Hey guys, so if you're watching this then you have seen the short video where I have shared this probably first if you haven't This is my Piece of work that I'm going to do for the first month to start start our journals off for 2017 the first prompt is a new step forward the details with the prompt and everything should be listed in the post post that you're watching this video on and It's sort of a post that connotates visions of creating a resolution list or a vision board or something along those lines What do you want to do with your year? Where do you want to go with your year? And what would you like to accomplish in the year for me a resolution list? Well? You know resolutions I never keep them up I you know it just seems like failure to me resolution equals failure Because I never accomplished them all and a vision board I just have no patience for cutting out a bunch of different images to paste on a little card or something to tip in my journal I just at the moment today that I'm filming this I just have no patience for that But I was in the grocery store recently and I saw a little girl character sketchy character on a greeting card I thought was really cute, so I thought I would do my version of her and in and around her I've put symbols and words To inspire me and remind me of different things that I want to accomplish with my year And we're going to tip her into the journal before we do I'm going to show you how I drew her so we're going to set this aside and I've got a Ranger tag here. This is a pretty big tag. I think it's a number 10 Let's see really quick Yes, it's a numbers 10 manila tag you of course can use anything that you want or you could draw her Directly on the page in your journal if you want I'm going to use a dip pen and some sumi ink and a water brush to start now You of course can use a pencil you can use a regular pen Think about using a pen that is not waterproof. That's water soluble and as we Do the drawing you'll see why but all this shading on her the gray shading.  Okay, so this is my new little ink jar isn't it cute? All right, so I'm going to just dip my pen in here and we're going to start with the eyes And I'm going to zoom in There we go So she's pretty sketchy and I'm just going to do kind of a dot for the eye and then a long exaggerated Eyelash put another eye.  So I'm going to give her kind of a long skinny neck and Just a round neckline Shoulders I'm going to now come in and do some hair and in the original sketch. I just gave her kind of a short bob Now Sumi ink is not waterproof. It's water soluble Even after it's dry it will reactivate So I'm going to come back in here and just make these eyelashes a bit darker I drew this one's head a lot bigger than the other one every time I've drawn her She's coming a little different, but that's okay So then I want to give her kind of a long skinny arms just the hint of a hand. It doesn't have to be You know, this is just this is about being loose and sketchy This is not about Perfection by any means Now because she came out a bit bigger. I'm not going to have room to put her legs But on the original one I gave her legs However, your turn yours turns out.  I'm going to darken the inside of the bag I'm going to darken the edges of her dress.  I'm going to Darken the upper lip. I'm going to get the ink up there wet The upper lip is usually always darker than the lower lip. That's pretty good And whether you draw her smaller and you get legs in or not I think it doesn't matter either way So then I want you to think about what are some things that you want to accomplish this year So love popped up on mine a couple of times once in a word and once in a symbol. So I did draw a heart on her Dress. No, see there's the ink again. I'm constantly getting myself Inky and I Also want to try to be more Smart about money and spending next year. I know that's you know, we're artists. We like to spend money It's kind of contraindicated, right? But I gave her dollar sign earrings Maybe you for you. Maybe you want to give her like paintbrush earrings or you know, something like that I also wrote some words in her dress so travel Create harmony peace.  I got to work on YouTube Right. I also did some fun things like I drew a little palette and paintbrush hanging from her bracelet over here Let's see if we can zoom in a little bit more So that was kind of fun. So first I just drew a little line Then I drew sort of an old found it fashioned Palatee shape Put a little hole Some hole drew some little blobs Okay, and then I took and I drew a line that I then darkened in dashi liner and then I drew sort of a Think of it as a sketchy teardrop, right to symbolize Art make what make more art next year. That's important, right? So she was pretty cute. She's pretty cute. Just the way she is. I'm going to zoom back out again So she's pretty cute. Just the way she is. I was happy with her, but I thought hmm All right. Well, let's go a little farther So I have the recollections Watercolor gel crayons and I really only need two colors a pink and a yellow So I got the pink and the yellows and first I wanted to just add some color to her face just a little like Hints of color so cheek a little bit to the cheeks and a little bit to the heart and At first I used the baby wipe, but I found that it's easier and more controlled to use the water brush At least on the on some of the parts on the cheeks. I did use the baby wipe to get in here You just you get a little bit of a softer look and then the yellow to just brighten up the manila paper around her and You may get parts of the ink wet and it may smear into the yellow I Was okay with that. I didn't mind the way it turned out if that bothers you you might want to Use a water brush for this and you may want to use a water brush for parts of it anyway And I'll show you what I mean Okay, so like right here under her arm if I got in there with the baby wipe I can guarantee you that I would smear the ink around In a way that even I was not okay with Loops see I did it anyway Now you just have to be you know You just this is not intended to be perfect by any stretch see there we go. I just made a big mess But you have to just live with it and that's fine. Maybe a word needs to be there I did it on the other one too a little bit, but I ended up kind of fixing it and by fixing it I don't mean I I got rid of it. I did it right here to her shoulder. I just I You know put more color over the top of it in this case. This is a bigger blob So what I would do is I would probably write something there. So art that works right there It's a little bit wet so it's smearing, but that's fine. I think she's cute anyway So once she's dry then she's ready to put in your journal and we're gonna do that next and What we're gonna need is we're gonna need some washi tape so I'm gonna set her aside and And we are gonna need my journal and Tape I'm gonna use I think Maybe the cloud tape Maybe Ooh, I have this bee tape though. This bee tape is cute. Let's try that one. I don't think I've used this one yet This is a bee bumblebee washi tape. This is a scotch brand Don't remember where I got it from but isn't it cute So we're gonna tip her in so the question is do I want to tip her in the front which is not my In my instinct is to put her here, and I think that's what we're gonna do So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take her And I'm going to put some washi tape on her card in a way so that I'm not covering up Part of her drawing Okay, so like that. I'm gonna put two pieces like that And then I'm gonna take my journal And I'm gonna line up the bottom of the tag with the bottom of the page and then the edge of the tag with the edge of the page And I'm gonna wrap the tape around cool Then I'm gonna open it up, and we're gonna put more tape here and this this one You can put it all the way down if you want, but some of the sticky might show on the other side So now she's all taped in and ready to go for the new year. Look at her She is just ready and raring. So there you go. There's one way to do your first prompt of the new year I hope that you enjoy the process and have fun with it Don't forget over the Christmas holiday and new years especially to save some bits and pieces to use in your journal And we'll be back mid-month To work on the January part of our journal with another prompt. That's it for right now Don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys


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Everybody, welcome. Thanks for coming to another edition of the OpenShift Commons briefings. We host these every Wednesday, and we hope you bookmark it on your calendar. Come back and see us every Wednesday at noon. Today, we're lucky enough to have Michael Ferranti, the vice president of product marketing here talking from Portworx, and he's going to be talking about enterprise data protection for OpenShift applications. Welcome, Michael, to the show. Hi, Michael. Great to be here. Great. So tell us about what you do there. Yeah, it's kind of a loaded question. I don't know if some of your audience saw recently that we were just acquired by Pure Storage, so we announced that last week. I was really about that on the internet just the other day. Congratulations. That's a pretty good thing for you, folks, I take. Yeah, we're all really excited, and I'm sure we'll get into a lot of those details as we go along, because I think it really relates to kind of our approach to the topic of today's conversation, enterprise data protection. All of that's to say, kind of, you know, there's a lot of change. I've been with the company for three years now, and when I joined, I was, you know, maybe the second or third kind of non-engineer hire, and, you know, we've since, you know, doubled the team many times over and are a much larger organization now, but going to be going into an even bigger organization. So, you know, I think the way that I spend my time is a combination of, you know, talking to customers, understanding, you know, how they're approaching digital transformation within their organization broadly, you know, how we translate that into, you know, requirements and solutions for solving the data problem that comes along with application development and application operations, and then making sure that when someone comes to, you know, our website or visits at a trade show or attends one of our webinars, that kind of how we solve the specific pain that they have is really, really clear.  And you were at another start. So, you've been there for about three years now. You said where were you before that? You were at another startup. Were they also purchased? I know. I know. And unfortunately not. So, I'm not batting a hundred on this one, but, you know, it's, you know, if you don't mind, I can kind of take a little bit of detour, because I think it'll put a lot of the conversation in context. So, yeah, so I was at another startup prior to Portworx. I was a company by the name of Cluster HQ. And I spent about three years at that company as well. In fact, kind of as part of the acquisition by Pure, I recently wrote kind of a blog post reflection on the last six years in that journey and kind of what I learned along the way. And to give the kind of the high level review, I would say that first of all, when I joined the previous company, Cluster HQ, I had been working in kind of a, you know, a publicly traded company for the last five years and really enjoyed it, but kind of got the itch to join a startup. And for me, joining a startup, it's really about building something from scratch, right? Not just being on a winning team, but helping kind of get the team going so that it can win and really build things from scratch.  I kind of, you know, just did a broad search and realized or noticed that everybody in San Francisco at the time was just like Docker, Docker, Docker, Docker. Docker was the conversation at every infrastructure meetup anywhere. And as I learned more about it, I realized that, you know, containers, yeah, that's kind of virtualization 2.0, but in, with that building block, that virtualization base building block, it was really changing how applications were being built, deployed and managed. And I saw that as kind of a long-term trend. And so I said, okay, if this really becomes like if the data center, and even the public cloud becomes predominantly containerized, what does that mean for the other parts of the application stack? What does it mean for infrastructure? What does it mean for security? And I realized that, you know, kind of storage and data management writ large would need to be completely redone, reimagined, rebuilt, if containerization was going to become the primary operating model. And go ahead. I was just going to say something, you know, you brought up Docker and, you know, I've been here at Red Hat for 19 years now and pretty happy about that, a great company to work for. But it seems like every three years, there's a new, there's a new golden child out there. Remember when OpenStack first came out and it was OpenStack, OpenStack, OpenStack. And then there was, then there was the whole Docker craze.  And then that kind of dwindled. And then there was containers and containers, containers, containers. Now Kubernetes, Kubernetes is now the, you know, orchestration of containers. So how have you, you know, seen those changes as it relates to storage over the last, you know, just X number of years? Yeah, yeah. Excellent question. And, you know, I, so not to make this all about kind of, you know, my recent past, but, you know, six years ago when I joined this startup, I, I believe that if containers were going to continue to be important, someone would have to figure out the storage and data management. And it turns out that maybe like five or six people agreed with me and everybody else said, you know what, you know, Michael, we love you. But if you think that containers are going to run databases and, you know, analytics and other things like that, then you've completely missed the point of all of these Docker meetups, right? Containers are for stateless applications. And to answer your very pointed question, the evolution of storage and data management for containers was one of pretty much no one caring about it and not even beyond not caring being antagonistic towards the idea that we needed a data layer for containers to begin with through to realization that, you know, and we have lots of open ship customers that are in this boat. You know, the agility that they gain from being able to run applications on, on OpenShift is so monumental for them. And I'm kind of, I'm not even really being hyperbolic when I, when I say that it's really a game changer when you have a team that used to take six months to get a new application into, into production. And now with OpenShift, they can squeeze that down to, you know, weeks or days or in sometimes hours. That's such a big change that you say, how can we apply this to our entire infrastructure? And if, if there's a limiting factor, which is to say, you can get that goodness as long as there's no data involved, then it's really a deal breaker because how many enterprise applications don't have, don't have data. And customers began to realize that. Then the vendors, you know, big and small realize that they needed a solution there. And, you know, I was lucky enough to, to work for two companies that were there kind of six years ago. Portworx was founded in parallel with this other company. But, you know, none, you know, the EMCs of the world were among the first, but it probably took them, you know, a good maybe 18 to 24 months to really understand that containers was something that could challenge their business and that app was even longer. And now we kind of come full circle and, you know, the biggest companies in the world who are using containers are also running analytics, AI, you know, big data workloads on, on containers in production. And wouldn't you say, though, that because things are changing so rapidly and because containers offer so much flexibility and choice that, that this poses new types of challenges for customers about orchestration and managing all of that in a production environment? Yeah, absolutely. You know, the playbook hasn't been written yet. You know, I think it's, it's not like everything is unknown at this point. But there are, you know, still lots of, lots of unknowns. And oftentimes it's maybe the, maybe there are fewer technical unknowns today, but there are a lot of cultural unknowns. For instance, and a lot has been written and said about this is, you know, you used to have very rigorous separation of, of duties between developers and operations.  And that was an operational role. And now we kind of run this DevOps world in which, you know, the, the administrator oftentimes writes software themselves. Now it could just be software in order to automate the deployment of other software. But in some cases, it's, you know, it's everything from kind of lightweight coding to very, very heavy coding when you're building large scale kind of platforms. And that cultural change for how do you operate in a company that's, you know, you know, one of our customers, I'm just going to pick on them because it, I think it illustrates the point here, they're one of the largest retailers in the United States.  And how do you take a company that's been around for so long, kind of started out not as a digital business really as a brick and mortar, and then transform that into a company capable of delivering software to compete with true digital native companies. When you're also transforming your culture, I think you're exactly right. Lots of questions get posed. And to you, you know, as customers are starting to adopt multi cloud and moving everything out of the data center, we see, I think we tend to see a lot of customers aren't necessarily moving their workloads into production right away. And I think probably a lot of that is about concerns around, you know, data protection. So, you know, how, you know, how do you see protecting applications the way we used to do with like, say virtual machines, now that everything's running in containers? Yeah, that's a good question. And I agree with you that, you know, the, you know, if you're adopting containers or Kubernetes or cloud native or whatever you want to call it, you know, there's a there's a learning period before those applications move into production, as there would be with any on any technology stack. And I think if you look at the industry overall, lots of organizations like you imagine each organization is on on kind of an escalator. And everybody gets on at the same spot. But some people get on before other people. So, you know, at any given point in time, even within the same organization, you have some some customers or some teams that are are in production where you have other teams that are starting the beginning of the journey. And so that's kind of one of the things you have to deal with as well, which is that there's different levels of maturity, even within the same organization. That said, I think when we talk to customers about data protection, we, you know, a lot of a lot of things are new, but a lot of things are not new. And so customers understand concepts like, you know, RPO and RTO when it comes to data protection and just for, you know, clarity sake, RPO stands for recovery point objective. That's, you know, how much data loss are you willing to accept in the case of a disaster? Right? Does if if a right just happened in one data center, does that right need to be available in your in your disaster site? Or are you say, you know, it's okay if we have a backup from an hour ago, that's okay. That's acceptable amount of data loss and different types of applications have different requirements. In fact, you know, in the same organization, you can have some with very, very stringent requirements and others that don't. And RTO is recovery time objective. How long is it? How long should I recover? So we start with the understand customers understanding, right? They they have their RPO and their RTO for applications defined. And they've done that for VMs. And like, you know, the chief security officer, the chief compliance officer, you know, head of IT, like all of these things have been debated endlessly by the organization. And none of that needs to change just because you're moving in containers. What changes is how do you deliver upon those SLAs? And when it comes to Kubernetes and and OpenShift, one of the most important things to understand is that in an OpenShift application is made up of a number of different components. And all of those components need to be available in order for an application to run post disaster or to be recovered from a backup. And those components are defined at the application level, not at the infrastructure level. And that's the big difference between kind of traditional data protection, where we would say we would back up our VM, right? We would, you know, we would use, I don't know, Veeam and that would back up all of our all of our VM ware instances. And because we ran one application per VM, if we had a backup of the VM, we also had a backup of the application. That model completely breaks down when it comes to containerization, because now my OpenShift application is actually running across many VMs, or in the case of bare metal, it's running across many bare metal instances. I'm running distributed applications. And because OpenShift enables us to have kind of radical multi-tenancy, right, to get those efficiency gains, not only as a single application running across multiple hosts, but each of those hosts is hosting multiple applications. So I've kind of got this, you know, this scatter plot of pods, configuration, volumes spread across my data center. And if I want to take a backup or recover an application, I need to know kind of the needle in the hay stack for a specific tag or for a specific namespace. And the reality is that the biggest challenge with data protection when it comes to moving to containers is that your existing solutions that were optimized for VM workloads don't speak the language of Kubernetes and OpenShift. So you can't give them, for instance, a namespace and have them understand what that means and then go and protect it, or give them a tag and then they go and protect it. Now you folks have a Red Hat certified operator, right? Yes.  How does the operator help people manage their data in this cloud native distributed environment? Yeah. So the operator concept is basically software for managing other software. And so there are a lot of things that you need to do in order to kind of execute these operations. So for instance, I want to take a backup. I might need to snapshot a distributed database. Maybe it's Cassandra and I have 10 Cassandra nodes and I need to snapshot them, but I need to do it in a way that actually runs a command within the Cassandra container, each Cassandra container before that snapshot is taken to kind of queues the database, flush any rights to disk, then take my snapshot, then unlock everything, and then run a command within, Cassandra called node to repair, which kind of resyncs any rights that we're pending. Yeah. Basically it's a complex operation that's something like an operator can do for you. So we have a rule within our backup engine, which is executed via an operator, which is a set of pre, a pre hook, pre snapshot rule, and a post snapshot rule. So all you have to do is say for my custom database, you need to run this command from within the database container before the snapshot, and then you need to run this command after. It's the type of thing that a traditional database administrator would do manually. We've codified that into code, you give us the rule, and then our operator is going to execute that command, and it doesn't matter if it's, you know, if it's on one pod, if it's on 100 pods, if it's once a day or if it's every every five minutes, we're going to be able to execute that faithfully and without kind of the human error that you can get from using someone needing a second cup of coffee, you know, and you know, fat fingering a key or something like that. So the operator concept doesn't, the operator concept does not provide data protection. It enables software that does provide data protection to do so in an automated manner and speeds up efficiency and reduces errors. Hmm. So how about, what about customers? Like what are some of the coolest customer cases you've seen out there today?  So a couple of examples come to mind. One is a platform called Roblox. So it's a gaming platform. I think they have like 150 million monthly active users, mainly kind of teens and preteens. And so you can build your own games. It's a community. You can make money off of your game, like by selling games to other people. Kind of a DIY gaming network.  They're just usage as skyrocketed as kind of families try to figure out, yeah, how to deal with, you know, kids in the house when parents are working on all these types of things. And so, you know, they really had to grow what they call their points of presence, which is where they stamp out these infrastructures all around the world in order to meet the demand that's popping up. And so that's a really cool use case. Being able to support that. Another customer that comes to mind is called Esri. So they're one of these companies that, like, you know, we all rely on every day, but we've never heard of. That's the reason mapping data, right? Exactly. And they're becoming more of a household name because some of their maps around COVID tracking are kind of, you know, often used by, you know, New York Times, Washington Post, et cetera. So just to keep track of infection rates and testing and things like that using their ArcGIS platform. So you've probably been to websites where it's ArcGIS.esri.com. And they're running all of that in the public cloud and, you know, data is a huge part of what they do. So it has to be reliable. It has to be performant. It has to be secure. And we're helping there. And then, you know, those are kind of the, not necessarily consumer, but things that consumers might be more familiar with.  And there, what's cool is how you take a really heavily regulated financial services company like Royal Bank of Canada. We recently did a webinar with them and say, how do you both meet your kind of regulatory requirements of just being, you know, a financial services institution and be as agile as, you know, Silicon Valley startup when it comes to getting to market quickly. Like, that's a hard needle to thread. And so being able to help their, you know, solving things like disaster recovery, multi-site DR for them is really exciting and kind of points to the future, I think of, you know, there are fewer and fewer of applications that are really too sensitive, you know, too, too regulated, too critical to running containers. I think, you know, we're seeing every day more and more instances where that's proving not to be the case. So what about the cloud providers? It seems like, you know, when I started at Red Hat, again, it was 2000, 2002, there were 40 different flavors of Linux out there. Everybody was in the Linux space. There was Blue Dog Linux and Miracle Linux and China had Red Flag Linux and, you know, Red Hat was the company that got it right, right? We figured out how to slow down the release cycles of the kernel releases so that customers could actually standardize on one distribution of Linux and then software vendors could certify their software on a target that wasn't moving all the time. So we went from Red Hat Linux, which was, you know, version six, version seven, version eight, version nine, you know, and we came out then with, you know, a version of Linux that was released every three years before the ABI or KABI would change. Now with Kubernetes, it's kind of the similar thing, like everybody's in the Kubernetes space. Everybody's got a different story around Kubernetes, especially, you know, like the major cloud providers. So who do you think is going to get it right? Who do you think is going to be the red hat of the Kubernetes cloud space? Yeah, it's an excellent question. And I think if I categorically do the answer, I'd be on eTrade right now, you know, buying some stock because I think the person who gets it right is going to really create a very hard to compete with business for a long time. Our CEO, Murley Thermorelli, has actually been doing a series of blog posts on this topic because it's really, it's both intellectually interesting and then also important to get right from a partnership perspective. And so I don't know that, you know, he knows the exact answer or we know the exact answer, but I think I have a model for thinking through it. And basically, I think that whereas Amazon pretty much got as close to a winner-take-all market as you can in enterprise software, right, if they also didn't compete against a lot of their customers like retail and things like that, I think it probably could have been a winner-take-all market, right, because if Walmart had decided to just go ahead and use Amazon because Amazon wasn't, you know, the retailer, then that would have taken some really big users away from Google and Azure made it harder for them to get the scale that they needed. Anyway, Amazon was the runaway winner in the cloud 1.0 award. At the same time, VMware, I think is still smarting from their business being sucked away because of cloud. And so you have a market now where the Google and Azure and to a lesser extent IBM, but I would call IBM the fourth big cloud where they're trying to figure out how do we prevent Amazon from running away with cloud 2.0. And that's where you see, you know, Microsoft with Arc, Google with Anthos, IBM with Red Hat slash OpenShift as a infrastructure agnostic management layer on top of public cloud infrastructure. So if you're Google, you're thinking about how do we make it so that Amazon's strength, their infrastructure play actually not a liability, but how do we commoditize that by bringing Anthos in, running on top of Amazon infrastructure and in Amazon basically has to keep eating margin because as they complete at the infrastructure level but Amazon or Anthos captures or Google captures the higher value software revenue. At the same time, you have got the independent cloud platforms. They're also like VMware with Tanzu and then probably more relevant IBM and Red Hat OpenShift where VMware can do the same thing. Tanzu gives them a credible way to really offer something of high value in the public cloud run Tanzu on a federated cloud architecture of Amazon, Google and Microsoft and used by least lowest com denominator infrastructure, storage network and compute from the cloud provider. But then your kind of your ELA is with Tanzu and I think Red Hat can offer something similar. So I think ultimately there is not going to be only one winner in this market the way that there was a very predominant winner in the public cloud. I don't know if VMware long-term is going to be at a compete. I think each of the clouds will be successful and I think actually, I'm not just saying this because I'm on the OpenShift Commons webinar but I think IBM strategy is really smart and Red Hat is like the entire key to it. OpenShift is the entire key to it. And so if nothing else it's going to be really interesting to watch over the next five years and customers have a lot of choice which is a great thing. So what's next? Meaning like there was open there was the OpenStack shiny object docker sheen already talked about that. Is there going to be another shiny object 24 months from now or do you think we're kind of settled into Kubernetes and container orchestration for the foreseeable future? Well, I think there's always a shiny object and that's a good thing because smart people are getting born every day and they figure out how to solve problems differently. I don't think that at a high... Well, let me say that I don't think there's going to be something in the next couple of years that fundamentally changes application delivery the way Kubernetes slash containers have changed application delivery over the next five years. I think there's going to be innovation within that space but the idea that there's something called X that two years from now everybody's like run away from Kubernetes and start doing that. I don't think that's going to happen in kind of the three to five year timeline. I think the next big thing though is going to be Kubernetes as the control plane for the entire data center not just for containers. And I because I think that that's been one of the things that's been holding back adoption of Kubernetes which is that like you have to buy into containerization or you have to commit is probably a better word to containerization if you want to get those benefits but if you look at someone like Netflix they made microservices popular before Docker was popular and all of that for the most part was on Amazon and all of that for the most part was running in EC2 instances and they're a highly agile organization lots and lots of microservices and yet they weren't a containerized business. So if the idea behind Kubernetes is often said how can we make any business like Netflix or like Google well why are we still saying Kubernetes has to it can only manage container and we're starting to see things like OpenShift virtualization we actually just did a blog on our website about how you can use OpenShift to manage VMs in the same agile manner. And I think once that happens Kuvert is a project that's being popularized a lot of people are looking at ways to kind of get VMware out of their infrastructure because it's not that we don't want virtualization it's that we don't necessarily need people call it the VMware tax like I think that's you know we just don't we don't need the value that VMware is providing for these set of applications and so we want to do it with virtualization but not VMware. I think that happens. I think that might disagree with you though. What's that? I think I think VMware might disagree with you on that. Yeah I think they have they absolutely would and you know it's it's their their argument to lose but you know customers you know customers vote with their with their checkbooks and you can't take your customers for granted not that that's what VMware is doing but I think some customers say hey you know Kuvert plus Kubernetes plus kind of Docker containers enables me to build an agile infrastructure that looks quite similar to what I was getting from vSphere but I can do it in a multi-cloud I can do it in the public cloud and you know they're they see some value there so So what about these challenging times you know like I've been living here at my summer house now since March 20th and when I first got here I left Massachusetts because of the challenging times and I was snowmobiling into my cabin here because the road's not maintained or anything for me my business of partner marketing here at Red Hat has just absolutely exploded like through the like we are so busy how have you seen these data where we are right now affect your business in a in a in a positive or a negative or in an indifferent way Yeah it's um I I I I joke with my wife all the time is like you know whoever you think of being quarantined as like this is like how are you gonna make the time pass it's gonna be so boring you can't do anything and as a family we've never been busier between you know two kids in school both of my my wife and I working virtually and you just you multiply that by every Portworx employee each Portworx employee interacts with you know 100 different customers and you just you keep multiplying it out and everybody's busier and if you look at like the the the things that are making modern life liveable in this very unusual times it all comes back to software and so if you kind of say well what does it mean for software businesses it means that there are a lot more customers they're buying a lot more they're they're running at scale a lot faster um there's a kind of a I saw it on I think it was on Twitter maybe there's some other social media platform but it was or maybe as LinkedIn doesn't matter um like a little um uh kind of mock survey and it said who in your organization has been responsible for digital driving digital transformation and like choice A CTO choice B CIO choice C COVID-19 and like that one's checked because the reality is like COVID it just it was an adapter die moment and so you know customers um like like Esri um like Roblox experiencing growth that they hadn't planned for and yet they had they had to um adapt to or just you know be surpassed zoom is another example not not a poor customer but a clear example of a company that's just unprecedented and um I think all those like zoom we use uh we use blue jeans here but there's there's probably five or six major mainstream ones I can't imagine the the infrastructure demand that was put on those as a result of these last seven or eight months it must be amazing yep yep absolutely and you know you know my kids are learning about role-based access controls as they go through school because they're you know they're authenticated into their school account using um google um using google often all of these things and like they're at you know the tender ages of eight and ten are getting a level of computer literacy that just I think portends of what the future is where every major um kind of life decision and life activity is going to be mediated by computers that doesn't mean that we can't get together anymore but that your things that we used to do with paper you know face to face are increasingly going to go online and all that infrastructure needs to run somewhere it needs to be managed it needs to be secure um and you know to bring it back to your earlier question you know who wins I think it's the companies that can make that easy and reliable for their customers because that's ultimately what what the end user needs is they need it to work right at at any level of scale and you know it's too complicated even for people like you and me we do this for a living it still can be really really complicated to understand how all the pieces fit together and so you take a customer that also has a day job you know doing banking or doing gaming or whatever their their specific area of expertise is they can't understand you know every single piece of minutia and so that's where you know I think red hat really um executed extremely well in the operating system revolution by taking something as complex as Linux and just making it so that it just you plug it in and it works within the enterprise I think application infrastructure um is is another example of that that you know where that need is equally high well I'm looking at the clock we're coming up here at the end of at the end of our our content period here we don't want you to go back after being here today and have your boss or your CEO say Michael you were there you were streaming on the open shift commons briefing show addressing you know people all over the world why didn't you why didn't you say XYZ so let's let's let's make that not happen what is it that you want to make sure that you deliver as a message here while we're while we're here today yeah it's a good question I mean I I would say the the thing that I'm really excited about is um you know by joining pure storage I don't know if the you know the audience knows anything about pure um I'm not going to do justice to their to their story history um but I think the opportunity that pure import works um have in in the context that we've just described is that applications are more important than ever data is more important than ever um and you know applications are running in multiple clouds and lots of different environments and security is an ever-present threat availability is an ever-present threat or requirement and someone has to provide that management layer the data management layer to go to live alongside kind of the the application management layer provided by open shift or you know whatever container platform you're using and I I think the best solution on the market for that is um is pure and and pure works and you know ultimately you know the people listening it doesn't decide but we believe that you know if you are running serious applications on open shift and you care about data protection you care about performance and you care about you know multi cloud operations that you know what works is the the most complete platform for Kubernetes data management services and um I think you know getting a chance to work with innovative customers is what really makes us tick really really passionate passionate about it and so you know looking forward to the next six years to to complement the previous six I think there's a lot of cool things in store going on to the resources tab we took the liberty of putting up a resources link here Michael on how to get started with Portworx you know the the operator that you folks have that you built with us is made available and published and distributed via the red hat catalog we have the link up there and of course open shift commons probably one of the one of the the most exciting things that I've had an opportunity to work with here at red hat we also have a link to it there if anyone would like to join the the commons community here at red hat please feel free to do so Michael thank you so much for joining us today it was really good my pleasure and we'll we'll talk to you soon and thanks for coming great thank you


The American Legion writers of Minnesota are going on a ride that will benefit the children of men and women who have since died after the September 11th attacks. Hady Cotter has a story from Walker. The Walker American Legion post-134 supports their fallen comrades. Riders from all over the state gathered for the kickoff of a legacy run where donations benefit the American Legion Legacy Scholarships. For children of any military person who's died in military since 9-11 or anybody who's 50% or more disabled since 9-11 of 01. For Steve Hootman of the American Legion, it's a no-brainer why they do this. If you can't support a veteran or their families, then you're not American. It's very important that we support our veterans and their families as well. 55 students will each receive nearly $20,000, although their parents are no longer present. The hope is that these children know they're not forgotten. It shows that there are other people out there that still care for them, will care for them, and then it's also kind of a thank you. It's a thank you for those that gave the ultimate. This is the eighth year for the legacy run and about 40 riders will head out tomorrow morning where they'll make stops in Park Rapids and Detroit Lakes along the way. We'll stop at Fergus Falls at the Minnesota Veterans Home, visit some veterans, and we're going to Long Prairie and ending up in Wilmer tomorrow night. The Walker American Legion had a goal to raise just $15,000. Well, they doubled it with $30,000. In Walker, Hady Clutter, Lakeland News. The group will ride again at the week of August 4th through the 6th to raise money for the scholarship recipients who come from many different states. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


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Ysgolwyddoedd gennych gweithio. Rydyn ni wedi gweithio i'r First Minister's Questions, ac yn Cymru, rwy'n gweithio ein bod nhw Douglas Ross. Rydyn ni'n gweithio i gweithio i'r First Minister. Yn gyfnodol, wrth gwrs, mae'n ddweud y SNP sydd yn gweithio i SNP i Westminster. Rydyn ni'n gweithio i'r First Minister yma, mae'n gweithio i'r Government yma i gael i gydag i gydag ddisgwydio i'r First Minister. Rydyn ni'n gweithio i'r First Minister? Rydyn ni'n gweithio i'r First Minister. ac, frankwraith, cael nodi i fynd i bod Peatwish mésbydd y Sxx inspiration I Thodd yn gwneud i unihub ar gyfer насol, feolwyd dros rwy'n teitiu eich c nibwydau y payintod sy'n hawdd hon y teitwish. Dw i'n ym più cyfrydydd i'r cyfreid y sうdol.  Ond arall, rwy'n gweinig ar y pryd yn ddiwedd i gaeliaith, mae'n alu'r ffordd Llyrgrifedd ahead, which is why doctors, nurses, NHS managers, trade unions, and all expressed some concern with the Prime Minister's announcement yesterday to lift all the restrictions at this stage, including the requirement to wear face coverings. We'll continue to take a proportionate and balanced set of decisions to try to get through this next, final phase of the pandemic, and keep the country as safe as we possibly can do while we're doing so. Douglas Ross. The First Minister said that it was not a fair representation of people who share its comments. It was a direct quote. He was asked, has the First Minister in Scotland introduced too many Covid restrictions over Christmas? And his response was, that is a fair point. He agreed with the premise of the question. The First Minister went on to laud his parliamentary career. Perhaps she could maybe listen to him. When he, an SNP member, elected representative, is saying that the restrictions imposed over Christmas were too much. Because the First Minister imposed restrictions that had a massive impact on jobs, on businesses, on people's mental and physical health. But we can now see that they weren't needed. It was the Scottish public's actions, not the SNP Government's restrictions, that got this right. The First Minister has tried to build a reputation for caution during this pandemic. But she was far too gung-ho in imposing extra restrictions last month. Will she now accept that her Government went too far? First Minister. Firstly, the public did comply. They complied with what the Government asked them to do. I think that Douglas Ross is striking rather a desperate note right now. Just as he is seriously describing Pete Wishart showing, as all the elected representatives should, some respect for the point that somebody was making to him, as evidence that Pete Wishart agrees with Douglas Ross rather than with this Government, then all that says to people is that Douglas Ross is showing rather more political desperation right now than we even thought he might have been. We have taken a balanced approach. Let me just say what I think at the moment. This cautious approach is the one that we should be taking. That's my sentiment. Those are not actually my words, though. Those are the words of Sandesh Gohani MSP on BBC Scotland on 7 January. So if Douglas Ross is basing his entire line of questioning to me right now when something Pete Wishart said, then what is his response to his own MSP saying that the cautious approach is the one that we should be taking. We have Professor Susan Meekie, a member of the UK Government's Sage Committee. Scotland is doing something that is very good from a public health point of view. Of course, the Scottish approach is in line with the Welsh Government's approach and the Northern Ireland Government's approach. We are taking a sensible approach through this, although my infection levels, although dropping now thankfully in all parts of the UK, are lower in Scotland than they are in England right now. Over the festive period, the numbers of people in hospital proportionately were lower. We are not out of the woods yet, although things look far more positive. I am going to continue to take a cautious approach. Frankly, the price of throwing caution to the wind is not paid by Governments. The price of throwing caution to the wind is paid by people across the country in terms of ill health and, sadly, in some cases, serious illness and death. That is a price that I do not think I should impose on the people of Scotland. Douglas Ross. First Minister, serious illness and death does not just come from Covid.  We have been living with this pandemic now for two years, and I think that the First Minister would do better to respond to the points being made. She may not like them, but the points and questions being made rather than launching personal attacks on the opposition politicians who do it. Because not only did the First Minister impose unnecessary restrictions, she actually wanted to go further. The First Minister repeatedly claimed throughout December that the UK Government was holding her back from putting Scotland into lockdown again. She wanted to close down the economy no matter the impact that would have on Scottish jobs and businesses. The First Minister promised compensation when her restrictions were introduced, yet now we are coming out of the restrictions. That compensation still has not been delivered to many businesses. They have not received a single penny. This week, the Federation of Small Businesses said, that thousands of Scottish businesses needlessly go under every year because of late payment. Will the First Minister accept that her Government is currently the worst offender of late payments in Scotland? First Minister? No, but Douglas Ross said that the pandemic is causing the serious impact on individuals and businesses across Scotland, the UK, Europe and the entire world. Much as we might all like to be able to do so, and believe me, I would love to be able to do so. We cannot just magic it away. No country is able to do that. Douglas Ross has stood in his position in this chamber at every key juncture in the management of this pandemic since he has been back in this chamber. He has opposed the decisions that the Scottish Government has taken, even at times when there were exactly the same decisions that were taken by his colleagues in the Westminster Government. He has decided to take an entirely opportunistic approach to the handling of a global pandemic. I think that people will judge that, and I do not think that they will judge it very kindly. If we had listened to Douglas Ross, then over the past months we would not have had sensible measures like asking people to wear face coverings. We would not have had other mitigations in our schools. For example, we would not have advised people sensibly to work from home. We would not, therefore, be in the stronger position that we are in right now, able to lift those protective measures from Monday of next week. Given that Douglas Ross has called it wrong literally at every juncture of this pandemic, forgive me if I am not going to start listening to him now. In terms of business support, much of the... Incidentally, on the issue of opposition politicians and quoting people, Douglas Ross opened his line of questioning today, misrepresenting, in my view, Pete Wisher. Then he takes issue with the fact that I give a direct quote from Sandesh Gohani. Let me repeat that direct quote. At the moment, this cautious approach is the one that we should be taking. On the issue of business support, of course, much of this business support will not be available to businesses suffering the same impact south of the border. All local authorities... If Douglas Ross does not think that they are suffering the same impact, then I suggest that he really needs to get out a little bit more. All local authorities have started processing payments. Some local authorities have made very good progress and say that they have already paid almost all of the hospitality and leisure businesses eligible for support. All local authorities are on track to complete 100 per cent of payments to hospitality and leisure businesses affected by the Christmas cancellations and physical distancing by 31 January. That support is available here, but it is not available elsewhere. We will continue to do the right thing by businesses. Douglas Ross. The First Minister needs to make her mind up. She is accusing the Conservatives of opposing every measure that she puts forward. In the same breath, she is accusing the Conservatives for wanting a cautious approach. It is simply not opportunistic to trust the people in Scotland, to trust that they can learn to live with Covid rather than having to live with her Government's restrictions, which are having a massive impact on jobs, on businesses and communities across Scotland, and they are not getting the money or the support that they were promised. The First Minister has got the big decisions wrong over the last few months. Too quick to bring in unnecessary Covid restrictions, too late to launch mass vaccination centres, too late to change the self-isolation rules, too late to get funding to businesses who need it. The First Minister says that she does not shy away from the mistakes that she has made in the handling of this pandemic, so can she finally just admit that by introducing these tough restrictions here in Scotland before Christmas and by wanting to introduce even tougher restrictions, she has simply made the wrong call? I will let the people in Scotland judge the impact of the calls that I and my Government have made, but let me say this. Right now, on first doses, on second doses, on third doses, on booster vaccination doses, Scotland is the most vaccinated part of the United Kingdom. If Douglas Ross's proposition is that we left it too late, then what on earth does that say to his own colleagues in the Westminster Government? We also, in terms of the ONS figures this week, infection levels in England right now are over 20 per cent higher than in Scotland. I do not think that it is a competition, but if Douglas Ross wants to make these comparisons, then the comparisons there are the data. I say gently to Douglas Ross, because I know that he is having a tough time politically, I say gently, it is inconsistent, entirely inconsistent. There is no consistency in saying, as his health spokesperson did, that the cautious approach is the one that we should be taking, and then opposing every cautious measure that we choose to take for opportunistic reasons. Can I suggest that Douglas Ross just gets his own house in order? Perhaps suggest to more of his colleagues that they obey the rules that are in place when they are in place and leave this Government to get on with steering this country responsibly and in a mature, grown-up fashion through the global pandemic. The First Minister said that the auction of major offshore wind projects was one of the most significant days that Scotland has seen in a very, very long time. I welcome inward investment, but it should not come at the cost of the Scottish economy, our just transition or our values. Let us be clear about what has happened. This SNP Government has sold on the cheap the right to profit from Scotland's energy transition to multinational companies with questionable human rights records. One of the new owners of Scotland's seabed refined $54 million for bribing Nigerian officials and $88 million for bribing Indonesian officials. Another one was found to have contributed to human rights abuses at one of its construction sites, of destroying villages in Myanmar, of relying on forced labour and using slavery to build pipelines. Surely those are not people the Scottish Government should be doing business with. First Minister. Can I just say that Scotland made the decisions on the companies, the consortiums that would be awarded the status to develop projects around our coast. They have appropriate processes in place to do due diligence, but this is one of the most exciting things for Scotland in a long, long time, which probably is why Scottish Labour has been so negative about it. Not only does this give us the potential to meet our own energy needs from renewable sources, it positions us with the ability to be a major exporter of renewable energy, including green hydrogen, and it gives enormous potential for our supply chain. The estimate is that for every gigawatt of power that will be generated from these projects, there will be £1 billion of investment in our supply chain. For the first time, companies have had to set out in statements what they will do to support our supply chain. That is good news. There are complicated consenting and planning processes that lie ahead, but that offers massive potential to Scotland and its potential we intend to seize with both hands. Anna Sarwar. I agree with the opportunity, but values matter. Just last week, the SNP was right to accuse the Tory Government of tolerating human rights abuses as a price worth paying to secure deals for the UK. This week, the SNP has done the same. That is what Nicola Sturgeon's effect is saying. It is bad when the Tories do it, but it is okay when the SNP does it. There is another concerning part of this deal. One of the new owners of Scotland's seabed is the Swedish-owned state-owned energy company. That state-owned Swedish energy company can now use their part of the Scottish seabed to keep energy bills down for people in Sweden. The First Minister once promised a Scottish state-owned energy company. In fact, this SNP Government spent almost £500,000 of taxpayer's money on the project before scrapping the plans. Why is it that people of Sweden now own a bigger stake in Scottish energy supply and distribution than the Scottish people? The SNP, not stronger for Scotland, but stronger for Sweden. First Minister. Yes, Sweden is also an independent country with full control over energy, which, of course, this Government and this Parliament do not have. That is a matter that an Asarwar might want to reflect on a little bit more. Of course, just today, the Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero is talking about the opportunities, the opportunities around consultation for our plans for an energy public agency to steer those kinds of developments in the future. This is a thoroughly positive opportunity for Scotland, and no wonder then that Scottish Labour just wants to gyrn about it and be negative. That is what has characterised Scottish Labour for a long time, and it is why they are sitting over there these days, not there and certainly not here. Let me just repeat the opportunity. The opportunity to meet our own energy needs from renewable sources and to keep energy costs down, the opportunity to export renewable energy to other countries, the opportunity to grow a supply chain and create thousands, possibly tens of thousands of jobs and, of course, the opportunity to raise revenues for the Scottish Government for public services here in Scotland from the lease options alone, £700 million, and then when these projects are operational there will be rent fees in addition to that. That is a thoroughly positive opportunity, and perhaps anas Sarwar just for once could find it within himself to be positive about the potential of Scotland. Anna Sarwar. I have said I welcome in her investment, I have said I welcome and recognise the opportunity, but this is such a desperate, poor, poor reply. The First Minister often likes to accuse opposition parties of demonstrating a brass neck. That was a brass neck from the First Minister in that reply. Acuse the tories of bad values on human rights, accept human rights values as being part of the price worth paying for Scottish opportunities here, because this is about the Scottish supply chain, Scottish companies and Scottish jobs. The sad reality is that this is an SNP Government that does not understand economic development. Scottish bridges built with Chinese steel, Scottish wind farms with turbines built in Indonesia, ferries not built with the Scottish shipyards built in Poland and Turkey and now Scotland's seabed owned by foreign multinationals with woeful human rights records. We've heard the list of promises from the First Minister before. A state-owned energy company promised never delivered. Scotland's becoming a renewables like Saudi Arabia promised but never delivered. 130,000 green jobs promised but never delivered. After 15 years, isn't it the case that this is an SNP Government that has sold out Scottish jobs, sold off Scottish assets and now sold out Scottish values? Thank you, Mr Sarwar. First Minister. I'm just sitting here reflecting almost unbelievably, that Anna Sarwar has just accused me of behaving like a Tory the day after his party threw open the doors to a Tory MP.  Brasneck, I would say to Mr Sarwar, I think he'll be polishing his for the rest of the day. Look, Anna Sarwar and his many predecessors as Scottish Labour leader I have to say I've forgotten how many predecessors as Scottish Labour leader Anna Sarwar has had but they've been trotting out these negative top-down Scotland tropes for years and all that has happened is that they've gone further and further and further down in the ratings in Scottish politics they've lost more and more votes and my party's share of the vote has increased so there is real I came into the chamber expecting political desperation from Douglas Ross today I think I've seen even more from Anna Sarwar which probably says all we need to know I'll get on with encouraging the potential for Scottish renewable energy, for Scottish jobs for revenue for the Scottish Government and I'll be delighted at the next time of asking to put that record before the Scottish people. I'm not so sure Anna Sarwar will be quite so keen. We'll now take supplementary questions and I call Fiona Hyslop. First Minister increasing energy prices are of very real concern what discussions has she had with the Westminster Government on help for families to combat the spiralling financial cost of the energy crisis? First Minister Well the energy crisis the cost of living crisis is increasing on a daily basis at the moment it is of deep concern to this Government we're taking a range of measures ourselves through our £41 million winter fund seven new benefits aimed at low income households and of course shortly we will double the Scottish child payment but of course key powers do remain reserved to Westminster we've written to the UK Government countless times about poverty and also just last week set out further actions which we have outlined that they must urgently take to tackle rising energy bills but if a Government as is the case with the Westminster Government is so busy trying to deal with self inflicted sleaze and scandal and daily defections and deflections then their focus is not on the cost of living crisis it's on themselves and this is both deeply regrettable and deeply serious and right now neglecting the real issues that people are facing right across the country Alexander Stewart Thank you, First Minister Diabetes rates are rapidly increasing across Scotland with diagnosis more than doubling in the last 20 years Diabetes Scotland reported last week that access to the correct diabetes technology such as instant pumps can be life changing for patients but just over 10% of 18-year-olds use them so that diabetes outcomes between affluent and deprived areas in Scotland is widening so can I ask the First Minister what urgent action can be put in place to ensure that this worrying trend is reversed First Minister It is an important issue we will work with Diabetes Scotland to take forward the findings of the report making sure that there is both access to insulin pumps for young people but for people of all ages is important but also that they are used to have made improvements in years gone by and we will continue to focus on making further improvements for the sake of people across Scotland who live with that condition Faisal Choudhury Thank you, Presiding Officer The First Minister will be aware of the anger in local authorities across Scotland that the Scottish Government is not planning to compensate them for the upcoming raise in national insurance as councils in England and Wales are being compensated that will inevitably cause further cuts to already stretched services How does the First Minister justify living Scottish local authorities worse off for this change than their English counterparts First Minister The UK Treasury block grant to the Scottish budget does not identify consequential funding for national insurance contributions so there are no identifiable consequentials to pass on We are providing a settlement to local government that is fair and crucially affordable the overall local government funding package of more than £12.5 billion represents an increase in real terms of 5.1 per cent in revenue alone it's a real terms increase of 4.9 per cent so we will continue to treat local government as fairly as possible and support local government as far as we possibly can in delivering the services that people across the country rely on Emma Harper As the First Minister will be aware my Dogs Protection and Livestock Amendment Scotland act 2021 is now in force and provides Police Scotland and the courts with greater powers to investigate those who allow their dogs to worry, attack or kill livestock in Scotland's countryside Livestock worrying can have serious animal welfare implications as well as significant financial and emotional impact on farmers Can the First Minister in light of lamb and season outline what action the Scottish Government has taken to promote public awareness of the updated legislation? First Minister Can I again congratulate Emma Harper on her success with this legislation it is extremely important legislation the Scottish Government I can assure her will take appropriate steps to raise awareness of it and of course we will do everything we can working with partners as appropriate to ensure appropriate enforcement of it but it is a significant step forward and one that I know will be particularly welcomed across rural Scotland Miles Briggs Since the extension of free personal care for people under the age of 65 no data has been recorded on the number of people who have now received this care Given the problems that we've seen during the pandemic on people accessing care packages and in fact with many being removed or cut for individuals we are finding that more and more people are reporting that it is people with complex needs and life limiting conditions are not getting that care so can I ask the First Minister will the Scottish Government agree to establish a national recovery group alongside COSLA to make sure that people who are entitled to free personal care get that and this is fully restored and delivered across Scotland First Minister Everybody who is entitled to free personal care should get free personal care and of course the entitlements to free personal care in Scotland go far beyond the situation in other parts of the UK I'm not going to give a commitment today to the proposition I will consider it carefully but I'm not going to say right now before having the chance to consider that I think that that would be the right way forward I will also however look at the issue of data and come back to the member with an indication of when data is likely to be published which will give a sense of how many people are taking that entitlement Pam Duncan-Glancy Thank you, Presiding Officer Constituents of Lansfield Key in Glasgow are living with what has been deemed 22 intolerable risks to life as a result of flammable cladding on their building. They've been struggling to get a single building assessment on it which was promised in June 2021 Can I ask the First Minister what she and her Government could do to assist my constituent in obtaining this information as a matter of urgency? First Minister Obviously I know from my own position that MSP is here how important this is The Government is taking forward steps to ensure single building assessments I will ask the housing minister to write to the member with full update on that work and what the next steps in it are Beatrice Wishart Thank you, Presiding Officer for having a hiccup with my glasses and the mask Can the First Minister indicate what the Scottish Government's response is regarding the impact on Scotland that the BBC licence fee will be cut after the current funding deal ends in 2027? I'm sure every member across this chamber from time to time will have gripes with or criticisms of the BBC but the BBC is an important part of our broadcasting framework and I think we should all defend the principle of public service broadcasting so I'm deeply concerned at the announcements or hints of announcements earlier this week from the UK Government I suspect and I think there is some evidence that these were an attempt to divert attention from the Prime Minister's troubles but nevertheless I think all of us have to stand up for these principles and guard against this government and the damage it seems willing to do to key institutions often just to try to save its own skin Question 3 Maggie Chapman To ask the First Minister what impact the UK Government's nationality and borders bill will have on devolved functions The Scottish Government has profound concerns about this bill we are currently considering its potential impact on areas that are devolved if we conclude there is an impact on the legislative competence of this Parliament we will lodge a legislative consent memorandum setting out the relevant provisions there's no doubt however that the bill will have significant impacts on devolved services local authorities and communities Scottish ministers have written to the UK Government in relation to this bill five times outlining our significant concerns including with the Welsh Government who shared those concerns I also note that the House of Commons joint committee on human rights yesterday said that the reforms of the asylum system proposed in the bill and I'm quoting would fail to meet the UK's human rights obligations and risk exacerbating the already unacceptable backlog so we will continue to urge the UK Government to introduce a humane effective and efficient system that delivers for people living in Scotland including those who are fleeing war and persecution Maggie Chapman The Prime Minister's intention to use the military to prevent asylum seekers reaching the UK is deeply immoral as is the possibility of trading access to Covid vaccines for the right to open detention centres in other countries The First Minister will be aware of the appalling circumstances faced by many asylum seekers in Scotland including in Aberdeen in my region accommodated in hotels but not given basic support or things like toiletries, culturally sensitive food language classes and so on While we do not have the powers to counter these racist policies we can make sure that asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland are treated better I'm sure the First Minister will join me in condemning the plans by the Prime Minister and his cruel and inhuman home office Will she also outline what lessons have been learnt by the tragic death at Park Inn in Glasgow and say what more we can do to prevent the growth of the use of institutional accommodation across Scotland and improve the support available through local authorities so that asylum seekers are treated with dignity First Minister Maggie Chapman for the question there's a lot of detail in that question and I'll undertake to ask the relevant minister to write with more detailed answers than time will allow me to give today including for example the question of lessons learned from the dreadful circumstances around Park Inn in Glasgow The UK Government though it's plans to divert vessels in the channel are dangerous and I think it's important that we are all clear that they will significantly increase risk to life Medicine's Son Frontiers stated and I'm quoting again that pursuing a policy of forced returns and engaging in pushback tactics is dangerous, inhumane but puts lives at risk at sea In my view people seeking asylum in the UK should be accommodated within communities where they can begin to rebuild their lives where they have access to essential services and the support and advocacy they need and also where they can make a contribution to the communities that they are living in and the UK Government is failing to provide that The Home Office hasn't shared yet its review of the tragedy at the Park Inn but as I said a moment ago the Scottish Government Minister is responsible to write further about that I think what we saw at the weekend the comments we saw at the weekend for example about use of military a bit like the comments on the BBC were an attempt to divert attention from the troubles of the self-inflicted troubles of the Prime Minister but we should not be using the BBC and we should absolutely not be using refugees and asylum seekers in that way it is utterly despicable and I think another sign of the moral decay at the heart of the UK Government Question 4 Stephanie Callaghan who is joining us online Thank you To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to public health Scotland census data which states that three out of four care home places are now provided by private companies First Minister While the percentage of private sector care homes has increased the overall balance of provision in care home places between the public and private sector has not changed markedly over the past decade the number of care home places has remained relatively stable which reflects our policy to support people at home for as long as possible as we move towards the creation of the national care service an ethical approach will be at the heart of how we commission our social care providers across Scotland from the independent third and public sectors will continue to be subject to the same regulations standards and guidelines ensuring the continuation of high quality care home provision is and will continue to be the priority of the Scottish Government Stephanie Callaghan I thank the First Minister for her response Given the prevalence of private care home provision across Suddingston Wales health constituency wider Scotland how will the national care service deliver the terms and conditions of our private care home staff and ensure that high quality care for residents First Minister There is no doubt that the national care service will be the most significant change in public services probably since the establishment of the national health service so we are committed to delivering a service by the end of this Parliament in order to ensure that everybody gets the high quality care that they are entitled to regardless of where they live in the country the consultation on the establishment of the national care service proposed that it will oversee the delivery of care improve standards, ensure enhanced paying conditions for workers and provide better support for unpaid carers as well as supporting ethical commissioning of care so all of that will lead to better outcomes for those who rely on our care services it's important work, it's difficult work it is in many aspects controversial work but I think I hope that by the end of this Parliament sector reform that future generations will come back and look on as fondly as we look on the establishment of the national health service Jackie Baillie Irrespective of the status of the sector the employees in social care are predominantly female and they're predominantly low paid it's still the case that you can get paid more by working in hospitality and retail there were vacancies before the pandemic made worse by the pandemic so will the First Minister add the GMBN Unite in their campaigns to pay care workers £15 per hour starting with an immediate rise to £12 per hour in April First Minister We are increasing the pay of those who work in the care sector and I think it's important that while Jackie Baillie as she always does sets out the problem it's this government that's delivering the solution so we are increasing the pay of social care workers of course we have to do that within the bounds of affordability and we will do that but we are also committed to a national care service that will have collective bargaining and better paying conditions for social care staff absolutely at it's heart so we'll continue to get on with doing the hard work that delivers the outcomes that Jackie Baillie calls for Question 5, Finlay Carson To ask the First Minister whether she will provide an update on the delivery of lot 1 to the R100 programme Of course broadband investment is reserved to Westminster but given the UK Government's failure to deliver on that alongside its failure to deliver on so many other things we've had to step in and make a difference the R100 north contract was signed in December 2020 despite the pandemic a huge amount of property work has been completed since a remodelling exercise ensured that every connection delivered will be full fibre survey work for over 5,000 properties and 16 subsea cables which will deliver vital backhaul connectivity to 15 Scottish islands we anticipate by the end of June the northlock contract will have delivered over 4,000 connections the R100 Scottish broadband voucher scheme also ensures that everyone who wants the superfast broadband connection now can have one with around 750 connections already delivered in the north of Scotland Finlay Carson Thank you I'm not surprised by your response and no doubt you will continue to try and throw the public into believing that the role out of broadband is reserved and that line is wearing very thin the practical role out of broadband is devolved to the Scottish Government and that line is wearing things like the patients of the people in rural Scotland the SNP talked up this scheme as reaching 100% but rural communities are not getting what they're expected nearly 37,000 properties in lot 1 will not get fibre from the main scheme and the voucher scheme you talk about is delivering nothing with only 4% of uptake so far so the First Minister surely should rename the R100 scheme promised by the SNP as the R40 scheme and it's five years late the SNP promised their flagship R100 scheme would be delivered to everybody by 2021 well the First Minister now apologised the people and the businesses who might not get connected at all and most of them won't get connected until 2027 First Minister Through the R100 contracts the R100 Scottish broadband voucher scheme and of course commercial coverage as well we've ensured that every premises in Scotland can access a superfast broadband connection despite telecoms being reserved and that's not a matter of opinion that's a matter of fact in the Scotland Act which the member is free to go and check to date the UK Government's contribution to the R100 programme totals £31.5 million £5% of the total compared to £579 million invested by the Scottish Government and the UK Government's own project Gigabit has yet to award a single procurement contract so again the Scottish Government is getting on with the job of delivering connections while all the Scottish Conservatives can do is gripe and gyrn about it before we move on to question 6 can I just remind members to desist from shouting across the chamber when we're trying to hear questions and answers question number 6 I call Neil Bibby to ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to ScotRail's plans to cut ticket office opening to 120 stations and to close free ticket offices entirely The aim of this review is the modernisation of railway stations clearly to most people technology has changed how people want to access information and tickets but of course we also need to acknowledge the importance of local staff services on the ground where and when they are needed this consultation offers the public the chance to have their say on how to provide an efficient modern service for the future and we would encourage people to get involved we'll await the consultation findings before any final decisions are made on the proposals Neil Bibby Ticket office staff play a crucial role in making our railways safe and accessible and many go above and beyond such as Dalmure workers whose quick thinking recently saved a life A properly staffed rail network is central to reducing car use and meeting Scotland's climate ambitions yet under this government rail is being undermined not rail is cutting 300 services per day fares will be hiked up by 3.8% next week ticket des are shutting and there is still no fully integrated smart ticketing for passengers To drive model shift the rail network must be more attractive and more accessible to passengers so will the First Minister stop these ticket office closures First Minister Will consultant what a modern system of railway stations and offices looks like I absolutely agree about the importance of ticket office staff and where they are necessary it's important to recognise that but everybody knows that at many railway stations now the ticket process is automated so we have to reflect that on how these services are delivered in future and it's right that we consult properly so that we come to the right balanced decisions we are investing heavily in our railways we will continue to do so we have a service that people in Scotland need and have a right to expect and that they deserve and also just to continue this theme of opposition parties calling for things but this government getting on with delivery of course it's this government that is in the process of bringing ScotRail into public ownership delivering the nationalisation that Scottish Labour only talks about John Mason Given that passenger numbers are dramatically down on the railways and ScotRail therefore depends on the public purse for an increased subsidy does the First Minister agree that ScotRail does have to look at its costs and reduce them if possible First Minister we've got to make sure that we have a modern service that is efficient and of course for taxpayers that we have a service that provides value for money but we are supporting a rail franchise right now with more than a billion pounds including £450 million of additional funding via the pandemic emergency measures and we will continue to do so to ensure that Scotland does have the railway service that it needs and deserves and of course as I said earlier on we'll bring it into public ownership which I think is something the majority of people will welcome Brian Whittle First Minister 50% of lung cancer patients are diagnosed at stage 4 with mortality rates high for this cancer during Covid restrictions there were 25% less people diagnosed and 25% less people in treatment Does the First Minister recognise that Covid restrictions have a significant impact on many other conditions that will be felt long after the Covid pandemic has passed? First Minister Yes I do I think that if memory serves me correctly we had an important exchange on this issue last week on the diagnosis of cancer and the earliest possible staging of cancer is vital that's why we're investing so heavily in the detect cancer early programme it's why we have established or are establishing fast-track cancer diagnostic centres so that people with symptoms that are not the most common symptoms of cancer can get the same fast-track access and fast-track we hope diagnosis as those on the urgent suspicion referral pathway so that is really important and we're absolutely committed to ensuring the earliest possible diagnosis of course staging is not the only thing that's important we then need to make sure that people get quick access to high quality care and treatment and that's a big part of our focus in terms of cancer services too Neil Gray With UK inflation hitting a 30-year high and energy costs spiralling with no action from the UK Government and the standard rate of universal credit haven't been cut by £20 per week by the UK Government can the First Minister outline what impact this has all had on her Government's ability to meet her child poverty targets and also whether or not she supports the poverty alliances campaign to see the punitive welfare cap scrapped by the UK Government First Minister Yes, I do fully support that poverty alliance campaign I'll be blunt about it The UK Government is making the poorest poorer and they're doing that knowingly and it is utterly despicable The removal of the £20 a week universal credit uplift has impacted some of the poorest families in our society and these actions are making it more difficult for the Scottish Government to live up to our responsibilities to tackle child poverty but we are doing more doubling the Scottish child payment Scottish child payment, a child payment doesn't exist in any other part of the UK and having established it we're now taking steps to double it so we're doing everything we can but if we weren't up against the Government pooling in the opposite direction we'd be able to do more and have a much greater impact which is of course the powerful argument for having all of these levers in the hands of Scottish Governments and the Scottish Parliament not leaving them in the hands of Westminster Governments That concludes First Minister's questions and there will be a short pause before members' business


Now, let's look at key quotations relating to the character of Bessonio in Merchant of Venice. Now, bear in mind that Bessonio is one of the main characters. He is actually the person that sets off the tragic sequence of events that happen. In other words, it's because he's not very good with money. He doesn't have any money. He wants to go to Belmont and ask for Porsche's hand in marriage that in that way he'll be able to not only take over her inheritance, but pay off all his debts. So he does ask his really good friend Antonio for a loan. Now, the main thing to remember about Bessonio's character is that while he's very loyal to his friend Antonio, he really really is very caring and even for example, when Antonio decides to let him get the loan from Shylock, he actually initially is very reluctant because he doesn't trust Shylock's intentions. We also do see that there is an element of selfishness in his characteristics. He is very much someone who we would call a hedonist, someone who's very pleasure-seeking and of course it's because of that probably he wasn't very good with his money, especially when he was much younger. Now, of course, he is very fortunate in the sense that he does end up winning Porsche's hand in marriage. Now, one of the main things to remember is of course when it comes to Bessonio being one of the main characters, you do have to remember key quotations. So as you can see behind me, essentially what I've done is I've prepared the main quotations to remember with Bessonio's character. He is of course given that this is supposed to be a comedy. He is fooled by Porsche towards the end of the play, whereby she accuses him of giving away his ring, which she gave to her to both his arm. But of course, we later learned that of course that's part of the comedic elements that William Shakespeare wants to inject. Now, what I'm going to go through right now is the key quotations to remember. And of course, I'm going to highlight for you what word level analysis should do for each quotation. Now, the first quote to bear in mind is when he tells Antonio and Antonio knows this really well, I have disabled minor state. Now, what this quotation means initially is that Bessonio is basically telling Antonio, look, Antonio, you know me really well, I've basically squandered all of my money. Do bear in mind that Bessonio, he does belong to the nobility, OK? What that means is that he is an upper class man. However, the inheritance that was left over to him by his family, he's basically squandered it. And that's what he's saying here. I have squandered disabled minor state. All the money that he was left over, he's basically squandered it. And of course, this quotation shows that Bessonio is really bad with money. Now, the word level analysis to do here is the assonance of A in have, disabled and estate. Now, the second quotation to bear in mind, and of course, this shows the kind of really close relationship that Bessonio and Antonio have. In fact, there's been some kind of critical readings that exist, whereby there have been people who hypothesize they maintain the idea that maybe Bessonio's closeness with Antonio and especially Antonio overlooking his bad way with money could be because Antonio himself is maybe a homosexual. Now, those elements are kind of touched on here. But of course, I would say that maybe that criticism I wouldn't necessarily agree with. However, this is kind of played on a little bit when Bessonio says, to you, Antonio, I owe the most in money and in love. OK, now, the main thing to remember, of course, is we could interpret this notion of love in two ways. Of course, on the one hand, there is as critical analysis has sometimes looked at Bessonio and Antonio's relationship from kind of that homosexual angle. However, I would maintain that he's maybe meaning love when he's talking about Antonio in terms of brotherly love and friendship. OK, now, of course, here, what this is illustrating is Antonio is really, really loyal to Bessonio, almost to a fault. Now, the word love analysis to bear in mind in terms of what this illustrates in terms of their very brotherly closeness, but also almost the loyalty that Antonio has to Bessonio is, firstly, the superlative adjective the most. In other words, Bessonio is basically saying, look, Antonio, you've given me all this money, you've given me all these loans. I've never been able to pay them back to you, and I'm now asking you for yet another loan, but I promise this time round, you know, I'm going to make everything right when I marry this really rich woman, I'm going to be able to know any pay you back or your money, but I'm also going to settle all my debts. OK, so of course, this is illustrated through the superlative the most. He owes Antonio quite a lot. Also, you want to focus on alliteration of most and money. So the alliteration of M. And finally, there's this interesting contrast between and, of course, is a show in the brotherly affection that both him and Antonio have. So there's this interesting use of nouns here that Shakespeare has, contrasting money and love. Of course, bear in mind what this is used to show is just how loyal Antonio is to his friend. Now, the third quotation to bear in mind with Bessonio's character is when Shylock does agree to give the 3,000 do-cats as a loan to Bessonio. However, he mentions that if the payment is not made back to him in good time, he will take a pound of Antonio's flesh. He doesn't ask for interest.  And Bessonio feels really, really reluctant to go through with this. And he states, I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. Now, the main thing to bear in mind here is actually what this is showing is Bessonio does isn't entirely selfish. He is also thinking about Antonio. He's thinking, hang on, I don't really like this term. And Charlotte trusts Bessonio. Offers a joke, Bessonio really does not trust his character. Now, the word level analysis you want to do here is the juxtaposition between the terms fair, which is good terms, because basically in return for 3,000 do-cats, Charlotte was just saying, don't worry about paying me back the money if you overstep the time period. But I do want a pound of your flesh. OK, that is technically a good term because he's not asking for crazy amounts of money. However, Bessonio is contrasting this, this idea of good terms with villain's mind. So, of course, this foreshadows the notion that Charlotte does show himself to be a villain when later on he does ask for a pound of Antonio's flesh, which is essentially kill him. OK, now the next quotation to bear in mind with Bessonio's character is when he is at Portia's home, he is now choosing between the three caskets and he justifies not choosing gold on the basis of its appearance. He chooses, he ends up choosing the correct casket, which is the lead casket, and he states that outward shows beliefs themselves, the world is still deceived with ornament. Now, this is actually a very good, almost proverb that he's uttering when he's kind of choosing and choosing not to pick the golden casket based on its outward appearance. What he's basically saying here is usually people and things show themselves out to maybe look really glitzy, glamorous, but actually beneath the surface, it's actually the opposite. They are least themselves, OK, so people who maybe outwardly show themselves to be really good, really kind, maybe beneath that, they're the complete opposite. They are the least good and the least kind, but also separately. He's saying the world is still deceived with ornament. He's saying that actually majority of people still tend to be deceived, misguided by the appearance of surface things, and he himself doesn't want to be misguided by that. Now, the word level analysis you want to do here is firstly the assonance of E in B, least and themselves, but also when he states the world is still deceived with ornament. This is hyperbole. This is over exaggeration. He's basically saying everybody except him as Bessonio is deceived by outward appearances. And of course, that's what leads him to correct, to pick the correct casket. The other key quotation to bear in mind is when he states, there is no vice so simple, but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. Now, these two lines, he speaks in what we call Iambic pentameter. Now, if you're not entirely sure what Iambic pentameter means, please make sure you check out the video where I go over the easiest way to spot Iambic pentameter. But bear in mind here, essentially what he's saying is there's no mistake. There's no kind of downside of our characters that's as bad as choosing and picking things based on their external appearance. OK, now, of course here, in addition to mentioning that these two phrases are spoken in Iambic pentameter, but Bessonio bear in mind that Shakespeare essentially always makes his upper class character speak in Iambic pentameter. The other word level analysis you want to do here is firstly, siblings of so simple and also the oxymoron vice and virtue bear in mind. Vice is immorality, a bad thing, bad qualities. And of course, virtue is the opposite, really good, highly moral qualities. OK, the other quotation for Bessonio's character is when he states and he obviously tells Porsche, he tells Porsche, I've always been really honest with you, you know, even if I'm a gentleman and part of the nobility, I'm actually not rich because I've basically squandered all my money. And he says all the wealth I had run in my veins. And of course here, wealth is personified as running just basically going through his veins. And essentially he's basically telling Porsche, you've always known that I don't have that much money. In fact, I don't only have any any money, the only value that I have is basically just me as Bessonio, my body. OK, the final quotation for Bessonio's character is when he is trying to defend his decision to give away the ring that he had promised Porsche, which she'd given over to him. He promised he'd never give it away. And he says and he really emphatically kind of tries to defend himself and Porsche is pretending that she's really angry at him. He says, how unwillingly I left the ring. And of course, this is a declarative sentence bear in mind. A declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact, feeling or mood. Now, of course, here what he's showing is basically he's pleading with Porsche and he's saying, Porsche, listen, I am totally loyal to you. I just had to give this ring away because I gave it to a lawyer who saved my friend Antonio's life when Charlotte was asking for a pound of his flesh. OK, so really that's it when it comes to the key quotations to remember for Bessonio's character, especially if you're revising his character, either for your course or exams.