We are live for those who are watching behind the scenes, very excited about this show. We have a very special guest who I will introduce shortly. But with that, it is a little different. If you're watching behind the scenes, you notice there is only one of the two co-hosts so far. And we'll talk about that on another show, but don't be alarmed, everything is good, everything is wonderful, everyone is happy. So with that, let's go ahead and get into the show. Hey, I'm Jordan Burke and welcome to Saints and Sages. I am very excited. Today, we have a special guest. And if you're listening and you're wondering, why is the intro different? Don't worry about it, it's okay, everything is good. But we have with us today, Mallory Smythe. She is a speaker and the author of the book, Rekindled, How Jesus Christ Called Me Back to the Catholic Church and Set My Heart on Fire. She joined walking with purpose out of a deep desire to help women come to know Christ personally through the transforming power of his word. Mallory experienced a powerful conversion of heart and college when she came to know God personally through scripture, which is a very good way to get to know Christ. We talk about that quite often with Lexio Duvina. But anyway, back to her bio. Having worked with college students as a focus missionary, she is now working in women's ministry and it is her dream to see all Catholics fall deeply in love with God and grab hold of the joy offered in the gospel. Mallory lives in Denver with her husband, Jared, and their four daughters. That is awesome. I only have one daughter and I love her to death. So I can only imagine how incredible it is to have four daughters total. So Mallory, welcome. Thank you for having me, Jordan. Yeah, the fourth one is actually sitting on my stomach right now. There you go, good. Three out of the world right now. Yeah, thank you. So we are talking about an absolute powerhouse and I probably overused that word in the last show but it's hard to find words to describe how incredible Fulton Sheen is. And this is one of the reasons I'm really excited to talk to you about him because you have some more insight and kind of you'd mentioned you had personal stories and I believe that I saw, I should have confirmed this before we started, but I believe I saw you have one of his quotes on your website. So he's very personal to you. Yeah, the first time I ever heard about Archbishop Fulton Sheen really ever, I was working as a youth minister and I came to know the Lord, like I said, through scripture, like you said in my bio, through the Protestant church. And so I had really started listening to all of these like incredible Protestant pastors. And I remember talking to one of my coworkers at the Catholic church and I was kind of still like closing my journey of really trusting the church. Like I had decided to stay Catholic so I was working as a Catholic youth minister but I still had some things I was wrestling with and one thing was like my priest wasn't very enthusiastic about Protestant pastors, that's weird. And I remember talking about something, one of them said to a coworker and she said, oh, a father would love that but he probably would love the way like in Archbishop Fulton Sheen would say that.  And then I don't even know from there, I just, I probably came across one of his YouTube videos and I remember sitting with my husband and I was like, Jared, everything he is saying is so relevant today. It makes so much sense. It's so orthodox, it's so compelling. How did all of this get lost? Like how did all of this good teaching get lost, you know, in the 60s? And he said, well, Mallory, it was the 60s, that's how they got lost. And so from there I just kind of became a fan and I have just been in awe of how holy he was, despite all the fame and everything else in his life. Right, it's so incredible to look back. As you said, everything he was talking about then is incredibly relevant to today. And it's shocking because you watch some of these videos are in black and white. And what he's talking about, you can take and transplant into today 2021 and it would be just as relevant and just as powerful. And I think more importantly, what's so striking about it, at least for me, is that what he's saying, the solutions that he's proposing would solve today's problems as well. Absolutely. And I think that's something else I've learned from him is that when you were in the heart of the church, when you were following Jesus, and I know you guys already did an episode on him and you talked a lot about his holy hour and I was actually just listening to him talk about it for the narrator for his autobiography and how he talked about how important it was for him saying faithful to his vocation. But when you were close to the Eucharist, when you were believing the sacraments, when you were in the Word of God and you were studying wisdom, that wisdom is timeless. It just always applies. It's the same thing with scripture. It's written 2000 years ago and it still applies today. It's the same. And so it's that wisdom that I think listening to Archbishop Sheen has taught me like go after the wisdom and whatever you write will be relevant. Like maybe you don't want it to be but it probably will be if the human heart hasn't changed. Right, that's totally right. And it's also a, it speaks to how important tradition and orthodoxy is and how he just was able to take these, well this is kind of a side note now but how he was able to take these seemingly complex issues and break them down into a very simplistic manner but even still in a very elegant way, I'm not nearly the order that he is. Maybe one day if God loves me enough to grace me with that, we'll see what happens. But taking these huge wide expansive topics whether it was communism or modernism or whatever other ism, breaking it down in a simplistic form that I think is, most people can grasp and doing it in a way that really just pulls people in. We kind of talked about this in the last show how he drew people to him, how popular he was, but I don't know, what are your thoughts on that? And I haven't actually read his autobiography so does he mention any of that in his autobiography or what do you know? Something he mentioned in his autobiography that I love is that he spent 30 hours preparing for every television show. And he did most of it in front of the Blessed Sacrament and so he said he never used notes. And even at the end of some, I don't know if it was a bishop or another professor but when he was a professor, somebody gave him the advice that every year at the end of every year that he should tear up his notes because he said, if you don't tear your notes up you're gonna get stale and you need to be like going back every year and renewing the things that you're teaching. And so he had, he was rigorous when it came to his study and he said that if you learn it enough it becomes part of you and you actually don't need the notes. And I think that's exactly what he did so well was that it became part of him and he never lost his humanity. He was an intellectual, there's no question. He was brilliant but he never, like he also was raised on a farm. He never lost that humanity. And so he was able like you said to distill that intellect and because he knew it so well and break it down to where you or I or anyone else could understand it which is I think a call to the clergy today. You know, I was talking to a friend it may have been on an interview for the book and my book is, it goes through like some of the issues I've had with the church and how I've dealt with them. And so he said, well, okay how do you wanna fix some of these things? And I think one thing is that whenever our priests are learning these high level theological things which are so amazing tell me how that matters to me during the COVID crisis. Like make it matter to me today in my own life whenever somebody could have lost a job or my kids home from school and he could do that. There was actually, I have the life of Christ right here. It's super old that Archbishop Sheen wrote and there's a point and it was so simple but where he talks about Nicodemus going to Jesus in the night and you know that's whenever Jesus says you have to be born again and he talks about God to love the world like all that stuff. And he says that Nicodemus says like we we believe that you are a great prophet. And he just says, notice that Nicodemus uses we because he wants to avoid any personal responsibility of I he's not ready to own it. It's like so simple and you're like, well, I do that. Yeah, you know, just such like such good insight that he can distill it down for us to understand it. Yeah, he's really inspiring whether I when what's really interesting too is whether I'm reading what he's, you know what he's written or listening to him. I feel the same draw which I haven't I don't think it's a norm for a lot of either authors or speakers either you connect what they've written or you connect to how they speak and they kind of run along that path which makes a lot of sense. But with him, it's, you know I was reading in particular victory over vice and I'm just compelled I'm drawn.  But it's I've loved reading his work and then learning more about him. You had mentioned that you had so you came in contact with him hearing about him through someone else thinking like, I don't know about this guy what kind of swung you around from that viewpoint was it just kind of diving in and listening as you mentioned with your husband or like what kind of I guess what I'm asking is what brought you deeper into what was the hook that really got you deeper in into love with the phone machine? It really was listening to him and really from listening to him learning about who he was and I'm always blown away with how much recent history we don't know. I was talking to my dad this week and I was like, was it a big deal when Ronald Reagan got shot? I didn't know he got shot and I care about history. He's like, who's a huge deal? He almost died. I'm like, well, you know what? No one talks about it. Okay. And so like learning about how he had like, I mean 50 million viewers or something like that every week. He was huge. He had all these Emmys. He was just so popular and I think that blew my mind because really I had associated that kind of preaching that we just talked about where you can just still theological ideas for the common person for their everyday life. I associated that with Protestant pastors. I associated that kind of popularity and that kind of power with the Protestants and it was almost a realization of like, oh, oh, yet another thing we gave to them in the first evangelist. Right, right. And so I think I was just really in awe of how popular he was. And then, I don't know, a couple of years ago I was just looking for something to listen to on Audible. I am always listening to Audible and so I downloaded his autobiography and I was just blown away at his stories, his whole, like how holy he was and how entertaining it was. He's just such a delight.  How true that is. I mean, most of them aren't, but. Right, right, I'm just saying. Yeah, what you're saying resonates with me in a particular way because I at one point had fallen away from the church and I had found myself in a, you know, quote unquote, non-denominational parish drawn in, like I think or as I believe a lot of people are to that charism, right? Because there is a particular charism outside or rather a more apt way to put it might be that I think some people have come in contact with priests who may be very holy but they don't have that sort of skill or that charisma that Fulton Sheen had. And as you said, I mean, it's true that is found most often a lot of times in Protestant churches. And what was interesting for me was having, yeah, sure, the interest is here, right? The flame is here and I'm like a moth, it's here but I'm circling around. There's not a lot of depth here which is ultimately a part of what brought me back. So it's still encouraging to hear and you've said it, I've experienced it myself but someone who is in the faith, who is so solid, who is so traditional, so orthodox, traditional in terms of like following the Magisterium and has that depth that's required to move forward in the faith. And man, I wish, I wish we, and I know that we have them out there but this kind of that Fulton fire for lack of a better term would kind of engulf and the hearts of all of our priests. Could you imagine what our world would look like and what the church would look like? It'd be so incredible. But I'm sorry, we're coming up to a break. We're coming up to a break and right after that, we'll be right back and I'd love to hear some of your faith. I know you said you had some quotes, anything else that you have about him that really kind of touched your heart and we'll get into that when we come back. What'd I do? Oh, for those, I thought I was being corrected which is common and happens a lot and it's necessary because I screw up a lot which is good for my humility. For those watching behind the scenes, we, if you should go to avaladashinstitute.org, avaladashinstitute.org. I sound like a radio producer now. It's a terrible thing. I apologize if your ears are bleeding. We have some fantastic classes. Look at that marvelous maggots popped it up on the screen. If you would like to take some of our courses, you should, why?  I'm just gonna say it. I'm a little bit biased but it's the truth. Now, let's get back in this show. Welcome back. I am with, I'm Jordan Burke with Mallory Smythe talking about Venerable Fulton Sheen. We've just been kind of doting on this guy this entire time and for good reason. And I was curious, you said you had some quotes you had prepared and forgive me if I'm jumping ahead but that's what just popped into my head and I'd love to hear what you have. Yeah, so I have two. One is pretty popular but it definitely made a huge impact on me as a woman in the church and just trying to learn more about the feminine genius and just what does it mean to be a woman because it's changing every day in the culture. And so he said this and I'm not even, I guess just from life is worth living. He says, when a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its woman. Now, I'm just not sure there's a more powerful quote about the power of women than that. I agree, I agree. And of course, again, like when I read it, I was like, well, that's true. Right, right. And said in an incredibly elegant way as well. Yes, yes. It's such a great quote. I've read that before and it's one of those that no matter how many times I hear it, it still leaves me pondering the depth. Because I think we're only, at least I can only speak for myself, but I hear that and I'm only scratching the surface. I think of the wisdom there. And it's one of those things you can just continue to meditate on. It's so, so powerful, so powerful. But this is kind of your world, right? So you're, as we kind of talked about in your bio, you're part of your desires to help women reach, I like to say, press your heart against Christ's heart. And I feel like that's kind of what I'm gathering from your, could you explain kind of what you do there? And, you know, if you want to go into that at all, and if it's a machine or not, it doesn't matter because I'm curious. Yeah, so, well, it's funny a couple of years ago. So I, as you read, I started out as a focus missionary. Well, I started as youth minister and then into a focus missionary. After I left the bottom of the corporate ladder, I worked in accounting for a year, which is like, if you know me, it's hilarious. Like no one should ever have me doing their numbers. It's just silly. But, and, and so, and honestly, I wasn't like, I was passionate about ministry, but not necessarily women's ministry. And then a couple of years ago, a priest friend of mine kept introducing me to all these people. I was like, Mallory's in women's ministry. And I wasn't, I was like, and I was like, do you know something I don't know? And then over the years, that like has led me into women's ministry and really joining walking with purpose for, for people who've never heard of walking with purpose. It's a women's Bible study ministry. It was founded by Lisa Brennick Meier.  She's incredible, has evangelical background. And she came to know Christ through scripture her whole life. And then she converted to the Catholic church and it's a similar story. She converted for her husband without like any real love for the church, went through a crisis, fell in love with the church and has been bringing scripture alive for women in their own state of life for years. I've only been here for a year. So I'm brand new. And I create content with under Lisa. So I write blogs, I create videos of a Bible study coming out in June. So it's about friendship, reclaiming friendship. But the whole thing is I, the more I have grown into like my vocation as a wife and a mother, the more I'm amazed by women. Just what Archbishop Sheen said, the level of woman really does dictate the level of society. And we have no idea the power we have because so often we're so busy fighting a battle that's not necessarily ours in the culture. Like if we would just be who the Lord called us to be and if we would like you said, press our hearts closer to his heart. The things he like Joan of Arc, mother Teresa, totally different people born into original sin who gave themselves over to Christ and look what he did with them. One is in a soldier's outfit when you see her and one is in habit. One was burned at the stake and one was like a quiet old woman who just spoke truth her whole life and they both changed the world. And so my desire and mission is one for women to know that they are loved by God, where they are, exactly where they are and the mess that they're at and that he's gonna do something with them and that they need to let him, right? It's not just about sitting and being like, oh, Jesus loves me. Yes, he loves you so much. And he wants to bring you into such holiness that the world has to respond to you. And one of the main ways to do that and to find that is through scripture. I mean, that was the way my life was changed when I realized this word is for me. It's alive, it's active. It's sharper than any double-edged sword and he has something to say to me in it every single day. And that's gonna bring me into the heart of the church and into the heart of the sacraments. I love that. I love that. I'm sitting here. I mean, you can see me. I'm nodding my head vigorously. For those who are listening, I'm really into this partially because I, so part of what I do in ministry is helping people recognize their self-worth primarily for men. And I know that that's also something that's highly important in the work that you're doing as well.  Let's get prepared. I love that. And then, so wrapping it back to Fulton Sheen, his quote about measuring society by how, is it, did he say how the women are treated? In the higher her virtue, you said the level of the woman. I love that. That is incredibly deep. So let me ask you this then. Oh, actually, I have this other note. Now I'm jumping around, I apologize, but I wanna get to this because we totally missed this on the last show. You said, you figured it out. You said, why was he called Fulton in the last show for those who clued in and I apologize for jumping around. This is important. We couldn't figure out what the name change was about, but you have the answer. Yes, so he said in his autobiography, he was born Peter, I think Peter John. He had tuberculosis and he cried so much that the family kind of joked that he just belonged to his mother and his mother's maiden name was Fulton. And so they say, oh, that's the Fulton's baby. And then when he was like a little older, I mean, he was still a baby, but like two, somebody asked his grandfather what his name was and he said Fulton and that was it. It just stuck. Wow, wow. I like that a lot, that's funny. Let me ask you this then. So I have another, well, actually, let's do this. I want, because I'm looking at the clock here and I hate it when we're not able to plug our guests' information and we're coming up, we still have a little bit of time, but I wanna make sure that all your website, whatever you want plugged and plugged, and for those listening, we're also gonna have all of this listed in the description, whether you're on listening on podcasts or on YouTube, it's all gonna be there. So where can people find your work? Where can they find you? Anything that you wanna put out there? Mm-hmm. Yep, they can. So I have a website, www.malorie-smythe.com. Those pesky domains don't always work out for you. You can check out my work there personally. My work is also at walkingwithpurpose.com. So you can go there or also at walkingwithpurposeofficial on Instagram and Facebook. And then this is the book that I wrote personally, rekindled. And the reason that I wrote it is because I kept coming across people who had left the church, who had such a similar story to me. And as they were telling me why they left, I said, that's a good reason to leave. And so the whole purpose of me writing the book was to kind of tell my story in three different parts. So each chapter is what I experienced, what I learned and why I stayed to kind of level with millions of people who've had those experiences that we've all had. And so you're like, yeah, I've had that lackluster experience, I've had that bad experience, I've had to wrestle with this. This is what I learned and this is why I'm still here and here is your invitation back. So if anybody is wrestling with something in the church or knows somebody who is gone, which I know you do, it's a great and relatable book for those people. And so you can get that at Ave Maria Press or Amazon.com. Awesome. And it looks like our producer plugged that into the notes. And as I said, for anyone listening, we are going to have this as well. And I will be picking up a copy of the book here after the show. Now, back to Fulton Sheen. So we gave one quote. What was the other quote that you had for me? I'm curious. So the other quote, see if I can find it. Okay, so this is in the life of Christ and he's talking about the birth of Jesus. And he says, so he's talking about Herod and how Herod had the slaughtering of the innocent to kill Jesus. And let me see. Okay, so it said totalitarian. So he's calling Herod a totalitarian. Totalitarian are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the state, a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves. Herod was the first totalitarian to this sense. He found Christ to be his enemy before he was two years old. Could a babe born under the earth in a cave shake potentents and kings? Could he who has had no demos or people following him be a dangerous enemy? The dim, I don't know what he's saying there and rule the people. And basically he said like, nobody went after Stalin as a baby. No one perceived Hitler as a threat as a baby. And yet, Herod saw the king of the universe and was afraid that he would take his tinsel crown. And so he went after him. And I just thought it was so insightful. This is the level of depth that we're talking about. So for those who are unfamiliar with anything of Fulton Sheen, don't be, I don't know, don't, it sounds a lot more heady than it actually is. I promise you that, you know, that he's written so many books and they're very, very approachable. But that's the level of depth that you are to expect with his writings. It's just, and for him to take, as you mentioned before, Nicodemus we versus I, right?  Granted, he said, he gave his yes. He said, I will spend an hour, you know, in adoration every day or daily holy hour. And that's a big part of it. But I just, you know, I said in the first show, I don't think we're gonna be able to do him justice at all. I'm thankful we're doing a second show because you've definitely expanded and helped a ton. But I'm constantly at a lack for words when it comes to trying to describe him, his life, the work that he's done, the movement he's had and the reach from either from theology to politics to, you know, all these different things. It's just, it's absolutely incredible. Yeah, absolutely. Do I have time to share one of my favorite stories? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, great. So I have a bunch, but one, and it's really simple actually. He has these amazing stories about bringing people into conversion. One, which I love where he invited a woman to come and talk to him at his parish because she was struggling. And she said, I will only come if you promise you will not ask me to go to confession. He said, I promise I will not ask you to go to confession. And she said, promise me. Like I'm not coming. I will not go to confession. He said, I promise y'all will not ask you to go to confession. And so she shows up. And I think it was at St. Patrick's in New York. And he said, oh, there's this like really famous artist painting in the back. Would you like to see it? And she's like, oh, sure. I'd love to. And on the way he pushed her into the confessional. He said, I didn't ask her to go. Yeah, right. There you go. And then there's other one that I loved from his autobiography where he said he was a professor at a college and there was some strike between him and one of the leaders of his department. And that person started spreading rumors about him and it got to Rome. And he was sitting with the secretary of state who would eventually become Pope Pius XII. And Pope Pius XII, whoever he was at the time, I forgot his name, I think it's Pacelli. He asked him about it. And Fulton Sheen responded, I would just rather not talk about it. Like that's all he said. And then that guy got moved. And the guy, and he said, I wonder if he knows that I never said anything. And I think that story as simple as it is, is so powerful to me because I struggle with gossip and it takes an unbelievable amount of self-control and virtue to not defend yourself when you know that you are innocent. And he just, he literally gave it to God. He did not defend himself and God did what he would. And I just think how many of us have that high of a moral character these days? Like, I know that I don't. And so that's just one, like I said, it's super simple, but it was such a good lesson for me. Yeah, I love that. I love that. Well, folks, that is Venerable Fulton Sheen. Thank you so much to Mallory Smythe for coming on the show, for imparting your wisdom and your love for this incredible soon-to-be, I'm gonna say it, he's a saint. You know, we're waiting for the confirmation, but we pretty much already know. You can find more about our awesome guest at Mallory. You know what? I can put it on the screen, check that out. Right there, Mallory-Smythe.com. You can pick up her book, Rekindled on Amazon. And what was the other one? WalkingWithPurpose.com, did I miss anything? Yeah. No, you're good. Awesome. That was great. Perfect. Thank you so much for coming on the show. All right, thanks, Jordan.


Hello and welcome back to The Craft Box. My name is Brent and today we're in episode 188 of the Wizard101 Death Walkthrough. Last time, if you haven't checked it out already, we did things and stuff in the last wood and other places and I think the Turingorch. I don't know, who knows. I don't. Um, been a while. Um, so yeah, we're now here in Mooncliffs. Let's talk to Queen Sabina. Spellbinder, I grew worried about you. You've brought the Restored Moon's Crown? Amazing! Spellbinder, the task before us is to take back the Eclipse Tower. It has been under the Shadow Queen's sway for far too long. If we are successful, we will not only restore Bastion, but deal the Shadow Queen a great blow. Go to the edge of Celestial Lake and use the Moon's Crown at the carved relief to summon the Moonlight Bridge. Ascend to the tower. Address the Guardian Spirits within and hope they are eager to shed the Shadow Queen's chains. Without their help, we may never triumph. Okay, um, I am looking forward to this way too much, I think. Um, so I'm not sure whether we're gonna be getting Shadow Magic now, today or in the next episode. Either way, we're getting it, like, in the next two episodes. Um, I'm kind of hoping it's today because, like, this is the last video I have to record. And, um, for, like, well, the last video of Wizard101 that I have to record, I've got other videos that I need to record. Um, before I go away, and I would really love to, like, finish on, like, a great note. And also, I believe this will probably be, this is probably gonna be the last Wizard101 walkthrough video of the year. So, that's pretty cool. Um, yeah, so that's always fun.  Manna sparkles across the carving. There's a shimmer and hum, and the moonlight bridge is summoned. It is truly magnificent. Okay, that's pretty cool. Um, whoa, it's, like, sparkly. Oh, my God, this is so cool. Um, so, yeah. Uh, I don't know whether or not we're getting it today because I don't intend to be going for crazy too long because I have other videos that I need to record and I need to edit them all before I get on a plane tomorrow morning. Um, in fact less than, probably, like, 10 hours. I can't be bothered doing the math. But, yeah, this is the Eclipse Tower in Mooncliffs. Hello. Who dares come unbidden to the Eclipse Tower? Dominion of the Lady of Spiders, the Dark Woman, the Shadow Queen. I do not know your name, and I see no badge of the Umbra Legion upon you. I am compelled to destroy you for the Shadow Queen. Wait, what is that you bear? The moon's crown? Can it possibly be true? Are you here for some noble purpose? By the new moon, the charms upon me fade in the moonlight. I have little power here due to the Shadow Queen's corruption. But I can direct you. Travel up the tower and free Sophia Darkseid. She is the true caretaker of this place. Okay, um, I believe Sophia is the one who actually gives us Shadow Magic, I think. Not 100% sure, but I think. Um, actually, a cheating boss. I don't know how I'm gonna look at this a bit on the wiki, and I'll be back in just a sec. Okay, I just looked at the cheats. Um, hopefully we can do this. It shouldn't be too bad. Um, I could be wrong, but we'll see. I've looked at the cheats. You trespass in the Hall of the Eclipse Tower! Your blood will stain the sacred halls of the moon! Wow, okay then, if that's what you want. Um, they want to die, that's cool. Um, so yeah, basically, I'll explain the cheats when we get up there. But it doesn't look too difficult in my opinion, but I mean, I'm always wrong sometimes. And there's probably, there's random people who are laughing at me right now. It's like, it's actually harder. Good job, Brent. But um, I don't care. So, you get to go away, choo choo. But yes, we uh, this is the final episode of 2017. Also the final episode that I needed a pre-report, so yeah. Um, that's fun. I'm looking forward to no longer having to put all things in just edit this. I don't know which takes longer, and really it depends on what we have to do. Um, haha. Uh, yeah, some defeating quest takes forever. Woo. Woo. Indeed. Um, okay, we will do this blade, another death blade. Um, yeah, it's no flames, which is sad. I don't know when um, I mean, I've literally just been recording all day, so I don't know when Kyle's coming back, but he'll probably come back like tomorrow or something when I'm not here. Um, yeah. Nothing I can do about that unfortunately, but you know, that would have been cool if I could done this with Kyle. If I'd done this with Kyle, would have been great, but like, you know. Cause we were so excited to get Shadow Magic ticket done, but maybe not this time. Um, I don't know how much of this area I'm gonna be doing. I don't think I'll be doing too much just because hospitals can take it sometimes, um, we'll see. Also because I do have to get other things recorded as well, as I've said multiple times already. I don't know why I keep saying it, but I just feel like I have to remind you that I'm not actually here, and this is the future, and anything could have happened, you know? And I wouldn't have known because I'm recording this in the past, like so past, like not just the normal past, which is like a day or two, but like this is like nearly a whole week. In fact, it's nearly a week. About one, two, three, four, five, six. Oh no, it's over already. It's even more exciting. It's like a week and a half, nearly two weeks. Um, so yeah, that's fun for you guys. Yep. Um, so yes, that did a decent amount of damage. I am surprised to be honest, but I mean, we can come back with another one. Oh my gosh, seven, three, one. Yes, they're good. They're not as good. They're dead. They're so dead. I can just pass next.  Their casting animation is so weird. It's kind of like, kind of like lazy, I would say. One word I'd describe it is lazy. Um, I did like the action, but then I realized that like, you can't actually see that. So that's cool. Good job, man. But like, it's lazy. Um, yeah, that was good. Look at that, fantastic. Okay. Yay, we did it. There we go. Fantastic. Okay, let's continue on. And then teleporter. Ooh, I wonder what that means. I'm going to wave her around you. You, the light bringer. The guardians of this place were powerless to stop us as we dragged the moon into the shadow. The shadow queen placed me here to oversee this relic of the old times. I know it's every secret. I've been here so long, so very long. No one ever comes to visit. You have no idea what happens outside these walls. No matter. You have no idea what horrors I am about to show you. Maybe the shadow queen will summon me to her palace. Okay.  Um, yikes, I didn't fill out my potions. That's a bad one. I'll be back in a sec. Okay, I am back. We got some health. I refilled my potions. Um, all is good.  So, I am going to speedblade. Um, yes, that is a new term. Um, so, uh, at the beginning of the first round and every fifth round he will interrupt and cast a minus five version of doom and gloom. Um, and then if his first minion has been defeated or the battle reaches the tenth round he will summon a new cursed mouse knight which is one of these guys and then one every time mouse.  So, I can just hit and then I can just chill with, um, the mouse because I know I can just deny and he is basically dead.  Basically, that makes sense, why not. He can't shield. He can use shadow strike which is another new shadow spell that obviously we have never seen before in our lives because, whew, we are just good innocent little wizard city kids. Um, so, yeah, he can't use anything like that is annoying. The only thing that he can do that is annoying is Frost Giant which stuns us. Um, other than that, I mean, it's pretty fine. He's got a master in death as well. So, yeah, just be chill. Just chill a bit, whee. Um, whee.  So, not, I wouldn't say too difficult which is obviously... Oh, he's doing it now. That was not 10 rounds.  Um, like, I don't mind. Deonite is a great tool. I'm just going to continually lay it up for that but I didn't think that he... Ah, that's kind of weird. Definitely says 10 rounds in the wiki and that is not quite 10 rounds. Um, so, yeah, there's something there. That's a bit dodgy. Well, one or something, I don't mind because they're not hard. They're kind of half health but that's fine. We can just deal with that in a bit. Um, okay. I'm confused. I don't know. Cheats well enough apparently. Um, okay, we will... I put potent on white. Yeah, I did. So, we'll do normal fate. Um, okay, cool bro. So, it's the fourth round that he did that. That's interesting. Weird. Behold the horrors. So scared. Um, yeah. I hopefully won't die. Um, you're slightly worried now but I shouldn't worry. He's got no tips. He's got, like, he does weak spells and he's got a few tips. Should be fine, hopefully. Mm-hmm. Oh, we were stunned. I'm like, why didn't we have our turn? Oh, we were stunned. I'm like, where's the other fate? Good job. I'm so smart.  So, they must have changed it a bit because, um, it was too easy or something, maybe, who knows. But it's definitely not every 10th round now. There's, um, more earlier than... Yes, definitely. So hopefully we don't die. I'm kind of worked up that.  I want to kill, kill, kill. Um, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put up this blade and then I'm gonna hit. They're, like, nearly out of pips. He's got, like, nothing.  He's doing Shrike. Okay, there's a Shrike. Okay. Yep. They had to, like, load him because we haven't seen it before. Um, okay. And we will do a cheeky wee thing called a hit on the bus. Hopefully this does 25. Hopefully. And if not, um, I will be slightly annoyed but we'll just de-anite it off. De-anite it off. Fine. We'll also be full health. No matter what. So, should be good. Should be good. Okay. Maybe I should have done a vending. That would have been cool. I don't know. I don't know if I want to use a vending. I don't know. I don't know. It doesn't give health though. I'll put 4 out of 23. Ooh. That crit. Ooh. Still full of health though so that's good. We will de-anite probably. Probably the best thing to do. Um, probably very good to do. In fact. Ooh. Okay. Don't remind us to turn back lash. Woo hoo. Cheeky. Um, he doesn't want to take that backlash damage. Uh, do do do do. We will do that.  So, we're just going to pass. I suppose. I suppose that's a good idea. Um, yes. Okay. Change the bubble. That's cool. Yeah. I'm not worried. We're definitely winning at this point I would say. Um, unless we like Lord of Winters, that would be bad. Um, which you might do now. That would be really bad. It would go down to like half health, but he fizzled so that's always good. Even more worried though, that he will. Um, yeah. But, we will hopefully do good. Good, good do, good do. Good do. Good do. Good do. Good do. Okay we'll put up a blade and then we'll day and night next. Just to get some decent damage on all of them. If we crit, he's definitely dead. Because he's like what 3,000 left. He's got like the same amount of health as these guys. Okay. I can deal with cross demon or ice telephone fire, just can deal with Lord of Winter. That's just two OP. Two OP for me. You know. who can't have that one okay ten thousand no one thousand one thousand that's cool take that backflash of zero percent boop okay and here we go he will deny it one oh he's got two thousand he's even worse than these guys whoa whoa man whoa crit would be great but no of course we can offer it okay one thousand five hundred and decent one thousand okay hmm hmm I mean we'll do that again and then save for reshuffle if we need it hopefully we don't because we don't have heels we have one on the side particularly want to be pulling that out because we do have a um I don't know so there's like nothing left I swear oh dear night whoa we're twins cool bro whoa that's cool spell where'd you learn that one the law master teacher that one or did you like crafted or like did the game just give it to you because ice can apparently her with death I don't know who knows maybe maybe one of them who knows I don't that's for sure yeah okay they are taking some decent temperatures good oh yeah boop and pierced okay that did nothing that's cool okay how much after you have one thousand oh you're bad bad I think the spider was a bit harder to defeat in the sky is a bit easier I think he's easier that spider god thing that's hard that one especially when I had to do it twice died by the minions of all people like what the hell no that ain't fair boy yeah definitely going to a dinner again what's this and fellow for the fight and fell thank God um crepe and he'll probably not okay that's good I think they can heal I mean they put up cycle of life so I would be very annoyed if they did that sin to do a bit just a tad can they heal they can they can use regenerate that's cool that's actually not cycle of life that's mean sorry about that one what do we have in here we have cleanse okay well we'll just do that 786 this so did so close so so close a dinner I will kill and if we are either way so like you know worth a shot what's this okay that's cool really worried what something like a gnomes or something maybe one like a life banshee maybe Roslyn hey or meant that and here we go let's see how much this does and the boss is probably dead no matter what and we probably won't die hopefully unless we have to reshuffle and then we will probably die if we have to reshuffle like here we four oh we crit okay bye bye that's good look at that fantastic so that is that battle done wasn't too difficult actually we've gone quick if I had someone else but you know that's just it's not the point of a solo walk even though I've done that many times in the past you I can't believe I lost to you you seriously at least I can finally see the world once more after a fashion okay hello free after so long trapped in that form to whom do I owe my freedom spellbinder can you help me restore the moon shrine the shadow weevils stripped me of my power and I have not the strength okay let's restore the moon shrine hello you have driven out the Shadow Queens corruption I feel my power returning who live a lot fantastic level 96 amazing I am impressed yay level up yay yay yay yay that actually gave so much XP like seriously how much does this one give 23 they gave 133 that's in person that was good okay pop up up up up up up up up of course we have to go this way er hello astounding you freed Sophia dark side and ousted Ravik dreamscape who dominated the Eclipse tower for generations yep we will support you however we are able spellbinder Sophia dark side would like to teach you about this place here we go I think this is it I think this is it I don't know but I think this is it tell me the state of the spiral I have lost so much time spellbinder when you faced Ravik dreamscape you surely noticed a unique form of magic that he used in the duel when the Shadow Queen conquered the Eclipse Tower she allowed shadow magic to flow in and corrupt the moon magic now the two are forever into twined in this place moon magic is about changing forms but shadow magic is about rebuilding reality shadow magic is dangerous and was forbidden throughout the spiral but you must learn it if you wish to fight legends ascend the Eclipse Tower again you will see new threats but may expand your mind it is my honor to teach you ideally hope you survive you're gonna really hate me for this but we're gonna do this next time so yeah a next episode which will be next year you will we will learn shadow magic and defeat Sophia so thank you for Ching I hate myself as well don't worry thank you for to leave a like and subscribe and if you've already subscribed pretty sweet little bells who know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside


So, I didn't want to do a straightforward master's degree in economics. I wanted to do something more specialized and the econometrics and statistics program here at Toulouse was the perfect option for me because I developed this keen interest towards econometrics for the last two years of my undergraduate studies and plus the faculty is great here. We have one of the few rock stars of the academic world. So, when you say statistics, people usually think it's something very hard and very theoretical, very ambiguous and it is hard but there's also this applied side of statistics like this whole thing that you call data science or machine learning algorithms, most of econometrics, they're all based on statistical theories and we have two tracks here for that here at TSE. One is the mathematical decisions track where you get to learn all these mathematical theories behind statistics and we also have the applied track which is where you get to apply these theories to real data but there's also some mathematical decisions included in this track as well.


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I'm very grateful for this experience and I'm very able to see the heads of the OARO world listen to students hear students and implement what students are talking about. So thank you. What I thought it was very contributing to research were the action labs where new ideas could be really produced by people who work in education at all levels. It's been very inspiring to see all these people come together and push this open agenda and it inspires us even more to do this next year. And the conference here is about the energy and innovation and the aim for produce more knowledge about the open innovation. All the people are here like open to meet each other and to share the feelings, the knowledge. This was really a nice experience. This experience of the conference has been really great because I've been able to meet people from all over the world and I've learned so much about different aspects of open that I never would have really engaged in if I hadn't, if I wasn't immersed in this environment.


There are many words that have different stress patterns when they're pronounced in isolation or within larger constitutions. Here is an example. In isolation, the German capital is pronounced Berlin. However, as part of a larger construction, stress shifts to the first syllable as in the Berlin police. This suprasegmental phenomenon of present-day English is referred to as shift stress. In other words, when polysyllabic items do not occur in isolation, as in Berlin, or in predicateive positions such as the German capital is Berlin, but form part of a larger construction, as in the Berlin police, they switch the primary stress leaving the syllable that originally carried the primary stress unstressed. As a guideline, when these items are used predicatevly, the second syllable is stressed. When they're used as attributes, stress shifts to the initial syllable. Here are several examples. Adjectives ending in ease. She is Chinese versus some Chinese girls. Adjectives with unprefix. She felt unhappy versus some unhappy feelings. Adverbs with adjectival use. She is next door versus our next door neighbor. Compound adjectives such as she is blue-eyed versus a blue-eyed girl. Numbers larger than 12. She is 14 versus 14 books. And don't forget place names with adjectival use such as Berlin.


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Hello, John Jeremiah here with the GitLab strategic marketing with another update And I want to share a tip that we've been using around how we manage big projects ethics We have effectively an epic template approach that we can use to create Repeated epics that have similar sets of issues. It's a challenge. We've been wrestling with we've been building out a series of Efforts to go to market and we want to create epics to manage related work And let me show you what we were doing in GitLab and show you how we solved the problem So for for our use cases, which is customer use cases reasons why people choose to use GitLab Things like source code management or continuous integration We wanted to create a set of epics to manage the work to create the content the collateral and all the things we wanted to build out and so That became was going to be a challenge because as we were getting into this We realized that there was going to be a lot of different things we needed to do But we needed to do it Progressively and sequentially and we needed to do it over and over it's similar kind of work And epics are a great way of managing and structuring work and you can have an epic in this case You know, I'm in the parent level epic of this the use case go to market one I even have a link in here that points to the epic templates, which I'm going to show you how we do that and We then can see that within this epic. There are Four sub epics at the moment. There's GitOps source code management continuous integration DevSecOps Each of these then has more You know epics under them to break down the work and we broke it down We chose to break it down on a on a month-to-month basis as a way to pilot to try working this way And so if we look at continuous integration We broke each of these then down and so we could then see how that work compressed down So in the first epic of this we worked on They built a resource page. They had developed and we'll look at that issue Which went into creating that where? William and Parker worked on it together and we got double-click into that issue will go down to the to look at that now Just as a to level set Wait, that was the MVC to I want to go to the template view of this This was that was the second one they did on that. So let's go back to the first epic and Here was the first epic of creating the sales resource page Or the resource page and we had a set of tasks in here. We wanted to attach it to this To this epic and there's the associated merge request We have traceability from the initiative all the way down to the actual work down to the merge request where the change was Actually implemented along with any discussion that went into it So we have complete traceability end-to-end but the beauty of this and the power of this is that in this issue to create the sales Resource page. We have a similar issue for creating the source source code management resource page And so we have consistency, but it's different based upon the use case. So how did we do that? How did we create a series of related? Issues that all roll up into an epic that have the similar structure and discussion, right? So how did we create this model without doing lots and lots of manual work of changing things and and the cool Really powerful thing and get lab that we can do is you can import issues And when you import issues, you can import lots of detail about those issues And and we've and I've documented how you can do it as an epic template. So in this handbook page We've described how you can go through this process and if you I'll give you the link to this page at the end Which walks you through it? I'm going to summarize it the rest of this video of how it works, but effectively you basically go to issue import You use this guidance of importing issues from a common unlimited file, which shows you how to do it And it's very straightforward. It's very straightforward and it's also very very powerful And we're using it and we're using it as a way to do this So this describes the process of doing it of of how you set it up and that you can add labels due dates Milestones you can attach things and add them to epics you can set the weights You can even assign it to individuals All of that can be done from a common limited file of the input for example when I did this earlier for GitOps when we started working on that use case we created we took this template and we added here's the title of the of the Issue that was created to create that resource page and here's the markdown written in a Basically in a common limited file the markdown to create it where it's going to put the labels on it that we wanted It's going to attach it to a milestone It's going to attach it to an epic and then the next issue If we scroll down a little bit does the next set of steps of saying let's find customer references and the Specific tasks that would go into that with links all of that gets built into the issue So that way when we say let's do another use case the set of tasks are there and we can quickly update this format and Imported in without you having to do it all manually and it works remarkably well so this was the input from there and and basically the steps are quite straightforward you create a spreadsheet that has the Details of how you're going to do it The way I did this because I was going to do it multiple times is I I used addition and Concatenation when this describes how I concatenated elements and so I basically have a spreadsheet that has all the raw elements And it assembles the two columns you need the title and the description and that's what this Worksheet describes how I did that and if if anybody wants to see the raw spreadsheet I can I'd be happy to share that with someone if you reach out to me Right now it's but it is it is a little bit. There's a little bit of things going on to it where it's a bit fragile I've got to make sure I don't change anything. It's easy to break it. I do think there's some important tips and hints Before you do this test it in GitLab, you know, we don't really delete issues You can do it from the API, but as a user you just don't delete issues You can close them, but they'll still be there So before you import a hundred or two hundred or lots and lots of issues and make a mistake Create a project off the side of practice and make sure it's going to work the way you want it to do The other thing is use a real issue to draft any quick action codes. You're going to use Make sure that they would work in real life and then paste them into your spreadsheet That way your quick actions will work and you'll make sure that you don't have typos in them And so you just create one issue and open a comment and start to write your quick actions And then the last one is the order when the spreadsheet runs it will run an import from the first one to the last one So if you reverse the order of the spreadsheet Then when GitLab sorts them based on created date They'll be in logically in the right order. So that's a Tip that I at least I tried to do that on a couple of cases as I was doing it But back to managing the work when we look at this the nice thing now Is that when we look at this initiative around how we do go to market around use cases and build that out We can look at the roadmap view and we can see how how things are progressing We can get a sense as to where we're at on the different status of these Epics and then we can drill into the related issues associated with them. So powerful powerful capability by using Common to limited import and thinking about and planning in advance how you want things to be structured and how you want things to be related You can build out very powerful Sets of epics of related work if you want to learn more about this The page I was referencing where I showed how we set up the epic templates for strategic marketing is bit.ly GL-epic templates notice the uppercase and then if you want to read the documentation This link will take you to the issue import documentation bit.ly issue dash import That's it. If you have feedback, please feel free to open a merge request and contribute add to these handbook pages help make them better Be glad to answer questions if you have them you can catch me on Twitter You can ping me any way you like but with that good luck and please contribute Please share and thank you very very much


a new map, an updated map along the lines that we have seen here. I think that that sort of work would certainly help the planning process and help the planners to direct the expansion to the correct areas. That is what we all want to see. Yes, that is absolutely the intention that that helps to inform planning around the country. Indeed, we will be part of the consenting review that we look at and how all of that fits together as a jigsaw. Cabinet Secretary, a few of us from this committee—indeed, their clear committee—were fortunate to have to meet with the Norwegian Fisheries Minister. This is a global market, and Norway is clearly a significant competitor. Has the Scottish Government made any assessment of their approach to the salmon industry and any lessons that could be learnt from there? We consider various aspects of the Norwegian industry. It has been a terrific success story, operating at a much higher level of production and doing so sustainably. It is not all one way. We heard, for example, from one of the witnesses that our regulatory framework in respect of the use of treatments was pioneering. We found today that perhaps we have more to learn from Norway in respect of sea-lice reporting and transparency. However, we look at Norway quite a lot in terms of specific aspects. Of course, our scientists are working with their counterparts in Norway. There is also a quadrilateral forum where officials meet and get together from the four big salmon farming nations. Mr Palmer alluded to that joint working in relation to the USA issue, for example, and he alluded to that earlier. As if any raises an important point, I would love to have a trip to Norway, but I am before the committee so often that I am not quite sure when the opportunity will arise, but upon the diary permits, convener, I hope to go to Norway and learn a lot. I think that we should move on from that. I have had to fend off requests from the committee to go to Norway. I am not sure whether I am in a position to do anything about your trips, cabinet secretary, to Norway. I think that we may just leave that one there, because we have a few questions to go. I would like to move to Gail Ross. Thank you, convener. SIPA has written to the Eclear Committee about its proposals for the changes to the depositional zone regulations. Alasdair, you touched on it slightly in your answer to Peter Chapman, but, essentially, the proposal allows fish farms to be bigger, located away from sensitive areas and further away from the coast. What do you see as the main advantages and disadvantages of those proposals? How will those regulations affect Marine Scotland's ability to regulate the health and sea-lice burden of those fish? I think that, in general terms, it is more advantage than disadvantage, which is why we support that kind of development and direction of travel. You do need better technology as far as the fish farms themselves are concerned. Also, in terms of the fish that go in the pens, they have to be bigger and more robust. There are health and safety challenges for the human operatives in higher-energy locations that have to be taken into account. That was mentioned by Ben Hadfield in his evidence session. However, the advantages are that you have a shorter time in the marine environment and a reduced interaction with wild fish. The shorter time in the marine environment that grows out-phase means, in basic terms, less disease and less sea-lice. The Holy Grail is getting to a year or less in the marine environment because there is a moment in time when a lot of those issues accelerate in the second year in the marine. If we can move to something shorter, there are commensurate benefits that allow the kind of sustained expansion that people have talked about. What are the challenges to this move? I think that the biggest challenges are technological and engineering.  Although the industry is moving to more exposed areas, it is not yet operating in full open water. You are looking at oil industry-style engineering to retain integrity in a fully open environment. Can you make any educated guesses as to a timescale? It is happening now in an incremental way. The cabinet secretary alluded to the small aisles and the growth there, which is a higher energy location, albeit in the lee of some of the islands. If you look at parts of Orkney where fish farming is expanding, I doubt very much that that would have been possible 10 years ago. It is a moving feast. The Norwegians are taking that to a more of an open sea approach, but it is at an incredibly early stage. They are spending inordinate amounts of money on research and development to take them there. I do not think that we have the scale in Scotland to support the level of investment that they are talking about in very strict historical and D terms. It is hundreds of millions of pounds. Thank you. Now, Mike, on the subject that we saved from earlier on. I think that we would all agree, would we not? I do not want to put words in your mouth, but would we not all agree that having an effective regulatory regime is essential to having a successful and quality industry that we all want to see? To give you an example, before I ask a question, we had one witness producer from Shetland who said that when he was setting up his fish farms, there was a lot of regulation. He had five different licences to go through, so there was effective regulation setting up the fish farm. However, we had another witness come to us and say that this industry is self-regulatory, because once it is set up, once it is going, where is the regulation? Do you accept that the complexity of the regulation, including gaps in regulation—different regulators doing their own big job—is a concern? Could it be a constraint on the growth of the industry because we have not got that comprehensive regulatory system that would be a success that everybody wants to see? I think that Mr Rumbles makes a lot of good points. I do not think that he inserted any words in my mouth so far as I can see, but I think that he would make a number of points that I hope are relevant to that. First, we have a regulatory regime that is held in high regard internationally and has a high degree of statutory underpinning. If we did not, I do not think that we would have got the label rouge and the accolades and the premium that I talked about earlier. However, we cannot rest in our laurels, so I am always keen to review and reduce regulatory burden wherever possible, where it is disproportionate and where it does not meet the principles of better regulation, as set out by a better regulation group of which Mr Rumbles will be well aware. There are a number of regulators, and Mr Graham gave evidence last week that it was the number two constraint issue after the challenges that we have rightly focused on today. Equally, we want to make sure that, in terms of transparency and in terms of sea-lice control, we have robust levels of regulation. To move from the four or five-layered approach at the moment to a simpler regime is not a straightforward matter. It is something that may be desirable in practice but is somewhat difficult to achieve. The primary task at the moment is to focus resolutely and forensically on tackling the particular challenges that are occupying rightly our time. However, I am also sympathetic to trying to have a consenting regime that gets the best, which gets sustainable aquaculture and does not take forever to navigate nor involve disproportionate expense and complexity. That is a very fair question, Mr Rumbles. We are certainly keen to see what emerges from the committee's inquiry and the inquiry in forming our future approach, but we have already indicated in several ways what more we are already doing or about to do, which abuts on the regulatory issue. When we had the regulators in, I asked them to particularly seep in response to the environment committee's quite stark criticism, particularly of sepa in this whole process. To be fair to sepa, they said that they were operating within the rules set down by them. I do not think that anybody is talking about setting up a new regulator to regulate the whole industry, but would it not be best to give sepa a different framework to work within? In other words, to give it a lead role in which it can perhaps co-ordinate the other regulators around it, so that we are not talking about—I do not think that we are talking about it and I do not want to pre-empt anybody on the committee, but I do not think that we are talking about recommending a new regulator, but we think that there is a gap there, which will be a constraint to the industry, and we want to see that industry succeed. If you think about it, the planning authorities are there to issue licences and planning permissions. Sepa is there to protect the environment. They have different functions, so it is not an easy matter, but I am instinctively attracted towards a simpler model if that is possible to be achieved, but that is not the main priority for me. It is tackling the challenges. The other thing that I would say is that, in relation to the notion that somehow it is all voluntary at some point, I do not think that that is quite correct. I am thinking about that in the light of having heard some of the previous evidence. It seems to me that regulations exist to make sure that fish farms are located in a suitable location, having regard to the mean characteristics and the perceived impacts on the environment. In some cases, they are refused, of course, to protect the environment, and that is rightly so. The sepa regulations exist in order to monitor good practice, to control good practice, but, of course, the farms themselves have to manage their day-to-day activity themselves, and that respect is voluntary. However, that does not mean that the regulations do not apply. They do, because, for example, if the levels of sea rise exceed a certain level, they have to report them. They also have to continuously observe, implement and ob-temper regulations. There is a duty to do specific things, such as reporting, and there is a duty to abide by good practice, which continually exists. I do not think that it is correct to say that there is a huge swathe of fish farm management that is completely unregulated. It is regulated, but we have to let at some point the managers get on with their job on the basis that they have, as we do, an interest in pursuing the highest standards of sustainability, and they have an economic interest in minimising problems as well. Richard Lylew. The question that I was asking earlier was not in relation to regulation. The Government regulates, local councils regulate, CEPA regulates, HIE regulates, Marine Scotland regulates, Crown Estates can regulate. The point that I was making earlier was that we have not discussed it, not—I would like your view on it, because I did not get the salmon producer's view on it, although someone privately said yes. Why should we not have a sole agency to take the Scottish salmon industry to the next level? Why should we not have one agency, one fit, and that is where they go to? Richard Lylew. I think that, provided the sustainability challenges can be met, it will be possible for the industry to develop and grow. I do not think that the lack of a single agency will prevent that. I do not think that it is a blockage. In theory, it is an attractive idea. I am attracted to it in theory, but in practice, as I pointed out in my last answer, and I hope that I made the point recently clearly, the regulators do different jobs. It might be simpler to have one fresh regulator, but the CEPA does a job across the whole of the environment, and it has a group of experts that assist in that task. I should say that CEPA's remit is a matter for the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, so it does not fall within my direct purview, so I should perhaps defer to her in that regard. However, although I am attracted, in principle, to the idea of a one-stop shop, I think that, in practice, it would involve dismantling the whole framework of planning and regulation in the country. Rather than pursuing that approach immediately, I think that we should focus on the task in hand of the consenting review, the wild fish interactions and the fish health framework. I am reasonably confident that, as we focus on that in the next 12 months, we will continue to see the improvements that you heard about last week that are coming through from massive investment by our companies. We want to bring up the lowest standard of the best, and we want to continue the investment in science of SAIC, which is absolutely crucial, I think, to Scotland's success story. We also want to try out innovative methods as well, something that we have not perhaps touched on, as they are doing in Norway, and to invest in that, too. However, they are always guided by a robust approach in protecting the environment. I am going to bring in Graham Day. I am sure that he has a small question on that. Thank you. It was just an observation on this issue. On one level, it is quite an attractive idea to reduce the number of regulators. There is, I think, a jurisdictional issue here beyond ministerial portfolios, which is that one of the agencies, the body that regulates the transportation of dead fish, which has attracted a lot of negative publicity in the right way so, is actually a UK Government agency. I think that I am right in saying that. It is the APHA, the Animal Plant and Health Association. I think that Mr Day is quite correct that it has the regulatory role in respect of the transportation issue, so he is right to raise that, as in the context of being an additional or further regulator that Hither 2 we have not mentioned. It is fair to say that we are very much drawing to close much of the evidence that we have taken. One of the things that strikes me is that we have a difficult task as a committee to try and summarise all of this. I think that there is a lot of good will across the board to ensure that the industry itself has the opportunity to grow in the way that we all want it to, but there is clearly a lot of voices out there who want to see it done in a planned, measured, sustainable way that benefits the communities that it operates in, as well as the environment. We have taken a lot of evidence about Norway and we looked to them, I guess, due to their similarities to our industry here, but one of the striking differences about how the Norwegian Government approached this very differently from how it may be looked at now is that it took a much more top-down approach. The fish farming act, the agriculture act, the set-up of the geographic areas that had the traffic light system and, by default, the way that they even issue licences and regulate that industry is very different from how we do it here and they have seen so much more growth over the last decade. What are the key lessons that we could learn or what has the Scottish Government specifically looked at that they may seek to adopt in future policy and how this industry grows? What would the cabinet secretary say to us, as a committee, who are hoping to try and at least summarise some of this in terms of some of the areas that we should be concentrating on to ensure that the Government takes a much bigger role in the industry moving forward? I think that the Government does take a major role in providing leadership and the industry leadership group, which the Scottish Government attended, brings together on a team Scotland basis to public and private sector. One of the advantages of the size of Scotland is that we can bring people into a room and work together with goodwill to devise the best ways to tackle complex problems. That is a way that we use across the board, and rightly so. I think that we have an advantage in that regard. In the consenting review, we will look at the balance between local and national, but we also need to consider our local democracy. We cannot dictate to local planning authorities what they do. I am not sure whether that is being suggested, but I do not think that it is. We also legislate, so that is the top-down approach. I think that we have heard from Mr Allen, which is much of the legislative framework. We also work to promote the food and drink sector vigorously. It is perhaps the fastest-growing sector convener, and salmon is the most important food component in exports. I am personally involved in attending events in Brussels, as I did recently. I am attending trade fairs and shows in order to promote Scottish salmon and high-quality Scottish food and drink. I think that we do a lot, but Mr Greene is correct that there may be opportunities to learn. One of the points that was made earlier, which I thought was quite telling, was that Mr Mitchell said, why have we not got the reporting regime up to date, as it is in Norway? I think that he alluded to an enormous investment that Norway have made. It would be interesting to find out how enormous that investment was. Plainly, there is a resource issue. I should not mention that Norway has got an oil fund, which is worth £1 billion, so it is worth a trillion, is it? Sorry, it is so large. Plainly, it is invested from oil to be able to diversify into other ways, so it makes it easier to find the money to do things such as Mr Mitchell referred to. Going back to specifics, there is a green licence system where the fee is reduced for companies that trial new technologies, whether that is closed containment or some other form of dealing with sea lice or other challenges. That is one example where we can maybe incentivise innovative suggestions and models, innovative for best practice in the environment, or trialling new methods and technologies with a lower fee. I am very keen to adopt that sort of lever in government. Rather than general statements that Norway is brilliant than Scotland is not brilliant or whatever, if the committee can identify specific examples of where you believe that we could learn more from Norway, of course, I am happy to follow that up. That might justify my trip to Norway as well. Jamie, would you like to come back? That leads nicely into my final question. That is a very specific thing that Norway does very differently from here, and that is the issue of licences. Licences are issued and released in tranches both at a fixed price cost but also via an auction process. It generates substantial amounts of revenue in essence to the Norwegian Government, but the majority, the lion's share of that is devolved to the coastal communities that it benefits. Around 80 per cent of the revenue goes to the coastal community municipalities. Has the Scottish Government given a lot of thought to the concept that it may introduce some form of auction processes to those licences? As is the case in Norway, it does not just benefit large operators with deep pockets but also has the ability for smaller, newer producers and operators to participate in those auctions. What thought it has given to how that might be achieved, either via legal means, regulatory means or, indeed, legislation itself? At the convener's behest, a short two-sentence answer, yes, we have considered that only on the Aquaculture Industry Leadership Group, and yes, we shall be considering that further in the course of the consenting review to which I have previously alluded. That draws to the end of our sixth evidence session on the salmon aquaculture inquiry, which comes on top of two evidence sessions taken by the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee and the excellent report that they produced, and also on the visit that the committee undertook to a fish farm and a wild fishery on the west coast. There seems to be some areas of common ground, and I was trying to work them out, that both sides accept that there are hazards with the operations out there, not only to the environment but also to fish. There is an acceptance to manage it. There was an acceptance by the fish farmers that there were some environmental problems and that new science may be the way forward. There seems to be an agreement by both sides that there needs to be the minimisation of the effect on the environment. I would like to quote, if I may, one comment from Ben Hadfield, who has been quoted extensively during this, that we have a moral responsibility as farmers to get it right. I think that that is the obligation that we now face as a committee as we sit down to write our report. We have the moral obligation to consider all the evidence that we have been given, and I think that the evidence that we have been given not only in committee stage but also the written evidence submissions that have been given to us has been quite excellent and very detailed in some cases. The committee would welcome the information from CEPA regarding the sector framework that we are looking forward to receiving. The sooner we have that, the more we will be able to consider it within our report. Indeed, the cabinet secretary mentioned other activities that are going on and that he is leading regarding the fish health framework. If that could form part of our report, it would also allow us to consider the whole industry and the whole issue that we have been considering as a round. Although we have now finished our evidence session, the difficulty now will be producing the report. I am sure that, as a committee, we look forward to that. Thank you, cabinet secretary, for the evidence that you have given today. Thank you, Charles, and Mike and Alastair, for the evidence that you have given. I would now like to suspend the meeting while we allow the witnesses to leave. Thank you. I would now like to reconvene the meeting and move to agenda item 4, which is subordinate legislation. At agenda item 4, the consideration of two negative instruments as detailed on the agenda. I would advise the committee that there have been no motions to a null that have been received in relation to either of these instruments. If I could just make a comment, if I may, before I ask whether the committee wishes to make a recommendation. In the policy notes that go with the CAP SSI, I am disappointed to see that it is still longer than the SSI that it proports to support. I know that there may be reasons for that, but all that I have ever asked is that there are short briefings so that the policy can be understood. I know that that might entail a separate bit of paper to be produced, but to produce a briefing on a paper that is longer than the paper, I have to say, raises the question.  I just want to put a slightly different view, because I have just done a quick check. There are five pages in the policy note and seven pages in the SSI. There are 120 lines in the policy note and 240 in the SSI, so I am not sure that, actually, I do not want to detract from the general point that policy notes should be clear, but I think that in this particular case it may be that when we look out—and, by the way, the print size in the policy note is two points larger than the print size in the SSI. I think that there is a general issue that you are absolutely correct, and I support you in raising, but in this particular case, where much of the SSI is inserting into other instruments, which you cannot understand without a policy note that explains what it is that it is being inserted into, that it may not be as justified in this case as it often is in others. I am now going to declare my interests as a farmer in a rural surveyor with 15 years' practice. I have to say that the policy note was difficult for me to understand, and maybe with 15 years' experience and practice it perhaps says something. The only other comment that I would make is that sometimes pages, font size and lines do not actually add up to the same as word count, and I will just leave it there. I think that we need to produce shorter policy notes so that people can understand it. I would therefore like to move straight on to the question, is the committee agreed that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to any of these instruments? It has agreed that the committee will now move into private session.


So I'm back into my home directory Let's go Into my its352 directory. What's in there my xyz dot doc? Make sure you have a file with a few lines in it. It doesn't matter what's in it I'll just check mine xyz All right, my file has some text in there one thing That we need to know is how to process text files So we've seen some commands for do dealing with text files displaying showing the head the tail word count It's very powerful if on a command line if we can automatically process text files to help configuring our computer So the next thing we're going to do is first search through a text file and One way to search through a text files called a program called grep And a simpler way to use it grep, then you specify a pattern What do you want to search for? Maybe I want to search for the word example in my file And grep will return all of the lines in that file that match that pattern In my file yours may be different. So maybe your Word you search for can be different depends on what's in your file Mine returns three lines inside the file which contain the word example. So very simple Search through the file return all the lines which contain that pattern we can Use wildcards there if we want what did I do there? That's a bad example Don't use a wildcard there. Let's avoid that one the grep So what I did there was a mistake for what we want to do grep has a number of options where we can specify regular expressions and use wildcards and other special characters to match different patterns But we will not deal with those right now It's take some time to look at the syntax. So let's Simply stick with searching through for particular words in a file for now So grep can search through files We can do an inverted search Find all the lines that don't match that word Again all the lines the minus V for inverted is all the lines that don't have that word and it shouldn't show the ones with example So a very quick use of grep to search for a file. We'll see some other examples later next thing Up until now all of the programs we've been running We've interacted with with those programs by running it and then they usually show something on the screen So Grep for example printed out the answer on the screen the screen is how we get the output of this program But in fact, we don't have to print it on the screen We can put it inside a file So we're going to look at how we can put the output of a program in a file rather than printing it on the screen And it's quite easy in fact Do that again Grep I want to search for all the lines in my file which don't contain the word lines If I do that Those lines are printed on the screen What I can do is redirect the output of that program using the greater than sign Into a file. I can name it what I like my output txt Run it see what happens It doesn't print anything on the screen the grep program run runs But the output of that program is redirected from the screen Which is called the standard output the standard location to put the output and is instead sent into a file Now let's look inside our file my out We can use less Look inside your file see what you get You see the output of grep So this concept is called redirection We redirect the output of a command to some other location and the very common way We do it is redirect the output of the command from the screen to a file LS we know has LS minus L as an option. So the long output We can LS a particular directory LS minus L slash shows from the root directory We can also recursively LS a Recursive LS means show me the contents of that directory and its subdirectories and their subdirectories and their subdirectories It keeps going. That's what the minus uppercase R does with LS Let's list all the files on a hard disk. It may take some time to list them. You see It's going through the hard disk listing all of the files To stop that because I'm in too impatient. You can try control C Control C kills or cancels the the program from running That was LS minus L minus R uppercase R slash Maybe I wanted know all the files on the hard disk instead of show them on the screen Put them inside a file Now what's happening? Here are some errors being displayed the files themselves are not being displayed But the error messages are What's happened? when a program runs that program Produces two types of output the program produces output this the standard output from the program the normal output it it It produces when there's no problems But if there are error messages, they are also printed on the screen But the error messages are Considered separate from the standard output What you see on the screen now are the set of error messages from the command I run With redirection and the greater than sign it only just shows the normal output and puts it into this file The error messages are still printed on the screen The concept and it's on one of the slides on the the website The concept is with any command when we run a command there are in fact three ways three Interfaces to that command. There's the input to the command some commands take you or accept input from you We haven't seen any yet. We may see some later Some commands we can supply input. It's called the standard input Then the command runs and the command does something and it produces two type of output The normal output the standard output, which is the expected output LS shows a list of files Grep shows a list of lines that match some criteria But if there's errors, it may also print error messages. There goes my mouth and That's referred as the standard error so There are three interactions to a command the standard input the standard output and the standard error normally The standard input comes from what we type Both the standard output and standard error are printed on the screen after when the command runs That's what normally happens with redirection using the greater than sign The standard input is normal that doesn't change the error messages are still displayed on the terminal But with redirection with a greater than sign the standard output is saved in a file So instead of printing on the terminal it prints it into a file so we can look at it later It's very useful to get a record of what's happened You don't want to look at it as it goes. You want to look at it later redirect into a file There are different options You can redirect both the standard output and the standard error into a file note the difference Here's the ampersand character and the greater than With just greater greater than the standard output is saved to a file, but not the errors With this one both the output and the errors are saved into a file and there are other variations One of them The common one we'll use is this just greater than sign run a command. Don't print the output on the screen print it into a file Another one which I don't have on the slides if you use two greater than signs It appends to the file one greater than sign overwrites the contents of the file to Adds to the end of the exist of the file if it exists So let's try those two commands again the others with the ampersand will not try I think will not use Let's try a couple more redirections to file Just check that command. I run All files dot txt. It's only 30 megabytes In size that if we have a quick look at it Not all of it, of course It's the list of all files and directories on my hard disk Except for those which I didn't have permission to look at I'm gonna delete that if you created one delete it So you don't take up space We'll do a few more simple redirections and To do them. Let's introduce some other commands Who are you logged in as? If you forget who you are then ask the computer computer who am I? Okay, who am I tells you the current user you're logged in as in my other terminal I'm logged in as the instructor. Okay. There are different users on here We can redirect the output of who am I into a file? All right, so instead of printing on the screen. It just goes inside that file another command echo echo Echoes that string onto this the terminal very simple Whatever we type after the echo is printed Does nothing other than print on the screen? It's like a printf statement in a in a programming language or a print statement So we can echo into a file and if we want to append to a file instead of instead of overwrite it Use two greater than science name already contains student and Now I'm gonna append to the end of that Hello Two greater than signs echoes one of them overwrites just to confirm that if you just use a single greater than sign You'll delete what was in the file before So the greater than sign the two greater thans and there are some other variations are called redirection redirect especially the output to a file next and another new concept is That when we run commands Often we'd like to do more complex things than than what we've done so far and we can do that by running multiple multiple commands Not just one after the other but run a command Take the output of that command and use it as input to the next command and this is called a pipe Combine multiple commands together using a pipe Let's see some examples What's my IP address? I told you at the start ten dot ten dot sixteen dot two oh one. What's yours? Do you know the command to find it? Who am I tells you who you're logged in as your IP address is which is not the topic for today? I think we may have seen it last semester. You may have seen me use IF config You don't need to remember that yet, but it's useful for the example IF config shows you details about your interfaces and If you scroll up, you'll see your IP address somewhere Which interface does it has an IP address for you? I don't have scroll on my terminal. So I will scroll up here. I have config. I note eth zero ten dot ten dot sixteen dot two oh one and I note that's the internet address I net address I Don't want all this other information. I just want my IP address So what we can do is maybe try grep run IF config and take the output of IF config and Then use that as an input to grep searching for I net address try that where the Way to combine the two commands is this vertical bar which is shift back Not backspace. What's that backslash backslash is the key shift backslash This is called the pipe character It means take the output of the first command and use it as input to the next and It returns all lines which were output from IF config which match I net ADDR and We see to there Can we improve upon that? What if I just want the IP address Now let's run IF config again But we can run IF config with a sub option with the specific interface. I want This is a little bit outside of the scope today. We'll cover it later But with IF config it shows I have ETH zero one two and LO I'm looking just for ETH zero So I have config ETH zero and now grep into I net ADDR the internet address and I get a single line Which includes my IP address plus my broadcast address and a network mask. I just want the IP address So let's try and do some operations on that single line. There's different ways to do it We can take that output and pipe it into another command. This other command we can use one is called cut cut Takes a string of text and splits it into chunks where we can specify the delimiter let's say is the Colon character that is the chunks are separated by that character and The chunks are actually called fields This is going to take This line of text and cut it up into fields separated by the colon characters So this would be field one field two field three I Want field two? That's what the minus F does What do we get? Can we do another cut and just get the IP address? Let's pipe that into another cut the delimiter. What is a space maybe? field one Now I've extracted my IP address from I have config and it's and removed all other information there may be better ways to do that but and it's May only work in certain cases, but it's an illustration that we can combine multiple commands together Using the pipe operator that vertical bar and in doing that I've introduced this new command of text processing called cut and the a simple way used to use cut We specify the thing that separates the fields the delimiter And it can only be a single character and then we specify the fields that we want and Cut is given on the the Linux reference sheet as well Many commands can be combined using the pipe operator As long as one produces output and the other takes some input What's the port number used for a web server? Remember a common quiz question not this week later weeks the port number for a web server Not 50 stars with an eight eighty Different applications have different port numbers some we won't remember on the Linux operating system. There's a file that List the set of port numbers. It's in the ETC directory, and it's the file is called services Again, this is outside of the scope for today, but we'll use it as the example We can see the port numbers of different services secure shell servers use port 22 HTTP if you scroll down uses port 80 and others Queue to quit maybe we can search through Rather than having to browse through let's look for all the lines that contain HTTP And we get well we get a few extra lines that we don't really want here If we want to fill it out we can actually specify the specific word of HTTP It gets rid of some and then we could actually we don't even need the word we could Pipe that into a and get rid of the comments for example Separate the fields by the hash character grabbing only the first field Maybe you want to sort them So all I'm doing is building up one larger command by combining them a smaller ones with pipe operations sort the output HTTP dash old becomes before HTTPS Maybe we just want to cut get rid of everything before the after the slash So just another example of building up and getting information from a text file, especially using pipe grep cart sort and some of the other text operation Commands can be used in the same manner