do it. And the OpenStack philosophy is however you want to do it, OpenStack can be that engine in the middle. And through that philosophy of being vendor-neutral and being a pluggable architecture, we have these drivers now from a lot of these different companies that are active in the community. And that's really a great testament to kind of the early architectural philosophy paying off. Networking is no exception. The networking capability within OpenStack, OpenStack networking really is designed to let you plug in the networking technology of choice. Now of course the flavor everybody's talking about these days is SDN or Software Defined Networking and some of the leaders in Software Defined Networking have actually been creating this portion of OpenStack. So it's very well architected and with that in mind so that if you want to be really out there on the cutting edge and you want to really let software take over your data center, well the networking is kind of the final frontier in many ways and you can certainly do that with SDN although because it's pluggable again gives you a lot of choices you could certainly use the networking capabilities and talk to a more traditional network layout with physical gear. It doesn't require to use SDN but that is one of the things that's kind of driving this pluggable capability that was recently added in the Folsom release a few months ago. I talked a little bit about the dashboard, the different roles. Last but not least the shared services really. There's a couple of examples here so there's a multi-tenant authentication system and that's really important because when we first started to kind of pull together a lot of these different components into one cloud operating system if you will we realized that one of the things you want in common is authentication. You don't want to have your users logging into the storage system discreetly from the compute system and particularly in the example of the image service whereby you want to have a library of images and you want to be able to keep track of those whether it's your favorite flavor of Linux or if it's the lamp stack or some you know some whole library of images you may have that when brought together constitute you know your whole app architecture and you may use you know Sheffer Puppet or what have you but when you think about the images being let's say stored on the object storage and of course you're going to move those into the compute service or into the block storage service when you want to actually go into production with it you know having it all working together seamlessly with one authentication system is a requirement we saw early on and so that's part of what we call the shared services. Now the open development process is one that is really interesting I think it's extremely important to how OpenStack has come so far so fast and it's something we're very committed to the process itself as well as the fact that it's open you know those are those are kind of two important points. First of all we release new software every six months there are also milestones along the way so you know you might think of those as a point release or kind of an interim release but but in reality what happens is that kind of as soon as we're done with one release we have a design summit a couple weeks later usually somewhere in the world where we're all the people who are used to working over IRC and mailing lists and over the phone and talking online in various ways throughout the year actually get together in person very important to get to meet the rest of the people in the community as many as we can possibly you know get to these summits and plan out that next release and so what ends up happening is they really start kind of working on the next version right after the summit and you end up with these milestones kind of periodically along the way but most users tend to gravitate towards the big releases every six months and then of course those are upstream to a number of Linux distributions so all the major Linux distributions now support OpenStack and I think that's that's a fantastic testament to all the excitement and the contributions that are coming in from those companies and those communities really is has a lot to do with the momentum we've seen in OpenStack and we just going to be more excited about that and to that end you know we've had over 600 contributors who've actually contributed code to the project and made the software what it is today if you want to become a contributor any time you're looking for information the Wiki's always a good starting point but there's a wiki.open store excuse me wiki.openstack.org slash how to contribute if you want to check that out when you look at the community you know it's hard to put numbers on a community and I think it's easy to to you know lose sight of really where the passion is in the community and what's really driving it if you you spend too much time looking at the numbers but you know the ecosystem the number of companies that are involved in OpenStack is is something we we set out early on to pursue I mean we wanted to see a lot of companies investing in OpenStack and so you know one way to measure that is just how many companies are there but at the end of the day what really matters is what are they doing are they active are they investing are they hiring and so you know very happy to see that they're certainly bringing in a lot of people to our summits and so you'll notice you know the the pattern is quite similar between the number of companies getting involved and the amount of people that are coming to the summits we started with 75 people in Austin about two and a half years ago and in San Diego just back in October we had 1300 plus pretty amazing growth and really again the graphs kind of don't do it justice when you I really encourage anyone who's interested in OpenStack please try to make it to a summit it's such an amazing experience everybody there is invited to be a contributor everyone I hope feels like a contributor and it's a welcoming environment and you know we try to define contributor you know in a broad way or define the community in a broad way and we talk about the foundation mission in a minute to that end but you know the number of developers kind of on a rolling 30-day basis over the last couple of years has continued to grow and so again as we think about more companies getting involved more people coming to the summit is that leading to more development activity and certainly looks like all the trends are heading in the right direction and then you know another data point that is worth looking at is just how much software is being written this is obviously just one aspect of how to look at at the growth of the community but if you think back to the very early origins of this project I mean we had a object storage system which was you know really had just kind of gone into production so was it was reliable but it you know was at the beginning of kind of its capability to go into a much broader set of installations from just one company and putting that out there where new use cases could emerge and the reliability could continue to improve and then on the compute side you know we had an amazing we were amazingly fortunate actually just before launching OpenStack to connect with the folks at NASA who were building this NOVA project the compute project and had already made a lot of progress had a viable prototype that was working that we could see and look at the architecture and determine wow this is going to really accelerate OpenStack instead of kind of starting from square one and so going from those humble beginnings to where we are today it's amazing you know that 90% of the code that we think of as OpenStack today didn't exist two years ago and yet you know we did have have an inkling of something at the beginning there a spark that really set everything in motion and you know at the end of the day all of the code in the world is kind of useless if you don't have users right so we love our users we have a ton of them they're starting to really come out of their shell and talk about what they've been doing which is something that we're excited about so we've had gentlemen from Cisco WebEx keynote our last summit and when you hear about you know something as large as WebEx who we've all you know we've all used I'm sure throughout our careers you know running on OpenStack relying on that in production it's very very exciting and you know I think one of our biggest priorities as a community needs to be to to really put these users on a pedestal listen to them make sure that we're thinking as a community about how we respond to their needs so that this list continues to grow and you know they feel empowered and they feel like they're a big part of this community because they absolutely are you know other names like PayPal you know probably familiar with eBay I mean these are some incredible leaders in the technology industry that are that are really making big bets on OpenStack and we can be more excited to have them be part of the community you know the international aspect of OpenStack has just blown me away from the very very beginning I mean shortly after we launched OpenStack we went to Japan and there was a Japan OpenStack user group meetup that had hundreds of people just standing room only and we had we had just sort of lit that fuse you know a couple months earlier saying OpenStack is this an idea people are interested in and it's just grown from there if you look at some of these pictures these are from user groups all over the world there is a simultaneous celebration when the foundation launched a lot of people excited and of course I couldn't be there in every one of those given they were simultaneous but I would very much like over the next couple of years to visit as many of the countries with user group says as I can because I love the excitement there's really nothing like it you can certainly see that there was a lot of excited people in this in this particular event about the foundation so you know if there's that much energy in the room you know count me in I'll be I'll be there so talked a lot about OpenStack and the beginnings of it I think you know I don't want to spend too much time on the foundation because there's a lot of information out there about it but I'm happy to kind of explain you know what it's about and why we're why we started it maybe help you figure out how to get involved so the foundation is an independent body meaning it's a nonprofit a separate entity it's not controlled by you know a particular company it's not a subsidiary like that is truly independent nonprofit entity and it makes sense I think to have a foundation because of a project that's as important as OpenStack we want it to remain open so when we think about protecting empowering and promoting OpenStack you know protecting means sort of making sure that it continues to be open that we have the resources we need to make sure it lives on for many many years as the not as the the different players who want to contribute or consume it you know ebb and flow and new people come in we want to have kind of a group that can help facilitate all that and protect it and make sure that it lives for many many years and tends to grow you know empowering is all about the fact that when you look back at those user groups I mean there's you know hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of people in all these user groups globally and as a foundation I mean we have eight people a day we'll probably have 12 staff you know by early next year and that's that's about as big as we're gonna get so you know we're obviously not here to do everything we're here to empower as many people in the community to take charge of the OpenStack mission and run with it and define it and take it in the direction that you want it to go and we're just here to help as the foundation staff and you know promoting OpenStack is something we as a foundation are are equipped to do and we have done in the past and we're gonna continue to do and last but not least I just point out that you know we talk about you know what we're protecting empowering promoting it's the community all around it you know users developers the entire ecosystem we have a very inclusive culture I think that's extremely important you know we never want to you know overly narrowly define you know what it means to to be part of the community because if you're a user certainly you may not contribute code or patches yet some do some don't but at the end of the day you know we're all here fighting for the user so we want to hear from you and you want you to feel like you're a big part of the community and this is just really speaks to the approach we took when we were creating the foundation you know creating the bylaws creating a lot of the structures that ultimately became this legal entity and a lot of it was about preserving the OpenStack way so in other words we weren't trying to solve some big problem that we that we saw in the community or in the way OpenStack was was being managed we were trying to really kind of take it to its permanent home and not do too much damage along the way so some of those those key tenets I think are technical people making technical decisions based on merit seems like common sense right I think it is but you know it bears enshrining in the bylaws as it is and you know when I give you a little more background on how the technical committee works and that the project technical leads I mean it's all based on this idea that if you work hard and you present the best idea the best idea wins and that's how the technical direction of this project is determined and we really believe in that and that's a core tenet having dedicated resources that can do community building activities can help throw these design summits bring people together help court more people into this ecosystem who can invest in it and make money on it I mean that is something we've done historically want to continue to do that and that's part of what the foundation you know is staff to do and resource to do and again you know encouraging rewarding contributions in all forms you know that's definitely key so in terms of membership and how it's actually structured there are three types of members there's individual members it's pretty self-evident it's individuals it's you and I it's everyone in the community regardless of you know who you work for don't work for or you know what particular role you have whether you're a developer or a marketer or a user however you're involved in open stack if it's important to you you should join because by being part of this foundation you can help chart the future of it and you have a lot of rights responsibilities to go along with that mean a big one is voting I'll talk a little bit about the upcoming election in a second but you know it's just a it's a way to really be officially part of the foundation is to join so open stack org slash join pretty straightforward the platinum and gold members are really organizations they're providing the bulk of the funding in other forms of support to help that make the foundation a reality so the platinum members in addition to providing substantial funding are also required to have a commitment to having full-time employees that are doing nothing but working on open stack whether it's developers or you know community leadership other types of roles as long as they're you know really dedicated to advancing open stack then that's an indication they're really committed to to the future of open stack in addition to just cutting a check to make it financially possible have a foundation and then the platinum members appoint each appoint a director to the board of directors and then the gold members amongst a larger group of these companies will elect members to the board and so it's set up so there's a third third third so in other words there's eight seats on the board that are elected by the individual members eight appointed by the platinum members and eight elected by the gold members so that's that's basically how we try to keep things balanced and how it's structured this is a list of all of the current platinum and gold members now things are growing very fast so by the time you see this we might even have other gold members but it is exciting to see some of these names I mean some of the biggest leaders in open source who've pioneered in the Linux world and some of the companies that have domain expertise around networking and we're trying to advance the state-of-the-art in networking as I mentioned earlier through the open-stack networking project and having some of the four most leaders in networking you know that are very heavily invested and committed to open stack as the future of cloud I mean it's it's it's pretty exciting and I think we couldn't have a better group of backers and the structure I don't have a ton of detail on this because I don't want to I don't want to lose you all but you can certainly spend many hours reading the bylaws if you're really want to get into the nitty-gritty it's all public online at open stack org slash legal but there's a board of directors very similar to an typical corporate structure they're the legally responsible group of folks I mentioned kind of how that was made up earlier the technical committee is really there to look after the technical decisions as it relates to the project although an individual components or projects within open stack such as compute or object storage you know those each are led by project technical leads who are elected by the contributors of those projects so they're making you know the vast majority of the day-to-day decisions about those projects the technical committee is kind of those ptls plus a few other people that have been elected to look at technical matters at span projects so when we think or earlier I talked about the the need for common authentications that was an example of where it doesn't make sense to have a different authentication system for your users to log into their storage than they did for their compute so the technical committee would be you know kind of the the body of elected folks that are helping to make sure those decisions are made in a sensible way and then last but not least we just formed this user committee Tim Bell from CERN if you haven't heard him speak he's an amazing speaker and if you haven't followed what's going on at CERN well then you know you have really been living under a rock because they're actually finding and creating new forms of matter and apparently according to Tim they're still looking for 96% of the universe in terms of matter so they've got a lot of work to do but some of the stuff they're doing with open stack is really fantastic and just seeing that the impact something you might work on like open stack and have on the future of you know the way we understand the universe I mean I don't know I never thought it could possibly be that impactful you know we sort of kicked it off three years ago and so that's Tim Bell he's leading the user committee but there are other people that he's just starting to kind of pull in and the whole idea there is again if we don't listen to the users then we're in trouble and you know we want to make sure the users of the software have as strong a voice as possible so we put this formal mechanism in place certainly if you are a user and you want to get involved in this way you know talk to Tim Bell so the staff today at the foundation myself Jonathan Bryce Laurencelle who many of you already know Claire Massey just joined us this week as a matter of fact as a marketing coordinator so we're very excited about that Stefano Mifuli the community manager hopefully you all know him online or offline he's always out there he's always active a fantastic resource for the community Terry Carez who's working on the release management of course if you're involved in open stack software development anyway I'm sure you're you're well aware of Terry and Jim Blair just joined us in the past week as well as an infrastructure engineer looking after some of those infrastructure systems that we are responsible for as a foundation to try to help facilitate how the software's developed now he was already doing that job before so like many of us who've been active in open stack moving to the foundation is somewhat of a formality but we're really excited about it nonetheless and if you think it sounds exciting check out open stack org slash foundation jobs because we still have a number of openings it's it's a it's a game-changing project if you think it'd be fun to be part of a foundation working on it that'll be the end of my pitch but last but not least Kathy Katchitori who works part-time for us helps us with events specifically around industry events so if you think about the many many cloud events going on all over the globe you know we want open stack to have a presence there and in some cases you know some of us from the foundation staff may attend but in other cases we just simply want to be a coordinating point to help make sure that if there are stackers in a particular region where there's an event going on there's a speaking opportunity we connect connect that together and connect those dots so really great to have Kathy on board she has a lot of experience from IBM and and now she's with us helping on those events so the priorities for the foundation really for 2013 or in a few areas adoption is always king we're always trying to figure out what can we do to drive more adoption because at the end of the day we want this to be ubiquitous and you know we also want user engagement so as we have more and more people using it we want to again make sure we're hearing from them getting them involved in the user committee and so forth and and when it comes to delivering the best cloud software it's important to understand kind of how open stack is developed so you know the foundation staff if you look back at the previous slide you'll notice that we don't have an army of developers the foundation is not actually employing the developers that are developing the software that's you know hundreds of developers that are employed by you know 50 plus companies out there and what we're trying to do is really just facilitate that help with the testing with the release manage it we're really trying to make sure it's a smooth development process it's well documented that we're facilitating again and that it's reliable we know we're producing quality software by increasing the testing coverage and so forth and that's where people like Jim Blair and Terry Perez play a very important role and it's great to have them be in the foundation so we can play our part in delivering you know better cloud software with every release and then in terms of how we strengthen the global community you know we are hiring another community manager love to to expand that team and we're also hiring a business development person to really try to make sure that if our users really want a certain tool that maybe is a management or monitoring tool or what have you they're used to having in their infrastructure and they want any cloud system they used to support it what we want to make sure those companies know about OpenStack they're using the OpenStack APIs and really you know encouraging that that aspect of the ecosystem to grow so that's something we we want to make a priority we've done that to date but we want to continue to do that and so what's next on the horizon we have the elections so we just finished the individual member nominations so we have candidates now if you look on the website you can take a look at the candidates OpenStack.org slash election has kind of the overview the dates and then on the right-hand side you'll see a bunch of links and you can look at the candidates you can look at kind of you know number of different aspects of the election educate yourself if you are not a member I recommend you join of course but if you are a member being engaged is really important and so those elections will actually be taking place in middle of January the 14th to the 18th so be prepared get educated on that the next release of software is Grizzly personally I'm a big fan of this name I know it's you know like anytime you name something some people love it some people don't but I think Grizzly is a pretty cool name so Grizzly will be out in April there are already there's already one milestone released another one will be coming right around the corner so if you want to get an early look at Grizzly you can actually do that today and of course the summits so there are two summits next year we have two every year one will be April 2013 summit we are a few days away from finalizing the location and the venue for that so please you know look back on OpenStackUp.org soon and you'll find more information on that of course we'll be blogging and tweeting about it but we're really trying to lock that down as well as something I'm very very excited about which our first ever international summit so we're finally going to have one outside the US a lot of people asked for it our community definitely has hit the point of diversity geographically where I think this makes a lot of sense so we have not selected a location will be in October so if you have a particular region or city that you're passionate about that you are sure is the best possible place to have the OpenStack summit let us know you can certainly drop me a note mark at OpenStack.org or Lauren's cell Lauren at OpenStack.org but a lot of people I know have have strong preferences we're also looking for local contacts whether it's a sponsor our government agency that would like to help us enter that region in a big way you know we've we've already heard from from some folks and a few of the different regional offices of some governments that that are very interested in seeing OpenStack investment in that area so if you have contacts like that send them my way I want to make sure October we have a fantastic first-ever summit outside of US last but not least the foundation is not the only place that's hiring if you have OpenStack skills you can get a job today I guarantee it we have over a thousand jobs in the OpenStack community and you can see many of them on OpenStack.org slash jobs so we see so many companies hiring and on the one hand it's exciting but it's also something that we want to rise to this challenge and fill those positions with new people and by growing the community and one of the ways to do that is through training I think there are a number of companies that offer training as a foundation we're starting to think about how we we help you know drive a more awareness around training and help develop more and more training whether it's paid training or online training there are a lot of different resources that I've actually been hearing more and more about different universities that are creating curriculum specifically for cloud or in some cases that whole course is just on OpenStack so if you have information on that that's another thing I'd love to hear feedback on we want to promote more and more education so we can fill those jobs and in a time when jobs are scarce we have a thousand openings so there must be a way we can bridge this gap together and I think OpenStack is a job creation engine which you know is certainly something we all are excited about at this day and age so with that I will just say thank you very much again I'm Mark Collier Sparky Collier on Twitter COO of the OpenStack Foundation and you can always reach me on email mark at OpenStack.org thank you so much if you haven't joined the foundation by now please do it OpenStack.org slash join and get involved and I will see you at the next summit thank you


What's good Josh your boy Ross back again with another video. So we're gonna check out WWE top 20 unscripted moments in History it's kind of weird how they worded it when it comes to unscripted moments on WWE television Those be some of the best moments that people tend to remember for a very long time because it's not scripted It wasn't part of the show originally and it just happened organically I think those moments make what wrestling is great today Sometimes you end up in situations where someone will get a push that they weren't supposed to get but because it happened Organically it wasn't in the plan. It wasn't in the script. It wasn't an inventive man's script It just seems more Organic than when they're trying to force a wrestler down our throats or trying to force push someone Case in point Daniel Bryan Daniel Bryan got over organically and WWE did not like that. It was not scripted for him for him to get over They even tried to make him heal. It didn't matter Daniel Bryan was one of the most over people before WrestleMania 30 and people went to see the championship on it So I like it when moments like that happen in WWE They're gonna check this out man. This should be dope appreciate all the love and support roll to 40k and let's do this bad thing. Oh This is my family's dress like Randy Savage in a crowd This is the time where we go off this script The weed is good in Miami tonight Haha Welcome to raw good good to see you I don't know exactly what happened with the Kofi six situation This kind of actually ruined his push something happened within the match and Randy got legitimately pissed so he was legitimately calling him stupid or whatever and then he used some Backstage politicking that kind of derail Kofi Kingston's push, which I thought was pretty lame, but yeah That was definitely That part That part she didn't know that part. She didn't know so someone had to tell her wait a minute. Yo, bro Like he's supposed to be in the segment.  It's not my character country music She is not supposed to be the winner.  That's dope Okay, what happened here, I believe Um, what was his name at the time in WWE? I know he's an AEW I forgot what they called him in WWE never they called him never in WWE He I believe he like suffered a concussion in his match So he was basically trying to go for like the quick pin here, but the ref Didn't do it like a fast count or something like that. Let me go back to check it again Here shoulders down Yeah, and he was trying to basically he was hoping the ref went for a fast count so they can just call an audible But he ended up pushing the ref, you know go for a DQ But it basically this was an actual audible because never was actually hurt I don't know if it was concussion or some other injury, but he was legitimately hurt So he had to call an audible to get himself disqualified or something So that way they can in the match quicker A country that will die Yeah That that gimmick it could have worked, but you know, I'm glad Rusev is in AEW now I'm glad he's where he belongs Somewhere where they'll build them correctly. Oh, yeah Yeah, that yeah, I don't know what that was all about.  You know what I'm saying? Like I you'll see this is Yeah, right here.   Oh Man, this is this was the Roman that we really wasn't a big fan of While has he is he is blossomed into something fantastic Can you think of a Roman Reigns like Roman Reigns now? forgetting his promo lines Seems so far fetched but back then my man forgot what he was supposed to say We got what he's supposed to say. This was still a good segment. Oh, it's called a promo You're gonna have to learn how to do it. So go ahead The part-time I do like you I like you a hell of a lot more than I like most people in the back There's one thing this is a legendary Legendary This may Oh, yeah I think he what did he tear what did he he tore something getting into the ring So he had to sit down. He tore a muscle. I'm not sure what it was coming down Let me know I'm sure y'all know what it was, but he tore something trying to get into the ring Restore that Yep, of course, this has to be the number one moment because they ringed the bell before he even started tapping Let me go back.  Yep Yeah, man that that was that was an unscripted moment that Legitimately brought some bad blood between a lot of people back then man And sometimes the unscripted moments can be great. Sometimes they could be a pretty bad man But I enjoyed this video brought back some great memories comment down below Let me know what was your favorite unscripted moment from this video But I have to choose it's gonna always be the CM punk pipe bomb They did plan on him going out there, but it wasn't on the script Whatever he said is whatever he felt Vince gave him the okay to just go ahead Let it rip whatever you want to say go ahead as long as it's within the guidelines of Of the network go ahead have at it and that's exactly what he did in that Moment right there brought me back to wrestling. It brought a lot of people back to wrestling It was all over social media it made see him punk The legend that he is when it comes to the wrestling world that one pipe bomb, bro Spoke long so that was my favorite moment from this video to comment down below Let me know I would love your thoughts and opinions appreciate all love and sport roll to 40k appreciate y'all kicking to me Damn, I fucked up that y'all Let me try this again appreciate y'all kicking it with me and I see y'all on the next one. Peace. That's better


Everybody, welcome back to another Premiere Pro 2023 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to make transcriptions, automatic subtitles, as well as how to adjust subtitles, including font, color, size, everything, in less than two minutes at the most. Here we go. Let me show you what I got first, and then we'll go right into it. And I know that I've seen some stuff. There you go. That's what I recorded, and this cat's obviously seen some things. I want to transcribe it. The first thing you need to do, you've got to go to your text panel. If you do not see it, make sure there is a check mark beside text. For me, it's located right here. I am going to go to the transcript, and I'm going to basically just click on transcribe sequence. I don't touch any other buttons. This is all good to go right out of the box. The longer your clip is, the longer it takes to do the transcription. But if we look at what it came up with, it goes, hello, my name is Kitty.  It's pretty much perfect. I would go in here. I'm going to double click on it, and I'm going to go and change that to in my eyes because I believe I said in my eyes. But that's how you go ahead and override the automatic transcription. Okay, good. Hopefully you're following along with me. Now, I want this to be subtitles on the video. So when I render it, you'll see it. So I'm going to go now. I can go to captions, or I can just go to transcript and click this button, create captions. When you do this, you get a few options, the different types of formats. Basically, these things are all things you can adjust with, but they come pretty good right out of the box. I'm just going to go ahead and click on create, and let's see what we get. So right now it's creating the captions and Presto, it's applied it directly to the video, pretty much where I want it to be. Let's hit spacebar to check. Hello, my name is Kitty. Looks good. Okay, but it's not quite perfect. We want a different font, maybe a little better. I'm going to go ahead and select the captions, and then basically what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to window, workspaces. Whoops, try it again. Window, workspaces. And instead of the default editing, I'm going into captions and graphics, workspace. When you do that, you can now do a few things like change the font. It always starts with this Myriad Pro. I don't like it. I'm going to go with something like Montserrat. Okay, so let's go with Montserrat bold just for the heck of it, so it stands out a little better. I also would prefer it to be a little bit bigger, so I'm going to go, and there we go. I'm going to jack it up to about 86 font size there. And again, you guys can add in things if you want the drop shadow off on, but that in a nutshell is how you do it. Just render it out. Subtitles will be there. Thanks for watching.


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The increasing demand for Internet of Things, IoT, applications has led to the need for big data analytics. Integrating big data analytics with IoT-based smart cities requires the use of wireless communication protocols, such as the Thread protocol. Thread is IEEE 802.15.4 based and offers advanced capabilities, such as mesh networking, IPv6 support, and multiple gateways, making it a promising option. This paper proposes a low-cost mesh network using Raspberry Pi, NRF 52840 dongle, and OpenThread 1.2, an open-source software implementation of the Thread protocol stack. Real-time tests were conducted to evaluate the performance of the developed system, considering parameters such as jitter, packet loss, and round-trip time. Additionally, the impact of varying payload size and bitrate was analyzed to understand the network's robustness. The behavior of the multi-hop network was also examined under link failure scenarios, providing valuable insights into the network's efficiency. This article was authored by Sohei Beniltov-Kottak, Mustafa M. Nazrallah, Halim Farman, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Hi stampers! Welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Beth, part of the Stamping Jill creative team, and I have a really, really fun fall project to show and share with you today. We recently went to a Stampin' Up event and received a such a cute gift from Kathy Brown, who is a member of our team. Kathy is very creative and always has a really fun 3D projects that she shares with us. This is not the actual one that she shared with us. This is the one I've remade using her idea. I actually had to tear hers apart because I had to get the measurements of how to make the little insides. I'm going to show you from beginning to end how to make this very, very cute little pumpkin box. We got this idea and immediately wanted to replicate it for an event we have coming up where we have about 100 attendees. We had to change a couple of the products that she had used because we had to mass produce it. So I'm going to show you what we did and hopefully you'll find inspiration to use what you have on hand to make this really, really fun project. Okay, so let me show you the three different dye sets that we used to make this cute little pumpkin. First is the Countryside Corners Dyes. That's the basis for the pumpkin, which when I looked at the shape, I didn't think pumpkin. It didn't scream pumpkin to me, but when you cut it out in some fun fall colored paper, you get these two cute little sides of a pumpkin. I thought that was just ingenious. So this is about, I think, the very middle size of the Countryside Corners Dyes that you would use. And you need two of those. I cut these out in the Them Bones paper. So one side is really Halloween-y, the other I'm going to make kind of fall, but you could choose whatever works for you. Next is the Nested Essentials Dyes. You need this for the little stem of the pumpkin at the top here. And I cut that out in Pecan Pie, just using the very smallest of the little flag pendant dye in there. And then I used the Gorgeously Made Dyes and the Earthen Texture Stamp Set. I liked this thank you. I thought it was kind of cute. And I pulled that from the Earthen Texture Stamp Set. I stamped it in Pecan Pie on Basic White and got that. And then I cut it out using this really cute little tag dye from the Gorgeously Made Dyes set. And I got my thank you. To top it off, you'll need the bow punch and it has these two cute little leaf patterns that punch out of it. We're going to use the bigger one and we're going to trim it down just a little bit to work for our pumpkin. Okay, we'll need some linen thread, about 36 inches, cut into 12-inch pieces. And then you'll need some dimensionals and some glue dots. And I'm using Stampin' Silk Plus. You could also use green glue or you could use tarantape. It kind of just depends on your preference, but you want something nice and strong. And then for the base of our box, you will need some basic black cardstock. So I'm going to show you how to make this little box. I've made a template here.  And I'm going to show you how to score it using your trimmer so that you can create this little basic box. So bring your trimmer in. We're going to use our scoring blade, which is the lighter gray. On the three and five eighths inch side of our paper, we are going to score in one and a half inches on each side. So we're going to score right there. I'm going to take my paper and flip it and I'm going to score one and a half there. Okay, so that gives me three different parts of that. Now I'm going to take it and I'm going to turn it just part way. And I'm going to score in five eighths of an inch on each of these sites. Flip it and do the other end. Okay, so that's going to give me my cute little template part way done here. So score in five eighths inch from the top and the bottom and one and a half inches from each side. And that's going to make our little panels for our box. Now I'm going to take my paper snips and I'm going to trim in on these four corners.  The flaps just fit so nicely together if you can cut out a little bit of that card stock. Okay, so that's what we're going to end up with. Again, there's the template. And if this is something you're interested in, we will have this posted on our blog so that you can reference each step of making these there. Okay, so here we're going to assemble our box. We're just going to fold on each of those score lines and that's going to give us our sides. And then we've got these pieces that we're going to fold and that will be the pieces that will fold together. So I like to put a bit of, this is stamp and seal plus. And I'm just going to put a little dab there on this tub on the side and fold in my box. It kind of gives it just a little placeholder for you to make sure that your box gets really straight. I really like when my boxes are very straight. I like using basic black for the base too. It's a little bit of a heavier weight card stock so the box stays really sturdy and firm when you put your little treats inside. That way it can get a little handled and it doesn't really become worse for wear. I thought about making some of these for my kids for Halloween. I thought that might be kind of fun to pass out to their teachers or some friends at school. And so I need them to be a little sturdy if they're going to take them in their backpack. Okay, so we've got our basic box put together there and now we're just going to build our pumpkin right on top of our basic box. So I'm going to take those two pieces that we cut out with the Them Bones Designer Series Paper and I'm going to add those to my box. I'm going to put again stamp and seal plus. We'll hold these in place. I'm going to line up the very bottom of my die-cutted piece here with that box and add that and then I'm going to flip it and do the same on the other side and just put some of that adhesive right in the middle so it doesn't go off the box and make it sticky. And then same, I'm just going to make sure that I'm lined up here at the bottom so it's nice and even there. That gives us our pumpkin. Now I'm going to add our stem. This is the little piece of pecan pie from the Nested Essentials dies. You can just add some of that adhesive right there at the bottom and nestle it right here in the middle of our pumpkin and I feel like once you add this it really starts to take shape and looks more like a pumpkin just like that. Next I am going to take my thank you and this again is cut out using the Gorgeously Made dies and the thank you stamp is from the Earth in Texture stamp set and I stamped that in pecan pie. I'm going to adhere that with some dimensionals. Just pop it up there and put it in that lower corner of my little pumpkin. All right and then I've got my bow punch that I punched out in Garden Green. I'm going to use this bigger one. This is the size that we need for the pumpkin, the one that I use. So I just cut off the top two leaves and that long, long stem because if I use the long one it looked too flowery to me. I liked it a little shorter that looked just kind of like the stem of a little pumpkin. So I'm going to adhere that with a glue dot and when Kathy made this the reason I pulled it all apart is she had adhered it with our green glue that we carry. This is such a great glue obviously it held together very very well because I could not revive it and show it to you. The original one that she made green glue is a great great product. It is long lasting. Okay now on to our bow here. She had made like a cute little triple bow and I could not replicate how she had done it. I'm not exactly sure how she got it so perfect. So I came up with this simpler way to do this. So I took some linen thread. I love this linen thread especially for fall stuff and I cut 36 inches off of the spool and then I cut it into 12 inch pieces.  This is it turns out so cute. It's nice and dynamic. It's got a lot of texture to it. It's swirly. I just think it's so so cute and it actually ties a little bit easier when it has a little bit more weight to it of having the three like being tripled up. It made it a lot easier. So I'm going to do that.  You could trim that or leave it. I think it's kind of fun and swirly. I like it. Okay and that's our box. That is our little pumpkin box. Now you want to put something in the box and this box is the perfect size for some little Hershey nuggets. We can fit three in here but we don't want to just put the nuggets in. We want to cover them in some of our designer series paper and make them coordinate because that's what we do with Stampin' Up. So I'm going to take some of the same paper and just I've cut these to one inch by three inch and they'll wrap right around the nuggets. I'm going to just put little pieces again of that Stampin' Silk Plus on the edges here. I'm going to take the nuggets at the bottom, add my paper and these aren't scored. I'm just going to wrap as I go and look how cute. It just coordinates so well. We'll add those into our little box. Just wrap and add it. There we go. Just like that. Got a cute little gift to give to a neighbor, a friend, a teacher, maybe a customer, somebody that you're looking to say thank you to at this time of the year. So when we first received this project from Kathy Brown that she shared with us, this cute little pumpkin, I was surprised as I was going through to remake it at how many different dies she used because I don't typically create that way. I usually stick to a bundle or something that coordinates, but this was so fun, you guys. So my challenge for you is you can remake this just as I have with the products that I used, but you might have something different to put your own spin on it that is already in your collection. So I would challenge you to look at your dies and think of what cute little things you can make using what you already have on hand and kind of let your creativity run wild. It was really, really fun to make this project work for what we needed it, and we're so grateful that Kathy shared her creation with us. Again, don't forget to check out our blog for the step-by-step instructions for this project. We loved making it and I think that you could get a lot of use out of it this year as well. I know there were a lot of products that I used today, but we've got them all listed in the links below in our video description. You can check them out there and don't forget to find our blog at StampingJill.com. We will see you next week for another Watch It Weekly Wednesday.


The First Item of Business is a statement by Shona Robison on the Penrose inquiry. The cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of her statement and there should therefore be no interventions or interruptions. I call Shona Robison, cabinet secretary, around 10 minutes. I am grateful for the opportunity to make a statement in response to the Penrose inquiry report that was laid in Parliament yesterday. I would like to thank Lord Penrose and his team for their work. Lord Penrose is currently unwell and this prevented him from launching the inquiry report in person yesterday. My thoughts are with him and his family. I would also like to personally thank affected patients and their families for providing evidence of a very personal and sensitive nature that cannot have been easy. I would want to recognise that some of them have joined us in the gallery today. The affected patients and their families must be foremost in our minds today. I met some of those who have been affected yesterday and I heard their stories. Many people have died or suffered long-term disability and hardship as a result of those infections. Relatives have had to sacrifice careers to provide care and support. In some cases, partners and loved ones have themselves become infected. Patients, families and carers have dealt with those difficulties with immense, enduring courage. Although those events took place well before this Parliament was ever established, on behalf of the Government of Scotland and the NHS in Scotland, I want to say sorry to everyone who has had to deal with the devastating impact of infected NHS blood and blood products. I want to recognise that those events absolutely amount to one of the greatest healthcare-related tragedies that are ever witnessed in this country. We must keep the people who have been affected at the centre of our thoughts throughout this process. I can only express my deepest sympathy and regret to them. Lord Penrose has delivered a comprehensive report of almost 1,800 pages. It is a detailed and independent assessment of how those tragic events unfolded. I realise that there may be some criticism of the cost and length of time that is taken for the inquiry to report its findings. I am also very aware that, for many, the inquiry conclusions do not meet their expectations and the outcomes that they would have wished to see. Those were complex issues covering a long period of time back to 1974. In light of the number of people who have been affected, the number of people who have died and given the seriousness of those events, the people who were affected have now had the opportunity to have their stories heard by a fully independent public inquiry. Turning to the findings, the evidence from affected patients is crucial. Lord Penrose sets this out in full within his report. It stands as vital if distressing testimony as to what affected patients and their families have endured. The report has provided estimates of the number of patients likely to have been infected. Those add to what we know already and they allow us to be more certain about the scale of the impact of those events. Lord Penrose has also identified delays to the introduction of hepatitis C screening in Scotland as a key thing that could have been done differently. Screening in Scotland was held back so that it could be introduced simultaneously across the UK. Clearly, those events predate devolution and that would simply not happen now. There are other things to learn about the approach of clinicians and healthcare staff about the way that the health service works, the importance of patient safety and how that relates to expert advice. In particular, Penrose makes certain observations about the NHS's paternalistic attitude to patients in the 1980s, particularly in relation to patients being given information. This is not the way in which the NHS in Scotland works now and Penrose himself acknowledges that the approach to patients today is very different. All of those lessons from Penrose will instruct how we continue to build on the progress of our patient safety programme. Lord Penrose recommends that the Scottish Government should take all reasonable steps to offer a hepatitis C test to anybody who might have been infected before 1991 by a blood transfusion and who has not already been diagnosed. We accept that recommendation and we will consider carefully how to take that forward. It is important to reassure people that we have previously made efforts to find those who have been infected, including a look-back exercise in 1995 and awareness raising campaigns as late as 2008. We expect that there will be very few people, if any, who were infected with a blood transfusion and who have not been diagnosed by now. However, anyone who wants to know more will be able to find information on the NHS informed website or from organisations such as Hepatitis Scotland, Humifileus Scotland and the Scottish Infected Blood Forum. There is no barrier to hepatitis C testing in Scotland. Anyone who has been exposed via a blood transfusion before September 1991 or by treatment for a bleeding disorder with blood products prior to May 1987 can be tested at their GP practice. It is important that anyone who has been infected is diagnosed so that they can access the best clinical care and support. When talking about clinical care, I should also take the opportunity to make clear that our current blood safety record is excellent and the risks of viral transmission by blood transfusion in Scotland and the UK are exceedingly low. Donor selection criteria, stringent testing of blood donations and advances in technology mean that the blood supply is as safe as it can be. It is safe to give blood and it is safe to receive blood. I want to talk about the further steps that we will now take to support those who have been affected. There are two payment schemes for those who have been infected with hepatitis C, which the Scottish Government contributes directly to. The Skipton Fund, which provides lump sum and annual payments, and the Caxton Foundation, which provides discretionary payments to affected people and dependents. Over the past 10 years, the Scottish Government has already contributed more than £30 million to those funds for affected people in Scotland. Separately, there are payment schemes that predate devolution for those who have been infected with HIV. Those are managed by the UK Department of Health. It is right to acknowledge that many patients and their families are of the view that the payments that they receive are insufficient. That view is reflected in the Penrose report. We have already committed to reviewing those schemes and we will now move ahead with that. Given the two HIV support schemes predate devolution and are managed by the UK Department of Health, we will work with the other UK countries to take forward this review. I recognise that the UK Department of Health yesterday announced a one-off payment of £25 million to support any transitional arrangements to a different payment system. Of course, we will ensure that any required contribution from Scotland will be met in 2015-16. We must resolve the issue as quickly as possible. I will go into the review with a view that we should be able to conclude our work in time to make an announcement by no later than World Team Affiliate Day in April 2016. I am also of the view that we must listen to the view of affected patients. I had the opportunity to hear from affected families yesterday, and it is very clear to me that we have to improve the system. In Scotland, we will be establishing a patients and families reference group to help us with the review of those schemes. I also want to say a few words about the work that we have been doing and will continue to do with patients and families and the organisations that support them, such as the Himaffilia Scotland and the Scottish Infected Blood Forum. I met representatives from those organisations over the past few weeks and again today. Both have provided suggestions of various actions that we can take forward. We have already funded the Scottish Infected Blood Forum to carry out a scoping exercise to investigate the support needs of those affected, and that will contribute to the evidence base for the review of the financial schemes. We are separately working with Himaffilia Scotland to develop a pilot of additional social work support for affected people. We have also funded a pilot of additional psychological support to affect a patient through one of the Himaffilia centres in Scotland, and I am committed to successful completion of the pilot and to learn any lessons for what additional support we can provide generally. I can also confirm that a national managed clinical network, essentially a Himaffilia committee, will be established for inherited bleeding disorders. That will closely involve patients and help improve clinical services for the future. Finally, both Himaffilia Scotland and the Scottish Infected Blood Forum do vital work in supporting the affected patients and their families. I am pleased to confirm today that the Scottish Government will commit to providing core funding for both organisations for the next three years to ensure that they can continue their good work. I have asked today both organisations to help to establish the reference group to help to take forward the Penrose recommendation, the other actions that I have highlighted and the consultation on the review of the financial schemes. We will also be more than happy to discuss providing support to any other organisations who work with affected patients and their families. The conclusion of the Penrose inquiry is a watershed moment. We can now say with some certainty that we understand how this tragedy unfolded. People who have been affected have now had the opportunity to be heard and to put on record what happened as part of an independent public inquiry. I want to finish by reiterating how sorry I am that those infections happen through NHS treatment. I have great sympathy to all those affected and will continue to work closely with and offer support to them in any way that we can. The Penrose inquiry was looking at what has happened, but we must now focus on better supporting those affected going forward. In doing so, I can promise that we will continue to listen to them and work with them. I recognise that this statement will not immediately fulfil the desires of all those who have been affected. However, I hope that my comments reflect the Scottish Government's intention and my intention to move forward and work with patients and their families in the coming years. The cabinet secretary will now take questions on issues raised in her statement. I intend to allow around 20 minutes for questions after which we move on to next business. If any member wishes to ask a question of the cabinet secretary, please press your request to speak button now. I call Jenny Marra. I add the sympathies of those benches to the remarks that were made by the cabinet secretary just a few moments ago and thank her for advance copy of her statement. The Penrose inquiry, published yesterday, laid bare the full horror of the blood contamination that led to so many lives being lost and devastated by hepatitis C and HIV. The testimony of the victims in the report and the stories that we heard from those who attended yesterday's event were nothing short of harrowing. Bill Wright, chair of Hemophilia Scotland, described the blood contamination episode as one of the most distressing stories in the history of the NHS, and it is difficult, Presiding Officer, to argue with his analysis. He, like many others, was disappointed, as the cabinet secretary said, with the findings in the report. The most commonly used description of the report by families yesterday was whitewash. Parliament and Government do not have any say over the findings of the report, but we can take the opportunity to put things right for many patients. With this inquiry now over, can the Scottish Government ensure that new and improved treatments that are being developed for hepatitis C are made available for the victims of this dreadful episode as soon as possible? Given that the First Minister stood shoulder to shoulder with the victims, first as Opposition leader and as health secretary, now that she is First Minister and the six-year inquiry that she ordered is over, will her Government now make good on the commitments for financial support? As the cabinet secretary has just announced, financial support will be made available by April next year. After waiting six years for this inquiry to report, is it not reasonable that the Scottish Government make good to that commitment to victims now and put financial support in place without any more delay? I think that it is unfair to ask victims to wait yet another year when they have waited so long and the Government has had so long to prepare for this day. Can I first of all say that, of course, anyone who requires treatment through the new drugs and is clinically approved and recommended for treatment through the new hep C drugs, should receive that. First Minister said earlier on on behalf of the Scottish Government an apology for what had happened, and it is important that we recognise that. Jenny Marra talked about what Bill Wright and others have said, but if she had listened to what Bill Wright and others had said, she would have heard Bill Wright say that he wanted to sit down through the reference group and discuss what the proper support should be, that they want to be involved in the review of the financial arrangements. That call has come from those who have been affected, and therefore I think that Jenny Marra should understand the view of the patients and campaigners on the matter, that they want to talk to us about what those financial arrangements should be. It is in listening to Bill Wright and others that we have come to the conclusions today that I laid out in my statement that the reference group would be established a proper forum for discussing those matters. It was Bill Wright himself who asked for World Heemophilia Day to be the point in time by which those new arrangements should be put in place. I very much listened to the views of those who have been affected. Over the past few years, I sat on the health committee and listened to the first round of evidence on that, and I have met Bill Wright and others over many, many years, and over the past few weeks and indeed today, so I will absolutely listen to those voices as we take that forward. I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of her statement, and I associate the Scottish Conservatives entirely with the sentiments that she has expressed. I also thank the First Minister for having the courage to initiate the inquiry and to say that I am actually quietly proud that it was the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament that, in fact, initiated the inquiry that took place. I have three very brief points. One, I would like to associate myself too with the approach that the cabinet secretary has taken in relation to the response to the relatives and others affected. It is important that, through our actions, we are able to counteract through practical approach any characterisation of the report as a whitewash. It is easy to understand why some might say that. I do not characterise it that way myself and I support the action that she has taken. When she does expect to be able, in her own mind, as a timeline, to advise us on what further action she might arise as a result of the consideration of the recommendation that has taken place, and I also ask her in relation to the HIV compensation just to confirm that she will act with the Westminster Government to ensure that the implementation of the provisions of that are as smooth as possible. Just on the last point first, the general election being in the time frame that it is, that some of those discussions with the Westminster Government will obviously have to take place after the 7th of May, but we obviously want to have those discussions as soon thereafter. I also thank Jackson Carlaw for his comments. That has been a very long inquiry and I very much recognise the families and those affected have waited a long time for what happened yesterday and we should bear that in mind. He is also right to say that action is important and it is not about looking back, it is about looking forward. The work on the reference group, when I met with some of those affected in campaign groups earlier on, they were keen to get that work under way and so am I. The reference group discussions will happen in short order and thereafter they will decide on the priorities going forward. Some of that is about the review of the financial arrangements but there are also other things that we can get on with quite quickly in my view, particularly around things such as the psychological and social work supports that many have said need to be improved. I would like to get on with those in short order and I will certainly be keen and happy to keep Parliament updated on the progress of that. I commend to the cabinet secretary, Robert Mackay, a constituent of mine, whom many of us will remember, sat with others outside the old Parliament and all the others, campaigning for an enquiry and commend the Government for doing it. Nothing will bring back the health we know that, but on financial matters, which at least to some extent might give them some security, I notice that you have committed to reviewing the financial support schemes. Can you confirm that other UK countries will co-operate with that review and, if not, Scotland will go ahead, as it has with its enquiry, with its own review? I say first of all that we have already initiated discussions that, certainly at official level, we would want to begin to discuss the review of the financial arrangements on a UK basis, not least because the existing financial schemes are delivered on a UK basis. However, as I said yesterday and again confirmed today to those affected in their families, I am very clear that Scotland will not be held back if we cannot reach agreement across the islands to move forward. I believe very strongly that we need to move forward. I hope that we can reach agreement across the islands that that should be the case across the four countries. However, I am also very clear that, if we cannot, we will get on and do what is right for those here in Scotland. Rhoda Grant, Fyngor Llywodraeth Cymru. Can I pay tribute to those who have campaigned and, indeed, still continue to campaign on behalf of those who are affected with the scandal? The Penrose inquiry report highlights the issue of patient records and the fact that parts of some patient records are missing. That causes a great deal of distress to patients and, indeed, suspicion that those were tampered with. Can I ask what the cabinet secretary is doing to address that and identify what happened to the records and why? I think that the Penrose report looks into that in some detail and has gone through a lot of information around that. Clearly, if there are other aspects of what Penrose has identified through his report, even if it is not translated into a recommendation, we would be happy to look into that. The focus and desire of those who are affected in their families is around the support going forward. It is important that we focus our attention on that and what more we can do to make sure that people are supported. Yesterday, I heard some very difficult stories about the hardship that people are facing and that it had been made more difficult than it should have been for people to get some of the basic financial support through the existing schemes. In my view, that is not good enough and that should be our focus of attention going forward. That will certainly be the priority that I give. Obviously, there are other matters, but I think that we should focus on the support requirements of those who are affected in their families. I apologise to the cabinet secretary for missing the earlier part of her statement. One of the main findings from the Penrose report is that doctors at the time were very paternalistic and did not give relevant information to patients. How can we be sure that that is no longer the case? Through the Penrose report, that comes across that the relationship that people had with clinicians in the 1970s and 1980s was a paternalistic one, where consent and informed consent were not recognised in the way that they are recognised now, whether that was in relation to test results. We have moved a long way in the NHS now that it is very much about recognising the patient's rights and the right requirement to consent and for that to be informed consent. I recognise the journey that the NHS has been on since then. Of course, the patient's safety programme has dealt with many of those matters in making sure that we have one of the world-leading patient's safety programmes. That is something that we should be proud of in our NHS of today and recognise that we have come on a long journey since the days of the paternalism of the past. I can also pay tribute to the campaigners and acknowledge that the cabinet secretary and the First Minister have taken a close interest in this since the early days of the Scottish Parliament. Does the cabinet secretary agree that an important part of the review has already been carried out by the Scottish Infected Blood Forum, with its 8CV contaminated blood scoping exercise? Is the cabinet secretary minded to accept the recommendations of that exercise, remembering that one of the recommendations is that all the recommendations should be actioned within the lifetime of this Parliament? I think that the work of the forum has been very important in giving us a really good starting point. The scoping work that it has done will be a useful starting point for the reference group. We have certainly discussed that today as being very helpful in making sure that the reference group can get under way and get on with the task in hand, and we will certainly be using the work of the forum to do that. I thank the minister for her statement and agree with all of her statement. As she will be aware, I have worked with Hemophilia Scotland over the last few years, and I pay tribute to the families, in particular to Bill Wright. Recently, I hosted a reception in this Parliament with a play pertaining the disaster factor 9. I ask the cabinet secretary if she will be requesting the health committee to discuss this report urgently, and if time can be allocated to discuss the report in the chamber after any action by the health committee. I saw the play factor 9. It was a moving, powerful play indeed, and it was very powerful. Obviously, it will be for the health committee to decide whether it wants to seek to look at the report. It is not for me to guide it in that respect, but I would certainly be very willing to make myself available to appear in front of the committee should they wish to have a look at the report, but also the work that is going to be happening thereafter in terms of the work of the reference group. I certainly would make myself and my officials available for that. In terms of parliamentary time again, I will be very happy to make time available at the most appropriate moment to come back and revisit progress, perhaps around the reference group as we begin to take matters forward. I would certainly be keen to make sure that we keep Parliament well informed of the progress that is being made there. Jim Hume, followed by Bob Doris. I first place on record my thoughts for the victims and families of those affected under dignified campaign. Of course, I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of the statement. Presiding Officer, almost half of the people living with hepatitis C in Scotland are undiagnosed and only about 3 per cent of those receive treatment. The hepatitis C trust argued that it is a moral imperative that we find and diagnose those people before they develop advanced liver disease. I wonder what the Government is doing to find those who need to be diagnosed and ensure that they are all provided treatment. A lot of work over the years has gone on to attempt to trace people, to find people who are not diagnosed in order for them to be offered a test and therefore to open up opportunities for treatment and support. Obviously, with the Penrose recommendation, there is an imperative on us to see what more we can do in that respect, and we will be discussing the best way of taking that forward so that, again, we can try to make sure that we pick up people who have not already been diagnosed. That is very important, because I am sure that, as Jim Hulme knows, there are now a very different set of drugs and treatments available than there was previously. Therefore, getting people diagnosed and on to the most appropriate treatment is very important. I am happy to keep Parliament informed of the work that we undertake to do that. Bob Doris, followed by Johann Lamont. Cabinet Secretary, will the Scottish Government ensure that those living with hepatitis C due to contaminated blood get full and speedy access to a range of now curative medicines that have been developed recently? I also note that, quite often, the NHS does not prescribe some of those medicines until late stage hepsi, but the disease has been sitting within their bodies for a significant amount of time. Early access to curative medicines would be vital, I think, for many hepsis sufferers. Obviously, those are clinical judgments and someone would have to be clinically suitable for any drug or treatment, but, with that caveat, it is very important that, particularly for those who have been affected through the infected blood and blood products, they are given the opportunity to have those treatments, but, again, they obviously have to be clinically suitable for those treatments, and that will be a clinical judgment. Cabinet Secretary, I have a constituent whose husband was a hemophiliac who contracted hepatitis C through treatment and died young, having suffered immensely, not just from his condition, but from a fear of stigma that led to a desire for secrecy, which brought further burdens to him and to my constituent. My constituent hoped that Penrose would answer a simple question, and that was why it did happen. Critically, whether people were infected after medically it was known that there was a serious problem with the contamination of blood, could the cabinet secretary outline what her response is to that question and what now can people at my constituent do to feel that they have fought hard enough to secure justice for their loved ones? I recognise the pain of her constituent and her constituent's family, but many others I met with many affected yesterday. I was very struck by those personal stories and testimony. One of the things that Penrose did allow was, for many of those, that testimony to be put on the record and recorded. Penrose also looked back into many of the issues that Johann Lamont is referring to about what was known, what action was taken and what action wasn't taken. Being an independent inquiry came to the conclusions that Penrose came to. As I said in my opening statement, I recognise that, for those affected and their families, for many of them, those conclusions have not met their expectations of what they wanted to see the Penrose report come up with. The best response that I can give to that, and I think that this is what those affected and their families want, is now to get on with the action that is required to support them in a better way. That was the message that I got yesterday and the message that I got today, and that is absolutely what I am determined to do. It is a moral obligation for us to make sure that those affected have the proper and adequate support to be able to get on with their lives in more comfort than they are at the moment, and that will be the focus of my attention over the next few weeks and months. I pay tribute to the many families, not just in the gallery but throughout Scotland as well. Given what we know happened in relation to HIV and Hep C, how can we be sure that the blood supply is safe from new infections, which might now still emerge? As I said in my statement, the processes around blood donation and the treatment of blood and the safety of blood are very, very strictly controlled. The message that I want to give today is that we have one of the safest processes and safest products here in Scotland and indeed in the UK throughout the world. It is important that that message goes out because I would not want anyone who has been reading or listening to some of the really difficult issues around the Penrose report to be afraid of receiving blood or blood products here in Scotland or, indeed, giving blood. It is really important that the message goes out that the blood in Scotland is safe and people should not be afraid to be a recipient of blood or blood products or, indeed, importantly, to give blood. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Would the cabinet secretary agree with me that this is the biggest medically-caused tragic event since Thalidomide and, indeed, arguably bigger? We should all regret the process taking so long. Even now, if more support beyond the excrasher funding made by Labour is now put in place, many of the victims and their families may never have closure nor the lives lost, of course, can never be restored. Cabinet secretary, new medicine is rarely risk-free, so can she give us any indication as to whether we have a firm timetable for a no-fault compensation scheme? I think that I said in my statement that this was one of the biggest tragedy that has faced our health service and those who were in receipt of treatment through our health service. I think that I was clear about that in my statement. The issue that I have said to others about getting on with the review of the financial provisions and the method and the timescale for that has not been something that I have decided upon. That has been in consultation with those affected and they want to be involved in those discussions. They want to have ownership of those discussions and they want that to be done in a proper process. That is why what I announced in my statement has been driven by those who have been affected. I think that it is absolutely critical that we listen to them. The next step will be the reference group. We have already had some discussions today about getting that under way. Then we will begin the detailed discussions around those financial provisions and whether we can move forward with those on a UK basis or whether we need to do something in Scotland. Again, I have said to others that I am open-minded about that and that will depend on the response from other parts of the UK. However, what I am absolutely clear about is that we will not stand back and we will not stall from getting on with our moral duty to make the lives of those affected and their families better. That is what I am going to be focused on over the next few weeks and months to make sure that we deliver that. Thank you. That ends the statement from the Cabinet Secretary on the Penrose inquiry. Before we move to the next item of business, I say to members that I allowed the statement to run on naturally to allow everybody who wishes to ask that question and to get an answer. That does mean that we are going to be very, very tight for time for the rest of the afternoon, so I hope that you will bear that in mind.


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this morning was on what do we do to advance the leak manifesto? And I'm assuming most people in this room from Canada are familiar with it. It's a vision that incorporates indigenous rights, equality for groups that are on the margins of our society, and overcoming the challenges of climate change. And all three dimensions are important. But there's a very good reason why the leak manifesto begins with indigenous rights. And that's because if we don't get that correct, if we don't overcome the burden of colonialism, we're not going to achieve the other goals. And central for that precisely is the struggle around free, prior and informed consent that Roy raised. And this is going to be a long struggle. It's an ongoing one. It took about 20 years to get the principle of free, prior and informed consent into the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. And like the FAO, what you described, Roy, it's there on paper. And we were hopeful with the rhetoric of the present Trudeau government that they were going to implement it. But then they said, well, you know, Romeo Sagovich's private members bill that simply said, write it into Canadian law. We're not going to do that. We want to do that in a Canadian way. And that set up a lot of red flags, because they're not willing to take the logic of that and simply say, yes, we are going to respect free, prior and informed consent for indigenous people. So where are we at? There's several tests that are going on right now. The Chacolton decision was certainly an important victory. But just two weeks ago, around the Sight Sea Dam in British Columbia, when the federal government had the ability to listen to the Trudeau people who have gone to court and said, don't build the dam until we give our consent, went ahead and gave permits through the Department of Fisheries and Transportation for the Sight Sea Dam. And I'm proud to say that Carlos has put out a very strong statement. You can find it on our website, protesting that decision. So that's a setback, but it's not the end of the story. Alma has been talking about the struggle in New Brunswick around the energy east pipeline, very similar there, where the peoples in New Brunswick are united, demanding to have their right to free, prior and informed consent. So we're going to have to struggle in some ways through various of these projects. There'll be setbacks and there'll be victories. And then finally, we will have to actually encode it in Canadian law, but we're not there yet. And we shouldn't be naive about the rhetoric of the present government. I heard a lot about that this morning, I'll tell you. Just to go on a little bit, going back to Ellie's question to Gloria about Buen Viveir and what it means. And as Gloria said, you know, it's not a simple formula that can be applied anywhere. However, there are principles that we can learn from the indigenous peoples of the Americas. And we've done some research on that in Kairos. We've done this study on indigenous wisdom living in harmony with Mother Earth. And the first chapters describe what is going on, particularly in Bolivia and Ecuador. And then we take the principles and say, what might they mean in Canada? What do they mean for an economy over dependent on extracting bitumen and exporting it? Well, we can learn lessons from the Americas, indigenous peoples, about how to resist that and what might be some of the alternatives. And here's where we get back to the jobs issue. Because as Gloria was again saying so eloquently, the alternatives are those that give life. And it's important that when we talk about just transition and this question of where are our children and our grandchildren going to find jobs, it's not just the renewable energy economy. We need that. We need people to build the solar panels and install the wind turbines. Sure. But the other industries that give life in education, in the arts, in childcare, those programs we're still struggling for in Canada. There are also ways, not only just of creating employment, but of making a sustainable economy. And it means getting away from false indicators like gross domestic product where some of this destructive counts to increase the GDP to real indicators. And I'm really struck, the recent work from our friend Jim Stanford, what we should be looking at is employment indicators as a real sign of what our economy is. Is there is not producing life-giving results? And this can be employment, as I say, not just in, certainly not in extraction and not just in renewable energy, but in other professions. So that's one way. And then Tara in her question was asking about consumerism, because if there's a central message that comes from the study of the wisdom of Indigenous peoples and when we veer, it's the one again that Gloria has reiterated of thinking about what do we really need? Do we need all those gadgets? Do we need all those consumer items? Can we not redistribute wealth in such a way that we buy things that really sustain and give life and not the luxuries? That's part of the vision. Let's stop here. Great. Thank you, John.


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All right, everybody, welcome to the end of the United Way campaign 2015. We want to tell you, everyone, thank you for making your contributions. As a health system, we exceeded our goal by over $15,000. We're still actually collecting money. There's some money still trickling in that we're turning it. So congratulations to everybody. It's an awesome accomplishment. And so in honor of that, of course, we have our slide victims here from home care. And you're ready? Whoo! All right. You want to do this up, right? Yeah, we try. We're trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm glad. I'm glad. Okay, all right. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Whoo! Oh, my god. Oh, my god. You