Good morning everybody. Or at least it's morning here in Redmond where I am currently in the good state of Washington. And I'm still in my garage. This is the home office setup that I still have here and I'm getting used to a standing desk which I've never had before. And I got one of those mats to stand on those anti-fatigue mats it's called. And it really, really helpful. Makes me able to stand here for much longer than I was in the beginning. I don't know if that actually helps or if it's me, I'm getting more used to it and or whatnot but it's getting more comfortable. So thank you very much for joining us. Everyone on the live stream and everyone watching on demand on YouTube. This is the third episode and as usual we take live Q and A here. So if you are a live attendee you have a question and answer section please feel free to ask any questions about today's subject or any other subject related to Visual Studio and today's topic is Visual Studio subscriptions and how they can help us in general but also like now that we're working from home hashtag quarantine life and we'll see what's in there because I don't know myself a lot about subscriptions and I know that a lot of other people don't know about these subscriptions and I've heard that people are not even aware whether or not they are subscribers or not. So to help us demystify this, what are subscriptions? What are some of the benefits we can get? We have a guest in the studio and it is Katie. So Katie welcome to the show. Hey Mads, thanks for having me. I love the studio, the home studio. Yeah, it looks great. Can you tell the audience a little bit about who you are and what are this that you do with Microsoft? Yeah, so my name is Katie Bushlin. I am a program manager here on the Visual Studio subscriptions team. I've been here for about two years now and it's been a really interesting wild ride. So as some of you may know, this was formerly MSDN subscriptions. It was rebranded, I wanna say four or five years ago now. A lot of people still refer to it as MSDN but it is now Visual Studio subscriptions and it's been quite an interesting journey learning the 25 plus years of history, learning about how things used to be shipped out physically and you would get a physical disk with your MSDN on it and now it's all online and digital. I've spent the first bit of the time on the team here just learning about all of that history and now I'm taking my learnings and trying to update the user experience within the portals and within how you actually use and leverage your subscriptions so we can make it better. That's awesome. So MSDN subscriptions, I am fully aware of what that is or at least I think I am because I know that I was an MSDN subscriber in the past. I have been a Microsoft MVP as well which gives you for free and MSDN subscription and that was the place that I could go online. I could never remember the address or where to go exactly so I had to like, I Googled it like MSDN subscriber downloads I think I searched for to go download a version of Office or Windows or Visual Studio or other software. I think it came with basically all the software Microsoft had and I loved it. That was like where I would get all my software and I never had to worry about licenses and all that sort of stuff. It was legal, it was all great and available, right? It was fantastic. And so that is my knowledge of MSDN subscriptions back in the day but I have a feeling there's much more to it than that, is that right? This is not just about downloading software anymore. Yeah, definitely as downloads are very big part of it. As you mentioned, we do depending on your subscription level have almost anything Microsoft has ever offered. We still have MSDOS. If for some reason you want to get a copy of that it's still there, it's still in our catalog. And actually one of the things I'm looking at right now is how do we make that downloads experience better? So if anyone in the chat here or anyone that's listening to this afterwards has any feedback for us and what that you like and what you don't like you're gonna see surveys starting to pop up in that downloads experience soon. And if you can please take the time to give me your feedback so we can make that better. That would be really appreciated. But as you said aside from downloads there's all sorts of benefits that you get with your subscription. I'm gonna share my screen here and I can show you now where you actually go to see what you have. Let me know if you can see this here. Okay, hang on. I'm moving alive here. Perfect. There we go. Perfect.  The benefits page here is the main page that you're probably gonna be most excited about here if you don't realize that you have all of these fun things. A big one that was really helpful for right now when you're at home is Pluralsight and some of our training benefits. So depending on what subscription you have you can get up to six months of free Pluralsight training. We also here have a toggle where you can see what else. So there's LinkedIn Learning, there's Data Camp. You have a one year subscription to Code Magazine. So a lot of really great resources here that you can leverage when you're trying to learn a new skill or freshen up on something that you've maybe done in the past. Very cool. So I really like that we have like Pluralsight is up there. I think that might be one that some people know about and working from home right now. And it's a different type of work pattern that we have. I don't have like this sort of linear routine that I used to have where I put some work in in the morning then I had lunch, then I put another chunk of work and then I went home. It is no longer like that. I have to go outside. I have to sit somewhere else to change things up a bit. And I think something like watching and learning like from a Pluralsight or something would be extremely helpful here these days, right? So I don't know. Do people actually take advantage of these Pluralsight courses? Yeah, for sure. One of the cool things about Pluralsight is you don't have to just do it on your laptop. They have all sorts of apps. So you can connect to, I believe Apple TV or your Roku and actually sit down on your TV and watch on your couch.  I know for myself, I'm sitting here all day. I wanna get up from my desk. I wanna be able to walk around. Maybe while I'm cooking dinner, I can have something going on. I'm streaming to my TV so that I'm not just sitting in front of a screen all day or for yourself. You have your new standing mat, which looks really, really comfortable, but you may not wanna stand in your garage all day. You may wanna be playing with your kiddos and have something on in the background as well. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. Should I share your screen again? Let's see what else is there. Yeah, so some of the other things here, you get an Azure monthly credit. So depending on your subscription level, you can get upwards of $150 a month. And that refreshes every month with no actual charge to yourself or your company. So you can go in, you get your own little individual sandbox that you can play around with, freshen up your skills, maybe build some cool stuff in there. And once your $150 is up, it just stops. So you don't have to worry about your company being billed or yourself being billed. If you do wanna spend more than that, you can of course attach your credit card to it and spend more, but there's by no means any pressure to do that. Right. Yeah, that's how I use Azure.  It's all comes with my subscription. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, really cool. So let me go back to the all category and I can just kind of scroll through here. And yeah, you can see all the goodies that come with your subscription. We also have some technical support incidents here that if you're really stuck somewhere and you need some help, typically the paid support for Visual Studio is just that it's paid. But this gives you four incidents that you can actually open up and get that help that you need without having to have to pay for anything yourself. So hang on. So that's actually really important because this is different from reporting an issue. So in Visual Studio, you can go up and you can say help, send feedback, report issue or suggest a feature. But that's not what this is. This is a much deeper like one to one type of help that you get with someone on the other end of the phone and they help you diagnose and troubleshoot and all this sort of stuff. Is that what it is? Yeah, exactly. Oh, exactly. So it literally works by, you know, you call in. Is that how it is? Actually you chat. So you chat to activate it and then you get a number that you can use moving forward. So you don't need to chat every time but you get that number almost like a promo code to be able to apply the free benefit to it. Okay, so there's a huge array of different types of benefits here it looks like and it's not just Microsoft things but you mentioned Pluralsight. Yeah, exactly. A GitHub logo I saw it there too.  Well, I guess you can say that's Microsoft but. But if, so if I had an MSD end subscription am I now automatically a visual studio subscriber? Or how or is there any transition that I had to do to get there? Nothing you have to do on your side. If you had that MSD end subscription, you know, you just come here, log into my.visualstudio.com using the email address that your subscription was associated to. And you should see if you just have one, you'll just see the one in the dropdown here. There is a chance that you might also have dev essentials. So this is a really cool program that you can sign up for.  Very similar, you know, you can get the Azure free account with a $200 credit. There is a Pluralsight here as well. Code magazine and data camp. And this is all free as well. So you may see this one in the dropdown but you can kind of click here and toggle between your subscriptions to see. I have a test account here so I have a couple more subscriptions than most people would have. But generally you'd see your MSDN subscription here probably renamed to Visual Studio Enterprise or Professional or whichever level it is that that one was merged into. Okay, so we have a question here from someone anonymous on the live chat saying, one benefit I see is the MS 365, is that a new benefit? I can definitely use that. Yeah, that one we've had for a little bit now and it recently merged with E5 just to make things better for you. So that one definitely log in and check it out. You can click here to activate or there's a little info button where you can learn more. So what type of stuff do you get from that subscription? So that one is a developer account. It's not meant for production use but it's meant you can start developing with Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, Teams. And I believe it, yeah, it's for yourself plus 24 users here. So it's really great if you're working on something with your team. Wow, that's fantastic. Okay, yeah, that's a great benefit right there. Yeah, and if you check out docs.microsoft.com we have documentation that covers a little bit deeper on most of these. I'm not a Microsoft 365 expert, otherwise I would dive deeper into that one for you. But it is covered in our documentation and Mads, I don't know if we can share out more information afterwards. But yeah, perfect, we can do that then. Yeah, that's something that other people have asked for. Like put links in the YouTube things in the description on YouTube. So I will make sure that all the links we talk about here today are linked from the description. Fantastic. Katie, you mentioned the DevEssentials. And that's something I've seen. I've seen it for like several years. It shows up on the websites on different areas of this Visual Studio information online. And I've never really understood what it was. I always thought it was like it's a separate subscription or it was something that is like a cheap way to get the DevTools you need plus a little bit extra or something like that. But if you take that and compare it to the Visual Studio subscription which is the old MSN subscription, how does that fit in and what's the difference and who should get the Visual Studio subscription versus the DevEssentials? And also is DevEssentials a subscription? It's not a true subscription in the sense of our Visual Studio subscriptions. It's more of an introductory taste to what you'd need to get started. So it comes with Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Code and you can get started if you need an IDE and you don't need the full Visual Studio IDE. Community and VS Code are great lightweight editors that you can use as well. And then just as a small introduction to Pluralsight. So you get the one month of Pluralsight, you get an Azure one time $200 credit to kind of get your toes wet if that makes sense. Okay, is it for startups or who's it for? It's for individuals. Okay. Yeah, if you want to learn some new skills on your own. Yeah. And then we can link out some information about DevEssentials as well. They have a whole webpage that you can read all about it. So if you today are using Community. So that means if you use Community, it is very likely that you don't have a Visual Studio subscription because it's a free service. Is that correct? Most likely, yeah. Okay, so in that case, DevEssentials is a no brainer. There's no reason you wouldn't sign up to the free DevEssentials and get a bunch of stuff literally for free. It's like Microsoft is handing you money. Is that sort of how it works? Yeah. I'm sure they would love us to describe it that way. Yeah. And if you do have a paid subscription and you'd like to sign up for DevEssentials, if you go to the subscriptions tab here, you'll see. Let me get your screen there. Okay, perfect. Sorry. I realized I wasn't sharing still. So let me just leave this program real quick. So you'll see this button up here, Join Visual Studio DevEssentials.  You can read the terms and conditions, of course, and then confirm that you're joining. And then when you go back to the benefits page, you'll see it appear in your dropdown, just like I had there. If you've never had it when you come in, you'll see a slightly different landing page here that will say, we don't have any subscriptions for you. Would you like to join DevEssentials? And you can join directly from that page if you're a brand new user. So it's a really cool program. I definitely suggest checking that one out if you don't have a paid subscription. Also, if you have Visual Studio standalone and you don't have the subscription, you just have access to the IDE. Maybe there's some other benefits in here you'd like to check out. Yeah. Another thing I'd recommend here, if your company has Visual Studio subscriptions, but you don't have one and you're wondering like, how the heck do I ask for one? If you know someone who has a subscription, you can actually have them use this contact my admin button. And when they click that, it opens up a bit of a web form where they can actually message the admin. And maybe say, hey, like, hey, Mads really wants a subscription. How do we go about getting him one? If you don't know your internal policy for requesting one, that could be really helpful. That actually brings in a very interesting aspect because a company can have a company-wide or team-wide subscription that covers all the employees. And then you can have an individual, I as an individual, maybe I'm a run my own business. I'm a contractor and I can have a subscription just for me as well. Is that accurate? Yep, yep, exactly. So if you wanted to purchase one, you can purchase a retail level through the Microsoft Store. We also have what we call monthly subscriptions that you can buy through, it's marketplace.visualstudio.com. And you're basically paying monthly for professional or enterprise and you get access to the IDE through that. And then your company can purchase it as well. Microsoft also has a number of free programs. Like you mentioned the MVP program. We have Microsoft for startups that will come with a Visual Studio subscription as well. So there are all sorts of different ways to be able to get your hands on a subscription. You're looking for one. All right, and can you talk a little bit about like the different prices and like if you want to use Visual Studio Pro, then what are your options to get a subscription and what are the different price points and so on? So to basically help us figure out like depending on who you are, how do you find out what the right subscription is to you? Let's say that the right one always is the one that is cheapest that gives you the most benefit. Let's say that's the criteria we're using here. Yeah, definitely. Pricing does get a little bit sticky when you're talking about your company as your company may have different agreements with Microsoft. But if we're just talking about an individual, let me share my screen again here. If you come to visualstudio.microsoft.com slash subscriptions, here's a great webpage that kind of lets you know everything about your subscription, what comes with it. You can go to a compare subscriptions benefit page here that lets you actually toggle between the different subscriptions available and see what exactly comes with it. So if you're looking for, I really want the one that comes with this particular benefit, you can check to see does it come with that level? What am I getting here and be able to really use that to sell to your management team or whoever it is that's approving your purchase to say I really want this thing, here's why. And then if we click, go ahead. No, I was just asking where can I see the price? Yeah, so if we go buy a subscription, you get the pricing options here and you can toggle between professional and enterprise and see the price and then what comes with it at that level. So is this $45 per month for the professional subscription? It's for the professional monthly subscription. This one comes with the IDE and access to Azure DevOps. It doesn't come with Azure benefits and Pluralsight and all of those other goodies. So it's a very lightweight basically IDE access and Azure DevOps access only. Okay, so I may drill into that for a little bit. So that means when we say IDE access, we mean specifically Visual Studio Professional. Yes. Not Enterprise, not community, but professional. Yeah, for that level. If we toggle over to Enterprise, it's $250 for Visual Studio Enterprise monthly, which is very similar. You get the Enterprise IDE and Azure DevOps with this one. Okay. So let's get that chat when you have to go away. Oh, don't load. All right. Live demos. Okay, so there's a 5x difference between the pro and the enterprise and also the amount of benefit you then get is substantially different. Yes, substantially more. Plus you get the enterprise version of Visual Studio which has more features than the pro version. Yes, exactly. And there's even a little compare IDEs right down here. So you can see, do I need the enterprise version? Do I need the professional version? And see exactly what comes with each version of it here. So you can even see from community that you can get with Visual Studio Dev Essentials and then the professional and the enterprise version. So am I looking for testing tools and debugging or what's really important to me? So you can expand these and look for the exact feature that you're looking for within the IDE itself. Oh, that's really helpful. We should get that, we should get that link in the description too. Is there a quick link like a KAMS that you know of on top of your head for this one? I'm not sure, but we could make one. Okay, yeah, because this is fantastic. Yeah. Okay. And so it does say Visual Studio Community as in the first column there, but really what we're saying here is it's Dev Essentials. Is that right? Dev Essentials is a program that comes with community. So you can sign up for, you can use community on its own, but you can also sign up for Dev Essentials that gives you access to those other goodies we showed, like the $200 Azure credit, the Pluralsight, Code Magazine. Right. So you have to sign up for that one separately. Okay, so maybe, so that chart that you just showed, it had community, pro and enterprise. Yep. And in community, it had a bunch of things, but is it community of the IDE, or is it the community plus Dev benefits that's in that column? Oh, that's just community of the IDE. I see. Okay. Yeah. So it's not a, do we have a side-by-side comparison between Dev Essentials and the pro and the enterprise subscriptions as well? We don't, but maybe that's something we should make. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. That's a very good point. Maybe we, I can talk with the Dev Essentials program manager and see if that's something that he'd be interested in exploring. Okay. So it sounds to me like if you are, if you are, if what community is enough for you as a contractor or you're working from home, right? You don't, you know, it might be a different situation then community is fine, but you may consider doing the $45 a month and upgrade that to a pro subscription. And that will get you like, take care of your Azure DevOps as well so you can have a good, like, yeah, what do you get with Azure DevOps?   Yeah, pipelines. Yeah. Boards.  Yeah, all sorts of it. All included. Like all included, all hosted in the cloud for free, right? Yep. Yep. Okay. And then if you do upgrade to the full yearly subscription, then you get access to all of those downloads that we mentioned as well. And so the downloads do differ between which subscription level that you've gone with. So if you're looking for the office suite, I believe that one comes with enterprise, not professional. And on that compare page, you can dive deeper into seeing the downloads as well. We do actually have a full Excel that you can download and you can look for, I want this one version of SQL Server. Does it come with it? And toggle between the versions to see which one actually comes with that. So it's really handy if you're looking for an old piece of software for sure. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, this is one of the things I loved the most about the MSM subscription back then was that I had a one-stop shop to get everything I needed to get up and going on a new laptop, a new workstation, even a server that I had to set up to host my websites or whatever. So that's absolutely wonderful. Is there any issues potentially, maybe from a licensed perspective or I don't know, but if your company doesn't provide you with an MSDNs, or sorry, a Visual Studio subscription.  Does, is there any issues there like from a licensed perspective if someone goes out and buys a $45 pro subscription, even though the company doesn't do anything there for them? Not that I can think of.  I can't see why your company would prevent you from making a purchase like that. But they may not want you to use that for developing IP. If you're working on a work project, they may not want you to be using your own subscription for that. So definitely make sure that you know what their policy is for that. The other thing is if you do by, you know, the full subscription that comes with Azure access, be very careful what you're putting in Azure and using that credit on. You want to make sure you're not storing your company IP somewhere that they don't want it to be. Yeah, that's a good point. And I guess if your company already has a subscription, let's say they have an enterprise subscription, then there's absolutely no reason you would go out and let's say personally buy a pro subscription, right? Because you already have all those benefits from the company and you're free to use those benefits. However you want to do them, right? They're tied to your Microsoft identity, the same account you log into Visual Studio with, or how am I supposed to reason about this? Yeah, so all of the benefits are tied to the account that you've logged in with. You can add an alternate account that you can use for logging into the IDE as well as using your Azure credit for. But it is all tied back to that subscription your company gave you. So if your admin removes your subscription, you will then lose access to your Azure credits and the IDE as well. And I would just caution, make sure that you understand what your company's internal policy is around your subscription because they may have set some of their own policies and I want to make sure that we're not giving you any guidance that will upset your company as well. Right. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah. But if you're using the IDE and you're stuck at home right now, the IDE is tied to your license. So as long as it's you that's logging in and using it, you can use that on your home computer if you need to do development there. But in our licensing terms, you can't be sharing that with others in your household if they don't have their own subscription. So it is a one to one user-based licensing. Okay. And so in order for people to take advantage of all this stuff, to see whether or not they already have a subscription if they are in doubt, if they do, or to manage their subscription, get to their subscriber downloads, do everything. It's all on my.visualstudio.com, is that right? Exactly. Okay. So I have sort of a question about like, is there a reason not to have a subscription? And what would that be if there was one? Like, are there any edge cases or caveats that say, okay, for this type of person or developer or organization or something like that, it doesn't make any sense to be a subscriber. For what reason? I'm curious.  Trying to think of a good reason. I think it really depends, you know, what kind of developer you are and what it is you're looking to do. If, you know, community or VS Code suits your needs just fine and you don't need a full-fledged VS IDE for it, you may be able to get away with Dev Essentials just fine. It really depends what it is that you're looking to do and what you're looking to develop and what your particular needs are. Okay. So here's what it sounds like to me. I think this has been tremendously helpful because I feel like I now understand a little bit about what does it mean to be a Visual Studio subscriber? What do I get? But it also gives me that sort of ladder. Like, if you are an individual that are not looking to spend any money, you can get benefits by joining the Dev Essentials program. So do that now, right? There's no reason not to go do that. Yeah, definitely take advantage of that program. The only reason is if you already have a Visual Studio subscription, which is sort of, I guess you can say to the Visual Studio subscriptions as like the bigger versions of the Dev Essentials. Dev Essentials doesn't give you anything that the smallest Visual Studio subscription doesn't have. Right. So you can start small, you can start free with VS Community or VS Code plus Dev Essentials. Then you can move up to the pro subscription, which is $45 a month if you do monthly or you can do a yearly and get a little bit extra. And then you can go all the way up to enterprise. And once you go to pro, you also get Visual Studio Pro. And so I guess that means that if you are not, if you're using Visual Studio Code, is there then no reason to do a Visual Studio Pro subscription if you're not intending to use the Visual Studio Pro IDE? Again, it really depends what it is you're looking to do. If you don't intend to use the IDE, maybe it makes sense just to stick with Dev Essentials and code. But don't forget, you also get all those other learning benefits and the Azure credit as well, depending if you've gone for the annual one. So getting that Azure credit and getting all of those training benefits might make sense of extra things that you can leverage to really improve your skills. Yeah, I didn't even think about that because you get $150 of Azure credit. So even if you're on Visual Studio Code only, or you are fine with Visual Studio Community, you don't need to get the pro-skew of Visual Studio. But if you wanna use Azure, for instance, or PluralSci, then those $45 a month, let's say, are the yearly subscription, sorry. The yearly, yes. It's actually a really good deal. So that might be a cheaper way, actually, than to go straight to those sources and sign up for them individually. Just go through Visual Studio, even though you don't even use the Visual Studio Pro Edition. Yeah, and one thing I will note just so we're not accidentally misleading people, it's up to $150. So that's what comes with Enterprise Professional, I believe is a $50 Azure credit. And that's all in the comparison chart. You'll be able to see exactly what the credit is that comes with it. Okay, that's fantastic. One other cool thing I just wanna share really quickly, if you don't mind. Yep. Just gonna share my screen here. So as I mentioned, you know, I've been taking the time to learn what comes with your subscription and what the history was here so we can make it better. So we've done a UX refresh on this front page. We still have a bunch of changes to make, but we've added this feedback button here. And when you click on it, you can actually give us feedback about a very specific targeted page, part of the page, or generic feedback. And we actually are reading through this weekly. So if you do have any feedback that you wanna share, definitely provide that to us so that we are making this better and making it what works best for you. So I just wanted to make sure people knew that's not going to a black hole. Okay. Yeah, good. That's very important to know. We do listen to the feedback. Yeah. Please, if you have any, please share it. We have a question here from Jonas. It's a little bit about Azure. So let's see here. Can I transfer a subscription or sell a subscription as a deal with the project I developed for a client? So not Visual Studio, but Azure related. If it's, so you said not Visual Studio. If it is part of your subscription, it is all tied to your subscription. So you wouldn't be able to sell that. I'm not sure on the Azure side of things what the terms and conditions are of your Azure subscription. It's something we may be able to look into and provide an answer to offline. I don't know if we have a way of doing that for a very specific question like this, Mads. But we'd have to check with the Azure team and see what their terms are. Right, but I think the, I think a little bit of what Jonas is getting to here is, let's say that you're developing a website for a client, like you're an independent contractor. And they're gonna pay for the Azure subscription, right? Because there the client is gonna be hosted at the client's Azure account, let's say. But what if that independent contractor could get them to like, could sell them as part of their, the deal could sell them a Visual Studio subscription. Like, can you take an existing Visual Studio subscription and transfer it to another Microsoft identity, like another account? In this case, the client or could you, or could you like sell it on behalf of, or to someone else? Like, could you sell it, instead of Microsoft selling directly to the client, could the contractor do that instead? Yeah, as of right now, it's all tied to your own identity. And so, if your admin removes it from you and gives it to someone else, if you've left the company, for example, if we go with that scenario, when you transfer that subscription to someone new, it resets, so they don't see what you've done in Azure for security reasons, for example. So it all clears out. I don't know if this is something, maybe it's something we could look into in the future. And I'd have to read through our, a million pages of licensing terms and see if we have anything explicitly against this or a reason to not support this. But it sounds like from the questions more, you wanna make sure what is in Azure is retained and you're able to sell all of that with it, with nothing clearing out. So it's something I'd have to look into. I don't feel confident in giving an answer right now because there's so many complexities to that. Yeah, it sounds like also it has to do with sales and other things that may not be what we're dealing with as program managers. Yeah, a little bit above my pay grade. Yes, yes, right. Okay, so we don't have any more incoming questions unless the live attendees here are willing to ask some questions, which I mean, that's good because that tells me that you have really gotten around the subject and demystified all this for a lot of people. Are there any sort of last, I don't know, tips and tricks or something like related to working from home, which is our new situation, right? Where subscriptions really come in. I mentioned earlier, like I thought that the polls, plural site learning was like a great resource for when working from home. But I wonder if there's other things that are like very well suited for this scenario. Yeah, and I don't want people think plural site is the only learning or training benefit we have available. You can also look at LinkedIn learning, data camp, code magazine. There's all sorts of different goodies there that have different offerings of what you can actually learn. So you can look at those different ones and see what the skill is that you're looking to pick up. But they all do have very thorough catalogs, I guess, of different learning materials you can look at. One other thing is that our benefits are always changing. We're always looking to see what's the new thing that we can offer, making partnerships with other third parties. Mads, as you pointed out, it's not just Microsoft benefits. We have lots of other third party partners in there. And so keep checking back. Come to the My Portal frequently and see, has anything changed? Is there anything new in here? We have made a little new badge, I guess you could call it, that goes on the tile that lets you know if something is new. And we're looking at how we can let you know that sooner. Another thing is we do have a monthly newsletter that goes out that lets you know through email, what's changed, what's new and exciting that you should check out. If you're not opted in to receive that, you can go into your profile just by clicking your name in the top right hand corner and you can click to opt into visual studio subscriptions, marketing newsletters. And it's definitely something you should really check out because there's a lot of really interesting information that comes monthly in that. So how do you subscribe? Is it within Visual Studio you click your name or is it on the website? It's on the website, I can show real quick here. So let me know when you can see my screen. Yep, we are good. So you log into my.visualstudio.com, click on your name in the top corner here and it will pull up your profile and from within here, edit profile. And then you can see what you've opted in to receive here. So you can get Azure DevOps newsletters, Visual Studio IDE specific or Visual Studio subscriptions. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah, so definitely take advantage of opting into that as well. Yeah, and you wrote a blog post. I did, yes. And you're basically outlining a bunch of benefits and updates to the Visual Studio subscription system or service and we'll make sure to link to that as well in the YouTube description because there's a lot of valuable information and a lot of the links that we talked about are in that blog post. So I think it doesn't, if you've seen this episode, we covered everything that's in that blog post but and plus more I'd say, but it has all the good links. 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Y pryddweud i'r ystafell yn golygu ystafell yn cychwyniant y tawchaf erioeddanol y byd. Rydw i'r cerdydl ar gyfer y cerddwyr cyflawn i gyda, y byddai'ch cerddwyr ar gyfer y tawchaf erioeddanol y byddai'r cyffredinol? Rydw i'n rwy'n meddwl am y cerddwyr Cerddwyr yn cyflawn i cyfryd dda cerddwyr yma! FNaidol y byddai'r cyffredinol eich cyfrifennu maen nhw'n mynd i'r collegau o bobl cobraedd, y ddigonwch trafodaeth gyda'u eriolant gyda'u eraillodaeth ei maes. Mae hynny'n ddylai i gyfer y dweudio'i sâl enghreifftyr yn gyfathredigolol gyda'u membelys yn gyfer teulu. Pwy yn gwybodaeth eich cyfathyr, a oedd yr hyn yn gofan ein cyfathry, mae'n bryd â'r Semboniai cyyd-dwyryd gyda'u cynhyrmu cyfathry ac yn gyfathry i ddweudio'u ddweudio yn cyfathredigol gyda'u cyfathry, neud yn gyffredigol, yr ysgolwydau ar y dyfodol i'r strategiaeth ar y draff. Y strategiaeth energii ac y busgfaen o'r transditiwn pwlad yn eich amser yn ymgyrch gael y gwaith ymddynt â hynny o'r strategiaeth energii. Rhygwtel Hamill. Thank you, Richard Lockhead, for that answer and for the update on the national strategy. However, communities across Scotland, including those living around the Echel substation in my constituency, have so far been supportive of battery storage applications i gael ei gwaith i mi gydag yna i gael i niw rhan o gyrsbyddoliedig a'r Gweithredu Cymrydolion o'r ddweud i gael i gael eu cyrfryd ar y llai agri-gleiddiolol. So can the Minister reassure my constituents that urgent guidance for battery storage will be issued in line with similar guidance for onshore wind? a ni oedd oedd hefyd yn goonom inghwydd cael cyffredinol trwy gyffredinol ar gyfer Dame eraill yn gwale unigol. A efallai, impermaidd汉odaeth i Ffraith agrocontrall Y Llywodraeth Odu'r pan babiesas tryd, R DAef no ddych yn menen, y gallwn gweliannau o blannogau oedd yn gyneth, ar y cyfryb ar gyfer escapes o字'r despiraill adslusfyr decid. Dall жизнь Erthys i fy bathroomolau, i'r ddegwysig i ddymarfodd, Careffordd, a'n deserio rhai a'r frysgwyrm hwn yn ddiwrnodd, a'r ddegwysig i ddegwysig i ddegwysig i ddegwydderisiw.' Cyflchildrenw cleaning飯ol yn!] Wedi bod y fawr yn ddim yn du ond iddynt gyda'i fodgarau'r ymgarchfeydd yn cymdrach. O bobl, ond roedd ei chemrwag i ddegwysig i ddegwysig i ddegwysig i ddegwysig I have certainly passed on her request for our direct meeting with ministers to discuss that. Of course, I just want to assure the member that we are considering these issues carefully as we work up the final energy strategy and just transition plan and that we will continue to take on board the concerns expressed by the member's constituents and other members in the chamber. Question 3 is turned out. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to reduce accidents and improve overall safety on the A77. We are committed to improving safety across our network. Since 2007, £124 million has already been invested on the A77 to ensure safe and efficient operation. In addition, our annual assessment of trunk road safety performance has identified three investigations on the A77 to be progressed this financial year. Belfield to the B7038 Overbridge, Homeston to the East Ayrshire Boundary and an investigation into powered two wheeler collisions. We have completed upgraded and new signing and road markings between Monkton Head and the Dutch House roundabouts, while also developing speed management measures for Turnbury, Cercosul and Boundary. I have been talking about the A77 since my maiden speech. It is the main artery connecting the central belt to Northern Ireland through the Port of Cairnwine. It takes an average of 69 minutes to travel a 43-mile stretch. The Government's own South West Scotland transport study identified the A77 as the slowest A-road in the country with an average speed of 37.7 miles per hour. It is also leaving the South West at an economic disadvantage. Minister, when will the A77 be fully jailed? In relation to the improvements that we have said in our SBR2 that there is priority for the A77, that is why it is there. Her question was particularly about reducing accidents and improving overall safety rather than increasing speed. I know that in terms of addressing some of the issues and the speed management issues on safety around Turnbury, Cercosul and Boundary, that affects that. In relation to improving times and so on, the Mable Pipe Pass, which was a considerable investment, will have helped that process. I am very familiar with the A77 and I am very keen that it gets the time and attention that it needs and indeed the funding. That is why I am pleased to report the progress of this financial year on those key areas. Thank you to the Scottish Government for what its position is on the effectiveness of the British Transport Police on Scotland railways. As the member is aware, the British Transport Police reports to the UK Department for Transport but works in close partnership with Scotland Police Scotland and Scottish Government officials. British Transport Police advises that its operations in partnership with Scotland have seen a significant reduction in anti-social behaviour on Scotland's rail network. We encourage British Transport Police to continue to work closely with Police Scotland and the rail industry to ensure that its operations are focused on the needs of rail passengers and staff. I am delighted to recently host the first of our BTP exhibition in Parliament, and the ministers correct that officers do a sterling job keeping people safe in Scotland railways. However, the BTP sometimes faces difficulties when asking the Crown Office for permission to publicly release images of individuals suspected of committing a crime. They are sometimes told that corroboration is needed before an image is released. This requirement can be difficult in crimes of a sexual nature so an image is not released to the despair of victims and officers. Will the Minister for Transport raise this important issue with the justice secretary? The member raises an important point about how we can have successful prosecutions. He will know that those decisions are matters for the independent Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. I think that anything that can help to improve awareness to make sure that people know that if they commit a crime they could well be captured, but the issue of whether or not that can and should be used in evidence is not a matter for myself, but I will bring to the attention of the justice secretary the point that he has made. Fulton MacGregor. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce air pollution levels in urban towns such as Coatbridge. Minister Gillian Mott. Scotland enjoys a high level of air quality and over the past three decades levels of the main air pollutants have declined significantly. In 2022, for the first time outside of Covid-19 lockdown periods, all air quality objectives were achieved in the 98 sites in the Scottish monitoring network including the air quality management area in Coatbridge. This has been achieved through tighter regulation, improved fuel quality, cleaner vehicles and increased focus on sustainable transport. Our Cleaner Air for Scotland 2 strategy builds on these successes setting out actions for further reduction of air pollution across Scotland. Fulton MacGregor. I thank the minister for that answer. The minister will be aware, in fact she has made mention of it, of the areas of Weflit, Shawhead and Kirchaws in Coatbridge which were recently prescribed as air quality management areas as air quality there did not meet the legal limits in these zones. This is especially relevant for the area around the Shawhead flyover, a busy junction connecting Coatbridge and wider Lanarkshire to the Emmate motorway. In fact, in 2019 Shawhead recorded an average of 27.17 micrograms per cubic metre of nitrogen dioxide, 33rd highest in Scotland with only really roads in our major cities being above it. Given that the air pollution is almost exclusively caused by traffic issues, what can the Scottish Government do to ensure air quality remains at a safe level, especially in the context of increasing traffic levels in areas such as Shawhead and, as the council, they assume to have approved plans for further industrial development at this junction? Minister. I thank Fulton MacGregor for that question. Our Cleaner Air for Scotland 2 strategy sets out a series of actions to further reduce emissions from transport sources. In addition, the national planning framework foresets out our spatial strategy for Scotland's long-term development. It is clear that development proposals that are likely to have significant adverse effects on air quality will not be supported. Co-benefits for air quality will also be delivered through policies on tackling the climate and nature crisis, sustainable transport and 20-minute neighbourhoods. The King's Way in Dundee goes through several of the most deprived communities in the city and is used by thousands of vehicles per day, exposing residents to high levels of air pollution. Transport Scotland's assessment of a potential bypass suggests that the project would have a positive impact on air quality by taking away 50 per cent of the traffic on the King's Way. Does the minister recognise the health and environmental benefits this project could bring to Dundee? Minister. I recognise that because I have an example in my own area in Aberdeenshire, one of the most highly polluted streets in Scotland would have been Market Street in Aberdeen. As a result of the AWPR, a significant amount of traffic has been directed away from the city of Aberdeenshire. I imagine that the cabinet secretary might be interested in pursuing this further with Mercedes Villalba, as I obviously do not have the detail of that particular proposal in front of me. For the supplementary, Stephanie Callaghan. People are undistrandably seeking more affordable alternatives as the cost of winter heating sores. However, asthma and long UK Scotland have highlighted the negative impacts of domestic burning on respiratory conditions and how domestic burning increases levels of dangerous pollutants, including carcinogenic emissions. Can the minister outline what steps the Scottish Government has taken to raise public awareness of the adverse impacts of domestic burning and any measures in place to promote healthy, affordable and environmentally friendly heating methods? Minister. Thank you, Stephanie Callaghan, for that. She absolutely outlines why it is a wheel health priority to ensure that our air is as clean as possible. One of our actions of our Cleaner Air for Scotland 2 strategy, we are working with stakeholders on the development of an air quality public engagement framework. That will include raising public awareness around the impacts of domestic fuel burning. We intend to publish that framework in 2024. Question 6. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making towards achieving a circular economy, including through the development of the winter buying decommissioning sector. Mr Richard Lochhead. Progress is being made in several areas, as well as the circular economy bill and the forthcoming waste route map. We provide support through the recycling improvement fund, funding for the share and repair network and business support through Zero Waste Scotland. The national strategy for economic transformation also identifies the circular economy as a new market opportunity. Through the recently published onshore wind sector deal, we have agreed to work with the onshore wind sector and coalition for wind industry circularity to publish a strategy paper by October 24. The Zero Waste Scotland, the future of onshore and decommissioning document published in March this year, shows the recyclable components of a wind turbine. It states that between 4,800 and 5,500 turbines will be decommissioned between 2021 and 2025, and shows which parts will be broken down and into what materials. But one essential part is missing, the blades. So can the minister outline how this Government can achieve its net zero targets through a just transition when our renewables are not currently fully recyclable? And when will this fundamental problem be rectified so our renewables are actually renewable? That's an important issue that the member raises, and I think everyone would agree with the sentiment that she outlines that we have to get to position in the coming years through the transition, the energy transition that we can recycle as much of the materials as possible and the circular economy bill will address some of these issues. I should say that we do have an onshore wind industry commitment. We are supported by Government and all the relevant agencies in the onshore wind industry. We have agreed to deliver at least one specialist blade treatment facility in Scotland by 2030. So there's a lot of thought being given to the objectives that the member wants to achieve and there are measures in place to hopefully deliver that. Numbers supplementary. First Jackie Dunbar. Can I ask the minister for an update on how the Scottish Government is supporting the enhancement of current skills and training provision to help deliver the needs of the wind industry and achieve a circular economy? Minister. The education and skills system is already adapting to the transition to net zero and institutions like our colleges and universities are key anchors for that transition. For example, the energy skills partnership co-ordinate the wind training network which allows colleges to better collaborate industry on the skills needed for both onshore and offshore wind. In addition, Zero Waste Scotland have developed a range of courses to develop circular economy skills and are working to embed these circular economy principles across all our sectors. For the supplementary, Sarah Boyack. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The circular economy bill is currently being considered by the net zero committee and although it's largely a recycling bill that focuses predominantly on household waste, has the minister considered how that bill could be improved to ensure that a circular economy is achieved right across our industrial sectors such as renewables where we will see huge investment and will he support amendments at stage 2 and 3 that cover those sectors to deliver the huge joined up opportunities and action and green jobs that we need? Minister. I think there are important issues that Parliament should consider and of course the minister who's not myself will be appearing to the relevant committee in a matter of days and hopefully the committee members will take the opportunity to raise these issues and I will ensure that the minister is aware of Sarah Boyack's questions prior to that appearance and of course that's the purpose of the committee system is to improve the bill and make sure we capture all these opportunities for the Scottish economy and for our carbon footprint. I'm Beatrice Wishart. Thanks Presiding Officer. With changes in energy production and delivery and challenges in encouraging young people into STEM subjects what can the Scottish Government do to ensure that training and careers are supported to develop a circular economy including in winter by decommissioning and I noted his response to Jackie Dunbar's earlier question. Minister. Again it's a very important issue and I did try to address some of the points to Jackie Dunbar's question because the universities and colleges are now beginning to address this and of course it's important to do so with some urgency because there are a number of projects being funded by the Scottish Government to ensure that there are transferable skills between for instance oil and gas and renewables but the member is quite right to use decommissioning as a massive economic opportunity for Scotland both in terms of onshore wind turbines and equipment but also of course offshore oil and gas installations. I myself have visited one yard in Scotland where there's a number of jobs I think actually it's in Shetland where they are decommissioning offshore platform and there's 20 or 30 jobs there doing that and that actual platform of course was built in the yard in Scotland the first place so that's a good example of the circular economy and the economic opportunities. Question 7 Brian Whittle Thank you Presiding Officer to ask the Scottish Government what action is taking to support the development of hydrogen filling infrastructure for use by heavy goods vehicles and other road going heavy machinery. Minister Fiona Heslaw. I have a call out of infrastructure needed for hydrogen vehicles to operate in Scotland Aberdeen City has two hydrogen refuelling stations Transport Scotland has contracted Heriot-Watt University to work with road haulage fleets and stakeholders to assess where initial on-route charging and refuelling infrastructure for zero emission HGVs will be needed. The zero emission truck task force convened by Transport Scotland includes a working group focused on hydrogen refuelling infrastructure and a task force is developing strategic actions to unlock a successful transition to zero emission HGVs and expects to publish the HGV decarbonisation pathway early next year. Brian Whittle I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer and my colleague Sean Dowey has already highlighted the issue of the A77 and hydrogen is increasingly being seen as a major player in the drive towards net zero and to take advantage of that huge potential that should and should have in green hydrogen economy is important that demand is created and also ensuring the appropriate infrastructure. Currently there are few options for hydrogen refuelling. Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that infrastructure without the infrastructure is unlikely that business will be reticent to have that change and we need roads like the A77 and the A75 to give us that hydrogen superhighway to turbo boost this particular element of our decarbonisation? I hope that the member will appreciate from my initial answer that we are taking this very seriously indeed and that's why we are working with the industry to identify where hydrogen refuelling infrastructure can be best placed and very conscious of the free opportunities that Scotland has and in terms of maximising that impact I'm also working with my Welsh colleague to ensure that the UK-wide inter-ministerial meetings that we have the next one I've focused on freight obviously there's rail freight and road freight but anticipating the opportunities that hydrogen would bring for heavy heavy vehicles in particular I think that's something that requires that urgency and I hope he's reassured by my initial answer that we are taking that exactly what he's asking for and I think we should listen to the industry as opposed to anyone else in terms of the location of where that might be but clearly in relation to freight travelling to Northern Ireland it would make sense that the A77 and the A75 would feature as part of that but let's see what the industry working in the task force comes up with Yesterday I was at the PNDC conference in Glasgow and saw some great examples of Scottish businesses working to develop hydrogen including HVS from Glasgow at an advanced stage of developing hydrogen vehicles and working with partners to put the refuelling infrastructure in place as a consequence and I commend that work to the minister Can I ask the minister for an update on Scotland's hydrogen train project another stellar example of the innovative work of Scottish universities and ask how this initiative is supporting the decarbonisation of our public transport sector Minister So clearly our hydrogen action plan sets out our ambition to be a leading hydrogen nation in relation to the train project in collaboration with St Andrews University in Scottish Enterprise £3.5 million of Scottish Government funding was provided to convert a class 314 train to hydrogen fuel cell and was displayed during COP26 many of us saw it at that time with trials on the track in 2022 this developed a local supply chain knowledge to support longer term zero emission of fleet introduction and lessons learned are being considered as part of the planning for future rail fleet options Question 8 To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure low emission zones do not have any impact upon disabled people and carers Minister Fiona Hyslop We are all aware of the harm that excessively polluting vehicles cause particularly to the young, the elderly and those pre-existing health conditions for disabled people unable to switch to a cleaner alternative are those getting a lift from someone else with a non-compliant vehicle we have developed the low emission zone blue badge exemption system in order that registered vehicles will not receive an LEZ penalty charge notice I can also advise that this government continues to provide support funding for low income families and micro businesses in need of support in preparing for LEZ I thank the minister for that answer paid and unpaid carers are worried about the potential impact the low emission zone could have on their ability to enter and travel through the city centre to provide vital care as it stands they can only access an exemption if the person they support asked for it one day at a time so I've discussed this with Glasgow city council and they're prepared to consider ways to streamline the process so that a more permanent exemption could be provided to carers but it's Transport Scotland who managed that so can I ask the minister if she'd be willing to work with Transport Scotland to allow exemptions for carers on a longer term basis I can relay that the system that I have in place just now blue badge holders who require LEZ exemptions can register the details on the official website and over 11,000 blue badges have been registered so far but the member is talking about carers or those that are assisting and I will certainly bring her comments to the attention of Transport Scotland but clearly Glasgow city council are in the lead but in terms of trying to encourage the other aspect is to try and support low income families in particular to be able to access funding to make those changes as well so I think there's a two track system helping people move to lower emitting vehicles but also identifying if there's a short term need for some kind of extension rather than a temporary one I can't give commitment to that today I don't think she would expect to hear that I welcome the cabinet secretary's minister's previous responses would she agree with me that basically the LEZ is a fundamentally good thing and helps absolutely everyone the evidence from London was that particulate matter reduced by 13% in five years and clearly people with COPD and other breathing issues have a major problem with the air quality as was in Glasgow and absolutely disabled people in a clearer air The member is correct that air pollution affects everybody's health and that is why the Scottish Government and city authorities in Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh and Glasgow are delivering air quality improvements through low emission zones with a number obviously clearly about to be rolled out next year I would actually draw members' attention to the evidence sessions that the next zero energy and transport committee had when I was deputy convener and we looked at this issue as part of its wider scrutiny role and one of the significant pieces of evidence was the impact of any particulates on health and it was a very good and short sharp piece of inquiry that this Parliament drew attention to and I would refer members to that evidence Thank you minister that concludes portfolio questions there will be a brief pause before we move on to the next item of business


Attention Baker residents, this is a community notification of a new sexually violent predator in your area. Please stay tuned to the following short program for more information. Hi, I'm Technician Ron Hackett with the Denver Police Department. The Sex Offender Registration and Compliance Unit at DPD is responsible for the registration, monitoring and tracking of all registered sex offenders and sexually violent predators who live in the city and county of Denver. Here's a brief history of sex offender legislation in Colorado. Our state laws trickle down from federal government mandates. In 1994, we had the Jacob Wetterling Act, which mandated that states would establish a sex offender list. Megan's law of 1996 said that the public would have access to those sex offender registration lists. The Pam Litchner Act of 1996 stated that some offenders might have to have lifetime registrations. In the Adam Walsh Act of 2006, unified sex offender laws across the country. In Colorado, the legislature has determined that sexually violent predators by definition pose a higher risk to the community at large and therefore mandated that upon their release from the Department of Corrections, the community must be notified. Sex offender notification in Colorado happens in two ways. The first is passive and ongoing through the sex offender registration process, which is a list maintained by local police departments. The second way is active via community notification for those offenders determined to be sexually violent predators by the courts or by the parole board. Most sex offenders in Colorado are supervised by the criminal justice system in our communities. Most sex offenders engage in crossover behavior, which means they may have been arrested for one type of crime, but be apt to commit another.  There is no typical sex offender, but all tend to be deceptive, manipulative, and secretive. 80 to 93 percent of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the victim. Sexual deviancy begins in mid to late adolescence. Sex offenses are not impulsive.  The community has a vested interest in helping offenders to be successfully managed in the community. Sex offenders have the same need for housing and employment as any other citizen. Any citizen who uses sex offender information to harass, threaten, or intimidate an offender will be subject to criminal prosecution. There are approximately 16,500 registered sex offenders in the state of Colorado. About 65 percent of convicted sex offenders are placed in the community on probation. The remainder are in the Department of Corrections or Community Corrections. Offenders may be caught for one type of offense, but be at a high risk to commit another type. Time of conviction is only one indicator of risk.  The offender's residence must be verified quarterly by the Denver Police Department. The full sex offender registration list is available by calling the Denver Police Department Identification Bureau at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Guided felons and those with multiple convictions are posted online at denvergov.org slash police.   Now, here's a look at the newest sexually violent predator living in Denver. Here's an overview of the registered sex offenders currently living in Denver. There are 2,636 total living within city limits. In Denver Police District 3, there are 381. Precinct 311 has 47 registered sex offenders. Of those, 32 have felony convictions and 15 have misdemeanor convictions. Jesse William Smith is a sexually violent predator currently living in Denver. He's 46 years old and was born on July 11, 1974.  He's currently living at 526 North Kalamaz Street in the Baker neighborhood of Denver. Schools located within one mile of this offender include Girls Athletic Leadership Middle School and High School at 750 Gallopagos Street, Denver West Middle School and High School and West Early College Middle School and High School both at 951 Elotti Street, Compassion Road Academy High School at 1000 Cherokee Street, Denver Center for International Studies at 574 West 6th Avenue. Parks located within one mile of this offender include Sunken Gardens Park. Bus routes located within one mile of this offender include Route 9, 8th Avenue and Mariposa Street, Route 10, 10th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive.  He's currently on parole and registered with the Denver Police Department on April 14, 2021 to 546 North Kalamaz Street in the Baker neighborhood of Denver.  Jesse William Smith has been determined as a sexually violent predator after meeting the following criteria. Criteria one, age 18 or older on the date of the offense or under 18 and tried as an adult. The offender was age 18 at the time of the offense. Criteria two, the crime must have been committed honor after July 1, 1997 and convicted honor after July 1, 1999.   Criteria three, the relationship to the victim was one of the following. The victim was a stranger to the offender or the offender established or promoted a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. The victim was a 13 year old female. The offender was known to the victim. Criteria four, positive results are the passing of a risk assessment instrument administered by probation parole staff and a qualified treatment evaluator. Positive results include an assessment for the presence of a mental abnormality, a level of denial regarding the offense, treatment appropriateness and motivation, presence of sexual deviant interests. The offender was evaluated by the Larimer County District Courts with positive results determining him to be a sexually violent predator.


Hello and welcome to the CMC Markets look ahead to the week beginning Monday the 3rd of July with me CMC Markets market analyst David Madden Now it's fair to say next week is a fairly busy week in terms of announcements But it's also fair to say the majority of the economic announcements are stacked towards the back end of the week Turning our attention first of all to the Eurozone We have service PMI numbers out from France Germany Italy and the Eurozone as a whole on Wednesday bearing in mind on Wednesday the 28th of June the European Central Bank had to clarify its stance In terms of its monetary policy They felt that mr. Mr. Draghi the president of the European Central Bank was misinterpreted by the markets the previous day Mr. Draghi had to clarify his positions by stating that he's content with the state of the economic growth in the eurozone But there's no need to actually change their economic policy and a monetary policy in the medium term The indicators that are coming out on Wednesday will give us a flavor for how well just how well the recovery in the eurozone is going Turning our attention to the United Kingdom We have some numbers out next week on Monday We have some manufacturing numbers Manifaction PMI numbers out on Wednesday We have the service manufacture service figures service PMI numbers out and on Friday with the manufacturing production numbers out from the UK We also had a bit of a central banker U-turn from Mark Carney the governor of the Bank of England on Wednesday the 28th of June when Mr. Carney in complete shock to his speech the previous week Said the Bank of England could look to remove some of the stimulus it has in place This flies in the face of his pop pop miss current Mr. Carney said the week before when he strongly suggested Interest rates in the UK will not be moving any time soon So the numbers out in terms of the service figures are from the UK are going to be by far the most important Seeing as a service sector in the UK accounts for the basket for much bigger proportion of the economy in manufacturing and manufacturing production Finally turning our attention to the United States of America on Wednesday. We have the Fed minutes out We'll be released at 7 p.m. That's going to be the Fed minutes covering the meeting We saw it in June when the interest rate was increased by 0.25 percent We're also going to this will give us an indication of what exactly the Federal Reserve are thinking on Thursday We have a number of important economic announcements from the United States We have jobless claims at a half one with the ADP on employment numbers at 2015 We also have the oil numbers at half three Usually the ADP numbers and the oil and oil inventory numbers from the US come out on Wednesday But because Tuesday is the 4th of July a holiday in the United States We're going to have the oil figures and the ADP figures out on the Thursday Which bring this round to the all-important Friday the first Friday of the month. So that means non-farm payrolls Now, let's just keep in mind regarding the US economy Unemployment is certainly heading in the right direction But what we have seen is a bit of a stagnation in terms of wage growth So as always with the with the actual non-farm payrolls announcement, we have the headline figure We may or may not get revision to the previous month's figure. We often get a revision We also keep we also have the unemployment rate to watch out for but we also have the wage growth numbers on a month-on-month basis and a Year-on-year basis Often you see scenarios whereby the market will jolt in a certain direction By looking at the headline figure, but sometimes that can actually be in contrast what we see with the revisions The unemployment rate and of course the wage data. So it is important to keep an eye on all the Economic announcements that are made from the United States at the time of the actual non-farm payrolls figure Now taking a look at some of the markets some more popular markets starting off with the Eurozone Let's just take a quick look at the single currency. It's it's performed quite well in the last number of sessions given we have such a Strong performance in the Euro on the back of Mr. Draghi's comments We're currently testing we're currently trading just above 1.14 On the Euro versus the US dollar bearing in mind this video is recorded on Thursday the 29th of June Just gone midday. So some of the prices may change may change In the in the remainder of the week the Euro has is actually now trading at as highest Level in about one year. So that is very much Bullish and it's the sentiment is very much positive and it's very much bullish Should we should we make a decent hold of push beyond the resistance at 1.14 28? traders and then and buyers and then going to be looking towards 1.14 95 Any pullbacks in the Euro versus the US dollar may get support in around the 1.13 28 region And then also the 1.13 the figure region Bearing in mind Momentum has now actually turned positive on the on the daily chart We could be looking at a bit of a further gains for the single currency Turning our attention now to the pound versus the US dollar Seeing as Mr. Kearney gave supplies in the hawkish commentary on Wednesday the 28th of June We've seen a similar upwards move in the pound versus the US dollar We're currently trading at 1.29 75 There's some resistance in around that region. I believe it's 1.29 77 the same resistance should we make a decent move beyond that? traders buyers will then be looking towards 1.30 47 and the resistance north of that again will be at 1.31 20 Pullbacks in the pound versus the US dollar may encounter support at the 50-day moving average Which comes into play at 1.28 64 and below that at 1.28 the figure Similar to the euro versus the US dollar on the daily chart The momentum has actually now turned positive up to the upside so we could see further gains for the pound versus the US dollar Taking a look now at the price of oil It's obviously been in the news quite a bit recently and looking ahead the next week We do have the oil imagery figures coming out If the big picture for oil is clearly to the downside, but we have seen the energy bounce back in in the last week or so Levels to watch out for to the upside should this rally continue It's going to be $48 and then also the resistance could come into play at $49 Likewise, we are seeing a turnaround in momentum, which previously was negative for quite some time is now turning positive There are several factors at play with the you with the with the oil market a Combination of a week US dollar a slight decline in oil production numbers from the United States And a feeling that the major sell-off we witnessed between late May and the middle of June was very much overdone So for the time being the momentum is clearly to the upside or oil But should the oil market turn over on itself, which it has been doing in recent months What we could see as a pullback We could see oil headings heading south yet again to 46 35 and should we move below that on Brent crude oil the level to watch out for under that again will be 44 26 I'll just take one last look at a one last market look at is gold given that it's Had the inverse relationship to the US dollar and come non-farm payrolls. It's often quite heavily traded the gold Market has been in a very clear and very clear rise Okay, a very clear upper trend since the since the middle of December 2016, but as we can see here It's sorted in the consolidation area, which is which is sort of trapped in between the fifth a day moving average at 1255 and gaining support from the 200-day moving average at 1236 looking at the kind of wider range Of the of the of the support line connecting the support from the mail. Oh, we are seeing gold See trading in around The the 1250 level which coincides with the trend line support Connecting the law of May with the law of December It's almost as if the buyers and sellers are kind of just in for control whether whether we're going to Whether we're going to move north back above The trend line support and continue the upward trend that we've been in since mid December or where there's we've actually got an outbreak below that support line We've already traded through through below at once and I did manage to get support from the 200-day moving average at 1236 Should we move south and should we should we move below 1236? The next level to watch out for to the downside and gold is going to be the low in May at 1215 and should we actually move to the upside in gold? The level to watch out for to the first and foremost will be 1280 and then beyond that We'll be looking to the 2017 high of 1296 so that is essentially a roundup of the major markets that major markets to watch out for what we could see in terms of moves and bearing in mind by far the most important Economic announcement from next week is going to be the non-farm payrolls figure at half one on the Friday and bearing in mind We are going to be having our as always our CMC markets webinar covering the non-farm payrolls Good luck trading have a good trading week and tune in next week. Thank you very much


ve some options I think to deliberate over so that's it for me just a quick update on the charter change process I was wondering where our charter changes were and it seemed like there was a little bit of a snafu in the state house they didn't get crafted into a bill and supposedly got sent to Senate GovOps instead of House GovOps but anyways I got Warren and Mary on it they found it things are moving along swimmingly actually talked to somebody on the agenda yet if it's not on the agenda for next week Warren's on the committee I may nudge him a little bit I might just go talk to the chair have a good relationship with Maida so anyways no reason to worry at this point I would also mention that the community meeting on the non-citizen the possibility of non-citizen voting in city elections has been bumped to the request of a few people so it's instead of next week it's going to be Tuesday, May 1st in this room at 7 o'clock and I'm trying to get the word out far and wide about that John I have a question about that I can and I don't know what the law is but I can imagine that potentially there might be a quorum of this council wanting to attend that meeting would that mean that we'd have to Warren that as a public meeting Boy I don't think so I was actually looking at that recently and there's a specific provision in the cause that says that if council members are attending another public meeting it's not theirs right and this isn't being called under the auspices of the council it's not being convened for the purpose of the council doing business well that's true it's not business there's not anything I think you were here last week my recommendation was not to worry about any kind of council action process play out so that's right there's no business on the table so you're not there it's fine Deliberate a council here there is interested citizens to listen to whatever's being said so I think that would be fine I think you're fine you can double check that but I'm pretty sure cause I was a lot of digging on the open meeting and it's I would brag on myself a little bit I just pocketed another cert I'm now a certified network architect and I just wanna thank Bill a lot he's been very supportive of me doing creative juggling with my own budget my own departmental budget and helping out with some of his departmental budget to do a lot of this professional development work I've been doing which has been it's been getting me a lot of attention I just got and I hope that reflects well on the city I just got an invitation from the Center for Technology 14 people who got invited from around the country a bunch of different states they're gonna fly me to Chicago and put me up and be part of a working group on best practices for modernizing the voter registration process and all of a sudden people are knocking on my door and I just really appreciate the support that's gonna make that happen congratulations yeah I'd like to now sit John Odom's new titles network ninja break I don't have many I don't have much actually just a reminder that we did schedule a tour for next Wednesday night for the public works department and the water treatment plant that's a lot to take in just to know two members can't attend so we're gonna try to get those two scheduled at a different time together and I think we just got something from as well a lot of resources coming in time for that presentation so those are coming up at our next meeting we will be going in addition to DPW we'll also be talking about TIF and a possible tax stabilization applications we could have some real conversation next week in addition to community stuff so any way through that that is it so without objection consider the meeting is adjourned it's not quite 10 o'clock you all ready?


Hi, my name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food.  On our channel, you'll find simple and tasty recipes using everyday ingredients. Hey guys, so this week for our dinners, I'm really going to concentrate on trying to use up stuff for my freezer. So with that being said for dinner tonight, we are having this pasta from Trader Joe's. I've bought it before and I like having it on hand for quick meals. It is very, very good. So we're having that with a side of broccoli and a garlic knot. So this is what we're having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, we are having vegetable stew. A long time ago on our channel, I said I was going to start making meatless meals every week and I never did until tonight. I have some stuff, had some stuff in my pantry that I needed to use. So in this bowl, I have some frozen corn and some fresh green beans that I cut. From the pantry, I'm using this can of diced tomatoes, these crushed tomatoes, a can of black beans and everything was undrained by the way. And then I have a 32 ounce box of vegetable stock and then I seasoned it with just a variety of things. And then I let it simmer for probably about two hours. And here we have some vegetable soup. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, Howard grilled some hotlings and some better cheddar sausages. Here they are. We've just got some ketchup and mustard and then I fried some french fries outside. You guys know I don't like to really fry in the house. So we've got some golden brown. These are just great value straight cut fries. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, we are having a rose compoyo. I actually made this on our channel. It's been several months ago when I did a video on grocery store dinner kits. But we are having this tonight. I had another one in my cabinet. To it I am adding half a bag of these fajita vegetables which are just peppers and onions.  So I am going to cook my veggies and my meat together and then I am just going to prepare the rest of the dinner per package directions. Okay, so here is dinner all plated up. Quick and easy meal tonight serving it with a side of corn. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. So we are having a simple dinner tonight. We are having beer battered fish filet and these are from Aldi and we are also having some fettuccine alfredo and canned green beans that I added some onions to and season salt. So these, this is the box for the fish filet and they are really good. However they have gotten pretty small. So as you can see we have three on a plate here because they are pretty tiny. And then here is the fettuccine alfredo, some good old pasta roni. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time.


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