Okay. So on your study guide, there is on page 153 of the study guide, there is a solution that looks like this. Some people raised the flag to say they don't know how to answer it. So I just want to take you through what I was explaining when I didn't show my calculator on the screen. When you answer this question, you need to solve it step by step. By step it means you need to do manual calculations and follow the board mass rule, which says brackets first, exponents or in this instance, we will use the roots as well as part of the exponent. Then division and multiplication, which have the same priority, we can work from left to right and addition and subtraction. So addition and subtraction comes last. So this question has a subdirection and the other one will have an addition. So you will do this step last. So the first step that you will do is to remove the brackets, then multiply with the value outside of the bracket, then divide by 200, take the square root, multiply by 1,465. So I've already written some of the steps down. I'm going to take you through these steps, the first steps of doing it, which have the manual steps there. So removing the bracket, meaning 1 minus that, 1 minus 0,46 times 0,46 divide by 200. Those are the steps you're going to follow on your calculator like that. So what you're going to do on your calculator is say 1 minus 0.46 equals, because we have to say, we have to get the answer, then multiply by, multiply by 0,46. So we multiply by 0,46. And say equal and then we need to divide by 200. Then we press the division, divide by 200. Then we need to take away the square root. But before that we need to say equal, because we need to have an equal sign. And now we can take the square root by pressing the square root. You need to look for the square root on your calculator, the square root function and then press the equal sign. And then you will have your answer. Then we need to multiply by 1,465. So we say multiply by 1,645. And then we press equal. And that will give us the answer of the left hand side. And then we write all their digits down, all of them. We do not skip anything. And when we're done, we go out and go and call 0,46 minus 0,5. Let me stick there. 0,5, 0,5, 7,9, 5, 7, 9, 7, 9, 7, 7, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 5, 1, 3, 5, 1. And say equal. And that will give us 0,40220. The reason why my answer is not the same as their answer, it means they rounded off too quickly. They rounded off too, too quickly. You only, you only round off when you get to the final answer.  It creates problem because it adds additional decimals where it should not. And when you get to the final answer, your final answer become inflated by the decimals that you have been increasing in your problem when you were solving. So please pay very good attention when you are working out the problems. And that is how you use the manual calculation. So those who have like the sharp scientific calculator, the financial calculator, you will calculate this manually, especially with those with the old and the latest calculators of cashier that does not have the fraction sign. Those with a fraction sign. So let's go to the fraction sign. Those with the cashier that has a fraction sign, I will call it the cashier with the fraction sign that looks like that on the app, the button that looks like that. Those ones, you can use the whole formula, which is 0,46 minus 1,645 times the square root of 0,46 times 1 minus 0,46 divided by 200. We will do this all at once. By once we've done this, we just press the equal sign at the end. How do we do that? If you have your cashier calculator, your calculator needs to be in the normal mode. So my one is in the state mode, so I need to take it back to the normal mode, which is the meds mode. So now we start by capturing 0,4. So you say 0.46, you say minus 1,645, which is this part. Then you can say times the square root. Even if you don't put the multiplication, your calculator will know that this is multiplying with the square root. And since underneath the square root is a fraction, we're going to also put the fraction in and we're going to fill up the top part the same way as we see it. Then you say 0,46 and you put the bracket 1 minus 0,46 close bracket. So you will notice that sometimes I do put 0,46 and sometimes I do not put. I just want to make you aware that on your calculator, even if you don't put a 0 first, you can just put a decimal. It will know that it's 0, that number. So it's 0,46 and we go to the division by using the arrow. So you just use the downward arrow and it will go to the bottom and you put 200 and when you are done, you can press the equal sign. And if you see that the answer is 0,4020. And that is how quick it needs to use this case your calculator. And it's not always the same, especially when you have multiple questions and multiple steps that you need to go through. Okay. And if you are doing the plus, so if I was doing the plus now, you can use the arrow by going first to the right. It will go to the beginning of the question and then using your arrow as well to scroll to the plus sign and then go in black space and put in the plus sign and pressing the equal sign will give you the answer for 0,46 plus 1,645 to the square root of 0,46 times 1 minus 0,46 divided by 200. And that answer will give us 0,51797. Do you know how many decimals it is? It will be 0,5180, probably. And that's how you answer this type of questions using your calculator. Thank you guys. I hope this makes up for all the mess I created earlier on.


sewing new look 6 6 5 1 together. Hopefully if you're watching this video you've already seen episode zero of this of the sew along where I talk about what size you should cut, some alterations you might want to make, and some tips for cutting out your fabric. So at this point you should have all of your fabric cut out and ready to sew. In today's episode, episode one, we are going to be putting together the bodice and the sleeves. There's a lot to cover in each one of these so I'm going to keep these intros really short. Take it to my cutting table where I'll walk you through these first few steps. All right, step number one is to stay stitch the neck edges. So there is a right way to wrong way to do this. This is my back piece here. If you remember, we cut it on the fold. So here's my fold here. I'm also going to do my trick where I mark the right side of the fabric with a pin. So I always know that the one with the pinhead is the right side of the fabric because these appear to be the same. I just want to make sure that I am consistent in using the same fabric, the same side of the fabric throughout the entire environment. There can be like little inconsistencies that you can't see with the naked eye. Then you put them together and all of a sudden it looks like you use two different color fabrics. So I'm going to mark the right sides with pins as I go and then regarding stay stitching. So we're doing a regular stitch length, but we're only doing it one quarter of an inch from the raw edge. So just inside this raw edge and then it's best practice to start stitching one way down until you get to the center. Break your stitches and then come to the other shoulder seam and stitch along this way. So two separate stay stitches when something is cut on the fold. And this just serves because this is all on the bias and all of these fibers that are woven together. The way that you stitch it through your machine the first time can determine like you don't want to stretch this out by sewing it this way or you know this way. If you go this way this is making sense. If you sew it this way they kind of all stay where they're supposed to stay and they don't stretch out at all which is what we're trying to do. So that's why you stay stitch from the shoulders and you meet at the center.  It's just when it's on the fold like that some people will just do and that's not necessarily the best way. So again you're going to start at the shoulder seams and stitch toward the center front. So that is stay stitching. We're going to do that. After we've stay stitched we are going to attach the back to the front right sides together at the shoulder seam and at the side seams and then we want to go ahead and finish these seams as well. This is not a lined garment so go ahead and finish your shoulder seams and your side seams once you've got done stay stitching. Okay look at that we have the makings of a bodice. So exciting. Okay so we are going to gently put this away that neck line we want to protect fiercely. We do not want to touch that any more than we have to. Even though we stay stitched it it's nice to just just be very gentle with it to prevent any stretching of the neckline at all. So interestingly enough step five of this pattern well actually technically step three of this pattern is to finish your arm side. I actually really like that because the bodice right now is very small you know it doesn't have the skirt attached to it it's not very bulky and so it's actually easier to attach the sleeves now than after everything else is done. So this makes sense to me. If you are doing the sleeveless version and you've got your bias tape you're just going to follow the instructions for the bias tape here finish it off. I thought that you guys would rather see how to insert a set in sleeve on a woven so that is what I'm going to be instructing today. So I'm starting with step five here the very first step is to ease stitch the top of the sleeve and I'm only going to show you one and then you guys just rinse and repeat for the for the other one. So ease stitch basically that means we have notches two notches here and one notch on this side this one notch denotes the front of the garment two notches denotes the back of the garment just remember that as we move forward but ease stitching is simply two rows of gathering stitches gathering stitches are the longest length that you have on your sewing machine for me it's five. So it's two rows of stitching between the the notches between the two notch here and the one notch here two rows of stitching one at three eighths of an inch from the raw edge and one at five eighths of an inch from the raw edge so we're going to put that those ease stitches in then we're going to leave them alone we're going to use those to kind of pull up this sleeve a little bit so that it fits into the arm side that we have on our bodice but before we attach it to the bodice they also go ahead and have us hem it another really really great tip is to go ahead and hem your like just finish your sleeve off completely before you attach it to your bodice so i appreciate that as well so while i'm at the sewing machine i am going to go ahead and do the ease stitching and i'm going to go ahead and press up this hem as well if you've watched any of my sew alongs before then you know my little trick for him is so this hem is where's my sleeve piece this hem is one and a quarter inches of your hem so it's a quarter inch turned up and then another inch turned up beyond that so in order to get our quarter inch marking and make sure that it's really accurate i am going to mark the hem line of my sleeve at half an inch so you take the hem whatever depth it is double it and that's what you mark first so now when i go over to my iron and i go to press this up i know that if i match the raw edge to that chalked line i know i'm going to get a very precise quarter inch and then you want to take your ruler and you want to measure two inches up from the folded hem which is right here and then you should be getting two and a quarter inches yeah so this is going to be two and a quarter two and a quarter inches away from the raw edge so i can get my bigger ruler go two and one quarter pretty much all the way across and now i can fold up the hem both folds in one shebang here i'll show you again so you were going to go to your iron and you were going to fold the raw edge to meet your very first chalked line and then you fold up your raw edge again to meet your very second chalked edge and that way you have a beautiful pressed hem so i'm going to go ahead and press this but we're not going to stitch the hem yet you can't stitch to him until you do your little side seam so press this up sew in your e-stitches sew together your underarm seam and then once you do that these are already pressed all the folds are pressed in you'll see how your hem just naturally kind of turns up on itself so go ahead and finish the hem as well i'll show you everything over at my sewing machine so you're going to finish off your raw edge and then as you can see once you do that we're just going to pretend you already have the folds of your hem done so you don't have to do any of that in the round you don't have to worry about these little itty bitty circles and burning your fingers and everything you just already have that completely pressed and it just kind of goes into falls into place so turn it right side out and stitch your hem but be sure to finish your underarm seams raw edge first we need to turn our garment wrong side out and our sleeve remains right side out like so okay so we need to find the front of the sleeve which is the one with the single dart we've got the front of our garment facing up and we need to insert this sleeve right side up to where the single notch matches up with the single notch on the bodice so that is going to be on this side because if we place this sleeve inside the garment so that they are right sides together see our underarm seam and our side seam are now right sides together and the single notches are matching okay so once you've got that then it's just a matter of matching up your side seam seam allowances face toward the back then you want to come around and match up your single notch with a pin then you want to come around again and if we've got these beautiful um easing a stitches in here but we're not messing with them too much just yet we want to find the notch that's at the very tip top of our sleeve that goes with the shoulder seam shoulder seam gets pressed to the back as well then come around again and we're going to match up the double notches okay so now we've got kind of a lot of sleeve and bodice that are not um matching up right so we've got the sleeve that's a little bit bigger than the bodice that's the way we want it we want to take those easing stitches that we made they start way down here and you just start pulling up on the bobbin side of your threads until these two raw edges come together so start pulling up your sleeve it's not going to be like a gather it's going to be much much more subtle than that but eventually you will get to the place where your sleeve and your bodice arm side match up completely being gentle but you know also letting it know who's boss okay so we've got those two things lined up that looks really good but from because there's this uh the little baby dot that was in there so we know that this has the right amount of ease to it but this is still not exactly right this has too much gathering in the sleeve okay so we want those two things to match up well we can't pin that little dot just yet because all of the easing happens through it and so you don't want the pin to like mess up your easing so just put a couple more pins in when I first started sewing I used lots and lots of pins you can still do that if it makes you feel more comfortable I guess to some people I still use lots of pins but I guess every couple of inches or so okay I'm going to show you one more time on this other side of the sleeve and then you guys are gonna go tackle this on your own on the other sleeve but you grab the bobbin threads pull up your sleeve again it's pretty subtle keep pulling until your baby dots match where's the other baby dot are you that okay are you my baby dot yeah again it's not a gathering stitch or a gathered seam it's much much more subtle than that all right so flatten all this out and this is a pretty like generous sleeve sometimes you will have you know a lot more gathering if it's like a very very tailored and fitted sleeve but this one's pretty generous lots of ease so shouldn't be too too wrinkly but this is the beauty of what we're doing so you can see and I like to put this out in every single sew along that I do so if you've ever done a sew along with the sleeve before you've probably seen this but you can see how the bodice which is the outer circle is nice and straight but on the inside the sleeve raw edge is all wrinkly and bumpy that's exactly what you want that is going to create the room that we need for our shoulder to fit into our sleeve so now you're going to head to your sewing machine and you're going to just stitch all the way around here I'd like to do all of this as you can see so that the sleeve portion not the bodice but the sleeve is what's on the feed dogs because the feed dogs will kind of help spread this all out a little bit and will prevent puckers a little bit I mean it's not going to if the puckers in there it's not going to prevent that but it'll help a little bit but yeah just stitch around your five eighths inch seam allowance and one sleeve is done hey one beautiful sleeve in the only thing left to do after you stitch your sleeve in is to finish that raw edge on the inside I'm searching mine obviously so I searched all the way around and then you can see my basting stitches are still in here so I'm just going to remove those so that you cannot see them just in a couple of places if I can get them all out I will um but that's that all right pretty easy right pretty straightforward I love that we have the sleeves already done got that out of the way we won't have to mess with that uh toward the end it always feels so like rushed at the end because you're just so excited so I'm happy to have the sleeves already done tomorrow's video will go to will be dedicated to the casing the skirt and the pockets so I will meet you back here tomorrow for episode two of my new look 6651 sew along


We begin this afternoon's business with portfolio questions. Question 1, Lewis MacDonald. Thank you very much to ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has carried out of public support for a second referendum on Scotland leaving the UK. Minister Michael Russell. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The current Scottish Government was elected last year with the largest ever constituency vote since the beginning of devolution on a clear manifesto pledge that the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum if there was significant and material change in the circumstances that prevailed in 2014, such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against our will. That specific material change is now taking place. We believe that the people of Scotland should therefore have the final choice of their future once the terms of Brexit are clear. Lewis MacDonald. I take it from that answer that the Government has carried out no assessment of public attitudes to this matter since the Brexit referendum on 23 June. Has the minister considered the opinion poll evidence, summed up by Professor John Curtis in a blog on 2 March, which is that Scottish voters are overwhelmingly opposed to a second independence referendum before the final outcome of Brexit negotiations is clear? Does he not agree that the priority for the Scottish Government for the next two years should be to protect Scotland's vital interests in those negotiations and to secure the repatriation of powers over devolved alias from Brussels to Hollywood rather than promoting a further referendum that the Scottish people do not want? Of course, those two objectives are not mutually contradictory. Indeed, I received a letter from David Davis this very day to look forward to working together on some of the issues that lay ahead. The member is wrong about that matter. He is also wrong about opinion poll evidence. It shows to me about 50-50 in those circumstances. There are very clear indications of public support available, often in the opinion polls. I draw attention to those opinion polls, which show the Labour Party to be in third place in Scotland. That is an indication of public support for Lewis MacDonald, his point of view, and the Labour Party. Gillian Martin. I assume that Mr Russell has inadvertently confused my question about support for holding a referendum with a different question about support for independence. Would he care to collect the record at this point? That is not a point of order, Mr MacDonald, but the point has been noted, I am sure, by the minister. Gillian Martin. Does the minister think that the Opposition is telling us, both sides of the Opposition, to spend parliamentary time discussing health and education? At the very first opportunity, using portfolio questions to talk about independence is a little bit hypocritical? Yes. The cute point is ever from the member. I have to make the point, of course, that the Scottish Government will... That is a point of order. Order, please. It is all very amusing, but order, please. Some people are easily amused quite clearly. The reality of the situation, of course, is that the parliamentary time that this Government uses is due to further the interests of Scotland in many different ways. That is shown by the record of achievement that the Government has had over the past 10 years, which is considerable and growing. I know that that makes Opposition parties uncomfortable, but the Scottish National Party and Government has been efficient and effective and will continue to be so. I would suggest that the leader of the Opposition, whoever the Opposition is these days, because it seems to be only a united Opposition, the leader of the Opposition and indeed the Prime Minister should get back to their day jobs and start to concentrate on the real issues that are facing Scotland like being dragged out of Europe against our will. Adam Tomkins. I can ask a supplementary question about the constitution in portfolio questions on the constitution. To propose another referendum in the next Parliament without strong evidence that a significant number of those who voted no have changed their minds would be wrong and we will not do it, unquote. Or again, if I, the SNP, those who believe in independence, cannot shift opinion from September 2014, we will not earn the right to ask the question again, both direct quotations from the First Minister. Was she wrong or if she wasn't wrong, why have ministers changed their minds? The member knows very well that, and I read it in my original answer so clearly he was not listening, the manifesto in which the First Minister stood, I stood, everybody on this side of the chamber stood, says, if there is significant material change in the circumstances that prevailed in 2014, such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against our will. He has clearly seen what has been taking place today, he has clearly seen the attitude of the Prime Minister, in all those circumstances that manifesto commitment has been fulfilled and will be followed. Secondly, Presiding Officer, I'd make this point, it is a very dangerous position for any Opposition to believe that it can veto a majority in the Parliament based upon a manifesto commitment. That is not democracy, and those who choose to depart from that cannot be, by definition, Democrats. Question 2. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns that reductions in local government budgets will have a negative impact on local services in South Scotland. As Scotland local authorities will have an extra £383 million to support local services in 2017-18, which represents an increase of 3.7 per cent compared to this year, this should have a positive impact on local services all over Scotland, including the south of Scotland. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer, but the sorts of cuts that are happening from the Scottish Government to our local services are absolutely mind-boggling, frankly, with hundreds of millions from the Scottish Government being cut to local services since 2011. I thank the minister for the answer. I would like to know what assessment has been done at the impact on third sector organisations who are finding their funding reduced as a result of budget cuts to local services. For instance, in my region, the Lanarkshire Care Centre has approached me about their funding position. NHS Lanarkshire, they have great concerns, but NHS Lanarkshire, a contributor, perhaps you would like to hear the question. Excuse me, in order, please. NHS Lanarkshire contributor has confirmed with me that they are unable to continue the top-up funding, which was previously done. 2016-17 funding is honoured, but beyond this it is uncertain. In addition, as the Scottish Government money is only announced in relation to carers on anual basis, long-term planning is challenging. Similar issues have been raised by Borders Care Voice Forum. I would like to know what assessment has been done at the impact of Scottish Government cuts on local services, particularly on the third sector. I tried to make the point, Claudia Beamish, for the interests of the chamber, that we have actually increased the resources for local services across. I have checked beyond the point that has made around wider local services, which includes health and social care integration, but specifically all the local authorities in the south of Scotland region and every single local authority that I have looked at will have an increase in total funding. I say that separating out health and social care. I say that Claudia Beamish is shaking her head, so I will give her the figures for each council, Dumfries and Galloway an increase of 4.1 per cent, East Ayrshire an increase of 4.9 per cent, East Lothian an increase of 5.3 per cent, Mid Lothian an increase of 4.2 per cent, Scottish Borders councils an increase of 5 per cent, South Ayrshire council an increase of 3.8 per cent, South Lanarkshire an increase of 2.7 per cent. Of course, it is a matter of local choice as to how local authorities spend those resources, but the budget has approved specific sums to tackle, for example, attainment. In relation to third sector, I have gone out my way to try and protect third sector functions and budgets through the course of the budget. Of course, there will be analysis of the impacts of our spending decisions, but I will reflect once again on the fact that we have increased, and yes, through the co-operation and support of the Greens as well, to increase the total resource to local government in what was quite a challenging settlement. Essentially, I think that the partnership arrangements that we have, no local authority rejected the financial settlement that I gave to them. I work constructively with COSLA, they recognise the movement on the part of the Government, and as well as all of that, local authorities had the ability to raise the council tax up to a level of 3 per cent, which many chose to do, but many local authorities did not. Maybe Claudia Beamish should ask some local authorities why they chose not to increase the council tax to invest in the exact kind of services that Claudia Beamish said she was concerned about. Rachael Hamilton The south of Scotland is crying out for funds to improve its roads. Recently, I wrote to the Scottish Borders Council and was told that there is a long list of unidentified projects, many of which are classed as high priority. Unfortunately, over recent years, the priorities from other sectors have meant a significant downturn in the number of road improvements being undertaken. That has further been exacerbated by reducing revenue budgets and a deteriorating asset base that leads to an increasing higher percentage of investment going on, maintaining the existing asset rather than actual improvements. When will the Scottish Government adequately support our local authorities to improve our local roads? First, I would like to point out to the member that, in the budget, we increased road maintenance and the Conservatives voted against it through the course of the Scottish budget, but it really is quite rich of the Conservatives. I have to say to the Labour Party, at least with some credibility, maybe not with every local authority, but with some credibility you can argue that you wanted extra investment in public services because you proposed to put up all levels of tax, including basic rate tax. That is not a choice that we made, but, at least with some credibility, the Labour Party can say that they wanted to invest those increased taxes into more public services. The Conservatives, however, proposed tax cuts for the richest, richest individuals, richest businesses and richest in terms of value of house and the transaction tax therein. The Tories really cannot speak with any credibility when they call for extra resources into local services, especially having imposed increased budgets that this Government proposed particularly around maintenance and investment, which was an area that Rachael Hamilton asked me about. Question 3, Johann Lamont. To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the local government budget allocation to Glasgow since 2007. All of Scotland's 32 local authorities have received their fair formula share of the funds provided through the annual local government finance settlement as agreed with COSLA. Glasgow City Council will continue to receive that level of local government funding per head of all holy, mainly councils in 2017-18. Johann Lamont. Can I thank the cabinet secretary for that response? The cabinet secretary is aware, of course, that his government has cut Glasgow's budget by £377 million since 2007. Does the cabinet secretary recognise the importance work of Glasgow Labour Council in doing its best to protect front-line services, leading the way in supporting childcare and apprenticeships, and making Glasgow a leading centre for business, tourism and sport? Does the cabinet secretary further acknowledge the critical role of Glasgow to the economy of Scotland? In those circumstances, does the cabinet secretary regret the opportunities lost, the families unsupported and the economy benefit lost directly by his Government's choice, the price to be paid by every Glaswegian service? Can I begin with recognising some of those points? The areas that have been identified I would welcome as the city council addresses key issues in the city. I would welcome any administration to focus on those. There have been good areas of partnership working between the Scottish Government and the city of Glasgow Council. I was a signatory on behalf of the Government for the city deal proposition as well. There are many areas in which we have been able to work in partnership with the city council. Not always found every area to be of agreement, but there are many areas of partnership and shared endeavour, not least around deprivation and equality, the need for further economic development and partnership, as I say that we have taken together. Again, it would be wrong to suggest that the overall spending power of the city council has decreased. Again, as a consequence of the budget, Glasgow city council's overall increase in 1718 will amount to more than £35 million and that is 3.3 per cent. I hear Joanne Lamont complaining about the settlement, but I would gently say that although it is a matter for local authorities if they want to suggest changes to the distribution formula. I am open to discussion on that via COSLA, but since this is the day of exits I would remind the Labour Party that Glasgow City Council Labour Administration walked away from COSLA. Surely it is in the interests of all the people of the city to participate in COSLA who negotiates with government on matters such as finance, the budget and the settlement and distribution thereof. I would encourage the Labour Party to think deeply about their position as we enter local government elections about local government frankly being stronger if the 32 local authorities are willing to engage with us together in partnership. Once again, it is an increased settlement strong partnership working on areas such as joint endeavour, city deal is all about economic development but I would encourage the Labour Party to think about their engagement with COSLA going forward so that we can have further discussions about distribution. Finally, I would say again just as the Tories opposed increased investment on roads maintenance and then called for more, the Labour Party asked for increased investment in attainment really important for education in tackling the attainment gap in Glasgow and the Labour Party voted against that when push came to shove at stage 3 in a budget. John Mason. When I look at the per capita budget allocations by authority and when you take away the four island authorities the three remaining, if Johann Lamont will allow me, the three remaining with the greatest per head is Glasgow, Inverclyde and Western Barnd, which strikes me as good because they are the ones with great needs in the west of Scotland. Will the Government commit to continuing to well fund such needy authorities? It is very important that there are different elements to the complex nature of local government funding. Fundamentally the needs-based assessment is a feature that has been agreed with local government through COSLA and does distribute on the basis of need and that is why local authorities like Glasgow feature so highly when it comes to the distribution of that resource. It is important to make sure that there is a level of redistribution. The Labour Party has not been consistent on that because if you speak to the Labour Party and for example Aberdeen, the finance convener there, Willie Young, says that Aberdeen's money has been ripped off and sent to places like Glasgow. In Glasgow the Labour Party says that their money has been sent elsewhere. In truth the formula, although it may not be perfect but it is the best that we have to ensure that resources are directed on the basis of that need. Question 4, Clare Adamson. To ask the Scottish Government how its national digital strategy will impact on the constituency of Motherwell and Wishaw. Realising Scotland's full potential in a digital world is a strategy for all of Scotland that aims to build a vibrant, inclusive and outward-looking nation with a successful digital economy to help comprehensive access to connectivity and an education system that is focused on digital skills. The strategy was published on 22 March. Clare Adamson. I thank the cabinet secretary for his answer. Motherwell and Wishaw has unique post-industrial challenges while we have a wonderful college in New College Lanarkshire. We also have one of the biggest brownfield sites in Europe. What investment potential does the cabinet secretary envisage for Motherwell and Wishaw under this new strategy? The strategy covers a number of areas including skills, connectivity and the potential of growth employment. More physically, when we are dealing with the connectivity challenge, we have very ambitious targets around that. If we then take that to areas of deprivation and dereliction, then it should tie up with other strategies such as the vacant and derelict land fund to bring together the softer interventions that we are making with the actual physical structure. It is incredible to Lanarkshire to be able to invest in those sites. I would absolutely commend the work that the college is doing and education and the potential that there is around skills and the new funding that is announced as part of this. It should all come together to help areas such as the constituencies. Question 5, Graham Dey. To ask the Scottish Government what the impact will be with the finance secretary's recent digital Scotland programme? An additional 17,000 homes and businesses across 27 local authorities will benefit from fibre broadband. As a result of the £15.6 million gain share investment being made through the digital Scotland contract covering the rest of Scotland region. That is in addition to the £2.2 million of gain share funding announced by the Highlands and Islands Enterprise last year which will deliver fibre broadband connectivity to additional 1,800 premises across the Highlands and Islands region. Graham Dey. In announcing the additional funding the cabinet secretary said that it would have a particular focus on maximising the number of premises that have access to speeds of greater than 24 megabytes with funding targeting on areas with the lowest speed coverage including Angus. Can I ask if there are any specific plans yet for my constituency of Angus South and whether the Scottish Government will be prepared to work in collaboration with Angus Council on this? Yes, I do believe that there is potential to do that but we have set out our ambitious targets including coverage of a 100 per cent of homes and businesses by 2021. We are very much on track to achieve the milestones of our targets but this particular initiative should benefit an additional 500 premises in Angus and ensure that we roll out superfast broadband through that particular challenge and it will increase superfast broadband coverage in Angus to 91.2 per cent by the end of the digital Scotland roll-out and then as I say, move on to our much more ambitious target of 100 per cent coverage. Jamie Greene Can I ask the cabinet secretary just to clarify a point on this additional funding? Is it not the case that this money is a result of a clawback clause in the contract with BT and is not new additional money being provided by the Scottish Government? I didn't say that it was Government money. I think I was very clear in making the original announcement how it is part of the contract where BT has been involved in an area, it hits certain targets, that money is provided and then released and then there's that dialogue about how it's distributed. I suppose what I'm highlighting is how it's benefitted in communities that otherwise wouldn't have that connectivity. I welcome the approach, I welcome the intervention, I've tried to raise awareness of it, I appreciate members asking questions of it and I would encourage members who are interested to look at the website www.scotlandsuperfast.com Putting it into context is just one of our many interventions to reach a target of 100 per cent coverage by the end of this Parliament. I fully recognise that there will need to be new technologies, different ways of procuring the services to reach that ambitious target, this is just one. I've never pretended that it was Scottish Government money or Scottish Government involvement in the contracts and I'm happy to confirm that to the member. We move from finance and constitution to economy, jobs and fair work questions. Question number one from Fulton MacGregor. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to boost the economy and create jobs in Coatbridge and Christon. Minister Paul Wheelhouse. Our enterprise and skills agencies are working to deliver sustainable, inclusive economic growth across Scotland by promoting Scotland as an attractive place for business and innovation and through our substantial investment in infrastructure, regeneration, skills, internationalisation and business support. The Scottish Investment Bank has also directly supported eight investment projects in North Lanarkshire while Scottish Enterprise currently account manages 167 companies in the local authority area and Biocity at Newhouse was designated as life sciences enterprise area in April 2016. The competitiveness of Coatbridge and Christon as a business location will be enhanced by the £100 million upgrade to the M8, M73 and M74 that will reduce traffic congestion while the Scottish Government has delivered a highly competitive business environment with a reduced poundage on business rates and premises with a rateable value under £15,000 now qualifying for 100 per cent business rates relief through the small business bonus policy with those between £15,000 and £18,000 rateable value benefiting from a 25 per cent discount on rates. Fulton MacGregor. I thank the minister for that response. Coatbridge Town Centre has suffered multiple setbacks including closure of two banks, proposed closure of the DWP processing unit and some major fires in some of the empty buildings. People are rightly concerned about the future of our main street. Having hosted a well-attended public meeting recently, I am in the process of establishing a steering group involving residents and businesses to create and implement a plan to improve the town centre. Would the minister be willing to meet with the steering group to discuss how the Scottish Government could support the regeneration of Coatbridge Town Centre and create more jobs locally? On the latter point, I would be happy to meet Mr MacGregor's constituents to discuss how we can help to support regeneration within the community. I would commend the scene efforts elsewhere across Scotland where similar initiatives of taking a grassroots approach, looking at how communities can help to develop a vision for their community. I would be very successful not only in developing a plan that the local authority can then take forward, but also in other good causes to support projects locally. What I would say is that, Mr MacGregor, I will provide further detail on that, but the Government has also taken forward the town centre first principle with the local government trying to encourage any investment decisions made by public authorities and indeed to secure private sector investment in town centres to identify if that could be the best location first and then only looking at peripheral areas thereafter to try and drive more footfall into our town centres and support local businesses. I am happy to meet the member and his constituents and to provide further detail to him. Richard Leonard. The minister will be aware of representations that I have made to save the jobs at the Tannoy factory in the town of Coatbridge. The GMB union, the workforce and Scottish Enterprise have been actively working to secure these jobs at Philanexer, but all too often have been kept in the dark by the owner of the factory based in the Philippines. Despite the valiant efforts, many of the workers are facing redundancy at the end of this week, so can I ask even at this stage that the cabinet secretary himself makes personal direct contact and representations to the owner of the company in Manila? Minister. I would like to reassure Mr Leonard that I, on behalf of the Government, have been actively involved with the cabinet secretary in looking at the case involving Tannoy. We are obviously very concerned at loss of any jobs, but I would reassure the member that the company has been engaging with Government and Scottish Enterprise on proposals to develop new capacity in relation to a specific project which I am not a liberty disclose, but we are hopeful that there will be some jobs retained in the area in due course. I can investigate the matter about the communication with the trade union. That is not entirely within our gift, but we will certainly encourage the company if we can do to engage with the trade union to ensure that those who are affected are kept informed of what is happening. I reassure the member that there are encouraging discussions about retaining some employment in the area. Question 2, Tom Arthur. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I refer members to my register of interests and my professional background in music. To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the economic contribution of the music industry. Cabinet Secretary, Keith Brown. The music industry in Scotland is a key part of our thriving creative industry sector. Scottish Government growth sector statistics show that, in 2014, the music industry in Scotland had a turnover of £27.9 million and a GVA of £15.5 million. Moreover, the 2016 UK Music Report, which you were here, showed that music festivals and live concerts attracted 928,000 music tourists to Scotland in 2015. Those visitors generated £295 million for the local economy and also helped to sustain 230 full-time jobs across the nation. Tom Arthur. I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that answer. Every women's majority of musicians are self-employed. The emerging phenomena of the precariat and the gig economy are conditions long known to people operating in music. In light of the Cabinet Secretary's answer, if he agrees with me that it's vital that we continue to nurture musical talent in Scotland and to provide the support that we need to encourage young people to pursue a career in our growing and even more exciting music industries. Cabinet Secretary. I agree with the member. I also think that it's true to say that we have to make more of the contribution that the creative arts make to the economy to increase that contribution but to recognise the current contribution that's there. It's very important that we support young people to learn music and to pursue musical careers through the Youth Music Initiative, £109 million since 2007 and is delivered by Creative Scotland. The Youth Music Initiative provides a range of music-making opportunities for young people of all ages. It gives them a chance to try new music-making activities in their area to begin their musical journey or to build on their existing experiences. Early this month, the Cabinet Secretary for culture spoke at a Scottish Music Industry Day at Glasgow University to promote career opportunities in the industry. Boris Golden. Thank you, Presiding Officer. We should be rightly proud of new and emerging talent, like constituents of mine, the Ayub sisters, who recently were nominated for the Young Scott Award and who will be performing in Parliament later this year. They've got some great songs that's well worth a listen. What steps is the Scottish Government taking to support a broad range of musical talent and genres in order to help grow the economy? Can I look forward to the performance that has been referred to? I'm sure that it will be excellent. Considering the other support that the Scottish Government can bring, we have the regularly funded music portfolio and our thinking has been framed by a 10-year plan, including the music sector review and the music companion piece. I agree with Boris Golden that there is some huge talent that we should support. I have to say that in my own household I actively support a budding musician who does that. It's very interesting to see that, well, I have to be fair, he also works part-time at ASDA to help sustain himself as well. I think that it's very important. What I have seen in recent years, and I don't know whether Maurice Golden would agree, that compared to Ireland, which is a very vibrant live music scene, we've started to see much more of that taking place in Scotland. It is to be encouraged and perhaps the best way we can encourage it is by each of us to do that. David Stewart To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support Dingwall's economy. Minister Paul Wheelhouse Dingwall is within the inner Murray first area of Highlands and Islands Enterprise and businesses and communities in Dingwall are able to access the full range of support from Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Since 2013, High has invested around £1 million in companies in the Dingwall area to support 219 full-time equivalent jobs and safeguard 106 full-time equivalent jobs over a range of sectors. Over the same period, High has also provided £2.46 million research and development grant and £90,000 smart Scotland support for inside biometrics, a Dingwall-based company. David Stewart The minister will be familiar with the award-winning inside biometrics facility in Dingwall, which is developing an innovative KIA smart product that will be life changing for people with diabetes. The company is looking to expand the production capacity and that may create a substantial number of new jobs, but the company is looking for further advice, guidance and assistance from the Scottish Government for this major and significant expansion. Will the minister agree to meet me to help to bring this project to fruition? Minister As Dave Stewart, who I recognise takes strong interest in this issue, the inside biometrics are account managed by High, and High is close to providing financial and advisory assistance to support the company to grow their business. I recognise their award-winning company and a excellent one, indeed. High has already provided a £2.5 million research and development grant, which is referred to in my original answer. I am aware that inside biometrics has plans to expand their operations in Scotland. Indeed, I was contacted by Selly Sianni, the owner, following the Life Sciences Awards in which Dave Stewart refers to and in which inside biometrics were award winners. Officials in High are remaining closely engaged with the company to explore every option to help to support their growth. I visited the company last year myself and was hugely impressed by their technology. I have accepted an invitation to meet inside biometrics in the near future to discuss how the Scottish Government can continue to support the company with its development plans. I am, of course, happy to meet Mr Stewart to see if there is anything he has to suggest that we could help the company with. Brian Whittle To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest Fraser of Allander economic commentary that warns that indicators of Scottish consumer confidence are more negative than that of the UK as a whole. Keith Brown The latest Fraser of Allander institutes economic commentary provides a timely update on the Scottish economy. The report shows that consumer sentiment, as Brian Whittle has mentioned, has weakened in Scotland, but it has also done so in the UK since the EU referendum. The findings highlight the risks to Scotland's economic outlook following the EU referendum's heightened uncertainty and rising inflation are forecast away on household incomes and consumption. By far the biggest threat to Scotland's economy is a hard Brexit, which threatens the cost of our economy according to the same Fraser of Allander institute around £11 billion a year by 2030 and cost the country 80,000 jobs over a decade. Brian Whittle I thank the minister for that answer. Perhaps the minister can explain to the chamber why the Scottish economy is lagging behind the UK economy in a range of economic indicators. We have lower employment, higher inactivity, lower consumer confidence, lower annual pay growth, lower productivity and lower GDP growth. Why is Scotland falling behind under the party that claims to be stronger for Scotland and I wonder if there is something distracting you from the day job? Cabinet Secretary I think that the member will be aware of the nature of the impacts of the price of oil on the Scottish economy and the fact that that would have a disproportionate effect on the Scottish economy as opposed to the wider UK economy. My response is to go out and try to attract more jobs. That is very important for the Scottish economy. I see today that there are 300 new jobs being announced by GenPAC in Glasgow. Digital solutions, risk management following a contribution from Scottish Enterprise, 300 jobs because it is a new European centre in Glasgow. That is extremely important and that is what we should do. It is part of my job title in terms of jobs. The member mentions different economic indicators. Of course, there are other indicators which tell a different story. In terms of youth unemployment in Scotland we have the second lowest in Europe with only Germany having a better outcome. We also have very good numbers in terms of female employment and the same unemployment rate despite that oil impact as the rest of the UK. That shows real progress. Lastly, on confidence, which he mentions again in today's times, if you look at the Scottish technology industry survey, 78 per cent said that they were optimistic in Scotland or very optimistic for this year. We should try, difficult though it might be to accentuate the positive, to see the things that we are doing well and, of course, to note the challenges but to try to do more of what we are doing well. To the economic challenges which Brexit presents for us. Kenneth Gibson Being part of the UK has not done much for Scottish national self-confidence over generations. Can the cabinet secretary please tell us what the impact of the alleged union dividend has been on Scotland, given that since 1900 we have had the lowest rate of population growth of any country on earth? I could tell him if I was able to identify a union dividend but I am afraid that I cannot see a union dividend. More than that, the price of the union if you think about the recession, the huge recession that we went through with a recession caused by failures of the UK, under the UK in terms of the banking and financial system, of course there were global elements to that but there is no question that the regulation of the banking system was inept and it was crucial that they did look after that and the consequences for Scotland and by which I mean individuals and companies in Scotland of that recession were huge. The UK has to accept its share of responsibilities. I am accepting the Scottish Government's share of responsibility for the condition of the Scottish economy. After all, it was a Conservative MSP that said that the UK still holds all the major levers in the case of the Scottish economy. They have got to take responsibility as well. Jackie Baillie. Isn't the truth, cabinet secretary, that the same Fraser of Allander report noted that a second independence referendum is likely to act and I quote businesses and potential investors? Isn't it also the truth, cabinet secretary, that the UK market is worth four times that of Europe to the Scottish economy so the impact has the potential to be much greater than leaving the European Union? It is true to say that, as I have mentioned already, the Fraser of Allander institute identifies and quantifies the effect of the hard Brexit that has been mentioned. £11 billion a year by 2030. 80,000 jobs over a decade and it is interesting to me that Jackie Baillie decides not to even mention that. When, even in the report that she cites, the institute that she refers to, they say that these are going to be the impacts, not a word about Labour, about these impacts, huge impacts on the Scottish economy and I would say, in relation to the point about the recession that we have just come through, it was the actions of the Scottish Government by investment in public infrastructure works which helped to mitigate the worst effects for that and has helped us to recover more quickly. Excuse me. Those actions are very important in sustaining the economy and I think that it would be useful if members could acknowledge that but also if the Labour Party could acknowledge the effects of Brexit, which is very serious, £11 billion a year, 80,000 jobs which they failed to do on many occasions up to this time. Dean Lockhart. The cabinet secretary asked about the union dividend. I will point him to the Scottish Government's own numbers that last year the GERS numbers showed a £15 billion union dividend. The Fraser of Allander Institute also highlighted that, since the SNP came to power, Scotland's economy has grown by an average of only 0.7 per cent a year over the past 10 years. That is less than a third of Scotland's long-term economic growth. That underperformance has nothing to do with oil, nothing to do with Brexit. Does the cabinet secretary think that this underperformance over 10 years is acceptable? I do not know. I can imagine businesses out with this chamber listening to somebody talking about economics that the rate of growth in Scotland has nothing to do with oil. How do you even start to respond to a point like that? It is quite obvious to me that there is not the basic understanding of the Scottish economy implicit in the question. It is also true that I did not raise the union dividend, somebody else raised it and I responded to that point in the way that I did. It is to make sure that we do the right things through the Corrie Martin Gibson for Aberdeen Asset Management said that we should look through the fog and try to see where the opportunities are. I have just mentioned 300 jobs, not a word of joy or congratulations from any opposition party, but 300 new jobs coming to Glasgow. Not a word about the increased confidence in the Scottish Technology Industry Survey. Those are important measures for Scotland. Of course we have to recognise the challenges. I recognise those challenges and I am trying to take action to address them, but perhaps sometimes, surely, some of the opposition parties could acknowledge the strength of the Scottish economy even if it is just to try and encourage them so that we can all get the benefit from increased economic activity in Scotland. Mike Rumbles. The minister said that he could not identify any union dividend. Could he identify a union dividend in his case with the Royal Marines for the protection of the whole and, in my case, the army? Would he accept that there is a union dividend in our defence approach to defence? Sort of related, cabinet secretary. Briefly, cabinet secretary. Once again, I just can't understand the lack of information or experience. If you look at the defence footprint in Scotland over recent years, what we have seen, what we have maybe don't think it's relevant, regiments actually in front-line service being merged, people being handed their P45 in their active service, reducing base cuts, reducing numbers in Scotland. He would know this if we talked to some of the local authorities who are trying to wrestle with the latest round of basing cuts. For example, Fort George or Glencourse, a barracks that has had millions of pounds of investment is going to be closed. The actual lack of understanding or knowledge of the question that Mike Rumbles shows shows that he has no understanding of the defence activities here in Scotland. Perhaps before he asks a question like that you should do a bit of homework next time. Question 5, Richard Leonard. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of the Scottish Investment Bank. The Scottish Investment Bank is a division of Scottish Enterprise officials from Scottish Government met with representatives of the Scottish Investment Bank on Monday, 20 March. Richard Leonard. Sorry, can I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer? Order, Richard Leonard. What guidance has the Scottish Government given to the Scottish Investment Bank on the requirements that need to be satisfied for lending to companies or taking out equity stakes in companies regarding its stated goal of inclusive growth and so good trade union and industrial relations, the standard of employment contracts and the gender pay gap? Cabinet secretary. The Scottish Investment Bank is actually an arm of Scottish Enterprise so they are fully appraised by the ambitions and the standards that the Scottish Government would like to see encouraged. They have invested £52.4 million in 133 Scottish companies. They have helped companies to leverage £277 million of private investment and they have also invested £12.2 million in 13 SMEs to the Scottish loan fund. It is available to start-up early stage on expanding businesses. Those aims that we have in terms of the gender pay gap in terms of inclusive growth are embedded in the work that Scottish Enterprise does and they are well aware of the Scottish Government's standards and its ambitions in those regards. I apologise to members who waited patiently and to whom we did not reach. We will now move on to the next item.


The people who fought for our freedom were not cops or wealthy white city officials or gun-toting libertarians or glad-handing politicians looking to get our votes. They were hustlers, injection drug users, people who lived on the streets.  The people who fought for our freedom took care of each other, creating safe places to be themselves.   At this meeting, and there was a particular faculty member who was instigating much of the tension around race at Evergreen, and she was there, she tended to go to these things. And we were discussing the question, were all of these allegations about white supremacy at Evergreen and every so often somebody, sometimes it was me, sometimes it was somebody else, asked about, okay, where is this white supremacy? Can we see it? Can we evaluate it? And this faculty member said that she said to ask students who are suffering from white supremacy to tell us about the instances of white supremacy is itself racism. And she said, we must stop asking them because we are inflicting harm on them, asking for evidence. And the phrase she used, she said, to ask for evidence of racism, is racism with a capital R? And as she said, racism with a capital R, she leaned forward in her seat and she looked directly at me. And I had been leaning back in my chair. There was no opportunity to ask questions in these meetings. I sat up in my chair and I said, are you talking to me? And she said, yes. And I looked around the room and nobody said a word. And I said, you know, at some point you might want to check into whether or not my history lines up with the accusation of racism because you might be very surprised. And if you don't look into it, it's going to come back to bite you. And the chair of the faculty said, Brett, this is not the place to defend yourself against accusations of racism. And I said, that's fine. Where is the place? And then the faculty member who leveled the accusation says you should not expect a place to defend yourself against accusations of racism. And I looked around the room. The president of the college is sitting there. The provost of the college is sitting there. Nobody says a word. And I said, whoa. What faculty was she a part of? What was she teaching at the time? Naima was in media studies and film was her bag. We sort of coined this term of a phrase called black girl in the wilderness. To describe this profound isolation we feel as these sort of unruly, loud mouth women with the wrong hair and a lot of attitude and a rabid dedication in our work towards education as an actually liberatory practice. Both teach in places we get in trouble sometimes. Or we don't get in trouble until we're actually doing what we say we're going to do, then we get in trouble. At some point what I realized was that in order to not feel alone in the work, I had to take the risk of doing some of this what Bell Hooks called engaged pedagogy. Does that make sense for those of you who either have or do not have a card what you're doing? When you hear your number, say your thing, say it loud. I might ask you to repeat it if it's not loud enough. I'm that teacher? Yes? Okay? Okay, one, two, three, four, five, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39. I don't know that she does or doesn't believe that we're all guilty of racism, but I know that she understands the power of saying such a thing. And that's really what this is about for her was power. Yeah, she's an extremely smart, actually post-modernist cynic.  And I said, what are you talking about? And he said, well, we're all guilty, aren't we? And I said, no, Ken, what are you talking about? No, that's not accurate. Ignorance maybe, maybe, you know, we're all going to have some ignorance about other people's experience. No doubt I have ignorance about what it's like to be black or a woman or gay or any of these things, but racism? No, that's not, it's not true that it's universal. It was like somebody had said the most, the oddest thing to him, like you're really arguing that we're not all guilty of racism? I actually think racism depends on white people being really, really nice to everybody and just carrying on, right? Just be really nice and just carry on. And nothing will change or get interrupted and you will be supporting the default and the default is the reproduction of whiteness and white supremacy. And we need to go back to where that relentless self-reflection, humility and grappling, right? Where am I not understanding something and how might I be accountable to that? So what does student protestors want? This was gathered around all the recent protests that have happened on college campuses. And the number one is increased the diversity of the professors. And that's why I think it's really important to focus there because we often want to kind of, how do I get my students to understand this? And that is critical, but that is functioning to have us not look at ourselves as faculty. And so anyway, you can see all of these and actually I know that your institution is working and struggling, right? To move this forward and is putting together a cabinet, is that correct? A council, right? And I think as that happens, the racism that's embedded will surface more and more. One of the other challenges to this work is that we think when we start to talk about it and then it starts to surface. Sometimes we think that us talking about it or caring about it or centering it is what's causing the problem. And I would say, no, you finally created a space for all that people have had to sit on and endure to come to the surface. I graduated from Evergreen in 1973 and later served with us on the board of trustees during difficult periods in which the college faced the major financial challenges I mentioned. And as my fellow trustees will attest, Denny's not yours either. Okay, so this is a message from a student. Here's their statement. My name is Kara Gonzalez. I am at Standing Rock. I am a greener.    Y'all are putting us into debt. Y'all are selling our money. This school is unsafe for marginalized students and you know it. The students have the power in universities. We can strike, we can boycott, we can divest. From you, from Evergreen, we can occupy the classrooms and refuse to leave and to pay until we get what we demand. A fair and good and affordable and accessible education. Tell me right now how you'll take action. I want to thank President Bridges and the Board of Trustees for this wonderful honor. And to all of my friends, the staff and the faculty, but most importantly the students here at Evergreen, I've had the honor of being able to work with, to argue with, to educate, to enjoy over these many, many years. Then why don't the faculty and staff represent us? And I'm more than willing to answer a question, but let me finish my comments.  Thank you. Now, Doc, and I will listen. Dr. King stated that the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice. Dr. King is also dead. No, my questions are, while you were president here, what did you do for like the black students on campus? What did you do for the LGBTQ people on campus? What did you do for the Latinx people on campus? What did you do?  But like, what did you do for us? What did you do for the people on campus? Excuse me, it's not back to my grandparents, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's not back to my grandparents, blah, blah, blah. It's not. It's the core of our foundation of who we are. I get it, the anger. I get it that you want responses and you deserve them. But you have to interact. You have to interact with people that are committed like you are to it. Just because I have a suit on now, have more than here, but it's kind of nice to have it on again. But just because I'm back and that's been my life and my life is passing, you have to learn wisdom from elders and educate elders as well. But we have to find the foundation to open the door for the conversation people. We have to find a way to do that. That's what it's about, students. Here today, when you honor me with this building, I want to say thank you. If this building has my name, where students will walk through it to be educated, to have seminars, to argue, to resolve conflicts, that will make all the difference in my heart with my name on this building because that is what it should do and that is what it's designed to do and it's wonderful that we have an environment where that can happen. So with that, I just want to say thank you to all my friends and staff. Day of Absence is a tradition that nobody really explained to us when we showed up at Evergreen. It was never an important feature in our quadrant of the college. In the sciences, I don't think there was wide participation. I don't actually remember a single student in my whole history at the college that was absent on the Day of Absence, do you? So Day of Absence ostensibly was a day on which originally black faculty and students and then later people of color more generally would absent themselves from the college in order to emphasize the importance of the roles they were playing at the college.  Like this was one of the topics of the day and the others were comparable, all of which you would recognize from the work that you've done. All the grievance studies sort of turned into seminars. Commitments to participate in Day of Absence this year were encouraged by the administration and then it was revealed to the faculty as a whole that Day of Absence this year meant white people don't show up to campus. And at the point this became clear, I sent an email to the campus, well to faculty and staff, and on the staff list were I think some 500 students who had staff positions at the college and I said this is unacceptable. It's one thing to absent yourself, it's another thing to tell other people to go away on the basis of their skin color. You should expect me to be present on the Day of Absence as a protest because I won't be told not to show up to a public college because I'm white. This caused a certain amount of uproar over email. I should say though that that email caused the usual 15 to 20 suspects on staff and faculty who are hateful to send bio-filled, angry emails accusing you of all manner of things that you had not done and are not. In the email I offered to hold a seminar for anybody interested on the evolutionary meaning of racism, where it comes from why it exists. If we're going to have this discussion by all means, let's have it full strength with the proper scientific underpinnings. And this was dismissed as scientific racism as if I was somehow going to hold a seminar claiming that white people were superior or something like this. There was definitely talk of white fragility. I think you were encouraged to read, is it Robin D'Angelo's book? That's white fragility. Did they at any point talk about epistemic exploitation? No. Because that's exactly where to ask for evidence. That's exactly what they call that. That's exactly that little trap. Exactly what grief and studies is doing based in the postmodern tradition that you know better than I do. It's completely discordant with a scientific understanding of the world. There is an objective reality or there isn't. We're not talking, we're not speaking to whether or not we'll ever get there even. That's not what we're doing. That's what we do as scientists and what we are supposed to be doing as scholars is figuring out which of these methods is a better way to actually approach reality. But it's just completely discordant. Science has at its core hypothesis and falsifiability and testability and so it gotta be the first to go. A student who I knew pretty well called me over and she said, do you know that there are people outside that door chanting for you to be fired? We'd like to reach out to students of color in the humanities as well as scientists but we are here to support who wants to dismantle anti-blackish champions. Why? We want years of consensus solidarity and provide safety. Yeah, no, not me, please. No, I'm committed to equity. I'm committed, I believe that anyone on this campus I happen to disagree with other folks on this campus about the way they are. But I'm not an unreasonable person, I'm not uninterested, I'm not uninformed about history. I know the implications of these things. I have arrived where I've arrived from a different route. I've arrived there through academic study. I know why racism happens. We live racism, we don't have to study it to understand it. We live it. And the issue is you think scientific includes everything. What about all the race and scientific? You're trying to have a lens of purpose over us. Explain that. No. You're going to listen. You ask me and I would like to answer. Hey, hey! Ho-ho! Oh, seriously? Block me out of my way. Out of my way now! History could pivot in this hallway right now. History could pivot in the direction of the values that you are standing here for. Yeah, resign. What? Resign. If I owe an apology, I will do it. Excuse me. So wait, hold on. Can I get this straight? You were coming over here for Brett Weinstein because you were... I got information to be cornered by students. Oh, okay. But not over here. Okay. Maybe you should have gotten better information. I only get better information. Oh, okay. Well, we were in D. It's a very small place. We are not block human anyway. There was room to leave. What's that? There was room. There was one group of students on one side of him and then a small dispersed group on the other side. One of the main protesters somehow managed to get all of the upper admin of the college. The president, all the VPs, most of the deans, if not all of them, plus various other members of the administration, sitting in a closed room with 8, 10, 12 protesters. But because these deliberately pushed past white students to target people of color, we deliberately asked white students to be a barrier between the police because we know the relationship that black and brown people have with the police. They made an effort to push them out of the way to get to us when everyone was doing the same thing. So to me, that feels like targeting black and brown people. And you can't tell me that that's not targeting black people because we have the evidence on camera but they literally pushed white people out of the way to attack black and brown bodies. Please send me that video.  Remember that you did that to us. You stuck us out in the cold. Your silence is white violence. Yeah, I was waiting to say that. White silence is violence. You don't need to understand that. But we have no- But we don't have any legal way to explain that. Letting your co-workers, letting your students go through this, that's violence. I was going to say, I don't understand how the diversity and equity plan was presented as this thing that people had to get on board with at this campus if you got paid by this campus and then it's turned around and then you get to send out all these emails about it. It just doesn't make sense to me why he's still here if this was something you had to get on board with. I believe the equity plan is a great thing. I also know that every organization and every school I've been a part of there are always people you don't buy in. And the problem is aid problems. They have an opportunity to speak their mind. Even sometimes they do it in the most offensive ways. And how do we stop people from speaking offensively? That's a challenge. There is this concept of free speech. Now if it constitutes a aid plan, if it's targeting a certain population then we got a point of leverage. Is there any way to work some sort of language about the commitment towards how we really target students? And a lot of this, everyone needs all of this. Regarding targeting science. Science is as far as education about these kind of issues because if that's the place where it's happening the most consistently I think there needs to be something written down that's even extra emphasis on addressing those teachers. They're going to say some things that we don't like and our job is to bring them on. Or get them out. And what I hear us stating that we are working toward is bring them in, train them and if they don't get it, sanction them. Bring them in, train them and if it doesn't take sanction them. And then he says to the protesters, I want you to hold me to that. So that's the plan. It's for people like me, bring them in, train them and if it doesn't take sanction them. This is the mechanism that they're going to use to force this change to the college. Meeting at four o'clock in the upper floor of the library building in this old cafeteria was extremely dangerous and ill-considered. In approaching the meeting one goes down a hallway on this fourth floor and the hallway is completely controlled by anarchists. At the point that I show up they assign somebody to me to mind my every move. There's food that has been supplied by the college, the state college and the announcement has made that the food is for people of color only. Food, water. The chairs are also to be reserved for people of color.  In the back, yeah. So I hear this announced and it is one of many hard to imagine things. What are you going to do? Right now, I don't care about a plan.  My students, students of color actually stand up and try to speak on my behalf at this meeting. The response is to chastise them as if they who do know me have misunderstood something and need to be re-educated. Shayna! So as a person, as people of color we have to recognize that we're not black and we don't know the black community so we have to recognize that also as people of color we are also anti-black and we can speak to anti-black people. Thank you. I was in Tacoma with our younger son so I got a voicemail from a dean. Hey, I haven't seen you in a while I know you're in sabbatical. I hope you're enjoying it. Something's happened in Brett's classroom. I'm checking in. I'd really like to talk to you or Brett and there might be media interest in the story so I just want to tell you I just want to assure you that the college can deal with any media interest that comes your way. I didn't know that Brett was okay but the message that I got from the college that I've been employed at for 15 years was the most important thing here is that we are in control of this story.


Let us discuss the following question. The question says, proof had in the right angle triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to some of the squares of the other two sides. Using the above, proof the following. In triangle A, B, C angle A is equal to 90 degree and A, D is perpendicular to B, C. Proof had A, B squared plus C, D squared is equal to B, D squared plus A, C squared. Now, we will first prove the first part. This is the triangle given to us, which is right angle at D. A, C squared is equal to AB squared plus BC squared. Now, in construction, B, D perpendicular to AC. Let's now begin with the proof. A, D, B, A, D, B, both are equal to 90 degree. The common angle between these two triangles, AB, is similar to triangle ABC of similarity. D by AB is equal to AB by AC, because corresponding sides of similar triangles are proportional, and this equation is equation number five. B, D, C is similar to triangle ABC. These triangles are similar, therefore, their corresponding sides are proportional, and thus, we have BC by equation as equation number 80 is perpendicular to AC squared plus BT squared. Now, the given information, 90 degree, the CD squared is equal to AB squared. Let us name this as equation number two. Now, from plus BT squared. So this completes the session.