We praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and we send peace and blessings upon his last and final and most noble and most beloved Messenger Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to send peace and blessings upon the Companions of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and upon his family and upon all those who follow them until the day of judgment And I advise myself and I advise you to have taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To observe the limits the hudud of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala outwardly and inwardly To follow his commands outwardly and inwardly Outwardly with our limbs inwardly with our hearts to avoid the prohibitions of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Outwardly and inwardly outwardly with our limbs and inwardly with our hearts We are blessed to be in this sacred month the sacred month of Muharram That not only is it is a sacred month. It's called the sacred month Muharram means sacred and We know that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam encouraged fasting during this month as Much as we can during this month and especially on certain days during this month, but why is that? Why is it that he encouraged us to fast during this month and specifically on the 10th day which just passed this past Monday? Because when he sallallahu alaihi wa sallam came to Medina He found the Jewish citizens of Medina Doing a certain practice and before we go into that practice. It's important to remember. Why were they there? Why were there? descendants of Bani Israel living deep in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula and living there for generations hundreds of years To where they were Jewish in their religion in their identity, but they were Arab culturally They had Arab names They had Arab poets. They fought like the Arabs. They fought with the Arabs for all intents and purposes They were Arabs of Jewish descent But why were they in Medina? Why weren't they in their ancestral homeland of modern-day Palestine? They weren't in Egypt because of the exodus. How did they get to the heart of the Arabian Peninsula? We have to remember that because of their scripture. They were waiting for the last prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. They were waiting for Muhammad. They just didn't know his name They knew his description sallallahu alaihi wa sallam So the name Muhammad that we follow That we many of us were born into or if we chose this faith we accepted him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam The Jewish citizens of Medina were waiting for centuries for his arrival When he finally came some of them accepted to follow him others did not The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when he came to Medina He found the Jewish people the Jewish citizens of Medina fasting on the day of Muharram The day the 10th day of Muharram ashura And he asked them why are you doing this practice and they said because it's on this day this 10th day of Muharram that Allah Drowned the army of the Pharaoh and the Pharaoh and he saved Musa alaihi sallam and Musa alaihi sallam Fasted on this day to give thanks to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that salvation And so the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said in his famous statement I have more of a right to Musa alaihi sallam In other words not detracting from what they're doing to commemorate Musa But he's saying Musa because it's a brotherhood of prophets all of the prophets are brothers And he's saying I have more of a right to follow in his way and to celebrate his celebration because his day of joy Is my day of joy and his way of showing things is also my way of showing things It's the brotherhood of the of the prophets and so it became from his Sunnah Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to fast on the 10th day and then now it's from the Sunnah for the entire ummah to follow on that day So we go through that practice We fast if we can on this day and before and after it and during the rest of the month as well But why else is it that we fast? We have to remember that certain of our actions whether it's prayer or fasting or any of our other actions Can become habits and just rituals To where we just do them. We don't really think about what we're doing Most of us can relate to the experience that you get through an entire prayer You make all of the raka'as you do everything that you should and you find yourself in the final to shahud Say getting ready to say assalamu alaikum and you said oh my goodness. I've done that whole prayer I didn't even notice it It's because it became robotic it became a ritual and at one level that's important At one level it's important And that's why the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam encouraged us to teach our children from the time There's seven which is seven lunar years to start praying and then ten lunar years to make it more Emphasized because we need to get into that habit For those of us who may have started praying later in life, you know the habit is hard to start But once you get used to it it becomes part of your life that you would miss something if you miss that prayer The same for fasting and the same for all of the other practices Once we have that habit going though we have to think about deeper. What does this mean? What is it that I'm gaining out of this action? If you notice in the Quran when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the prayer about the Salah and about those who pray There's two ways of how he Speaks about them. There's the musalleen just the people who pray and he says waylun musalleen woe to those who pray So it's a negative description of those people who are just going through the actions. They don't believe they're the hypocrites They don't even believe They're just the musalleen, but the believers who are praised for their prayer They're talked about in a way of saying though those who do ikama of the Salah to actually establish this prayer on It's time in it's time with presence with all of the rules following it with reflection with Khushur With humbleness in the prayer with thinking about the after thinking about our state in the prayer And you come out of the prayer with some more benefit than you went into it And so those are the people who establish the prayer and that principle can apply to all of our actions So when we fast during this month of Muharram Why is it that we're fasting? Let's not just go through the actions. Let's think about it Let's think about it at a deeper level of what does it mean? What does it mean to celebrate the day that Allah saved many Israel from the Pharaoh? What does that mean? What does that mean to us? We should reflect on that entire story and This reflection is called Ibra in Arabic and Allah challenges us in the Quran to be people who do Take Ibra he encourages us to be people who take Ibra He motivates us to people people who take Ibra You'll find that for the for those who have intellect He's encouraging us to use our intellect He says for those who reflect the people who do to think Deep reflection on a matter and he talks about the people. Why don't you take a? Deeper meaning I brought from these stories and these lessons and these commands that I'm giving to you I brought in Arabic means to cross over to transfer and So when we look at a story, we don't just look at that story as a historical story We affirm that it happened historically There are some people when they read their scriptures and they look at their stories. They say, oh, no, these aren't real historical events These are just parables For us as Muslims. We affirm that story happened. Was there a Adam and Eve? Yes. Was he the first man? Yes Was there a Isa? Yes. Was there a Musa? Yes. Was there a Firaun? Yes. Did all of those stories happen? Yes Yes, yes, though we accept them as historical facts because of our belief if Allah wants to tell us a parable a Story that doesn't didn't actually happen. He'll let us know. He'll say here's a method for you Here's a parable for you, but these stories actually happened and there's significance to them The significance also applies to our lives. We have to think about what does that story mean to me in my life? That story the story of the exodus the story of Musa alaihi salam leaving The land of Egypt after some say 400 years of Benny Israel being there It's a story of hijra It's a story of hijra, which is leaving a place for the sake of Allah and the first person To go out and embark on a trip for the sake of Allah for the sake of his religion for the sake of his Dean Was our father Ibrahim alaihi salam before that we know of course human beings in their nature Allah has created us as the most adaptable creature on this earth from the Arctic and Antarctic regions We can live to the depths of the jungles to the heat of the the desert We can move as a as human beings We migrate and we move and we move civilizations and we adapt But the some only some people move for their religion and Ibrahim alaihi salam started this Sunnah of hijra and Musa alaihi salam Continued this story of hijra with the exodus of Benny Israel after trying After trying and attempting it wasn't immediate after trying and attempting to reach the Pharaoh and to speak to him and To call him to Islam and to have him change his government and his treatment of people and to have him treat his change his belief But when it was over the call was made for them to make their hijra So on that day Musa alaihi salam in his fasting on that 10th day was celebrating hijra Omar radiallahu anhu may Allah be pleased with him when he made his decision during his term as the Khalifa To have a Muslim calendar He started it with he every calendar has to pick a date. Where do we start it from? What do we what major event in our history? Do we want to commemorate with our with our calendar? Every single day when we look at that calendar Omar radiallahu anhu in his wisdom chose the hijra The immigration of the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi salam to begin the calendar So now when we look at the calendar and we see that it's a new year The hijra didn't happen in Muharram But the new year starts in Muharram and it's also a reminder to us of the hijra that the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi salam made So this aspect of hijra is part of our dean we believe in it now We have to ask ourselves. How can I bring hijra into my life? When do I have to make hijra? When does hijra apply to me? Because not every hijra is going to be like the hijra the immigration of Musa alaihi salam the exodus Not every hijra is going to be like leaving Mecca and going to Medina But these stories that actually happened Inform our beliefs they're part of our belief system, but then they should relate to each and every one of us in our lives You will have in your life, and you've already experienced some of this You will have elements of them in the meccan Aspect of the seerah of the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi salam You will have aspects of fir'aun. There has been a fir'aun in your life. You have dealt with a fir'aun We may have at certain times in our lives We may have been a fir'aun for somebody else and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us For our transgressions and forgive our ghulum and make us aware of the oppression that we may have done and Been the fir'aun in somebody else's life But we have to look and see when are we like bani israeel when are we like the muhajir When do we have to make hijra and why do we have to make hijra and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us that Insight and to give us that conviction and to give us that courage to make hijra when we need to Alhamdulillah wa s-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulillah wa ala alihi wa ashabihi wa ajma'in Amma ba'ad fa ya'ibad Allah, taq'u Allah wa s-sirri wa l-alaniya We praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and we give thanks to him and we and we send Blessings and peace upon our last and final messenger Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us the tofiq to give us the success to follow in his way to follow in his Sunnah and Because of his Sunnah being his life his 23 blessed years of life One of the defining moments in his life is the hijra. We have to honor that and We honor it not only by believing it in it and commemorating it and thinking about it But thinking about how it relates to our lives Every single one of us will have an instance in their life where they have to make hijra and The ulama our scholars of the past have clearly defined the times when you have to make hijra if You are afraid for your life You leave you protect your life you make hijra if you're afraid for your wealth you make hijra if You need to seek livelihood you make hijra. There's so many different ways of making hijra if you need to seek knowledge you make hijra But hijra does not have to be moving from one country to another moving from one place to another Hijra could could could apply in a company if you're being oppressed in A company in a place of work in a school and they're not allowing you to practice your Dean freely you try as Musa tried with Firaum as the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tried with Puraish He didn't just get up and say they're not letting us practice our Dean. Let's make hijra 13 years of his life in Mecca 10 in Medina He tried he tried to reason with them. He tried to call them. He tried to bring them to Islam 39 months of the beginning of his Dawah calling to Islam only 39 people accepted the Shahada Average of one Muslim a month It was not easy work, but he tried and he persevered so each and every one of us in our homes in our schools In our workplaces, we're gonna try to make a change But once we see that something is affecting our ability to practice our Dean It's a affecting our ability to have an income because every Muslim is obligated to have a halal livelihood If something is affecting our dignity So it's not just about life and property. It's also about our dignity if Something or situation or person is affecting our dignity We make hijra. We move from one place to another It might be on a grander scale of having to make a big move like Mecca to Medina it might be a smaller scale like moving from one job to another it might even be on a very smaller scale Like moving from one room to another because the principle of hijra applies The angels ask and a lot tells us in the Quran about the people who were oppressed Wasn't the land of Allah expansive enough so you can make hijra? Encouraging us there's another situation if you are in a situation that's toxic That's affecting your Dean. That's affecting your health. That's affecting your wealth Make hijra. It's not easy. It's not an easy thing. I'll make hijra brother make hijra sister It's not easy and one of the proofs is that there were people who stayed in Mecca and we're not able to make the hijra the mustad hafeen and Allah talks about that About the mustad hafeen and if you read the Seerah about who they be and the Treaty of who they be and why it's there Even though why the Sahaba they couldn't understand. Why can't we do this? It's to protect the mustad hafeen the people who were not able to make the hijra So not everybody is going to be able to make hijra But we have to reflect on when do we have to make hijra in our lives? When do we have to move from one place to another one of the examples? And I'll end with this of somebody who moved for the sake of Allah And we have to commemorate that in addition to having this 10th day of Muharram Being as a day of celebration Based on sound narration and based on our traditions Nobody from our early generations from the scholars made up this story Some people will try to explain away elements of our religion by saying there were political motives In making up certain hadith That's not the case Allah has preserved his Quran and he has preserved the Sunnah of the messenger of Allah This story occurred and so it is a day of celebration It also happens that on that day a tragic event happened in Karbala With the martyrdom of Hussein alaihi salam the grandson and the beloved grandson of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam It happened on that day as well So when we learn about our history And we learn about what happened on that day and we celebrate the saving of musa and bani israel We also have to remind ourselves And our children we have to learn about the history of what happened on that day and why it happened And why does it impact us and what does it mean for us? And we don't have a time and this is not a time to go into all of the details But I encourage you and I encourage myself to learn about that history and to learn about the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And how they were treated and mistreated And how they were supported By the sahaba like abu bakr and umar And ibn umar trying at the very last moment to save Hussein from going into a situation where ultimately it Caused his martyrdom We can't go into all of that but it is part of our history when we have to know it and we have to bring it into our lives We have to bring the the remembrance of the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam into our lives Because our messenger asked us to He said teach your children three things Liraat al quran reading the quran teach them to read the quran every muslim community you go to you'll find Mecca you'll find people teaching elif bata all the way to Finishing memorization of the quran. He thought he said teach your children to love the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to love him Not just to know his sharia and to know what he's told us to do in the halal haram But to love him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and how do we do that? That's a whole other discussion, but that's your challenge. That's my challenge How do we teach ourselves and the future generations to love the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and the third thing He said And love of his family What does that mean for us? The people of sunnah and jama'ah the people of the sunnah and the congregation What does that mean for us to follow him and to love him and to love his family? So this is also a day Or a month where we can remember that we can say what does that mean? How does that impact us when we ask allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to give us that tawfiq To give us the tawfiq the understanding and the success the introspection to know When hijra is a part of our deen and we ask allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to give us the courage To be able to make hijra in all of those instances where we can we ask allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to help all of the Muhajirin all over the world the people our brothers and sisters who are leaving their homes and leaving their Shelters in hijra because of volume because of oppression we ask allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to save them from the oppressors And to bring down the oppressors and to give nasir and to give victory to all of those who are oppressed And all of those who are making hijra fi sabi lillah hijra immigration and traveling for the sake of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And we ask allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to forgive us and forgive our sins And to allow us to follow the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in his sunnah outwardly and inwardly Amin Ya Rabbi Al-Alamin wa Aqim Al-Salaam


Not too shabby to run faster the long run. That is what we're talking about today. Oh, baby 20 miles in the bank 32 kilometers. I'll get you the pace and the splits back at the studio and Tip of the day you want to enter recovery mode Immediately after the long run like start getting the new nutrition back in you It's that 30 minute window 30 minute window right Right when you stop running that you want to start hammering the food hammering the drink Just getting that good nutrition back into you and stretching of course foam rolling all that good stuff So that's what I'm doing right now. Oh, baby 20 miles 20 miles Dance it out dance that long run out. That's right. Keep those legs limber and moving. Come on now I'm not afraid of the cucumber. I'm not afraid of the cucumber. Cheers YouTube family And we are back in the studio. Thank you Dave for sending those shoes They'll be great for the next giveaway appreciate it And what do I have in my hands here the Solomon socks that were sent to me one of the pairs I think four pairs were sent so probably Sunday or Monday I'll get you my thoughts on the Solomon sock lineup and Real quick the audios for is a little bit of a mistake wearing them today. Why I didn't realize how many Pebbles we're gonna be on that road today. I thought it was a smoother surface, so I could definitely feel some rocks I listen. This is definitely a road shoe. I'm trying to put it through about 50 miles before giving you the full review So I wanted to take them out today, and they're definitely not a dirt road shoe I would just just bypass it just putting that out there right now Okay, move it on how to run faster the long run It is no secret that the long run is a key ingredient This day and age it is no secret that the long run is a key ingredient for getting faster for running fast over long Distances it just even if you just think about it logic It just makes a lot of sense, but I'm gonna dive in now to actually a throwback clip from about a month ago I made another vlog a month ago. It was titled how to run faster Build your aerobic engine first, so I dive really into the science behind Building our aerobic engine, and I think I I went back and listened to it today I think I actually did a pretty good job explaining the science behind why you want to do a long run So instead of just repeating myself. We're just gonna do a little throwback Seth take it away Therefore the other option and this is how I train is focus the first two even three months of training leading up to a peak race on Aerobic development meaning where we're not going into oxygen debt We're we're approaching oxygen debt, but we're not pushing through does that make sense? and so by focusing on Aerobic training not anaerobic training and that another way to phrase it and you hear it in the running world is long Slow distance or lsd runs, you know kind of like your traditional long run What happens is we're working on the cardiac efficiency of our hearts So our hearts believe it or not, you know it can expand and get bigger with more training and that can impact basically the power of the contraction of the heart which means you can pump more blood into your system your I guess your pulmonary system and That allows us to carry more oxygen or sorry more blood through our bloodstream and therefore more oxygen in addition to this cardiac efficiency which we can improve through steady state running meaning mile after mile nice and steady Not plunging our pH levels down with surges just steady. It's preferably for two hours We'll talk about that in a second In addition to that there's this pulmonary ventilation and again bear with me on the science But from what I understand when we go at this aerobic level At a steady state for two hours and above and this two-hour mark is Fascinating to me like why is it this two-hour mark? But study after study has proven that running for two hours and above Really begin that's when we really begin to see the changes in our aerobic systems And so on a scientific level There's capillary beds in our lungs that begin to develop at this two-hour mark So the air from the outside is breathed into our lungs Into these newly developed capillary beds and then into our heart into the bloodstream and delivered to our muscles And that's what we want as runners, right? We want as much as much oxygen as possible being delivered to our muscles as possible And so how does the long run actually make us faster as already mentioned in the previous vlog about how to build our aerobic engine We're getting ready to get ready. We do the aerobic base first so that we can do the an aerobic base Second so that we can then go race as fast as possible Okay, so it's all about that stepping stone along the path to race day So the long run is building up our endurance our stamina. It goes without saying I'm not gonna repeat the science You already just heard it But also muscle fatigue. I must say usually around miles 17 to 18 I really start to feel a little bit of muscle fatigue and that what today was awesome So I used that you can energy drink you saw me mixing it there at the beginning of the vlog and I must say it Failed pretty good like my legs. I was feeling tired, but I pushed through that pain threshold pretty well Even though my muscle fatigue was setting in and guess what in a race you're gonna have muscle fatigue now a 5k It's a little different 10k I would say yes, absolutely half marathon marathon for sure And so what we're doing is we're developing our body's ability to respond Especially I'll just put it out there mentally to the muscle fatigue meaning you've got it.  It's crazy. So muscle fatigue Stamina and endurance. Okay, and now I have on my phone here just a few Tips that I want to share about what I do on my long runs. Alright tip number one long run should be a steady pace You don't want to be going too fast. You don't want to be going too slow steady pace tip number two You want to know your pace that you want to shoot for ahead of time? Whether it's seven minute pace nine minute pace ten minute pace whatever your pace is that you're shooting for But don't be afraid to have a ten to fifteen percent Flexibility on that pace depending on how your legs are feeling today. I went a little bit faster Just going off a feel I was anticipating about seven fifteen pace It ended up being about seven minute per mile pace for that 20 miles So that's good. Just going by feel going by feel tip number three I always use the first one one and a half miles sometimes two if I'm really tired or sore But first one to one and a half miles basically as a warm-up Just waking those legs up kind of throw in the pace a little bit out the window Just just easing into it is waking it up and then by about mile two. It's like, okay I found my pace lock it in tip number four nutrition and liquid I took one gel and then drank almost both of those water bottles that I was holding today and using that you can powder which we'll talk about in a separate video and I almost went through both bottles. So yeah, it's important and just an idea if you don't have a vest You can stash bottles along the route or simply just do a loop over and over again And like do a figure eight and just make sure you have one location Where you have whether it's your car whether it's your house your apartment and just come back and get it Get a good drink and then go back out again go back out again So really important to hydrate and have a little bit of nutrition I would say for anything especially over half marathon Tip number five know your route ahead of time sometimes. I'll just go out I'll be honest sometimes I just go out and I don't care where I just make up the route as I'm running but When you really want to hone into a pace when you're really I would say Narrowing down for a race and getting specific for a race I think it helps to know the route ahead of time basically to eliminate any mental. I don't want to say stress But yeah a mental distraction about oh gosh, where am I running today? Am I gonna get lost? I don't know what the miles are. I don't know if there's big hills on this route Etc. So that's that's another tip number five know your route ahead of time tip number six I love this one.  I did 20 miles today the last two miles I believe were my fastest miles I always like to as we used to say in college Tighten the screws a little bit tighten the screws a little bit just a little bit not much I went from about 645 pace to 625 pace just to basically you know what it is Basically, and I know this sounds weird basically to tell my legs. I'm in charge. You're not in charge I'm in charge. Why on race day in a marathon in a half marathon any distance really I want to be in charge of Basically telling my body no you hurt. I hurt we're going. I don't care what you say So that's my thesis behind the last two miles the last 10% Yeah, roughly 10% of a long run 8% of a long run just tighten those screws a little bit Just drop the pace down if you can just to make sure it's like you're in charge of this workout and the seventh and final tip Aspire for that two-hour threshold if you can get to that two hours You can kind of throw distance out the window a little bit just get to that two-hour threshold at some point It might take you years Seriously, it might take you years to work up to that, but they've done studies way back in the 70s I think there was one done maybe around like 2004 Approximately where basically Something starts happening with our capillary beds inside of us after two hours where we really start to get that full benefit of the aerobic Aerobic stimulus so anyway, that's a last tip. Okay, and yes the key word is actually a number It's gonna be two because I really really believe in that two-hour threshold for the long run Oh, man. I know I just threw a lot at you. I hope that made sense and the question of the day Do you incorporate a long run into your training? Schedule and if you do have you do think it's helping have you seen a benefit from it? If so, maybe give us a few examples of how you think it's helping you that'd be amazing And I'll be curious to hear like even if you're getting ready for a 5k I'm gonna make the argument and say you really need a good long run in your training schedule I'll be fascinated to hear like 5k perspectives and marathon perspectives on this What a day. Oh, man.  See beauty work hard Love each other


Two Marine Corps personnel have died as a result of injuries sustained in an MV-22 Osprey crash yesterday. Two others on the aircraft are severely injured. They were participating in exercise African Lion outside a Royal Moroccan military training area southwest of Agadir, Morocco. The Osprey was assigned to Marine medium tilt rotor squadron 261 based at Marine Corps Air Station New River. Exercise African Lion is an annual training exercise led by US Marine Forces Africa to develop combined capabilities with the Kingdom of Morocco. The cause of the crash is under investigation. For more information, contact headquarters Marine Corps. From Washington, I'm Sergeant Andrew Milner.


Everybody forced here ripping twenty one twenty two contenders optic basketball hobby twenty box full case number eight tiered random teams You can check the results on screen at any time at late in sports cards calm. Thanks for joining everybody. Good luck on the break here We'll recap this one. I know we've been behind tonight, but there's a digger breaks. We'll recap it for sure You guys 15 to go on the football mixer Sunday fun day only two more regular season Sunday fun days after this I'm guessing next week's will do. I don't know when we'll do next Sunday fun day because next Sunday we're not breaking another day Wait skipping a week. I just don't know what day we're doing That's what I would guess because Friday is baseball I get both these open right now What is this? They're like right there? I can't even my hand to get in there again.  There we go 20 boxes Come on goal vinyl. Let's go first time ready to say let's freaking go It's exactly what he says everybody enjoying the commanders game so far commanders giants All right, we got silver Aaron Gordon nuggets and a red Robert Williams the third Celtics Time Lord First hit goes to the Pistons Bill Lambier legendary contenders auto number 118 of 149 All right pick and roll maxi and Embiid for the Sixers Silver not numbered in a red ice now numbered numbers game Kyrie Irving Nets See I would take that as a compliment Jerry, but that's not saying much so All right More interesting. That's how you know that that's how you know the game is tough We're the we're the main show in town here Josh hard you got red Gary Harris for the magic orange Jalen Brown 43 out of 49 Celtics There we go Turkish Tim Duncan rookie ticket auto Rockets Alperin Shengun Variation on the Shengun nice hit Rockets Numbers game silver thunder Josh giddy and a red ice pick and roll Scotty Barnes and Pascal Siakum That's what I'm saying over that game. All right, I'll take it. I'll take it I mean honestly after the World Cup finals today everything's a little bit lackluster nothing nothing stacks up Nothing compares. Oh We got a big hit coming we got red Macalbridge's sons 75th anniversary maxi for the Sixers Telling y'all it's a big hit We see we've got this team 7 of 10 gold perennial contenders auto Anthony Edwards Boom, baby Travis.  What did Sam do? What did Sam do? All right, I'll take the game down a bit. We should be all right. I don't know why the game was up Let's let's test it here. 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I'm Scott Baer, Atlanta Falcons.com digital managing editor and the man across from me brand new Falcons defensive coordinator right here at the brand new Ticketmaster studios Ryan Nielsen. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. And let's just start with the most obvious question. Why was this job this opportunity the right one for you?  We've got a great group of owners, the leadership in the building with coach Smith and with Terry.  I think those when you look at those three things, I mean, that's really what you're looking for. And that's why this was definitely the right choice. So take me inside this this interview process. What about the interview process? What about talking to head coach Arthur Smith really sold you on this opportunity and this organization?  And so that was intriguing. There's a couple other coaches on the staff that I had coached with before that were along the same lines. And so you want to line yourself with with with people that have very similar philosophies and the direction that we're going here in Atlanta is the right direction. I firmly believe it. I've seen how hard the guys play, obviously up close.  I know that it's very early and you haven't practiced with any of these guys yet, but what do you think about about the defensive talent already on this run? Yeah, we have some. We have some, but it's, you know, we're in the businesses of always improving our talent. You know, that's just what we do, you know, whether that be development. And it really doesn't matter how the players get here, whether it's a high draft pick, a undrafted free agent, you know, a free agent from another team. It's, you know, once we have them, there are, you know, and so it's our job to improve the guys that we have and the guys that we bring in and ultimately make it the best that we can in Atlanta. This is a very exciting time around here. There's tons of salary cap space. We have the number eight overall draft pick. Are you excited to join this franchise at this point because the future seems pretty bright. Yeah, I'm excited to join the franchise just because to, you know, all those other things that we talked about, you know, and so everything makes it just, and this is the right time to be here. But I'm excited about, you know, coaches that we have on staff and the head coach and the general manager and the owner. Like everything that we've said, like it's all, it's the total package. And so it's exciting. What can Falcons fans expect from a Ryan Nielsen defense?  We want to play smart. We want to be tough. You know, so those are all the things that we believe in. Really, the big thing in National Football League and in all football is execution. You know, we want to execute the defense.  We add to those guys and, you know, playmakers make plays in wind football games. And so it's just, you know, we'll go through this philosophy with defensive staff and everything comes from Coach Smith. And so he and I think very like, you know, how we play, you know, and it's important how we play soundly. That's the important thing. How would you describe your coaching style? Yeah, I want to be upbeat and energetic, positive, you know, high five. I like to run with the guys. I mean, look, it's about passion. You know, it's passion for football, passion for the game, passion for the line of Falcons. I mean, that's just who I am. I mean, football isn't, you know, it's in me. It's what I want to do. It's what I've always wanted to do, you know. But the passion for the game is the energy, the excitement and not just the games, but practice and just watching a couple of players, you know, in the weight room or whatever, just walking by and not even knowing. I mean, that's awesome. I love that stuff. So it's exciting. And we're still a couple of months away from your first Falcons practice. But how pumped are you to be able to get on to school right now? Yeah, let's do it. Right out the door. Let's go practice and let's get started. So that's just how I feel. That's awesome. Ryan Nielsen, thank you so much for the time. And thank you for joining us here at Ticketmaster Studio.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session, we will recognize and explain the concepts of conditional probability and independence in everyday language and everyday situations. Now in our earlier session, we have seen that if A and B are two events, then conditional probability of occurrence of event A given where event B occurs is equal to probability of event A intersection B upon probability of event B. Now let us consider a situation. Suppose we want to estimate probabilities relating the potential risk factor to a particular disease based on population based health studies. Suppose a health study shows the probabilities relating the lung cancer status when a person is a smoker or a non-smoker. Now we have given the following main diagram representing the probabilities. In this diagram, event A is person having lung cancer and event B is person is a smoker.  It includes both green and yellow shaded portions. Now here, green area represents probability of people having lung cancer that are non-smokers which is 0.04. Now here, yellow area represents probability of people having lung cancer and are also smokers which is 0.11. Now here, this pink shaded area represents probability of people who are smokers and do not have lung cancer which is 0.02. Now 0.83 is the probability of people who are neither smoker nor they have lung cancer. Now let us label all the events.  So the probability of people having lung cancer and are non-smokers is given by probability of event A intersection B complement which is equal to 0.04. Then probability of people having lung cancer and are also smokers is given by probability of event A intersection B which is equal to 0.11. Now probability of people not having lung cancer and are smokers is given by probability of event A complement intersection B which is equal to 0.02. Then probability of people who are neither smokers nor they have lung cancer is given by probability of event A complement intersection B complement which is equal to 0.83. Now probability of event A is equal to V area plus yellow area that is 0.04 plus 0.11 which is equal to 0.15. Then probability of event B is equal to pink portion plus yellow portion that is 0.02 plus 0.11 which is equal to 0.13. Now let us find probability of having lung cancer if person is a smoker. Now we have condition that person is a smoker which is event B. Now we have to find probability of having lung cancer if a person is a smoker that is we have to find condition probability of occurrence of event A given that event B occurs which is equal to probability of event A intersection B upon probability of event B. Now we know that probability of event A intersection B is 0.11 upon probability of event B is 0.13. So this is equal to 11 by 13. So probability of having lung cancer if person is a smoker is 11 by 13. Now let us find probability of being a smoker if person has lung cancer that is we have to find probability that is conditional probability of occurrence of event B. Given that event A occurs now this is equal to probability of event A intersection B upon probability of event A. Now this is equal to 0.11 upon probability of event A that is 0.15 further this is equal to 11 by 15. So probability of being a smoker if person has lung cancer is 11 by 15. Now let us find probability of not being a smoker if person has lung cancer that is conditional probability of occurrence of event B. Given that event A occurs so this is equal to probability of event B intersection A upon probability of event A. Now we know that probability of event B intersection A is 0.04 upon probability of event A is 0.15. So this is equal to 0.15 so probability of not being a smoker if person has lung cancer is 0.15. Now if we want to see whether events A and B are independent or not we can check if conditional probability of occurrence of event A or event B occurs is equal to probability of event A or this conditional probability is not equal to probability of event A. Now we have already found conditional probability of occurrence of event A given that event B occurs is equal to 11 by 14 which is equal to 0.84 and event A is equal to 0.15. So conditional probability of occurrence of event A given that event B occurs is not equal to probability of event A. So the two events are not independent that means these two events are dependent events. Now we can also check the independence of events using result probability of event A intersection B is equal to probability of event A into probability of event B. So in this session we have discussed the conditional probability and independence of events in real life applications and this complete session hope you all have enjoyed the session.


The next item on motion 10145, in the name of Willie Rennie, will be, without any questions, on East Newk first responders. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put. I will ask those who wish to press the request to speak buttons. Willie Rennie will open the debate for around seven minutes. Willie Rennie will now open the debate for around seven minutes, please. I am disappointed that so many are leaving the gallery. They are going to miss the debate of the year. They still have time to turn around if they wish to hear the fantastic contribution that I am about to make. As always, East Newke first responders is an independent community resuscitation charity working to improve the survival chances of people who suffer life-threatening emergencies in the East Newke of Fife. They cover the beautiful fishing and coastal villages of Ailey, St Moran's, Pittenweem, Anstrother, Sellardite, Crale, as well as the inland communities, too. The heart of the area is a good 20 minutes from St Andrew's and 30 minutes from leaving, and that is where their nearest ambulance stations are. The charity is totally funded by public donation and they support their community with life-saving equipment, training, first aid cover at events and health awareness. I want to pay tribute to the work that they do for their community. They deserve the recognition from this Parliament. They work with the Scottish Ambulance Service to respond to life-threatening emergencies to provide care until the ambulance arrives. They form a vital link in the chain of survival and increase the survival chances, especially for people with heart attacks and cardiac arrests. They have also equipped every community in the area with a public access defibrillator. It is a feature of the East Newke to see the flashing white light on green boxes fixed to the side of public buildings. They are running school lifesaver projects, too, but East Newke first responders want to do more to save more lives. For some time, they have been finding it difficult to access training for volunteers to add to the network. The Scottish Ambulance Service insists that they should conduct all the training, but they have not provided sufficient and local training opportunities on a frequent enough basis. It seems that volunteers are giving up because they are required to wait for so long, or it is not feasible for them to access the training that is available. That is my first request that the Scottish Ambulance Service provide more training in a range of areas across the country on a more frequent basis, or they should change their model. That brings me on to the use of new technologies. Operating internationally, Good Sam is short for good smartphone-activated medics and is the world's most advanced emergency alerting and dispatching platform. The phone app allows alerters to dial the emergency services and, at the same time, notify nearby medically qualified responders of a medical emergency. Good Sam connects those in need with those who have the skills to provide critical help before the emergency services arrive. It offers real-time encrypted, on-scene footage. It is quite an amazing piece of technology. You can book off and on, but there are 30,000 volunteers worldwide that are accessing this network. In the UK, there are 8,000 responders in this country alone. It has been used successfully in London, East Midlands and the North West of England, with many lives having been saved. By the end of this year, the majority of ambulance services in England will have access and will be partnered with Good Sam. It is endorsed by the Recertitation Council and has been funded by Nesta, the innovation foundation. Appropriately trained volunteers can register with the app by submitting their qualification for approval. The qualifications need not have been gained through the ambulance service and can be qualified through other professional bodies, too. That means that each community has access to a large number of first-responding volunteers at the press of a button. Although we are only apparently three foot from a spider, you are probably no more than 200 metres from a doctor, a nurse or a paramedic. The Good Sam app connects you with that health professional if you are in trouble. A patient suffering a cardiac arrest is 10 per cent less likely to survive with every minute that passes without CPR. Good Sam is a not-for-profit co-founded by Professor Mark Wilson, a neurosurgeon and an air ambulance doctor. There are similar apps in the United States of America, called Pulse Point, and in Sweden, called SMS Lifesavers. Good Sam has been developed with the UK ambulance partners and is already being used across the United Kingdom. A randomised control trial found that the app in Sweden increased bystanders' CPR from 48 per cent to 62 per cent, but it did not increase the survival rate. The operators in Sweden have rolled out defibs and connected them to the app to increase the survival rate. In Sweden, many patients receive the first defib shot within five minutes with a survival rate of 70 per cent. It is a remarkable change. Good Sam is expanding that AED network in the UK and has mapped and verified what is by far the UK's and the world's largest AED registry. Eastnuke first responders are already embracing the new technology, but only in a limited way. It is because the Scottish Ambulance Service has not adopted it. It is considering it, but it has been considering it for some time. The cost is free to responders, and it is just £15,000 a year for the ambulance service. We have never had an ambulance on every street corner, or we ever will have that, but we can have a lifesaver on every corner for next to nothing. The benefits are clear. The potential is great, the cost is low and life-saved could be high. I urge the Scottish Ambulance Service to swiftly embrace the technology so that we can access that wide network of experienced health professionals in every community. With more training and the adoption of new technology, we could save more lives. I thank Willie Rennie for securing this debating time to acknowledge what is hugely significant work in Eastnuke. I pay tribute to all first responders right across the country, some of whom I have seen at first hand and probably saving the life of a former colleague. The invaluable work that ENFR carries out in partnership with the Scottish Ambulance Service is simply first class, as is the speed at which they arrive on the scene of an incident, delivering life-saving treatment before the arrival of the ambulance. This is particularly important in rural areas such as the Eastnuke, where it can often be very difficult for an ambulance to get there very quickly. They form a vital link in the chain of survival, which is well proven to dramatically increase the casualties chances of survival from a heart attack or a cardiac arrest in particular. That is important because we know that there are around 3,500 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests each year in Scotland, where there is sadly a very low survival rate of only 8 per cent. The sooner the effective CPR is started, the better the chance of survival, and for every minute's delay, the patient's chance of life is dropping by 10 per cent. If the first shock from a defibrillator is delivered within three to five minutes, the reported survival rates can soar to 74 per cent, as Willie Rennie said. As the motion notes, the ENFR has also done invaluable work in installing life-saving defibrillators in 24 locations across the Eastnuke. That is also something about which my colleague Miles Briggs has been a very passionate campaigner for it in Lothian, working in conjunction with the Jamie Skinner Foundation. That foundation was named after a talented young footballer whose life was tragically cut very short by a sudden cardiac arrest while he was playing for Tyncastle football club. His friends and family have asked many times whether his life could have been saved if a nearby defibrillator had been used. Willie Rennie has spoken much about the Good Sam app system, and I couldn't agree with him more about the importance of that. Emergency services staff and members of the public with basic life support skills in this area are being encouraged to sign up as volunteers, but I note the request that Willie Rennie has made in the need to ensure that there is better support for those volunteers, and I encourage my constituents to take part if they can. I know that the organisation is strongly supported in the local community, relying, as it does, on the charitable donations and on those essential volunteers. Most recently, a large number of people undertook the East Nuke Nuke to raise money for ENFR, plunging into Anstrother Harbour and freezing temperatures on New Year's Day. I was not there, but I certainly can give them all my support from on the beach. I just like at this point to mention other similar and equally commendable organisations in Scottish mountain rescue, which are also providing emergency first aid in areas that are inaccessible to the ambulance service in other parts of Mid Scotland and Fife and across the country. So do the Scottish charity air ambulance, which I am proud to say shares my constituency association office building, and we hear a lot about what happens there. I commend all those who are involved with East Nuke first responders for giving up their time and, quite literally, providing a life service. Members will know that Willie Rennie is a harrier and that he will soon be taking part in the 116.5-mile run around Fife's coastal path. We wish him hit well, and we hope that he does not trouble the East Nuke first responders on that particular occasion. Clare Baker, to be followed by Tom Arthur. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I would also like to thank Willie Rennie for bringing this member's debate to the chamber. As a fifer, I know the East Nuke area well, and I would like to extend my thanks to all the members of the East Nuke first responders for everything that they do. I have spoken in many members' debates since I was first elected, including praising the work of local charities and community organisations, especially those from my region of Mid Scotland and Fife. We speak a lot about the problems facing our communities and our services in this chamber during regular business, but those members' debates often give us the opportunity to talk about the positive and the great work that is taking place on the ground. We should all be proud of the work that the East Nuke first responders are doing and the life that they can touch and change. When it comes to the East Nuke first responders, it is no exaggeration that we can say that they are truly lifesavers. We all know in this chamber the battle that we have had with tackling heart disease in this country. Statistics published just last week from ISD Scotland highlighted that, over the past 10 years, the mortality rate from coronary heart disease in Scotland fell by 39.6 per cent. While we all welcome that, heart disease is still a leading cause of death in Scotland, and there is much work to be done, especially in tackling the gap between rich and poor in this country and among males. However, those statistics show that we are moving in the right direction. For an individual admitted to hospital with their first heart attack, their chances of surviving at least 30 days have increased from 86 per cent to almost 93 per cent. Amongst those aged 75 and over, that has increased from 71 per cent to 85 per cent. That rise is not a coincidence. It is due to awareness raising about the triggers of heart attacks and the early warning signs of an oncoming attack, and it is due to the hard work of our health professionals. However, it is also due to the vital difference that early intervention can make. In those cases, the use of CPR and defibrillators can make all the difference. On last year's European restart to heart day, the Scottish Ambulance Service released figures that shows that more Scots are being resuscitated following a cardiac arrest. Our ambulance services and paramedics do a great job in treating heart attack victims and patients who had experienced life-threatening emergencies. However, often the most crucial time can be the time in between the attack and the emergency services that are getting there, and that can present a unique challenge in more rural areas. That is where the first responders can step in. Seeing someone you know and love, or even a complete stranger, suffer an attack and being first on the scene can be a scary moment. The ability to react to that can be the difference to whether that person can survive or not. The East Newark first responders are able to work to improve the survival rates of people who suffer life-threatening emergencies in the area, and our all resource from public donations is something that everyone in the East Newark can and should be rightly proud of. That the first responders are able to work in partnership with the Scottish Ambulance Service is important, and Willie Rennie made good points about the benefits of the Scottish Ambulance Service being prepared to invest more into training and into new technology. The Good Sam Medical Dispatching app provides us life-saving care as an innovative solution that is a vital link in the chain of survival. We should all be commended—sorry, we should commend all those involved in setting up this initiative and welcome the positive working relationships that are developing. Those volunteers are not just content with saving lives themselves but are committed to working with others in the local community to ensure that they too are equipped with the skills and, in the case of public access defibrillators, the equipment to help others. Their schools CPR lifesaver project is building a whole new generation of lifesavers and perhaps a whole new generation of first responder volunteers. That this is to be rolled out to every primary school in East Newark is no mean feat. As mentioned, the project goes beyond just training children. It also actively encourages them to take their new skills and pass them on to family members and friends. Curtain of Largo school pupils trained an extra 66 people, Collinsborough another 79, and Anstra there an extra 105 people. With a success rate like this, East Newark must be one of the leading areas in Scotland for trained lifesavers per head of population. For that and for all the work that the East Newark first responders do, I, my constituents, would like to thank them dearly for all the work that they have done. Tom Arthur, to be followed by Alexander Stewart. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I wish to begin by congratulating Willie Rennie on securing this debate and thanking him for providing this opportunity to learn members to highlight the fantastic contributions made by community first responders in East Newark and across Scotland. My constituency of Renfisher South is home to the Newston and Uplamore first responders, and I am delighted to welcome representatives Lewis McCall, Ryan Ledgerwood and Jim Wilson to the public gallery today. As you can imagine, I am going to focus a wee bit more on the Newston and Uplamore first responders than I would on East Newark. I would say that this is not the first time that Newston and Uplamore first responders have been recognised in the Scottish Parliament. In October of 2014, my constituency neighbour Jackson Carlog and his previous role as West Scotland regional member led a members debate congratulating the community first responders on dealing with their 100th emergency call since becoming operational. Within two years, that number had surpassed 700, and I imagine that now it must be somewhere over 1,000. I would suggest that this debate complements Joanne Lamont's recent members' debate in which, in Teralia, we discussed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the importance of bystanders CPR. Community first responders can also clearly be important actors in the chain of survival. That was recognised by my predecessor, MSP, for Red Fisher South Hugh Henry, who, in Mr Carlog's debate, rightly stated that community first responders can complement the work of our excellent ambulance service and can make a difference by saving lives. The value of community first responders is clear to all of us here, and we owe a debt of gratitude to the volunteers who provide this valuable service. However, we must also recognise the great leadership that enables community first responders to operate. Stewart McClellan, Ross Nelson, Neustin and Oblaimour first responders have two outstanding leaders who have demonstrated vision and skill in taking an idea and transforming it into an organisation that is delivering front-line medical care to communities right across my Red Fisher South constituency, including in Barhead, Johnston, Llynwyd and Lachwynydd, not to mention communities in Ayrshire and Eastwood. That success has been made possible thanks not only to the hard work of Stewart, Ross and the many volunteers, but also due to the generosity of organisations such as St John's Scotland, who have donated thousands of pounds, Arnold Clark, Mann and Rental, who have provided two brand new 4x4 vehicles, which proved particularly useful during the winter months. The award-winning upland humour hotel has helped as well, who have provided accommodation for meetings and have also been contributions from individuals such as local historian Gina Henderson, who donated 5,000 pounds from the proceeds of her book Recollections of Neustin. We will sense of a community coming together to support a great local organisation. However, as invaluable and as appreciated as these contributions have been, there is a need to consider how we secure the financial future for all of Scotland's community first responders. I am looking forward to shortly meeting again with Stewart and Ross and this is an area that we will discuss. One suggestion that they have previously highlighted to me is the potential for setting up a national charity dedicated to community first responders, similar to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of St Andrew's First Aid. That is something that I am keen to explore and would welcome the opportunity to engage with other members on that. In concording, let me again thank Willie Rennie for bringing us to the chamber and reiterating my support and gratitude to community first responders in Neustin and upland humour, East Newark and right across the whole of Scotland. The final contribution in the open debate is Alexander Stewart. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I am very grateful for the opportunity to take part in this debate today and congratulate Willie Rennie for bringing it to the chamber. We as politicians do all we hope to help individuals and that is maybe the reason that we come into this occupation. However, individuals who give of their time and talent to help others are even more of my understanding and support. Individuals who give and do that are tremendous. The assistance that can be given by individuals, as I said, is very good. That includes the introduction of the responders that we will talk about today and the professionalism that they deal with to ensure that the help is provided before medical assistance arrives. We have heard this afternoon about the East Newark responders. They are independent in a community organisation charity that works to improve the survival and outcomes of people who suffer life-threatening emergencies in the East Newark area. The East Newark area that we have already heard is a beautiful part of Scotland and covers large little towns, villages and parts of the community that are recognised the world over. Today, they are funded by donations that are given to the group and they support to ensure that communities have life-saving equipment, community training, first aid cover events, health awareness and a myriad of other organisations and other roles that they want to be part of. That carries out their partnership working alongside the Scottish Ambulance Service and that is a great thing to see. We have also talked about the Good Sam mobile app today. That is real technology for helping individuals to ensure that we are life-saving. The app helps to provide care and life-threatening emergencies until the Ambulance Service arrives. Each volunteer responds with the equipment of life-saving, and that includes the defibrillators that we have talked about already today. The personal defibrillator by the Scottish Ambulance Service is a life—they are really saving lives on a regular basis and they are dealing with category A calls that are given to those responders. The community first responder arrives on the scene first and can deliver life-saving treatment before the arrival of the backup of the ambulance and other individuals to support them. They form a vital link in the chain of survival, which is well proven to demonstrate that casualties can survive even more if they have given that information and given that support for cardiac arrest or for a heart attack situation. The chain of survival is essential but little known about outside the medical world. There are four procedures that come into this. There is the early recognition to call for help. There is early CPR that, by some time, there is the early defibrillation to restart the heart and there is also the post care to restore the quality of life for the individual. All equipment and costs that are running are supported by the charitable donations and that, in itself, is an organisation that is doing so well in the community and being donated by individual organisations. Over the time that the group has been formed since 2009, it has attended over 1,000 category A life-threatening 999s, covered local first aid events, delivered training in essential healthcare and installed over 40 public access disabilators across the area. The work of the first responders is recognised by a far wider audience and that is the essential life-saving for the communities that they represent in the area, which is miles away from the nearest hospital and retained and that opportunity is there. I commend the work of the volunteers and I wish them continued success in all that they do to maintain, sustain life in the community that they represent. I call Eileen Campbell to respond to this debate around seven minutes. I also want to add my thanks to Willie Rennie for giving us all the opportunity to recognise the fantastic contribution that all staff and volunteers involved with the first responders that make to saving lives in that incredibly beautiful part of Fife. It is a beautiful part of the world that Alex Standersture and others have recognised. I certainly know it from family holidays myself but it is a rural part of the country and it is not without its challenges. That is why it was important that Willie Rennie took the opportunity to describe that huge amount of collaborative work that is going on in the East Newark first responders group and the work that they have undertaken that voluntarily they have driven and motivated to protect and keep safe their community. I am certainly glad that I have the opportunity to record my thanks for that complete dedication that they have. We also similarly value the important role that was carried out by all the 132 community first responders schemes across Scotland and I am delighted again to have the opportunity to recognise their contribution in Parliament. Those that volunteer in a community first responder scheme are trained in a wide range of emergency skills, learning to use specialist equipment such as automatic external defibrillators and oxygen therapy to provide an early intervention in situations such as a heart attack or breathing problems before the ambulance crew arrives and by delivering those life-saving procedures are helping in patient survival and recovery. They also support their local communities by providing training, ensuring that more and more people have these invaluable life-saving skills but I will absolutely reflect on the points raised by Willie Rennie regarding training of volunteers and the potential capacity issue that he described around regarding that training. Volunteers are phenomenal, they are a phenomenal resource and we will certainly do not want to see anybody unnecessarily being put off from being part of this important chain of survival. At present there are, as I have said, 132 community first responder schemes providing 894 active volunteers throughout Scotland being supported by the Scottish Ambulance Service. Although that is something that we as a society can be proud of, I believe that there is always the opportunity for the expansion and introduction of more community first responder schemes. I therefore like to take the opportunity to encourage communities across Scotland to follow the lead of the East Newark first responders and other established schemes by engaging with the Scottish Ambulance Service to set up a first responder scheme in their own local area. The underlying principle and ethos behind first responders in Scotland is to equip the community with the skills that can and do save lives. Community first responder schemes are about developing greater resilience in our communities and we know that survival from a medical emergency such as a cardiac arrest depends on the chain of survival, that being the recognition of that it is a cardiac arrest and that CPR and defibrillation swiftly follows. It is by rapid bystander intervention at incidents such as cardiac arrest where the greatest gains in survival will be achieved. Starting CPR in calling 999 and buys crucial minutes until medical help arrives. The Scottish Ambulance Service advises, as Willie Rennie and others have described, that for every minute that passes without defibrillation, chances of survival decrease by 14 per cent. Research also shows that applying a controlled shock within five minutes of collapse provides the best possible chance of survival. The Scottish Government out of hospital cardiac arrest strategy has two key aims, which is by 2020 to equip an additional 500,000 people in Scotland with cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills and increase survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, saving an additional 1,000 lives. Another part of our out-of-hospital cardiac arrest strategy involves the mapping of static defibrillators. That will allow ambulance control centres to identify and utilise publicly accessible defibrillators registered on the Scottish Ambulance Service computer-aided dispatch system. That information will be built into the ambulance control centre so that when they receive a 999 call for a cardiac arrest, the ambulance control centre will be able to sign post the caller to the nearest defibrillator. That knowledge improves the chain of survival and helps to increase the likelihood of survival. As of 16 November last year, the Scottish Ambulance Service has registered 1,553 public access to defibrillators on their command and control system, and with this number expected to grow. There are also a number of other initiatives going on throughout the country that further support our first responders and help to make the community far more resilient. As well as ensuring that we have public access to defibrillators in a range of locations supported by local training and awareness raising, and that a save a life for Scotland has been working with Education Scotland to develop resources to support schools who wish to access CPR training. Willie Rennie raised the opportunities that are presented to improving out of hospital cardiac arrest survival rates through innovation and new technology. A specialist subgroup of Scotland's cardiac arrest strategy delivery group, including the British Heart Foundation of the Government and Edinburgh University, is currently looking at a strategy for PED utilisation in Scotland. As part of that, the subgroup is examining the potential role of apps, assessing weather and how apps would fit into the service such as the good Sam that is mentioned within the motion today. Similarly, before I conclude, I wanted to recognise the comments of Liz Smith, who also paid correct tribute to the Jamie Skinner Foundation for the awareness raising work that they do, and she also paid tribute to the Mountain Rescue for the selfless work and effort that they do to keep people safe on our mountains and to enjoy Scotland's great outdoors safely. I also agree with the tribute that she made to the Air Ambulance Service, which is at Perth Airport, which is actually really closer to the village of Bulbeggy, which is near where I grew up, and certainly a facility that I know well. Their efforts were very recently recognised in the recent daily record in NHS Scotland health awards and rightly so for the phenomenal work that they do to keep people safe across Scotland. I also wanted to recognise the comments that Tom Arthur made about the long-term financial sustainability that is so important to help to keep people who are volunteering involved in this important work, and I am happy to listen and engage with him on those suggestions as they develop. Similarly, Clare Baker talked correctly and rightly about the inequalities about how we need to do more preventative work to stop poor health happening in the first place, and recognising that that requires work to address inequalities across a whole range of fronts, whether that is social security, housing, education and employability, not just health, but certainly if we do those works upstream, that would help to prevent people from having poor health in the first place, and it is right that we link that preventative agenda into today's debate. Finally, I am delighted to have been part of this debate to recognise the role that all of our community first responders have in helping to save lives, including those in the East New Coffife. Those people, volunteers across the whole of Scotland deserve our congratulations and our recognition, and I sincerely thank Willie Rennie for the opportunity to do so. Thank you. That concludes the debate, and I suspend the meeting until half past two.