Thank God junior. He's over so Where are we I'm looking over The most recent list of our goals, but I'm not sure I have those Does somebody does someone have those I put a link to the last notes. I'm referring to in The chat it was emailed after our meeting Or before our one of our meetings Okay, I Don't have I couldn't find any other notes Well build it a wonderful summation. Maybe I should read this That's what I think that is Okay, let me just I think it'd be good just to read this out and get this Tuesday night's our subboard Response to Justine's progress board was quite positive I think the board is really interested in exploring and defining its vision for going forward I also believe there continues to be an interest in pursuing the goals discussed at a board retreat back in September Justine said the goals committee would be reporting back in January And Jamie said he would recommend it for January our set agenda three things to think about timeliness process time and Packaging I think the committee should continue to prioritize developing a draft vision statement However, these things take time to develop discuss work through vision is a mindset and a focused view of what we are all about Timeliness isn't crucial here Right and having a broad and deep understanding and buy-in by each board member is critical It would be quite an accomplishment if we could do this by the end of the school year One way to keep it moving is to develop drafts and prioritize time and future agendas Meanwhile, we have other possible goals that are more time sensitive a goal to strengthen school parent connections and Communications that Justine mentioned is worth considering now Your idea of using daily curriculum notebooks is an excellent suggestion for staff consideration The key is to see if this is a board priority and tasking Jamie Lindy about how to do this and what board support is needed As you know the WRVSU board recently voted to establish S. Why do you? academic achievement goals for to 2022 to 2025 Doesn't make sense for the R. Said board to consider this like the anti-racism policy adoption and make it a top priority FY 23 budgeting is well underway Establishing funding goals needs to be considered now to impact the FY 22 23 budget Both Lindy and Jamie spoke about initiatives to spread the word about all the great things going on in our school and attract more students We discussed this at the retreat if the board feels this is important I should say so and see how we can help Jamie mentioned his growing concern about the state of our building infrastructure to meet educational needs of students I believe this was an emphasis you made at our retreat worth discussing whether to make it a board priority Finally the board support and interest in our new governance principles and operating protocols We're heartening They are guiding beliefs and a game plan to ensure that we as a board function effectively Effectively one way to do this as Justine said is to make it an ongoing discussion topic Packaging we don't have time to do this at one time or in one package We don't have to do this at one time or one package we can discuss can adopt these over time Important thing is to get the board to focus What are the essential actions policies investments we need to do is support as a board achieve Optum student achievement and student wellness cost effectively Goal setting helps us figure this out and sets actions policy investments accomplished We're determining what our priorities are Good Ethan. Yes, would you share a link to that in the chat? I don't know what you were reading from ah It's an email oh for it on I Don't know how to do the links in chat some stuff. So I will Go to the top well, it's obviously not if it's in an email you can't link it, but yeah Web bar of anything Find this bill again Bill let me just say to so I have Recently been my mother-in-law just died like two weeks ago and so I've been sort of out of mind of You know showing up at board meetings and Doing what's there, but in terms of being on top of things and I just want to say you you do such a good job of this and you're So engaged in what's going on and I apologize for not responding more often but it's sometimes you just have to do the basics and I appreciate you keeping to detail I'm going to Forward this to the R said board in general and It's bills response. Is that feel okay bill to respond this to all the R said board That goes with that Ethan if you are yeah, good. Thank you It's it's basically a follow-up information. It's not any decision-making or asking for any decisions Here we go there that's better. Okay Um So as I say for me, this is a really important meeting to sort of get back on to this and Figure out where we are. I do think I came up with something that I liked The other when we were talking budget at our last meeting a month ago the idea of Creative I think it was creative A rigorous education With what we have If you click on the link in the chat, you can Know it's from that meeting our last meeting And where is that a little at the bottom right of your screen. There's a little blue like chat icon Next to the people I know I always see what I always do is It's not going there and there was an error opening this file There's an error opening this file Sorry, I got kicked out Wow, yeah, it keeps telling me there's an error opening this file. So you do it by Email I'm trying to find it Is what I like to do is I look I have everything I'm reading on my Regular computer and then this is my communications commuter.  It's just incredible Where um What's next then and that's a good question I think we you know our decisions that we made at the meeting were good and I reported them back to the board and As you we had a synopsis in that email it indicated that the board was in support of what we were doing I kind of feel it I'm sort of in this position where we either make these decisions or we find a better way to bring our ideas back to the board and call for more Response because I felt like I was looking for like feedback and what to kind of like how to how to kind of Morph these into solid goals that we are going to just present for action It feels a little bit like we're just a small group deciding these big goals without a lot of input from the other board members I and yet I also I'm and then bill I gather from your email that you're thinking Better to keep the discussion going On even a specific goal rather than feel like we have to present an entire slate Soon that this is an ongoing process and that maybe set our things out So that's that's different than what just teens just in thinking Well, I just didn't want to it Part of it is is timeliness Some things are more pressing than others and the other thing is that I think any Organized body, it's it's much easier to edit and to So a draft then to kind of create something whole Completely and so I don't think it's a bad idea for us to try to draft something up for the consideration of the board That's why we have subcommittees that that and I think we could and it'd be nice if we could show them something for the board's consideration Tonight we've got two Agenda items that are meeting tonight that have to do with I think We've discussed his potential goals. One is on does going to talk about academic performance The winter Academic testing results of our two wonderful schools and one of the goals we had was to to make sure that our proposed goals was to To be on record of the importance of having strong affirmative positive academic results of the children that we loved and were responsible for their education for so that's something that that we could share with the board tonight And It's not not necessarily that we're going to vote on everything tonight, but that's one thing the second thing is the budget and I think there's a hopes of the administration that there's a consensus for the board to vote our 2023 school budgets and So that's one responsibility So after something about goals and everything One thing is to pass it to make sure that it meets what we think is academically and financially responsible Document and the other thing is to be committed to that we're gonna have to go out and sell this thing and Ethan You talked about that at our last meeting and you talked about letters to the editor Because at least on the stock bridge side There's gonna be we're projecting an increase for those taxpayers paying by their property tax values By the way, did you see that email? Was it from the VSBA? I'm not sure but it basically talked to that issue and the idea that What we're getting from the state Is going to modify that because we're gonna be getting more money somehow. I you know, this is Byzantine bars. I'm concerned Yes, I saw some reference to that from a letter from the the state financial school education, whatever it is tax Director and and she talked about they're gonna be Lowering the education base rate. That's gonna somehow help us and I had a question in my email To Jamie of whether or not The budget that before us tonight Reflects that or not and that would make a big difference if it doesn't then the increased projected increase for At least stock bridge voters will be less than What we've seen to date But that's timely to to decide and then and and agree that we're gonna go out and fight for for what we believe in Justine Because I feel like in our last meeting we decided we were gonna start with the concept of a vision and mission statement Yes, and then move on beyond that after we integrate what input We may get from the board on these visions and missions and then synthesize that into a set of goals that were attainable Moving forward and that would be our ongoing process Okay I feel like what we might be getting ahead of ourselves and kind of focusing on what the task at hand is for the board anyway In our goals, which is kind of like a long Like a longer-sighted Project and just be like oh, we're working on budget now. We should put that in the goals You know, I'm not sure that's really where we were going with our last meeting And I'm not sure that's where I think we should be going with this committee necessarily because generally we're going to worry about the budget anyway About that tonight too. Yeah, and I think that where we were was more of a philosophy situation and kind of like a linear goal setting plan There was something that right now that I'm planning to remember in what the last meeting there was something about The idea of a definition of what a vision and what a mission Goal is and I think getting back to that just so we Just emailed we talked about we kind of outlined that a little bit The vision communicates a passion our vision. We oh, yeah rigorous creative education rigorous creative education Yep under mission was integration of Curriculum and transparency a culture of The concept of I don't know is okay a comfortable space for uncomfortable learning That that was under that was under mission. Yeah, I'm looking at that We I brought that back to the board and they were like good that sounds good and there wasn't a lot of feedback So I you know, I feel like we should keep working from where we left off there instead of kind of jump ahead of ourselves into the the goals Well, here's the one thing also I Believe and that is that not everyone not everyone is a mission and vision Person You know what I mean, like some people on the board are like I wanted nothing I want a bolt and that's all I really care about So now that we shouldn't do this but that just that sort of responding to the board's response to Us bringing this forward. I Think this is great stuff. I think it's it's it's what and and really it's not about in some ways We hope the whole board agrees with it It's really what it's useful both for us and also for us to assess how our administration is doing And like that we can look at Lindy's plan for the year and her budget for the year as Jamie says is a Policy statement and we can say, okay, is this rigorous creative education? And then is it as their integration and is their transparency? Yeah, I is I don't know okay So that so that that's why it seems to me That's the test of each thing in here and then comfortable space for uncomfortable learning I like it because it's it's it Not only talks about The actual space and the attitude in the space, but I think that's actually a comfortable space is also part of building up keep Eventually when you have a goal, you know, because you can't have a comfortable space that there's pipes bursting over your head like Yeah, so so if we're here vision I mean, I'm happy with this that this is what we spend, you know, the next half hour on Yeah, these is this enough for a vision and mission I mean, I would say the vision. Yes rigorous creative education is a great one for a vision Yeah, of course somebody would say rigorous creative education But there's nothing about budget in there, but I don't know if that's necessary I'm just saying I think it's great mission. I feel like we're not there yet. We've got like four things here But how do we make it into a mission statement? Right? I Think somebody looking at it isn't going to know what do you mean integration? What do you mean transparency? Anybody want to take a stab at it That mission statement I don't know that I can use my brain enough on the spot right now to do that But I'm interested in taking a stab at it, but maybe not No, that's fine We can maybe we can you know pull it apart a little bit. I mean, well, how do we define integration? The last meeting well how we defined it was instead of going outside to reach find something and add it to the budget You use skills sets that we already have and Overlap I think overlap integration was really about overlapping Arts and music is that right right integrating the the arts and humanities into academic learning Yeah, I'm sorry, I mean I'm very I'm very tapped out mentally Give your best just that you're here and just that you've got us on track It's really all you needed to do today You got us back from I had no idea when I started this meeting. I have absolutely no idea where we were We're even talking about so I now do and I credit you for that. Thank you and Bill's lovely email So I'm you know, that was your job today. That's all you need to do But I want to be part of it. I mean I just don't No, no integration integration. I mean I would say integration is Is using what you have to deepen the educational experience Something about like the resources that are available, you know using available resources What yeah, I said existing resources To the extent of their creative potential or something I like that Because there's lots of it's not just like oh an art teacher can teach art or whatever It's like even a math teacher can teach art. I remember, you know, just one teaching tessellations We're doing that we've made Like so, I mean, it's not just oh, let's plug in the art teacher into our class. It's just it's kind of an opening Conceptually open opening your mind to integrating the Anyway, sorry, can I know can I say that phrase again to see if I got it right using existing resources to the To develop the extent of creative potential is that right through a develop in there that wasn't there To the extent of their creative potential there Of course, who's there then The the creative potential the teachers the staff the topic You know, it's not just that it's not just people either it's like Matt can we use Matt like where can how far can we reach with with each? All right, I mean I'd buy this totally Bill you got your sense. Yeah, it's um You're really on to something and every word counts Because these things need to be shorter than super longer. I remember spending this just months on a mission statement that Finally was like 50 words or less. So oh, yeah don't be embarrassed or or a concern that it doesn't automatically comes to your mind and you've come up with the mission statement or vision and It takes work and we already I know I think stock bridge and Rochester have either a mission or a vision or both and that's another Place to check and see whether Some of those ideas that are the existing mission Should be incorporated in a new revised A vision or a mission statement for our a district so Yeah, that's And it to me it's going to be something that Will take some iterations. I mean it won't be you know, yes and no boom People will edit people will think about something else will expand it will whatever the case is Just the process of doing that is powerful because we're talking about the most important thing we've got is Why are we here? So I don't think the goal needs to be tonight to necessarily We can I think we're moving in both directions on vision and mission and we can share that with the board tonight And justine I didn't mean to offend you on on my interest in goals But I was under my definition of goals is they reflect that mission In vision, but we can establish goals even though we haven't because goals are a measurable and meaningful and attainable But they're necessary to To move forward sometimes and grab the opportunities that are in front of us And we can do some of that without interfering with the bigger global picture of the vision Statement and a mission statement. They don't have to Wait, that's what I'm saying and if you decide that it's Better did not do goals until we have that I'm comfortable with with that as well I'm just comfortable also was saying we've got some things important things going on and One of them your idea about school parent connections strengthening school parent connections That can be a goal Regardless of what our vision is and our mission um and I think Robert was talking about that one of our board meetings is that the pto are just Isn't alive in rochester. We wish we had one was more like stock bridge, but Getting us to focus and helping the administration focus on how do we strengthen that relationship? We can start doing that now For the rest of the spring going forward, I think justine your idea on that is is really powerful um And it's something that if we focus on I think we can make some positive steps on on that And justine another goal that I think is worthwhile is that when we passed The governance and the board protocols. I remember you said These are important, but we need to continue to focus on these in the months going ahead Do you remember when you said that? Yep, absolutely and and so A goal just says recognize it. We're going to spend some time doing that and that would be Right. Probably not on the agenda moved up so Maybe our vision statement is one of the goals Yes, uh, is is the established one so that's not under the gun. I don't think A vision statement. They're so important that you just can't do it. Um beat the clock Right. So I think the takeaway from our last meeting if we're thinking about it through this lens is that we were creating a vision and a mission statement We were interested in uh, integrated integration You know tapping into the creative potential of the available resources that we already have to um Kind of extend our ability to offer Arts and humanities We did talk about the communication between parents That kind of strengthening that communication with the community and parents um Those were three things that we talked about a lot and the and the you know, the Financial piece has been coming up ever since our retreat. So that's obviously a heavy hitter Well, this is our first set of goals I mean, this is why I like this as a vision statement because using existing resources to the extent of their creative potential Is a budget statement You know, it's it's it's absolutely a budget statement. It's saying we you know It's going to be you've got to prove to us That you really need this extra budget item because I need to see that you haven't You know dredged up everything you've got from what you have Um, so you know, I think that's why these are I mean, I I hear you that you know, we have specific goals that we need now and we probably to talk about them, but The best vision statement Is going to define the goal. Yeah. Yeah, all of the goals. It's going to say this is how we look at building's educational procedure and goals um administration because we have the right vision That's what we talked about last time. Yeah now is why we were throwing all of these things around the resort of vague But you know also specific I I I I I really support it myself. I think um uh so, um I mean, I I don't know I I that's why I I I feel like I know what the mission statement is. I've seen it and it's pretty Boilerplate education school education stuff We will educate every child to the best of their ability and you know, we will do that and it's like No, this is different This is this is this is different what we're coming up with here Um, um, and that's why I'd like to stay this part now when we say so if I may If let's just go through these four things that are in our vision statement right now We have integration transparency. I don't know is okay In comfortable space for uncomfortable learning What do we mean by transparency? What I think is meant by transparency involves Uh an open line of communication with parents and community as to what they're What the money is going toward what the children are learning and experiencing and kind of an open Open on both ends where it's It's a comfortable space for uncomfortable learning for them as well I'm gonna I'm gonna push you to be broader in this In the sense that that's a that's a specific goal that could come out. Yeah Okay, why do we want transparency across the board means Everybody sees what everybody's doing Maybe that's it Everybody's every or everybody's on everybody sees and everybody's on board with what everybody's doing Maybe there's an effort to to open up the doors of you know, like there's a clear effort made to Uh To work toward a higher level of transparency Or so, you know, like because you could be yeah, yeah transparent or whatever, but if we're all kind of thinking What is how are we showing this to the outside? Are we is there a way we could better show this to everyone? Is there a way this can be more open More well, I'm just if if if we have as part of our vision I mean listen to this just to put these two together just so this is because this is sort of how a vision So our vision statement is using existing resources to the extent of their creative potential And everyone sees what everyone is up to and and buys into what everyone is up to Up to is a terrible phrase, but that's what I got right now The um or buys into or sees and buys into Ethan this is where it gets difficult to be A member of a board Um, we're representing a community We're also representing the parents and the kids and and we've got to be careful that If our goal is 100 consensus on everything buy in So we just um yep. Yep. No, I hear you transparency To me means people have a confidence They do not see anything or hear everything um They don't necessarily have to do their homework or there's a confidence level and one of the ways to have a confidence is that They don't have a sense that the organization is hiding things Which avoiding things. I mean this is exactly what we were dealing with so now the end result has to be though Quality education and the kids are learning and they're learning As well and it's hopefully better than the competition. So we can be transparent But underlying that what you hope people believe in not only is that we're not doing smoke and mirrors, but the outcome Is in the interest of of everybody and um, I well, I think your word of confidence Can you Ethan could I stop you for a moment and ask you to repeat what you said right before bill started talking um Everyone everyone sees everyone sees what everyone's up to Uh, nope. It was just before you started talking and you were you were talking back about the creative potential Our vision is a rigorous education It's uh using existing resources to the extent of their creative potential And everyone sees what everyone is up to. Okay. Thank you Um and but I I really like where bill's going the idea Because we're experiencing this right now We went through a period of of the beginning of my tenure where there was no confidence in the board Because they felt we were doing all kinds of things behind their back, which we weren't Um, but they did they had no confidence in us. That was what was clear And so I think that word is so so everyone's seeing what everyone is up to is And and the buy into is is probably not Because there's a level of confidence and trust You know, it's that you have confidence in and you trust and are those the same thing. I don't think they quite are it's like you Why nobody's coming to our meetings right now it because they were trust. We're doing the right thing I really believe that's the case They don't want to think about us They don't want to think about the board. They don't want to think about the board They might want to think about their kid going to school and whether they need a covid test or not But they don't want to think about the work because they trust that we're doing the work And so transparency is about maintaining that confidence You know maintaining the confidence of I mean, I want to say your clients, but that's a business term But it's it's maintaining the confidence of all parties that we are going about this business in a Maintaining I'm just going to get that much down maintaining Maintaining the confidence I put a little drafty thing in the chat for maintain the confidence of all parties I mean, there is something to be said of all parties involved Yeah, because it works. That's that's a two-way street You know, it's a two-way street. It's that we got confidence Everybody's confident that the other party's there Um, what did you I didn't see I'll have to go and see if I can get it this time Oh, here we go rigorous comfortable space using existing resources to the extent of their creative potential platformer and transparency by maintaining the confidence and trust of the community I like the word maintaining but um, I think we can you know work under the rigorous creative education and then have our description of what that means um And yeah, because number two is really it's budget. It's it's Pedagogy It's absolutely pedagogy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's and it's it's also in cute include encouraging them to How can we teach more creatively using what we have? Oh, we got somebody who's got specialty in horses well, you know In transparency is that trust thing, but it's also Uh a community connection with the parents That you were, you know, we were talking about the last time It's not just, you know sharing curriculum. It's also sharing what you know What our decisions are based upon, you know, it's much broader than just Putting a poster outside the door of the classroom When you say platform What do you mean by platform? That's the only part of your sentence So, you know, our school board is rooted in transparency I guess i'm thinking about communication platform where teachers are communicating with parents School board is, you know, jamie really does provide this type of platform He provides a platform where he communicates regularly both through video and through Letter letters to the greater community through home to parents and on the internet So that I mean that's an example of a platform and then but also parent teachers may Create their own version of a platform that provides transparency from their work to the community the school board Going beyond well, let me let me try this in that One that we add the word create, but maybe that's true. That's goal-related Provide a Yeah, right a profit. What about this idea of instead of trust of community? It's trust the confidence and trust of all parties Because that's for mine and it's just the idea that it's a two-way street Yeah, and then it's between the board and the administration It's between the board and The community it's between the administration and the communities between the teachers Maybe we say the the administration the Faculty and the community Well, again, if we're trying to keep this pithy and short like I think all parties is a little bit Maybe a little too vague and also Well, I don't know it just sounds kind of legal And you know those lawyers man, they're all trying to get around things I guess it's that I I feel like that and that's you know, I can go either way and I think it should be broader than just community Um, it's for me. It's a plat it's defining a platform So if somebody reads this and says and maybe it's if you say providing a platform But it's something platform. It's a Uh, communication platform a communication or administrative platform Because it's bigger than just communication. This is also this also has to do with a personal one-to-one relationship, right communicative communicative Uh I need a new pad. Hold on a second Oh So right now we're at a platform Transparency Yeah, maybe yeah, I think it is about you know, it's about communication communicating. It's about Yeah, I can't think of Okay, I mean, I think you know, we don't we don't have to solve this today Yeah, um A platform communicative platform We're doing transparency to maintain the confidence Of all and the possibilities that are of all parties Party of the first part of the Of the community of the community and administration Staff and Students Staff and students. I think that covers everybody I like listing it just because it yeah, I think the community like to you I think the community means the people not in the school and community means everybody the school the kids the teachers the The administration and the parents and the taxpayers Yeah, you could do that with a nice little colon The community colon administration students Right People all right. Well, I think Um, by the way, how long are we going today? I I should go anytime I can I this is a push I was pushing my luck even doing this. No, no, um, uh, let's um I mean, I think we've moved forward Um, uh bill is there something more in the next let's say five minutes That you think we should bring to the board tonight about specific goals Because I think we've moved forward on our vision statement Yeah, and they kind of incorporates what our possible goals were listed last time communicating curriculum to the parents And that that was basically the only real goal we brought up the last time. So maybe we moved forward with You know something else because the could do first that Could you before we get off or after we get off could you type up what you wrote there? on the Yeah, just put it in an email to us so that we can have Do you and bill you haven't said anything in a while. How do you feeling about What we did today? Well, um, I don't want to go against Uh, justine. I got that that Goals need to wait and I don't want to violate her feelings on that and No, I agree with you. I came back against that where I where I understood what you meant with the ongoing and You're not going against me. It's fine um, that said, I think um, the two Possible goals that we could um because we've discussed them. I think there's um Board support form both ideas came coming from justine one was strengthening school parent communication And to see I know lindy and and and Is doing things and the fact of everything else can we help on that? Because it's very important if we get active parents support um, whether it's the the school budget coming up vote or anything else, but that school parent Communication, I think that's an important goal if we can strengthen that and then the other one is Board governance keep a focus on how we're how we're doing and other things that we can do better as a board um, and I think that's a that's that's Well worth having on our agenda and considering those two and those are two so um, and uh So, uh, so tonight if when they comes up we should present Sort of a latest version of what we have for a vision statement. Oh, well our vision statement our mission Statement where we are there and then say would we like to talk about these two goals? tonight Yeah Okay All right Well, I think that's um I think that's a good hours to work in here. Um, probably what we should do is the old task of Not putting it off too long to meet again and that we scheduled the next meeting What's when are you done justine? March so first week of march So if well, how about we um meet again? Uh before the next meeting the next board meeting. Yeah, that's fine So the fourth at noon Is that march fourth your march fourth? How's that? Is that good Right now it is It's early on early on Well, I think that'll help us because you know, um, I'm always better if I if I if it's on my calendar Sure march fourth is a Friday. Yeah Yeah Wait, then when what's the day of our? It would be the 8th, right? Or no the first Tuesday. Yeah, the march is the first of march is a Tuesday. Correct. So we have a So we would have the meeting that night, but you will will you be done by then? Yeah, yeah, I'll be done. I'm done that week before that Okay, how about then how about march first? Yep at noon Yeah, let's do that March first at noon. I feel like We can pat ourselves in the back and come forward and bring to the board that we have two specific goals that are priorities for us to come to terms with tonight Um, so that we have them for what we're doing right now with budget and goals Sorry, I guess that's oh one question then Bill I thought when you brought up two goals before parent-teacher communication I thought it was the academic goals not the board governance um, well, I had I think I had originally six so I was But I do think um The academics if to Have the board aware that we've got An sui academic achievement goals and to be able to focus on that. We're going to be doing that tonight with Anna but I would If it's not tonight at some point, I'd love to have our board say yeah Those are our goals too as well as su and I'll leave it to you Ethan and how you want to do that But nothing's more important in my mind is making sure the kids are learning better succeeding better So they can reach their fullest potential and if To me, that's that'd be nice if our board would Back the board on the pursuit Well, and also make sure we understand them um You've got my email Ethan and you got Jamie's response and his response because I had all these questions and he said Bill you're basically, you know Kindly stated somewhat confused on some of the stuff and I was because it is confusing very confusing to me And um, if we're gonna Be effective we have to understand. Yep. Um, and I was just showing my hand. I'm in the back of the classroom kind of Uh, no, I I totally support well learner. I think it's very easy to um You know, especially when things seem like they're going smoothly with the board to feel like it's sort of rubber stamp time And it is very important that we actually understand what we're doing As a the lawyer would agree with that, right? All right, I think that's I think we've done enough tonight they're today There seems to be no public on here unless ray you have a comment about how brilliant we are I know it was a great meeting. Yeah. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I mean it is fun to talk about this high level stuff I much prefer it to minutia numbers I gotta tell you More my bailey wick as they say, yeah, very good. We will see you tonight then. Thank you all Yep. See you


Well, I think it'd be children really knowing this stuff and I think it would be children actually showing me rather than give me an answer. I mean we're always looking for right or wrong, yes or no, but you want more than that. My favourite thing is saying why or can you show me. Then I know where I got a good idea that they understand something. I think it's more of a long, longer time period. I think you can teach the initial objective of the lesson but then something that has to be revised and revisited and continued on with in order for them to really have deep understanding. Deep learning for me is all about students being able to demonstrate their understanding through problem solving and reasoning. Problem solving and reasoning being one of these strain curriculum proficiencies and being the hardest for kids to attack. To me deep learning is children making connections, not just the surface learning. So if I can give you an example of comprehension and reading, like the taxonomy of comprehension. So a child might have literal understanding where it's right there in the book. But to me the deep learning is for them to be able to infer or to be able to evaluate what they're reading. They're bringing connections from a lot of different other sources.


My name is dpg and if you do enjoy the video even a like really helps out and if you like what you see I want to see more be sure to subscribe Okay, so I was farming a certain enemy within this area to get this amazing Firemonk armor set which looks so good. He looks so good. You also drop this weapon, which doesn't do anything Spectacular to be honest. I mean it may appeal to somebody out there, but you're not to me The armor, I mean, it's not bad. It's not bad at all guys. It really isn't So yeah We also comes with this people also comes with this the fire scorpion charm raises fire attack, but lowers damage negation Pretty cool pretty cool. So the area in which you farm these is located right here Right here guys left a volcano manner Literally, this is the Grace point we're gonna spawn in that see the water Terminus, let me just go across to here guys simple as that Spawn run up here. There's a couple of these firemonk enemies here kill them They drop the gear and then we'll come up into the castle and show you exactly where the talent is located So let's go back and do it people. Let's go back and do it together Let's go back and do it together Okay, so from here, let's jump on yeah On your mount and run up here guys now probably want to switch that weapon out because it ain't that good to be What ain't for me anyway run past all these and you'll see a guy who's back to you right there So yeah, you want to take him out you want to take him out Bob up Bob up I would say the drop rate for me I took me about half an hour to get all pieces with the silver scarab on my door and there's one more around here guys Who's fighting away? So yeah, let's kill these two As you drop me a piece actually as you drop me a piece. No, yeah, drop me fire blossom. Well, yeah What you want to do guys is Just farm these until you get to get obviously score straight back to that grace point and then back up here kill them too The tarrism and got though is Up here.  I'll actually show you that weapon as well Just while we're here because you can actually get that way via farming him as well These spawns constantly there obviously when you reset that is when you snuck at this check this out Check this out Like I'm pushing a trolley. It's like I'm pushing a trolley. Let go That's cool as heck. You know, that's cool as heck. You know, that's cool as heck. Let go Pretty cool But this is a serious big this is a serious big it check that out Statue quite for this a 45 in strength 18 dexterity. Wow Wow, yeah, that's that. So we're gonna get rid of that and now I'm gonna show you where that talisman is Located people again.   There'll be a guy sitting Glowing here somewhere. He has a dream on him. I'm not sure what was in that chest Don't think anything of importance now come round here and a talisman is located Right over this wall.


Down through the lifting provision, one time and one time only. So today we're actually conducting sling load operations, which is phase two of aerosol school. For the last two days they've been learning how to prepare and rig and actually inspect the four loads that we have here behind me. So things we teach them to look for, things like incorrect link counts, incorrect material, securing one thing to another. Anything that could cause this load to either lose stability or even worse fall from the aircraft while in the air. So far today we've finished up with our classes. Now this is actually the meeting and the grind of phase two. They're actually getting on the loads. We get to see how they look during their inspection sequences, get the help students out and need help. When they leave here they become certified sling load inspectors. If their unit's conducting a sling load operation, they're actually able to inspect the load once it is prepped and rigged and certified to put it on a bird. It's good training that they can have, helps set them up for their careers furthering in the future.


Thank you very much. And I know it's challenging to have live as well as, you know, connected from back from Malaysia. So thank you very much, Diane and team. I think we are probably the by far most unconventional Reddit partner right now when we talk about open shift, because you know, Joget is an open source, low code, no code platform. And we more talk about business in terms of, you know, building business applications. We are not talking about network. We are not talking about storage. We are not talking about monitoring and all. So we are by far the most unconventional partners here. But let me quickly talk about why we are here today. I have my one of our customers Alliance Bank, truly he is the head of digital innovation and design back at Alliance Bank. And they did some interesting digital transformation using both Joget and open shift. So we'll talk about that. But I just want to quickly set out, set the context before I hand it over to Chewy. One of the things that you will notice in today's ages, everything about the development has changed. It has changed when it comes to, you know, what kind of application architectures we are talking about, you know, people are talking about Gardner is talking about composable business applications, microservices, serverless and all application development tools have changed. As soon as I, as you get to another conference, you will find new tools popping up all the time. And obviously the infrastructure, the way we look at infrastructure has changed. We are talking about infrastructure as code, you know, containers, container platform, so on and so forth. So if you, if you talk about both of these things together, you know, application architecture, your infrastructure, your application of deaf tools, the two things that, you know, come to our focus, which is one cloud native platforms like open shift and low code platforms like what we are working on right now. And we see these as together as game changing. I'll explain why we say that in any DevOps cycle or any application development life cycle, what you will see is there are set of, you know, infrastructure activities and there are set of application development activities. Infrastructure activities take maybe 10, 20% of the time and development activities building application development takes almost 60, 70 or 80% of the time.  They created a onboarding solution for customers and what they have done is they have done that in a record time. So I'll just hand it over to Chewy, you know, from Malaysia and we'll, we'll, we'll hear their story. So we had, we had this digital transformation journey a few years back. So that's why we hop on into OpenShift. We have a quite bold, it's considered a very bold move for a bank to, to, to start it with a microservice containers. It's kind of like alien to, to the bank, because previously we all like a monolithic kind of a traditional software development waterfall. So we introduce agile, we introduce scrum and then we introduce microservice container to them. This, actually all this is with the purpose of to transform a bank to a more lean and more agile to, and can adapt to the market. Because previously, for example, when we want to develop an application, we, we, it's like six months, nine months in order for one application to go out to the market. This is super long and, and maybe it works in the 90s. I don't know. But now, now it's like a 21st century. It doesn't work anymore. We need to make it fast. We need to make it weeks. Previously, I was from a startup, a small startup, which is, we can come out out of the single features in one week. Every single, every single week, we deploy a feature. So it's kind of a different kind of experience. So I'm trying to introduce a startup experience to, to, to the bank. That's why I introduce microservices with OpenShift, because even though it's a, it's a open sourcing, but it got quite a lot of enterprise support. I think this is more important for those enterprise out there. When you need the back, when you want to reap the benefits of open source, right? You, in other hand, on other hand, you still need to support, enterprise support. So I think Red Hat is in the, in the right spot in this case. So I think the first thing we, we have done is we introduced the or the branch, sorry, what else, what should I say? Bank it at the bank, the whole bank branch in the tablet. So we, we basically with staff or the branch features inside a tablet. So you can open account, you can apply credit card, apply loans. And we also introduced some face recognition to, to the system. So you do not need to depends on the staff to validate your ID. We have some, some AI algorithm there to look at. Is it the same face? Then we also have some, some automation to, to check whether are you in AMLA, which is some, some, some sort of bad criminal lease. Yeah. So all this week, we shortened the time to open account from 45 minutes into like five or 10 minutes. Yeah, so this is our journey since then. And then, but I don't think this is, this is the end, end vision of us. We, we try to okay, I think the whole digital transmission is a never ending story. You have to keep updating yourself, keep updating your system. That's why we, we, when we had the, when we have the microservices ready, I think it's time to move up to the UI part. We need to make it more like a factory kind of UI, you know, because every time if, if we want, do you want, if you need to, if you need a developer to create a whole new set of UI, it's just not that fast enough. You know, the fact, why, why the factory is fast? Because everything they have is on template. They have a mode, right? So in our term, it's a template. So I'm thinking, that's why I'm thinking we are, we are on board with a Joget to have form templates ready, pre-made. So every time, because for example, like us, right, loan applications, no matter your, your personal loan or home loan, car loan actually is still a loan form, right? Just a slightly different terms of study different, different text views. But 90% of them same. That's why we had this, we pre-made all these templates ready. Then whenever we need something new, we just writing, just get the template modified a bit, then we can ready to go out. That's it. So that's why that's how we, we actually, we have a term for it. We call it a factory dilemma stream.


I won't get close to maybe myself… The next item of Business is a debate on motion 97722 in the name of Angela Constance on northern Ireland troubles legacy and reconciliation Bill, UK legislation. I'd invite members wishing to participate to press their request to speak buttons now or as soon as possible, and I invite Angela Constance to speak to and move the motion, Cabinet Secretary, around eight minutes please. President например, this is an opportunity for the Parliament to consider a suplementary legislative consent ond dwi'n iawn i Gwyrraedd nôr i NZ, strategic casino ac preloedd gan Firdig Newberry. Lünkist ledwn fersiwyd o uwch yn 17으로 – ddiwethaf 2022 o blaethu oddi yn angehid o nôr i obiadau a adreid y register y newidiaeth gan Firdig Newberry a growren. Sinhonthussian o'r flynyd hip-hysol yng Nghymru wedi aço byd. recovery. It seeks to limit criminal investigations, legal proceedings, inquests and police complaints and extends the prisoner release scheme in the Northern Ireland Sentences Act 1998 and provides for experiences to be recorded and preserved and for events to be studied and memorialised. After consideration of the bill, the Scottish Government concluded that a legislative consent memorandum should be lodged in the Scottish Parliament due to the impact it will have on devolved areas of competence with the recommendation that consent be refused. Thank you. I thank the cabinet secretary for taking an intervention. She has outlined the principles of the bill and I was wondering what conversations her Government has managed to have with those on the ground in Northern Ireland about her views of the bill and how they think it will affect things on the ground in Northern Ireland. What I can say to the member is that I am aware that the bill has been opposed by every political party in Northern Ireland, including the DUP and key stakeholders such as Amnesty International relatives for justice and widows against violence and power. The latter being the largest cross community victim group in Northern Ireland. The Scottish Government advised the Scottish Parliament to refuse consent on 20 October 2022 on the bill when the first legislative consent memorandum was lodged. The majority of the criminal justice committee voted to support that position when they published their first report on the bill on 10 January 2023 with two members voting against the Scottish Government's recommendation. Since then, the UK Government has proposed further amendments to the bill, the most recent of which the UK Government only published and provided in full to the Scottish Government on 8 June. We have considered those new amendments and it is still the position of the Scottish Government, which includes the Lord Advocate and the Slicer General for Scotland, that the recent amendments still do not resolve the concerns that resulted in the recommendation that that Parliament should not pass a legislative consent motion in relation to the bill. In the bill's current forum, despite the amendments tabled by the UK Government, it still gives rise to three key areas of concern for the Scottish Government that I appraise the criminal justice committee on 21 June. Firstly, it will limit the ability of victims of the troubles to seek just as through Scottish courts if required. Secondly, it does not respect devolution and provides power to the Secretary of State to amend devolved legislation without first discussing with or obtaining consent from this Parliament. Thirdly, it has the potential to impact on the powers of the Lord Advocate as independent head of the systems of criminal prosecution and investigation of deaths in Scotland. The criminal justice committee has now published its final report on the bill on 23 June, now with no members voting against the Scottish Government's recommendation to withhold consent. In its current forum, the bill still allows the granting of immunity to people who apply for it, even though they may have committed serious offences during the troubles. Effectively, the bill could mean an amnesty for those who have committed offences such as murder and crimes involving abuse and torture, including where those crimes were conducted by agents of the state. For those who have been directly affected by the troubles and are seeking justice, those amendments will not increase the opportunity for them to obtain justice or ensure that those who committed offences during the troubles are appropriately held to account. In its current forum, the bill also provides the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland with the ability to amend devolved legislation without having to make the Scottish Government aware of that, let alone to seek the Scottish Parliament's agreement to do so. If the UK Government respects devolution, it should not be exercising powers within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament unless doing so is specifically agreed. Even with the concessions made by the UK Government, the bill continues to encroach on the role of the Lord Advocate as the independent head of the systems of criminal prosecution and investigation of deaths in Scotland. The principle that the Lord Advocate takes decisions in their capacity as head of the systems of prosecution and investigations of deaths independently of any other body predates devolution and is protected by section 48.5 of the Scotland Act 1998. The power to grant immunity proposed for the independent commission created by the UK Government's bill therefore potentially undermines this principle by adversely impacting on the Lord Advocate's ability to take decisions on whether to commence prosecutions. As I laid out to the Justice Committee last week and previous iterations of the bill, it was the case that, even where immunity was not granted, the Lord Advocate would not be able to commence a prosecution unless and until the commission decided to formally refer the cases to the Lord Advocate's office. Therefore, I welcome the amendment proposed by the UK Government, which means that the Lord Advocate can now direct the commission to refer such a case to the Lord Advocate's office when it is considered appropriate. I understand that the minister general met Lord Keane to discuss that amendment. However, as I have already stated to the Justice Committee, at the heart of the bill is the power given to the commission to grant immunity from prosecution for the most serious offences. That power to make decisions on whether an individual should be prosecuted is something that, in Scotland, we would expect to be exercised by the Lord Advocate acting independently in the public interest. Despite the recent amendments to the bill, the commission's power to grant immunity still has the potential to cut across the independent decision making of the Lord Advocate. In effect, it will be the commission who has the discretion to decide whether a prosecution can be raised and not the Lord Advocate. The Scottish Government does not think that it is wise or appropriate for the UK Government to alter the Lord Advocate's constitutional position in this way, and it is not something that this Parliament, in my view, should consent to. Presiding Officer, the Scottish Government has a responsibility to review UK Government legislation that will impact on the devolved powers of this Parliament and review any amendments made. We have done so, and it is our recommendation that Parliament maintains its position to withhold legislative consent to the amended Northern Ireland's Troubles, Legacy and Reconciliation Bill. Therefore, I urge all members to support this position that is backed by the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee. If you could move the motion. I grew up with the troubles on my TV screen for families in Northern Ireland, it was their lives. Today it can be easy for us to forget the daily backdrop of terror and devastation and death. I recommend the recent five-part BBC documentary once upon a time, which expertly tells the stories of some of those who suffered, but also some of those who inflicted the suffering. This series is a timely reminder that for many individuals and families, memories remain fresh and losses remain raw. The legislative consent motion before us today relates to an independent commission for reconciliation and information recovery, which would investigate deaths and serious injuries relating to the troubles. Individuals involved in the troubles can come forward and be provided immunity under certain strictly defined conditions if they provide information relating to an event that took place leading to death or serious injury. Those could be about identifying the location of remains of those who were taken away to be tortured and executed by terrorists or, for example, for anyone who might be harboring knowledge about one of the many bomb plots that claim the lives of civilians or military personnel. Edward Maynard. I thank the member for giving way. We all need to be very careful at how we talk about this and consider this, but I want to make the following point. On 20 July 1982, four soldiers from my regiment riding horses down the South Carriageway at Hyde Park were blown up by a man who planted a bomb surrounding it by nails in a car next to their route. Mr Downey was accused and found guilty of that but has never been bought of justice because he has a way of avoiding it. In the same time, just two years ago, one of my colleagues was charged in Northern Ireland for murder, Dennis Hutchins, who in 1974 shot somebody. The argument of whether that is correct or not is neither here nor there, but he was dragged to Northern Ireland where he was prosecuted and subsequently died during the trial. My question to the member is, and my question will say that I would like the Government to reflect on. Will the commission bring peace to those people who are left behind? We need to do that. I thank Edward Mountain for his intervention. I know that, as a former soldier, he knows more than most the extent of the troubles and horrors that he has involved. That is indeed the sentiment behind the legislation. It is about truth, reconciliation and closure for families who remain very badly affected. It is, indeed, modelled on the truth and reconciliation approach that has worked very successfully in post-apartite South Africa, albeit under different circumstances. That is a sensible bill with a legitimate aim and crucially with a consistent approach across the United Kingdom. That is why I find it concerning that the SNP Government is seeking to essentially interfere in an issue that is primarily, if not exclusively, affecting Northern Ireland. There would be an outcry from the SNP of Stormont, for example, who decided to consent to a bill here and denied consent to a bill produced here in Holyrood, which was about Scotland. Northern Ireland's history is unique. It should not be used for political purposes. It should certainly not be exploited to create any kind of constitutional grievance, I will. Keith Brown. I don't know if you heard what the cabinet secretary said, but all the parties in Northern Ireland believe that this undermines the rights of victims to seek redress. It undermines devolution and, crucially, for the first time I can remember, it undermines the independent role of a Lord Advocate. Does none of that concern him? There are many views about the legislation in Northern Ireland and across the United Kingdom, but it is vitally important that a UK-wide approach is taken. Thousands of lives were lost during the Troubles, thousands more were damaged through the crushing impact of the violence and everybody wants to move on from that time. Northern Ireland today has nothing like Northern Ireland in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s. Quite why we would want to get involved in what is really an internal issue for the people of Northern Ireland is beyond me and it would be wrong if this was simply another chance to pick a fight with the UK Government. That bill would play an important role in helping Northern Ireland to further consign the violence of the past into the history books. The UK Government has addressed some of the concerns raised by the Lord Advocate and it is clear that it is willing to continue to address outstanding concerns. When I questioned the cabinet secretary about some of the concerns, it inspired that there are no live troubles related police investigations in Scotland. There do not appear to be any troubles related prisoners in Scotland. It is therefore a largely theoretical question. There appears to be a slim chance of the commission's work impinging on Scotland, but while there remains any chance, I believe that we should support this bill and today vote against the Scottish Government's LCM. I now call Pauline McNeill, around five minutes. The Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy and Reconciliation Bill proposes an effective amnesty from prosecution for troubles related offences in exchange for co-operation with the tooth retrieval body, and the bill would also halt future civil cases at inquest linked to killings during the conflict. Establishing a new independent commission for reconciliation and information recovery is responsible for reviewing deaths and other harmful conduct forming part of the troubles for publishing its findings. The bill would seemingly effectively draw a line under offences in the troubles area across the UK by ensuring that long-running cases that have not been resolved are closed and closing avenues for justice in cases which did not involve death or serious injury. However, this is not the view shared by virtually all the political parties and victims groups across the island of Ireland, as Keith Brown formally said, and North and South have slammed the substance of the bill. The democratic unionist party is against it. In fact, one of the few issues that all sides of the political debate in Northern Ireland seem to agree on is that this proposal should not proceed. I agree with Edward Mountain that there are great sensitivities, and for the people of Northern Ireland, are about their history, but it is for that reason that we must recognise that it does not have consent of the people. On top of strong opposition in the north, the Republic of Ireland Government is also against the bill, and in a press release, Irish Foreign and Defence Minister Michael Martin urged that the bill be paused because it would potentially set back peace in Northern Ireland. The families of victims of the troubles have also expressed deep concerns about this bill, and some have said that it is designed to cause pain and hurt to families seeking the truth about what happened to their loved ones. The Council of Europe has warned that the bill would diminish rights and accountability in a country that has seen precious little. The Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, Dunja Metafrydge, stated that she was repeatedly warned—she has repeatedly warned Westminster—that the bill would undermine the human rights of victims as well as truth-seeking reconciliation and justice efforts. Because of such opposition, I am also worried deeply that the bill opposed by all political parties in Northern Ireland and by victims and survivors of the troubles across national and union committees will be a setback for Northern Ireland. The bill threatens to undermine or did until I heard the cabinet secretary say that there has been a last-minute change to the powers of the Lord Advocate. That is to be welcomed, although I would prefer to see that about earlier, because the committee has scrutinised this over a large number of weeks and has made the same point that a major objection to this is the powers of the Lord Advocate being removed. I had the privilege of representing Scottish Labour on the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly, which includes parties from across all those political parties. This year, the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly marked a 25-year since-the-good Friday agreement, which largely ended the bloodshed that left 3,600 people dead. I had the privilege of listening to Bertie Herm, former T-Shuck senator George Mitchell and former civil servants who spoke of the incredible coming together of those people to ensure the good Friday agreement. I will take an intervention from Paul O'Kane. I am very grateful to Paul O'Kane for giving way and she knows my deep personal interest in this issue. Indeed, she will know that I had the great honour of hosting three people deeply involved in the architecture of the good Friday agreement in this Parliament as we marked 25 years of the agreement. They were very clear, as we have heard already in the debate today, that this bill will not work in terms of trying to seek the consensus on reconciliation that is required. It does not have the support of the people of Northern Ireland. Crucially, it is relevant to people here in Scotland because of the strong diasporic links between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Will she agree with me that we have to respect the people of Northern Ireland in this? I hold heartedly agree with Paul O'Kane that, while the substance before this is whether or not we would give legislative consent, because it cuts across to all powers, I think that it is important to take the view that it also does not have the political support of organisations and parties in Northern Ireland. Britain's exit from the European Union is further complicated peace process creating political tensions that have rattled the foundations of the good Friday agreement, and, as today in Northern Ireland, has been without a sitting assembly for nearly one year and a half. If pass the bill only threatens to further drive a wedge between all political parties in Northern Ireland, I, for one thing, think that we have a duty as MSPs of a devolved Parliament to collectively oppose anything that threatens the Northern Ireland peace process. As I said earlier, I do welcome the late change in the bill in relation to the Lord Advocate's powers. However, in principle, I think that the proposals do not have the consent of the community, and I think that for those reasons we absolutely will support the Government on the LCM and not ask the Parliament not to recommend the support for the legislative consent motion this evening. The Government does indeed recognise the great sensitivity of the matters that we are discussing today and have proceeded on that basis at all times. In essence, the proposed amendments from the UK Government have not gone far enough to remedy the issues that were raised by the Scottish Government and its committees when it was initially recommended in October of 2022 that the Scottish Parliament should not pass a legislative consent motion in relation to this bill. The amendments tabled by the UK Government on 8 June, although welcome, do not alleviate the three major concerns that we have about this bill. The Scottish Government cannot support a bill that reduces or eliminates the ability of victims of crime to seek justice through our court system. That position is backed by the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee. Let us not forget that the bill will provide the commission the power to grant immunity from prosecution for some of the most serious offences, including abuse, torture and murder. The decision on whether to prosecute someone for those offences should remain with the Lord Advocate and to remove the decision-making process from that office and place it with another body. No, thank you. In our view, has the potential to adversely impact the long-standing position of the Lord Advocate? I am very grateful. There are some people who have already been prosecuted who have got letters from a previous UK Government called on-the-run letters, which allows them to avoid prosecution. The existence already happens. Do you think that that is right? By doing what you are doing, by preventing this going forward, it will aid in resolving the problems that those letters have produced? I am trying very hard not to have a politicised debate about this, given the matters that we are discussing. I am aware of the sensitivity for many members across the political divide on that, but I have a duty as a member of this Parliament to point out issues in terms of access to justice for people who reside in Scotland, who may wish to pursue similar criminal action in Scotland. I have a duty to stand up to any legislation irrespective of the purpose of that legislation if it interferes with the long-standing constitutional right of the Lord Advocate. I will, of course, go on to reflect some of the most sensitive matters and what we understand in terms of the views around the political groups and also the community groups of interests in Northern Ireland as well. As I said, the decision on whether to prosecute someone for those offences in our view should always remain with the Lord Advocate and to remove the decision-making process from that office and place it with another body in our view that has the potential to adversely impact the long-standing position of the Lord Advocate. It is also our view, Presiding Officer, that the bill will not make it easier for victims who have suffered, as I said, during the troubles to obtain justice. It is, of course, not only the Scottish Government, which has serious concerns over the bill that has been reflected upon this afternoon. There has been widespread opposition to the bill, as I said earlier, to Maggie Chapman, all political parties in Northern Ireland. Opposed the bill, as do key stakeholders, as previously mentioned, such as Amnesty International. Many victims' groups have raised serious concerns on the bill and its ability to help to deliver justice and crucially reconciliation, including the widows against violence and power trauma centre, which is the largest cross-community victims group in Northern Ireland. Amnesty International conducted polling to gauge opinion about the bill and released the results that showed that 87 per cent of UK adults should still be prosecuted for serious crimes such as murder, even if that was committed decades ago. Graham Taggart, Amnesty International's UK Northern Ireland deputy director, has said that the UK Government's plans for the bill are, and I quote, an affront to decency, human rights and the rule of law and must be scrapped. In addition, Mark Thompson, the chief executive officer of the Belfast base relatives for justice, has said that the bill is, and I quote, anti-rule of law, anti-victim, anti-Good Friday agreement, anti-international human rights law, and he goes further to say that, and I quote, it denies the basic right to an investigation and truth and accountability. I have also heard that the DUP has also strongly opposed the introduction of this bill with Sir Jeffrey Donaldson writing to the Prime Minister, urging him to scrap the bill, and he also said that reconciliation will not be achieved by sacrifice and justice. Access to justice must be preserved. Michael Martin, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence in the Irish Government, has also said that he is deeply worried that the enactment of the bill, opposed by all political parties in Northern Ireland and by victims and survivors of the troubles across communities, will set back the essential work of reconciliation. While I note the opposition to the bill, as a Government minister, it is for the reasons that I have outlined that I urge all members of the Parliament to support the Scottish Government's recommendation that the Scottish Parliament do not pass a legislative consent motion in relation to the UK Government's Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy and Reconciliation Bill. That concludes the debate on the Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy and Reconciliation Bill UK legislation. It is now time to move on to the next item of business.


People say Ubuntu is for beginners, GNU Linux. People only say Ubuntu is for beginners because they want to feel superior. I also say Ubuntu is for beginners because I also want to feel superior. That's a nice watch you got there. Want me to turn it into a web server? If you want to turn your old Pentium beige box into a web server, I got just the tool for you. Have you heard of Linux? What you are referring to as Linux is in fact GNU Linux. Linux. I mean GNU slash Linux. Linux. I mean GNU slash Linux. I mean GNU plus Linux. These are GNU tiles. That's not Linux's fault. Linux is just a kernel. That's the fault of GNOME, X11, GCC, libGC, KGB, KDE, GROP, Java, Pac-Man. No, the game. The package manager is fine. LibreOffice, Firefox, Pulse Audio, SystemD and Competence, SystemD and video. At this point, GNU Linux are just small parts of the system, the operating system. I started following the ideology of Marxism-Stolmanism. You should have a look. As a GNU slash Linux user, you don't make your statement by going on the street with a sign. You make it by rolling your own distro. Anarchy. OS. I'm not negative. I'm dispositive. We measure free not by the unit of beers, but freedom. I will show you the beauty of free software. These are scripts other people have written and shared so I can view them and modify them to my needs. They don't work really well. No checks for errors. No checks for dependencies. Some of them only work in order loss. Some of them only work in ammo. Some of them only work with files that don't contain spaces. And some of them don't work and will never work at all. So I decided to write my own OS and that has the following advantages. Some of my paintings, they're all our CC by SA. That means people can freely modify and copy this masterpiece. Well, it's free to modify. You can make your own copy. Yeah, I fought in the Zim E-Max Wars, System D Inuit Wars, Zim Zim Wars, Axe Weyland Wars, OOP Functional Wars, AT&T BSD Lawsuit, Dancing in the GNU Light, Feeling Guam and Bright. Oh, games work just fine now. Wine. Proton. That's it. What do you want to play? God? Dota? Hello, kitschy diaries. Let me look that up. Yeah, no. League of Legends? Also no. Call of Duty? Yeah, also no. On Windows, after a few weeks, you're just addicted to Fortnite. On Linux, you might have just set up your DVD drive if it's standard. Blu-ray? No, no, no. We don't do this here. There is a web server running on this pen. There is a web server running on this COVID test. It's running Node.js. Bloat. Collider. Bloat. Proprietary. You want to know what games I play? Yeah, I don't have time for games. Oh, this is just a bloat signal. I mean Bluetooth signal. They're always saying, yeah, but my code won't run on Linux. And then I prove them wrong just to show them that their code won't run anywhere. You can't do **** on Windows. Oh, you can? Must be new. For 15 years? Hmm, it's probably bad anyway. Let me just z-shell, grab, cap, snap. Don't laugh too hard. You'll fall back on DNS servers. Why is this not working? Okay, I might have to fix something. It's not an issue of Linux really. It's an issue of GNOME, KDE, X11, GCC, WebGC. This is not a joke. You can find all my plans on my website.  So long. In Linux, we got multiple sound systems. OSS, Pulse Audio, Alzo, Jack. Each one tries to fix the problems of the previous one. Is that picture photoshopped? It's tux painted. Learn your package manager. There's a new audio system. What's the name of the guy you say? Tonight.  So long. Oh, lately I've been trying to be a little more careful with experimenting. Oh, there is a new sound system. Anything goes. Let's try. It's broken. No, it's called chap music. In our community, there's a lot of weight classes and a lot of toxicity. It's almost like MMA. It's not for the elitism. But you don't see any beginners in our community. Oil and smoke lead an edge. Breaks more often. Just how I like it. System D. The init was mostly hyperbolic nonsense. But I personally don't like System D. As I see it as overly complex against the values of Linux. And I prefer the case approach.  And terribly unsafe. So I switched to coconut OS. It is the one and only true OS. And everyone should be using it. And everyone else is wrong. But that's just my personal view on what everyone should use. I mean, what effort is it to just quickly write a boot system? Because System D. This is a System D free Linux distribution. And this is a System D free Linux distribution. This is bus simulator. Weird distro. Still better than Windows. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Are you having problems with the nose? Ah, my 16-part Debian distro. Nvidia? We don't have gang signs. We have distros. This is my... Oh, I was meant to have this running. It's getting quite hot. It's Gen 2 installing. No, I fry my computer. I rise my gooey. I absolutely refuse to have a break in the middle. Once I start, I will go straight through.


How do you vote in an election?  No? Yeah me neither. I mean who has time to research all the candidates and what their policies are? And they're questionable haircuts and don't get me started on figuring out how to actually vote. Do we have to stand in line for hours? Do we have to bring our passports? Do I need a permission slip from my mum? But seriously voting in a national election is very important. It's a chance to make a difference and shape the future of our country. So do your research and find a candidate that aligns with your values.  If all else fails, find a candidate with a funny name. Flip a coin. Just make sure you vote because at the end of the day it's up to us to decide on what the future is we want to see.