Oh it worked! How's it going everybody? Dato away here back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters rank matches. This time playing a suggested team of Piccolo, Genemba, and Kid Buu. Gotta admit though this is an awkward time to play Piccolo as I don't think my Piccolo is good enough to go weren't going up against somebody named uh please buff Piccolo. I don't think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna make his point look very uh accurate. He's gonna be like yep look at this Piccolo clearly needs a buff. Alright going in for the offense I'm just gonna mash. Mind if I Dragon Rush? Alright the Dragon Rush actually does go through to one two make sure we're not messing any steps up here. Level one will that connect. I'm too afraid to see if it will so I'm just gonna waste two extra bars. No big deal I spend more bars a lot of other places. Might as well use three to get a confirmed kill. Yeah my Kid Buu's also not that great. So though we're off to a decent start I'm gonna throw out the sea assist. Oh my I'm so sorry. I am so sorry Jinnama. I could not have predicted that would end up like that. You weren't close enough to get the confirm into the medium counter. Alright I really showed my hand there. Oh that was a mistake. Oh the magic actually saved me there. Alright I'm just gonna waste the full bar. Maybe go for a level three. Haven't really made up. I'm doing it. I saw that level the sea assist is charging up. That's gonna give us pretty much full screen access to make him block. Oh we're in. Let's go the Buu assist. Yeah Jinnama sea assist. Any sea assist that teleports and can put pressure on from afar is very good if they hold them down on block for long enough which that one does. Jinnama sea assist isn't the best. I just don't know what I'd rather use over it. The A assist is a little unique but I don't really have any combos. I don't really have any combos in mind with this team specifically that I would want that for. Alright it's defense time. Yeah and defense time has ended. It was not a very good session for me. Man I just I can't take dragon rushes today. I don't know what it is. I mean I do know what it is. I usually can't take dragon rushes but today has been exceptionally bad. Let's go. Looks like it might be something in the air. Cellgames Arena has seen better days. Probably should have let that full auto combo ride but we're fine. Level three try to force the spark. See if he goes for anything. Alright he did. No I fell for it. Oh last minute blocks. Oh take a dragon rush man. Oh wait that jumped up to five frames. I'm gonna say that wasn't my fault. No I'm good. I'll say that was my fault. Alright we're going for a raw tag so hopefully it doesn't go for anything too cheesy. Oh he went the kicks. I was gonna put up the key blast counter. Yeah I'm letting him know the option does exist. If only I could protect my legs. At least he's worried about throwing key blasts now I guess. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing for me. I think I'd rather have him thrown key blasts. Sparking's up. Sparking's up but I can't block the overhead. Oh no. I would really rather not come down to kid boo. That's a bad place. That's a bad place. No.   Oh yeah it didn't work.  I hope not but it looks like it yes he can. Wait a minute I mean come on I've seen I've seen less damaging level threes. That one was that one was in kill range and quite far too. Oh rough game. If we would have confirmed off that kid boo thing I think we would have maybe had the kill. I don't remember how much bar I had exactly but I do remember the drop hurting an extraordinary amount so it's likely that it probably was in kill range.  All right we're gonna have to switch out to Geneva if we want to kill here. Not kill. I'm sorry I go for sliding. Somebody was looking at that like you can see or do you there. When the answer is unfortunately no. Hold him down. Dude I love kid boo's assist. I think everybody does. I mean everybody use it. Where are we going. Cell's coming right back in. I don't know who Cell thought he was. He thought he could super dash. Fair enough. Everybody can. Let's get him out. Not out. Just get him back into the corner. Set up the key blast. Kid boo's assist. Could have killed. Let's go. The down light does kill. All right. We got to get closer to the Super Saiyan Vegeta. He's the one that made it all go awry last time. That was so sick. Man I wish I could block my toes. How many times have I just gotten opened up by a single 2L. Probably at least four. Can I bounce out. Nope. All right. I'm a spark. Nice. That should connect if I'm not mistaken. On the wrong side. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry. No that was so bad. I was like can I throw in a superhero. I do love that we're able to escape. I don't know how good it's going to do us. But we did escape. So at least Janem is back in. We have access to Piccolo's assist. I just wait. I guess seven bars and Vegeta is still fully fine. It's a rough position to be in. Does he bring him in here. He does. OK. Not necessarily great for us. But at least if we start working on his health now we could maybe say I got to stop dropping that. That is awful. I'm expecting a rocket kick here any day almost. Can I please take a dragon rush. Would pay big bucks to take a dragon rush in this game. Just just the one that I'm there. Free kill on Bardock. Let's go. Is this what I've resulted to just taking handouts. Yes. Let's go. Come here.  I come here Vegeta. I know you have level three spark and this is very similar to what happened last time. But yeah that's all I got to say. That's all I got to say really. I got him to waste the bar. Let's go. Let me get Piccolo out here. He's not going to be providing anybody with too much up. I got a throw button out that beats Super Dash. That jumping medium was too slow to get the job done. Okay. I'll pick a little please by the way. Oh an opening. All right. We're working down. I might raw level three. You know what. Let's just do it now. Was that smart. No. I should have saved that for after the spark.  Let's go. Oh we almost trade. I had to trade. I should have back stomped. Oh he dropped it.  Defense defense defense. We might lose again. This spark is last. It's going to last a long while. Dude not good. Oh this is terrible. It's honestly so bad. I lost because I did a reflect. Oh that was trash of me. You drop me. You drop me. Oh why is he doing that. Don't do it. Oh wait what. Why did you do that. A little bit a little bit of remorse for your own games. A little bit of remorse for your enemy. All right. Hold on. Let me dust off the old hands. I'm tired of losing. We're zero two. All right. Dust off the old hands. Get back into it. So what I'm realizing with this team is that. All right. Nice. We just got to maybe we honestly I know this makes no sense. But maybe we switch in Vegeta just because I'm having such a hard time with him. I'm gonna do that. Oh this was a terrible idea. He went sailing over my head. We're going to switch in Vegeta just because we have to admit at this point that we're struggling with the character too much. And we're struggling with clashes too. Dude we are bad. We are bad right now. Tell. Nice. I'm a spark. Why do I keep doing this. I got to stop doing this. That was no pressure. I just keep sparking because it's like something I do for fun. All right.  I'm taking all of your health man. You have no idea how much trouble you've caused me with that Vegeta. All right. We're making moves baby. Out of the situation with clutch Vegeta. I was sick. I did want to see Brad Ash. Let's go. That was laggy. I can't blame him for getting hit by that one. And all right. We're doing well this time. All right. One bar will kill. So I'm just going to use one. Let's save this much meter as possible. Okay. Now we haven't done. Okay. If we if we struggle with cell we have to admit that he's just doing something different in the clutch that we are struggling with. All right. That time he was afraid of the spark. It lagged right there. Believe me. I wanted to go for sliding to block something me block something. You have to do it for the chances of winning. I sometimes I mean hey there dying isn't too terrible here. I mean obviously defending would have been better. I'm just trying to live man. All right. Look at how much time. Look at how much time I'm just waiting in between stuff and it's still going terribly off me. Okay. I figured out what it is. I figured out what it is. I'm clicking buttons in the air too much. Superdash. Look. Look. Look. That's what it was. I'm clicking buttons.  This is still terrible though. This is what's called choking. This is the act and definition of choking. It wasn't Vegeta. It was the it was the pressure. It's all so clear now. Does he have anything to extend that? Like I've lose to you in this situation. Come here. Let's go. One, two, three, four.  Okay. I've realized that this team is comprised of characters that I just excel at choking with. Kid Boo, Janemba in high pressure scenarios. Get me out of there dude. I do not want to be playing these there. I'm going to try my best. Let's go. Again, in the beginning of the game, it's not too bad. I got called out that time. Let's go.  All right. Nice. Spardock's down. Cell. Everybody else still has a lot of health. I thought I don't know why for some reason I was like, I expected to look up and see Cell heavily damaged. That wasn't correct. Oh, brilliant beam. He saw the Janemba says coming in. Didn't want to have to deal with it.   That was a lot of lag. Okay. I backed up. All right, but he looks like he wanted to stay in the corner and I just keep dropping stuff in return. This is just very nice game we got going on. No, I'm dead. I'm not dead. I could have been. This is laggy now all of a sudden. We're in all the good frames. I mean, I know we had some, we had our bad times in the past, but dang. Oh, what the? Oh, that was supposed to just be a raw counter. Is there a Super Dash? Block the toes. Just, just pretend it's a PowerPoint slide. We'll get through it that way. Three. We're all level threes. They had never hurt, especially during a bit of lag. And here we are, our old Nemesis. I remember, don't click buttons in the air. He likes that Super Dash option. Like right now, he's probably going to Super Dash. That's the Vegeta equivalent of Super Dashing. Let's go. I should have kept them in the corner. Oh, that crossed me up. Wow, the lag. Not, not there. I'm just saying in general, it was really affecting his block string. Right there is actually clear as day. Level three, I'm out of there. See y'all around. Still high probability of choking, but we do want to keep our eyes on that Super Dash. One, two, three, four.  All right, get it out of here, man. All right, Sparky's up. Who turned block all on there, dude? They forgot to turn on Tech Dragon Rush. Somebody forgot to turn on my defense. Can I kill here? I had a flit. I just did the wrong medium there. Oh, okay, we've still got the win. You know what? The problem that causes is that that was a very laggy game. So I don't think he'll rematch and it's all two, two right now. So I'm going to rematch. Oh, he already. Wow. Nevermind. That was pretty. I wouldn't have been mad at him if he left. Oh, nice confirm. Now he's just upset. He's like, all right, I'm, I don't win this one. Yikes. Get back in there. I wish I had better reaction times. Jennifer please. Nice. Yeah, that wasn't good. Smash, smash, smash. No, not the command grab. Where did you, where did you get that idea? My controller is wilding right now. I don't you, I don't remember putting that out. That's still that everybody's just so great. It's been since the base game. Yeah, I'm dead. I felt that one of my bones. I don't think you'd be ready to confirm off that.  And it's just strong. Down. Oh, we're not down. That could have worked too. That's the sad part. Let's go. Oh, you already know the mix. You already know the mix and I love this mix. Oh, I didn't super dash. Oh gosh. Oh no. Oh, we're dead if he does the level ones, which he should hit the ones. I'm out of there. Okay.  Come on down tech. You mind? Oh, the counter. No, it didn't work. Oh, hello. Coming down. Y'all thought I was out of this game just because I should have been. That's crazy. I would have thought so as well. What? Oh, no. Did I mistime it? Okay, good. All right. Nothing. No big problems here. Just doing a couple level ones. Couple level ones to get it out of my system. All right. Now, we all know the big problem is Vegeta and as you can see, my team is not very healthy. This is actually why we we spark early spark so much is because I have a very switching play style. I like to take advantage of of those big air rod tags, but it's not all advantages here. I do have to admit it cost a lot of blue health to do the benefits. Benefits are just that you get Rod DP.  I'm expecting it. Yes. Okay. Now, you Super Dash. It would have been fair. It would have been fair if you Super Dash. I wouldn't have blamed you. All right. When do we, I guess we just do it with Kid Boot now. All right. Get him in the corner. Kick this man away. Okay. Where's the spark?  Defensive. There was ever a time for you to come on. That one too. Dang that classic line, but I really thought I'd take that one. I was like, yeah, I was getting ready to cheer, dude. I was about to be in the streets.  I meant to do the poodle. Drop it. Drop it for an old time. Actually, we're going to live this regardless. So, go. Please hit. No. Kid Boot win experience coming out of the woodwork. Worked. Do it wrong.  Oh my goodness. Damage, Kid Boot. I like what you do. Thank you so much for watching this video. Hopefully, you enjoyed it. It was a little more panicky than the usual ones, but it's always fun regardless.  Let me know your favorite moment while you're down there. Make sure you hit the like button and subscribe and check out some other videos that should be on your screen right now. Other than that, I've been Dr. Doia and I will see you in the next video.


ying please, you would say you type PLZ. Instead of saying mate, you would say M8 or whatever, all these different abbreviations.  It turns out that there's almost no evidence that this affects intelligence, like people's ability to, you know, be smart and use language and identify language grammatically because in fact, when you think about it, if you use text language, if you open a WhatsApp chat and you start and you text with somebody and you use all these emojis and you use all these abbreviations for words, it presupposes that you actually know the correct version because in order to violate the rules, it presupposes that you understand them. So flouting the rules of grammar and flouting the rules of spelling actually exhibits comprehension of genuine, you know, rules of English, whatever I call them, right? And that was the example of that little English gate in this book on texting. Again, I can't remember it, but then, so I think that's a pretty good example of when there's panic, there's this moral panic in society over like, you know, text, you know, it's, the answer is I don't know. You know, I have no idea, but then. On that sort of moral panic, I guess, I thought it's like, then at some point, maybe even they forget how to spell it, P-L-E-A-S-E, you know, how to spell please.  So units that were novelties at first and exceptions become reified within a cultural context, shared niche and shared narrative so that like the crying emoji does mean this functionally. And then someone could say, I can't believe that you don't know that it used to mean this in a different language. It's sort of like, it speaks to so many of these excellent themes. So, yeah, yeah. Elliot, awesome guest stream. Thanks for your first appearance. And we're always looking forward to what you might want to share with us in the future. So thanks again. Yeah, totally. Well, yeah, this is an ongoing project. So I'm sure I'll have more to share with you. And thank you very much for having me. Thank you for the conversation. I've really enjoyed it. Thank you for the questions too. So yeah, totally. Thank you, Elliot, and to all audience. So see you later.


So, hello everyone, my name is Urs Koster, I'm with the Berkeley Plain Center for Internet and Society. I'm also involved with the Global Network of Internet and Society Centers. And today I have the great pleasure to be in conversation with two colleagues from Turkey, from Istanbul, Leila Kezer and Bedi, who are both at the Bilgi IT Law Institute and I've been collaborating with the NOC for a couple of years. And it's so good to see you, although it would be much better in person, of course. Hi Leila, hi Bedi. Hi Urs, thank you so much. Very good. So I was hoping that we could just maybe get started by hearing from you a little bit what the century is about, what some of the areas are that you're focused on currently, how we work together. I think Bedi just joined us as a director. So it's great to meet you and just, you know, start us off with sharing maybe a broader view of what's happening also in Turkey and the Berkeley. So over to you guys. Urs, thank you so much. Thank you so much for having us and this great opportunity to introduce our institute a bit more for other NOC members. As you may know, we established in 2010 and actually we closed our IT Law Research Center, which has been established in 2004. So we can say we transformed our IT Law Research Center into Institute. And we have two layers within the institute. We have education part and research part. Concerning the education part, we have IT Law Master's program since 2010. And as of this academic year, we have 67 students. And we have also courses for undergrad students. Actually, since 2015, IT Law is one of the core course of the low faculty at Istanbul Bay University. And concerning the research part, except BD and me, we have PhD researchers and also already mentioned master program students. And one of the aim of our institute is we we gather all related stakeholders such as private sector companies, governmental institutions, NGOs, tech people and academic people on internet related matters. And we call that multistakeholder working model. And we did together wonderful things in Istanbul and starting from 2013. And in 14, we did two different events in Istanbul. And as you already mentioned, we have Istanbul Privacy Symposium since 2017, which is an which is an NOC event and open for all NOC members. What we are doing, except the research part, as an academic institution, we have public institutions, particularly on digital government, digital transformation, information society. And we help preparing IT laws and regulations. We provide input for different projects under the topic digital transformation, et cetera. And so the IT law is overarching and our research topics are very broad. We deal with internet governance. BD is number one in that regard. And online content management is very hot topic in the EU and also in Turkey. AI and it is implications, but we prefer to focus a bit AI and legal tech and how AI will transform legal sector. On the other side, AI and ethics and AI and liability or AI and fairness are other topics. And we work also on e-health, which is very important during COVID time. And electronic communication law, e-commerce, data protection and e-privacy, which is another draft regulation in the EU and has important implications for Turkey. We work on that. We focus also on child and youth privacy. And this year we started that project, but we keep continued work on that topic in 2022. And we work on FinTechs, blockchain and online advertising, cybersecurity and trust, the open banking or platform banking, data economy and data governance. And under that topic, data governance, we focus privacy and dancing technologies, differentiation between non-personal data and personal data, and differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, which is important to create data economy. And the OT security and data protection. And lastly, digital services tax, which is also important for online platforms. And as Institute, we organize several seminars, trainings, conferences, webinar for the community. And I would like to mention again, this year we organize third edition of the Istanbul Privacy Symposium. And this year we focus AI emerging topic and regulatory issues, which will be held on for December this year. So I would like to back to Bedi and maybe he could add something. Thanks for this great overview. Yeah, this is fantastic, such a broad range of topics. And I've always enjoyed participating in the events you've organized and can confirm that you have really pulled off quite wonderful and very productive, multistakeholder meetings. And I've always left very impressed and also learning from our Turkish friends and colleagues. So Bedi, maybe you have additions or things you want to highlight from your work. Thank you. Thanks for this opportunity. It's a great, it's great to see you and hope to see you in person whenever we overcome this COVID epidemic. In addition to data, we also started having visiting researchers within our institution. So it's a development from our part. And another important development has been in 2018. IT law has been an independent department. We had our very first chair at our faculty. And the good thing is that we have inspired other universities to follow us and major public universities. Also, they have started establishing IT law departments. So this has been, I think, the biggest achievement of our institution as setting the stage for IT law teaching and IT law research. And also, as Lila mentioned, we are organizing IT talks. The good thing about these IT talks is that we are keeping updating the sector, academia and kind of our social responsibility and provides a kind of stakeholder engagement since we invite people from practice and academia. And aside from the research, we are also collaborating with public as well. Particularly, we have provided input for a general network and information security law, which will evolve into a kind of cybersecurity act. So in addition to other research, we are also trying to at least setting the stage for a legislative framework, trying to provide input to legislative processes. So that's the news from my side. And again, it's really nice to see you again. Very good to see you. Just maybe, as you were describing, Lila and also Betty pointed it out, a lot has happened over the past few years in the space of Internet and Society, research centers and academic institutions. And Betty just mentioned by example that there are many more institutions and, you know, centers and departments that are focusing on digital issues, which is great. That is the capacity building that we also hope to contribute to. I was just wondering, Lila, if you reflect a little bit on the past few years, you mentioned that the center was founded a couple of years ago.  So of course, AI has been around for a long time among experts. And I was just wondering specifically also considering Turkey as a country and, you know, all the complexities around it, what's your sense? What has evolved? What has changed? How have the, you know, topics or interactions you have evolved over these years? Yeah, thank you, Urs. Maybe I could give a bit over with the events we held. The events will reflect the important topics for Turkey. For example, the last IT talks we organized was on about online content moderation and data localization around the globe. The topic is really important and Turkey also changed. It is Internet Glove and added a few provisions in line with the German content moderation law shortly, NET-STG. And this is the really current and hot topic and we would like to discuss with the community. It has implications and the legal framework, et cetera. And we also discuss, since we also discuss the European Union approach and also Council of Europe's approach and also other countries approach, the regulatory approach on AI. This was also another IT talks we organized. And another important topic is trust. Under that heading, we deal with trust services and particularly EID and blockchain use case. And in that regard, we invited one of our colleagues from Europe and we discussed EID and blockchain and also new trust services. And it is an effect to Turkish law system. We also discussed with the community what would be the IP intellectual property problems when it comes to AI applications. And on the other side, we are talking about data economy and they try to do something in order to reach that. But on the other side, we put into practice different laws and regulations which blocks, which impede that AI. And we wanted to discuss that point and we organized on March 2020 this year a conference in collaboration with the EU Commission and Council of Europe. And they discuss free flow of data, digital trade and data protection laws and regulations, and it is an effect on digital economy. We also wanted to highlight the importance of net neutrality and we prepare the report and also organize another conference. Just because in Turkey we don't have clear rules on net neutrality, but in practice we have net neutrality. We also wanted to highlight that point and show it as implications, possible implications to the community. We invited also another colleague of us and we discussed data privacy, security and monetization, global trends. And also we discussed, we also organized a round table on interplay between privacy and data economy. Then we wrote a book with one of my colleagues at the Institute, Ms. Aritabey.  And we thought that as an academics, we should have to do something on that point. And we decided to write a book on that and I would love to send a copy to you. Except that book, we decided to start a project called Child and Youth Privacy. And under that topic we conducted surveys and over 1000 people, including kids and young people. After that survey, we prepared one pages or booklets and tried to tell them how they protect themselves against the risks and threats on the internet and social media platforms, etc. That's already a wonderful, wonderful overview of some of the trending topics and also gives the sense how the issues have evolved. If I may just add another some sort of angle to the discussion. I was wondering whether you could comment a little bit what's happening in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul, but also in other cities in terms of entrepreneurship and local startups. I remember from my past visits that there is a real excitement also developing new business models and coming up with digital services. I was just curious to hear how that ecosystem is developing and also perhaps where you see the role of regulation that can maybe play a role in helping to develop the digital economy. Maybe BD, you can add something about it. Thanks again. Before proceeding to that question that we also add that there's also an increasing trend in judiciary part for using online dispute resolution. Also, there is an ongoing project for electronic proceedings litigation, so it's also a very hot issue, and we also have some projects on that. We are also monitoring what's keeping going these tasks projects. So, we can say that these COVID epidemic has facilitated these digital transformation and we managed to us to overcome certain prejudices. This is the very first part. When it comes to your question, there are different kind of incentives and also there are also ongoing construction in different parts of Turkey with regard to techno part we call them and a very specific regulation providing incentive in terms of employment in terms of taxes social security benefits etc is going very well and also there are some companies even unicorns that has been sold in game sector product you have also had seen at the news and they are all has emerged from these techno parks and in relation to this pandemic, there has been some incentives to work from remote working. There are some kind of specific regulations trying to make the environment more friendly for particularly software developers. And again, there are further tax reductions and incentives for employment and social security benefits. So I can say that it's going very well, particularly, we can say that there's a new area of startup low companies that are really interested they are really investing in this area and in overall economy also we can see that traditional companies are also have started their projects for IT transformation or making investment in tech industry also trying. It's a really good thing to see that there is a transition going and at that level, which is also supported by the public policies. I cannot say it's perfect, but we have really good case cases really good stories success stories so this is the story from that is our news from that part. Very helpful. Thank you. Another, maybe a question also looking at the work you're in suit what you're doing. And you described it before you do a lot of comparative research right you're looking at Europe and what do you also looking at other global developments and I was just wondering, overall, what's your sense.  Then there is the US with a strong emphasis on innovation and letting you know, lead by technology and some sort of look at law, maybe not as the first first place to go. And essentially Europe with a slightly different approach and some some people call it the third way, where it's about, you know, obviously GDPR being a great example and where it's more about human centric technology and the focus on using law as some sort of a tool to put in safeguards and make sure you know human rights get protection and the like. So I was just wondering, as you do so much comparative work in different areas, where do you see some of the interesting or most influential things happening, whether it's in financial service regulation that you mentioned or whether it comes to privacy. Are you mostly looking to Europe or are there other places where where your work picks up some interesting trends and developments. I can say the most we follow up very closely to the Europe. There is certain strategies and plans declared by the government and or law system. We follow the EU legislation and the harmonize or law system with the EU. Therefore, the first point is EU. What's going on the before would be do anything else to be analyzed what's going on. For example, the digital services act, and also still the draft data act or data governance act, etc. These are important to us. So therefore, first we look at what's going on at the user. But on the other side, we need to know what is going, what the people think, for example on AI or facial recognition or other kind of privacy issues in different geographies. To that extent, NOC is one of the wonderful platform to gather all kind of information to learn different thoughts, opinion of the people from different locations. And I'm always happy to ask NOC, the friends, what is the situation in your country, and would you like to share with me the laws and regulations or your approach or strategic reports or whatever else. It is a wonderful tool and platform to know and to gain 360 degree view on on related matters. Therefore, thank you so much in 2012 you established NOC and you include all related centers and institutions under that umbrella. And so whenever we work on related topic, we also use we also ask NOC people and try to understand their approach and combine the combine all related information, then try to find our way, our own way. What a wonderful way also to conclude our conversation and I'll give you the last word baby just in a second. Building upon the NOC and as a platform and the community of for knowledge sharing. I was wondering, what are the best ways for centers or individual researchers who want to learn more about the work your centers, your institute is doing, but also, you know, maybe learn more about developments in Turkey. What are the best ways to follow your work is it, you know, joining your online events now that we're in this mode, or is it to, you know, to check out your website what would you recommend and of course also if the upcoming third post will be virtual. I'm wondering whether there is a way to be a fly on the wall. Yeah. Our website is publicly available and we have English version and we also as an institute try to publish more English documents. Therefore, it is important to publish to share the knowledge or opinion with others. Therefore, we publish several English written reports or documents, and we use social media very active or institutes. We have accounts on LinkedIn. We have accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. And it is the easiest way to follow up and see members using social media and also using their websites, etc. But on the other side, we are very collaborative community. Whenever I ask something or email to other NOC members, they are very helpful and they are they, they answer my questions or they try to help me. They do everything in that regard. So therefore, there are several ways to reach us and several ways to know what's going on at the related institutes or research centres. Great. Bede, you want to add a few sentences. Yes, we our website is active. We are trying to publish everything in English and also we have also decided to contribute to international literature. So we are trying to translate within our institutions a major laws for at least to provide an overview of what's keeping going in terms of legislative level in Turkey. Our social media account is also active. We are also collaborating through these accounts. Our website, we publish everything in PDF in electronic form. We are trying to avoid classic traditional publishing so that we are trying to make our works accessible. So these are also our priority so that we can keep in touch. We can collaborate and we can work together. Thank you. Fantastic. Thank you so much for this conversation. Time was too short as ever. But just wonderful to hear what you're up to these days and get a few samples of the work ahead. Thank you so much for your time and again, I hope we'll see each other in person before too long. In the meantime, my best wishes and thanks for all your contributions. It's good seeing you. Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you.


Let me say a few words about Friends of IHES. Our organization was created in 1999 and our mission of course is to increase the visibility of the IHES in the US and coordinate network of former current visiting scholars and of course to raise funds for the IHES for all of these very important reasons to support fundamental science. And all of our contributions are important, large, small, they all have an essential role to play. I know that founders of the organization are here, Bernard Santana, our first president, many of our board members and the earlier board members are here, thanks to all of you for founding and for your many contributions to making this organization as successful as it has been. And thanks to all of you. So let me now turn to the current director of IHES since 2013, Emmanuel Olma. Could you tell us something more about the IHES and its science and what challenges do you face at the moment? So thanks a lot Mike and thanks a lot all of you for the kind words I heard. I hope you enjoyed the film as I did. We are more than 88 people attending this video, so it's a very good thing for us. So as you probably understood the institute's mission is to provide an ideal environment for scientists to do their research but also to connect and share their ideas. In that regard, the pandemic has affected us quite a bit because the interactions and informal conversations that are also appreciated by our scientists and which regularly led to new ideas and collaborations have been very compromised this year. Normally the institute receives 200 invited researchers who are selected twice a year by our scientific council. The length of the visit varies between two weeks and two years but the average is around two months. During their stay they interact with our six permanent professors who are mathematicians and theoretical physicists all of exceptional level internationally. This year of course the number of visits has decreased and our scientists have had to be creative to keep collaborating with researchers from all across the world and maintain the quality of their partnerships. Seminars and conferences have become virtual and the first time our summer school was held online. One advantage is that it allowed more people to participate. We had about four times more registrations than when we hold the summer school at the institute but of course it lacks the flavor of physical meeting and interactions. Still although it's difficult to travel and therefore to see people in person our global network has proven stronger than ever this year. This event is a testimony in itself of the solidity of our relationships with our American partners. Let me take this opportunity to thanks the friends of IHES and all of those who are watching the event. This year 90% I can see even if in this difficult context our researchers have managed to stay very active and very connected with colleagues from the US and from across the world and the scientific activity although with a different pace and a different form of work is still very dynamic at IHES. I would like to say that IHES is a very important challenge. Apart from it I would say that the main challenge for the institute is to preserve and maintain its model long-term in order to continue to attract the very best minds from all over the world. Speaking of attracting talents promoting diversity, equity and we would like the institute to better reflect how diverse exceptional scientists can be. Those are crucial issues and the support, advice and help from our network especially in the US has also proven to be very precious in that regard. Thank you Emmanuel. So everyone that was very informative but if you have questions there's a Q&A button at the bottom of your screen and we'll try to get to all of the questions at the end. So next like to introduce Slava Richkoff who is a permanent professor at the IHES in physics since 2017. Slava studied in Moscow. He then obtained a PhD from Princeton and held positions in the Netherlands, Italy and in the United States. And then returned to Eichelnarmal and now IHES and possibly and certainly I hope you agree IHES is perhaps your natural home as you started out in mathematics and if one asks how can one combine mathematics and physics at the highest level of both as one of very few places where one can do that.


Okay, today I'm going to talk about how Android does not equal Google, okay?  The thing is, Android does not equal Google. Yes, Google supplies a lot of the source code and they do a lot, they're heavily involved in Android, but Android is an open source software. You can get versions of Android that don't have any Google services. You can make your own version of Android for your device that doesn't have any Google services. Even though Google is one of the biggest developers for Android, Microsoft is one of the biggest developers for Linux. It doesn't matter, the source code is open, you can see what's going on. It's not a proprietary software where it's closed and you don't know what's going on, okay? So you can also get devices that are very locked down. For example, Amazon Fire Tablets are very locked down. They try to restrict you from doing anything. That's not an Android thing, that's them taking Android, taking your device and locking it down. A lot of companies though allow you to unlock the bootloader and if you can unlock the bootloader, you can do anything to that device you want. You can uninstall whatever you want, you can install whatever you want, you can modify whatever you want. For example, I buy Motorola phones because they tend to be low cost and the company lets you unlock the bootloader. I don't have to do some sneaky hack do it, I just go to their website when I get a new Motorola device, say I want to unlock this, they give me a code to unlock it, right? It's not a hack, it's just they let you do it. Funny enough, Google has their own phones, their Pixel phones, they tend to be the easiest to unlock and the easiest to de-Google-fy. And you can again, take those, install custom ROM, it's not that hard to do and you can choose not to put any Google services on there. And you can choose to only use open source applications on that device. And again, even when devices are locked down, the Amazon Fire Tablets are getting really bad but for example Samsung, Samsung tends to be a little more locked down.  I have an old Samsung tablet I still use for reading at night from 2014 I think and I was able to unlock the bootloader using community projects, unlock it and putting a custom ROM on there and that's great. I don't buy Samsung devices anymore because hey, if the company is going to make it hard for me to unlock the device and make me do hacky things that concern me then why am I going to buy that device? But I know a lot of people who are very, very concerned, sometimes rightfully so in some ways that these companies are tracking them, the government's tracking them, the company's giving all the information to the government, the government's getting all the information from the companies and yes, that sort of thing does go on. I'm not going to talk too much about how much that goes on, it goes on a lot. We all know that. But here's the thing, you can avoid almost all of that if you take the time to use free open source software that you vetted. And again, even lockdown Android devices, usually you can, even if you can't uninstall them, you can disable most applications. It's not the best case scenario. But if you're going to unlock the bootloader, you can install custom ROM and you can use free software on there and you know it's not doing anything. I can show it. It's like, there's no question about it. Here's the source code. If you think something's going on, you show me where in the source code that it's doing it. Unlike proprietary software and other operating systems for mobile devices that don't give you any options. And it's kind of what this video is about. It's not just Google, Android isn't Google. Or it's about people I know who are very, very concerned that they're being tracked, but still use iOS and iPhones. Or maybe they're using Android, but they haven't de-Google-fied it, right? So, and it's just, I just find it funny that iPhone users tend to think that they're being tracked less than Android users. And I just find that, because I'm not defending Google in any way, I'm saying both these companies are tracking you. And other companies that have, you have proprietary software on your phone for. And what it comes down to is, think about it, okay, an Android device. I'm one that I can unlock the bootloader. I can usually change the launcher. I can disable the default web browser. I can use whatever web browser I want. I can use whatever texting application I want. I can go get a free, open source one, install it. I can change my keyboard that I always say home screen, you can change your home screen. I can choose not to have Google Assistant on there, iOS. And correct me if I'm wrong on any of what I'm about to say about it because I don't keep up to it. You can't uninstall Safari. You can use other web browsers, but you can't uninstall it. You can't change your home screen. You can't change your launcher. You can't change your keyboard, okay? You can't get rid of Siri, right? So think about it. You can't get, I'm pretty sure you have to use iMessenger, right? So think about this. You're saying, oh, Google's tracking everyone who's using Android, which isn't true because I can use free and open source software that I can look at the source code. And I know that they're not doing it. Yes, most people who use Android just leave the default stuff on there and they're being tracked by them and other whatever companies make the phones.  And not only that, but they try to force you to use, you're thinking you're texting somebody, but you're actually chatting through their servers if you're talking to other iPhone users. Which means not only could they be logging stuff either way, but now you're just sending everything to their servers. Again, if you want to put a shortcut on your home screen to a website, last I checked, iOS, you can install Chrome, you can install Firefox, but you can't add shortcuts to your home screen for them. You have to use Safari to do that. Again, forcing them you to use their browser that you can't remove and it's going to track everything that you're going through. You're telling me that they're saying you have to use this, but there's not a reason behind it. And even if you were able to change all that, I'm pretty sure you have to use their keyboard, which means every single thing you type is being put into a proprietary program that they wrote, right? And it could be logging everything and sending everything directly to them. Now, you could say, Chris, prove that it's doing it. Some of that stuff you can prove. Some of it, I don't know, I don't have an iPhone to test, but I mean, it's proprietary, so it could be logging everything you're typing, encrypting it and sending it, and it's sending stuff to the Apple Cloud all the time. So you don't know what it's sending, and that's just it. You don't know. But I can prove to you that my keyboard's not logging stuff, because I can show you the source code, and if you think it is, you show me where in the source code it's doing it. So again, I'm not defending Google in any way. Because as far as I'm concerned, they're both just as bad, other than Google with their devices do give you the freedom to choose not to use their services, where iOS, there is no way around it. You have to be using it.  How much is an iPhone now? $912,000? Per phone? That's crazy. $12,000, not $12,000, $12,000. $900,000 to $12,000 would be super crazy. But I've been told that iPhone users believe that they pay so much that Apple doesn't need to track them, because they already got money from them so they don't have to collect their information and send it. What a lovely thought.  So again, I am not in any way defending Google. I'm just saying, don't think Apple and iOS. I don't get company loyalty, customer loyalty to a company. There is, unless it's a little mom and pop company that you interact with, the owners and the employees, they might care about you.  And if you're putting stickers on the back here, I would never put a Google sticker on the back of my car. But people have all the Apple, sometimes they have a family Apple. It's like, why do you love this company so much? They don't care about you. And I can understand liking a product. But people, iPhone users are just crazy. See, they look at Android users and they're like, oh, Android users, they always just talk about, no, it's just, I don't care about Google. I use Android because it's technically a better application. There's nothing that Android, and that should be a whole video. iOS has built in limitations to it, saying you can't do this. And simple, simple things, Android, there are no limitations that software doesn't prevent you from doing anything. Some companies, again, lock down their devices. But even most Android devices that are somewhat locked down, you have pretty much freedom to do whatever. iOS, and correct me if I'm wrong, because last I checked, you can't download videos. You can stream them. So if I give you a direct link to an MP4 or whatever review file on a website, you should be able to download that. Last I checked, you can't with iOS. Same with MP3s. They decide what you can and can't download. Can you torrent stuff? And don't think torrenting is something illegal. Torrenting is a legit thing that can be used for illegal stuff. Most Linux distributions will have torrent things because it's less stress on their servers. But I don't think you can. I think you can now maybe run ROMs, like Nintendo ROMs and stuff on iOS. I know you should not be able to. I think maybe you can now. Let me know in the comments below if you can or can't. That's always been a thing, because there's nothing to stop you. Also, here's another thing to think about when it comes to iOS versus Android. You don't have to use the Google Store. I can install stuff from my computer. I can download file to my computer or install it to my phone or from any website. And someone's going to go, oh, you can't just download anything from any website. Well, no, I only do it from websites I know and trust. You think that every application in the Play Store or the App Store on iOS is secure. Apple is not making all those. There's no way for them to vet them because it's proprietary's close or software. They don't know what those applications are actually doing. So until they find that someone's doing something they can't pull it, it's no different pulling down from a store than it is a website. As long as you trust who it's coming from, it's no different than going to different websites. You just have to make sure you trust that website and your connection to that website and who runs that website and who makes the application. It's the same with the App Store. I'm almost out of time because my phone's going to start, my camera is going to stop recording at about 12 minutes. But iOS has so many limitations and all their applications are proprietary and you can't get rid of them. Just think about that. If you're concerned about privacy, iOS is not the way to go. Android that you have gotten a custom ROM for or created your own even better, there you go. But no, there's no love coming from Apple.


Welcome folks. This is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We go five days a week. We go seven hours a day. We go 24 hours a day on the internet at TFNN.com. Always remember folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever you focus on grows. Hope everyone's having a great day, safe day. Let's make a great night, folks. Don't take anything personally. When you refuse to take things personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. You're feeling the anger, jealousy, and even sadness will simply disappear if you don't take them personally. Knock it wise. Let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries trading down 80 Nasdaq off seven and a half. S&Ps off two. Gold. Gold contract down $19.70 traded at $19.53 an ounce. We have Silver up a penny, $22.60 an ounce. Light sweet crude off a buck 83. $75.54 a barrel. Notes and bonds. Ten-year note, up six ticks. Trading one away 10. The third year up 29 ticks at $114.28 in Kingdollah. Kingdollah's up 56. 105, 590. Euro at 107. He ends at 151. British Pounds at 122 to one at U.S. Dollar. Offer numbers<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. I know it's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at them. What do you have? Well, you took a lot of energy to get up here, folks. This is the building cause to get the higher price. So you can see that right where we are, this is, you know, this flack right here. There's no doubt about it. You know, we're fast and furious up there. We've been four days going sideways. We'll see how many more days you're going to go sideways. It's trying to take out this whole area here. That's what it comes down to. We go into the queues. We take a look at the queues. Same type of setup inside the queues. What do you have with the queues? Right now, the queues are trading down 23 cents. Sideways move inside day, but you can also see the same type of setup, man. You're just laying right across these. So notes and bonds. We take a look at the note and bond market. So we have with the 10-year note, what do you have? You know, we're going to need some more volume in order to sustain higher price in this 10-year. We're at 1.5 million contracts right now. You know, we had the swing come in at the 2.8. So, you know, last Friday it was 2.8. It had volume. Check out the swing point. That says you're going to be back up there, but you can see, you know, the last couple of days hasn't been a lot of volume. My take is that we're taking it out. You know, we'll just see how this shakes out because it is good when you start going sideways because you can see what happened is that when we had the wide price spread accelerated volume, we broke the down trend. So that's just the same. The 10-year wants to go to the 1.14 level and we're at 1.08. Now watch how this goes. At the 1.14, if you look down the bottom here, see this July? Yeah, July 14. See that right there? It's July 18th, actually. Now watch this. I'm going to turn around and we just go like this. 10-year yield. Now watch how this goes. 10-year yield. Okay, cool. This doesn't. Okay, you can see what's happening here. If you're watching Target TV, you're at 4.517 right now, right? Now you go to July 18th, okay? Because that's where this thing is setting up. Now, we're at 4.5. Is this July 18th? Yeah, approximately July 18th. That's saying that number one, when this, I just showed you that how we broke the down trend, so that means it goes to the top of the range, go to the top of the range, that means we come down another half a percent because that's 4. right there, 4.00, 4.08. And what has happened, okay, to the mortgage rates, now check, so right now we're at 4.6, I mean 7.6. Now that was the largest drop in one week for a whole year, folks, okay? That's how intense it was. And then just because of that, you had the mortgage applications actually up to 3% in one week. So it's going to get intriguing to see the faster the drop, of course, the more people that are going to go for a mortgage, go for refinancing, go for all of that. We're going to take a look at that gold contract. With the other the gold contract, we're pulling back on gold with dramatically lighter volume. We're talking about 1.6, no, 162,000 contracts coming into 270. Yeah, we're 270 right here. Let me put this volume up so you can see this. It was not even at a 0.382 retracement yet. So the gold contract can go to a lower price and we'll see when we get the rejection. There's another spot right underneath here that was a huge standard strength. You can see that that was at the 1946 level, the high was 1946, that low there was 1881 actually, that was a huge day. But you can see the contraction. The contraction is pretty dramatic and most times you see that contraction, bottom line is not enough sellers and that means we're still going to higher price. Then we go over to King Dollar. Now, this is the kicker of him because when we take a look at King Dollar, what you're going to see here is that each day it's having a hard time to try to get back in its higher range. That's how this is shaken out. We saw that you broke the consolidation. We broke the trend line first on the way up. Then we broke the consolidation and you can see that consolidation was going on for approximately three weeks then it broke down. Now you're trying to get back in the higher range. Now that higher range starts at 109.559 and you can see we're at 105, I mean 105, one second, 105. Oh no, 105. Yeah, it's 105.559 and we're 105.575. We tried it yesterday, couldn't handle it, come up today, couldn't handle it. That's telling me that what, that we are on our way bingo right down here. That's, and that move, well first that move, I suspect we'll get some support at 104, yeah the 104 699 level because that's where we broke out from. But all of this down here, this wants lower price. Oil. Let's go take a look at the oil market. Oil's been getting toasted and roasted and we take a look at that oil market out here. Yeah, you're down with volume again. Oil's out of this way at 72 bucks, man.  Stay right there folks, come right back.


Hey everyone, it's Matt Stancing again here at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic And I'm here with one of our sponsors Cam Jenner of TechSnap And if you've ever been inside of VA clinic or hospital, you have knowingly, unknowingly, used their wireless services. Cam, can you tell me a little bit about your company? TechSnap is an IT company that provides mission support services in the US federal marketplace but we've been doing work with them for the VA for probably 35 years and last five or six years, we've been deploying mission wireless at every major medical center and clinic throughout the country Absolutely and some of your clients including the VA, you know, DOD, Army, Navy have took a look at your website You guys have a lot of pots and a lot of hands here We do. We provide mission support for all manner of mission problems throughout the US federal government. So in the case of the VA Smart hospital Wi-Fi systems allow doctors nurses and clinicians to be a lot smarter about locating assets They need when they need it and I should say there's more than a VA connection here Of course, this is an event that is co-presented by the VA every year We could not do it without them certainly. Cam, can you tell me a little bit more about what drew you to the clinic here? Why did the company just decide to sponsor the event? This event is Amazing because it provides the veterans an opportunity to get out and do some things like fly fishing and skiing and All kinds of things getting out on the hockey ice was one of the events that I supported and You can see the smile on their face and how much of a difference it makes to them So it's a really rewarding experience Yeah, and we say a lot that this is a life-changing event that it's magical And if we say it a lot, it's because it's absolutely true and anyone who is here has experienced that and but you've experienced a lot this week already What has been the highlight so far? So Wednesday I went to support the hockey on ice and they put veterans in these little chairs and Allow them to create teams and and play on the ice and some of them have done it for the first time and some of them I have done it many times and I was there to support them and walk You know around the ring on on the ice with them and help wherever I could and there was one lady who had a Struggle getting up each time and on the third time I got her up. She said I Got a tip you you've been a godsend of getting me up and I said you've already tipped me You've supported this nation and this country and I thank you for it Wow, that's awesome. And lastly, why should other companies or individuals come out? Here and sponsor this magical event This event is really amazing. I This is the first time that I personally attended but my company has sponsored it several years in a row and You can just see the difference that it makes for each of the veterans on their faces And there's studies that show that it's more about the giver than it is the receiver and it's just so true So if you haven't sponsored this event, I highly recommend it because it's good for our nation's finest who gave everything It's just an amazing experience and it's not a bad scenery to roll around here, right all week long Aspen is absolutely beautiful place to just get your mind right Absolutely, it's a great place to get your mind right well said and make sure you're following along at winter sports clinic org I'm Matt Sancing for DAV. Thanks


o fwy o ddynuno Gwg dispute' i'r ddynuno sector. Fy gyd yn sicr o'r ddebyg o'r ddynuno sector diwrnod, ond nid roedd y ddebyg yn cyd-degyndd, i paesfyn arherfodd yr oesigol a i ddysgu'r ddynuno sector diwrnod. Mae'n ddysgu'r ddynuno sector diwrnod, ond mae'n dda i'n meddwl i Waid Ate, a ddynuno sefydlu diwrnod o'r ddynuno sector diwrnod. I want to thank Gillian Hunt, who is in the gallery, for all her encouragement and enthusiasm in terms of me lodging the motion, which is behind this debate this evening. I also want to thank David Mitchell, who is the head teacher of the new grammar school, who I will mention a few times during my speech. He is also in the gallery always making his way there. I think the early decision time might have caught him on the hop. He and a group of young people from Dunion Grammar, who have been in the Parliament this afternoon, are also in the gallery. Deputy Presiding Officer, Dunion Grammar achieved so much under the leadership of David Mitchell and his staff. In my time as an MSP, I have submitted eight motions recognising various successes, such as the sheer number of achievements of the staff and pupils of that school over the years. This is the school at the heart of its community. It is also a school that is very open and welcoming to politicians. In fact, my first experience of the school was at a hustings in the 2016 election campaign. I have spoken alongside Mike Russell, former Cabinet Secretary and MSP for our Garland Buteter, a class for modern studies pupils in that school. Such are the successes of Dunion Grammar that it has been the first-ever Scottish school to be named in the European Entrepreneurial School of the Year awards in 2019 for its work in promoting entrepreneurial initiatives. Teams of pupils have won awards at the apps for good UK showcase over the years with two teams from Dunion Grammar winning prizes in 2023. Dunion Grammar is a regular entrant at the Scottish Education Awards with David Mitchell nominated last year and a school winning the Gallic Education Award in 2022. Perhaps most notably, Dunion Grammar was named the world's best school for community collaboration in 2022 by the global teaching platform T4 education. None of those achievements have been accidental and all have happened because of that school's relentless focus on being an institution that actively collaborates with the community that it serves. There have been a number of such collaborations. My apologies to Donald Cameron for that intervention. I absolutely recognise the glowing way that he is speaking with regard to Dunion Grammar School. Many of my visits have had the same positivity. I wonder if Donald Cameron would like to agree with me and express our thanks to the following teachers, specifically Paul Galina, for the work that he did with regard to entering the school, but also Scott MacKinnon and Pam McNaughton on developing the future workforce, the youth and the young workforce. Donald Cameron. I'm, of course, grateful to Jenny Minto for mentioning those two teachers. It's really important that we get on record the names of not just the head teacher but other leaders in the school who have driven it forward. I was discussing the community collaboration. I should focus on one project. There is an empty toy library in Dunion that was owned by our Garland Bute Council, and that has been passed to the school with plans for it to become a new community facility. Pupils will play an integral role in the success of the project. There are plans for it, for example, to host adult learning classes delivered by young people, a garden run by the school's learning centre and a community cafe where young people can learn skills for future life. Not only is that a positive project that is being pursued for the benefit of pupils, but it is giving back to the local community and bringing an empty space into good use. Gillian Hunt. I thank the member for taking his intervention. I agree with him that, in focusing on the SCQF framework and the need to offer alternative courses for young people, exactly the sort of description he has just described around the community focus and the award-winning school that it is, would he agree with me that that framework is a useful framework for young people who need all sorts of support to achieve the best that they possibly can in school? I agree that the breadth of subjects that are available is intrinsically important to young people. The member will know the challenges that we all face in subject choice at schools in Scotland. I think that the point that I would like to make is that this is a project, for instance, that gives back to the local community. There was a report done by Gillian Hunt in 2023 entitled High Dunoon, which explains that work and those projects and why it has been such a success. It has been taken up by the respective think tank Reform Scotland, which was a report that featured in a number of national newspapers last year. In the 40th report, it is written in a Dunoon context that the word community is widely cast as you will see drawn out, draw out an exemplary environment for young people to learn, grow, find future opportunities and contribute their own ideas. The teachers are encouraged to think for themselves and take an outward looking approach to their job. External partners in the public, third and private sectors have become part of the Dunoon grammar family. That sums up what Dunoon grammar does and how it could be a wider model for other schools across Scotland. That is not to say that the school is perfect and it would be wrong not to acknowledge that, like many other towns in rural Scotland, there are deep-seated challenges within that community. Fundrable people still need support. The mental health of young people still needs addressing. The point that he is making about the transformative power of a school, the pivotal thing, the thing that makes this all possible, would he agree, is leadership. That is what we have in Dunoon grammar. We have leadership. We have a leader and a leadership team. Does every school in Scotland have that empowered sense of leadership and autonomy, even? Does he believe that we could transform every school in Scotland into a Dunoon grammar? I am firmly aware of that view. The member says eloquently what I personally believe. I am not saying that Dunoon grammar is unique. There are plenty of other Scottish schools that have a similar level of engagement with their communities or allow their teaching staff to think creatively. Other schools do remarkable things. I am sure that members will draw that to their attention. It is very fortunate that, in Stephen Kerr's leadership, David Mitchell is the headteacher there. It is no wonder that he was shortlisted for headteacher of the year in 2023. I can give Mr Cameron a wee bit of extra time because he has been generous with interventions. I thank the member for giving way. My apologies for missing the start of the debate. I just want to put on record that the headteacher, David Mitchell, cut his teeth in Dumfries and Galloway. Dunoon's gain is certainly Dumfries and Galloway's loss. The culture around the school is something that is admired everywhere. I think that Dumfries and Galloway could certainly take some lessons from what is happening in Dunoon. I did not know that. I thank Finlay Carson for that information. Given much of the decision-making around education, it is obviously the responsibility of local authorities. It is down to the leadership of those authorities to make or break innovation in education. It is important to recognise that all the many achievements of the new grammar have occurred under existing structures and systems. However, if there is greater freedom and greater empowerment of headteachers, then even more things could happen. I must draw my remarks to a close. Can I lay a direct challenge to the cabinet secretary who I am delighted to see is here? What will the Scottish Government do to learn the lessons of the new grammar of success and ensure that in any way it can, that success can be replicated across Scotland? It is a brilliant example of what can be achieved when teachers are given the freedom and support to think and act creatively. It is a brilliant example of what can be achieved when pupils are made to feel part of something bigger and are encouraged to think about social good. I should mention that there are currently new grammar pupils in Tanzania undertaking work there. It is a brilliant example of what can be achieved when the local community has a stake in the success of their school. To help to new grammar, David Mitchell, his team, his leadership, his teachers, his pupils' passing presence have achieved so much and will no doubt go on to achieve much more. To help to new grammar and every other school in Scotland, it is imperative that we in the Parliament remove the barriers to success and let our schools flourish. Thank you. We now move to the open part of the debate. I call Emma Harper to be followed by Liam Kerr, Ms Harper. I want to take the opportunity to congratulate Danone Grammar School as well. I also congratulate Donald Cameron for securing this debate. I am happy to support his motion. I want to add my thanks to all at Danone Grammar School for their hard work, dedication and commitment to the community. I also want to provide the school-age learning experience, which spans a lifetime for the pupils. The many achievements of the school, which have been well rehearsed by Donald Cameron, are testament to the school's ethos of continually improving and doing all the time to ensure the best outcomes for young people. Danone Grammar School has a very long and distinguished history spanning over 350 years of growth, of which high standards of academic and personal development have been the hallmarks. A huge well done goes to all the school community. When preparing for this debate, I had a wee discussion with my head of office, who attended Air Grammar School. We had a blether about the history of grammar schools in Scotland. Scotland has many schools such as Air Grammar and Dunbar Grammar in my South Scotland region, which are called grammar schools but are now essentially the same as other state schools. Although historically, those grammar schools would have acted independently and were, and in some cases, are still viewed as providing high quality academic education. It is important to note that those schools are not the same as grammar schools in England and Northern Ireland. With that in mind, I want to share some of the exceptional work of schools in the South Scotland region, which are working to provide the best possible educational outcomes. One such school is Lockerbie academy in Dumfries and Galloway under the leadership of Brian Asher. Lockerbie academy is very much an integral part of the town and embraces fully the town motto, which is forward, building on their vision around improving the future of the local area for pupils and community. Lockerbie academy's twin purpose to be a place where pupils feel cared for and above all to learn drives their desire to be the best that they can be. The academy has, every year since the Lockerbie air disaster, has worked with Syracuse University in New York as part of an exchange programme. Two pupils from Lockerbie travelled to Syracuse and vice versa to lay a wreath on behalf of the town in remembrance of all those who died in the air disaster. It is massively appreciated by the town and the wider community and has led to the school being nationally recognised by Education Scotland for their leadership with the scheme. Another fantastic example is Dumfries high school and Kyle academy in air, both of which have been leading the way with the vision school Scotland programme. The programme aims to encourage and empower Scottish schools to enshrine Holocaust education into the curriculum to ensure that every young person learns of the horrors of the Holocaust. Just last week I had the opportunity to meet with S6 Dumfries high school pupils Brogan Matthews and Katie Donald and their teachers, Lizzie Smithard, who is the history teacher and Phillip Cubbin, who is the head teacher. I met them at Dynamic Earth for a Vision Schools award ceremony. Brogan and Katie have been leading the way with Holocaust education in the school and had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz earlier this year. This is vitally important work and I thank the pupils and school communities of Dumfries high and Kyle academy for their work. Finally, I want to give mention to Strunar academy, which was recently awarded the young enterprise team programme award. Strunar academy is where my first secondary school was a long time ago now, presiding officer, but what they have done there is they have a programme that ran over a full academic year. It involves students from S5 and S6 starting their own student company over the course of the academic year. That company, what they did was through key milestones, they developed an idea, conducting market research, they created a product or a service and it's ultimately, there was then promoted and then traded for it. So the award that they've received is well deserved. So presiding officer, in closing, I put my thanks on the record to all our fantastic schools and of course Donald Cameron for securing this debate and raising the profile of Dunoon grammar and raising this motion this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Ms Harper. I now call on Liam Kerr to be followed by Rosa Grant. Mr Kerr. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and thank you to Donald Cameron for bringing this debate to the chamber and giving me an opportunity for a brief contribution. Last May, Chris Dearin, the director of reform Scotland, made what I think is a very important point when he said in the High Dunoon report that we heard about, there is much focus in the media and elsewhere on what is wrong with Scottish education, but it's also important to talk about the success stories, those projects from which others can learn and benefit. He makes an important point because we all know that, as David Mitchell, the head teacher, put it, the current financial situation makes it even harder to provide a wide range of opportunities for young people as do the many other issues impacting Scottish education at this time, which we've rehearsed in this chamber many times. Yet Dunoon Grammar School has achieved all that it has, quote, without additional resources or any special measures, so says Gillian Hunt, the educational consultant who authored this report. That's why it's so crucial that this Parliament not only celebrates Dunoon Grammar's success today, that we've heard so much about and will do. Not only that we commend the pupils, staff and partners who've made it all happen, some of the examples of which Donna Cameron gave earlier, but also ensure that we find out what is working and explore and evaluate what makes this model of success. Crucial to that seems to be this idea of an education system or a facility which doesn't exist in isolation, that doesn't exist in a silo, but rather works and exists as part of an ecosystem. What we've seen is a school in Dunoon Grammar School which already operates in that way, one which exemplifies the idea of taking a village to raise a child. As the High Dunoon report put it, the school sits at the heart of this environment and its purpose is clear to provide everything that students need to thrive and be successful. A huge part of that is making sure that this environment and wider community can thrive and be successful, too. I will. I warmly endorse Mr Kerr's sentiment that we should be more positive about the achievements in schools throughout the whole country. I claim no moral superiority in casting stones on anyone else here, so let me say that. Does Mr Kerr not agree that the nature of negativity, which far too often characterises the debate about education in this chamber, does none of us any good and perhaps does the institution as a whole considerable gratuitous harm? It's a very interesting point and I'm grateful for the intervention. I think that, as I alluded to earlier, there are significant challenges facing the Scottish education system. In this sort of debate, I don't think that it would be right for me to go into what some of those are and what I believe that some of those are, but it is the responsibility of this Parliament to address those challenges by setting them out clearly and trying to work cross-party to find those solutions. I absolutely agree that where success, such as we're seeing from Dunwine Grammar School, is apparent, it absolutely deserves to be celebrated but also aired in exactly the same way in order that the lessons of Dunwine Grammar School can be learned because some of those successes we actually heard about earlier. One of the results, of course, is that the School 1 T4 Education World's Best School Prize for Community Collaboration in 2022. Presiding Officer, there are only five categories and they are open worldwide. To put this in context, the year they won it, the runners-up were from India and Brazil. It is truly incredible. We've heard some of the key factors and we will no doubt hear further the key factors this afternoon in the process and they might be summarised as truly collaborative partnerships in the community and an outward-looking approach and a focus on how sectors can learn from each other and apply that learning. I have to say, one thing is clear, whether from the report, from what we'll hear in this debate, from the various commentaries that I've looked at when researching my remarks today, at the heart of all this is the headteacher David Mitchell who's joined us in the gallery today and has even described rightly, it seems, as a local hero. Although, of course, many have contributed, for example, Jenny Minto raised to others earlier in her intervention. Presiding Officer, I want to close with the words of Gillian Hunt, writing for Reform Scotland last year in her paper Making Effective Collaboration in Scotland a Reality, because I think it embodies what we are discussing today. She said, I challenge the new First Minister and the education secretary to refocus attention on education and to ensuring that all of our children and young people succeed.  That seems to me inarguable. I look forward very much to hearing the cabinet secretary's response to that challenge later this evening. Thank you. Mr Kerr, I now call Rhoda Grant to be followed by Arianne Burgess, Ms Grant. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and I want to add my congratulations to Donald Cameron for securing the time for this debate, but also to congratulate the Noon Grammar School, that had teacher staff and pupils on their huge achievement winning the award best school in the world for community collaboration. I also want to recognise the role of Hergail and Bute Council in supporting them. They have done a number of projects that they have taken part in, streaming Bingo and other games to local care homes during Covid, which must have been a lifeline for the people in the care homes, as well as strengthening the intergenerational bonds in that community. They have also launched an app to reduce food waste. Probably the most important thing of all, they have a student advisory board for the Doonoon project. The Doonoon project is looking at an awful lot of things that will help to put Doonoon on the map and make it a centre for excellence for outdoor activities and other things as well. Being on the advisory board allows them to work closely with the project. It is not only helping Doonoon right here and right now, but it is also helping Doonoon in the future and providing a future for those very pupils because it will provide them with job opportunities in years to come as well as the skills that they are learning every day as part of that. Learning in different ways benefits all young people because they learn in a way that suits them best. I will take on information in a very different way, but seeing different ways of learning actually motivates everybody and means that everyone can be part. If you are not very good at book learning, you are certainly very practical. All those skills come into play when you have a rich diversity of the way you learn. I quote the head teacher saying allowing students to take part in activities that are learning experiences. They may not feel like that, they may not seem like that, but they are and they add to people's knowledge. I really congratulate them on that. Everyone does win from this. An issue that I have taken on board for a long period of time is rural depopulation. We know that young people are pushed out of their communities because of depopulation. Indeed, in Ireland, we saw 2.4 per cent population fall. It is so important that those young people are part of that future, that they are building the future for themselves and that they are creating opportunities that will allow them to stay at home. Last week, we saw the Herald Ranna major week-long series on the population crisis in the Highlands and Islands. A bit north from Denun and Fort William is based in Fort William. We saw for ourselves what is required to retain young people in our communities. First and foremost, of course, it is at home. It is also about feeling part of your community and having the same opportunities in that community as you would if you moved elsewhere. That is why the work of the school is so important, because not only are those young people the imagination to create opportunities for themselves. They are actually being part of that as they learn. I think that other schools could learn from what Denun Grammar is doing. Yes, I will give way. I am most grateful to Rhodogran for giving way and concerning our remarks about population and depopulation in the Highlands and education and in particular the excellent series of articles by the Herald on problems facing particularly more remote Highland communities and islands is the serious risk of massive further depopulation of 10, 15 per cent, not perhaps the most serious threat to education because of the risk that schools will simply close because of the dwindling school roles and therefore repopulation with development in the Highlands encouraged and enabled by this Government is absolutely essential. Rhodogran, I absolutely agree because we don't want to halt depopulation by keeping our young people in their communities if that is somehow a lesser opportunity for those young people. What we have to do is create the opportunities and the future within the communities so that they are not forced out and I hope that the young people in Denun will have choices about where they make their futures and making their future in Denun will be an excellent opportunity for them. I now call Arianne Burgess who will be the last speaker before I ask the Cabinet Secretary to respond to Ms Burgess. I would like to also thank my colleague in the Highlands Islands region Donald Cameron for lodging this motion and providing opportunity to discuss the excellent work carried out at Denun grammar school that demonstrates community-supported education across Scotland. I had the pleasure of visiting Denun grammar in the lead-up to COP26 when I met students who were part of the eco-sustainability group to discuss the action needed on climate and nature and it was a tremendous conversation that I had with them. Also at that time David Mitchell, the head teacher gave me a tour of the school and showed me all these other amazing activities that people were up to and I had the opportunity to talk to other students and also staff at that time and I certainly got a tremendous impression of what's taking place in the school. I'm looking forward to returning to the school soon to meet again with Mr Mitchell and to work with pupils on developing a place plan for their community alongside Denun community development trust and it is wonderful to see Mr Mitchell, pupils and staff in the gallery here this evening. Denun grammar's example doesn't just reflect excellent practice in community engagement it is transforming what a community is perceived to be and how our young people engage with their local environment, neighbours and culture. That community engagement goes much deeper than the fundraising events and occasional open days that we're all probably familiar with. Working with third sector organisations and social enterprises in partnership to achieve common goals inspires pupils and adds to the vibrancy of life in the town. How many pupils know what a place plan is let alone will take part in active will take active part in creating one and yet we all know how vital, safe, connected and flourishing community spaces are to young people. Whether that's creating places that make it easy for them to travel on foot or by bicycle ensuring high quality play and recreation provision or creating environments that are well lit and feel safe for meeting friends. Making our built environment especially in rural areas welcoming spaces for young people is a key but often overlooked aspect of our of rural populations. So too is ensuring there are secure well paid jobs in a variety of sectors and crucially that the young people growing up in rural communities are equipped with the skills that they need to secure them. We know that in the last year jobs in the renewable industry have increased by 50% in Scotland and many of those roles are in my Highlands and Islands region. There's also a growing demand for skilled trades people and engineers to build the 11,000 rural homes the Scottish Government is committed to creating to retrofit and insulate existing homes and to install and maintain low carbon heating systems. Increasingly, we're taking a whole range of new job openings up directly by tackling climate and nature emergencies through peatland and rainforest restoration woodland and deer management and ecotourism. These job opportunities like the development roles in the carbon neutral island scheme give young people the opportunity not just to have fulfilling work within their rural communities but also to play a part in shaping the future of these places and maybe based on this place plan work we'll get a few students inspired to become much needed planners. Education is about so much more than producing the workers for the future. It's about developing creative critical thinkers, nurturing talent and inspiring the next generation through curiosity and a love of learning. Mary Ann Burgess, give way. Fergus Ewing. Mary Ann Burgess talks about the importance of jobs in the highlands. A great many jobs in the highlands consist of people working in the gas industry and who live and commute to work offshore and form a staple part of many many communities. Does the member like me value, cherish support the jobs in this sector which are going to be necessary for some considerable time to come? Mary Ann Burgess. I appreciate the member for that intervention. What I value and cherish is that we have a future for future generations in Scotland and on this planet and what I want to see is a just transition for those oil and gas workers to other sectors. Renewable energy is one of them but there are many other opportunities and that's what we need to get on with. The approach taken at Danoon isn't just about financial resources though investing in closing a poverty-related attainment gap is vital. It's about reassessing that which is truly valuable to a community and ensuring education provision locally meets those needs. Danoon grammar is not afraid to take risks. It tackles challenges head on and empowers pupils and staff to find new solutions and take those risks. As MSPs how can we work with local authorities to ensure more schools can follow Danoon grammar's example? How are we supporting collaboration between schools and community organisations? Crucially, how are we supporting the sharing of knowledge and expertise between schools so that best practice like that at Danoon grammar is captured and innovation is celebrated? Thank you Ms Burgess and I now call on Cabinet Secretary Jenny Garuth to respond to the debate on behalf of the Scottish Government. Thank you to Donald Cameron for lodging this motion and thank you to colleagues from across the chamber for what has been a really positive debate this evening. As Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills I really welcome the opportunity to celebrate excellence in education and undoubtedly there is so much to celebrate at Danoon grammar school as we've heard today and I have committed to visit the school along with my colleague Jenny Minto as a constituency MSP in the coming weeks. Of course the school's success is really a testament to the hard work of the staff, the teachers in the school and those that have been created as well the opportunities by the senior leadership team working shoulder to shoulder with the local community. It is also of course a testament to the pupils themselves who, like all of our young people have been through so much in recent years but continue to inspire us all. We have heard contributions from members across the chamber this evening I'm going to come to those momentarily before I do so. I want to put on record a welcome to the pupils who are in the gallery today and particularly to their headteacher David Mitchell who I think there was some debate amongst MSPs about where he belonged to in terms of his constituency and his origins but that's what MSPs do. Welcome to our Parliament, this is your Parliament and it's fantastic to see you here this evening. Donald Cameron spoke with great warmth about the reception he received from modern studies pupils and I have to say as a former modern studies teacher I would expect no less the world's best school for community collaboration, what an accolades I'm so looking forward to visiting the school in the not too distant future to see for myself the excellence on offer. Now to respond to some of the points raised in the debate. Emma Harper spoke about the history of the school and I think as we all know Scotland has a very proud educational legacy and we will do well I think to learn from that and to build on that history. She also spoke about the vision schools programme on Holocaust education and I met of course with Kyle Academy at Dynamic Earth only last week I was delighted to be part of the award ceremony which recognised the intrinsic importance of Holocaust education in Scotland schools. Liam Kerr mentioned talk about the educational ecosystem which I know has also been inspired in the report to meet with Gillian Hunter I know is in the gallery today on my visit to the noon in the next few weeks and I say to Liam Kerr as he knows I will always work on a cross-party basis in relation to education but his office is shortly to receive if he has not already an invitation to mind this afternoon which has been extended to members of the opposition to talk to them directly about educational reform and in the coming weeks before I hope subject to parliamentary business being agreed to we will have a wider debate across the chamber about educational reform and I look forward to working with members on that. I am happy to do so. Finlay Carson. I thank the minister for taking intervention. Would you agree with me that a good educational facilities like Denine Grammar underpin the long-term sustainability of areas particularly rural areas not just for the people who are currently living there but those who may be attracted to move to the area more jobs, more businesses more homes and good education is absolutely key to that and if that is the case will you join me in condemning the proposed fast-track moth-balling process for the Rai secondary school in rural Glenkens and encourage a wider community wellbeing consideration for the long-term future of that school similar to what we see with Denine Grammar. I thank the member for his intervention of course he is raising a very specific issue what I would say is that moth-balling of any school would be a matter for the local authority however as cabinet secretary I do retain some powers in this area and when that comes to me I will look at the recommendation of course from school inspections to that end. Much of what we've heard today reflect some of the very best of curriculum for excellence and also developing the young workforce and it's been more than a decade now since we launched developing the young workforce our youth employment strategy and I'm always struck by the debates on school reform which often sit in a rather siloed area. Mr Day of course is leading on wider work in relation to skills reform and I think these two agendas could be better joined up and I look forward to working with the opposition on that point because I think some of what we've heard today some of the real strengths in Scottish education are already doing that work. I do think that curriculum for excellence gives a broad framework which gives teachers that empowerment and that freedom momentarily to give learning and to provide teaching experiences that best suit the needs of their individual young people. It is a far less prescriptive system than existed prior to its introduction. I'm very grateful, I'm enjoying listening to the cabinet secretary's comments I just wanted to make sure she's going to address I thought Rhoda Grant made an interesting point about rural depopulation and one of the other but related challenges is ensuring that rural areas have sufficient teachers so can the cabinet secretary tell me what is the government doing to ensure that new teachers particularly choose to make their lives and careers in our more rural areas to ensure the future of these key parts of our country? Cabinet secretary That's a quick substantive question from the member I would like to give him more of a substantive answer as he may be aware I commissioned work on this very point last year from the student board for teacher education which is to provide me with a report essentially on options to move forward a waiver system which allows probationary teachers to tick the box as I did some years ago and that incentivises young people or maybe older people to go to other parts of the country to learn how to become a teacher. As the member knows we've seen a fall in relation to the numbers of teachers ticking the box and I think part of that has been informed by the pandemic with less people willing to move and might have been prior to the pandemic but I think we will need to look at this work in further detail. The challenge I face as cabinet secretary in this space is not to be an employer of teachers that is a matter for local authority so I need to work with COSLA on this very important matter but that's actually why Verity house the new arrangement we have with COSLA I think will be pivotal to driving some change in this area. The member may be aware that one of his colleagues has been raising questions on this very point in relation to issues in Aberdeenshire which I look to be visiting in the next couple of weeks alongside the GTCS who make decisions in much more detail because I think we can't have a one size fits all policy for the whole of the country we need to recognise local differentiation and different local authorities also can put in place some support we've seen for example some of our island authorities in the past look to provide financial incentives to encourage people to move there and there are I think a range of other opportunities that the strategic board for teacher education is going to give me further advice on. Happy to do so I'm conscious of time I'm most grateful to cabinet secretary and I shouldn't just do this opportunity to ask what progress she's making in relation to the new academy at Aberdeen and every other school in Scotland in promoting the uptake of the indispensable skill of touch typing amongst children in Scotland at something that would be incredibly cheap but enormously valuable as any massive investment in skilling our children for the needs of the century. Cabinet secretary I'm always impressed by Mr Ewing's ability to get touch typing on the official reports pupils in the gallery will understand that Mr Ewing has a key interest in this subject area and broadly I would support him of course the government has invested in digital connectivity there's more we need to do in that regard particularly actually in terms of the changes that are proposed in relation to our qualifications much of which will rely on that digital connectivity. We heard from a number of members today about the breadth of qualifications that are now on offer in the senior phase even compared to 20 years ago. Pam Duncan Glancy made an interesting contribution I thought in an intervention in relation to the SEQF and actually why that framework is so important in giving that parity of esteem across the board where traditional pathways are actually being replaced by much more flexible routes to recognising achievement and that's good for our young people there's not a one size fits all model as we've heard again today. Rhoda Grant talked about the challenges in relation to depopulation and I think that's actually why the flexibility that curriculum for excellence lends is really important so Dunin grammar school I know has facilitated access to over 50 skills based courses to empower students to work in professions vital to the local economy to keep them in the local area and I think that practical experience based curriculum also allows our young people to learn crucial industries like travel and tourism design and maritime studies too I know that the school works really hard to develop the entrepreneurial skills in its young people additionally and that young people at the school have a really key role to play I think that as we've also heard this afternoon in the Dunin project the towns plan to build a massive mountainside tourist attraction creating jobs for Dunin's young people that community collaboration was really a spirit I think in part a theme of today's debate that wider approach to school education which doesn't always just look at the school building itself and it's very clear that with the support from their teachers their support from a strong head teacher I should say and strong leadership but that wider school community has enabled young people to have the best opportunities on offer to them at Dunin grammar school not only in their local communities but more broadly I think and indeed internationally as we have heard through the motion today. From remotely engaging with care home residents as I think we heard from Rhoda Grant during the pandemic to presenting climate change solutions at COP26 as I think we heard from Ariane Burgess the young people of Dunin grammar school epitomise what it means to be effective citizens one of the four capacities which underpins curriculum for excellence and I'm really proud to have recently looked at some of the fantastic work that's under consideration at Dunin grammar school and to ensure that that work helps to inform our education reform plans as we move forward. To conclude Donald Cameron sent me a challenge which I wholeheartedly accept we have to learn lessons from the outstanding examples set by schools just like Dunin grammar school so I commit to visit the school in the coming weeks to ensure that our education reform work is informed by excellence in our classrooms just like that exhibited by grammar school.