There's a rubric I use when I watch movies, and it's not like I'm there to analyze. My first job is just go to the movie and have a good time and try to see where the film's coming from, see if I'm engaged at the end of it, if it's working, if it's firing, or if it's just kind of towing the line or terrible. And then I try my best to give a reaction and a review that I think fits the quality of the film, not even necessarily my own personal beefs or issues with it. Hey, I didn't like this because X, however, I can see someone liking it because of Y or Z. And I also like this part of it, so it kind of cancels out. You know what I'm saying? It's not just that this is the worst movie in the world every time. This is the greatest movie in the world every time unless I'm using it as a joke, in which case I'll make that clear.


TfN Update.  Gold, Gold contract, flat 18.39 an ounce. We have Silver down 37 cents, $21.47 an ounce, Platinum. Platinum's off 15 bucks, trading out at 9.24. We have Lightsweak crude off 371 at 105.81. Notes and bonds, a 10-year note, up a full point, plus five ticks at 116.30. 30 up two and almost three points at 136 flat and King dollar. King dollar's down 235 ticks, trading 104, 119. Euro at 105 yen, 136 and the British pound is trading out here at a price point of 122 to one US dollar. Well, you know when we take a look at the spy folks, what you have out here, you basically get a sideways move, you're getting a little higher, you're gonna have another contraction of volume, this market can't go anywhere, man. That's the bottom line. Yesterday, you had 76 million chairs on the spy, we'll probably do that today. The queues are the ones you wanna watch, because what happened yesterday, the queues failed on price and volume yesterday, we can see what happened in the morning. Bottom line, the queues, the number you wanna keep your eye on out here, which it's over right now is the 282.34. You close over that, guess what, you can go higher. We close under that again, you're gonna have the same type of setup that we had when we opened up this morning and this baby got into lower price. That's gonna be the number and you're actually looking for, we get 50 million right now, but this should, well yesterday we only had 51, so that's gonna be good, this is 70s or something, but you're going into 86 as well as 94. The price is gonna be really important today because we are gonna have expansion of volume, meaning we're gonna run up there at probably 75. Gold, gold contract out here, we take a look at the gold contract. Gold contract rejected 1824 this morning, bottom line, still not juiced on the way up, it keeps rejecting lower price, but we don't have enough juice on the way up. Silver, inside the silver market we have out here, there we go, silver market right now, 53,000 contract, you're off 37 cents, we were up 37 yesterday, we did reject 2120 and good old Kingdoll, a Kingdoll is the one that you really wanna keep your eye on because the market, bottom line, does not like higher price now on Kingdoll. We got up to the price point of 104, 947, but I tell you man, this looks to me like it doesn't wanna crack because the low out here was 103, 858 and that's not a low. Stay right there folks, come right back.


Tim Shaw, just about what went in that decision, maybe how special it is for both the Saints and the Tights to represent some of the. Well, I think first of all, we're excited to be able to have Tim Shaw be our honorary captain. Be at the coin toss before the game, travel down there, be a part of our pregame activities. Obviously, Steve Gleason and what he means to New Orleans and to the Saints. And so hopefully we can bring awareness to an awful disease that is taking two warriors and put them in a chair, but they're fighting their own fight and spreading the word and raising a lot of money. So we're excited to be able to do that and appreciate the Saints and what they've done, Dennis Allen and the organization in New Orleans to be able to make this all happen. I think Stretch came to me during the break in the summer and we talked and Stretch had a great idea to be able to see if they were willing to do it. Reached out to Dennis and talked to Mickey and very quickly was able to get that in motion. So I appreciate their willingness to try to be able to do that.  Being able just to see firsthand what that disease can do from the time that I got here to where now Tim is. And it's just great that he can come in here, talk through special teams, watch tape, and I think it's always just a great reminder of how lucky we are, how fortunate we are that we get to do what we do, be able to play this game and coach this game. What does it say about Tim that despite his circumstances, he still loves to begin with football and to be around it? It's his life, you see his family grew up playing football and Tim's career, just a grinder and being on different teams and figuring out a way to make it, make an impact on special teams and just his willingness to come here and be here in the heat and training camp and sit through meetings and give his notes and Tim's tips and all the things that we do. So Craig Ackerman and his staff have really opened up their doors to Tim. Well, wanted to make sure one that he wanted to do it. It's a big process, traveling down there and going through all that. That's a lot out of his normal routine. So I think, first of all, just showing him the respect and asking him if that was something that he would want to do. And just like the football camp here, because we may think it's a great idea, but Tim may not and so I think that was the first thing that we wanted to do. And he was all for it and I know that him and his family are excited to be able to go down there and watch the game with Steve and his family. This is Tim's tip, so does it each week does he give maybe some keys or? Well, he has conversations with Auk and Levine and Tom Quinn. And so then he'll have his ideas or things that he can tell the players that they help him with and we give those out to the guys. Which will this figure help bring attention to the ALS? Well, I hope anything could help. I think it's, a couple years ago I put up Tim's picture from when he played. The guys that hadn't been here and didn't know who the guy that was in the wheelchair and with a trach tube and a computer screen in front of him, they didn't know. And so my way of introducing Tim was to show him this linebacker jacked up and sweat and grass stains and everything. And then it's asked them if they know who that was and they didn't. I didn't expect them to and I said, well, it's the same guy that's sitting over there and that's the shock. And I think if we can just understand that, I mean that these two athletes, and there's a lot of people, but these are guys that I know and I've watched Steve play and I've watched him play that go from these incredible athletes and physical players running around, crashing into people. And then something that just takes it away pretty sudden. So hopefully it brings great awareness to it. How'd you think your week went? I thought it was good. I thought it was good. I thought Wednesday, you know, Monday, Wednesday, it's a longer week than what we're used to. And I thought today was was our best day. I thought we were efficient. We were urgent, not perfect, never will be. But I felt like the energy was there and we're excited to, you know, continue to prepare and then ultimately play on Sunday. What are you going to do for the backup quarterback tonight? Well, we'll have the game day 90 minutes before the situation. Is there something that you have to be more cognizant of when you've got that much extra time in preparation for the game? Well, just continue to focus, you know, not chasing goals. Continue to focus on fundamentals. Continue to focus on situations as a whole. There's a lot of things that come up week one, you know. You look at Petsburg and Cincinnati last year, you know, Cincinnati scores in the last player regulation. They attempt an extra point with their third tight end and kick gets blocked. They miss another kick in overtime because they're working with a backup snapper. Petsburg goes down, executes, hurry up situation, clocks the ball, kicks a 53-yarder. There's every, there's going to be something like that. It's going to happen in our game that we're going to have to understand what it is and be able to execute it.  Well, we've tried to practice like that. You know, man, we've tried to practice with the noise and understand the environment. And, you know, I think the biggest thing will just be our execution and not sitting there and waiting for them. It's a good defense with excellent players and a good scheme. And, you know, we'll have to be aggressive in our actions no matter what we call. Andres, the president's still a part of what surprised you. I mean, has it been about what you expected or anything? Well, I mean, when you signed players, I think you've said this before, that you want them to want to be here, right? So that's evident by his actions and conversations and his work each and every day. So I don't think it surprised me, no. So I just, when you have guys that want to be here, that's what you get. Anybody that's been ruled out? That's not your question. That's not your question. Anybody can rule that. Trey Avery will be ruled out. That'll be it. Thanks, guys. Being familiar with this offense, I feel good. Obviously, there are some new things, you know, that I didn't used to run. So having TK and Ronald play a lot of ball helped me, you know, get acclimated. Feels good. Anything surprised you or different than what you thought it would be, whether it would work on with Coach Brayville or Toronto Hill or anything like that? No, those guys win. They won. They did it when I was in Houston. They won games. They did it when I was in Arizona. So the same mindset that I expected. Those guys are competitive. You've been a big volume guy. You think this offense would be able to get you a ball? I'm just here trying to do whatever I can to help this team win. It'll give me the ball to block. With that matchup from our Sean Latterworth, you guys have had that before. How much have you looked forward to that? It's just another game to me. And I really don't put too much emphasis on who's guarding me. I like to group around you for you, from Traylin to Nick to Chris and have your guys kind of follow you through this process. It's been a good running process, you know. Being with a lot of these guys, you know, I knew some of them. I know Chris played some ball before, you know. So, you know, it feels good just, you know, actually being able to see what they can do out there. And I feel like, you know, we're excited. Everybody's excited to go out and play with our family. You said Derrick was one of the guys that you kind of, what's the reason you came here? How excited are you to line up with his teammate on Sunday? I'm very excited. One of the best players in the NFL. How could I not be excited to play with him? You talked in the magazine story that just came out about some of the teams that didn't even return your calls when you were feeling out the market. How'd that leave you feeling that some teams didn't even consider you?  That's my job. Rob Moore has said that one of the things that impressed him about you was your ability to always create space. And watching that, liking it to Dennis Robin, so I have to ask you like, do you have, like, a only first background or anything like that? Yeah, I played ball a little bit, not too much. You know, I only played one year at Clemson. I set the bench most of the time, so I wouldn't say it's a background career, but just trying to go up and get the ball and play football, that's what I do. I'm not really a burner, but I get the separation I need. Do you like it more to being a rebounder or more to catching the movement, as far as always being in a position to hit the ball? I think it's more like a rebound, just knowing who's around you and feeling forward, not pushing off and not using your hands too much, we're just having that awareness on who's around you. How advanced is your relationship with Ryan after a full time? You know, Ryan and I both played a lot of balls, so you guys will see this coming Sunday. Grable talks about when signing guys, you want guys that want to be inspiring, you feel like it's the best place for you in terms of wanting to be here and just doing the right thing for you? Absolutely. Why? They won games. They won games. Great organization. Ryan, Grable, TK, everybody. It's great place. What have you learned about Mike Gage and Coach once you got into meeting rules? I knew Mike before he was here as a coach and he's the same Mike that I knew in Houston. He's compared to trying to get the best out of everybody.


These product research methods are simple, fast, and perfect for beginners who need help finding high potential products. Hey everyone, I'm Neely and welcome to the AutoDS YouTube channel. In this video, I'm going to be showing you the best research methods for finding profitable products to sell on eBay. Product research is key to running a successful e-commerce business because if you're not selling the right products, you're not making sales, which is kind of the whole point for us dropshippers. By the end of this video, you'll have an understanding of four great product research strategies for eBay. And I'll also be discussing some winning product examples that you can use in your stores. Before we get to that, make sure to give this video a like and hit that subscribe button so you can learn the latest dropshipping strategies to grow your business. The first strategy we got is finding trending products on suppliers' websites. This research method is super simple. All you need to do is go over to suppliers' website, look through existing best sellers, and choose products from there. Take Amazon, for example. You have the option to go over to Amazon Best Sellers and view general trending products. And once you're there, you can dive even deeper into a ton of different subcategories. Quick tip, the most important thing to look out for when using this method is products with high ratings and good seller reputations. Another great supplier you can use to help you find products is AliExpress. All you need to do is register your account in the AliExpress Dropship Center, then choose Find Products to Sell. And there you can search for great products to add to your store. For example, if you search for coffee tables to sell in eBay, the AliExpress Dropship Center will show you all the top selling coffee tables that they offer. You can also find out its order history, sales performance, and overall rating, which are important metrics to look into. Quick tip, always look out for products with a high DS order rate. Even has a high drop shipping rate that usually means the product is trending and worth selling. Strategy two, use the AutoDS platform for product research. If you want to save yourself time, this is probably the fastest strategy you can use. AutoDS already has a built in product research feature that helps find trending products incredibly fast. Here are the steps on how you can use this feature. First, let's start by going to the AutoDS product research platform and signing up for an AutoDS account. Next, click on add filter. There you can filter products according to price, categories, ratings, and much more. From the drop down menu, choose rating and set it to 4.5 and up because we want those quality products for our store. Then choose amount of reviews and set it to over 100. Now you can scroll through the results and choose any of these trending products and guarantee yourself some great sales. Our third strategy is finding products by going to eBay's best selling items and choosing from the most trending categories. After you select a popular category, look at the same category on eBay's homepage and pick a subcategory. Then choose a listing that has a good selling history rate, meaning it's already sold a lot of times. Once we find a good product on eBay itself, we can actually just sell the same exact product or something similar. Strategy four, catch or create new trends. This method allows you to get a little creative by creating new trends ourselves or catching them early on. Here's what you need to do. Go to any suppliers website and look for new releases or latest products. Then choose a category and pick a newly released product. After that, come back to eBay and search for that same exact product. Filter the results by listed and sold and uncheck completed. Now you'll see the number of times that type of product has sold and the price range, which will give you a general idea if it's worth jumping into. If you find that this product is selling, but no one is selling the specific one you found on your supplier's website, it's definitely worth your time to test out that product and be the first one to list it. Quick tip, when you notice that a product you're testing is starting to sell, start adding even more similar products to your store so you can continue to scale that original success. All right, so those are four methods for product research. And if you implement those strategies, here are the types of winning products you'll probably come across. I'll start by breaking these products down into three main price categories. Low ticket items, mid range items and high ticket items. So one of the best ways to earn higher profits on eBay is to sell high ticket items. That means anything that's listed for $100 or more. To learn more, you could check out our video on the best high ticket niches, link will be in the description below. Best categories for high ticket dropshipping are one, furniture, things like dining room sets, bedroom sets, sofas and couches. Two, home appliances like vacuum cleaners, grills and air fryers. And three, electronics. So we're talking products like home theater equipment, projectors and drones. And here's a quick tip. Well, it might be tempting to jump right into high ticket dropshipping because of the potential for higher profits. As a beginner, it's better to start out with mid range to low ticket items. And that's mainly because low price items are easier to sell. And to start yourself off right, you'll want to build up that momentum. With that being said, let's move on to our next price range, medium ticket products. These are typically products that cost anywhere between $30 to $100. A few great examples of winning products within this range are computer desks, blenders and shower heads. Quick tip, there's a common theme to the products I just mentioned, which is that they're all evergreen products. Those are great to sell because evergreen products are always in demand. They're not seasonal, so you can never go wrong with them. Lastly, let's talk about low ticket products. These are typically the easiest products to sell on eBay because buyers usually don't need to overthink low ticket purchases. Products in this range that have been trending lately include categories like dog collars, pajama pants and flower pots. All of those can go for under $20, which means we can sell them very easily. All right, well, now that you have a few great strategies for product research and you have some winning products to work with, you're ready to get started. Let me know in the comments what you think of these strategies if they worked for you or if you'd like us to discuss more strategies in another video. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time.


Mae'n bwysig i'w ddweud, mae'n amgylchedd i chi. Rydyn ni'n gallu bod nhw wedi ddaeth gorfodd ddodd y gweithiau, a rydyn ni'n gobeithio'r gweithio'r cyfnodd yma. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'r ddodd Wynston a'r gweithio'r rhwng hwyntau'r rhan o'r hyn yn ddi. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r gweithio'r ddodd yn gweithio'r gweithio'r rhwyng hwy. I'n bwysigio'r lleidio'r cyllideb peth yn gynghori'r lleidio'r bobl yn y Sryddem yn Gweinidol. A oedd yn y lleidio'r lleidio'r bobl yn gynghori'r bobl yn cynghorio'r bobl yn cael ei bodi'r cyllideb yn y cyllideb yng nghymru. Mae'n ddweud o'r fathau sydd yn y lleidio'r bobl yn cychwyn i'r rhan o'r bobl yn y cynghori'r bobl i'r bobl iawn. …el gwasanaeth, yr ydw i gyfaintfagol ac yn ni'n trefi. Ac mae'n cyfaintfagol yn gwneud ar y crofnod... … Loki'r newid o'r r �'r rhan o ymddangos cymdeithas … … iconicor awdraith gyda ni Gael ymddangos cydydd hwnnw. Mae'n cyfryd, eraw'u golygiadau sydd yw'r gynhau a'r cwmweithio… … ac mae'n cyfaintfagol o'r ddechrau i gweddyn sy'n ôl i gynnwys… ar y cyfnodd. A'r hyfforddau sy'n cyfnodd yn cyfnodd yn y cyfnodd yn y cyfnodd yn y cyfnodd, yn wych yn grafio rhai wneud o'r cyfnodd yma ar y cyflodd maen nhw'n i gyflodd maen nhw'n i gwynhau. Er mwyn i'w gwirioneddol i'w ffordd o'r 80s, mae'r awfyrdd yn mynd i'r llunio. Mae'n mynd i'ch cymryd. Mae unrhyw bryd gyda'r cyfryd yn llunio'n llunio'n llunio'r ffordd, ac mae'r llef yn rhan o'ch gwrsiau yn rhan o'r blaen. The good leadership repeatedly liberated extraordinary talent from seemingly ordinary people. Finally, adversity invariably brought out the best in a team and when you think about it what applies to a company clearly applies in the same measure to a country. ac yn y gweld ydym ni'n rhan o'r oeddiad. Y eurozone rwyf yn cael ei ddweud o'r ysgolwch yn ymddangos o'r UK. Ac yn ymddangos, os rwy'n cael ei ddweud i'r newydd, rwy'n cael ei ddweud i'r newydd o'r ysgolwch yn ymddangos o'r ysgolwch. Efallai yn cael ei ffordd, ac mae'r hyn yn cael ei wneud, yna eich cyfan y busnes. Mae'r llweithio'r amgylchedd i'r gwybod ac yn ygweithio'r blaid yn lleolio'r tîmod. A'r hyn yn cael ei tîmod yn cael ei bwysig o'r cyfrifol yna, ac mae'n cyfrifol o'r cyfrifol yna'i cyfrifol yng ngyfrifol. Rwy'n credu i'n meddwl yw'r lleidio'r cyfnodau yn gweithio'r cyfnodau, ac mae'n meddwl yw'r cyfnodau arall yma, ond yn cael ei bod yn gwneud o'r ffordd, ond yn cael ei bod yn cael ei fod yn cael ei ffordd. Mae gennym ni'n unig ei chael ei taith ar y Llywodraeth Westmaiddlands. Mae gennym Y Llywodraeth Jaguar, Mae GKM, Mae JCB i'r unrhyw o'r trefodd ac'r unrhyw o'r bod dwych. Mae gennym ni'n meddwl yn y dyfodol, mae'n meddwl o'r bydd iawn i'n meddwl i'r trefodd. Felly mae'r llwyddoedd, i'w gweithio, mae'n gweithio'r gweithio'r ymlaen iawn i gynghoriwyr yma yn ei wneud. Ac mae, yn y cwrs, gallu'n cael ei gweithio ddechrau'r economiau a'n cael gweld o'r ddechrau'r llwyddoedd, a'n cael gweld o gweithio'r lleol ac yn gweithio'r prospyrtyn o'r ddechrau. Now those companies, they haven't looked at government to provide solutions, or guarantees. They've looked at government to provide the right climate, and they've maybe relied on themselves to capitalise on the opportunities and, in so doing, to deliver the goods. They and others, I think, have harvested the advantages that we all enjoy. our language and location, our universities the excellence of the collaboration that we see between university and business our flexible markets, which absolutely now encourage investment, good labour relations, a pro-business government and fortunately a tax structure that starts to favour business and businessmen Mynd i'r gwasanaeth, ac mae'r gwasanaeth yn y rhan, hefyd yn bwysig, creïtiveid, ac mae'r ffordd mewn bywyddydd. Yn mynd i'r enghreifft yng nghylch, i'r gyfnod o gyfnodol, i hefyd, i hwyntech, ac o gwybod, oherwydd, y cyfrifadau yma. Ond maen nhw yma yn ymgyrchol am gweithio yma. Mae'n gwneud hynny, geirio'ch cyfrifyddau, neu ydych yn oed. Fi wnaeth eu gweithio hyn yw'r cyflog, ac y tro yn oed eich sydd yn ymgyrcheg o'r hwnnw. Rwy'n gweithio'n gweld o wneud arredig yw'r gwneud yn ei wneud oedd ydynt yn y gwasanaeth gwylwgol a'r ysgol yw'n ei wneud in the years ahead. It needs, in other words, a clear and thoughtful plan. We need to stimulate the long-term investment in the UK's production capacity and future capabilities. And I think that's as much about changing the culture as it is about changing the policies. Importantly, gyda'n gweld i'r pethau cyfnoddau, sy'n gweld i'r pethau cyfnoddau, ac yn ymweld i'r pethau cyfnoddau, yn ymddangos i'r proseson cyffredig. Y CBI yn ychydig i'r propozyddol yw'r cyffredig newid cyffredig, ac mae'r cyffredig yn ymddangos i'r pethau. a we're going to be seeking input from you in the preparation what I think will be an important document. Our broad direction of travel seems clear and really hangs together on a number of basic principles. We know and I think we all know that a policy of this sort will work best if it's actually in tune with and shaped by people who are actually in business. Rather than people who are purely academics or purely politicians, the thinking needs to come from the business community. We know that strategy will only work if it's adopted across government and that the culture and the practices of different departments within government are actually aligned to become mutually supportive. That's beers and deck, the treasury education, all working together with a joined up agenda. For anybody, and I think many of you here actually do interface with government, we all know just what a tall order that is, but it is a fundamental in providing the bedrock of a policy. To be effective, it's got to be ambitious, clearly it's got to be consistent and there's got to be a coherent and intelligent and a very focused strategy which is all about delivery. The test I think is every action in any government department must be pressure tested against the growth agenda because that's what this is all about. Nothing else will do. There cannot and there must not be any fudging of this as our collective priority. If we get this right, we can create an industrial policy that is much more than the sum of the parts. There have been previous attempts to pick winners and I think we're all very skeptical about that and I think that the principle is rightly derided. Some of us, although I have to say looking around the room, not many of us, but looking in the mirror, I am certainly old enough to remember that when triumph production was moved from Birmingham to speak and it was a complete disaster of social engineering, it just did all the wrong things for the wrong reasons. In many ways, the fault always lies in picking out an individual company rather than identifying a sector where the UK has true competitive advantage and the failures of past industrial policy can't be allowed to prevent us from trying to create a new one and I think we can look across the world for others that have done this with degrees of success and try and learn some of the lessons. In the States, the US has a very much a mission driven approach and it's a commitment to innovation through government resharing and it's a policy that seems to have worked. It spends about 2.8% of GDP on R&D whereas we spend about 1.8%. But as a result, the US has got 21 of the world's top 50 most innovative companies. Germany, we all look to Germany for particularly now with their great industrial success but we look rightly to them for again lessons to be learned, a consistent approach to industrial policy working across the government and across party lines. It's tailored support, it's cut red tape, it's successfully targeted exports and green technology and it's done that with real clarity of purpose. The banks work with business to provide secure financing particularly for the mid caps and to encourage the whole of the industrial environment in long term thinking and growth and I'm hopeful that the moves by the Bank of England last week at least goes some way towards facilitating this kind of behaviour in the country. It's a vital piece of the recovery process that we need. Now for the Germans, you know the impact of this kind of policy which they've had for many years is very evident for all to see. They exported 55 billion pounds worth of goods and services to China last year. We exported less than 9 billion and without Jaguar Land Rover might have been even half that amount. That fair wealth, never probably not. But I mean that's the kind of number differential that we see. Their culture is of ownership and of stewardship. It's not only about short term financial gain and that's something the UK has got to think a lot more about in its own policy thinking. Now what works abroad you can't bring here and impose it, you can learn from pieces of it. The British industrial policy has got to draw from the success of those people but it's going to need three basic qualities which are very specific to the UK. It's going to need to be flexible. It's got to have enough dynamism to ensure that it can be resilient to short term pressures which are very evident here in this country and it's got to be capable of adapting quickly to shifts in demand. There's got to be long term certainty for investment looking not just at tomorrow but ten years and beyond. There's got to be some sort of cross party consensus if only in broad direction rather than worrying about the fine detail. And very importantly there's got to be a tax system, an R&D policy and a government procurement policy that can be relied upon and not subject to the sort of wins of political fashion. And that's a message to all parties. Business has got to have faith that the goalposts won't be moved once they get on the pitch. There's got to be a balance between realism and optimism not attempting to take on the competition in every market but instead working with the grain of our strengths here and building capabilities around those areas of real comparative advantage. A pro-business climate certainly that encourages innovation to set up and expand here. A government that is engaged in an industrial policy not meddling in execution detail. An education system producing enter pricing skilled people with a will to work. Export led growth underpinned by a supportive foreign office which I think we actually have and a business friendly finance sector and most important of all a manufacturing sector that inspires people to work within it. Now there's no doubt that we're making progress. Government has made obviously some rather embarrassing errors of judgement in recent times but overall they've shown a willingness to support business in tax policy, in entrepreneurial encouragement and some of the red tape reduction. Never enough but progress has been made. The challenge I think of the government isn't about intent it's not about mindset, it's about speed of delivery. The education policy is being addressed. Reading, writing, arithmetic are back in fashion and learning a language has re-emerged as a priority but today we've still got far too many young people leaving school lacking basic skills. Infrastructure is recognised as a key driver of recovery and everybody gets that but the shovel ready projects continue to be delayed by bureaucracy and to some extent dither. Everybody knows we have a looming energy crisis in this country but whilst the policy may be taking shape the detail still remains elusive and we in business I think have also got more to do pursuing new export markets certainly, training more people and demonstrating and I think very importantly by the way we pay ourselves and govern ourselves that we don't need more government intervention to tell us that doing the right thing still remains the right thing to do. So we need a joint effort, government and business working together to reignite growth, to generate employment particularly for the young and to bring lasting rewards for all. The lessons I learnt about 30 years ago were working with people like people here today people who are used to being at the sharp end of business very much the kind of business that still prospers and grows in the West Midlands. Typically seasoned, experienced, pragmatic and determined, no nonsense and plain speaking professionals who know how to make a profit the hard way. Those lessons were invaluable to me then and more than ever today we need that kind of expertise that kind of experience and most of all that kind of edge to help shape our future for tomorrow. You're going to be part of that and I thank you all in advance for all that you will do to contribute to that plan and to confirm to you all as ever on behalf of the CBI our huge gratitude for the support that so many of you give day in, day out to make the CBI functionally sound effective and at the heart of the business community. It's all very much appreciated. Finally tonight, my thanks again to Deloitte for being tonight's headline sponsor to Chiltern Railways and Metropolitan College for their support. But to all of you, I thank you for all that you do. I wish you well in all that you will do in your businesses and I wish you most of all a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Thank you.


For 37 years, the Bemidji Choral has presented its annual Christmas concert. Josh Peterson shows us how this year's concert will be different from past performances. There is nothing like the sights and sounds of Christmas. However, this year's Christmas concert presented by the Bemidji Choral will be different. With the theme, Peace in Troubled Times, the first half of the concert will focus on music selections that remind us of peace throughout our current events. I just a sense of serenity and calm and people just sort of settling back down going through that election cycle and going through other things that are bothering people. The concert will also provide the traditional side of Christmas during its second half of the concert, featuring songs like Gloria in Excelsis Deo and a new arrangement of the classic Silent Night. Well, I always do a version of Silent Night. That's a tradition and we've done the same one for many years so it became sort of a trademark for us. The long-lasting tradition of the Bemidji Choral has seen many changes over the past 37 years, but credit to the choral program's success is largely credited to the community that it's based in. We've got so many things that people can do here in the arts and I think it's wonderful. With members traveling from various surrounding communities just to sing in the Bemidji Choral, the talent represented comes from all ages. The reason I love a lot of music here is it takes a lot more work to try and keep up with these people who've been singing for most of their lives. With only a couple of rehearsals left, the Bemidji Choral is set to present its annual Christmas gift. In Bemidji, I'm Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. The Bemidji Choral's Christmas Concert will be held on Sunday, December 11th at 3pm and then again at 7pm at Cavalry Lutheran Church. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Seven apps for selling digital products on Shopify. Hey, are you working in Shopify and you want to sell digital products where you're pretty smart cookie? I can tell you that right now. Cause there's a lot of money to be made on digital products. And in this video, I want to show you the seven best apps you can use with your Shopify store so you can make a lot of money. Hey, if you're new to my channel, don't forget to subscribe, hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or I upload a video. In this video, you're gonna love it. You're gonna love it because these apps are gonna help you out so much. It's gonna make it so easy for you to make a lot more money with your Shopify store. Okay, let's run over and check out some of these apps right now. The first one is called digital downloads. Guess what that one does? Okay, here we are at digital downloads, okay? Pretty darn cool. This is a free app by Shopify. It offers a simple way to sell digital products on your own website. Upon purchase, customers can download their file immediately and receive a link in an email. You can attach files to your product so digital attachment are linked to a variant in a particular product and will track sales and downloads. Customers get the files instantly so your customers get a direct download after checkout and an emailed link and automatically send updates. So updating the attached file can automatically send an updated download link to your customers. It's a great app, okay? Check it out and it's a Shopify app. Okay, the next one I wanna talk to you about is Send Owl, okay? And Send Owl is a pretty cool one. It's for more complex digital product businesses. Send Owl comes with a variety of features and useful automation, like expiring links and auto-generated license keys to power your products. Downloads are issued via secure expiring download link to keep your files safe from unwanted attention. It really is a great company. The back by a full team whose only job is to improve and expand Send Owl, no-part timers that work there. They delivered over eight million orders for Shopify customers and the only digital delivery app to be offered on Shopify Plus. So it's a really good app. I would suggest you check it out. Okay, the next app I wanna tell you about is called Courses. This is number three. Courses is super cool, guys. This Shopify app lets you create lessons, tutorials, webinars, manuals, and sell them online. You can create beautiful online educational portals. You can do pre-recorded videos. You can even live stream lesson content, which is really cool. Customers can track their progress and earn certificates upon completion. Now, you can sell your knowledge online, whether you're making lessons, tutorials, webinars, or manuals. This app will let you use Shopify as a learning education platform. Set expected time to complete the course using LMS, which is Learning Management System, and see how customers make progress on getting new skills. Now, every customer's account will list all courses they purchased in well-organized and a design place. Okay, the next app I wanna tell you about is called Single Music.  Not only does it bridge the gap between physical and digital music scales, it also lets you easily include clips on your product page for your customers to actually sample, and that makes a huge difference. You can do ticketed live streams. You can sell tickets to private live stream events, hosted inside your store, fans buy tickets and return to your store to watch. You can do chart reporting, automatically submit digital and physical sales to charts around the globe. Reports are delivered automatically every single day, and you can do digital delivery, of course. Album templates with track lists and built-in audio previews. Fans can purchase individual tracks, albums, and bundles. It's a really cool app, guys. I think you should check that out. Okay, that brings us to Thinkific. I like Thinkific. It's really cool. This apps let you monetize your expertise and grow your audience by adding online courses to your Shopify store. You can actually upload and drag and drop content to create a course curriculum. A free plan is available, allowing you to create up to three courses. But you know what?  You can get revenue for your knowledge. Think about this. Your audience respects your expertise. Online courses can grow that connection and monetize your knowledge into a new revenue stream. Online courses are an effective way to showcase your products in action, boosting the likelihood of both sales and referrals. And you know what? You can grow your audience. Online courses are great for attracting new customers and keeping your business top of mind as customers make their way through each lesson. As they're learning from you, it builds more and more trust. Thus it builds more and more audience for you. Okay, the next one I wanna tell you about is called Fetch App. Now, this is another one of the digital download delivery apps. And it offers fewer features than Send Out. However, it has a free plan. So if you wanna start off free, you can do that. You get five megabytes of storage and it gives you the ability to attach multiple files to a single product, which I think is pretty darn cool. It is very flexible for your needs though. You can attach multiple files, like I said, to a single product. And you can associate a single file with several, several products to restrict downloads by time, quantity or both. Now it's got a pretty easy order management system. You receive the orders through multiple carts and gateways. And you can manage all in one place, which makes it so much easier. You can manually expire, you can reopen or you can resend orders at any time you choose to do so. There are no commission fees, so they don't take a commission on your sales and their low monthly fees are based on your storage needs. So if you don't host a lot of stuff, you don't have to pay a lot of stuff. And they also have free and self-hosted plans that are also available. So I would highly recommend you check out Fetch App. Not to mention they have excellent reviews, they're 4.9 stars. Okay, and that brings us to Sky Pilot, Sky Pilot. Now, these are ideal for building membership programs. You can actually sell files, exclusive video streams to customers, either one you want. Customers can then access all of their previously purchased files. They always have access to it through their own customer account. So it really does keep it very organized, makes it easy for you, and it makes it easy for your purchasers too. It automatically delivers files and streaming videos to your customers immediately after the purchase. So as soon as they do it, there's no delay, they get it. It's a really simple delivery system. Your customers can access all of their purchase files and videos, reducing your customer support. And I'll tell you, once you start getting into a lot of customer support, it burns up a lot of your time. You can also have your store, your emails, your branding from start to finish. So it keeps your brand on there and keeps it in the front of the customers and mine. SkyPilot is a Shopify app for selling files and videos. I want you to understand that. It really is beautifully designed. I like it a lot. Customers can access previously purchased files, like I said, and it can be fully customizable pages for your files and videos. You can have unlimited files and videos per item in your store, and the free plan comes with two megabytes of storage, and then you are gonna pay for plans that are a little bit larger than that. Now guys, I gotta tell you, I've been doing digital products now since, ooh, I wanna say 2015, 16-ish, something like that. And I love it. Digital products are awesome. I have things I've done in 2015. I still make money off of it because they're kind of timeless. The information on those courses and downloads are things that you can use right now. Now every now and then, I do wanna let you know some of these courses, some of these downloads, you're gonna need to update. Things do change. Ways of doing things change. So you're gonna need to go in there and make some changes in your courses. I recommend that you keep all your files in one place. I like to use Dropbox. Keep them all in one place for each particular course. I keep the raw file and then I keep the edited file. That way I can always take the raw file and make any changes I want, re-edit it, and then upload them to my particular download or my course or my membership or whatever it is. I hope this helps you out. I hope it kind of gives you some insight into these apps. These apps are awesome nowadays, guys. If you have a Shopify store, please, please, please take advantage of these things. You may think that your audience isn't interested in digital products. I can assure you they are. They are. You just don't know it yet because you haven't offered it to them. Why not offer it to them and see what you can do? It's added revenue for you and it can be ongoing revenue, especially if it's continuity, when they pay monthly or a membership, that type of thing, you'll have money coming in monthly. And even if it's $27 or $47, you know, if you have an extra 1,000 people paying you $47, that's $47,000 a month. That's a lot of money. So I would give it a shot. I think you'd like it. 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I will now turn to the next item of business, a statement by John Swinney on the response to recommendations on financial redress for survivors of child abuse in care. The cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of his statement and I encourage members who wish to ask a question to press their request to speak buttons as soon as possible. I will set out the Government's response to the recommendations on the free and o gael i mi wrth gwrddfodol, o hakkau cydnogau cynllun o ricweiniu cysyllt… … o bwysigwyr cydnogau cysylltu ac arlethoedd, sydd flower itoedd. Rwy'n ffledd i ddweud o sut rwyf werth ofnol o ffrifwyr iawn. Rwy'n ffreid i chi'r cydnogau cydnogau cydnogau cydnogau cydnogau cydnogau cysyllt today. Rwy'n ffledd i chi'n ddiwylliant gwybod gyfryd wedi'r cyfrinio siŵr ac yn fwyllt ymddangos i ddwyllte i'r cyfrinio ar gyfer gwir. a'r pryddechrau gweld iawn i gynnwys. Rydw i'n rhani fyddai aethau, mae'r campaign ffyrd i Gwysigiaeth wedi gynllun gynhwys yn y gyfnod aethau ar gyfer ymddangos i gyd. Felly, rydw i'n gweld i'n gweld i'n gweld i'n gweld i gyd, ac rydw i'n gweld i'n gweld i gyd yn ystod yn y ddweud. yn y faint 2016, rydw i'n gweld i'n gweld i'r pryddechrau ffyrdd aethau ymddangos i'r of consultation and engagement on the matter of financial redress. I asked the review group to take this forward in partnership with the Centre for Excellence for looked after children in Scotland, Celsus. The review group oversees the implementation of the Action Plan for Justice for victims of historic abuse and care, which was published in 2014. Members of the group include survivors, some representing groups and others independent, a care provider representative, Social Work Scotland, the Scottish Human Rights Commission, Celsus and the Scottish Government. The review group reported to me on 5 September. I commend the review group for the substantial work that is carried out in arriving at its recommendations. Together, they have designed and carried out a national consultation with survivors, researched redress schemes in other countries and had engaged with providers of care services to gather their initial high-level views. They have drawn on the findings of each of those to agree recommendations, taking the time to work through difficult issues in a collaborative and constructive way. There has been a strong survivor voice and presence throughout the whole process. In addressing the group's recommendations, we wholeheartedly accept the need to acknowledge and provide tangible recognition of the terrible harm that was done to children who were abused in care by those who were entrusted to look after them. The main recommendation is to establish a financial redress scheme and to pass legislation before the end of this parliamentary term. The Scottish Government accepts this recommendation and commits to do so, subject to parliamentary approval. The review group also recommends that advanced payments are made as soon as possible to survivors who may not live long enough to apply to a statutory scheme due to either ill health or age. Further information from the review group indicates that, for ill health, a definition of approaching end of life should be used based on advice from medical professionals and that, for age, the threshold should be set at age 70 and over and subject to review. We accept those recommendations for an advanced payments scheme. The other recommendations were about important aspects of the design of the statutory redress scheme, which the review group has asked to consider in the next steps. Those were issues that were important to survivors who took part in the consultation and we agree that they will be given further consideration in the detailed and complex work that lies ahead. As part of the work, the review group has given very careful and specific consideration, with advice from the Scottish Human Rights Commission, to the position of survivors whose abuse occurred before 26 September 1964. Despite the introduction of the Limitation Childhood Abuse Scotland Act 2017, survivors whose rights to compensation were extinguished through the law of prescription are unable to pursue their case to the civil court. The review group's letter states that the recommendation to establish a financial redress scheme would provide an alternative compensation mechanism to the civil courts. It also states that it is important that a redress compensation mechanism is open to all survivors of in-care abuse, as there are many reasons that a survivor may not be able to access civil justice. The letter recognises that the implementation of a statutory redress scheme will take some time. It is in that context that the review group recommends advanced payments for survivors who may not live long enough to apply to a statutory scheme, many of whom will be pre-64 survivors. Scotland will establish a financial redress scheme for survivors of abuse and care, and it will be open to all in-care survivors, regardless of when that abuse took place. We will progress without delay to detailed design of a redress scheme, ensuring that we learn lessons from other countries and subject to parliamentary approval, the legislation will be passed by the end of this parliamentary term. We will also begin discussions with providers of care services to consider ways in which we can respect the recommendation that all those responsible should contribute to a redress scheme. We will move to advance payments as soon as we possibly can. While some months will be required to develop and set up the scheme, we will do so with urgency. I will update Parliament with progress on our implementation of the review group's recommendations in January. We set up the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry in 2015 to investigate the nature and extent of the abuse of children, although in care in Scotland, and the failures that allowed it to happen. The inquiry is making significant progress. It has published its first findings, and opening statements for its third case study began this morning. We have heard harrowing evidence of the appalling mistreatment and abuse of children in care settings all across Scotland. In due course, the inquiry will publish its final report and will make recommendations to improve legislation, policy and practice. We do not need to wait until then to recognise that we failed victims and survivors. It is clear that we did. We must acknowledge that and respond with compassion and humility. In 2004, the then First Minister, Jack McConnell, offered a sincere apology on behalf of the people of Scotland to those who were subject to abuse and neglect whilst in care in Scotland. Today, on behalf of the Scottish Government, I offer an unreserved and heartfelt apology to everyone who suffered abuse and care in Scotland. We are deeply ashamed of what happened. I know that nothing can ever make up for the suffering that survivors have endured. Nonetheless, they have told us that redress is an important element of justice and that it would provide some degree of recognition and acknowledgement. That is why we will have a redress scheme in Scotland, one that treats survivors with sensitivity and respect. As the inquiry progresses, the detailed nature of failings on the part of institutions, both public and private, will become clearer. We as a Government, indeed we as a Parliament, will be listening and learning. We will want to apologise again to survivors and their families when the full extent and nature of those failings are known, as the Australian Prime Minister did so powerfully yesterday. The courage and determination of survivors to speak out for justice and to protect children today and in the future from experiencing the abuse that they suffered is inspiring and has been unwavering. I want to address survivors directly and to say to them today, we believe you and we are sorry. I thank the cabinet secretary for prior sight of his statement and restate the Scottish Conservatives wholehearted commitment to ensure that we are fully supportive of all the victims who have suffered appalling abuse whilst in care and supportive of the Scottish Government as it seeks ways to find appropriate financial redress. I wonder if I may ask for clarification on three points. First, in establishing the financial redress scheme for survivors in care, could the cabinet secretary confirm exactly who it will be who decides on the amount of compensation that will be paid to the victims? Secondly, will those families of deceased victims be able to apply for support? Finally, in the context of the cabinet secretary's comment on page 2, when he states that there has been a very strong survivor voice and presence throughout the process, he will be aware that there remain some victims who feel that they have been hitherto excluded in the consultation process, so he could he update Parliament on what measures he is taking to address those concerns. I thank Liz Smith for her expression of support from the Conservative Party to the direction that the Government has chosen to take on the issue. In relation to her three questions, I would respond as follows. First of all, Parliament will decide the level of compensation that is paid in relation to the redress schemes. We will obviously take forward dialogue in relation to the advanced payment scheme, which will be underpinned by provisions within the Budget Scotland Act for 2019-20, but the legislative detail of the statutory scheme will be determined and fooled by parliamentary scrutiny and consent. Secondly, in relation to the families of deceased victims, yes, families of deceased victims will be able to apply for provision within the scheme, and the detail of the scheme will make provision for all of that. Thirdly, on the question of survivor voice, one of my absolute priorities since I took office was to ensure that survivors were at the heart of the discussions of how we take this forward. Of course, there are a range of different views that exist in the survivor community on those questions, and I want to be as inclusive as I possibly can be. The action plan review group undertook a very comprehensive and engaged process of survivor dialogue, and I was deeply grateful to them for doing so. I think that one of the reasons why they were so effective in doing that was that the review group involved survivors very directly in the work that it undertakes. I have given the survivors—and the First Minister has given the survivors that we met today—the very clear assurance that we want to ensure their continued participation in dialogue in how we take the next steps going forward, because they have produced for us today—and I told them that today—a very clear piece of policy advice to the Government, which is well considered and well researched, and we want to build on that in the stages to come. Iain Gray is followed by John Finnie. My thanks to the cabinet secretary for early sight of his statement. Let me begin by simply and sincerely associating those benches with the cabinet secretary's apology to everyone who suffered abuse and neglect while in care in Scotland. We all share the shame of which he spoke. However, we cannot hide from the fact that apology was first made in 2004, 14 years ago. It is important, though the inquiry is, that it took us too long to initiate it, and it is welcome, though the promise of redress is welcome indeed, that it has taken us too long to get to that commitment, too. Given that, even in the knowledge of the complexity of legislation, it is not the end of this Parliament two and a half years away, not still too long for all of those who have waited so long already. As well as the advance payment scheme, will the cabinet secretary not bring the deadline for the full redress scheme forward, and we will do all that we can to help him to accelerate that legislation through this Parliament? I thank the cabinet secretary for his association with the Labour Party with my remarks and the direction to travel. In looking at the time period, since the public apology was given by Jack McConlon in 2004, a whole range of different steps have been taken to advance that agenda, which culminated, certainly for me, with the establishment of the abuse inquiry, which, as I said in my statement, we do not need to wait until the conclusion of the inquiry to realise the gravity of the findings that are going to emerge from the evidence that is being considered forensically by Lady Smith. That will cause the country to have to face up to some very difficult parts of our past, and it is right that we do so and that we do so properly and comprehensively. In relation to the timescale for legislation, I want to assure the Parliament that the Government will move as quickly as we possibly can do. My commitment is that this will be completed during this parliamentary session. That is what the review group asked me to commit to, and that is what I commit to. However, we will act swiftly to introduce legislation as quickly as we possibly can do. We have to ensure that we get this right and ensure that we take survivors with us in the process. Even in the period since November 2016, when I commissioned the review group to undertake the work that I am now formally responding to in Parliament almost two years later, I think that the review group would accept that the complexity and detail that they had to look at was essential in utilising that amount of time. I hope that we can move as swiftly as possible. The advance payment scheme will be in place in the financial year 2019-20, so it will be available from next April. I want to make sure that we move to a statutory basis as quickly as we possibly can do. Obviously, the co-operation of Opposition parties in making sure that effective scrutiny is undertaken in a timidest fashion will be advantageous in that process. John Freed to be full by Tavish Scott. I thank the cabinet secretary for early sight of his statement and the content of his statement and the Scottish Green Party's support to progressing those very important matters. I also thank the review group and survivors. With regard to the portion of your speech where you talked about beginning discussion with providers of care services to consider ways in which you can respect the recommendation that all those responses would contribute to a redress scheme, those could be very sensitive discussions. I hope that you will not require to be, but can the cabinet secretary assure the chamber that, if required, those will be robust discussions to ensure that necessary justice is delivered, please? I am grateful to Mr Finnie for his expressive support from the Green Party to our approach here. I intend to pursue discussions carefully with providers of care, where there is responsibility. I think that the review group makes a very fair recommendation that those organisations should contribute to a financial compensation and redress scheme. The Government will pursue that with vigor to ensure that we are able to be true to the recommendation that the review group has put in front of us. Tavish Scott to be full by Angela Constance. Can I also reflect the Deputy First Minister's tone and substance of his remarks today and associate my party with the recognition of the factors that have led to where we are today and the shame that we all feel, as he and Gray rightly recognise, and the way in which the Deputy Minister expressed those remarks are ones that I entirely hold to as well. Two very brief questions. The first is to relate to John Finnie's question about those responsible contributing. Does the Deputy First Minister envisage the Government playing an intermediary role in brokering how that structure will work, given the range of parties involved? The other recommendation that he may not have touched on in his opening remarks about any potential and negative consequences that are considered during the scheme design, how does he best plan to oversee those so as to ensure that what we achieve out of this set of circumstances is one that reaches the right level of tone and understanding if a concern is expressed? I am grateful to Mr Scott for the express support of the Scottish Liberal Democrats to our position as we take it forward. On his first point, I think that the Government will be involved in those discussions and we will be very actively involved in pursuing all of the dialogue that is required to advance those issues, and that I am sure will involve us in discussion with providers of care that carry responsibility. On his second point, I think that it is important that we maintain—I think that the best way for me to address his second point is to say that we will be keeping survivors very, very closely involved in the dialogue of the next steps that we take forward, because that close proximity of survivor involvement has helped us enormously to get to where we are today, and I want to make sure that we maintain that for the foreseeable future. Angela Constance to be followed by Alison Harris. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Following on from the earlier two questions, I wonder if the cabinet secretary agrees that it is only right that religious bodies and institutions and organisations who are meant to be providing care, that they also take the opportunity to step forward, to work constructively with the Government and to contribute to a Government-led scheme, not to replace, but to enhance our overall collective effort. Can he give any indication when he thinks that survivors will be able to apply to a statutory redress scheme? First of all, I pay tribute to the work that Angela Constance undertook as my predecessor in establishing the abuse inquiry. She ensured that the inquiry is now able to undertake the very important role that it is performing within our society, and I know that the country is profoundly grateful to her for doing that. In relation to the first of our two questions, I expect that there will be dialogue timuously with care providers, and I would expect that to be taken forward as we develop the detailed design of the approaches that we take. Secondly, I would imagine that the timescale for individuals who are able to apply to a statutory scheme will be dependent on the passage of the legislation within Parliament. As I said to Ian Gray in my earlier answer, I want to do that as quickly but as robustly as we possibly can do. For part of that, I am in the hands of Parliament for the handling of that matter, and I will also have to undertake extensive dialogue to make sure that we get the details correct. Alison Harris will be filled by Rona Mackay. May I please double check, cabinet secretary? Just for clarification, is the Scottish Government going to adopt a dual payment system involving a flat rate standard payment to all survivors and a payment based on individual experiences? I have not set out any detail on those questions. Those are very material points for there to be further consideration, but the review group did not make recommendations of that nature. They established some criteria for advance payments, which I am grateful to them. The review committee wrote to me, first of all, in early September on the general details of their recommendations, and then gave me more specific points in a letter on 2 October, which suggested eligible criteria for an advance payment scheme. All of the detail that Alison Harris raised is that we will have to work our way through and agree in due course. Rona Mackay, to be followed by Johann Lamont. The cabinet secretary will be aware that a small number of other countries are facing up to the failings that meant that children were abused in care and that some of them have established a redress scheme. Can he confirm that the Scottish Government will learn from those schemes? The review group has already undertaken a lot of work that has looked at the existence of schemes in other jurisdictions. We will, of course, have the advantage of learning from that and ensuring that we take the correct and effective approach to make sure that our financial redress scheme addresses the circumstances and the experiences if that is possible of the experience of individuals who were abused in care. Johann Lamont, to be followed by Fulton MacGregor. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I would wish to acknowledge the work of survivors who have fought long and hard for recognition, often at huge personal cost. I would also reflect that the Parliament has proven itself in recent times by very fleet of foot in taking legislation forward when it is necessary, and I am sure that this Parliament would want to do whatever it could to make sure that the legislation gets on the statute book as soon as possible. May I ask the cabinet secretary specifically about the scheme for advanced payments, which has plans currently to focus on the needs of older people and those who are sadly terminally ill? I wonder if the cabinet secretary would acknowledge that many survivors who fall into neither of the above categories have lived for a very long time with their suffering, and there will be those whose need is such that tragically their lives may be cut short. Will the cabinet secretary commit to an advanced payment scheme that addresses the needs of all those who are suffering right now as a consequence of the abuse perpetrated upon them? On the question of timescale for legislation, let me reiterate that I want to move as quickly as we possibly can, but we have to go through the necessary dialogue with survivors to make sure that we get the details correct. We have built up a very strong and positive relationship with survivors in advancing many of those issues, and I am profoundly grateful to survivors for what they contribute to that discussion. As I indicated in my response to Iain Gray, I am in the hands of Parliament. If Parliament is willing to move in an expedited fashion in relation to legislation, then the Government will be happy to co-operate with exactly that aspiration. On the question of the payment timescale for survivors, the interaction group wrote to me on 2 October, as I said to my answer to Alison Smith, setting out the criteria that they consider to be relevant in relation to approaching the end of life and also an age recommendation of 70, but they did ask me to maintain that under review, which I will do as we design the advance payment scheme. I would also point out to Johann Lamont that there are other forms of support that are available to individuals at this present time, which can be accessed that are not in the form of financial redress, but they are in the form of support to assist individuals in trying to deal with the circumstances that they face. I would encourage any survivor who feels the need to access some to give support to take steps to do so, because the experience that I have heard from individual survivors has proved to be very beneficial. Fulton MacGregor, to be followed by Maurice Corry. The cabinet secretary earlier confirmed that there will be an option for the next of kin of deceased victims and survivors to make applications for redress. Can the cabinet secretary advise how the Scottish Government will make those applications available? That was one of the points that we will discuss in the detailed design that we take forward. It is important that, given the length of time that some survivors have waited and may not have actually seen any form of redress because they have not lived long enough, it is important that we support their families who will have endured a great deal of pain and suffering along with their loved ones. Maurice Corry, to be followed by Daniel Johnson. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Survivors have been waiting decades for compensation. The cabinet secretary will be aware that many of the elderly victims are waiting for this compensation. When can they expect to receive a first payment and not just as soon as possible? I would encourage Mr Corry to reflect on the fact that, if the Government is going to make excretia payments of this type, we have to have parliamentary authority to enable us to do so. There has to be some form of underpinning to that, and the earliest I can do that is through a budget Scotland in 2019-20. It is the very earliest that I can possibly do that. That is where provision for the advanced payment scheme will come from, and there will be detailed work undertaken to ensure that we can put in place the statutory underpinning of a financial redress scheme. As I have answered a number of questions, we will do that as quickly as the consultation with survivors and the development work is undertaken and as quickly as Parliament will pass the legislation to enable us to do so. Daniel Johnson, to be followed by John Mason. Following on from the questions about the contributions to be made by responsible third party organisations, can the cabinet secretary confirm that compensation payments will not be contingent on those contributions being made by those organisations? Will there be consideration of a mechanism to compel those organisations to contribute, especially in the light of international experience? No payment will be contingent on contributions from third parties. We will design a scheme and we will deliver that scheme, and ideally it will benefit from contributions made by other organisations who will have a responsibility. The question of compulsion is, of course, a question that could be considered within the legislative process on the issue. I would not want to commit any further beyond that. Obviously, we will take forward discussion directly with individual care providers that we believe are relevant to the discussion, but the issue of compulsion is one that Parliament could consider as part of the legislative process. John Mason. Thank you. Clearly most of the questions in the statement has been around the question of financial redress, but I wonder if the cabinet secretary can say anything about other kinds of support that might be available, for example emotional support, and would that also be included in the legislation? In relation to my response to Johann Lamont, there are some points of relevance that I would have drawn in answering Mr Mason. The Government has put in place financial support through future pathways, which is a fund for people who were abused in care in Scotland. Its purpose is not to provide financial redress but to provide support to individuals who will be affected. We want to make sure that that support meets the needs of individuals, that they are accessing the type of emotional or physical support that would be beneficial for them, and I would encourage individuals who feel that they would benefit from such an intervention to contact future pathways. It is an important source of support in advance of us providing detailed consideration to the wider question of financial redress. Thank you very much. That concludes our statement. I thank members and cabinet secretary for the contributions. We will move on to the next item of business, which is a statement by Jeane Freeman on NHS performance. We will just take a second or two for ministers and members to


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Hello, my name is Arunabh Dutta and I am an assistant professor in chemistry department. And today we are going to discuss about thermodynamics, its basic concepts, fundamentals and applications. So let's begin with thermodynamics. So when we talk about thermodynamics and we look into this particular term, we found there are two important terms come together. One is thermo which means heat and one is dynamics that means movement. So this thermodynamics basically covers the study of flow of heat, a system and a surrounding and discuss how the system is actually exchanging heat around it and how a physical and chemical change can affect this particular system. So all together over here we are mostly following the physical and chemical change in the form of heat exchange between a system and a surrounding. And that is not only the heat, there are two important properties of the system and surrounding also come into the foray and they are energy and work. So now we have three different properties energy, heat, work they all come together and these properties are actually going to follow by certain quantifiable parameters that can give us an idea how these three parameters energy, work and heat are actually exchanging. And those parameters are actually going to change. And the change of the system we actually followed that with these quantifiable parameters and those are parameters like temperature, pressure, volume and even concentration of a system. So over here we are going to look into a change happening in a system when it is in a particular surrounding and those change are actually initiated by the physical and chemical change and those are actually changing the very basic properties of a system in the form of energy, work and heat and we can quantify them with this particular parameters. And all this study we are doing this that is known as the study of thermodynamics. So to give you an example what kind of system we are actually talking about. So how this thermodynamics is actually playing the role to give you an example we take the example of a system where the fuel is actually burning. So in this system we put some fuel we burn it and we create some heat and that heat is generated by the system. Now how much heat is generated? How much is actually the fuel is burning? So all this calculation we can quantify with the help of thermodynamics. Now say we have the heat and over there this heat is actually run through an engine which can transfer that heat into the form of a work. Now how much of this heat can we get transform into the work, how much it is getting lost into the mechanical force to run the engine that again we can calculate with the help of thermodynamics. Now imagine a second example of chemical reaction. During a chemical reaction it is a redox reaction or reduction oxidation reaction where an electron is actually getting exchanged. And this electron exchange can initiate a flow of the electron which is also known as electricity. Now how much electricity we are generating through this chemical reaction that also can come under the purview of thermodynamics. So thermodynamics can help us understand how a physical or chemical reaction is actually helping us to get in the different form of energy and how much we can actually transfer that into the form of a work. So that is the basic background of thermodynamics. Now to understand thermodynamics we need to understand some of the basic concepts of thermodynamics. So we will go through the basic concepts one by one. So let us start the first thing we actually think about and that is known as the thermodynamic system. So when we call about a thermodynamic system we are actually basically talk about two things a system and a surrounding. Now imagine that we are actually interested in one of the physical or chemical changes into a particular matter. And the region or space that we are interested in is actually known as the system. So for an example in this particular scenario we are actually very much interested what is happening in this particular region. So that will be the system. So whatever we are calculating whatever we are measuring all the parameters all the factors all the properties energy work or heat we are measuring with respect to this particularly confined region and that is known as the system. Now if we look into the system the rest of it the rest of the universe around it is known as the surrounding. So what is the basic difference between system and surrounding? System is the region or confined space that we are interested in where all the changes are happening. Now the changes are also getting exchanged with the other thing everything present around that system and that is known as the surrounding that is nothing but everything other than the system. Now how the system and surrounding are separated? They are separated by this particular boundary. So this is known as the boundary which actually separates the system and surrounding. So again if we want to recap there are 3 important factors one is the system one is the surrounding and the thing which is separating both system and surrounding it is known as boundary. Now depending how this system and surrounding are interacting through the boundary we can define system in 3 different factors let us take a look into them. So we can define system in 3 different ways the first one is known as a open system. Now what is an open system? An open system is such that we have a particular system present over here and that is the surrounding around it. So again this is the system and this is the surrounding. Now we have such a boundary that allows exchange of energy in between the system and surrounding and not only that it also allows the exchange of matter in the form of gas, liquid or solid if both of them are actually allowed then we call this particular system an open system. To give you an example say I have a glass of water and over there I put some hot water here. Over here the glass containing the water is my system and everything else is my surrounding and now what happens some of the water because if it is hot it can vaporized. So over there it is not only exchange energy in the form of heat but it is also exchanging some of the water molecules goes from the liquid state to the vapor state and escapes the glass or system. So over here the system is exchanging not only the heat but it is also exchanging the matter. So that is an example of an open system. The next one comes into the picture is known as a closed system. What is a closed system? A closed system is again a system we are considering which is surrounded by the again the surrounding. So this is my surrounding and this is my system. So over here system and surrounding are very much same as the open system we discussed earlier. Now what is the big difference over here? The boundary is such that it is still allowing the exchange of energy it is still allowed. However the matter exchange is now stopped. So the matter cannot come out of the system anymore. So that will be defined as a closed system where the energy can be exchanged but not the matter and that is known as a closed system. So what could be a good example of that? So example can be given with the help of a piston. So say this is actually a system where we have some gas and over there we put a piston on the top of that. Now if I decided to bring the piston down to do that I am actually doing some work and changing the energy. So the change there is a change in the energy between the system and surrounding. But the gas present in this system that cannot escape out that cannot escape. So over here this is a direct exchange of energy is possible between the system and the surrounding but not the matter. So that is actually known as a closed system. Now come to the next version. When we talk about a isolated system, what is an isolated system? Again we have a particular region that we are interested what is happening over there that means the system. And here is the surrounding and over here what is the difference is now even energy cannot come out of the system anymore. And the mass is also confined in the system it cannot come out of the system. So there is no direct exchange of neither energy nor mass between the system and surrounding and that is known as an isolated system. One of the good example would be again say I have a hot water but now I put that in a thermal flask. So thermal flask is such a way that it is closely system closely system which actually not allowing any of the water to escape the system compared to an open glass where the water evaporates out over here the water cannot evaporate. So this particular system is not allowing any mass transfer and also it has such a boundary that it is not even allowing the heat to pass out of the system. So there is no exchange of energy either. So thermal flask can be considered as an example of an isolated system which not allowing any transfer of energy or it is not allowing any transfer of the mass. So these are the three different system we can think about again to just put it together. So we have surrounding we have system we have boundary which is separating them and depending on the nature of them we can define their three different system possible open system close system and isolated system. And what is actually happening we define it whether it can exchange mass whether it can exchange energy or not. In an open system both of them are actually allowed. In a closed system energy exchange is allowed mass is not and in an isolated system neither mass nor energy is allowed to exchange. So that is the three different variants of system we can think about with the help of different qualities of the boundaries. Now we will go to the next section and we will discuss about three important thermodynamic properties. Those properties which will help us to understand the system properly. So what are those properties we are actually thinking about. So there are three different thermodynamic properties it comes to our mind. First is work. So what is the definition of a work? So if we go to the basic physics the definition of a work is the following. When an object can be moved against an opposing force we say that work is actually done. So that is the definition of a work when we actually doing or moving some object such a way that it is going against an opposing force. For an example very simple system is that we have a particular mass present on the ground floor and then we are lifting the mass up. Over here we are doing a work because over here we are working against the gravity because gravity wants to make sure that it stays on the ground level but when we are working it and moving it up we are working against the gravity. That is the opposing force over here and we can say a work has been done. Now to understand the thermodynamics we will take an example of a gas cylinder which is actually connected with a piston. So this gas cylinder is actually bound with a piston over here and here I have some gas. Now say I want to push this piston down, I am pushing this piston down and I am going to this particular state where I actually bringing it down. So I am working against the force because the gas molecules they are actually at a particular density. Now I am pushing them to bring it closer. So to do that I am acting as the natural force where the gas molecule wants to be as far as possible. So doing that I am doing an actually work. So over here I am doing this work on the system. So this is a definition of a work and we can explain that with the help of a gas cylinder bound with a piston. If we are moving it down I am actually doing a work. Now if I move that up so then I am actually making a work done by the system because the system wants to release it back. So the gas is actually going to again going back to the older condition where they are actually well separated and for that that will push the piston against. So now the gas molecules are actually doing a work against the force of the piston. So that is we can also define as a work actually being done. Now going to the next part. The second parameter we are going to discuss is going to be known as energy. Now what is energy? Energy of a system is defined by the capacity of doing a work. That means if we just imagine that we say that there is some energy present in a system what we mean that energy can be utilized to do some work by that particular system. How to explain it properly? So let us come to this particular picture again. Say I have again this particular gas cylinder, we have some gas and here is the piston present there and that is in situation A. Now from there I am going to a different situation where I am actually pushing the piston down. So I am actually doing some work against that gas. But what happens over there? Previously in the system A the gas molecules are present over here. They can push the piston up but if I compare that system with the new system say it is system B which has more tendency to push the piston back. Previously it was A now it is B. So which one has more propensity to push the piston back? It will be B because now the gas molecules are much more closer and they want to relax back where they can easily move the piston out. So over there if we compare A and B because of the molecular properties of the gas molecules it has more tendency to push the piston out and that we can explain in the following way that B has more tendency or more capacity to do and work. So we can say B has higher capacity now compared to A and that we define that B has now more energy again compared to A. Now say different scenario where with the same gas cylinder we are still playing with but now we are moving the piston up and go to a system C. So over here previously the piston was somewhere around here and now we have moved that up with respect to B we actually move it down in the beginning the piston now we are moving the piston up. So now in the case of C the gas has more volume to play with. Now if we compare A and C where we have more tendency to move the piston out because C already is getting more space that has less tendency to move the piston out. So we can say it has less capacity to do work compared to A. So we can say it has again less energy to system again in comparison to A. So over here you can see that work and energy are actually correlated. One system it can do more work we can say it has more energy and if we say a system which has less capacity to do a work we can say it has less energy. So that is the definition of an energy which can define in the form of a work. Now we go to the third important property of a system and that is known as heat. If we look into a heat, heat is such an energetic system which can also not only change the energy but also affect the capacity of doing a work in a system. So how we can explain? So heat we can also explain with the same gas cylinder system which is connected to a piston. So now see this is actually the system A I am talking about and over here I am not doing any work or not moving the piston at this moment. But what I am actually doing over here I am adding some heat to the system. So I am heating the molecules together. So over here what happens the same piston is in the same place. I am going to a condition B where I have now heated the system and the heat where it is going from it is going from the surrounding to the system. So there is a direct heat exchange from the surrounding and it is going towards the system and this particular system how it is affected. So now imagine over here in system A the gas molecules have a tendency to move the piston out. What happens now if I added some heat over there. Now gas molecules are more energetic because with the heat it directly affects its movement. Now it is moving way too faster than it is doing compared to its position in A. So over there in step B the molecules are going to have more energy and that will reflect with respect to their propensity or capacity to move the piston out. So over here they will have more capacity for work and that can be reflected we can say it has more energy compared to A. Now say I am doing that in a different way and I am moving the heat out of the system. What happens if I move the heat out of the system. So where I am taking the heat out I am taking the heat out from the system to the surrounding. Now the surrounding is accepting heat from the system and by that it is cooling down say in this system C. So when it cools down what happens the gas molecules the movement is going to slow down because I am extracting the energy out of it in the form of heat. And if that is happening what will be the propensity of it to move the piston up it will be comparatively very low with respect to A. So we can say actually when the heat is actually move out of the system to surrounding it is actually have less capacity to do a work and that means the overall energy of it it actually goes down in compare in form C with respect to A. So now you can see the heat is also connected directly in work and energy and if we want to put all these things together with respect to energy system or propensity to do a work we can say C has the highest propensity or energy to do work then it is the A then it is the B and you can see it is directly correlated with respect to how much heat it has. So all together so far in this first segment we discussed about the three important properties the heat work and the energy and at the same time we also talk about how a system can be defined how it is interacting with the surrounding with the respect to the boundary and they are the open system, the closed system and the isolated system. Over here we will conclude the first segment where we actually now got to know about the heat, energy and work how they are correlated and how it bring ups to the first law of thermodynamics we will look into that in the next segment thank you.